New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- Halloween often brings viewers back to familiar horror franchises such as The Conjuring, Annabelle and Halloween. Indian cinema also has a range of unsettling stories that offer a different kind of fright, drawing on local folklore, unexplained events, family secrets and psychological horror.

Here are eight horror films to add to a Halloween watchlist, along with the platforms where they are watched.

John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) introduced audiences to Michael Myers, a masked killer who escapes from a psychiatric institution and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield on Halloween night. The film, starring Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, became a landmark in the slasher genre and established several conventi...