This 30-Year-Old Halloween Classic Just Entered Netflix’s Top 10 Chart in the USA

When the spooky season’s colors paint Netflix vibrant, not only does the ghost of a glorious past return, but also with it comes a warm nostalgia. Over 30 years after its initial release, a cult-classic film that made ghost stories cozy is making its claim in modern streaming traditions. Bringing back its spectral middle ground between childlike enchantment and muted sorrow, it remains in charge of this Halloween binge season on Netflix.

Its re-entry into Netflix’s Top 10 is proof of how some tales, quiet and odd, never really vanish.

Halloween cult classic cracks Netflix’s Top 10

Netflix’s USA Top 10 official chart now features Casper among the top of the week’s most-watched movies alongside K-pop Demon Hunters, Despicable Me 3, The Maze Runner, and others. In Netflix’s US Top 10, Casper sits at number 9. The kid-friendly ghost movie has become a streaming hit again, thirty years since its theatrical release on May 26, 1995, by Universal Pictures, surfing through the Halloween high-tides to see a boost in viewings. It features Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Alaskey, among others.

Conceived on a budget of $55 million, earning $289 million, Casper is the tale of a friendly ghost who resides in a haunted mansion, whose efforts to reach out to the living continue through ghostly blunders. Directed by Brad Silberling, written by Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver, this supernatural fantasy comedy grew over time to be a cult favorite with its sweet and sentimental premise, ideal for audiences looking for a Halloween binge with a heart, not just horror. Its cozy combination of fantasy, child-friendly frights, and wistful atmosphere embedded in a storyline that delves into friendship, love for the ones lost, grief, and letting go, has made it a perennial favorite each year in October.

Now that Casper floats through the Top 10, gracing Spooktober with its cute presence, avid bingers can look forward to a delectable library of Netflix’s Halloween hits.

What else to watch this Halloween on Netflix?

Casper‘s warm storytelling renders it a Halloween cult-classic; however, once it runs out after its 101 minutes of pure nostalgia and emotions, Netflix has a plethora of classics to offer to quench this binge appetite. Some of the spooky, and atmosphere-rich classic titles to queue on Netflix now include Adam Sandler’s Hubie Halloween, a nostalgic fun trip to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the adventurous The Curse of Bridge Hollow, and R.L. Stine’s delightfully creepy Goosebumps.

For cravings that might stray from classical needs, viewers can also enjoy the witchy binge on Netflix with Sabrina’s magic in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a series with black cats, witches, and magic, titled Scaredy Cats, fantasy drama The School for Good and Evil, a dance of macabre and absurdism in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and more. With the gentle ghost, Casper, lighting up the Halloween season, trust Netflix to keep subscribers cordially spooked.

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