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Featured Friday: Halloween Night

A small child with a burlap sack over its head goes trick-or-treating in a still from Trick 'r Treat
Homicidal or not, you gotta respect a homemade costume

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at screenplays whose plots revolve around, include, or take place on Halloween night. Is it niche? You betcha. But these movies are so much fun that it’s probably a sign we should include Halloween in every story.

Our collection includes:

  • Donnie Darko by Richard Kelly
  • Halloween (1978) by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
  • Halloween (2018) by Jeff Fradley & Danny McBride & David Gordon Green
  • Hocus Pocus by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert
  • House of 1000 Corpses by Rob Zombie
  • The Batman by Matt Reeves & Peter Craig
  • Trick ‘r Treat by Michael Dougherty

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

Check out last week's screenplay collection of Vampires!


Weekend Read 2 is the iPhone and iPad app that turns screenplays and text files into smooth, scrollable reading experiences. It automatically reformats PDFs, Highland, Final Draft, and Markdown files into a clean, mobile-friendly layout—no pinching or zooming required. You can browse curated screenplay libraries, import your own files from iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive, and organize everything with pins, filters, and custom lists. Highlight character dialogue, take notes, and use high-quality voices for read-aloud mode. Weekend Read 2 is designed for reading scripts anywhere, anytime.