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Celebrate Halloween online with your family, friends, and followers through creative videos. This guide curates some video ideas that are fun and easy to create and share on social media this spooky season.
Easily create haunted videos by editing them yourself or by using a beginner-friendly video template with the Clipchamp video editor.
25 Halloween video ideas
1. Party invites
Present event details in a unique way with a Halloween video invitation. Combine a Halloween stock video background with skeleton stickers, glitching animated text, and spooky background music to create a standout invite. It's simple to begin using any template, even for beginners.
2. Horror movie quotes
Create a video that highlights a popular horror movie quote with a professionally-made video template. Customize with a dark Halloween color scheme, add pumpkin and skeleton stickers, and type a quote.
3. Ranking meme videos
Act as a fashion critic and review celebrity Halloween costumes in a tier ranking video designed for Shorts and Reels. Record reactions to costumes and fashion choices with a smartphone, then combine images into a montage and apply the picture-in-picture effect.
4. GRWM videos
Before a Halloween event, create a quick ‘get ready with me’ video to share on social media. Record the process of applying makeup and putting on a costume. Share spooky stories while preparing to keep viewers engaged.
5. Spooky Minecraft mod highlights
Round up wins or fails from scary Minecraft mod gameplays to create entertaining edits. A gaming YouTube channel can stay on trend during Halloween with this video format. Import Xbox gaming clips into Clipchamp, add sound effects, and share on social media. Enhance the video with exclusive Minecraft content, such as Zombie stickers for extra spooky detail.
6. Baking tutorial
Showcase culinary skills and seasonal pumpkin spice recipes in a baking tutorial video. Whether you’re an experienced baker or baking for fun, create an engaging video for TikTok or Instagram Reels. Record with an overhead shot, share tutorial steps, and display ingredients with animated text. Add a funny voiceover to make the video more entertaining.
7. Pumpkin carving tutorial
If you're a seasoned pumpkin carver or just starting out, create a tutorial video on how to carve a Halloween pumpkin. This type of content works for both entertainment and learning. Add animated text, pumpkin stickers, and autocaptions to make the tutorial easy to follow.
8. Trick or treat review video
Create a highlight reel for social media by sharing past trick-or-treat memories. Empty the candy bucket and review each bar, breaking it down by street, favorite, least favorite, underrated, and overrated candy. Give a verdict on the best street for trick-or-treating, then combine short clips with spooky background music, text, and Halloween emojis to complete the vlog or Reel.
9. Halloween life hacks video
Share creative Halloween tips and life hacks, from cleaning makeup stains to preserving pumpkins, in a list video or step-by-step tutorial. Use overhead shots or stock media to create a montage with a voiceover. This style of video is perfect for not wanting to show your face on social media.
10. Online meeting background
Make meetings more engaging and festive by designing custom Halloween backgrounds. Use stock videos of night skies and eerie forests, haunted house stickers, and ghostly effects to create a video background that adds a spooky touch.
11. Halloween marketing promo video
Embrace the spooky season by creating a Halloween-themed social media promo video. Promote a product, service, or even your whole business with a scary treat, or add humor with a playful trick. Use the Halloween ad template for inspiration.
12. Halloween trivia video
Put Halloween knowledge to the test with a fun quiz video, perfect for a company presentation or sharing with family and friends. Build a video slideshow using spooky visuals and sounds from our content library.
13. Halloween Microsoft Teams background
Want to share the Halloween spirit in your next team meeting? Create a custom spooky background for Microsoft Teams. Start with a Clipchamp Halloween background and personalize it using themed stickers.
14. Halloween prank video
Creators can turn Halloween pranks into candid camera highlights to share on social media. Join trending pranks on TikTok or YouTube, or create something original. Add spooky sounds and sound effects to complete the montage.
15. Halloween unboxing and haul video
Share a Halloween shopping haul with a detailed review and unboxing video. Highlight new tech, subscription boxes, or other themed treats. Start with the shopping haul template, then customize it using Halloween visuals.
16. Halloween sale video
Boost holiday sales with Halloween discounts that capture attention. Promote the sale with a marketing video on social media, drawing shoppers in like trick-or-treaters to a haunted candy house.
17. Halloween giveaway
Hosting a Halloween giveaway? Use a video to boost engagement and attract more entrants. It also works as a two-for-one opportunity to promote themed sales or products by using the brand kit to add business branding.
18. Halloween vlog
Capture Halloween fun by documenting costume prep and trick-or-treating in a vlog. Record with a webcam to share a recap of the night, or film a travel-style walk and talk while searching for the best candy spots. For extra guidance, see the ultimate guide on how to create a vlog.
19. Halloween party costume ideas
Showcase Halloween costumes in a social media parade, featuring ghosts, zombies, and more. Create a montage of each option, then run a poll and let followers vote for the winner.
20. Halloween movie watch party
If you want to get in the Halloween spirit, but are keen on something a little more laid back, host your own Halloween movie watch party. There’s lots of opportunity to make it fun with video. You can create a spooky invitation or movie trailer to get your friends together.
21. Haunted/scary story videos
Share a Facebook Story and showcase your scariest storytelling skills. Use green screen removal to place yourself in a haunted setting, or try text-to-speech with adjusted pitch and pace, creating a horror narrator that would even make R.L. Stine check under his bed.
22. Halloween DIY video
Some people go all out making their doors too scary for trick-or-treat. If Halloween DIY is your specialty, create a tutorial to help others elevate their spooky decorations. Edit the template with creative Halloween ideas to inspire viewers.
23. Halloween aesthetic inspiration video
Highlight Halloween-inspired décor or pumpkin lattes on TikTok or YouTube Shorts. Create an aesthetic video with a trending TikTok sound, adding animated text to showcase styling and design choices. Simply drag, drop, and replace footage in the before-and-after template.
24. Halloween gaming video
Halloween is the perfect excuse to revisit spooky arcade classics from the Sega Genesis and SNES era. Create a retro gaming highlight video featuring side-scrollers like Castlevania or Golden Axe. For a modern twist, showcase favorites such as Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare or Five Nights at Freddy’s. Use split-screen mode with the video template to highlight gaming skills.
25. Wednesday TikTok dance trend
Revisit this classic viral dance from Netflix’s Wednesday. This brief scene became one of the biggest TikTok trends and Halloween is a perfect time for retro flair. So dust off your Wednesday Adams dress and dance moves and bring back this trend for Halloween. Re-watch the dance challenge TikTok trend here.
Continue exploring Halloween video templates in Clipchamp. For more Halloween video ideas, check out Halloween video invitations or plan videos for the next major holiday.
Try creating a Halloween video with Clipchamp video editor or download the Clipchamp Windows app.
