{"id":2124690,"date":"2025-10-30T12:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2124690"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:54:17","slug":"from-scream-to-m3gan-2-0-nielsen-reveals-the-most-watched-horror-films-over-the-last-five-octobers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/from-scream-to-m3gan-2-0-nielsen-reveals-the-most-watched-horror-films-over-the-last-five-octobers\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018Scream\u2019 to \u2018M3GAN 2.0,\u2019 Nielsen Reveals the Most-Watched Horror Films Over the Last Five Octobers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26342662\/\">M3GAN 2.0<\/a>\u201d might not have been a box office success, but it was the first horror movie many viewers turned to as the Halloween season begun this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to a special Halloween report from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0889943\/\">Nielsen<\/a> summarizing horror movie viewership each October since 2021, the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8760708\/\">M3GAN<\/a>\u201d sequel was the most-watched horror film on TV during the week of Oct. 1-7, with a total of 115 million viewing minutes on Peacock. (Data for the rest of this month is not yet available.) That statistic was counted across a combination of linear and streaming. Just behind it with 113 million minutes watched was the original \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117571\/\">Scream<\/a>\u201d film from 1996, which aired on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0632516\/\">Paramount Network<\/a> and Showtime in addition to being available on multiple streamers.<\/p>\n<p>Along with \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26342662\/\">M3GAN 2.0<\/a>,\u201d the horror titles that premiered in 2025 and made the chart are \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32246771\/\">Bring Her Back<\/a>\u201d at No. 3, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10548174\/\">28 Years Later<\/a>\u201d at No. 4 and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\">Sinners<\/a>\u201d at No. 8. And besides \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117571\/\">Scream<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cM3GAN 2.0\u201d might not have been a box office success, but it was the first horror movie many viewers turned to as the Halloween season begun this year. According to a special Halloween report from Nielsen summarizing horror movie viewership each October since 2021, the \u201cM3GAN\u201d sequel was the most-watched horror film on TV during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2124690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/From-\u2018Scream-to-\u2018M3GAN-20-Nielsen-Reveals-the-Most-Watched-Horror.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124692,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124690\/revisions\/2124692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}