Happy spooky season! Time to plan your best costume (possibly one inspired by a classic Halloween movie), eat all the candy, get in touch with your creepy side, and post a fantastic pic to Instagram — with a clever Halloween Instagram caption, of course. First, you have to decide which snaps you're going to put out there — maybe it's you and your besties in a fabulous pop culture Halloween costume or a new Halloween boo, or maybe you've just got to take this opportunity to show off all the fun activities you're marking off your fall bucket list.
But once you've got the pic, what about the caption? Maybe you could go with a Halloween movie quote. Or a funny Halloween pun. Or a Halloween joke. Narrowing down the perfect Halloween Instagram caption can be tough — that's where we come in. We've rounded up all of our favorite cute and funny Halloween Instagram captions in one place, saving you time on making your post so you can get back to the holiday festivities.
Maybe you're feeling like a quote from your favorite Halloween classic, or you just want to pumpkin-spice things up with a little quip. Whatever your caption style, we've got you covered here with the best Halloween Instagram captions we could find:
Halloween Captions Inspired by TV & Movies
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- "When we're together, darling; every night is Halloween" — The Addams Family
- "Oh look, another glorious morning! Makes me sick!" — Hocus Pocus
- "Magic is simple. All you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it!" — Halloweentown
- "I, myself, am strange and unusual." — Beetlejuice
- "It's a full moon tonight. That's why all the weirdos are out." - Hocus Pocus
- "I'm the ghost with the most, babe." — Beetlejuice
- "There are certain rules someone must abide by to survive a scary movie." — Scream
- "You know, it's Halloween. I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare." — Halloween
- "I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey." — Rocky Horror Picture Show
- "A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality." — It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- "We are the weirdos, mister." — The Craft
- "We all go a little mad sometimes." — Psycho
- "There's a little witch in all of us." — Practical Magic
- "Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more." — Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew: Nancy's Mysterious Letter
- "I'm a mouse, duh!" — Mean Girls
- "I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color." —The Addams Family
- "Being normal is vastly overrated." —Halloweentown
- "It's just a bunch of hocus pocus!"— Hocus Pocus
- "There's only 365 days left until next Halloween!" — The Nightmare Before Christmas
- "If I'd known you were coming, I could've made up the dungeon." —The Addams Family
- "That's what you dream about? Being a monster?" - Twilight
- "I am the pumpkin king." —The Nightmare Before Christmas
- "Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. Do it again." —The Addams Family
- "This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else." —The Addams Family
- "You ever feel prickly things on the back of your neck?"— The Sixth Sense
- "When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with the devil." —The Witch
- What's the good of being a ghost if you can't frighten people away?" —Beetlejuice
- "I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and the blackest eyes — the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up." —Halloween
- "Sisters, All Hallows' Eve has become a night of frolic, where children wear costumes and run amok!" — Hocus Pocus
- "It's pronounced 'Fronkensteen.'" — Young Frankenstein
- "Wench! Trollop! You buck-toothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!" —Hocus Pocus
- "If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath — would you be standing in the horror section?" —Scream
- "Some people have swimming pools, others have private cemeteries. It can happen." —The Haunted Mansion
- "Isn't the view beautiful? It takes my breath away. Well, it would if I had any." —The Corpse Bride
- "Pardon me, boy, is this the Transylvania station?" —Young Frankenstein
- "For Halloween, I'm going as that feeling you get at a store when you try to refold a sweater property and put it back on the shelf." — Rob Delaney
- "Tonight the Great Pumpkin will rise out of the pumpkin patch. He flies through the air and brings toys to all the children of the world." —It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- "I go for a look which I call 'Dead but Delicious.'" —What We Do in the Shadows
- "We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here." — Men in Black
- "It's showtime!" — Beetlejuice
Halloween Captions Inspired By Songs
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- "Witchy woman, she's got the moon in her eye ..." — The Eagles, "Witchy Woman"
- "Must be the season of the witch ..." — Donovan, "Season of the Witch"
- "It was a graveyard smash." — "Monster Mash"
- "It's close to midnight. Something evil's lurkin'in the dark" - Michael Jackson, "Thriller
- "I put a spell on you, because you're mine" - Screaming Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"
- "I told the Witch Doctor I was in Love with you" — David Seville, "Witch Doctor"
- "I ain't afraid of no ghost" - Ray Parker Jr., "GhostBusters"
- "I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vick's, His hair was perfect." — Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London"
- "Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you" - Dusty Springfield, "Spooky"
- "Spooky, scary skeletons" - Andrew Gold, "Spooky Scary Skeletons"
- Very superstitious, writings on the wall" - Stevie Wonder "Superstitious"
- "I always feel like somebody's watching me" - Rockwell "Somebody's Watching Me"
- "What goes up, ghost around " — Beyonce "Haunted"
Halloween Captions Inspired by Quotes
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- "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." — Macbeth
- "Every day is Halloween isn't it? For some of us." — Tim Burton
- "If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too." — Cassandra Peterson
- "My Halloween costume was so bad that people opened their doors and took candy from me." - Glen Nesbitt
- "Don't have a cup of coffee this Halloween. Have a cauldron of coffee instead." - Anthony T. Hincks
- "A mask tells us more than a face." - Oscar Wilde
- "Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, 'Never take candy from strangers.' And then they dressed me up and said, 'Go beg for it.'" - Rita Rudner
- "Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired." - Sylvester Stallone
- "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." - Stephen King
- "There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand." - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- "If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween." - Douglas Coupland
- "On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park." - Nick Gordon
- "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." - L.M. Montgomery
- "Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!" - Rusty Fischer
- "There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly lit front porch." - Robert Brault
- "Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story." - Mason Cooley
- "Hell is empty and the devils are here." - William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- "This witch can be bribed with chocolate." - Unknown
- "Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble." - William Shakespeare, MacBeth
- "When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween." — unknown
- "We're all mad here" - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
- "It's as much fun to scare as to be scared." - Vincent Price
- "Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see." - Edgar Allen Poe
- "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." ? Ogden Nash, Reflections on Ice Breaking
- "On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me." — Rodney Dangerfield
- "Halloween is just finals week for parents." — Jim Gaffigan
- "Evil has only the power that we give it." — Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
- "Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other." — John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
- "Was deciding if I should dress as Batman or Spiderman for Halloween, when I realized I'm a grown man. So, Batman." — Stephen Colbert
- "Every October I'm kidnapped and forced to scare birds at a local pumpkin patch." — Conan O'Brien
- "They cannot be seen because they creep only in the dark." — H.P. Lovecraft, The H.P. Lovecraft Collection
- "Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." — Stephen Graham Jones
Funny Halloween Captions
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- Hot ghoul Halloween
- Lookin' like a breath of fresh scare
- Witching you a very spooky Halloween!
- Basic witch
- Here for the boos
- Scaring is caring
- I'm not a regular mom, I'm a ghoul mom
- Ghouls' night out
- Ghouls just wanna have fun
- If you can't handle me at my trick, you don't deserve me at my treat
- In my spooky era
- Feelin' just a bit batty
- Just a HalloQueen looking for PumKing
- Only bad witches drive stick
- Bone appetit!
- New face, who 'dis?
- I'm all trick, no treat
- The freaks come out at night
- Bite me
- Come as you aren't
- Better behave, or I'm going to get my flying monkeys
- Now where am I going to park my broom?
- She's giving hex appeal
- Sweet screams are made of these
- Love at first bite
- Black cat got your tongue?
- On the hunt for my zom-bae
- Too ghoul for school
- Too cute to be spooked
- Get in, loser. We're going haunting.
- Drop-dead gorgeous
- Demons are a ghoul's best friend
- Ghostess with the mostest
- If eating candy is wrong, I don't want to be right
- If the broom fits ...
- Trick or treat yo'self
- Creepin' it real
- Accepting all candy bribes
- Where my ghouls at?
- A+ boo crew
