Before they were TV's First Family, the cast of Yellowstone proved their mettle in spooky fare. Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley and the rest of the Dutton clan have fled serial killers and battled Victorian-era ghosts in horror movies since the early-2000s. This spooky season, we've rounded up all the best slashers and gore-fests featuring the Yellowstone cast. Itching to see Kelly Reilly in her final girl era, tripping over tree roots in a forest chase? Keen on a young Cole Hauser and Piper Perabo battling underwater monsters in an early-aughts creature feature? How about Taylor Sheridan's gross-out directorial debut featuring one of the bunkhouse boys? We've got you covered — that is, if you've got the stomach for it.
From the cheesy to the grotesque, the throwback to the surprisingly recent (we're looking at you, Kelly Reilly), these flicks run the gamut. Behold, the Yellowstone cast's greatest Halloween hits.
Kelly Reilly in Eden Lake (2008)
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Long before she ruled the Dutton ranch with an iron fist, Kelly Reilly was a certified scream queen. The British actress has starred in a slew of slashers and more psychologically terrifying fare. In Eden Lake, Reilly and Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender play a big-city couple who've sped off to a romantic weekend at a secluded lakehouse. Their forest retreat is cut short by a gang of barbaric teens, leading to a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse.
Kelly Reilly in The Cursed (2021)
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In the mood for a little old-timey haunting with sumptuous imagery and plenty of oil lamps? The Cursed is just the period horror for you. Reilly plays a member of the very wealthy and very cursed Laurent family, living in the French countryside in the late-1800s. Their village is plagued by supernatural occurrences, and visiting pathologist John McBride (Justified: City Primeval's Boyd Holbrook) begins to suspect there's something lurking in the woods just beyond the quaint French town.
Kelly Reilly in Eli (2019)
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Reilly plays the desperate mother of an 11-year-old boy with a debilitating auto-immune disorder in Netflix's Eli. In a last-ditch effort to cure their son, the Millers check him into an experimental treatment facility located in an isolated manor house (red flag much?). Stranger Things' Sadie Sink also stars.
Kelly Reilly in Innocence (2013)
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Innocence follows a 16-year-old girl who enrolls in Hamilton, an elite Manhattan prep school, after the death of her mother. When students begin committing suicide within the well-manicured school walls, it becomes terrifyingly clear that Hamilton is not all it's cracked up to be. Reilly stars as the sultry and mysterious headmistress Pamela Hamilton, who may or may not be feasting on the blood of virgins for eternal youth.
Kevin Costner in The New Daughter (2009)
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Kevin Costner's first and only foray into horror is a must-see for diehard fans of the actor. Directed by veteran horror scribe Luiso Berdejo (Quarantine), The New Daughter stars Costner as single father John, who moves his two kids to rural South Carolina. When his daughter starts behaving in increasingly erratic ways, John will stop at nothing to protect his family...with a shotgun, of course. Come for a solid house thriller, and stay to see Costner practically jump at a creepy Voodoo doll.
Luke Grimes in The Wait (2013)
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Okay, so you're not into the whole blood and guts thing this Halloween. Maybe you'd prefer something heady and atmospheric, but nonetheless unnerving. Boy, is 2013's The Wait the flick for you. Starring the queens of weird, Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny and Golden Globe nominee Jena Malone, The Wait is a slow-burn thriller about two sisters who keep their deceased mother's body in their house in the hopes of her imminent resurrection. Catch a young Luke Grimes (Kayce Dutton) as a baby-faced boy-next-door in the oddest coming-of-age drama there is.
Cole Hauser and Piper Perabo in The Cave (2005)
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Nothing like an early-aughts creature feature to cheese up your evening. 2005's The Cave features a young Cole Hauser (Rip Wheeler) and Piper Perabo (Summer Higgins) as members of a team of elite divers exploring the world's oldest underwater cave system. You guessed it: There's something lurking in those murky depths. Complete with wet suits, Hauser rattling off underwater physics and outdated digital maps, this one's a riot with a surprisingly great cast. Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and Eddie Cibrian (Mr. LeAnn Rimes) also star.
Wes Bentley in American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014)
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If you don't recognize Wes Bentley (Jamie Dutton) as the fabulously bearded Seneca Crane from The Hunger Games, then you probably know one of his many roles in Ryan Murphy's long-running anthology series American Horror Story. His two-faced (literally) stint as the undying magician Edward Mordrake in Season 4, dubbed Freak Show, is particularly memorable.
Wes Bentley in Amnesiac (2014)
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Wes Bentley is at the mercy of Kate Bosworth (21) in this thriller about a man suffering from amnesia after an accident. When his so-called wife's care methods border on the obsessive, he begins questioning her version of the truth — with some awful consequences. Think Stephen King's Misery.
Wes Bentley in The Tomb (2009)
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Gothic romance fans, rejoice! Based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story Ligeia, 2009's The Tomb stars Bentley as newly-engaged scholar Jonathan Merrick, who's enthralled by the beautiful temptress Ligeia (The Challenge's Sofya Skya). Jonathan ditches his fiancé (played by Hallmark star Kaitlin Doubleday) and sets off for a manor house in the Black Sea with Ligeia, where he experiences a total psychological unraveling.
Josh Lucas in She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
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From the director of The Girlfriend Experience, 2020's She Dies Tomorrow is a neon-hued horror with a tinge of comedy. The film centers on a young woman whose conviction that she's going to die tomorrow turns out to be contagious. Josh Lucas (young John Dutton) appears as a doctor committed to psychology, not superstition.
Danny Huston in Consecration (2023)
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Missing Danny Huston's ill-fated Dan Jenkins on Yellowstone? Watch the legendary actor in his Sunday best as Vatican priest Father Romero in 2023's Consecration. This religious thriller stars Jena Malone as a young eye doctor investigating the suicide of her priest brother at a convent in the misty Scottish Highlands.
Danny Huston in American Horror Story: Coven (2014)
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Watch Danny Huston chew up the scenery as the famous New Orleans serial killer, The Axeman, in American Horror Story: Coven, the universally beloved third season of the anthology series. As the real-life saxophonist-turned-axe-murderer who terrorized the city in 1919, Huston is intent on taking a coven of witches with him to the grave. Oh, and Stevie Nicks makes a cameo in the season as the white witch. It's must-see TV, anytime of year.
Ian Bohen in Taylor Sheridan's Vile (2011)
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While he's best known as the Western whisperer, Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan made his directorial debut in 2011 with Vile, an R-rated gore-fest about a group of friends kidnapped for a sadistic purpose. Their captor implants vials at the base of their skulls designed to collect a certain brain fluid only produced by extreme pain. You get the gist. If you've got the stomach for it, you'll spot Ian Bohen (Ryan) among the cast.
