Make Your Own Halloween Movie and TV Lists!
The holiday season is upon us! Halloween kicks it off and you can be sure that every programmer and editor has set their features to this horror filled holiday. But there is a way to use technology to help you shape your Halloween themed lists. Internet Video Archive (IVA) has APIs for movie and TV content that can return popular horror movies and TV shows.
Using our Entertainment Search, you can easily query our database to make a list of the top rated horror films of the 1980’s available for streaming in the US:
Genre: Horror
Year Range Start: 1980
Year Range End: 1989
Minimum IVA Rating: 80
Here are some of the results I got back:
An American Werewolf in London
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Shining
Poltergeist
Evil Dead II
The Fly
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Return of the Living Dead
Aliens
Evil Dead
The Thing
Santa Sangre
A solid list of top rated 1980’s horror movies but is that the Sweeney Todd movie by Tim Burton that was made in the 2000’s? No, actually it is a recorded stage play with Angela Lansbury from 1982. The description for Santa Sangre says “It is unlike any movie you have seen before…or ever will.” That makes me want to see it!
By using the availability data, you can search by OTT services for best horror TV shows using the following query:
Providers: Amazon Prime
Availability Countries: US
Genres: Horror
Minimum IVA Rating: 80
Here are some of the titles I got back:
The Twilight Zone
Spawn
American Horror Story
13 Nights of Elvira
Dark Shadows
Harper’s Island
The League of Gentlemen
Grimm
Hannibal
Then I changed Providers to Netflix and got the following results that were different from Amazon Prime:
Haven
Penny Dreadful
Santa Clarita Diet
Les Revenants
Stranger Things
Glitch
iZombie
Supernatural
The Haunting of House Hill
The Walking Dead
Ash vs. Evil
Vampire Diaries
Bates Motel
If you just wanted to display the trailers, you can limit to titles with video too. IVAs Entertainment Search is an incredible tool that can assist programmers and editors in creating lists based on a number of facets. Contact IVA at sales@internetvideoarchive.com or sign up for a demo here. More holidays are coming up soon, so hurry!