Halloween AI video trends with your face in them

The three Halloween-season clips you can be in today

None started as a Halloween trend, and we won't pretend otherwise. They're here because they're the two spooky scenes on the site and the pumpkin song, and each works as a Halloween post without you buying, building or wearing anything.

1. Rumpelstiltskin Dance↗ Rising ≈57M views · 1–2 people · 9s The creepy one. A fake 1980s fantasy film made with AI: in a dim hay barn, a small imp in a black velvet tailcoat creeps towards the camera, presses a finger to his lips, flashes a wide, unsettling grin and tiptoe-dances in the straw while a blonde maiden gasps. You're the imp. Pick the two-person version and a friend plays the maiden. It's about nine seconds, and the Bonnie and Clyde remake alone had 5.3M plays when we read it on 15 Oct 2026. See yourself in it
2. Burning Bridges↗ Rising ≈20M views · 1–2 people · 20s The monster party. The chandelier party from the 'Burning Bridges' music video: you're in the centre with a silver cup raised, shading your eyes as you look round the room. Tap Horror night on the trend page and every other guest becomes a costumed movie monster while you stay yourself. Burning Bridges is in beta and the Horror night mix is new, so we're still tuning it: look at your free preview before you pay, and if the video fails, your credits come back automatically. See yourself in it
3. La Calabaza🔥 Hot ≈140M views · 3 pets · 14s The pumpkin one, for pets. "La calabaza" means "the pumpkin": @meowtakeover's three AI kittens, one in a black cowboy hat and one in round glasses, stand up on a night roadside and dance in sync to Pumpky's 'LA CALABAZA'. It's 14 seconds, with no costumes, so it suits a Halloween post without being scary. Your three pets take their places, one photo each. The kittens had 28.9M plays and the dachshund version 54.3M when we read them on 17 Oct 2026. See yourself in it

Also trending this Halloween (read 15–16 Oct 2026)

These are the Halloween videos people are posting this October that you can't make on Jump on the Trend yet. Each name opens our page on it, and each row links to where we saw it, with the numbers as we read them. Where there's one clip we could add, tap Want it? Ask for it: requests go on the list we review for new trends, and we only add a clip once we've found the exact viral video and checked it.

• Zombie love story →Big from 1 Oct 2026

  A short, sad AI story made from photos of two people: one has turned into a zombie, the other can't bring themselves to shoot, and they hug before a cut to a happy memory of the two. People make it from their own photos with AI templates, so every post is a new video rather than one clip everyone copies, and there's no single clip for us to put your face into. How-tos followed fast: a CapCut one by @dengljqmy1g (1 Oct) had 3.4M plays and one by @julieadan2a2 (6 Oct) had 1.2M. It's what people searching "zombie trend on TikTok" are after: in our 16 Oct pull, US searches for "zombie trend" took off on 2 Oct and peaked on 6 Oct, and worldwide they spent 12–16 Oct at about 40–50% of their peak (small, jumpy numbers), so the first wave has passed; Halloween week may bring a second.

  TikTok, @ghostxsniper108, 1 Oct 2026 ↗ · 1.6M plays (read 15 Oct 2026)
• Spooky Scary Skeletons dance →2 Oct 2026

  An 11-second "2026 vs 2019" dance to Andrew Gold's "Spooky, Scary Skeletons", tagged #halloweendance and posted on 2 Oct. The song returns every year: US searches for it have peaked each October since 2019, though the October peaks have shrunk since then. The AI edits going round put anime characters in vampire capes in front of an orange moon, which we won't make. Nobody is recasting one clip of the dance yet: a version with your face would need one clean clip of an adult doing it, with no caption over it, that five or more creators are recasting with AI.

  TikTok, @_alexandramarasigan, 2 Oct 2026 ↗ · 7.1M plays (read 16 Oct 2026)
• Thriller dance with AI pets →2 Aug to 9 Oct 2026

  Pets doing the zombie dance from Michael Jackson's "Thriller", made with AI. On 9 Oct @king_odiee posted two AI dachshunds, one in a red leather jacket doing the moves on a path of fallen leaves. The most-played AI pet version we found is older: five cats by @moonwalkcats (2 Aug), with 606.5K plays on 16 Oct. Each AI pet post is its own render, and nobody is remaking one clip with their own pet, so there's no clip for us to put your pet into. Small numbers next to the others, but it's the nearest thing to a "Halloween dog AI" trend we found this year.

  TikTok, @king_odiee, 9 Oct 2026 ↗ · 115.4K plays (read 16 Oct 2026)
• Ramalama costume walk →Back in Oct 2026

  A low-angle walk towards the camera to Róisín Murphy's "Ramalama (Bang Bang)" that ends on the full costume. NewEngen's Halloween list, updated 14 Oct 2026, says it's back for Halloween. The human walk is thousands of people in their own costumes, with no single clip to copy, and because we only swap faces, yours would only show at the end, on someone else's costume, so we won't make that. This year there's an AI version with kittens: the biggest, @meowtakeover's 11 Oct garage walk, had 17.6M plays on 16 Oct, but its kittens are dressed as video game characters, which we never make. The same account's 15 Oct Little Red Riding Hood and wolf walk, about 12 seconds with two pets and no people, is the one we could add, with your pets in the costumes.

  NewEngen, Halloween TikTok and Reels trends ↗ · Biggest AI kitten walk: 17.6M plays (read 16 Oct 2026)
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• My Ride Is Here (the flying broom) →Since 22 Sep 2026

  Short AI clips in which someone glides up beside the traffic on a broomstick, glances at the camera and flies off, as if the broom were the ride they'd ordered. It began as a one-photo CapCut template on 22 Sep 2026, and the biggest post we found, a Portuguese how-to from 28 Sep, had 1.5M plays on 16 Oct. Every post is a fresh render of the template with the maker's own outfit, not one clip people copy, so there's nothing for us to put your face into.

  TikTok, @shaseighthenesl114, 28 Sep 2026 ↗ · 1.5M plays (read 16 Oct 2026)

The AI werewolf transformation: you can make it here

The AI werewolf transformation is a generated Halloween effect: someone doubles over, their jaw stretches into a muzzle and fur spreads until a wolf stands where they were. People look for it as "werewolf transformation ai generator video" and "werewolf ai prompt" (Google's suggestions on 16 Oct 2026). MakeViral, which had a werewolf template page up when we checked on 16 Oct, points to clips by one AI creator. The biggest it names, @coredrop2's "She starts losing control in public", shows an AI-made woman turning into a wolf on a busy street; it went up on 8 Oct 2026 and had 421.9K plays when we read it on 16 Oct.

You can make it on Jump on the Trend: our Werewolf Transformation template puts you under a full moon as your eyes glow gold, fur and claws race up your arms and your face becomes a wolf's muzzle. Add one photo and the preview, a still of you in the scene, is free. If you'd rather be a different creature, the grinning imp in Rumpelstiltskin is the other one we make for Halloween.

The pumpkin head trend is back: is there an AI version?

The pumpkin head trend is a photoshoot: you wear a carved pumpkin over your head and post the photos as a compilation, often to Jack Stauber's song "Oh Klahoma". Know Your Meme dates it to fall 2020 on TikTok, with returns in 2021 and 2022, when #pumpkinchallenge passed 69 million views. It's climbing again: in our worldwide weekly pull (read 16 Oct 2026), searches for "pumpkin head trend" were at 11%, 38% and 55% of last year's peak in the weeks of 27 Sep, 4 Oct and 11 Oct 2026, the last week still incomplete. That peak came in the week of 19 Oct 2025. These are small, sampled numbers: our US daily reading in last year's table below shows a single-day spike on 7 Oct 2025 instead.

The AI version is a photo prompt. Google suggests "pumpkin head ai prompt", for adding a pumpkin head to a photo with an AI image tool, and the AI pumpkin heads we found were on AI tool sites' own pages rather than in a wave of posts. We don't make it: a pumpkin over your head would hide your face, the one thing you bring to the scene. The real one only needs a carved pumpkin and a friend with a camera. For a Halloween video where you keep your own face while everyone around you is a monster, try the Horror night mix of Burning Bridges.

A Halloween AI video generator? Not quite: the real clip, with your face

Most "AI Halloween video generator" sites turn a written prompt into a new scene, or turn a photo into a spooky portrait. That's not what happens here. We start from a clip that has already gone viral and put your face into it, so the barn, the velvet tailcoat, the cuts, the camera and the clip's own sound all stay as they are in the original. Your face, hair and glasses come from your photo.

That also means you don't need a costume. The imp's tailcoat, bow tie and pointed shoes come with the clip, and so do the monsters at the Burning Bridges party. In a clip remake we don't change bodies or outfits.

What's free: the preview, a still of you in the scene, ready in under a minute. The video is 100 credits ($9.90), whether it's you alone or you and a friend, and HD is 50 credits more. Credits come in packs of 100 for $9.90 or 300 for $24.90, with no subscription needed. You pay only when the video is ready, and if it fails the credits go back automatically.

How to make your Halloween video

From photo to finished video takes about 10 minutes, most of it waiting for the email.

1. Pick the clip and the version

   Open Rumpelstiltskin or Burning Bridges. On Burning Bridges, tap Horror night for the monsters. On Rumpelstiltskin, the page opens on just you as the imp; tap You and a friend (imp and maiden) for two.

2. Add a selfie

   A clear, front-facing photo in good light, one face per photo, with no mask or face paint. The face is the only thing we swap, so it's the only thing that has to be you.

3. Look at the free preview

   Tap See yourself in it and in under a minute you get a still of yourself in the scene. If the face is off, type what to change under it and update it. Each trend comes with up to three free previews.

4. Make the video

   Press Make my video (100 credits). The video takes about 5–10 minutes and we email you when it's ready. Save it to your phone.

5. Post it with the trend sound

   Your Rumpelstiltskin video keeps the film's own music. Most TikTok versions swap in Riff Raff's "Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz", which you can add from TikTok's sound library when you post. Aim to post by about 24 Oct (see below).

Last Halloween's AI trends and when they peaked

In 2025 the Halloween AI trends were mostly photo trends, and the big ones peaked weeks before 31 October. The searches for Halloween AI tools in general came much later, on Halloween itself. Each search figure is US Google Trends, daily, with 100 as that term's own peak between August 2025 and March 2026, read on 15 Oct 2026.

Google Trends figures are relative, not search counts, and very small searches are noisy. We describe last year's mask trend without naming it: the mask is someone else's trademark, and we don't make or promote it.

When to post your Halloween video

Post by about 24 October. TikTok's Halloween posting peaks well before the day. Our calendar of recurring TikTok hashtags, built from 117,487 top US TikTok videos posted between January 2021 and September 2023, puts the peaks at about 14 Oct for #halloweencostume and #tiktokhalloween, about 21 Oct for #halloween and #halloweenlook, and about 28 Oct for #happyhalloween. A video posted in the week of 21 October lands while the biggest Halloween tags are at their height.

Search runs later. Last year, US searches for "ai halloween" and "halloween ai video" were at about half their peak on 30 October, peaked on 31 October and had all but gone by 4 November. So the people searching for a Halloween AI video mostly search in the last few days, after the feeds have filled up with costumes. Last year's AI photo trends had peaked three to five weeks before that. If you'd rather be early than on time, make yours now: the video is ready 5–10 minutes after you press Make.

This page stays at this address every year. After Halloween we'll add what peaked in 2026, and refresh it for Halloween 2027.

Halloween with your partner, a friend or your pet

Your partner or a friend. Rumpelstiltskin is the one for two. Photo 1 plays the imp, who's on screen for most of the nine seconds and grins straight at the camera; photo 2 plays the maiden, who sits with her back to the camera in the wide shots and gasps in two close-ups. Cast the person who'd be most horrified to be the maiden. Two people cost the same as one, 100 credits, and you don't need to be in the same place: each of you is just a photo. More two-person clips are on the couples page and the friends page.

One person. Burning Bridges' Horror night mix is a solo part: you in the centre of the party, the only one who isn't a monster. It's 20 seconds long, the longer of the two, and suits the friend who always asks where everyone is. The version with a friend behind you doesn't have the monsters.

Your pet. There's no Halloween pet clip on the site yet. In the list above, the Thriller dance with AI pets has no single clip to copy, but the Ramalama kitten walk's fairy-tale version is one you can ask for. Our pet trends put your cat or dog in as the whole animal, not just a face. They aren't Halloween scenes, but they're what's live.

Whoever it is, ask first. Every person in a video has to be an adult who said yes; you confirm that when you press Make (the rules).

Photos for a spooky remake

• Leave the mask off. We swap your face, so a mask, heavy face paint or fake blood in the photo can only get in the way. The scene does the scary part.
• For the imp, grin. The imp grins straight at the camera in an extreme close-up, so a photo where you're smiling broadly helps.
• For Burning Bridges, think chin and mouth. Your hand covers your eyes for part of the clip, so the rest of your face has to carry the likeness. A sharp, front-facing photo matters more here than anywhere.
• One face per photo, in daylight. A second photo of you turned a little to the side helps. More in which photo works best.
• Where it goes. Your photos are private by default, never used for training and deleted after 30 days (Privacy).