With fall officially beginning and people smelling the pumpkin spice lattes in the air, spooky season is here. That means Halloween fast approaches.

It's the perfect time for group activities with your friends to celebrate the season. Sure, you can go at it alone, but it's so much more fun to get together with your friends and do something spooky. There's so much you can do as a group.

Below, you'll find some scary-themed ideas to explore and do with friends to get you into the right mood for Halloween.

1. Get Together for a Scary Movie Marathon

That's a classic. You can select a spooky theme, like slasher movies, supernatural flicks, or paranormal pieces. The best part is, you don't have to get together in the same physical place. In fact, it's better if you don't.

Instead, you can do a watch party. It's the perfect option for Halloween! After all, the point is to get scared, and if you're watching a movie with your friends, but you're alone doing it, it's much more frightening than doing it as a group.

Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and so many other streaming services offer the ability to do watch parties that you're bound to find a platform you're all subscribed to and make it happen.

2. Debate on Which Film Is the Best Scary Movie

Another movie-themed activity you can do that's not related to actually watching any movies is to have a virtual debate. Try to decide on which film deserves the title for best scary movie of all time.

Get together on Zoom or FaceTime, and take turns making your point. State which feature you believe is the all-time best, scariest movie that's the thing to watch every year on Halloween. Present evidence to prove your point, and see how many people you'll get to agree with you.

At the end of the debate round, you can vote for the two best titles that were debated the most well and have people argue on which is the best out of the two of them.

The answer is The Cabin in The Woods, and that's the hill I'm dying on.

3. Try a YouTube Video Contest

You don't need to pay for a YouTube subscription to upload videos to the platform. Your friend group can decide on a challenge to do, film it, and upload it to YouTube. Nothing too wacky, of course. Don't get carried away.

A great theme for the video contest to consider, for example, is Halloween Characters. You dress up as a famous Halloween character and do a scene pretending to be them. You can be Sally or Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd, or an actual person, like Edgar Alan Poe.

How cool would it be to dress up as Edgar Alan Poe and read aloud some of his creepier poems? Or, even better, try to create some poetry of your own?

Record yourselves, upload the videos, and then have YouTube viewers decide on the winner—whoever gets the most likes wins.

4. Have a Photoshop Contest

Another awesome idea for a contest requires Photoshop.

Do the best job you possibly can in photoshopping monsters, ghosts, and ghouls into your friends' Instagram pictures. If they don't have social media accounts, use whatever digital photo you have of them.

The point would be to try and blend the scary creature as seamlessly as you can. Make it a part of the original image. Then you can vote among yourselves and decide who wins the title of Photoshop Master.

5. Use Zoom for a Range of Online Events

You can use Zoom for so many things. Meet up and take turns telling scary stories, share the most frightening urban legends and superstitions you know.

Or, better yet, take a scroll through Creepypasta and share the story that scared you the most. The one you found most memorable and couldn't stop thinking about. After each of you tells a story, you can pick the person who's the reason you won't be sleeping later because of the story they shared. They'll be the winner with the best story.

Or, back to the movie Host, you can mimic it, light some candles and try your luck at summoning ghosts.

6. Try an Online Scavenger Hunt

If you'd like to go all out, why not create a scavenger hunt? It can be a bit more time-consuming endeavor, but you'll find an array of apps to help you do it, both on iOS and Android.

You can choose the spookiest locations you can think of, or just settle on doing the hunt after it gets dark. Better yet, make it a competition, and have the person who completes the hunt last, do a dare.

Like, stay in a creepy place by themselves for 10 minutes. Or, worse, give you control over their phone and social media accounts for five.

7. Give a Virtual Murder Mystery a Try

You'll find many websites for virtual murder mystery games. Get together online and have some fun solving mysteries. You can use Zoom, Google Hangouts, or any other platform that allows for online meetings.

Choose the virtual murder mystery game you like most, get it, get in costumes, and play through.

Everyone likes to think of themselves as the next Sherlock Holmes when it comes to solving mysteries. So, why not dress up as the most famous detectives, and see if you can really catch the bad guy? Besides Holmes, you can be Poirot, Ms. Marple, Nancy Drew, and so on.

Get Together With Your Friends And Get Spooked

Whatever you settle on doing this Halloween, what matters most is that you spend some time with your friends. Get in the spooky mood as a group, try to scare each other, and stay up all night because you're too scared to go to sleep.

Find a way to connect to your friends and have an awesome Halloween together. You have so many options to turn to and get in touch. Find an option you're all happy with, and get to Halloweening.