Who says you have to be terrified to have a terrific
Halloween?
Spook up the season just the right amount with 13 not-too-scary
Halloween movies. Watch ‘em with the fam or with your best girlfriends.
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Get into the spirit of Halloween with the classic Peanuts
film. As the gang is gearin’ up for Halloween, Linus’s letter to the Great
Pumpkin receives enough scorn to put a shred of doubt in his devoted mind. Will
the Great Pumpkin appear or was it all just a big waste of time?
Monster House
Teenager DJ has been spying on his crotchety old neighbor
Mr. Nebbercracker. As soon as his mom leaves negligent babysitter Zee in
charge, he grabs his best friend Chowder and goes in to investigate. But when
Nebbercracker’s house bursts into life and swallows the pair along with goody
two-shoes Jenny, what will become of the kids and more importantly, what
shocking secret will they discover?
Double Double Toil and Trouble
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen star as identical twins Lynn and
Kelly Farmer in this 1993 kids’ flick. The girls discover that their Great Aunt
Sophia has been trapped in a mirror by her
twin, nasty Aunt Agatha. If the pair doesn’t rescue her before midnight this
Halloween, she’ll be stuck there forever. Can they break the spell in time?
The Worst Witch
Things never go right for Mildred Hubble. At Miss Cackle’s
Academy for Witches, her spells and potions always go wrong. What’s a witch to
do with devilishly popular rival plaguing her footsteps, a teacher who just
doesn’t believe she can do anything right and a coven of evil sorceresses
trying to take over the world?
Casper
Christina Ricci stars as the daughter of a paranormal expert
who moves into a mansion haunted by three mischievous ghosts and one friendly
soul named Casper. Her dad’s been hired by dastardly Carrigan to set the
spirits free, but when he discovers a machine that could turn him into a ghost
and reunite him with his deceased wife, who will be left to save the day?
Scooby Doo and the Witch’s Ghost
One of the best full-length Scooby Doo movies brings the
gang back to the small screen with the mysterious appearance of the ghost of
puritan Sarah Ravencroft in Salem, Mass. Mystery Inc. unmasks the villain, but
what hair-raising secrets will they discover when the truth is revealed? The
catchy tunes of the animated goth girl band the Hex Girls is an added bonus.
Halloweentown
For 13-year-old Marnie, Halloween has never been a big
to-do…until Grandmother Aggie comes to town. Marnie’s mom has been keeping her
daughter’s supernatural powers a secret, and now she must be trained as a witch
or risk losing her abilities forever. Will she master her magic in time to save
the world from the evil warlock Kalabar?
The Addams Family
They’re creepy and they’re kooky / Mysterious and spooky
/ They’re all together ooky / The Addams Family. The darkly comical family from the classic cartoon series takes to
the big screen in the 1991 film with a fab cast including a wonderfully wicked
Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams. In this flick, long lost Uncle Fester
returns home from the Bermuda Triangle…but is it a cause for celebration or a
con?
Hocus Pocus
When Max moves from California to Salem, Mass., on the eve
of Halloween, he shrugs off the ghost stories spun by locals as nothing more
than a bit of make believe. That all changes when he lights the black flame
candle and brings the three Sanderson Sisters back from the dead. You’ll be on
the edge of your seats as Max, his crush Allison and little sister Dani battle
the terrible trio. Will they prevail? Watch ‘n’ find out.
The Witches
Angelica Huston stars in this 1990 adaptation of Roald
Dahl’s classic children’s story. Luke travels with his ailing grandmother to a
seaside resort where a group of modern-day witches are holding a convention.
The Grand High Witch (Huston) has decreed that all children are to be turned
into mice. Will Luke save the day or spend his life twitiching his whiskers?
The Nightmare Before Christmas
This Tim Burton cult classic tells the story of Jack Skellington,
the pumpkin king of Halloween Town. While sleep walking through the forest, he
discovers the door to different holidays and falls in love with Christmas. When
Jack, in his fervor to experience a real Christmas, steals Santa, will he
destroy both holidays?
Beetlejuice
When a couple of New York City yuppies move into a
Connecticut house haunted by its recently deceased owners, the ghosts hire a
bio-exorcist named Betelgeuse to scare away the new inhabitants. Winona Ryder
stars as the flesh ‘n’ blood goth daughter who befriends the ghosts and their
oddball exorcist.
Tower of Terror
A young Kirsten Dunst plays Anna, the niece who accompanies
her journalist uncle to haunted Hollywood Tower Hotel. Produced to provide
background for Disney’s Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride, this compelling and
truly spooky ghost story delves into the 1939 disappearance of five of the
hotel’s guests.
Got some other faves, girlies? Blog about it!
BY BRITTANY TAYLOR ON 10/23/2010 7:00:00 AM
POSTED IN movies, halloween, movies we love, movies