My Favorite (Non-Scary) Halloween Movies

Halloween is my favorite time of year. The decorations, the costumes, I feel at home. October is a very busy time of year. I have books to read and movies to watch. I have a looooong list of movies I try to fit into 31 days of October. Check them out!

• The Addams Family (1991)
  • Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.
• BeetleJuice
  • A recently-deceased husband and wife commission a bizarre demon to drive an obnoxious family out of their home.
• The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
  • A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters. And he is not disappointed.
• Casper (1995)
  • A paranormal expert and his daughter bunk in an abandoned house populated by three mischievous ghosts and one friendly one.
• Dracula (1992)
  • The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
• Halloweentown (all four of them)
  •  A teenage girl learns that she is a witch. After finding a town full of supernatural creatures like her, she uncovers a horrible plot that could ruin this magical town forever. With the help of her siblings she sets out to save the town.
• Harry Potter (Just because)
  • An orphaned boy is enrolled in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
• Hocus Pocus
  • A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.
• Mostly Ghostly (2008)
  • Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, Max Doyle finds he has a few friends living in his house that only he can see.
• Phantom of the Opera (2004)
  • A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House. He kidnaps the soprano and forces the owners of the play to keep her as the lead role of the play.
• Sweeney Todd
  • The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
• Underworld (2003)
  • Selene, a vampire warrior, is entrenched in a conflict between vampires and werewolves, while falling in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons.

Honorary Mentions

• Coraline
  • An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
• The Covenant
  • Four young men who belong to a New England supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Meanwhile, jealousy and suspicion threaten to tear them apart.
• The Craft (1996)
  • A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.
• Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant
  • Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak and become a vampire.
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
  • A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.
• I, Frankenstein
  • Frankenstein’s creature finds himself caught in an all-out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.
• ParaNorman
  • A misunderstood boy that can see ghosts now has to save his town from a centuries-old curse by taking on ghosts, zombies and, worse of all, grown-ups.
• Practical Magic (1998)
  • Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love.
• Scooby-doo (2002)
  • After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.
• Season of the Witch
  • 14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.
• Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake must find and train Merlin’s descendant to defeat dark sorceress Morgana la Fée.
• Twitches
  • Twin witches separated at birth meet on their 21st birthday. Now together they learn that they’re witches and must use their powers to save the world in which they were born, where their birth mother still lives.

What are your favorites? Are you into horror movies and a scary Halloween or are you like me and you prefer a funnier more wacky Halloween?

Happy Halloween 🎃 I hope you have a spooktastic month!!

– Shannon