We are so excited that Halloween is on a Friday this year!! We like to make scary snacks and watch a movie, but we usually have to limit it to one movie because it’s a school night. But this year, with it being on Friday, we’re planning a marathon that could last all weekend!
I don’t really like the typical Halloween movies that top the internet lists – like Halloween and all its sequels, or the equally cliche Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street. My whole family has contributed to this list, so it’s pretty varied. And here we go!
The Family Titles (in no particular order)
1. Night on Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia, which to me is the perfect telling of Hallow’s Eve and the following All Saints Day
2. The Ghost and Mr Chicken, a Don Knotts classic
3. Arsenic and Old Lace, which makes this list because it’s set on Halloween and stars the perfectly terrifying Raymond Massey, but it’s one of our favorite movies of all time
4. Tower of Terror, based on the awesome Disney attraction of the same name
5. Beetlejuice, a modern classic whose “Day-O” scene still almost makes me wet my pants laughing
6. The Others, perhaps the creepiest of the family movies, but my kids love it
7. Nosferatu, the original silent film that’s just macabre – as is the film Shadow of the Vampire about the making of the film, starring the goosebump-inducing John Malkovich
After the Kids are in Bed
1. Any Vincent Price movie, but especially House of Wax or House on Haunted Hill
2. Young Frankenstein (“that’s ‘Fronkensteen'”), which never gets old
3. Little Shop of Horrors, the 1986 Rick Moranis version
4. Sleepy Hollow, the Johnny Depp one, because it has the ever-terrifying Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman
5. Fright Night, the Chris Sarandon version, although I love David Tennant as Peter Vincent in the remake, and I adore Anton Yelchin, who plays Charlie Brewster
6. Odd Thomas, speaking of Anton Yelchin. This is a new addition to the list, since the movie just came out in 2013.
Do you have any Halloween favorites that don’t usually make “The List”? Please share – we’re always looking for good movies!
