15 frightfully good movies to watch with the family this Halloween
With Halloween right around the corner and the midterm break fast-approaching, we’re sure you’re trying to think of ways to keep the family entertained ahead of the spooky season.
One budget-friendly way we love spending time with the whole family is by getting cosy on the couch and watching a great film together.
Trying to decide on which movie to watch can often be a problem when you have multiple little ones to entertain, but to make the decision easier, we’ve made a list of the top 15 movies to watch with your children over Halloween.
Check them out below, stock up on some sweets and prepare for a relaxing movie day with these frightfully good films.
Coraline
After Coraline and her parents move from Michigan to Oregon, the little girl explores her new home, only to find a secret door. When Coraline climbs through a hidden tunnel, she finds an idealised version of her parents in the “Other World”, but all is not as wonderful as it seems…
Hocus Pocus
Three witches are resurrected after 300 years by a young boy, Max, in Salem on Halloween night after he lights the cursed Candle of Black Flame.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
After an alien is left behind on earth, a young boy named Elliot saves him and keeps him hidden. Along with his friends and family, Elliot needs to find a way to help E.T. get home.
Coco
Miguel ends up in the Land of the Dead, where he tries to reverse his family’s ancestral ban on music with the help of his great-great-grandfather.
The Addams Family
A bizarre family reconnects with whom they believe to be a long-lost relative, Gomez's brother Fester Addams, but in reality, a loan shark orders her son to pretend to be the long-lost uncle so that she can loot the family of their fortune.
Monster House
Three teens try to convince their neighbourhood that a local house is haunted but nobody believes them. They take it upon themselves to prevent other young children from going there.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington, also known as the ‘Pumpkin King’ runs Halloween Town. But, when he discovers Christmas town, he quickly becomes obsessed with the festive season, so much so that he tries to take over the holiday.
ParaNorman
Norman Babcock, a young boy who can talk to ghosts, is tasked with ending the 300-year-old witch's curse on his hometown.
Halloweentown
Marnie discovers she comes from a family of witches and heads to a magical place called Halloweentown where ghosts and ghouls live apart from humans. She and her siblings must then battle wicked creatures after Grandma Aggie and her mother are attacked by dark forces.
Casper
Casper peacefully haunts a mansion called Whipstaff Manor and befriends a teenage girl named Kat Harvey. But, Kat’s dad has been hired to rid the house of its ghostly inhabitants.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
When their town’s crops are destroyed by vegetable-ravaging rabbits before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, Wallace and his dog, Gromit, work together to track down a giant beast and try to save the town.
Hotel Transylvania
Count Dracula runs a high-end resort for monsters so they can enjoy a break away from humans. When celebrating his daughter Mavis’s 118th birthday with some famous monsters, a human unexpectedly turns up at the hotel and Dracula must make sure guests don’t discover the visitor.
Monsters Inc.
Best friends Sulley and Mike live in a monster world where they believe human children are toxic. While working for an energy company which generates power by scaring children, a little girl, Boo, sneaks into the factory and the two pals must figure out a way to get her back to her home.
Scooby-Doo
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby reunite at a horror-themed tropical resort named ‘Spooky Island’ after a two-year-long gap. On the island, they investigate strange occurrences that happen to visitors.
Jumanji
When two children start to play a magical board game, they meet a man named Alan, who has been trapped in the game. They try to free him, but jungle-based creatures are released with each turn of the game they take and the dangers won’t stop until they finish the original game.