The Best Of Halloween On Film

[Lazario]

Moonlight, I must say you have an intriguing definition of "Family Movie" with some of these picks. I don't think most families would find the porno-shop scene in The Howling- family entertainment. Especially the stag flick Karen watches with a naked woman tied to a bed and raped.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Just try to imagine a family sitting down to that. Especially since it happens in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

[littlefuzzy]

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (also ... The Invisible Man, ... The Mummy, ... The Killer Boris Karloff)
Some of the old East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films: Spooks Run Wild, Ghosts on the Loose (both may contain some racial stereotype humor)
The Little Vampire
Spiderwick Chronicles
When Good Ghouls Go Bad
The two live-action Scooby Doo movies
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
The Addams Family/The Addams Family Values
Beetlejuice
The Monster Squad
Tower of Terror
Haunted Mansion

[slave2moonlight]

Moonlight, I must say you have an intriguing definition of "Family Movie" with some of these picks. I don't think most families would find the porno-shop scene in The Howling- family entertainment. Especially the stag flick Karen watches with a naked woman tied to a bed and raped.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Just try to imagine a family sitting down to that. Especially since it happens in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

Ha, I totally forgot we were talking about Family movies while making my list. Well, that's my general Halloween list. Family movies can be picked out from it. I also forgot, among others I'm sure, the Addams Family movies, and even the awful Halloween special they did, which I still wish would come to DVD. As I recall, Lisa Loring as an adult Wednesday was rather appealing.

[AwallaceUNC]

I've merged these two and am now bumping.

-Aaron

[Lazario]

Favorite Halloween and horror movies?

My all-time absolute #1 favorite is Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Because the score by John Massari is so fun but genuinely chilling and full of stingers (not centered on boo! jumps or anything, which is even better). And those clowns are terrifying. Compared to these guys, that little demented doll in Poltergeist couldn't scare Dora the Explorer! It's got everything I could want in a horror movie- amazing special effects, an amazing music score, tons of style, a lot of creativity, dark humor, memorable monsters, good pacing. It doesn't get better than this.

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"The Worst Witch", starring Tim Curry as Big Daddy Wiz and featuring the classic Halloween anthem, "Anything Can Happen on Halloween".

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I adore that film as well (one of my all-time favorites). I wish that movie's score were on CD. I'd buy it in a second.

Moonlight, I must say you have an intriguing definition of "Family Movie" with some of these picks. I don't think most families would find the porno-shop scene in The Howling- family entertainment. Especially the stag flick Karen watches with a naked woman tied to a bed and raped.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Just try to imagine a family sitting down to that. Especially since it happens in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

Ha, I totally forgot we were talking about Family movies while making my list. Well, that's my general Halloween list. Family movies can be picked out from it.

Actually, it works now that the topic has been merged with the "Best of Halloween" thing.

[slave2moonlight]

Actually, it works now that the topic has been merged with the "Best of Halloween" thing.

Cool. Though I should actually mention that I watched The Howling with my family since I was a kid, ha. Though I think when I was little I watched it on WGN, so somewhat edited.