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I can only think of Hocus Pocus? Anyone got some other great Disney Halloween/themed movies?

Hmmm... At a push, perhaps "The Haunted Mansion". What about the Disney Channel "Halloweentown" series?

Almost any Disney Animated Classics with Disney Villains are great for Halloween, after all they were featured in Disney's Halloween treat and anything for Disney Halloweens!

Here are why Walt's first fairy tale films can feel like Halloween:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feels very much like fall, the colors of the leaves in the trees, and everywhere else. The fall forest transforms into a scary, haunted one, and the Evil Queen transforms into an evil witch who offers a young girl a treat - that's really a trick! And it's an apple, but instead of candy coating, posion coating! Snow White feels like Halloween a little. Much of the film takes place at night.

Sleeping Beauty feels like Halloween with it's scary witch and evil monster goons casting their darkness over almost the whole film, and the forest and sunset and colors occasionally feel like Fall as well. Much of the film takes place at night.

Cinderella has a witch of a stepmother with glowing yellow eyes, and a black cat with glowing yellow eyes! The film occasionally feels like Fall, complete with fallen leaves in the garden and a big pumpkin, though it transforms into a coach, not a jack-o-lantern. Cinderella also makes me think of Christmas with the nightime, the big party, and the white stars like falling snow...

Welol there's the Halloweentown Movies, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ichabod, Monsters, Inc., The Haunted Mansion, Phantom of The Megaplex, Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire, Don't Look Under The Bed, Now You See It..., Under Wraps, and Honey, I Shrunk The Kids.

If you're not looking for Disney Channel Original Movies, Nightmare Before Christmas is the only Disney Halloween-based movie...

how about the halloweentown series.. I, II.. halloweentown high, return to halloweentown

Twiches I and II

The Sword in the Stone. Feels like a costume party. Merlin changes himself and Arthur into various animals to teach the boy about the world. And there's the duel Merlin has with the witch Madam Mim (they try to best each other by turning into different kinds of animals)

Pinocchio has the freaky Lampwick turning into a donkey scene, the donkey-boys being crated up, intimidating Stromboli, and Monstro the whale.

The Black Cauldron. Lot of creepy stuff in this: the Horned King, his minions, his castle, his dragons.

Hey, hey, hey, Halloween has witches, monsters, haunted forests, fall colors, leaves, pumpkins, apples, black cats.

It's not just about what's scary!

So I mentioned the films I mentioned. Maybe Sword in the Stone and Black Cauldron will fly...the Black Cauldron really fits, actually, but I dunno about Pinocchio...nah.

Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie

Mickey's House of Villains


Something Wicked This Way Comes (never seen it myself)

Tower of Terror (again for some reason I've just never seen it)

the many Disney Pre-school DTV specials such as Mickey's Clubhouse and My Friends Tigger and Pooh and retro Rolie Polie Olie....

and as many others mentioned Nightmare Before Christmas and the Disney Channel Halloween themed movies such as Halloween series and the movie I think is very under rated is Under Wraps.....good movie I thought......Twitches

also Bedknobs and Broom sticks

Twiches 2 was not Halloween. Full out took place like 2 days after the first one, in November. The fact that its not Halloween has always bothered me!

Nobody mentioned Sleepy Hollow yet (Adventures of Ichobad and Mr Toad)

I know that this is off subject but in a similar vein what about a new Villains Countdown?

Disney Duster wrote:Hey, hey, hey, Halloween has witches, monsters, haunted forests, fall colors, leaves, pumpkins, apples, black cats.

It's not just about what's scary!

So I mentioned the films I mentioned. Maybe Sword in the Stone and Black Cauldron will fly...the Black Cauldron really fits, actually, but I dunno about Pinocchio...nah.

That's why I'm asking for a Disney list because I could associate Halloween with slasher flicks, but I like for my little bro/cousin to remember good things/movies about Halloween too in this uncertain world/time.

Disney Duster wrote:Hey, hey, hey, Halloween has witches, monsters, haunted forests, fall colors, leaves, pumpkins, apples, black cats.

It's not just about what's scary!

So I mentioned the films I mentioned. Maybe Sword in the Stone and Black Cauldron will fly...the Black Cauldron really fits, actually, but I dunno about Pinocchio...nah.

Gepetto's cat, Figaro, is 90% black (the cat from Cinderella, Lucifier, isn't solid black either). Pinocchio took an apple to school. The boys vandalizing Pleasure Island could be equivalent to real life kids soaping up windows and smashing eggs on cars, graffiting walls, and toilet papering trees on Hallow's Eve. And Honest John 'tricks' Pinocchio with 'treats' for his own monetary gain. He tells Pinocchio to go to Stromboli to become a famous actor who can afford many luxuries then after a show for Stromboli, Pinocchio is forced to travel abroad with the show and possibly never see his father again. Later, Honest John informs Pinocchio about Pleasure Island where he can do whatever he pleases and eventually Pinocchio learns he and the other boys were/are to be sold into slavery.

Barbossa wrote:Nobody mentioned Sleepy Hollow yet (Adventures of Ichobad and Mr Toad)

Mickeyfan1990 mentioned it.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
Frankenweenie
Vincent
Trick or Treat (Donald & Nephews)
The Mad Doctor (Mickey & Pluto)
Pluto's Judgment Day (Mickey & Pluto)
Lonesome Ghosts (Mickey, Donald & Pluto)
The Worm Turns (Mickey)
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Blackbeard's Ghost
Child of Glass
Escape to Witch Mountain

How about "Mr. Boogedy" & "Bride Of Boogedy"? I wish they came out as a double feature DVD.

disneyboy20022 wrote:Something Wicked This Way Comes (never seen it myself)

It's quite good, all things considered.

I'm hoping one day Disney will muster up some respect for their live-action catalogue and re-release this movie as a two-disc set. The first disc can include the theatrical version (which is what's out) that contains the James Horner score, the spider scene, and the other reshot scenes/new VFX. The second disc can include the pre-release version with the original Georges Delerue score, the original scenes before they were re-shot, and the scenes that were eventually deleted.

disneyboy20022 wrote:Tower of Terror (again for some reason I've just never seen it)

Another good one. Melora Hardin is adorable in it, and it's got Steve Guttenberg!

Anyway, Soups, check out the thread that Wire Hanger posted. That's our Officially Unofficial List.

albert

Here are just a few that I know of that are Halloween-themed:

Halloweentown series
Hocus Pocus
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Technically a Touchstone film until 2006)
Trick or Treat (Donald Duck Short)
Under Wraps

Watcher In the Woods is my favorite Disney movie to watch around Halloween time. Something Wicked This Way Comes is another one I love to watch in the fall.