Thread: Halloween movies and shows for the family

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For those of you like me who have a child/children, love to watch movies and shows with them, and your favorites are the ones with eerie themes (mainly Halloween) then you may have noticed, as I have, that the spooky shows for the family/kids are dissapearing.
Whether it be for the whole family or directed straight to kids. Shows like the ones we watched when we were kids are just not around anymore. From the classics like Scooby Doo, The Addams Family, and The Munsters to those great shows from the 90s like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Goosebumps, And eerie Indianna.
Other than the new scooby doo show "Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated" today the only shows that resemble those are "The Troop" (3 monster hunting teens) and "wizards of waverly place" (a family of wizards) which is mostly about a teenage girl. But these don't have that Spooktastic feel that we all love ("wizards of waverly place" had a few episodes last year that made me think it was turning into something us spook fiends could enjoy, but it seems to be falling back to the teen girl thing).
Now im not saying shows need to be scary but those shows that aren't around anymore just had a great feel to them (a feel I refered to as "spooktastic"). And Im sure it has a lot to do with imagery. Like haunted houses and woods, inhuman characters, full moons, and so on. You know OUR BREAD AND BUTTER.
But why can't we have something like that now? People will watch it! There is a large number of people who want that kind of entertainment. And you know if a vampire or two are thrown in the twilight chicks will be all over it (haha).
I hope the future holds more spooks for the whole family but for now we'll have to hold on to the new scooby show, the month of october when "it's acceptable" to watch these shows, Disney's week long halloween in april (they play halloween movies and shows at some point of the day which is a great idea but it's usually pretty weak) and remember DVD's are our friends!
Here's a list of stuff I recomend you check out for you and yours

Halloween shows/movies first

Goosebumps - Some of these are great some are not. HALLOWEEN EPISODES The Haunted Mask pt1 and pt2, The Haunted mask 2 pt1 and pt2, Attack of the Jack o lanterns.
Are you afraid of the dark? - a lot like goosbumps but it came first. HALLOWEEN EPISODES the tale of the midnight ride, the tale of the twisted claw
Eerie Indiana - this had a strange twlight zone feel to it. IT's GREAT! HALLOWEEN EPISODE Americas scariest home video
Nightmare Room - this is pretty much goosebumps with another name HALLOWEEN EPISODE full moon halloween
The Real Ghostbusters - HALLOWEEN EPISODES when halloween was forever, Halloween 2 1/2, the halloween door
Beetlejuice (cartoon) - HALLOWEEN EPISODE laugh of the party
Casper - many different casper movies and shows out there and a lot of them have to do with halloween
Home Improvement - has Great halloween episodes
Roseanne - has great halloween episodes
The simpsons - treehouse of terror I don't even know how many of these are around now
R.L. Stines When Good Ghouls Go Bad - this is a great movie! This one catches the spirit very well
R.L.Stines The Haunting Hour - this movie is great!
R.L. stines mostly ghostly - I don't remember if this has to do with halloween and its not as good as the 2 above
Halloweentown- these movies are on disney every year
Halloweentown 2 kalabars revenge
Halloweentown high
Return to Halloweentown
Double Double Toil and Trouble - Mary Kate and Ashley. . . but it's actually really good
The Halloween That Almost wasn't
Pumpkin Man - this is kinda hard to find
Halloween is Grinch Night
Monster House - this is great!!!!
Hocus Pocus - I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!
Ernest Scared Stupid - I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!
Scooby Doo - so many scooby shows out there and alot are halloween
A Nightmare Before Christmas

Here are some more that I can't remember the halloween episodes or they are just spooky with no halloween
Tales from the Cryptkeeper - saturday morning cartoon of the hbo show it's cool!
The Munsters
The Addams Family
Groovie Goolies
Monster Maker
Monster Mash
The Haunted Mansion
Beetlejuice
Igor
Little Monsters

I know more but that is off the top of my head hahaha. If you know of more PLEASE add them to this thread. Sorry for the bad punctuation. I hope you guys like this thread and find some good things to watch with your family

LOVE this list, halloweenfiend! Could you add "Courage the Cowardly Dog" to the cartoons? My 9 year-old and I love to watch this one together.

I think you put together a really great list! Our go-to movies are for sure are all the Halloweentowns, Haunted Mansion, Nightmare Before Christmas, and Hocus Pocus.

The Disney is usually pretty good about airing spooky movies during the month of October. Which reminds me of one movie not on your list - Twitches. Oh, and how about the Corpse Bride? I'll list more as they come to me.

It took me a minute to find it because I forgot the name but Scary Godmother.

While I was searching for it, I found that there are a couple Scary Godmother movies - Halloween Spooktakular and The Revenge of Jimmy.

They are short (maybe 30 minutes) but nonetheless great for Halloween!

What about "The witches"? Ffor some reason I really enjoyed that one.

"Mom's got a date with a Vampire"? A corny Disney movie but my family loves it. Can't find it on dvd though.

Originally Posted by halloween4ever

What about "The witches"? Ffor some reason I really enjoyed that one.

haha I got on here to put that one on. I know I missed some and some I don't know about a few so keep them coming

Originally Posted by mommyto3

It took me a minute to find it because I forgot the name but Scary Godmother.

While I was searching for it, I found that there are a couple Scary Godmother movies - Halloween Spooktakular and The Revenge of Jimmy.

They are short (maybe 30 minutes) but nonetheless great for Halloween!

I've seen those once or twice but never all the way through. Thanks for adding them.

Great list!! I really love Ernest Scared Stupid as well...MIAK!! HAHAHA Also I would add The Halloween Tree, Will Vintons Claymation Comedy of Horror Show, Bugs Bunnys Howl o Ween and Disneys Halloween Treat.

for cartoons add

Ahhh! Real monsters!
Danny Phantom (a couple of episodes)
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen

for movies
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
Monster House
GhostBusters
Escape to Witch Mountain
Labyrinth
Coraline
Disney's Tower or Terror (not that bad)
Monsters Inc.
E.T. (takes place during Halloween)