Been watching American Haunts series and America's Scariest Halloween Attractions series. Nothing kicks me into Halloween mode like those!
Halloween movies to start the season...
I took a very quick and not at all comprehensive look at the threads and didn't see this. So; what movies do you guys start the Halloween season off with? For us it is the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie, The first and second Aliens movies, Event Horizon ( the perfect blend of sci-fy and horror), A Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, The Reanimator and its sequel, Bubba-HoTep ( you must see this, especially if you enjoyed any of the Evil Dead movies), the Evil Dead movies, The Hellraiser movies-specifically the first three, Cannibal Holocaust, and Brain Dead. And of course the first Halloween movie. Sometimes the Hills Have Eyes, and any of the recent Rob Zombie flicks.
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Yesterday not only did I wake up from a very very cool night but Freddie Krueger was on the tube and they played spook flicks all day! It was Grand!
I watch scary movies year-round. When we start getting into September, I watch movies that take place primarily during the Fall (Sleepy Hollow, Addams Family). October is the time for movies set close to Halloween (Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus), as well as any TV specials (Halloween Wars, Are You Afraid of the Dark). Halloween day is specifically for Halloween and Trick 'r Treat.
I always start the season off with Jennifer's Body. I like to have it playing while I am decorating.
I kick off the season watching Nightmare Before Christmas, while I also browse through H-ween décor magazines. Then, on October 1st, I have to have Sleepy Hollow on, to start setting up my indoor decorations. As that day goes on, I'll also watch Night of The Living Dead, Donnie Darko and any Vincent Price movies. For Halloween day, it's got to be Halloween, the original and one and only!
My kids absolutely loved this Disney Sing-Along Happy Haunting video.My wife and i are looking for 3 year old appropriate Halloween cartoons and movies for our daughter. We have Hocus Pocus, and a Winnie the Pooh one. Any other suggestions?
http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Sing-Along-Songs-Happy-Haunting/dp/B000FQISGM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440886295&sr=8-1&keywords=disney+sing+along+songs+halloween
I was looking for episodes of shows about the making of Halloween candies, and came across "Marc Summer's Magical Mystery Special." So cheesy and fun! I'd never seen it, but my husband said he had vague memories of watching it as a child.
Oh, and we've also been listening to old episodes of 'The Halloween Haunt.' It's a fun podcast. Very spoopy, as the kids say today.
There's a super cute Canadian TV series called Ruby Gloom that's all spooky and Halloweeny! It can be tough to find, but I watched it all on the UK Netflix via a proxy brower app (Hola!). It's good for small kids and is full of great girl characters!!My wife and i are looking for 3 year old appropriate Halloween cartoons and movies for our daughter. We have Hocus Pocus, and a Winnie the Pooh one. Any other suggestions?
Love all these lists, but asides from the Nightmare Before Christmas and Scooby Doo I don't see much animation! So for you Halloweenies, parents with kids, or cartoon lovers, here's a few good Halloween and spooky animated gems!
Movies:
ParaNorman
Hotel Transylvania
Corpse Bride
Monster High series
Coraline
Frankenweenie
The Book of Life (debatable, but hey, they advertised its release around Halloween!)
Scary Godmother
TV:
Over the Garden Wall
Beetlejuice
The Addams Family
Ruby Gloom
Gravity Falls
I still need to watch the Addams Family myself, but I love the rest of these. I really want to push Over the Garden Wall, it's a miniseries that was released around Halloween last year and it's absolutely fantastic and set on Halloween!
Movies:
ParaNorman
Hotel Transylvania
Corpse Bride
Monster High series
Coraline
Frankenweenie
The Book of Life (debatable, but hey, they advertised its release around Halloween!)
Scary Godmother
TV:
Over the Garden Wall
Beetlejuice
The Addams Family
Ruby Gloom
Gravity Falls
I still need to watch the Addams Family myself, but I love the rest of these. I really want to push Over the Garden Wall, it's a miniseries that was released around Halloween last year and it's absolutely fantastic and set on Halloween!
Oh man. Over the Garden Wall is one of those shows that's marketed towards kids but is really for adults. It's style is very reminiscent of old fairy tales (which is what the creators meant it to be like). It gives off an overall super creepy vibe. But I am absolutely in love with that series!!!TV:
Over the Garden Wall
Beetlejuice
The Addams Family
Ruby Gloom
Gravity Falls
I tend to prefer Halloween movies that set a tone rather than "scary" movies, and I'm not into gore or slasher movies (most of the time 
). My list is very much on the tame side and includes lots of TV specials...but this is my go-to Halloween list!
Hocus Pocus (my favorite)
The Halloween Tree
Trick 'r Treat
Ernest Scared Stupid (lol)
It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Sleepy Hollow (or any Headless Horseman variants or adaptations)
Roseanne Halloween episodes
Home Improvement Halloween episodes (underrated!)
Simpsons Treehouse of Horror series
Travel Channel Halloween specials
History of Halloween documentaries
I can't think of anything else at the moment - but really I just love those movies/tv shows that have that perfect Halloween/Fall imagery.
). My list is very much on the tame side and includes lots of TV specials...but this is my go-to Halloween list!Hocus Pocus (my favorite)
The Halloween Tree
Trick 'r Treat
Ernest Scared Stupid (lol)
It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Sleepy Hollow (or any Headless Horseman variants or adaptations)
Roseanne Halloween episodes
Home Improvement Halloween episodes (underrated!)
Simpsons Treehouse of Horror series
Travel Channel Halloween specials
History of Halloween documentaries
I can't think of anything else at the moment - but really I just love those movies/tv shows that have that perfect Halloween/Fall imagery.
Just watched The Exorcist. The one movie that always starts my season is the original Nightmare on Elm Street. Just watched it yesterday. It was a bit sadder this time around.
Just watched Evil Dead and a couple of the Halloween movies. Will watch Hocus Pocus, Friday the 13th, Adams Family and possibly the Scream series (it's been years).
I just watched Rob Zombie's Halloween II. I almost wish I hadn't. Zombie should be slapped for the what he did to John Carpenter's original horror classic. But his sequel is even worse. It's an ugly film; a study in mindless brutality with very little entertainment value. Malcom McDowell is a poor replacement for Donald Pleasence as Doctor Sam Loomis, since he plays Loomis as a self-absorbed prima donna jerk rather than the character we all remember from five of the earlier Halloween films. And Michael himself is played as a large, angry, psychotic killer rather than the supernatural monster Carpenter created. The only redeeming factor at all was the appearance of Danielle Harris as Laurie Strode's friend Annie. Danielle is the actress who played Laurie Strode's daughter (and therefore Michael Meyer's niece) Jamie in Halloween 4 and 5. During a panel discussion included in the Halloween 4 DVD special features, she lamented the fact that her character was replaced in Halloween H20 by a son played by Josh Harnett. "It made him a star," she said, "while I'm currently not working." She added that she'd love to be in another Halloween film. It's a shame that Zombie's POS sequel is the one she got cast in. I read someplace that they're planning another Halloween film - most likely a reboot. So hopefully these terrible travesties of Rob Zombie will be buried and forgotten.
Every year I tell my wife that I want to try to watch one scary movie a day during the month of October, but I never manage. I'm going to give it a shot again this year. Some of my faves though are Halloween (Carpenter's original, duh), The Thing (Carpenter again), The Fog (also Carpenter...), Nightmare on Elm Street, House, Lost Boys, Monster Squad, The Shining (Kubrick's), Ghostbusters, Poltergeist, Friday the 13th, Charlie Brown & The Great Pumpkin, etc. I try to watch a good mix of horror & whimsical.
I also enjoy Halloween III, even though it doesn't have the greatest reputation - there's just something about the mood of the movie that I really like.
I also enjoy Halloween III, even though it doesn't have the greatest reputation - there's just something about the mood of the movie that I really like.
I finally got hubby to watch Stor of echoes with Kevin bacon. what will you watch?
This year I will watch a Wes Craven movie marathon to start the season. I'm sad we lost a horror legend.
Here's something that was a surprise. I was going through the other Halloween films - the Moustapha Akkad flicks, not the Rob Zombie crud - and guess what I found? Paul Rudd, star of one of this summer's biggest blockbuster hits, Ant-Man, starred as a teenage Tommy Dole in Halloween 6, The Curse of Michael Meyers. Nice to see a Halloween star rise to fame and fortune in Hollywood! Curse of Michael Meyers is the third film in the third Halloween story line, and it's the last film Donald Pleasence starred in. He died during the filming. I always liked this one.
I watched most of Child's Play last night, I'll finish it tonight and maybe do the 2nd one.
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