Beetlejuice and Ernest Scared Stupid are the first that come to my mind.

 

Hotel Transylvania, Frankenweenie, Mad Monster Party, etc.

 

Mad Monster Party is believe it or not my 7 year olds favorite Halloween movie! I wanted to do this one this year but I gotta think of a good themed treat to go with it.

 

Fun Size was pretty good, came out last year

 

What's it about?

The Halloweentown series was great.

 

Nightmare Before Christmas is our 'go-to' for atmosphere and fun.

 

Ahhh Beetlejuice!

 

Don't say It 3TIMES!!!!!!!

 

My 5 year old loves beetlejuice.... I haven't seen fun size though, ill check that one out and of course Nightmare before Christmas, my kids say its my life story! We were at the grand canyon and I was taking pictures of spooky trees. Only you Mom would see Halloween in the Grand Canyon they said to me, haha... oh well, the Halloween bug bit me hard when I was just a little kid. I see Halloween in everything everywhere

 

I see Halloween everywhere, too. Check out this tree pic.

Ps, When Good Ghouls Go Bad, and The Halloween Tree.

 

How about Paranorman and Hotel Transylvania? Some simple spooky treats we used to make were "monster toes" which are cocktail franks wrapped with strips of flour tortilla and baked, and spaghetti and "eyeballs", where you make your regular meatballs but add a sliced of stuffed greed olive to make it look like an eye. My kids used to love these - actually, at 22 and 26 they still do!

 

Monster House

 

Oooh, Monster House.

That is a good call, Nightfisher!

I think I'll go see if I can stream that....

 

Now we're talking Madame Leota! Great suggestions, I think both of those would be great and I love Monster House was thinking of making a gingerbread haunted house to go with that movie

 

Hocus Pocus, When Good Ghouls Go Bad, Worst Witch, Littlest Vampire, Halloween Town, Disney's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Haunted Mansion, Van Helsing, The Mummy, Young Frankenstein, Tower of Terror, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Monster Squad, Universal Classic monster movies- Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-Man, Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Casper, ParaNorman, Coraline, Corpse Bride, Episodes of The Munsters or Addams Family, Mad Monster Party, Ghost & Mr. Chicken, Clue, The Private Eyes, Them! (1954), Tarantula (1955), Day the Earth Stood Still (1959), Godzilla

 

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein was a favourite when I was little - I wonder if today's kids would like it?

 

Fantastic list Haunty!

 

Edward ScissorHands. A very Quirky movie that would be good for A Halloween Night. That or The Night Before Christmas. Pumpkin Pie as a sweet treat? I usually watch Jason Voorhese or Micheal Myers movies with my family... Granted all my kids are teens.

 

I grew up watching those with my parents as well. Kids today are so different and you get in trouble at school if your kids are talking about watching Jason hack someone up, haha... My brothers and I weren't scared of everything like kids are today. I cant wait til my kids are older and I can watch the movies I watched as a kid with them

 

Garfields Halloween, Fat alberts Halloween special, Under Wraps, The Monster Squad, Any Roseanna or Home Improvement Halloween specials. Ghost busters, Gremlins, Corpse Bride.

 

Good call on Roseann and Home Improvement!!!

 

Who else here misses the old video store? They don't seem to have much iconic stuff on the Internet.

 

WOW! what a great pic darkmandustin! Now you just have to see the spook in that!

and oh my goodness, my hubby and I were just talking about how we use to go to the video store and search out all of the "B" scary movies when we were in high school. Ahhh, the good ole days

 

ParaNorman is a pretty cute movie it's on Netflix. We are going to watch Hocus Pocus on the Friday before Halloween while carving pumpkins.

 

I just saw on Cartoon Network a commercial for the Regular Show Fright Pack - http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3...com/news/3251927/three-clips-tease-the-terrors-of-the-regular-show-fright-pack/

 

Fun Size is about a teen girl and her little brother on Halloween. Their father, who loved Halloween, has died and the girl loses her brother on Halloween night and spends the movie trying to find him. Pretty predictable but cute.

I needed a movie fix the other day and watched Hocus Pocus on labor day afternoon.

 

Here's my preferred Halloween family mix in this order Charlie Brown Halloween special, Garfield Halloween special, and Scooby Doo meets new brothers

 

I almost forgot,
Jack O Lantern (From Rankin/Bass)
Looney tunes Halloween special
Goober and the ghost chasers
The Halloween tree
Tom & Jerrys Haunted hijinx
Scooby doo cartoons as well as Zombie island and the Witches ghost
Drac Pack

 

Totally forgot about Tom and Jerry, I gotta find that one!!

 

Just in case anyone forgets...beetle juice has the f bomb in it and ghostbusters from DVD is not the same ghostbusters we have seen on tv for the last 20 or so years. We had to edit for our kid party. IMHO monster house is the ultimate kid movie. Ur 10 year old is probably tired of it. For the little ones albeit, short we loved Scary Godmother shows. I'm trying to get some opinions from our forum on The Hole to show at our 10 year olds party, but it seems like I'm the only person who has seen it. Really good movie for age group until the end ...maybe a little intense. Only parental review was on imdb and it wasn't too helpful. Let us know what u choose.

 

Just in case anyone forgets...beetle juice has the f bomb in it and ghostbusters from DVD is not the same ghostbusters we have seen on tv for the last 20 or so years. We had to edit for our kid party.

Maybe I'm misremembering but I think Monster Squad had a little bit of mature content in it too. Love Monster House.

For the little ones albeit, short we loved Scary Godmother shows..

Yup they're pretty good, but definitely skew kinda young. Seems to me there's a fair bit of emphasis on someone eating all the pizza so you could probably do some kind of themed pizza to go with that.

Scooby Doo on Zombie Island was great. (Maybe that could be cheap dinner night and you could just feed the kids dog biscuits? Is that legal? )

 

Scoot- Doo and the Ghoul School