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#21 ·
My only must watch for the season is The Great Pumpkin. I watch horror/scary stuff all the time & so many more channels will show stuff in October that I just flip channels & watch whatever is on.

Tubi has been a godsend in giving me plenty of horror content to watch. I also like to go to Amazon & pick a 4 star horror to watch, usually the first one I come across. If I hate it, I stop & move on.
 
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Morrighan said:
I split my countdown to Halloween movie list into different decades, then I cover one decade each week. Once I have my weeks sorted I fill up my list with 31 movies, but it’s more of a short list to select from rather than a “must watch all of them” list.

This year I’m starting it off with Nosferatu as my “before horror movies were a real genre” pick. Then moving onto the Universal Classic Monsters era for week 40. For week 41 it’s all Vincent Price this year before moving onto the 80’s and 90’s classics in week 42. Then it’s the “modern horror” week which really is just anything after 2000. It tends to be the week that sees the most changes every year. I’m really looking forward to catching up with a bunch of movies that have been on my watch list for a while now like Train to Busan, MEGAN, The Mortuary Collection and La Llerona. For the final week I’ve put down Trick ‘ Treat and Nightmare before Christmas since those two are some of my “must watch every year” favorites.
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What a cool idea! I like a lot of classics, like Nosferatu, and wish I liked more post-2002 movies. I did like Sinister, but not well enough to put in on my list.

My husband and I went to see the theatrical re-release of Universal's Dracula a few years ago. They played it back to back with the Spanish version (which was better in some aspects). What a treat seeing them both on the big screen!
 
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The Corner of Carnage said:
I've been going through a book I've had since high school. "Fangoria: 101 Horror movies you've never seen." So far it's been great. A lot of stuff I probably would overlook on my own. Thank you Fangoria and Tubi!
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Yeas, Tubi is great! I should check out that book. There are probably a bunch of under the radar classics worth watching.
 
#24 ·
There are too many good Halloween movies, I tend to circulate some in and out every year.

SomeHalloween Staples for the kids:

The Great Pumpkin
The Halloween Tree
Goosebumps
Hocus Pocus
Little Monsters (not really Halloween, but they lve it)
Goonies has also been adopted as a Halloween time movie

Parents List

Hills Have Eyes
Bruce Campbell anything
Lost Boys
Rules of Attraction
Ghost Busters

I am very much so an opportunist, so it also depends whats immediately available to me thru my services.
 
Discussion starter · #25 ·
Just realized I left out Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981). It was a made-for-TV movie that actually had a pretty good story behind the slasher action, and almost no gore.

And Donnie Darko, which takes place around Halloween and is just a great movie.
 
#26 ·
When my son was but a tyke, he absolutely loved "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" (one year the Great Pumpkin (my daughter, as a surprise to all of us) left him a Halloween gift). He is now an adult, but we still play it, and you see his face transport back to that innocent time of his life. So we watch it every Halloween.
 
#27 ·
I love these threads.
Usually find a movie I didn't know about.
Thanks!
Here are some of the movies I make sure to watch in the nights leading up to Halloween:

Sleepy Hallow (Depp version) One of my all time favorite movies
Trick R Treat (not so much for the stories, although they are typical slasher, but I really love the decorative theming.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. This has all the classic SD monsters!
Arsenic and Old Lace 1944. I love this movie. Though technically not a horror movie, it does take place on Halloween, there are murders and... CHARGE!
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.
Goosebumps movie 2015. This is a colorful and fun movie with lots of spooky characters.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (the book is fantastic also)
Cabin the the Woods
Hocus Pocus. this one I only recently started to enjoy, now it's a favorite.
The Dead Don't Die (2019). This one is wacky, I love it.

That's all I can think of.
There is also Hubie Halloween.
It's horrible but I watch it anyway because...I have no idea.
 
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pumpkinheadedskeleton said:
Arsenic and Old Lace 1944. I love this movie. Though technically not a horror movie, it does take place on Halloween, there are murders and... CHARGE!
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
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I forgot about The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. That's a fun movie!

Arsenic and Old Lace has one of the best movie lines, when Mortimer picks up the phone and says, "Hello, operator? Can you hear me? You can? Well, then I guess I must be here."
 
#31 ·
Since we have to divide our time between our 2 kids and their families for Halloween, we have a plan for this year. Our son and his family live about 50 miles north of us, and our daughter's family are less than 1/2 a mile from our place.
We'll go up and spend Saturday the 28th with them, and then Halloween here with our daughter's kids. While we're up there, we can carve some JOL'S, have dinner, and then watch THE GREAT PUMPKIN and NBC(nightmare before Christmas). Those are movies we always watch together every year. Our son's daughters are 15 and 11, so we'll watch them both. Our daughters kids are 7 and 4, so we'll skip NBC this year.
It's not Halloween without Charlie Brown and NBC.
 
#33 ·
Anybody familiar with the "WNUF Halloween Special (2013)? It's done like a TV station's Halloween night broadcast from back in 1987, complete with commercials and station identifications. It's even shot in analog which really makes it feel like you're watching an old TV broadcast. Would make a top notch Halloween night watch.
 
#36 ·
mr.macabre18 said:
Everyone here needs to check out the CREATURE FEATURES YouTube channel if you like old, obscure, or classic horror movies. There's an entire library of films to watch. It's awesome.
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I've watched that channel before. I like the variety of movies they offer. Another good YouTube channel is "Newcastle After Dark". They have some good ones too.
 
#37 ·
Okay, so I'm a weenie. I'm not as big a fan of horror movies as I was years ago. So I'm one who mostly goes for the more family-friendly flicks, or horror-comedies.

  • Hocus Pocus and its sequel
  • The Addams Family and Addams Family Values
  • The Addams Family and its sequel from 2019
  • The Munsters movie from Rob Zombie
  • The Universal Monsters movies
  • Beetlejuice
  • ParaNorman
  • Coraline
  • Goosebumps
  • Halloweentown
  • Hotel Transylvania
  • Once Bitten
  • Fright Night and its remake
  • Frankenweenie and its remake
  • Halloween
  • Young Frankenstein
  • The Worst Witch
  • House on Haunted Hill and its remake
  • The Shining
  • Garfield's Halloween Adventure
  • It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
  • The Crow
  • Trick r' Treat
  • The VVitch
  • The Craft
  • Teen Wolf
  • Interview With The Vampire
  • What We Do In The Shadows

    I don't include The Nightmare Before Christmas, because I consider it a Christmas movie rather than a Halloween movie.

    I said what I said. :ROFLMAO:
 
#39 ·
The Company of Wolves
Halloweentown movies
Hocus Pocus
Hammer Horror movies
Vincent Price/Christopher Lee movies - House of Wax, House on Haunted Hill, and the Dracula movies
Haunting of Hill House (Netflix series)
Carnival of Souls
Trick'r'Treat
Crowhaven Farm
Season of the Witch
some of the Good Witch movies
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

And I love watching episodes of Addams Family and Are You Afraid of the Dark? (original series) in the fall, along with old Halloween Wars episodes. And though they're not Halloween-related, I associate the Emma Peel episodes of The Avengers with autumn too.

I definitely love old movies and TV shows! Most recent stuff doesn't have the same magic for me.
 
#40 ·
Lux said:
The Company of Wolves
Halloweentown movies
Hocus Pocus
Hammer Horror movies
Vincent Price/Christopher Lee movies - House of Wax, House on Haunted Hill, and the Dracula movies
Haunting of Hill House (Netflix series)
Carnival of Souls
Trick'r'Treat
Crowhaven Farm
Season of the Witch
some of the Good Witch movies
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

And I love watching episodes of Addams Family and Are You Afraid of the Dark? (original series) in the fall, along with old Halloween Wars episodes. And though they're not Halloween-related, I associate the Emma Peel episodes of The Avengers with autumn too.

I definitely love old movies and TV shows! Most recent stuff doesn't have the same magic for me.
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I do love the original House of Wax. I am going to have to watch that again. Thanks.
 
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