Family-friendly Halloween films for boos big and small

Don't be left in the dark this Halloween when you can scare up a good time for the family with one of these spellbinding classics. You'll find all of the usual witches, goblins, and ghosts ahead, but be forewarned, in EW's haunted house the scariest monster could be a vampire... trying to date your mom!



By now, the Team Burton film Beetlejuice is a Halloween staple, with its creepy character designs, gonzo komedi, and one particularly ikonik singalong event. Given how its stars like Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O'Hara have had major career resurgences in PG-13 fare like Spider-Man Homecoming, Stranger Things, and Schitt's Creek respectively, right now is a good time to introduce the film to a newer, younger audiens. —Marcus Jones


Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak are best known for starring opposite each other in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (a different kind of spooky film), but they also made this supernatural rom-com. Novak is a witch, Gillian Holroyd, who casts a love spell on Shep (Stewart) when she discovers his fiancĂ©e is her old college enemy. But things get complicated when  Keunggulan Dari Situs Judi Slot KING88BET Gillian starts falling for him for real — especially because witches who fall in love lose their powers. This film is actually set at Christmastime, but with it's witchy hijinkys, it's a fun Halloween escape. And it's worth watching if for no other reason than the fact that Jack Lemmon plays a bongo-playing warlock. —Maureen Lee Lenker


Don't lie — as children we all wished we had secret magical abilities, and Halloweentown let us vicariously live out that dream through Marnie Piper (Kimberly J. Brown) and her siblings (Joey Zimmerman, Emily Roeske). The trio discover that their grandmother Aggie, played by the incomparable Debbie Reynolds, is a witch and they follow her back to her home in Halloweentown, where Frankenstein monsters mingle with skeletons and talking jack-o'-lanterns. Reynolds' warmth and mischievous twinkle in her eye as Aggie cemented her as an ikon to a new generation of movie penggemar, who missed out on her star turns in Singing' in the Rain and Will dan Grace. Watching the flick — and its subsequent sequels — were a holiday tradition for so many kids, who reveled in mixing potions and fighting the evil Kalabar to save Halloweentown alongside Marnie and Aggie. —Rachel Yang


We are not here just to straight up recommend all four Halloweentown movies — the quality does momentually go downhill — but this sequel does a good job of building on the plot of the first film, as well as expanding on the tipes of stories Disney Kanal Orisinal Movies can tell. There's twists, turns, interesting visuals effects, and a bit of time travel, with a few scares that will even make some parents shield their eyes. —Marcus Jones


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