Wearethespooky’s Not So Scary Halloween Movie List

Wearethespooky’s Not So Scary Halloween Movie List

Love the fall but not a fan of being scared? Or do you want to share your love of the spooky season with a friend or child who just can’t handle the scary stuff…yet? Well then this is the list for you! Here are the top 15 movies to get you in the Halloween spirit without being too scared to turn the lights out.

 

#1 Hocus Pocus Year: 1993 – Rating: PG A young boy moves to Salem and accidentally frees a coven of evil witches (kids, am I right?). A magical cat aids the children in a quest to prevent the witches from becoming immortal!

 

#2 It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Year: 1966 – Rating: E Linus believe in the Great Pumpkin but his friends do not. See how the Peanuts gang likes to spend their Halloween!

 

#3 Casper Year: 1995 – Rating: PG Casper is a lonely ghost living in an abandoned house. Casper quickly grows attached to a girl named Kat who moves into the home. Their relationship has it’s ups and downs, caused by Casper’s grumpy uncles, the people trying to find treasure in the home, and of course the fact that Casper is a ghost.

 

 

#4 The Haunted Mansion Year: 2003 – Rating: PG A hard working father promises to take his family on a vacation. While on the way he gets a call about a job he just cannot resist, at a creepy mansion the family isn’t all too thrilled about.

 

 

#5 Halloweentown Year: 1998 – Rating: / Three siblings follow their grandma home after Halloween and are in for a big surprise when they find out grandma is a Witch!

 

 

#6 Hotel Transylvania Year: 2012 – Rating: PG Monsters go on vacation to Dracula’s resort, the perfect place to relax with no humans around! Until a human crashes a special birthday party…

 

 

#7 The Addams Family Year: 1991 – Rating: PG-13  A man arrives at the Addams’ home pretending to be a lost brother, Fester. The oddball family soon sees past this scheme.

 

 

#8 Gremlins Year: 1985 – Rating: PG A salesman finds a unique gift for his son while away on a trip. The little creature needs very special care that the son does not follow, resulting in mysterious beasts causing quite the mess.

 

 

#9 Monster House Year: 2006 – Rating: PG No one believes a group of friends when they say a local house is out to get them. With Halloween coming up fast they decide to take matters into their own hands.

 

 

#10 Goosebumps Year: 2015 – Rating: PG R.L Stine’s beasts and monsters  come to life and wreak havoc. It’s up to a few teenagers and Stine himself to save the town.

 

 

#11 Over the Garden Wall Year: 2014 – Rating: PG Alright, this one is a show. But it has the run time of a movie so it makes the cut! A visually stunning story of two brothers getting lost in the Unknown and meeting all kinds of strange folks on their adventure to get home.

 

 

#12 The Nightmare Before Christmas Year: 1993 – Rating: PG The pumpkin king of Halloweentown decides that he wants to take a go at running Christmas! Watch as this fearful creatures put together an, interesting, holiday season.

 

 

#13 Mickey’s House of Villains Year: 2002 – Rating: E On Halloween night all the villains come and take over Mickey’s house! Mickey and his friends have to plan to take back their house from these fiends!

 

 

#14 Scooby Doo Year: 2002 – Rating: PG Scooby and the gang get back together after years apart. They go to Spooky Island to investigate one last case.

 

 

#15 Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Year: 1966 – Rating: E Roo and Lumpy set out to find the Gobloon, before he finds them!

 

 

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