Halloween Movies for the Family

It's that time of year again, the leaves changing, the days getting shorter. It means one thing, fall is and and with it my favorite holiday (besides Christmas), Halloween. so this time around, instead of doing what I do in the past by sharing memories of halloween past and sharing halloween decorations with things sitting around your house. None of that this time.

This time around, I thought I would share a few family movies for little ones in your family (or if you're like me, young at heart and want to let the inner kid out). So here are some movies (in my opinion) you should watch and it won't keep your kids up at night either.

Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff

Rated: Not rated Year: 1993 Cast: Voices of Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille

Inkblot sibs Wakko, Yakko, and Dot run amok in six skits featuring Frankenstein, the Grim Reaper, and the big baddie himself, Satan.

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

Rated: Not rated Year: 1948 Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

It's a monster mash when Abbott and Costello meet Count Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman. The

hapless duo are baggage handlers who encounter more than one classic screen monster in McDougal's House of Horrors and become part of a plot to give Frankenstein a new and feebler brain -- Costello's.

Casper, Casper Meets Wendy

Rated: PG, G Year: 1995, 1999 Cast: Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Hilary Duff, Cathy Moriarty

Ghost for tweens: Ghost meets girl, ghost saves girl. Can ghosts and girls, or ghosts and witches, really be friends, or (gulp) more? In the first film, Ricci is the daughter of a paranormal psychiatrist who makes house calls to the mansion where Casper and his uncles haunt. In the second, Duff is a fledgling witch, who must flee to a Catskills resort with her three aunts to escape a warlock

Hocus Pocus

Rated: PG Year: 1993 Cast: Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thora Birch, Omri Katz

Max is a California teen whose family relocates in Salem, Massachusetts, where local lore has it that the three Sanderson sisters will return to wreak havoc. The three witches are intent on getting eternal youth and beauty the old-fashioned way -- by sucking the life force out of children.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Rated: Not rated Year: 1966 Cast: Voices of Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea

Oh, nothing compares to the breathless suspense of Halloween, except for maybe Christmas. Linus and Sally wait all night in the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin to appear, Snoopy is in high-flying form as an ace pilot, and the gang compares their Halloween loot.

The Little Vampire

Rated: PG Year: 2000 Cast: Jonathan Lipnicki, Anna Popplewell, Rollo Weeks

Tormented souls can be sweet, or at least they are to Tony, a lonely American boy who dreams of vampires. In Scotland he finds a soulful family of bloodsuckers who harbor a secret craving: to become human. Magic amulets, comets, vampire hunters, and a herd of flying vampire cows add clever and startling mischief to an entertaining yarn.

The Witches

Rated: PG Year: 1990 Cast: Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson, Mai Zetterling

Huston is the Grand High Witch who presides over a convention of cackling, scheming witches in a sleepy seaside British hotel. It's up to Luke, a brave 6-year-old, to stop their evil plan to turn the world's children into mice, using chocolate as the lure.

The Worst Witch

Rated: G Year: 1986 Cast: Fairuza Balk, Tim Curry, Charlotte Rae, Diana Rigg

Mildred is the new student at a very proper British boarding school for witches, where the lesson plans include flying in formation and concocting laughing potions.

That is my list of halloween movies that I recomend for your little ones to watch or if you're like me, let your inner kid out every now and then. If these aren't enough for you and your family then here is a link to another blog site called Family - Friendly Halloween Movie Countdown


And Remember folks, have a safe and Happy Halloween.