Halloween Movie Night

Top 10 Family-Friendly Movies


You have pumpkins and ghost through out the house. Candy corn filled bowls on the coffee table. Now it's time to order pizza, pop the pop corn and get the Halloween movies a-playin. We gathered a list of old classics and new classics to make a fun family movie night!

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
This classic should not be missed. How can you let Halloween pass without watching the Peanuts gang in search of the best trick-or-treating costumes and the Great Pumpkin. Great for all ages.

Clifford's Big Halloween
The Big Red Dog gets accidentally trapped in a bed sheet and scares his neighbors in one fun-filled Halloween night. Great for kids of all ages.

Rugrats Halloween
In this special the babies get lost in a haunted mansion but even more scary than that, Angelica blackmails the babies into believing that they'll turn into whatever they're dressed up as if they don't give her all their Halloween candy. Great for all ages.

SpongeBob Squarepants: Halloween
Dive into Bikini Bottom with SpongeBob and his friends as they embark on one eerie adventure after another. Five action-packed episodes include "Scaredy Pants," "Imitation Krabs," "Frankendoodle," "I Was a Teenage Gary," and "Squidward, the Unfriendly Ghost." Great for all ages.

Casper
See what happens when a ghost "therapist" and his daughter move into a haunted mansion only to meet one very friendly ghost and his scary uncles. The special edition DVD features extras like games, safety tips and scenes, suggested for kids 3 and up.

Monsters, Inc.
Follow the adventures of a two-year-old girl named Boo, who stumbles into monster world and frightens the daylights out of those monsters whose job it is to scare us and turns their world upside down. Suggested for kids 3 and up.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
What better time than Halloween to revisit the magical world of Harry Potter? Don't miss Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, not recommended for kids under 8.

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These movies are recomended for ages 12 and up.. The Nightmare Before Christmas Watch with fascination as the Pumpkin King (Jack Skellington) of Halloweentown stumbles upon Christmastown and tries to take over Christmas by kidnapping Santa! Horror, fantasy, musical, and comedy all rolled into one stunning animated film.
Beetlejuice
A recently dead young couple become ghosts haunting their former home, when a family of yuppies from New York City move into the house, the ghosts seek the help of an mischievous "bio-exorcist" named Betelgeuse from the underworld in order to scare the new living inhabitants away.

The Witches
The on-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel is a treat for both kids and adults. Follow Luke and his grandmother to an English hotel, where a horrifying group of child-hating witches is holding a convention and planning on ridding the world of all its children. What follows is a sinister black comedy where good does win over evil.

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Great movies for when the kiddos are in bed.. Top 10 R-Rated Movies

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
For the ultimate Halloween experience, catch a late-night showing of this raunchy musical about a couple who get lost and stumble upon the strange and thrilling Dr Frankenfurters castle. To get the full effect of the film don't ruin it by watching it on video, this movie is all about audience participation.

The Shining
This could quite possibly be one of the scariest films of all time. Based in an isolated hotel where Jack Nicholson and his family have moved in as caretakers for the winter and are haunted by a former hotel custodian who murdered his wife and two daughters.

The Silence of the Lambs
This psychological thriller is a two-hour-long hair raiser about FBI agent Clarice Starling, who tries to gain insight into a murderer's mind by interviewing psychopath Dr. Hannibal Lecter the Cannibal.

Halloween
A Halloween night turns deadly when Michael Myers escapes from the mental hospital and returns to his small hometown and starts to terrorize a young babysitter. Soon her friends start disappearing one by one....

Poltergeist
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. First friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, they start to turn nasty and terrorize the family before the TV sucks the youngest daughter into another dimension.

A Nightmare on Elm Street
The film that made Freddy Krueger into a household monster is still a Halloween must-watch. When a group of teenagers are brutally murdered in their sleep the remaining teens realize that they have to stay awake to survive. Good luck going to bed after this one!

Alien
This ultimate horror-sci-fi combo is a look at what happens when a space crew stumbles upon an unknown planet, find alien eggs and become the unwilling hosts to alien parasites.

Night of the Living Dead
Holed up in an old farm house a group of people try to fend off corpses that have come back to life in search of brains.

The Exorcist
The story of 12 year old Regan when she becomes possessed by some dark and evil entity, and the priest who comes to try and save her through exorcism.

Seven
Story about 2 cops in a desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, Greed, Lust , Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth…would you survive?