The Heyworth Journalism Class compiled a list of some great movies to start your Halloween festivities off right. The list moves between not-so-scary to truly spooky, so be advised!
Spookley the Square Pumpkin (This 2004 G Rated light-hearted animated movie that takes place on a pumpkin farm.) (47 minutes)
Casper the friendly ghost (This 1995 PG film, investigators go to talk to Casper and finds out he is mischievous.) (1h 36m)
Hubie Halloween (This 2020 PG-13 film Hubie protests his town from a kidnapper.) (1h 42m)
Franken Weenie(This 2012 PG film about a boy's childhood dog passing away and him trying everything to get him back.) (1h 27m)
Hocus pocus (This 1993 film It follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts.) (1h36m
Monster House(This 2006 Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.) (1h31m)
Goosebumps (This 2015 PG movie of a doll coming to life and terrorizing the town, only to be stopped by a group of teens.) (1h43m)
Frainkinstine (This 1931 unrated film of a mad scientist who digs up corpses and assembles a living being from them.) (1h11m)
Coraline (In this 2009 PG film, an 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her home, but it has sinister secrets.) (1h55m)
Scream (This 1996 R-rated film about a high school student and her friends, who, on the anniversary of her mother's murder, become the targets of a costumed serial killer known as Ghostface.)
The Shining (This 1980 R-Rated Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.) (2h40m)
Addams Family (This 1991 PG-13 film, shows the things the family gets up to.) (1h39m)
Friday the 13th(This 1980 R-rated film, Crystal Lake's history of murder doesn't deter counselors from setting up a summer camp in the woodsy area.)
Little Shop of Horror (1986 PG-13, During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store.) (1h28m)
Nightmare Before Christmas (This 1993 PG film Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown.) (1h 16m)
Beetlejuice (This 1988 PG After Barbara and Adam Maitland die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence.) (1h 32m)
Gremlins (1984 PG, A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him a mogwai but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight.) (1h 46m)
Pet Sematary (1989 R-Rated, After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.) (1h 43m)
Carrie (This 2013 Rated R The story of a misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers.) (1h 40m)
Candyman (This 2021 Rated R, Skeptical graduate student while researching superstitions in a housing project on Chicago's Near North Side. From Anne-Marie, Helen learns about the Candyman, a knife-wielding figure of urban legend.) (1h 31m)
Nightmare on Elm Street (In this 1982 R-rated, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger, a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams which, in turn, kills them in reality.) (1h 31m.)
Halloween (This 1978 R-rated film about Michael Myers steals a car and escapes Smith's Grove. He returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims.) (1h 42m)
Fear Street (In This 2021 R-Rated, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.) (1h 47m)
It (In this 2017 R-rated movie young children in Maine's town start to go missing, and kids decide to make a change and figure out why.) (2h 15m)
Child’s Play (in this 1988 R-rated movie Charlee uses black magic to put his soul into a doll, and that doll goes on a murdering spree.) (1h 27m)
The Ring (A 2002 rated PG-13 horror film is about a young girl who discovers an “urban legend” of a cursed videotape. She soon finds out that it might not be an urban legend.) (1h 55m)
The Nun (The Nun is a 2018 R-rated film about an unseen evil force that makes a nun hang herself. When another nun goes to investigate she finds that this force may be stronger than she had imagined.) (1h 36m)
The Conjuring ( This 2013 movie is a Rated R movie showing the true story of a girl named Bathsheba Sherman who possesses a woman as Ed and Lorraine Warren have to exercise the demon out of her.) (1h 52m)
Annabelle ( This 2014 R-rated movie is based on the true story of a possessed doll going by the name Annabelle. (although slightly exaggerated ) (1h 35min)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Rated R this 1974 film is about a man named Leatherface who happens to be a mass murderer and gets picked up as a hitchhiker until something goes completely wrong.) ( 1h 23m)
The Exorcist (This 1973 R-rated horror movie follows the story of a young girl who happens to get horrifically possessed. Her mom has to try to save her from the demon.) (2h 12m)
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