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28 Comments

1. I guess if you don’t actually like to be scared on Halloween, this is a fine list.

   Comment by Brian G — October 30, 2006 @ 12:12 pm

2. Top five films involving Halloween, then? I’d have to include the Robot Chicken version of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”. See here.

   I’d toss out the Addams Family, though, and insert Evil Dead 2 (or Army of Darkness, if you prefer).

   Comment by Supergenius — October 30, 2006 @ 12:18 pm

3. Top 5 Halloween comedies for families? How about

   Meet Me In St. Louis

   which has a GREAT Halloween section.

   Comment by D. Fletcher — October 30, 2006 @ 12:45 pm

4. Donnie Darko, anyone?

   Comment by BTD Greg — October 30, 2006 @ 12:55 pm

5. ooooooo, good call BTD Greg. Great movie.

   Comment by Supergenius — October 30, 2006 @ 1:04 pm

6. Do you guys really associate Halloween with true horror? To me it’s all about kids, candy, dressing up and fake “scary” than it is about being truly scared.

   Brian,
   Well, I consider scary movies to be in their own category. I don’t really think “scary” should be the determining factor in what constitutes a Halloween film (because the horror is about something else completely). So yeah, I guess SG is right, films involving Halloween. And yeah, maybe Donnie Darko beats out Addams Family.

   Comment by Rusty — October 30, 2006 @ 1:32 pm

7. Halloween = horror films, yeah.

   Comment by Susan M — October 30, 2006 @ 1:38 pm

8. And I have to say I thought Monster House was pretty darn scary/dark for a kids’ movie.

   Comment by Susan M — October 30, 2006 @ 1:38 pm

9. What Susan said. Arguably there are two different perspectives here: scary movies are the essence of Halloween, but Halloween is also a time of year with certain cultural markers and touchstones. So a good Halloween movie could hit either of those views.

   Comment by Supergenius — October 30, 2006 @ 1:39 pm

10. 1) The Nightmare Before Christmas
    2) Sleepy Hollow
    3) Beetlejuice
    4) Corpse Bride
    5) Edward Scissorhands

    Comment by Tom — October 30, 2006 @ 1:59 pm

11. For a few years, our annual family Halloween film was Delicatessen, a film which is neither scary nor Halloween related, but does involve the eating of a monkey. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

    Comment by HP — October 30, 2006 @ 1:59 pm

12. Are those all Tim Burton films, Tom?

    Comment by Susan M — October 30, 2006 @ 2:04 pm

13. LOL, Tom — Tim Burton has a lock on the season.

    Comment by Supergenius — October 30, 2006 @ 2:07 pm

14. Ditto to Tom’s list–nothing says Halloween (both the scary kind and the family kind) like Tim Burton, with a soundtrack by Danny Elfman (although I’ve only seen part of Sleepy Hollow–in spite of the time change, I had to get up early today, so I didn’t watch until the end).

    Comment by samdb — October 30, 2006 @ 2:07 pm

15. I caught half of Shaun of the Dead last night, now that’s my kind of movie. Gotta watch the rest tonight. Reminded me a bit of After Hours, with some of the crazy camera work.

    Comment by Susan M — October 30, 2006 @ 2:10 pm

16. I would have to agree with Susan, Shaun of the Dead would rank pretty high on my list of movies to watch on Halloween. It is a great movie overall.

    Comment by Taylor T. — October 30, 2006 @ 3:03 pm

17. Shaun of the Dead and Evil Dead (I, II and Army of Darkness) are fun, fun movies. Another good one in that category is Bubba Hotep.

    Comment by BTD Greg — October 30, 2006 @ 3:06 pm

18. Ash for president!

    Comment by HP — October 30, 2006 @ 3:12 pm

19. Hail to the king, baby!

    Comment by Supergenius — October 30, 2006 @ 3:38 pm

20. I didn’t know Shaun of the Dead was on … maybe it was on some channel we don’t get. I’m curious about it.

    Comment by danithew — October 30, 2006 @ 3:47 pm

21. ET.

    Do not watch Delicatessan, btw. It is all that is wrong with the French.

    Comment by Ronan — October 30, 2006 @ 4:18 pm

22. I think Shaun of the Dead was on Comedy Central.

    Comment by Susan M — October 30, 2006 @ 4:54 pm

23. I have fond memories of turning off all of the lights when we ran out of candy and watching Arsenic and Old Lace on a tiny black and white TV. This would have been the late ’70s or early ’80s.

    Comment by William Morris — October 30, 2006 @ 5:44 pm

24. Do not watch Delicatessan, btw. It is all that is wrong with the French.

    Arguably, this is a good reason to watch. Go, go, watch Delicatessen!

    Comment by hp — October 30, 2006 @ 6:37 pm

25. Any “Wait Until Dark” love out there? The version with Audrey Hepburn, of course. I totally freaked out a YM/YW Halloween party with that movie one year.

    Comment by Chad Too — October 31, 2006 @ 7:50 am

26. For a long time, our annual Halloween movie was Rosemary’s Baby. Now (with kids) it’s more in the line of a Harry Potter film. I love the Addams Family for Halloween though; it really fits the spirit of the holiday.

    Comment by meems — October 31, 2006 @ 8:22 am

27. I love the movie Wait Until Dark. But I can’t get my wife to sit through it.

    Comment by danithew — October 31, 2006 @ 12:59 pm

28. We watched Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone last night while handing out the goodies.

    I like to watch The Witches of Eastwick about this time of year.

    Birds (Alfred Hitchcock) also reminds me of fall & Halloween.

    Poltergeist?

    Ghostbusters?

    I can’t deal with Horror movies.

    And yet - this has been bugging me - does anyone here remember a horror movie where the devil was trying to get out of an alternate dimesion/ hell through a mirror? It featured an odd homeless man & birds, if I remember correctly.

    Comment by Jennifer — November 1, 2006 @ 1:50 pm