Trick or Treat?

With Halloween less than a week away, it’s time to start making sure we’re fulfilling our quota of Halloween movies for the season! Here’s 12 of some of the most well-known spooky movies for you to add to your Halloween movie marathon list…

1. The Nightmare Before Christmas
   Genre: Animation, fantasy, musical, family film
   Age Rating: G
   Synopsis: In this movie we follow Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king, as he falls through a portal to Christmas Town. When he decides to co-ordinate the Christmas holiday, there are some comical and even vile consequences…
2. Edward Scissorhands
   Genre: Fantasy, drama, romance
   Age Rating: PG
   Synopsis: When Edward’s creator passes away, he is left incomplete… In the place of his hands are scissors. But when a kind neighbour invites Edward into her home, he falls in love with their daughter and learns a lot about acceptance along the way
3. Hocus Pocus
   Genre: Horror, fantasy, comedy, family film
   Age Rating: PG
   Synopsis: Three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night… It is up to two teenagers, a young girl and an immortal cat to end these witches reign of terror once and for all
4. The Addams Family
   Genre: Horror, comedy, fantasy, black comedy, family film
   Age Rating: PG
   Synopsis: The Addams family is not your average everyday family… This film revolves around one particularly nasty lady trying to steal the Addams family’s wealth by disguising her adopted son as their lost uncle…
5. Beetlejuice
   Genre: Horror, comedy, fantasy
   Age Rating: M
   Synopsis: After Barbara and Adam die in a car accident, they find themselves in a rather unusual circumstance… Haunting their country residence and unable to leave the house. When a family try to buy the home, they attempt to scare them away without success. Their failed spooks attract Beetlejuice – a spirit whose “help” quickly becomes dangerous
6. Corpse Bride
   Genre: Animation, fantasy, action, romance, adventure
   Age Rating: PG
   Synopsis: Victor and Victoria’s are having an arranged their marriage. Although they like each other, Victor is nervous about about the wedding. While he’s in a forest practising his lines for the ceremony, a hand drags him to the land of the dead. Here he meets Emily, who was murdered after eloping and now wants to marry Victor…
7. Ghost Busters
   Genre: Comedy, science-fiction, fantasy
   Age Rating: PG
   Synopsis: After the members of a team of scientists lose their jobs at a university in New York City, they decide to become “ghostbusters.” Now they’re waging a high-tech battle with the supernatural for money. They then stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, releasing evil upon the city… Now the Ghostbusters have to save New York from complete destruction…
8. The Craft
   Genre: Horror, fantasy, drama, thriller
   Age Rating: R
   Synopsis: After transferring schools, Sarah finds that her telekinetic gift helps her become friends with a group of three girls who want to be witches. She joins them in their rituals but all their troubled backgrounds, combined with their magic, just leads to dangerous consequences. When a minor spell causes a fellow student to lose her hair, the girls grow power-mad
9. Halloweentown
   Genre: Fantasy
   Age Rating: G
   Synopsis: After learning that she is a witch, Marnie helps to save a town full of supernatural creatures
10. Halloween
    Genre: Horror
    Age Rating: R
    Synopsis: On Halloween night, 1963, 6 year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17 year old sister. After being sentenced to 15 years in prison, he manages to steal a car on October 30, 1978 while being transferred for a court date. Michael returns to his hometown, where he looks for his next victims…
11. The Conjuring
    Genre: Horror
    Age Rating: MA
    Synopsis: In 1970, paranormal investigators are summoned to the home of the Perron family. The Perrons and their five daughters have recently moved into a secluded farmhouse, where a supernatural presence has made itself known. Though the manifestations are relatively calm at first, things begin to escalate into something quite terrifying – especially after the investigators find information about the house’s history…
12. It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
    Genre: Animation, comedy, drama, family film
    Age Rating: G
    Synopsis: The Peanuts gang celebrate Halloween in a variety of ways including going trick or treating, attending Violet’s Halloween party and waiting with Linus for the Great Pumpkin’s arrival…