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Movies to Get You in the Mood for Halloween

Movies to Get You in the Mood for Halloween

Halloween

Release Date 1978
Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Compass International Pictures, Falcon International Productions Director: John Carpenter, Louise Jaffe Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles

Summary: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Friday the 13th

Release Date 1980
Rating : 6.4 Production Companies: Paramount, Georgetown Productions Inc. Director: Martin Kitrosser, Sean S. Cunningham, Stephen Ross Stars: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor

Summary: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

Halloweentown

Release Date 1998
Rating : 6.5 Production Companies: Ventura Valley Films, Just Singer Entertainment Director: Duwayne Dunham Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Judith Hoag

Summary: On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.

Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge

Release Date 2001
Rating : 6.3 Production Companies: Just Singer Entertainment, Disney Channel Director: Mary Lambert, Richard Flower, Mark D. Currie Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Judith Hoag

Summary: The Cromwell clan lives in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the grandmother's book to turn Halloweentown into a grey dreary version of the real world while transforming the denizens of the real world into monsters.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Release Date 2020
Rating : 7.9 Production Companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Tim Burton Animation Company Director: Henry Selick Stars: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara

Summary: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

Corpse Bride

Release Date 2005
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Tim Burton Animation Company, Will Vinton Studios Director: Mike Johnson, Ezra Sumner, Tim Burton Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson

Summary: Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.

28 Days Later

Release Date 2003
Rating : 7.5 Production Companies: DNA Films, British Film Council Director: Danny Boyle, Eve Spence, Sara Desmond Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson

Summary: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

28 Weeks Later

Release Date 2007
Rating : 6.9 Production Companies: DNA Films, Figment Films Director: Marinella Setti, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Tamana Bleasdale Stars: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner

Summary: The inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

Sleepy Hollow

Release Date 1999
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: Paramount, American Zoetrope Director: Tim Burton, Christopher Newman, Jayne-Ann Tenggren Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson

Summary: Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investigator, is determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman.

The Addams Family

Release Date 1991
Rating : 6.9 Production Companies: Scott Rudin Productions, Paramount Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Stars: Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd

Summary: When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.

Scream

Release Date 1996
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Woods Entertainment, Dimension Films Director: Wes Craven, Nicholas Mastandrea, Annie Welles Stars: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox

Summary: After a series of mysterious deaths befalls their small town, an offbeat group of friends led by Sidney Prescott become the target of a masked killer.

Scream 2

Release Date 2022
Rating : 6.3 Production Companies: Miramax, Konrad Pictures Director: Ronit Ravich-Boss, Wes Craven, Nicholas Mastandrea Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette

Summary: Away at college, Sidney Prescott thought she'd finally put the shocking murders that shattered her life behind her... until a copycat killer begins acting out a real-life sequel.

Scream 3

Release Date 2000
Rating : 5.6 Production Companies: Konrad Pictures, Craven-Maddalena Films Director: Wes Craven, Sheila Waldron, Nicholas Mastandrea Stars: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox

Summary: While Sidney Prescott lives in safely guarded seclusion, bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the latest movie based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings.

Beetlejuice

Release Date 1988
Rating : 7.5 Production Companies: Warner Bros., Geffen Pictures Director: Tim Burton, Carol Sevilla, Bill Scott Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones

Summary: A newly dead New England couple seek help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

Coraline

Release Date 2009
Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Pandemonium, Focus Features Director: David J. Rowe, Yona Prost, Henry Selick Stars: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders

Summary: A young girl discovers an idealized parallel universe behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that it contains a sinister secret.

Psycho

Release Date 1960
Rating : 8.5 Production Companies: Shamley Productions, Paramount Pictures Director: Hilton A. Green, Lester Wm. Berke, Alfred Hitchcock Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

Summary: When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Edward Scissorhands

Release Date 1990
Rating : 7.9 Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 20th Century Fox Director: Tim Burton, Marilyn Bailey, Francis J. Conway Stars: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest

Summary: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

ParaNorman

Release Date 2012
Rating : 7 Production Companies: Focus Features, Laika Director: Sam Fell, Chris Butler Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Jodelle Ferland

Summary: In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.

The Shining

Release Date 1980
Rating : 8.4 Production Companies: Hawk Films, The Producer Circle Co. Director: Stanley Kubrick, Brian W. Cook, Terry Needham Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

Summary: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

The Exorcist

Release Date 1973
Rating : 8.1 Production Companies: Warner Bros., Hoya Productions Director: William Friedkin, Terence A. Donnelly, Nicholas Sgarro Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller

Summary: When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.