Best Halloween Movies for Kids
Have you been looking for Halloween movies that you can watch as a family without won’t bore you enough or scare the younger ones in the family? We are going to provide a list of Halloween movies that strike a balance between funny and spooky so that everyone can enjoy the time together.
Hotel Transylvania
IMBD: 7.1/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 44% Common sense Media 3/5
A feel-good family movie, Hotel Transylvania Succeeds in keeping kids engaged. Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where Dracula’s family can be themselves without humans around to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula invites creatures like the Invisible Man, the Mummy, and others to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez). However, an unforeseen complication unfolds when an ordinary human unwittingly crashes the party and falls in love with Mavis.
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Halloweentown
IMBD: 6.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
Marnie and her kids get a big shock when they follow grandma home to Halloweentown – and find out they come from a family of witches. The town is the only place where supernatural beings can lead a `normal’ life, but trouble is looming, and on her 13th birthday Marnie not only finds she is a witch, but that she and her family are involved in a fight against the evil that is threatening to take over the world.
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Coraline
IMBD: 7.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 90% Metacritic 80%
While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She rejoices in her discovery until Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever. Coraline must use all her resources and bravery to make it back to her own family and life.
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
IMBD: 8.2/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 94% Common Sense Media 5/5
It’s a great way to start Halloween, Music, character, and everything in this movie is pleasing. A Peanuts classic that appeals to all ages. It promotes many favorite American Halloween traditions like trick-or-treating and apple bobbing and many more. The movie revolves around a Peanuts gang celebrating Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.
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The Witches
IMBD: 6.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
This movie is creepy and spooky, The witch character feels good to watch. The movie resolves around Helga who is staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, young Luke (Jasen Fisher) inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch (Anjelica Huston) reveals a plan to turn all children into mice through a magical formula. When they find that Luke has overheard, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and the hotel manager, Mr. Stringer (Rowan Atkinson), Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.
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Hocus Pocus
IMBD: 6.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 33%
Characters will be able to capture your hearts. The movie is hilarious but there is no soundtrack. it’s about a teenage Max Dennison, after moving to Salem, teenager explores an abandoned house with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and their new friend, Allison (Vinessa Shaw). After dismissing a story Allison tells as superstitious, Max accidentally frees a coven of evil witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) who used to live in the house. Now, with the help of a magical cat, the kids must steal the witches’ book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.
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Nanny McPhee
IMBD: 6.5/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
Recommended it to audiences of all ages. This is a 2005 British-American comedy fantasy film based on the Nurse Matilda character by Christianna Brand. This movie has everything to make it charming for kids and twisted enough to engage adults. It has humor, spookiness, sadness, romance, symbolism, and fantasy all rolled into one. The ending will positively give you goosebumps! This is about a governess who uses magic to rein in the behavior of seven ne’er-do-well children in her charge.
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