Tuesday, October 16, 2007

halloween movies

i love halloween
it is such a happy holiday
no pressure for single folk like valentines.....
no expectations and uneasy family relationships to live up to......
or cry about later
and NO ONE in my circle DIED on halloween!
( can you spell ironic?)

ok part of halloween is the specials......
and the pumpkins...don't forget the pumpkins

so while i rarely watch tv..... and have serious trouble sitting through a movie
there are some movies and specials i would love to have a back to back marathon on

here is a partial list and i think i best add to it here and there huh?


  • the worst witch- this was so campy it was great
  • the addams family- both the series and the two movies with raul julia
  • casper- the first movie (christina ricci is wonderful in this and the addams family)
  • it's the great pumpkin charly brown ...... naturally
  • harry potter.....all of them....one after the other
  • the others- ok this was pretty scary the first time around, after that it's just cool
  • edward scissorhands
  • sleepy hollow- johnny depp VERY atmospheric~christina ricci again as well
  • the nightmare before christmas
  • the corpse bride ( we may as well get johnny depp out of the way
  • the witches- angelica huston should only play morticia or a witch or both
  • the witch's sister..... campy 70's fun
  • witch's night out-little known but really interesting
  • interview with a vampire -while we hate vampires messing up halloween, i gotta admit...this one is good
  • bednobs and broomsticks.....witches never looked better
  • the woman in black this one is from 2012 with 'harry potter AKA daniel radcliffe'
  • paranorman (just get this one.... seriously do yourself a favor and just get this one)
  • beetlejuice
  • the haunted mansion-just cause i loved that scene of the coach with the ghosts
  • bewitched-the SERIES
  • hocus pocus......are you kidding me.... watch this a couple times
  • the witches of eastwick
  • disney's halloween treat
  • practical magic-that house and that BOOK
  • Canterville Ghost (1986)
  • high spirits
  • i married a witch
  • mists of avalon
  • bell book and candle
  • narnia
  • the adventures of ichabod and mr toad
  • merlin
  • the haunting
  • the lady in white
  • the watcher in the woods
  • the ghost and mrs muir
  • child of glass
  • ghost story
  • topper
  • truly madly deeply
  • the gift
  • elvira mistress of the dark...campy fun
  • the black cauldron
  • halloweentown
  • haunted history of halloween
  • blithe spirit
  • heart and souls
  • the ghost and mr chicken
  • blackbeard's ghost
  • the frighteners
  • chitty chitty bang band......oh come ON a flying CAR...i love it
  • beyond tomorrow
  • a christmas carole, (get the one with jim carey for the FX)
  • coraline
  • something wicked this way comes
  • gremlins
  • the halloween tree
  • saint ange
  • the woman in black
  • mr. boogedy 
  • when good ghoules go bad
  • sweeny todd
  • what lies beneath
  • excalibur
  • the sixth sense
  • stardust
  • the bridge to terabithea
  • the pirates of the caribbean if you are inclined to pirates, the special effects rock
  • ALL of the harry potter movies, do them back to back, start in july when it's raining out-YES this bares repeating.....oh man yes it does
ok that is part of a list.....i would love more movies like these. I highlighted my favorites for you all but really getting a bunch of these and watching them one after another with glowing jackolanterns and whispery 'cobwebs' all together is a wonderful family night that shouldn't give anyone nightmares
i have a lot of these on vhs but would dearly LOVE to get them all on dvd ( i have the corpse bride on dvd)....just cause i don't ever want to be without them on halloween
i wish that the folks that did sleepy hallow and the folks that did hocus pocus would do more although sleepy hallow was pretty gory.....it was just so perfect that i can accept the gore
i would love to see some more witches and ghosties.......
i also love a good ghost story...... preferably a real one....but a really good one is ok real or not
til next time
vi

2 comments:

  1. Is the Canterville Ghost the one with a scene with the dead wife floating at the bottom of the stairs and a bloodstain or something that won't come out of the carpet there? I remember seeing that movie when I was little, and one of my dolls' dresses looked really similar to the ghost lady's and it scared me! I couldn't remember the name of the movie for anything, though!

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  2. Anonymous4:53 PM

    I like the Topper series (especially the first one with Cary Grant) as comedies with ghosts!

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