Trick-or-treat movie night: Ghoulishly good films for family bonding night
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Scary movies are a Halloween staple. Celebrating the spooky holiday successfully requires a few spooks. To enjoy the holiday with the whole family, there are “scary” movies that won’t keep your kids up at night such as “Casper” and “Goosebumps.”
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Here are 10 Halloween movies to watch as a family.
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1. ‘Hotel Transylvania’
The best vacation for monsters is at Count Dracula’s (Adam Sandler) Hotel Transylvania — a luxury resort isolated from pesky humans.
In honor of his daughter Mavis’ (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday, Dracula invites creatures and monsters from across the globe to the hotel to celebrate. Celebrations go awry when an ordinary human shows up to the party and Mavis catches romantic feelings for him.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Some rude humor and scary sequences.
Critics score: 45% on Rotten Tomatoes.
2. ‘Monster House’
Three teenagers (Mitchel Musso, Spencer Locke, Sam Lerner) fail to convince their parents the house across the street is a living monster prepared to attack. With their parents out of town, the kids investigate the house and prove it really is a living creature. In a bid to protect trick-or-treaters from the dangerous residence, the teens attempt to destroy the house before Halloween.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Brief language, some rude humor and scary sequences.
Critics score: 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
3. ‘The Addams Family’
Gomez (Oscar Isaac) and Morticia Addams (Charlize Theron) planted themselves at an abandoned New Jersey asylum to raise their children, Wednesday (Chloe Grace Moretz) and Pugsley (Finn Wolfhard).
As the Addams struggle to share family traditions with their growing children, reality TV host Margaux Needler (Allison Janney) threatens to run the Addams out of town so she can successfully sell homes in their neighborhood.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Macabre themes, suggestive humor and some frightening action.
Critics score: 45% on Rotten Tomatoes.
4. ‘The House with a Clock in Its Walls’
After losing his parents to a car accident, newly orphaned Lewis Barnavelt (Owen Vaccaro) moves to Michigan to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black). Lewis is awoken by a strange ticking noise, leading him to discover his uncle’s house is filled with magic.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Scary images, thematic elements including sorcery and blood rituals, some violence, brief language and crude humor.
Critics score: 65% on Rotten Tomatoes.
5. ‘Coraline’
Coraline (Dakota Fanning) wants to be anywhere but at her new house with her parents. While exploring her new home, Coraline discovers a secret door which takes her to an alternate universe. At first, the alternate world seems much better than her own, but beneath the surface is something sinister.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Frightening and intense scenes throughout such as sewing buttons into eyes, scary images and some suggestive humor.
Critics score: 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
6. ‘Casper’
Hidden within Whipstaff Manor is a massive fortune, but every guest who enters in run out by ghosts — particularly Casper (Devon Sawa), a misunderstood, lonely ghost who means no harm.
Desperate to rid the manor of ghosts and uncover the hidden treasure, Carrigan Crittenden (Cathy Moriarty) hires afterlife therapist Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman) to exorcise the estate of ghosts. James and his daughter Kat (Christina Ricci) move in and begin helping ghosts transition to the afterlife.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Brief language, adult characters drinking alcohol and some frightening scenes.
Critics score: 51% on Rotten Tomatoes.
7. ‘The Munsters’
At 150-years old, Lily Munster (Sheri Moon Zombie) feels ready to settle down with another vampire. But when she meets Herman (Jeff Daniel Philips), a 7-foot green humanoid, it is love at first sight.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Macabre themes, some scary images and mild language.
Critics score: 53% on Rotten Tomatoes.
8. ‘A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting’
High school babysitter Kelly (Tamara Smart) encounters an army of monsters who kidnap the young boy she is looking after on Halloween. Kelly is recruited by a secret society of monster-hunting babysitters — who know everything about taking down the Boogeyman and his cronies.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Mild language.
Critics score: 65% on Rotten Tomatoes.
9. ‘Goosebumps’
During an attempt to play hero to his beautiful neighbor (Odeya Rush), new kid in town Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) accidentally unleashes dozens of monsters from the “Goosebumps” book series.
With help from “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine (Jack Black), the teens must lure the mischievous beasts back into their books before they destroy the town.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Violence such as a character being burned alive and bloody images, brief profanity and adults shown drinking alcohol.
Critics score: 78% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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10. ‘Gnome Alone’
Things aren’t right at Chloe’s (Becky G) new home. The garden’s seemingly innocent gnomes are actually guardians of the house — each night they arm together to keep evil underground beasts, called Troggs, at bay. The Troggs are escalating their attack and Chloes soon discovers she and the garden gnomes are the only ones who can protect the town from utter chaos.
Rating: PG.
Content concerns: Some rude humor.
Critics score: N/A.
