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All the Halloween movies that were reviewed
Get a taste of some good ole’ Halloween movies
By: Afrah Momin, Fall Editor & Reporter
Halloween is just a few days away! Who wouldn’t want to reminisce on some old Halloween movies we all watched as a kid? Every year, as this old celebration comes around, most kids like to spend the month of October watching the best Halloween movies.
HerCampus wrote an article on the top ten Halloween movies (which are all family – friendly). Three of which you might remember: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, and The Haunted Mansion. Feeling nostalgic yet? But which movies are still an all time favorite?
Halloweentown promotes finding yourself
Marnie, Dylan, and Sophie Piper set out on their very first adventure! On Halloween, while Marnie is arguing with her mother Gwen, the kids' grandmother Aggie comes to visit. Gwen lives in the mortal world after falling in love with a mortal. She doesn’t want tell her children about their witchy powers. Aggie wants to start Marnie's witch training before her 13th birthday. If Aggie doesn't Marn...
Hitchcock’s Psycho and its lasting power a half decade later
The horror movie that started it all. A film that defined a genre. Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic masterpiece, 1960’s highest grossing blockbuster, Psycho, in black and white and at 109 minutes, is perhaps the greatest example of the evolution of the American thriller. As Halloween season looms, 57 years later, with a new silver screen screamer released every weekend, Psycho’s fright has faded. Wh...
A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984) might haunt your dreams
A Nightmare on Elm Street is considered one of the top horror movies ever to be made. It's release date was on November 9, 1984, containing future stars such as Johnny Depp and Robert Englund. The movie director and writer, Wes Craven, originally wrote the movie claiming it was a true story he read about in a newspaper in the 70s. Freddy Krueger, who was burned in a boiler room he worked at in the early...
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Halloween
Loud mouth, high energy and disrespectful teens is what Madea's Halloween has to offer us. A comedy that tried to make you jump out of your shoes just a little. Just another year of Tyler Perry giving us a good laugh here and there. This movie allows any individual over the age of 13 to watch the movies by themselves, and with parents anywhere from 7-13 years of age. Like any of Tyler Perry's ...
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Still Watched 34 Years Later
Tim Burton, American film director 1993 Fantasy/Musical recommended for seven and up The Nightmare Before Christmas takes place in Halloween town where Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king grows tired of his same routine. He ventures into the woods and finds a circle of doors with one standing out most. Sucked in and Skellington discovers a Christmas wonderland in which he decides to recreate, but in ...
It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Review
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a short animation television special. Charlie Brown and his friends, who also go by The Peanuts, celebrate Halloween. But Linus has another plan on Halloween, to wait for the great pumpkin. This animation was released in 1996 for the first time on air. It is based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. In the animation, The Peanuts dress up as gh...
Hotel Transylvania is hauntingly mediocre
In 2012, Sony Pictures Animations released Hotel Transylvania. The movie stars Adam Sandler, as Count Dracula and Selena Gomez as his daughter Mavis. In this movie, Dracula runs a hotel for monsters. This is so that they'll have protection from humans. Monsters in this movie consider humans to be dangerous. In this hotel lives his daughter, Mavis, who just wants to go out and explore the world...
Friday the 13th, 1980 or 2009 edition?
Halloween is approaching, and what better way to prepare for the spooky holiday than watching horror movies! Recently I have watched many but my favorites are from the Friday the 13th series. The series contains 12 movies, stretching from 1980 to 2009. I decided to watch the 1980 movie, which is the first movie in the series, and the 2009 remake which is the latest movie that has come out. Th...
Cover your eyes for the scariest film of all time: The Exorcist
The best horror film of all time (and still is) would be known as The Exorcist, which William Friedkin directed, and was written in the eyes of a visionary known as William Peter Blatty. The Exorcist is the ninth highest grossing film in Canada and the U.S. with 110,599,200 estimated admissions. Originally released in 1973, The Exorcist became the talk of the town during the 1970s. After its release on Christmas Day, everyone had traumatic experienc...
It’s just a bunch of Hocus Pocus
Considered a Halloween classic Hocus Pocus is at the top of everyone's favorite spooky movie list. Hocus Pocus is one of those timeless movies you can watch over and over again each year. If you're looking for a family-friendly Halloween movie with the perfect balance of fright and comedy, Hocus Pocus is the movie for you. After three centuries, witches known as the Sanderson sisters are ...
Beetlejuice is bone chillingly good
When you think of Halloween, you instantly think of horror classics such as Saw or A Nightmare on Elm's Street. However, if you're looking for something more family-friendly, Beetlejuice is the perfect movie for you! This Halloween classic is about Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) who recently died due to a car crash. The two soon discover that they're ghosts. They also dis...
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