The Best Family-Friendly Halloween Movies

The Best Family-Friendly Halloween Movies
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It’s the perfect time for a spooky movie night with the whole family.  “The Hollywood Reporter” put together a list of the best family-friendly Halloween flicks.

 

 

Here are 20, in no particular order:

 

 

1.  “Hocus Pocus”  (1993)

 

2.  “Beetlejuice”  (1988)

 

3.  “Halloweentown”  (1998)

 

4.  “Casper”  (1995)

 

5.  “Gremlins”  (1984)

 

6.  “Monster Squad”  (1987)

 

7.  “The Nightmare Before Christmas”  (1993)

 

8.  “Hotel Transylvania”  (2012)

 

9.  “Coraline”  (2009)

 

10.  “Frankenweenie”  (2012)

 

11.  “Corpse Bride”  (2005)

 

12.  “Monster House”  (2006)

 

13.  “Goosebumps”  (2015)

 

14.  “Coco”  (2017)

 

15.  “Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire”  (2000)

 

16.  “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”  (1966)

 

17.  “Little Shop of Horrors”  (1986)

 

18.  “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”  (1982)

 

19.  “Scooby-Doo”  (2002)

 

20.  “The Little Vampire”  (2000)

 

 

(You can see more here.)

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