- Get in your comfiest clothes! Pajamas absolutely welcome.
- Gather up a bed sheet, all the pillows and some blankets to create a cozy nest or a blanket fort in the family room. Or take the party outside: Hang a sheet and project movies against a wall.
- Belly up to the Popcorn Bar (directions below).
- Wait until dark and turn on the double feature.
Family Halloween Movie Night Recommendations
Looking for a Fall family night activity? Round up the kids for an evening of Halloween shivers and snacks. We’ve got movie recommendations for children of all ages and a fun popcorn bar idea that will make your family Halloween movie night a night to remember.
Make sure your Halloween movie night double feature is fun by matching the movie to your kids’ ages.
Little ones
- Pooh’s Heffalump Adventures
- Spookley the Square Pumpkin
- Boo To You, Too! Winnie the Pooh
- Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest
5 and up
- Spooky Buddies
- Monsters, Inc.
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
- Little Monsters
- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- Labyrinth
- The Last Unicorn
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit
8 and Up
- Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Goosebumps (2015)
- The Blob (1958)
- Frankenweenie
- The Dark Crystal
- Casper
- Hotel Transylvania
- Halloweentown
- Monster House
- Corpse Bride
- The House with a Clock in Its Walls
12 and up
- The Addams Family (1991 and 2019)
- Arachnophobia
- Coraline
- Beetlejuice
- Gremlins
- Hocus Pocus
- The Watcher in the Woods
- The Goonies
- ParaNorman
- Monster Squad
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
Make a do-it-yourself popcorn bar that’s free of anything sticky or messy—so everyone can enjoy and nobody has to clean up!
What you’ll need:
- Plain popcorn
- Cheese popcorn
- Caramel corn
- Cereal
- Tiny pretzels
- Goldfish crackers
- Teddy bear crackers
- Nuts
- Non-melty candy (m&m’s, Skittles, gummy things)
Set out bowls of goodies and a lunch bag or bowl for each person, and let everyone mix and match their own combination of treats to enjoy during the movie.
Kevin Dilmore is a Hallmark senior writer who has written novels, comic books, essays and journalism on pop-culture topics. His life and conversations are like one big issue of "PopMinded."