What are your favorite Halloween movies, specials, and TV episodes?

[Leemaster777]

So, everyone's favorite holiday, All Hallow's Eve, is coming up. (if Halloween isn't your favorite holiday, then SHUT UP. It is now)

And while it doesn't have as many movies, TV specials, etc, as Christmas, there's still plenty. So what are some of your favorite things to watch around Halloween time?

Horror movies, Halloween-themed movies, episodes of TV shows that take place during Halloween, hell, even Halloween songs, all that kind of stuff counts. And remember, it doesn't HAVE to be specifically about Halloween. It just has to be sufficiently Halloween-y. You know what I mean, right?

First off, the obvious choice:


Just getting it out of the way. Next up, I've got a fondness for the movie Hocus Pocus:


And if I'm being honest, one of my favorite episodes of FiM is definitely Luna Eclipsed:

 

[Queen Michael]

I really dig the episode "Halloween" of Buffy the Vampire SLayer. Watched it last Halloween.

 

[tippy2k2]

I'm not sure if it counts for it is not a piece of media. However, it is the greatest thing about Halloween and why Halloween is better than all other Holidays combined:

Spoiler: Count Mother-fuckin Chocula!

Honorable mentions of course go to Boo Berry and Frankenberry.

 

[FalloutJack]

INB4 Ash, housewares.

Yeah, I think the Evil Dead movies are a great Halloween staple.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Samurai Champloo had a cool "Halloweend Special", if that freaky zombie ep counts (I think they drop Halloween at the end?).
So did Invader Zim.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Nightmare before Christmas for sure, probably the only Halloween movie/special I watch religiously every year with my family.

Something else to add, the Simpsons Tree House of Horror specials are mostly awesome, except for the newer ones. blecch

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

INB4 the hordes of Australian grinches come to complain about our fun

The Evil Dead movies are definitely staples for me, as are the Romero zombie movies[footnote]Well, Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. I still haven't gotten around to Day or Land yet. Maybe this year...[/footnote]. Special mention also goes to Alien and The Terminator, both of which are horror movies at their core, despite more action-y sequels. They may not be your typical Halloween fare, but Alien in particular is one of the few horror movies that has actually managed to scare me, and The Terminator is pretty horrifying too, if you watch it with the original mono soundtrack. The modern 5.1 remix makes it come off more as straight action, oddly enough. Just changes the whole feel of the movie somehow.

My personal tradition for the last four or five years has been to hole up in my room[footnote]Which houses a sound system that will put even the local Imax (Well, Liemax, anyway) screens to shame.[/footnote] and watch horror movies, typically starting with good classics like the ones mentioned above, and working my way to classics of so-bad-it's-good like the wonderful Troll 2 as I get more inebriated. I was heavily deprived of good horror movies growing up, since my mother is a prude when it comes to violent movies, so I get to see some new classic for the first time pretty much every year. This year I'm planning on, at the very least, watching the original 70's Halloween for the first time, and probably some old Hammer horror classics, too.

Also, faugh on you guys saying The Nightmare Before Christmas. That's a Christmas movie, dangit, not Halloween XD

 

[thejboy88]

There was one movie I used to watch a lot as a kid during Halloween, and that was "The Halloween Tree".

It's a story of a group of kids who go to different periods of time, exploring the origins of the Halloween celebration, all while trying to find the spirit of their friend who (I think) died near the start of the film.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

Well I'll often try to put some Friday the 13th movies on at some point in October. But that's not really unusual, I try to watch as many Jason flicks as I can every month.

Most of our Halloween celebration stuff is done in the decorations. We go a little nuts. The kids in our neighborhood all enjoy it though. We have many Spirit of Halloween animatronic goodies in the house and out front.

Other than that, I like to try and play RDR: Undead Nightmare on or around Halloween every year since it came out. Not the whole thing, but a bit. It was a fun side story. Gotta love the special breed horses in that game.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

My favorite Halloween episodes (other than the requisite Treehouse of Horror) would be the ones the cartoons for Invader Zim (Halloween of Spooky Doom!) and Angry Beavers (The Day The World Got Really Screwed Up!)

And that's all I can think of off the top of my head...

 

[Colour Scientist]

Hocus Pocus is the best Halloween movie ever.

I associate the Nightmare Before Christmas more with, well, Christmas.

 

[Mareon]

Nightmare Before Christmas Followed with Carpencers Halloween. That soundscape still creeps me out!

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I know everyone tells me it's a bad movie, but I frickin' love Van Helsing. It's about the closest I'm ever going to get to a Castlevania movie.


I've also been watching a lot of Devil Lady and I've been catching up on Supernatural.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

For me it's the Evil Dead trilogy and The Frighteners.

Although last year I also read a ton of Creepypasta while watching movies too, and I might do that again this year.