Nice Halloween Film Ideas?

[Toria]

Ok, so my last year's new year's resolution was to celebrate the holidays. Christmas is going to be a bit of a bummer this year but I still love Halloween. I've already planned to make Pumpkin Chilli and bought pumpkin fairy lights! :p

What I need now is a movie. I don't want a horror movie or anything triggering for my Sufferer - we watched High Spirits last year (Peter O'Toole in a bad 80s Irish comedy - I'd highly recommend it!). I was wondering about Frankenweenie but I'm not sure. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you x

 

[Jen93]

I don't know if this would work, but maybe Nightmare Before Christmas? It's a Tim Burton film and kind of crosses into Christmas territory a little. But there are cartoon skeletons and other stuff like that in it. One of them does this whole Santa act a la Mr. Grinch. Check it out. That's my suggestion.

 

[MorningDove]

That was my thought exactly-Nightmare Before Christmas is really sweet.

 

[Jen93]

There's also a Charlie Brown t.v special that plays on Halloween called "It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown." You might need to hunt around for it though.

There's also "Scary Movie" which takes all these horror films and cliches and subverts them into something funny. There are no rape scenes, there are two sex scenes which are really funny. (The girl in one has to dress up like a football player in full gear.) you might want to view it first though before you show it to your sufferer. It's on netflix. (The first one is good. Don't bother watching the awful sequels)

 

[catjudo]

Frankenweenie is also a Tim Burton film so in terms of style, intensity, etc. I would say it is equivalent to Nightmare Before Christmas but without crossing over into Christmas. It's more of a Halloween movie. To be very honest, I've only seen small snippets from the Frankenweenie movie so I can't really speak to it's entire content. However, it is a Disney movie and my daughter watched it when she was 7 or 8 years old with no problems and LOVED it.

Another possibility to check out might be Paranorman. It's another animated, geared for kids but adults like it too, Halloween type movie. I think it was made by the same people who made Coraline (another possibility maybe?).

You could also go old school with something like Beetlejuice or maybe even Ghost Busters.

 

[Toria]

Ooooh! Ghostbusters!!!! I love that film...!

Nightmare before Christmas is a brilliant suggestion - but unfortunately I bought it a few Christmases ago and Husband had a really bad time just before we sat down to watch it. I used to love it, but now it just reminds me of that evening - he'd probably be fine with it though :p

I'm also a bit worried about me with Frankenweenie :oops: I'm the one that sobbed ucontrollablythrough Up (oh the shame!) and The Snowman and the Snow Dog last Christmas so a film about a dog dying may not be a good choice for me - and yes I am worse than a 7 year old at times!!!

I will definitely look at Scary Movie - I always get that mixed up with Scream, which I think really is more of a nasty? I did look at Paranorman, and at Coraline too. We watched The Corpse Bride a few years ago and both loved that and I do like Tim Burton (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was amazing!).

Charlie Brown I do like... off for a Google!

Thanks guys :inlove:

 

[Friday]

Hotel Transylvania! :D

Alright, so I have a thing for kid-flicks. Of those not already listed:

Wallace & Grommet Curse of the WereRabbit
Adams Family
ScoobyDoo
Harry Potter (later films)
Hocus Pocus
Monster House

Old Films
Wizard of Oz (maybe my sense of humor, but that movie creeps me out)
Original B&W movies (no talking) and B&W talkies

 

[catjudo]

I think there is a Toy Story Halloween special that is going to be airing on TV soon. (Can't remember the exact title.) I think the same network is airing the Charlie Brown special right after that. You could DVR them and watch on Halloween.

 

[Ed Norton]

Airplane! I think it's hillarious

 

[Sweetpea76]

The old David Bowie film Labyrinth creeped me out as a child... and I'm not going to lie, those bird thingees that come apart at the joints still get me to this day. If you listen to them, the voice actor that does Elmo from Sesame Street is one of them, so there's a whole other level of creepy.

A Tim Burton marathon sounds like a load of fun to me. Sleepy Hallow, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Dark Shadows, etc. I may have to do that for Halloween myself :).