31+ Not-So Scary Halloween Movies For Kids
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During the month of October, family movie night gets a little “hair-raising” around here.
For us, the beginning of Fall marks the start of our “Not-So-Scary Halloween Movies for Kids” nightly marathons. We try to watch at least one Halloween movie a night. Sometimes we have to miss because of our busy work or school lives, when that happens we try binge watch a few movies in one day, usually something that comes in a sequel or trilogy once life starts to slow down again.
There are always a few titles on our “must-watch” list, some that bring back memories from my childhood and some that I’d like to create new memories of with my boys.
31+ Not-So-Scary Halloween Movies for Kids
1. Hocus Pocus
2. Peanuts: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
3. ET
4. Beetlejuice
6. Casper
7. Labyrinth
8. Goosebumps
9. Scooby Doo
11. Halloweentown Trilogy
12. Monster House
14. Double Double Toil and Trouble
15. Under Wraps
16. Spooky Buddies
17. Hotel Transylvania 1, 2 & 3
19. Paranorman
20. Frankenweenie
22. Twitches 1 & Too
23. The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
25. Little Monsters
27. The Witches
28. Gremlins 1 & 2
29. The Dog Who Saved Halloween
30. The Original Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Let the countdown begin!
What are your Halloween family favourites? Anything I missed?
22 Comments
ashley picco
perfect timing! My son wants to have some friends over for a spooky movie - and I was on the hunt for some appropriate for 6-9 year olds!
Amanda Komoski
I have a 7 year old and I would let him watch all of these. I may be a little more lenient compared to some in what I let my kids watch but as long as they know it’s just pretend there’s no harm.
Laurie P
Casper!!!! Haven’t seen that in years….when my siblings were really young. Great movie! Fantastic list, ty!
Amanda Komoski
You’re welcome!
Tanya @ Mom's Small Victories
We love so many of these. Monster House was one of my favorites but it creeped out my oldest (a teen) when he was little and he STILL won’t let us watch it. 🙂
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Tiffani
Such a great list! We are always looking to find not-so-scary movies for our kiddos. I can’t wait to go back and watch some of my childhood favorites….Ghostbusters! Great post & thank you for linking up with Small Victories Sunday Linkup.
Amanda Komoski
You’re welcome Tiffani! I just watched my favourite, Casper and it was very nostalgic for me.
Elizabeth Matthiesen
What a great list, this way everyone knows which ones aren’t too scary for kids (or me!)
Victoria Ess
Thanks for the great list! The Nightmare Before Christmas and ET are favourites in my household!
Elizabeth Matthiesen
I can’t believe that you found so many! I don’t have any little ones these days but this is an amazing list for those that do. 🙂
Amanda Komoski
These were only just a few, there were so much more!
lori galbraith
I like that there is movies that are not scary. I like taking the scary out of Halloween.
kathy downey
I forgot all about Casper and i really liked that movie,must dig it out for movie night !
Amanda Komoski
Another one of my faves – I had such a crush on Devon Sawa and used to watch it over and over again, even though he’s only in it for a few minutes at the end LOL 😉
kathy downey
Grandkids are here for the weekend we are popping popcorn right now and watching Ernest Scared Stupid & up next Beetlejuice.Hope you have a super weekend also !!
Amanda Komoski
Ernest Scared Stupid was my fave as a kid. Hope your grandchildren enjoyed it as much as I did!
kathy downey
They sure did,we watched it twice.Last night we watched Spooky Buddies it was quite good !
Debbie White Beattie
I’m amazed at how many Halloween movies are out there and the fact that they’re ok for kids is really great.
My favorites are Ghostbusters, Peanuts: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and Hotel Transylvania 1 & 2
Amanda Komoski
We just watched Hotel Transylvania 2 yesterday, such a good movie!
Laurie P
Labyrinth!!!!!!!!!! it’s been so long since I’ve seen that!
Amanda Komoski
That one is my fave!
kathy
We watched Hotel Transylvania 2 last weekend it’s a fun movie!