Family Haunts

Should the Family that Haunts Together, Scare Together?

Most of us just want to enjoy a Halloween Movie Night with the family without having to quote Dori in the depths of the deep dark ocean “Good feelings, gone!” Here are some choice picks for you and your family of all ages to snuggle up to, not cower down for. 

The Haunted Mansion

Enter If You Dare!

Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) and his wife Sara (Marsha Thomason) work as a team in real estate. Thinking that he’s hit the jackpot, the family gets invited to scope out a mansion for sale.  But upon entering the enormous, dark estate, they find that things are not as they seem.  The mansion is haunted and the ghosts that haunt it want Sara.  Jim will learn an important life lesson as it becomes apparent that he may lose his loving wife, forever.

Family Movie Night Activities: The Haunted Mansion

“Welcome Foolish Mortals…”

Jim & Sarah Evers are real estate agents that get enticed into stopping by a potential job on their way out of town for a vacation… only to find that The Haunted Mansion is the last place they might EVER be. Gather your family, and keep them close by, while you brave your way through our latest Family Movie Night Activities. 

Halloween Favorite: Sweeney Todd

Will the Demon Barber Make You Sing or Croak?

Johnny Depp plays Sweeney Todd, a vengeful and deeply disturbed barber who comes back to his home to pay back all the evil he owes to those who have wronged him. Which is of course how he gets his well-earned title The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bohnam Carter) is pleased to assist Todd as he slits the throats of his customers in order to sweeten the pies that she makes. These two characters are just the kind of twisted souls that Depp and Carter excel in portraying.

Tweens & Teens Movie Night Activity - The Addams Family

“The Human Spirit Is Hard To Kill” “Even With A Chainsaw”

The Addams family may be creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky… but they are incomplete. Gomez hasn’t seen Uncle Fester in 25 years. When some money-hungry con-artists hear, they pretend they’ve found Fester as a way to get their hands on the Addams Family fortune. Will their scheme work? Find out whether family or money matters more with our latest Movie Night Activities. Read the movie review for The Addams Family to see if it's right for your family.

Family Movie Night Activity-Hocus Pocus

"This is all just a bunch of Hocus Pocus!"

Max doesn't believe in Halloween and the local legend of the Sanderson Sisters. He's quickly changed into a believer when he accidentally brings the sinister sisters back from the dead. While they try to save Salem's children, you and your family can have lots of fun with these Family Movie Night Activities.

Misery

What Kind of a Name is Misery?

Annie Wilks is a true blue loony-toon complete with a psychotic stalking tendency and a scrapbook full of her murder memoirs. So when her recent obsession, novelist Paul Sheldon, crashes his car in the middle of nowhere mountain (where she lives), Annie has the opportunity of 'rescuing' him. She is after all, his Number One Fan and using her degree in nursing to get him back to health is the least she can do for her favorite character's writer...that is, until she reads his latest book and doesn't like how it ends.

Tweens & Teens Movie Night Activity - Clue

“Can You Keep A Secret?” “Yes.” “So Can I.”

Join the cast of “Clue” for a silly and spooky show based on the classic board game. Everyone gathers at a dinner party full of mystery and intrigue when the Who’s Who and the Who-Dun-It questions begin. As fingers are pointed at each person, the body count rises and the antics get goofy. Will they ever figure out what happened? Will you? Watch this fun flick with your family and friends, try out these fun activities and you’re sure to PIECE together one fun Tweens & Teens Movie Night!

Fright Night

Fright is Right!

Teenager Charley Brewster has a crazy ex-friend who thinks that Charley's new next door neighbor is an honest to goodness, suck-your-blood-and-drink-you-dry vampire. But when his ex-friend turns up missing and the next door neighbor starts acting suspiciously, Charley has to do what it takes to protect his Mom and girlfriend.

Hocus Pocus

"Another glooorious morning...makes me sick!"

In the town of Salem, legend has it that three old Sanderson witches promised to be back from the dead on an All Hallows Eve when someone would light the Black Flame Candle. 300 years later Max Dennison finds himself that someone when he lights the candle as a Halloween cry for attention from the girl of his dreams. Now Winifred (Bette Midler), Mary (Kathy Najimy) and Sarah Sanderson(Sarah Jessica Parker) are back and have only one night to suck the lives out of little children in order to secure their immortality.

Halloween Haunts

Let’s face it, I’m a scary movie junkie. But don’t get the wrong idea. I’m not a big fan of buckets of blood, graphic violence, and a non–stop carnival of terror. In my book, subtle is always scarier. I prefer tingles going up my spine instead, with the occasional jolt of surprise to get some exercise. With that in mind, here are my favorite Hollywood Halloween haunts:

The Addams Family

"They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're altogether ooky,
The Addams Family."

That twisted and backwards family is classic Halloween movie entertainment. When the Addams family lost Fester to the Bermuda Triangle they were heart broken. When Fester returns (played by Christopher Lloyd) their lives are full again and their twisted happiness is complete. But is it really Fester, or an impostor?

Tweens & Teens Movie Night Activity - Corpse Bride

“Isn’t the view beautiful? It takes my breathe away. Well, it would if I had any.”

Who would’ve thought that when Victor wanders into the woods to practice his wedding vows, he’d end up married to a corpse! He sure didn’t see that coming. The rest of the movie will be just as fun and surprising for you, your family and friends, especially when you put these great Movie Night Activities to good use. You’re sure to have a spook-tacular time! If you're still trying to decide if this movie is right for your group, check out the review here.

Scooby-Doo

"Zoikes Scooby Like, It’s Actually A  Good Movie!!"

 If Mystery Inc. is on the case you know you are in for mystery, intrigue, pictures with eyes that move, and of course, Scooby snacks! The gang is at the height of their career until differences in opinion take place and they all go their separate ways. Fast-forward two years when Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Daphne(Sarah Michelle Gellar), Velma(Linda Cardellini), Shaggy(Matthew Lillard), and Scooby are each individually invited to the newly popularized resort, Spooky Island. Strange things are going on and it’s up to Mystery Inc. to put their differences aside and solve the case, or else . . .

Halloween Favorite- Corpse Bride

Eye Popping Fun

The creepy trio (Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton) are together in this Halloween favorite. Victor and Victoria are destined (by their greedy parents) to be married whether they like it or not. But just as soon as they decide that they like it, Victor accidentally marries himself to the lovely and decrepit Emily...the corpse bride. Will it be death that parts them or life that helps them see things selflessly.

Tweens & Teens Movie Night Activity - The Burbs

Want to find out what  happens when you have a typical suburb full of neighbors that are extra good at keeping an eye on each other… and some new and creepy neighbors move in? Then you’ll definitely want to watch this fun and spooky Tom Hanks classic with your Tween & Teens. With ClearPlay to clean it up and these fun activities to enjoy, you’ll be ready to make an event of your next Movie Night!

Halloween Favorite- The Young Frankenstein

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Frederick Frankenstein (“that’s Fronkensteen”), after years spent distancing himself from his family’s infamous past, inherits his Grandfather Victor’s castle in Transylvania. Upon his arrival in Transylvania he is met by his two assistants Igor and Inga (played by Marty Feldman and Teri Garr, respectively). Frederick eventually succumbs to his “destiny” and sets off to pick up where his Grandfather left off, reanimating a dead body; although he tries to make his creation a more sophisticated, intelligent supernatural being he discovers that he instead has planted an abnormal (“Abby someone?”) brain in the monster. This sets off the townsfolk (who already distrust the name Frankenstein) in to a frenzied mob, bent on destroying the ogre.

Halloween Pic: Interview With The Vampire

I remember wanting to see this so bad in '94 when it came out. I was literally writhing in my seat every time I saw a preview because I knew I wouldn't be able to see it since it was 'R' rated. 17 years later I finally hunkered down with the hubby to enjoy this long awaited story. I  have to say I've been imagining it better in my head all these years.

Halloween Favorite- The Others

Who Are They, And What Do They Want??

Nicole Kidman stars in one of my all-time favorite spooky movies, The Others.  Grace lives in an old mansion with her two young children while her husband is away at war.  The children are photosensitive and therefore must NEVER be exposed to direct sunlight.  This means that at all times, curtains are drawn and doors are shut and locked.  In a desperate measure of sanity, Grace hires an older couple to help with the cooking and cleaning so that she can keep constant supervision of the children.  But with the arrival of the new couple, things start going awry, doors open when no one has touched them, and secrets revealed that will shock and unravel the tightly wound Grace.  She alone must decide how far she’s willing to go to save herself and children from the world beyond the walls of the old mansion and The Others.   

Casper

The Friendliest Ghost You Know

The sweet cartoon star, Casper, makes it to the big screen in this story about a Ghost Psychologist (Bill Pullman), his daughter (Christina Ricci) who move in to Casper's house. The dead and the living mix and mingle their way through some silly fun, just like you can do with the latest Family Movie Night Activity.