21 Movies To Watch In October [Part 1/2]

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Halloween October is probably my favorite month of the year.  I've got a movie for every day leading up until Halloween to get you even more in the mood for the month of spoop.  I've rated them between 1-5 stars based on personal interest.  I'll include the MPA rating because useful info is useful.


  1.   Edward Scissorhands (1990) ★ | drama, fantasy, romance |   A door-to-door saleswoman discovers a shy, gentle young man with scissors for hands living in isolation.  He is brought into a new community and the film takes you on his adventures as he adapts to his new life.  Rated PG-13: sexual references, strong language, alcohol use, some violence.
  2.   Hocus Pocus (1993) ★ | family, comedy | After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.  Rated PG: some scary sequences and language. 
  3.   The Blair Witch Project  (1999) ★ | horror, found footage |  Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.  Rated R: language.    
  4.   The Craft  (1996) ★ | drama, fantasy, horror, thriller |  A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.  Rated R:  terror, violence, language.
  5.   Halloweentown  (1998) ★ | adventure, comedy, fantasy, family |  After learning she is a witch, a girl (Kimberly J. Brown) helps save a town full of other supernatural creatures.   Rated G.
  6.   The Witch (2015) ½ | horror, mystery |   A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.  Rated R: disturbing violent content, graphic nudity.
  7.   Dark Shadows  (2012) ★ | comedy, fantasy, horror |  An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.  Rated PG-13:  comic horror violence, sexual content, some drug use, language, smoking.      
  8.   The Addams Family  (1991) ★ | comedy, fantasy |   Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.  Rated PG-13: language, smoking, sensuality, some bloody comic violence.
  9.   Beetlejuice  (1988) ½ | comedy, fantasy | A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.  Rated PG-13: comedic horror violence, alcohol use, some sexual humor, brief strong language.
  10.   Sleepy Hollow  (1999)  ★ | fantasy, horror, mystery |   Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.  Rated R: graphic horror violence and gore, a scene of sexuality.
  11.   The Haunted Mansion (2003)  ★ | comedy, family, fantasy, horror, mystery | A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.  Rated PG: frightening images, thematic elements, language.  
What's your favorite October or Halloween movie? Let me know below and your favorite film might be in part 2! 






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