I'm trying to think of other Halloween films similar to this but am drawing a blank. Any ideas?
shareI don't know about similar but as far as Halloween family films go...
Garfield's Halloween Adventure
Halloween is Grinch Night
Disney Halloween Treat
Ernest Scared Stupid
Halloweentown (I only recommend the first two)
Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Halloween with the Addams Family
Actually I was trying to find the title of this Halloween cartoon when I was younger. It used to come on every year near Halloween when I was a child. It was about this pumpkin and it was sad because nobody would pick it. Anybody know what I am talking about. If anybody could give me the title to it, that would be awesome!
shareWas it "Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile?" It used to air every year back in the late 70's/early 80's.
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Mad Monster Party? (1969)
This is stop action puppets by Rankin and Bass the guys who did Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer. Boris Karloff does the main character's voice so you know its good!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061931/#comment
I'm kind of partial to Hocus Pocus, too. I saw it with a girlfriend in 1993, and I've been hooked on it since.
shareThe halloween tree.
shareThere is a Halloween cartoon I am looking for and I remember seeing it in the early 80's. It involved vampires, a werewolf, witch and a little girl. I remember it often being aired on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. I remember the animation was slow moving. Sorry this is probably a bad description.
shareHere's a cool site that lists a lot of specials:
halloweenspecials.net
Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers
Hocus Pocus
The New Misadventures of Icabod Crane (good luck finding this tho...)
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein
Under Wraps
These are all great, along with all the others mentioned.
Casper (from 1995)
shareI loved a "Fat Albert Halloween" when I was a kid. Hey hey hey ...
shareI always enjoyed when the "network formerly known as the Disney Channel" would air the Halloween Treat (a collection of old Disney animated shorts and movie clips). Fortunately it and the similar Christmas special are on Youtube now. Thank God.
My favorite part was Donald swallowing the key.
One Saturday afternoon when I was about eleven (1983), I saw a one-shot.
It was called "Boo!" and was a bunch of comedy sketches with Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, and the gang. It seemed to be a sort of kid-friendly takeoff on SNL--the first sketch had Drac announcing, "Dead, from Television City in Transylvania, it's 'BOO!'"
Another sketch I remember was Van Helsing and his assistant staking Dracula in his coffin. ("Now, Count Dracula, the world is free of your evil forever!") After they leave, Drac sits up perplexed, the stake still in his chest, and says, "Good grief--and these are my FRIENDS!"
I kind of liked it, but I must be the only one in the world who remembers it!
It's on the Dracula (1931) DVD!!!!
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. Bette Davis
stikfigure1 could it be Witches Night Out? If so there is a pile of them near the costumes in kmart for $5 each.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
I have long holiday-viewing marathon lists for Easter, Halloween, and Christmas. The other family-friendly, Halloweeniest ones on my Halloween list are:
Disney's Legend of Sleep Hollow (ghostly classic Disney cartoons)
Garfield's Halloween
Spookable Pooh
Mad Monster Party
Halloween is Grinch Night
Alvin & the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman/Frankenstein
Spongebob Scaredy-Pants (DVD compilation of Halloween ep and a few others)
Casper/Casper Meets Wendy
Frankenweenie (and now the new one is added as well!)
Hocus Pocus
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Corpse Bride
Cry Baby Lane
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (full series)
The Nightmare Room (and now R.L. Stine's Haunting Hour on The Hub)
Goosebumps
The Haunted Mansion
Igor
The Munsters
The Addams Family (show...cartoon...2-3 movies)
Halloween episodes of Hey Arnold, Fairly Oddparents
The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow
Halloweentown
Twitches
Spookley the Square Pumpkin
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There are several good ones here, but I would like to add the following:
"The Ghost & Mr. Chicken"
"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"
"The Ghost Breakers" starring Bob Hope or the remake "Scared Stiff" with Martin & Lewis
"Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
and of course:
"You'll Find Out" (very goofy fun starring Kay Kyser, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre. Think of what Scooby-Doo would have been had the characters been part of a 1940s Big Band silliness).