5 Great Halloween Movies

1. Hocus Pocus- This movie follows the adventures of two teens, a little girl and a talking cat as they try to end the rein of terror of three witch sisters. The sisters were brought back from the dead by a lit candle on Halloween, and they are out to wreak havoc on the town. It is up to the quartet, one of which brought the witches back accidentally, to break their previously casted spells and stop them once and for all.

2. The Haunted Mansion- On the day of the Evers’ anniversary and family trip, workaholic Jim Evers, of Evers and Evers Real Estate, gets the call of his career. The owner of a gigantic mansion is interested in selling it, and this could be Jim’s biggest sale ever. He talks his family into going to see it on the way to their

vacation, but they end up staying much longer than expected. Strange things happen all throughout their stay, including dealing with a scary butler and the owner’s strange infatuation with Jim’s wife Sara.

3. Beetlejuice- Barbara and Adam are a typical married couple.

On their way back home from running an errand, they are in a terrible car accident and end up returning home as ghosts. Before they can even decipher all of the new rules that come with being a spirit, a new family moves into their

house. They immediately come in and start changing the house, and Barbara and Adam have to decide how to stop them. After repeatedly trying their own tricks and failing, they call upon Beetlejuice, the “bio-exorcist” to get the job done for them. Little do they know that he is a pain to work with, and they are soon trying to get rid of him and save the family they once could not stand.

4. Casper- After an heiress is denied her father’s fortune and is left with only an

old mansion, she finds a map that is supposed to lead her to a treasure somewhere in the house. When she enters the house to get her treasure, she is

attacked and scared away by several ghosts. So, she hires an afterlife specialist to rid the house of the ghosts, and he and his daughter move in. Soon after they arrive, the daughter meets Casper, the friendly ghost, and his three mean uncles that are determined to make all of the humans in the house disappear.

5. Halloweentown- While Marnie is arguing with her mom, her grandmother comes in to visit from Halloweentown. She tells Marnie, the oldest child of three, that she needs to start her witch training before her 13th birthday, or she will lose her powers forever. Marnie goes back to Halloween town with her grandmother, and soon she finds herself having to help defeat an evil force that has taken over the town. (There are three sequels to this movie, which include Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, Halloweentown High, and Return to Halloweentown.

-Ashlee Holtzclaw, reporter