31 Spooktacular Halloween Movies for Kids [Printable Checklist]

Andy and the other toys go on a mysterious and scary search and rescue mission to look for Mr. Potato Head, who has gone missing after a visit to a roadside motel. It’s the type of clever Halloween movie that will keep the whole family on the edge of their seat. (Amazon)

Three kids, Amy, Marshall, and Gilbert, accidentally bring a three-thousand-year-old undiscovered mummy back to life. They have to help him return to his resting place by midnight on Halloween or he’ll never be reunited with the love of his life. (Amazon)

Everything goes to hell when Sulley the monster allows a human girl into Monstropolis by accident. Besides humanizing the monsters hiding in your kids’ closets, the characters are funny, delightful, and empathetic. (Amazon)

The Piper children catch their grandmother Aggie using magic and follow her back to Halloweentown. But then Aggie and the children’s mother get attacked by evil forces. The kids need to figure out how to defeat a creature with their newfound magic. (Amazon)

This one is more of a special than a movie, but it’s a Halloween animated classic that involves Linus, who believes the Great Pumpkin will rise, but no one, not even Charlie Brown believes him. So Linus goes on a quest to find it and prove everyone wrong. (Amazon)

Spookley the Square Pumpkin a social pariah among his kind until he’s able to save the day. The film teaches children how to deal with bullying and how to accept and love themselves. (Amazon)

The Hansen kids are grounded but they try to gain their freedom back by fixing their mom up on a date, except, the mysterious man turns out to be a vampire. (Amazon)

Dracula doesn’t feel like the scary monster he once was. But when Sam writes a letter to him asking for a Dracula figurine, Dracula makes a guest appearance at a Halloween party that puts the Count on top again. (Amazon or Netflix)

The Cat in the Hat takes Nick and Sally on a Halloween ride filled with howlers and shockers and scary fandangles, big laughs and music and fun from all angles! Their fright-filled adventure takes them deep into the Oooky-ma-kooky Closet where Nick and Sally discover the very best Halloween costumes ever. (Amazon)

Three adorable resurrected witches are on a quest to find eternal youth and the main ingredient required is the life of an innocent. It’s up to a group of kids to foil their plan before one of them becomes the witches’ next victim. (Amazon)

The live-action version of the classic cartoon follows Casper, a friendly ghost, who befriends a human girl. It’s up to Casper to save his friend’s dad after his ghost uncles target him and his creation designed to bring ghosts back to life. (Amazon)

Director Tim Burton once again offers us an immaculate stop-motion movie reminiscent of “A Nightmare Before Christmas.” Chaos ensues when a young boy named Victor tries to reanimate his dog. Trust me, it’s one of the best supernatural horror comedies out there! (Amazon)

Young children will love this film about three friends who learn that a house in their neighborhood is actually a living monster. The kids have to figure out how to handle it and save the neighborhood before it’s too late. (Amazon)

In this stop-motion animated movie, a boy named Norman Babcock has the unique ability to talk to the dead. He must use his power to figure out the secret behind a deadly curse that’s plaguing a town before the residents are toast. (Amazon)

Michael Keaton is pretty hilarious as the demented demon, Beetlejuice, who takes it upon himself to scare anyone who moves into his house by haunting them. But there are so many hilarious moments that your kids won’t break a sweat. (Amazon)

Eddie Murphy plays Edward Gracey, a real estate agent who is desperately trying to sell a home to a couple. But it’s not long before they realized that evil spirits are haunting the property. (Amazon)

Dracula’s monster resort in Transylvania is turned upside down when humans discover its location. But neither Dracula nor the monsters are actually really scary. And if your kids love this film, follow it with sequels 2 and 3. (Amazon)

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are recent orphans who are forced to go live with their distant relative, Count Olaf. But they soon realize that his sole motivation for taking them is because of their money. (Amazon)

In this stop-motion film, Coraline discovers a door in her new home to a parallel world where dimensional duplicates of her family and the realm she’s in contain a dark and terrible secret. (Amazon)

Jack Skellington from Halloween Town stumbles on Christmas Town and falls in love with Christmas. In fact, he gets so obsessed with the concept that he abducts Santa Claus so can take over Christmas. (Amazon)

A man named Victor accidentally finds himself married to a skeleton-like woman named Emily after practicing his wedding vows in the forest. And it’s up to his living fiancée to face the corpse bride and get Victor back. (Amazon)

R.L. Stine, the author of the beloved “Goosebumps” books discovers that demons from the pages he’s written have come to life. He must join forces with his daughter and her friends to get them back into the books. (Amazon)

A teen named Sarah cruises through a mysterious labyrinth to get her baby brother back from the realm of the Goblin King, played by none other than the iconic David Bowie. (Amazon)

Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler establish a business called Ghostbusters to help fight the evil ghosts that have been unleashed in New York City. (Amazon)

Learn about Dia de los Muertos as you journey with a young boy on a mission to celebrate his love of music as he connects with his ancestors and heritage. (Amazon)

Join your friends from Shrek and Monsters vs Aliens for a series of spooky stories. Shrek and his friends tell stories in a haunted castle, and Ginormica and the Monsters fight mutant alien pumpkins! (Amazon or Netflix)

The film follows a young man who gets a creature called a mogwai as a pet. But things go terrifyingly wrong and at times hilariously bad when the mogwai spawns other creatures who are destructive and evil. NOTE: It is rated PG, but also TV-14, so this might fit better as a PG-13 movie option. (Amazon)

This 1998 romantic comedy stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as two sister witches who must deal with the Owens family curse. Any man who falls in love with someone from the Owens family line perishes. A bad relationship lands one sister in trouble and the sisters must team up to fight evil. (Amazon)

Johnny Depp stars as the iconic Edward Scissorhands, a man with scissor blades instead of fingers. Edward is a social outcast, but the takeaway for this film is about learning to accept oneself. (Amazon)

A psychic tells Louise Miller, a socially awkward teen that she’s really a witch with magical abilities that will start to manifest when she turns 16. When the big day arrives, Miller uses magic to become the popular girl in school. (Amazon)

A wicked doctor uses her son to pose as Fester, the long-lost brother of “The Addams Family,” so she can steal their fortune. But all is not what it appears to be in this ghoulishly fun film. (Amazon)

Johnny loves Missy, but he dies before he gets to tell her, so he comes back from the dead with a hunger to win her heart. (Amazon)

Now your family is ready for a frightfully fun October with these 31 Halloween movies for kids, tweens, and teens! Leave your email below for a free printable checklist. And be sure to check out my Christmas Movies for Kids, Valentine’s Day Movies for Kids, and Easter Movies for kids!