🎥🍿31 Family-Friendly Halloween Movies for Every Age

Halloween movie nights are one of the easiest ways to make October feel magical. Turn down the lights, grab the coziest blankets, add an unreasonable amount of popcorn, and let everyone wear pajamas before dinner. We won’t judge. 🎃🍿

This list includes 31 family-friendly movies—one for every night of October! You’ll find gentle choices for little pumpkins, family favorites everyone can enjoy, and slightly spookier selections for tweens and teens.

Every child handles suspense differently, so use the suggested age groups as a starting point and preview anything you’re unsure about.

Gentle Halloween Fun for Little Pumpkins

1. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

A short and sweet Halloween tradition filled with costumes, friendship, trick-or-treating and Linus’s unwavering belief in the Great Pumpkin.

Suggested for: Ages 3 and older

2. Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest

George searches for a legendary scarecrow, chooses the perfect pumpkin and gets ready for the town’s Halloween celebration.

Suggested for: Ages 2 and older

3. Spookley the Square Pumpkin

Spookley learns that being different can be exactly what makes someone special. It’s colorful, gentle and includes a lovely message about acceptance.

Suggested for: Ages 3 and older

4. Mickey’s Tale of Two Witches

Mickey and Pluto share a Halloween story about two witches-in-training who must work together to save their town.

Suggested for: Ages 3 and older

5. Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie

Lumpy experiences his first Halloween while Roo helps him face a supposedly spooky creature known as the Gobloon.

Suggested for: Ages 3 and older

6. Room on the Broom

A kind witch keeps making room on her broom for new animal friends in this charming adaptation of the beloved picture book.

Suggested for: Ages 2 and older

7. Super Monsters Save Halloween

The Super Monsters help their neighbors overcome their fears and discover that Halloween can be more fun than frightening.

Suggested for: Ages 3 and older

8. Toy Story of Terror!

What begins as a road trip turns into a mysterious overnight adventure for Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the toys.

Suggested for: Ages 5 and older

9. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

This Disney classic includes the famous tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. The final sequence may feel intense for sensitive younger viewers.

Suggested for: Ages 6 and older

10. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Wallace and Gromit try to protect the town’s giant vegetable competition from a mysterious garden-destroying creature.

Suggested for: Ages 6 and older

Halloween Favorites for the Whole Family

11. Hotel Transylvania

Count Dracula runs a monster resort where his carefully controlled world is disrupted by the arrival of a very human guest.

Suggested for: Ages 6 and older

12. Hotel Transylvania 2

Dracula worries that his half-human grandson may not have inherited any vampire abilities, leading to some hilariously questionable monster training.

Suggested for: Ages 6 and older

13. Monsters, Inc.

Sulley and Mike discover that laughter is far more powerful than screams after a little girl accidentally enters the monster world.

Suggested for: Ages 5 and older

14. Monsters University

Mike and Sulley meet in college, compete to become top scarers and eventually learn the value of teamwork.

Suggested for: Ages 6 and older

15. The Addams Family

The wonderfully unusual Addams family faces a greedy reality television host in this animated adventure.

Suggested for: Ages 7 and older

16. The Addams Family 2

The Addams family takes a chaotic cross-country road trip in hopes of reconnecting—and naturally encounters plenty of strange situations.

Suggested for: Ages 7 and older

17. Halloweentown

Marnie discovers that she comes from a family of witches and travels to a magical town filled with supernatural residents.

Suggested for: Ages 7 and older

18. Hocus Pocus

Three mischievous witches return to Salem on Halloween night, leaving a group of kids to stop their magical plans.

Suggested for: Ages 8 and older

19. Hocus Pocus 2

The Sanderson sisters return once again after two teenagers accidentally light another Black Flame Candle.

Suggested for: Ages 8 and older

20. Casper

A friendly young ghost befriends a girl after she and her father move into a mansion inhabited by several spirits.

Suggested for: Ages 7 and older

21. The Haunted Mansion

A family visits an eerie mansion and becomes involved in a supernatural mystery filled with ghosts, secret passages and spooky surprises.

Suggested for: Ages 8 and older

22. Muppets Haunted Mansion

Gonzo accepts a challenge to spend Halloween night inside a famously haunted mansion. It’s spooky, silly and unmistakably Muppet.

Suggested for: Ages 7 and older

A Little Spookier for Older Kids, Tweens and Teens

23. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, becomes fascinated with Christmas and decides to create his own version of the holiday.

Suggested for: Ages 7 and older

24. Frankenweenie

A young inventor uses science to bring his beloved dog back to life, with unexpected and increasingly chaotic consequences.