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The Halloween season is here, and that means it’s time for Halloween movies! Maybe you’re a horror movie fanatic, or you prefer spooky but silly comedies. If you’re like me, you’re part of the second group- so here are the best Halloween movies for people who don’t love sleeping with the lights on.
First up is the Disney cult classic, Hocus Pocus, directed by Kenny Ortega (the man behind the High School Musical franchise). It’s set on Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts. What starts as an innocent trick-or-treating trip turns into something darker, when teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz), his younger sister Dani (Thora Birch), and Max’s crush, Allison (Vinessa Shaw) explore a so-called “haunted” house. Legend says it used to be the home of three witches, the Sanderson sisters, and they can only be freed on Halloween night. Max believes it’s all made up, until he unintentionally resurrects Winifred, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson (Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and
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Henry Selick (Coraline, James and the Giant Peach) directed the movie, with Tim Burton as a writer/producer (a poem written by Burton inspired the movie). This stop-motion animation film features Jack Skellington (voiced by Chris Sarandon), the “Pumpkin King” of Halloweentown. Jack is tired of scaring people, and he sees a chance for that to change when he accidentally discovers Christmastown. He plots to kidnap and replace Santa, giving him rule over Christmas. However, Jack’s plan goes horribly (and sometimes hilariously) wrong. However, don’t let the fact that it’s an animated film stop you from watching this movie. The difficulty of good stop-motion animation is incredible, and the levels of dedication and talent required for this movie will amaze you. It has 24 frames per second, meaning the crew posed characters 24 times for each second of the entire movie; One minute took a week to

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