With Halloween only a week away, I feel as if I haven't gotten into the Halloween spirit enough. Growing older, I've realized there is not enough time to apple pick, carve pumpkins, drink your weight in apple cider, and binge watch Halloween movies while also going to school full time and working.
Some of my favorite memories as a kid involved getting to curl up with all the junk food in the world and watch all the fun holiday movies, especially the Disney Channel ones. Here are some of my favorite "children's" Halloween movies (because let's be real, we still love them as adults).
1. Hocus Pocus
This movie was my all time favorite. I won't lie, it still is. It is such an extremely fun movie. Hopefully, the sequel to come will live up to its glory. And let's be real, we all thought Max was super cute
2. Halloween Town
Honestly as a kid, was it even really Halloween if you didn't watch this movie? Not to mention the sequel and the two others to follow. Although they changed the actress of the main character in the final one, we still adored the movies. I think at some point we all wanted to visit Halloween Town.
3. Don't Look Under the Bed
I don't know about anyone else but this movie TERRIFIED me when I was a kid, but I still loved it. I think it had a great level of creepy and fun. I remember I would watch it when I should have been sleeping (sorry mom) and then realizing I definitely wasn't going to fall asleep after because I was so creeped out.
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
This movie is a classic. It is definitely the best of both worlds, Christmas and Halloween-- what more could you want?
5. Under Wraps
Three friends find a mummy and are on a mission to return him by midnight. The shenanigans that these kids and mummy get into is truly entertaining. Instead of taking a creepy mummy, you turn it into a goof ball who needs help from these kids.
6. Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire
Coming from a household with a single mom, I think for a good chunk of my childhood I was scared my mom would date a vampire. What made it even more comical that I was scared of this, I knew vampires weren't real and I have always been super interested in movies, books, and tv shows about vampires, I still am.
7. Phantom of the Megaplex
This movie was a modern take on Phantom of the Opera. A group of siblings (mind you the sister is a horror movie freak) take it upon themselves to find out who is haunting the megaplex. I think right below Hocus Pocus, this is my second favorite.
8. Casper Meets Wendy
Although this wasn't one of the mainly popular ones, it was still such a great movie. Most of us were in love with Lizzie Mcguire when we were young so I know that made me love this movie anymore because it starred Hilary Duff as Wendy.
9. Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
I don't know about anyone else, but I grew up on Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movies. I always felt like there was a new one to see, yet I would always watch the same ones over and over. I mean who didn't love these two, especially as Michelle Tanner on Full House.
10. It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
This one is an ultimate classic.We've watched Charlie Brown growing up, our parents watched it, and our kids will probably watch it too. Luckily for us, theres a Charlie Brown special for almost every holiday!
