Halloween Week: Eduard’s Top 5 Halloween Favorites
By Eduard
October 29, 2010 at 2:37AM EDT
Gay-friendly AND family-friendly all in one! Click the image above to get the list!
The holidays for me have always been about spending time with my family, whether it’s Christmas, Thanksgiving or even Halloween. My family has always loved watching movies together, but with such a huge age range that include kids from 1 to 92, it’s hard to find movies that will scare us that all ages can watch together. Here I have compiled a list of my Top 5 Halloween Favorites that the whole family can enjoy and scream about.
5) Corpse Bride
A fairytale about a beautiful, rotting zombie girl looking for love, told in the only way it could possibly be told: through Tim Burton and stop motion animation.
4) Return to Oz
The other Oz movie. This one made by Disney. After her experiences in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy has trouble sleeping, so Aunt Em (played by Piper Laurie) has Dorothy sent to a crazy place that will help her go to sleep through electro shock therapy. Luckily, Dorothy is saved in time and whisked back to Oz where she makes friends with Jack Pumpkinhead, Billina, Tik Tok and The Gump. She also has to deal with wheeled henchmen, a new witch who collects heads, and a king made out of rock who has turned everyone in Oz into stone. This film is best known for its creepy tone and for introducing a young Fairuza Balk into the world of cinema.
3) Worst Witch
Fairuza Balk, again, as a witch, and I don’t mean Nancy in The Craft. Balk plays a young witch named Mildred who attends a school for sorcery. Sound familiar Potter Heads? The movie is undeniably a product of the 80s, but who could resist when your supporting cast is Diana Rigg, Tim Curry and Charlotte Rae. In one movie you get a girl who has played Dorothy and actors who have played Emma Peel, Frank-N-Furter and Mrs. Garret from Facts of Life. You can’t go wrong with this bit of nostalgia.
2) Nightmare Before Christmas
The best thing about this movie is you can watch this one during Halloween AND Christmas. Told in gorgeous stop-motion animation, this classic movie is one of those films that gets better every time you watch it. Directed by Henry Selick, who also did James and the Giant Peach and Coraline, among other classics, and with a story by Tim Burton, who also produced, this film is sure to be a horrific delight for the whole family. Witness as your mom sings along to some Danny Elfman.
1) Hocus Pocus
And now for number one. The honor just had to have Sarah, Kathy AND the divine Bette in it. Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker play a team of hilarious witch sisters who have come back from the dead on Halloween night to steal the life forces of the children of Salem so they can be young, powerful and FABULOUS! Portrayed as villains, you can’t help but root for these ladies, especially once they break into song, getting their spells on. Not only is this Halloween fun for all ages, but you’ll have a gay old time with the fabulous women working their magic. I put a spell on you, and now you’re gone, gone, gone, so long.
That’s my list! What are your family-friendly Halloween favorites?
Don’t really agree with Return to Oz as a Halloween movie. It’s kind of creepy but it just doesn’t say Halloween to me. Others I would suggest as good Halloween-type family movies would be The Halloween Tree, Bedknobs & Broomsticks (Angela Lansbury as a witch anyone?), the first three Halloweentown movies, Teen Witch, Casper and even Ghostbusters. Although I agree that Hocus Pocus is by far the best family Halloween movie ever made.
I’ve always loved “Return To Oz.” I actually don’t like the original “Wizard Of Oz” too much, but “Return To Oz” always struck me as more mature and much truer to the spirit of the Oz books.
But of course, my favorite family-friendly Halloween themed-special has to be “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” It’s not technically a movie, but it’s a classic through and through.
Halloween Week: Eduard’s Top 5 Halloween Favorites
By Eduard
October 29, 2010 at 2:37AM EDT
Gay-friendly AND family-friendly all in one! Click the image above to get the list!
The holidays for me have always been about spending time with my family, whether it’s Christmas, Thanksgiving or even Halloween. My family has always loved watching movies together, but with such a huge age range that include kids from 1 to 92, it’s hard to find movies that will scare us that all ages can watch together. Here I have compiled a list of my Top 5 Halloween Favorites that the whole family can enjoy and scream about.
5) Corpse Bride
A fairytale about a beautiful, rotting zombie girl looking for love, told in the only way it could possibly be told: through Tim Burton and stop motion animation.
4) Return to Oz
The other Oz movie. This one made by Disney. After her experiences in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy has trouble sleeping, so Aunt Em (played by Piper Laurie) has Dorothy sent to a crazy place that will help her go to sleep through electro shock therapy. Luckily, Dorothy is saved in time and whisked back to Oz where she makes friends with Jack Pumpkinhead, Billina, Tik Tok and The Gump. She also has to deal with wheeled henchmen, a new witch who collects heads, and a king made out of rock who has turned everyone in Oz into stone. This film is best known for its creepy tone and for introducing a young Fairuza Balk into the world of cinema.
3) Worst Witch
Fairuza Balk, again, as a witch, and I don’t mean Nancy in The Craft. Balk plays a young witch named Mildred who attends a school for sorcery. Sound familiar Potter Heads? The movie is undeniably a product of the 80s, but who could resist when your supporting cast is Diana Rigg, Tim Curry and Charlotte Rae. In one movie you get a girl who has played Dorothy and actors who have played Emma Peel, Frank-N-Furter and Mrs. Garret from Facts of Life. You can’t go wrong with this bit of nostalgia.
2) Nightmare Before Christmas
The best thing about this movie is you can watch this one during Halloween AND Christmas. Told in gorgeous stop-motion animation, this classic movie is one of those films that gets better every time you watch it. Directed by Henry Selick, who also did James and the Giant Peach and Coraline, among other classics, and with a story by Tim Burton, who also produced, this film is sure to be a horrific delight for the whole family. Witness as your mom sings along to some Danny Elfman.
1) Hocus Pocus
And now for number one. The honor just had to have Sarah, Kathy AND the divine Bette in it. Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker play a team of hilarious witch sisters who have come back from the dead on Halloween night to steal the life forces of the children of Salem so they can be young, powerful and FABULOUS! Portrayed as villains, you can’t help but root for these ladies, especially once they break into song, getting their spells on. Not only is this Halloween fun for all ages, but you’ll have a gay old time with the fabulous women working their magic. I put a spell on you, and now you’re gone, gone, gone, so long.
That’s my list! What are your family-friendly Halloween favorites?
From the evil mind of Eduard
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Don’t really agree with Return to Oz as a Halloween movie. It’s kind of creepy but it just doesn’t say Halloween to me. Others I would suggest as good Halloween-type family movies would be The Halloween Tree, Bedknobs & Broomsticks (Angela Lansbury as a witch anyone?), the first three Halloweentown movies, Teen Witch, Casper and even Ghostbusters. Although I agree that Hocus Pocus is by far the best family Halloween movie ever made.
Very cool, Eduard.
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I’ve always loved “Return To Oz.” I actually don’t like the original “Wizard Of Oz” too much, but “Return To Oz” always struck me as more mature and much truer to the spirit of the Oz books.
But of course, my favorite family-friendly Halloween themed-special has to be “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” It’s not technically a movie, but it’s a classic through and through.
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