Yay! We’re on half term. And relax.
I don’t know about you, but I have been looking forward to half term pretty much since the children went back to school in September. We haven’t planned much because we’re all pretty knackered. We’ve been busy at work and school and need a break from routine.
One thing we will be doing is settling down with a family-sized bucket of popcorn to rediscover the classic Halloween titles which have stood the test of time. There are some spine-tingling films which are firm family favourites year after year.
Spine-tingling family films for Halloween
Skip the squabbling, grab the popcorn and get ready for the ultimate Halloween which will have the seal of approval from the whole family. We have a monster mash of titles up for grabs, with one lucky winner receiving copies of The Addams Family, Casper Meets Wendy, Book of Life, and The Secret of NIMH.
The Addams Family
When a man claiming to be Fester, the missing brother of Gomez Addams, arrives at the Addams’ home, the family is thrilled. However, Morticia begins to suspect the man is a fraud, since he cannot recall details of Fester’s life. With the help of lawyer Tully Alford, Fester manages to get the Addams clan evicted from their home. Gomez realises the two men are conspiring to swindle the Addams fortune and that he must challenge Fester.
Casper Meets Wendy
After drawing the ire of a nefarious warlock named Desmond, Wendy the Good Little Witch and her aunts seek sanctuary in a special resort that caters to the supernatural. There, Wendy meets Casper the Friendly Ghost, who is vacationing with his quarrelsome uncles. Despite their families’ prejudiced warnings, Wendy and Casper become fast friends. Before long, this high-spirited duo decides to team up to take down the bullying warlock.
Book of Life
In the Mexican town of San Angel, Manolo, Maria and Joaquin have been friends ever since childhood. Although their lives have taken different paths – Maria was sent to Europe, Joaquin joined the military, and Manolo studied to become a bullfighter – one thing remains the same: Manolo and Joaquin both want to marry Maria. Little does the trio know that battling husband-and-wife deities have made a high-stakes wager on the love triangle’s outcome. (We love this film – see our review here).
The Secret of NIMH
Mrs. Brisby, a widowed mouse, must move her children out of their home in a field before the local farmer starts plowing. Unable to leave because her son is ill, Mrs. Brisby seeks the help of nearby rats, who have heightened intelligence after being the subjects of scientific experiments. She receives an unexpected gift from the elder rat, Nicodemus. Soon Mrs. Brisby is caught in a conflict among the rats, jeopardising her mission to save her family.
Available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download.
Win a bundle of spine tingling family films
I am excited to share a great competition with you today. One lucky reader of the gingerbread house blog can win a monster mash of titles. The prize bundle includes The Addams Family (Blu-ray), Casper Meets Wendy (DVD), Book of Life (Blu-ray), and The Secret of NIMH(Blu-ray) .
To enter my giveaway you must answer the question via the Rafflecopter widget below, there are some bonus entries too. The giveaway is open to those with a UK postal address only and ends on 29th October. The winners name will appear on this post. Good luck!
Don’t forget to check out my other giveaways on my competition page.







Ghostbusters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved Hocus Pocus every Halloween when i was a child, my children love watching paranorman and Daddy I’m a zombie at Halloween xx
Ghostbusters is our favourite.
its got to be hocus pocus 🎃
Ghostbusters
HOCUS pocus – a firm family favourite
We like The worst witch
Hocus Pocus
The Hotel Transylvania franchise is a firm favourite in our house!
The Nightmare before Christmas, not sure if its classed as a Halloween movie or a christmas one but we love it!
I love the new ghostbusters with the girls in and The Addams Family x
We watched Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory again on Tuesday
We love the Tim Burton franchise – The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, The Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie, to name a few!
we love scooby doo!!
Ghostbusters
The kids love Hotel Transylvania
Hocus Pocus
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a favourite 🙂
Goastbusters 2
Casper
My favourite family-friendly Halloween film to watch is Casper
Teen Wolf
Carry On Screaming
Ghostbusters!
We love Hocus Pocus
hocus pocus
Coralline is our fave!
Edward Scissorhands by far. One of my favourite films full stop.
ghostbusters
We just watched COCO together as a family – great film for Halloween
Definitely home alone 🙂
witches the roald dahl one its still very creepy to me lol x fab giveaway thank you
Teen Wolf.
ghostbusters
Signs
Coraline is a great family favourite!
Ghostbusters
Addams Family Values
Hocus Pocus! We do also love Halloweentown!
Ghostbusters
Casper
ghostbusters
we love to waatch Hotel Transylvania
As a family we love to watch Hocus Pocus.
Ghostbusters 2
hotel Transylvania
Monster House
Hocus Pocus!
We like Hocus Pocus. x
Ghostbusters
Great fans of Ghostbusters.
Casper
Ghostbusters
Hocus Pocus! I still love to watch it 🙂
The Nightmare Before Christmas
That’s easy – Ghostbusters ( the original, of course!)
I always recommend The Amazing Mr Blunden. It’s a firm favourite of mine-Has been since I saw it at junior school, and I watch it at least twice a year. A ghost story with time travel…Try it!
“Hocus Pocus”. However I would agree with Louise above and I too would recommend “The Amazing Mr Blunden” A great film, with the wonderful Lawrence Naismith in the ttle role.
We enjoy Casper the friendly ghost
Love 💖 Halloween 🎃 xx fantastic bundle 👻
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Ghostbusters
Casper’s one of our favourite, timeless & fun for all the family.
We like hocus pocus best in our house!
Hocus Pocus! Love it
Another Hocus Pocus fan here. We enjoy watching it as a family.
I love Haunted Mansion!
We like Casper
Monster House is our favourite
The Adams Family!
Nightmare before Christmas
Hocus pocus is ours x
Hocus pocus
Arsenic and Old Lace
Ghostbusters!
The Addams Family!
The Addams family!
beetlejuice
Casper is a great movie, and my children love it
Beetlejiuce, a timeless classic.
hocus pocus
Hotel Transylvania
We love Monster House! It’s a really good (and quite scary) family cartoon film.
Casper 🙂
We love Hotel Transylvania.
Witches
Ghostbusters
Hocus Pocus is a favourite here – we all love to sit round and watch it
We love the Tom and Jerry Halloween Hijinks and Shrieks
I like the Addams family
Has to be The Addams Family love that film!
Ghostbusters
Hotel Translyvania
We really like Paranorman and Coraline. Both beautifully made and just scary enough!
Ghostbusters
Hocus Pocus. We watch it every year on Halloween!
Edward Scissorhands!
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
It’s a classic but ours is Beetlejuice x
Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus
I love watching Hocus Pocus and my daughter still watches it too
Hocus Pocus we watch it every year
We love Hotel Transylvania.
Ghostbusters – who ya gonna call? Classic movie 🍿
Love the nightmare before Christmas
Casper is our favourite film for Halloween
casper
We love Toy Story Tower of Terror
Casper
Halloween is my youngest (4) favourite time of the year and they are a bit freaky but he loves Nightmare before Christmas and Coraline. This would be amazing to win for him I will be keeping my fingers and toes crossed thanks for the chance
hocus pocus is my fav
Ghostbusters
Hocus pocus is my favourite film ever!!
The nightmare before christmas!
The Frighteners is a great film, better for older kids 🙂
Hotel Transylvania is great!
Ooooh. Love Adams family!
hocus pocus
Hocus Pocus
Ghostbusters
The witches
Hocus pocus
Ghostbusters
I love Coco
Ghostbusters
Hocus Pocus.The best of…X
We watch ‘hocus pocus’ every Halloween ! Have done since I was a kid haha ! Now my children enjoy it xx
Who you gonna call? Ghostbustets!!! We love that film xx
My kids and I love snuggling up watching movies with hot chocolate! This is a great bundle of movies xx
My kids and I love snuggling up watching movies with hot chocolate! This is a great bundle of movies, our favourite Halloween movie has to be Casper (the Friendly Ghost) xx
Hockus pockus I’ve watched it every year since I was a kid
We’re big fans of Ghostbusters – can’t believe I’ve never seen Hocus Pocus!
Hocus Pocus, absolutely love that film, great cast and story
Ghostbusters
Hocus Pocus is my families favorite Halloween film of choice thats family friendly we watch it every year
Hocus Pocus
Ghostbusters
Caper The friendly Ghost
Hocus Pocus
We all really love Coraline and will be watching it this Halloween.
The Nightmare Before Christmas – lost count of how many times we’ve watched it x
The original Ghostbusters movie!
Hotel Transilvania
Ghostbusters
I love Edward Scissorhands.
Ghostbusters is my favourite x
Hocus Pocus
The original Ghostbusters movie
Casper the friendly ghost
Coraline is my favourite family film to watch. Great competition.
Edward Scissorhands
Casper
Goosebumps for us. We can’t wait to see the second one this year.
Casper
hocus pocus
Monster house
Ghostbusters
Love the Goosebumps film
We love to watch Casper.
Ghostbusters. We have watched it for years.
goosebumps
Casper the friendly Ghost , we all love that one x
Ghostbusters
ghostbusters
hocus pocus
has to hocus pocus
The Addams family is our family favourite
Hocus Pocus is a huge family hit in our house
Hocus pocus is mine and my granddaughters favourite
It’s got to be hocus pocus 🎃🎃
Hocus pocus 🎃
We love Ghostbusters, an oldie but a goodie!
Hocus Pocus….I’ve just introduced my 9 year old Hallie-Anne to it and she loves it 😍
We love Monster House.
The Witches
It’s a tradition to watch Hocus pocus!!
ghost busters
Definitely hocus Pocus a brilliant film all my children love it
Ghostbusters
Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus
i love Casper – from the original one to the cartoony recent one – a real family friendly movie
Hocus pocus
Casper, such a great film
The Adams Family – we have a good laugh at that.
Our favourite family-friendly Halloween film is the Nightmare Before Christmas!
The corpse bride is a great one to watch.
This would be good for a spooky half term
Goosebumps movie – love the new one too, saw it at the cinema last week
Ghostbusters 2016 version!
Our favourite all time favourite definitely has to be Casper absolutely love it
Hocus Pocus a classic.
Hocus Pocus
Ghostbusters is a fun family film.
Ours is Edward Scissorhands! Scary and magical! but somehow works!
Hocus Pocus 🧙♀️ xx
Hocus Pocus.
The Frighteners