In the spirit of Halloween - your favorite movies to watch this time of year!

[newsmanfan]

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Peter Lorre is awesome. I still get an image of him in mind on those days I'm having a stress meltdown...I call them my Renfield days.

Lorre/Renfield standing at the bottom of the ship's hold when the ghost ship is inspected at the docks, looking up crazily at the cops: "Hee hee, hee hee, hee hee!"
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[CensoredAlso]

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Peter Lorre is awesome. I still get an image of him in mind on those days I'm having a stress meltdown...I call them my Renfield days.

Lorre/Renfield standing at the bottom of the ship's hold when the ghost ship is inspected at the docks, looking up crazily at the cops: "Hee hee, hee hee, hee hee!"
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Lol, I remember that but actually that was Dwight Fyre who played Renfield in Dracula. But actually it's often said Dwight Fyre probably would have gotten Peter Lorre's roles had Peter not come to America, hehe.

 

[newsmanfan]

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MY bad! It's been a long while since I've seen it, is my sad excuse. Thanks for the correction.

Anyone else like the old Hammer horror flicks? They got away with a surprising amount of sex and gore, though the gore always looks a bit like a bad paint job...

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MY bad! It's been a long while since I've seen it, is my sad excuse. Thanks for the correction.

Anyone else like the old Hammer horror flicks? They got away with a surprising amount of sex and gore, though the gore always looks a bit like a bad paint job...

No prob, my Dad has it on tape so I'm very familiar, hehe. I've learned about most classic horror movies from my Dad, including the Hammer horror films which are occasionally shown on TCM. They're definitely in a class by themselves, lol. I only knew Peter Cushing as the bad guy from Star Wars so it was interesting seeing him play a good guy.

 

[BC&TWFTW]

BUMP!

In terms of favorite Halloween specials:

CLASSIC
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - 1966
Halloween is Grinch Night - 1977

MODERN
Scared Shrekless - 2010
Toy Story of TERROR! - 2013

 

[The Count]

Each year I look forward to the 31 Nights of Halloween lineup on Freeform... And this year they finally got it fright with no extraneous movies that really don't have anything to do with Halloween as part of the monthlong scarathon. (I'm spooking to you Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire!)

Not only do I look forward to the programming on Freeform, I've also assembled my own DVD album with three main sections, Muppets Haunted Mansion will be moved to the Jim Henson Universe portion as soon as a few future titles get released. For now, here's what I have.

Section 2: Nights of Halloween.
Mad Monster Party (1967).
Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972, previous film's prequel) & Festival of Family Classics: Jack O'Lantern (1972) on the same disc.
Young Frankenstein (1974).
Carrie (1976).
Ghostbusters (1984).
The Black Cauldron (1985).
Transylvania 6-5000 (film) (1985).
The Witches of Eastwick (1987).
Elvira, Mistress of Darkness (1988).
Ghostbusters II (1989).
The Addams Family (live-action) (1991).
Brahm Stoker's Dracula (1992).
Hocus Pocus (1993).
Addams Family Values (1993).
Teenage Catgirls in Heat (my one guilty pleasure) (1994).
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).
Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995).
Dracula Dead and Loving It (1995).
The Craft (1996).
Tales From the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (1996).
Tales From the Crypt Presents: Ritual (2006).
Coraline (2006).
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022).
And I'm happily waiting for Hocus Pocus 3 which was blacklit as a theatrical production as of May 6 2026.

Section 3: Tim Burton Collection.
Peewee's Big Adventure (1985).
Beetlejuice (1988).
Batman (1989).
Beetlejuice, The Animated Series: Complete 10-Disc Set (1989-1991).
Edward Scissorhands (though isn't this more of a Cryptmas film?) (1990).
Batman Returns (1992).
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
Cabin Boy (1994).
Ed Wood (1994).
Batman Forever (1995).
James and The Giant Peach (1996).
Mars Attacks! (weirdest film of all) (1996).
Sleepy Hollow (1999).
The World of Stainboy (internet series) (2000).
Planet of the Apes (2001).
Big Fish (2003).
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005).
The Corpse Bride (2005).
Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007).
9 (2009).
Alice in Wonderland (live-action) (2010).
Dark Shadows (2012).
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012).
Frankenweenie (stop-motion film) (2012).
Big Eyes (2014).
Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016).
Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).
Dumbo (live-action) (2019).
Wednesday (Netflix series): Season 1 3-disc set (2022), and Season 2 3-disc set (2025).
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).
Also waiting for Wednesday Season 3 next year hopefully and Attack of the 50-Foot Tall Woman.
Also, if anyone here can help with getting all of Tim's short-er film productions onto one single DVD, please contact me via PM.

The other highlights I follow with dead-ication are the two main competitions on Food Network, namely Halloween Baking Championship and Halloween Wars even watching the past seasons when they air.