The Exorcist - The Exorcist was centered on the actual 1949 Catholic exorcism of a young boy in Mt. Ranier, Maryland. ( The Exorcist )

Halloween - The mother of all slashers, this classic stands the test of time.
(Halloween)

Psycho - The film is based on Robert Bloch's novel, which was inspired by serial killer Ed Gein. ( Psycho (1960))

The Shining - The looming, creepy lodge is home to restless spirits who, along with the isolation, transform the novelist into a gleeful madman out to murder his unsuspecting wife and child. ( The Shining [Blu-ray])

Rosemary's Baby - A Manhattan couple gets the apartment of their dreams, next door to a coven of witches in this adaptation of the Ira Levin novel.
(Rosemary's Baby)

Nightmare on Elm Street - A product of rape, Freddy Krueger stalks teens in their dreams and kills them in this inventive Craven shocker. (The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection)

The Omen - Thorn, a high-ranking ambassador, begins to suspect that their son, Damien, is the Antichrist himself. (The Omen [Blu-ray] )

Carrie - When Carrie's rivals devise a plan to humiliate her at the prom, they get more than they bargained for as she looses her raging powers on them.
(Carrie [Blu-ray])

Aliens - When the Nostromo freighter answers a distress call from an alien planet, its crew must survive its hostile inhabitants in this terrifying sci/fi horror.
(Aliens )

Texas Chain Saw Massacre - A group of five teens exploring a desecrated graveyard come across the home of a family of cannibals in this Tobe Hooper masterpiece of splatter. (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))

Jaws - the Long Island resort town of Amity is besieged by a great white shark during it's summer tourist season. (Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition))

Silence of the Lambs - an F.B.I. agent-in-training, sent to barter for insight with a mad-doctor serial killer nicknamed Hannibal the Cannibal. (The Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray])

FOR A FUN FAMILY HALLOWEEN MOVIE FESTIVAL WITHOUT THE BLOOD AND GORE:

we highly recommend the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. During the 1940's Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were big box office draws, pulling in $10 million in 1942. Here are some titles to add to your Halloween family movie collection. Sit back, have a good laugh with the children and enjoy.

(DVD) Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

(VHS) Abbott & Costello: Meet Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

(VHS) Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man

(DVD) Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

(DVD) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE MONSTERS

(VHS) Abbott & Costello: Meet the Killer Boris Karloff

Top 10 Family Halloween Movies & Shows

We love Halloween around our house and think Halloween can be a fun family holiday. Here is our list of the best 10 Halloween movies and shows appropriate for families.

1.) It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

2.) Hocus Pocus

3.) The Little Vampire

4.) Casper

5.) Halloweentown

6.) Monsters Inc.

7.) The Nightmare Before Christmas

8.) Beetlejuice

9.) The Halloween Tree

10.) Little Monsters