Kids love Halloween. Dress up as vampires and witches, eat candy that sticks to your teeth … and watch horror movies until midnight? Maybe not not. Films that scare the family a little in the afternoon? Okay. As the school holidays begin and the indoor offer isn’t exactly pumpkin-colored (but run to see
The Wolf People), 20 minutes offers a small selection of films and series, in the news and from 6-8 years old.
“The Addams Family” live or in animation
There is a special Halloween movie at the cinema, the cartoon The Addams Family 2: A Hellish Ride, where Morticia and Gomez take everyone on a road trip across the United States and a vacation in the sun. We are far from the macabre and eccentric atmosphere of the creation of Charles Addams in 1938 and we have the right to prefer the first animated film released in 2019, or the live and cult film by Barry Sonnenfled from 1991. We must anyway revisit this classic – and revise the
Mamuschka – before the series that Tim Burton is preparing on Wednesday Addams for Netflix.
“The Pages of Anguish”, by the fireside or on Netflix
Do you like scary stories by the fireside? Young Alex too. He adores them and even writes them in secret. Which will perhaps save his life. Indeed, Alex is one day kidnapped and imprisoned by the wicked witch Natacha (excellent Krysten Ritter), and must write him a new story every night to stay alive. With the help of Yasmin, friend in misfortune who is also a prisoner, he will do everything to save time and escape from the witch’s strange apartment.
Adapted from a children’s novel by JA White, The Pages of Anxietye, available on Netflix, revisits the tale of Hansel and Gretel in the sauce Narnia, Roal Dahl and pure horror cinema. The film can be impressive, even scary, for the youngest.
“On the other side”, or the new “Goosebumps” on Disney +
Known as the “Stephen King for Children”, writer RL Stine has already seen many of his works brought to the screen, with the cult series Goosebumps in the 1990s, the eponymous film with Jack Black in 2015, and even recently the trilogy Fear street on Netflix. Another platform, Disney +, this time adapts its comics On the other side, an anthology of 8 short stories featuring aliens, ghosts, parallel dimensions, and of course plenty of special effects and sweet thrills.
“Lego Stars Wars”, “Muppets”… And their special Halloween episodes
Halloween is also that time of year, along with Christmas, when children’s favorite shows release a special episode like Bird Friends of Do, Re and Mi, who celebrate the pumpkin festival in song on Prime Video. Toukin, the shark dog, must save the candy hunt from a slimy sea monster in the episode Squalloween on Netflix.
Disney + can count on the power of its licenses, and invites you to spend Halloween in the Muppet Haunted Mansion, alongside Gonzo and the stars of Muppet Show. But the most unlikely combo is … beware … Lego Star Wars: Terrifying Stories. In this animated film, Poe and BB-8 crash land on the volcanic planet Mustafar and discover that Graballa the Hutt has purchased Darth Vader’s castle to make it a luxury Sith hotel. The atmosphere is calm. During the visit, Vanné then tells them three supposedly scary but above all funny stories about famous villains of the saga. Join them on the dark side of the farce.