Horror ClassicsNo. 9271 · The 2026 edition
22 of the Best Fall and Halloween Movies
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Phantom of the Opera
A young soprano ballerina becomes the obsession of a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House. He kidnaps her and forces the owners of the play to keep her as the lead role of the play.
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The Addams Family/The Addams Family Values
In the first Addams Family movie, con artists plan to fleece the eccentric Addams family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle. In the sequel, The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.
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Coraline
An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating new home, but it has sinister secrets.
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You’ve Got Mail
Tom Hanks plays the owner of a large bookstore chain who is putting a small local bookstore (owned by Meg Ryan) out of business. The problem is that meanwhile they have been anonymously corresponding over the Internet. They hate each other in person but online is another story. Find out what happens when they discover who they’ve been falling in love with.
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Juno
Told over four seasons (but with some great Fall scenes), Juno tells the story of a 16-year old who discovers she’s pregnant after one random night with her best friend Bleeker. The story unfolds as she tries to find the perfect adoptive parents for her unborn child.
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The Goonies
In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate’s ancient valuable treasure.
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Young Frankenstein
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
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Good Will Hunting
Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon), a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist (Robin Williams) to find direction in his life.
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When Harry Met Sally
Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film travels through their lives as they both search for love and fail, bumping into each other over and over. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: Can a man and a woman really just be friends?
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Dead Poets Society
Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His roommate, Neil Perry, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating (Robin Williams), their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each does so in his own way, and is changed for life.
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October Sky
In a mining town called Coalwood, Homer Hickam is a kid in the 1950s with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957, everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event, Homer becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With his friends and the local nerd, Homer sets to do just that by trial and a lot of error. Unfortunately, most of the town and especially Homer’s father thinks that they are wasting their time.
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The Twilight Series
Never one to run with the crowd, Bella Swan never cared about fitting in with the trendy girls. When her mother remarries and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen.
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Monster House
Three teens discover that their neighbor’s house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. When one of the boys’ parents leave town on the eve of Halloween, they find themselves entangled with the neighbor’s scary house.
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Haunted Mansion
A realtor (Eddie Murphy) and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.
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Hocus Pocus
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to their reign of terror once and for all.
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The Halloweentown Series
Three siblings have great adventures on Halloween when they venture into another world, and discover that their grandma isn’t who they thought she was.
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R.L. Stine’s Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It
Bullied by her peers, tired of her parents and bugged by her little brother, goth girl Cassie decides to get some harmless revenge by reading a scary book to her brother – summoning a monster in the process.
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ParaNorman
In the town of Blithe Hollow, young Norman Babcock can speak to the dead. No one besides his eccentric new friend, Neil, believes his ability is re
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