The little monsters' favorite season is about to start! Skeletons, ghosts, cobwebs, Halloween is the perfect time to make their little hairs shiver. To stay in the theme, we offer a selection of films to see absolutely with your children. Emotions guaranteed!
Ah Halloween aka the best of the year. Terrifying costumes, monstrous decorations, children are very fond of this period to give free rein to their imagination. Much awaited by the youngest, they love to participate in the activities to prepare the famous evening. It’s also an opportunity to spend a terrifying evening with them!
To bluff your little monsters, we offer a selection of 10 children's films:
1] Tim Burton's funeral wedding
Plot: In this tale by Tim Burton, Victor is about to get married when he is forcefully dragged into the afterlife by the corpse of a bride who has fallen in love with him.
- Recommended movie from 7 years old and available on Netflix.
2] Hotel Transylvania
Plot: Dracula, owner of Hotel Transylvania, takes on the role of daddy protector when an unwelcome visitor takes an interest in his teenage daughter.
- Film recommended for ages 7 and up and available on Netflix.
3] Monster house
Plot: Three friends uncover the truth about a terrifying abandoned house in their neighborhood that has its own unique personality and seems to devour people.
- Film recommended for ages 7 and up and available on Netflix.
4] witches
Summary: Vile witches want to turn children into mice, but a darn brave boy tries to dodge them.
- Film recommended for ages 7 and up and available on Netflix.
5] Frankenweenie
Plot: After the sudden death of his beloved dog, Sparky, young Victor calls upon the power of science to bring back to life the one who was also his best friend. He makes some changes of his own in the process … Victor will try to hide the creature he made but when Sparky escapes, his classmates, his teachers and the whole city will learn that wanting to put life in leaves can have some monstrous consequences …
- Film recommended from 8 years old and available on Netflix.
6] the haunted mansion and the 999 ghosts
Summary: Workaholic real estate agent Jim Evers drags his family to a large, icy mansion he dreams of transforming into a lavish condominium. But when they arrive, the Evers family very quickly discovers that they are not alone in the house … 999 sinister and grimacing ghosts appear to come and get acquainted! And they won't leave until they finish what's holding them in the house. It's up to Jim to break the curse – and rediscover that his family needs him – before the pendulum strikes its thirteenth stroke!
- Film recommended from 10 years old and available on Disney +.
7] Toy story: Anguish at the motel
Plot: While expecting to have a cool drive, Buzz, Woody and all their friends are going to experience the worst when they see their road diverted to a seedy motel. The atmosphere there is very heavy. One of the toys even disappears, while the others find themselves embroiled in a mysterious succession of events, each more disturbing than the last. What cruel fate awaits them?
- Film recommended from 6 years old and available on Disney +.
8] Hocus pocus: the three witches
Summary: Halloween 1993: To win the heart of his beloved, Max Dennison, will, by bravado, light the fateful candle which has the power to revive the three sisters Sanderson Winifred, Sarah and Mary, the three most famous witches of Salem.
- Film recommended from 6 years old and available on Disney +.
9] The Nightmare Before Christmas
Plot: Pumpkin King and Halloween Town Guide Jack Skellington is bored: For centuries he's had had enough of planning the same Halloween party that comes back every year, and he dreams of a change. It was then that he had the idea of taking over the Christmas party …
- Film recommended from 6 years old and available on Disney +.
10] E.T. The extraterrestrial
Résumé: A flying saucer lands in the middle of the night near Los Angeles. Some extraterrestrials, sent to Earth on a botanical exploration mission, come out of the machine, but one of their own ventures beyond the clearing where the shuttle is located. He then heads for the city. This is his first discovery of human civilization. Soon hunted down by the military and abandoned by his family, this frightened little creature named E.T. takes refuge in a suburban residence.
Elliot, a ten year old boy, finds him and builds a shelter for him in his closet. Brought together by a telepathic exchange, the two beings soon become friends. Helped by his sister Gertie and his older brother Michael, Elliot will then try to keep the presence of E.T. secret.
- Film recommended from 6 years old and available on Prime vidéo.
Our selection of terrifying films for teens:
Halloween night is also the favorite time of the grown-ups. However, the classification of works should not be taken lightly. Teens cannot watch the same movies as adults. In addition, they must be made to understand that horror films are indeed fictions, often based on myths or even superstitions.
1] S.O.S. Ghosts
Summary: Peter, Raymond and Egon are researching parapsychology. Fired by the Dean of the faculty, they decide to found a company intended to hunt ghosts. Its name: S.O.S. Ghosts. Success is knocking so well on their door that they are soon working on the assembly line.
- Film recommended from 13 years old and available on Netflix.
2] Chucky
Plot: The humorously black doll possessed by a psychopathic killer returns to terrorize a young woman in a wheelchair and her family.
- Film recommended from 16 years old and available on Netflix.
3] Annabelle
Summary: A husband gives his wife the perfect gift, a beautiful collectible doll, but the joy the grim object brings to the household is short-lived.
- Film recommended from 16 years old and available on Netflix.
4] Conjuring: the Warren files
Summary: This abominable, but true, is that of a family who would have preferred not to meet the spirits that haunt themselves closes in isolation.
- Film recommended from 16 years old and available on Netflix.
5] I am a legend
Plot: The last survivor of a deadly pandemic hides at night and haunts the "Infected" by days. What are these monsters?
- Film recommended from 13 years old and available on Netflix.
6] Sleepy Hollow, the legend of the headless horseman
Summary: In 1799, in a town in New England, several corpses were successively found beheaded. The heads are gone. Terrified, the locals believe the murders are being carried out by a strange and furious horseman, rumored to be himself headless. The New York authorities then send their finest sleuth to clarify this mystery. Ichabod Crane does not believe in legends or post-mortem revenge. But, barely arrived, he succumbs to the strange and poisonous charm of the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel.
- Film recommended from 12 years old and available on Prime Video.
7] That: “He” came back
Summary: October 1957. It's waking up and the small town of Derry, Maine will never be the same again. Seven children face an unimaginable horror that appears in many forms, including “Grippe-sou”, a clown who lives, hunts and kills in the city's sewers. Years later, these surviving adults are brave enough to return to Derry and stop this killing, and this time for good.
- Film recommended from 12 years old and available on My Canal.
8] Shining
Résumé: The guard of an isolated hotel closed for the winter gradually sinks into madness, terrorizing his wife and young son.
- Film recommended from 16 years old and available on Netflix.
9] Sixth sense
Plot: Cole Sear, an eight-year-old boy, is haunted by a terrible secret: his imagination is visited by threatening spirits. Too young to understand the reason for these appearances, Cole locks himself in an unhealthy fear and does not want to reveal the cause of his problems to anyone except a child psychologist, Dr. Malcolm Crowe.
- Film recommended from 13 years old and available on Prime Video.
10] The orphanage
Plot: Laura spent her childhood in an orphanage surrounded by other children she loved like her siblings. As an adult, she returns to the premises of her husband and her seven-year-old son, Simon, with the intention of restoring the old house. The house awakens the imagination of Simon, who begins to indulge in strange games with "his friends"
- Film recommended from 13 years old and available on Prime Video.