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For horror fans, the autumnal season is the time of year when we all get to be the belle of the ball. For a few weeks each year, our expertise in all things creepy and spooky is valued above all other film fanatics, and we're often tasked with providing as many film recommendations as possible for casual horror fans to cram into a month or two of viewing. Sure, there's bound to be requests for "the scariest movie ever," but as new crops of monster kids grow into their own year after year, there's an evergreen need for horror movies that adults can watch with their little ones.

Family-friendly horror movies are a great way to inaugurate younger viewers to one of the most prolific subgenres in all of cinema, as well as offer a safe outlet to begin processing negative emotions like fear, grief, sadness, and anxiety. It's a...

Halloween is nearly upon us, and that means you’re probably looking for some spooky movies and shows to watch to get you in the spirit of the holiday. Of course, it’s easy to find a good slasher flick or psychological horror on various services, but trying to locate such content that’s family-friendly can sometimes be tough. The good news is, though, that you don’t have to look very far at all if you’re a Disney Plus subscriber, as the platform is filled to the brim with plenty of great Halloween stuff for viewers of all ages.

One option you’re certain to be happy to hear about is the 1993 comedy horror Hocus Pocus, which ranks as one of the most timeless Halloween classics of all time – proven further by its huge haul during its theatrical rerelease this year. This tale of a trio of evil...

Disney+ invites fans and families to celebrate its first ever Disney+ Hallowstream whenever and wherever they want with a spellbinding collection of some of the most popular Halloween movies, specials, and episodes of all time. With beloved holiday traditions like Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Halloweentown, the best Disney Channel and Disney Junior Halloween episodes, and 30 episodes of The Simpsons iconic Treehouse of Horror franchise, Disney+ is the ultimate streaming destination for family frights and wicked delights for all ages.

Disney+ subscribers can stream the new Halloween collection of movies, shorts, specials and themed episodes.

Disney+ Halloween Movies

• Don't Look Under the Bed• Frankenweenie (2012)• Girl vs Monster• Halloweentown• Halloweentown High• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge• Haunted Mansion• Hocus Pocus• Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire• Mr. Boogedy• Phantom of the Megaplex• Return to Halloweentown• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad• The Ghost of Buxley Hall• The Nightmare Before Christmas...

It’s finally October and every streaming service is making sure subscribers have a lot of suitably spooky content to check out this Halloween. In the case of Disney Plus, the Mouse House’s service has this week launched its “Halloween” collection which collates every single Halloween-related movie, short film and TV special/episode that can be found across the site right now.

Many of your all-time favorite family-friendly Halloween watches are housed in the collection, too, like seasonal mainstays Hocus Pocus and Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas. Countless Disney lovers also have a lot of fondness for the Halloweentown films, all four of which can be found on D+. Elsewhere, you can catch Eddie Murphy vehicle The Haunted Mansion, classic animation The Adventures of Ichabod and Toad and the Twitches twosome.

As for the many TV episodes available, there are special Halloween-themed editions of beloved shows like Hannah Montana,...

It may still be over two months until Halloween, but that hasn’t stopped Disney+ from getting in the holiday spirit. A batch of 20 family-friendly horror films have dropped on the streaming service recently, providing you with an abundance of frights to get you gradually geared up for the best night of the year, with a few stand-out entries worth looking out for.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is one of many anthology pics Disney released in the ‘40s, and is best remembered as a Boomer equivalent of Watership Down, The Dark Crystal or The NeverEnding Story in the “movies that traumatized children” category. Its first segment is based on classic kids book The Wind in the Willows, but the second, more relevant half adapts Washington Irving’s famous short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with its rich but dark animation and foreboding tone and music terrifying many of its young viewers.

Hello, dear readers! Today I’m kicking off a new ongoing column entitled Phantom Thread, where I’m going to be diving into all the different adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera that have been released over the course of the last 95 years. I’ve mentioned it before, but I have always been a huge nerd for Gaston Leroux’s timeless tale of terror ever since I first read it in my junior high music class, and it is a novel I revisit at least once a year. It’s truly one of the best pieces of gothic fiction ever produced, and Leroux’s enthralling storytelling style is what has kept me obsessed with it for nearly 30 years now.

And because of my deep-rooted love for Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, that has fueled my decades-long obsession with any and all iterations of this timeless story. From Andrew Lloyd Webber...

Kayti Burt Nov 14, 2019

Wondering which Disney Channel Original Movies have made it onto the Disney+ platform? We've got you covered.

Zoom, zoom, zoom. Make my heart go boom boom. Disney+ is here.

Much of the focus around the launch of Disney's new streaming service platform has been on its flashiest of assets—your Star Wars and your Marvel movies and TV shows. But Disney is a massive media conglomerate with more assets in one of its mouse ears than most media companies have in their whole being. Yes, we're talking about Disney Channel Original Movies (affectionately known as Dcom).

You've got your Zenon (Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Zenon: The Zequel, and Zenon: Z3). You've got your High School Musical (the original, High School Musical 2, and Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure). You've got your Luck of the Irish. If you are an older millennial or anyone who enjoys earnest,...

[To get you into the spooky spirit, the Daily Dead team is spotlighting double features that we think would be fun to watch this Halloween season. Check here for more double feature recommendations and other Halloween 2017 coverage.]

There’s nothing quite like an outside threat to bring a family together, especially when that threat is of the undead variety. Siblings may not always get along, but when your sister’s soul is sought by a coven of witches, or when your mom is eyed as an eternal bride by a coffin-dwelling creep, it’s time to take those Sister Sledge lyrics to heart and become a family that can overcome anything—including wicked spells and sharp fangs. Set on respective fateful nights where the future of a homestead hangs in the balance and its up to siblings to save it, Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire and Hocus Pocus are family-friendly films that make for a great double feature during the Halloween season.

Perhaps the less-known of the two films, Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire will likely ring a nostalgic bell for...

What if all of the biggest villains from classic Disney animated movies had children? And what if all of those kids ended up getting sent off to school together? That's the premise of Descendants, the Disney Channel's newest bet at a small screen franchise. It will probably be immediately obvious as soon as you press play on the below trailer, but Descendants will not be appearing on a big screen near you. Instead it will be making its premiere on the Disney Channel later this summer. And that's fine, because this looks like it fits right in with the Disney Channel Original Movies like Halloweentown, High School Musical, and Phantom of the Megaplex. And that may sound like we're knocking those movies, but if you think that's the case, then you haven't...

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One of my fondest memories growing up as a young horrorphile was catching as many scary movies and fright-filled specials as I could during the month of October in order to prepare for Halloween night. With the hundreds of channel options out there for viewers these days, I thought it might be fun to break down where genre fans can catch various movies, specials and even Halloween-themed cartoons over the next 31 days so that you can start planning out your viewings in advance.

Here are some of the thrills and chills coming to your televisions this October. Please keep in mind that full schedules have not been announced everywhere yet, so we’ll be sure to update you guys with any additions to the calendar. All times listed are Et/Pt:

Wednesday, October 1st

2:00pm – The Dead (SyFy)

4:30pm – Dead Season (SyFy)

6:30pm – Halloween II (2009) (SyFy)

9:...