October is here, which means spooky season is upon us and it's time to get ready for Halloween. Whether you're having a house party, trick-or-treating, or just looking to relax for the scariest day of the year, putting on a spooky movie is the perfect way to entertain family, friends, and yourself.

We've rounded up the best family-friendly spooky movies to watch this Halloween and ranked them by fright factor, so you can pick the perfect film to give yourself the heebie-jeebies.

Ghostbusters (1984)

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A supernatural comedy classic about three misfit parapsychology researchers who get kicked out of their university and start up a business named "Ghostbusters" a "professional paranormal investigation and elimination service", out of an old firehouse.

The Addams Family (2019)

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The eccentric and macabre Addams family moves to a bland suburb in New Jersey. However, problems arise when their child, Wednesday, befriends the daughter of a reality show host. Based on the comic strip from the 1930s that grew to global fame and has inspired multiple films and TV series.

Hocus Pocus (1993)

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This Halloween comedy follows three evil witches after they're resurrected on Halloween night by an unsuspecting teenage boy in Salem. The witches try their best to wreak havoc and begin a reign of terror in some... surprising ways.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

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Whether you think it's a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie, it's hard to deny that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a great film for the end of the year. In the movie, Jack Skellington, King of Halloween Town, stumbles upon Christmas Town and becomes obsessed with celebrating the holiday himself. He makes a plan to kidnap Santa to help 'improve' Christmas, not quite understanding the meaning of the holiday.

The Haunted Mansion (2003)

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Based on the Disneyland attraction of the same name, The Haunted Mansion follows workaholic Jim Evers and his wife, Sara, as they get a call one night from a mansion owner, Edward Gracey, who wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrive at the mansion, a torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands them with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, and a variety of spooky residents.

Corpse Bride (2005)

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In this Tim Burton classic, a shy young man inadvertently brings a deceased woman to life when he practises his wedding vows near her grave. She thinks that she is his wife and takes him to the land of corpses. Beautifully animated with stop-motion, the film is loved as a cult classic.

Beetlejuice (1988)

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In this gothic comedy horror film, a newly dead New England couple that can't leave their home seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist, Betelgeuse, to scare an affluent New York family out of their property.

Monster House (2006)

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When three young teens try to convince those around them that a house nearby is haunted, their warnings fall on deaf ears. They must now do their best to protect young children from going there while trick-or-treating for Halloween.