Five Movies Set at Halloween

When most people think of movies set at Halloween, they might think of Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and Halloween (1978) and its various sequels and reboots. Younger people might think of the movie Hocus Pocus (1993). That having been said, there are more movies set at Halloween than these, and not all of them are either horror movies or family friendly films. Here are tive movies set at Halloween. 

1. Boy Friend (1939): Boy Friend is a comedy starring Jane Withers as Sally Murphy, whose boyfriend is a cop. When one of Sally's friends is murdered, she sets out to find the killer herself. Eventually she winds up at the Golden Parrot Club with gangsters on Halloween.

2. The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941): While it might surprise most Americans, Halloween would not be a major holiday across all of Great Britain until the late 20th Century. British films referencing Halloween in the early to mid-20th Century are relatively rare. When they do, it is inevitably as an old Scottish custom. This is the case with The Ghost of St. Michael's. Will Hays plays hapless teacher William Lamb,  who finds himself teaching at a school on the Isle of Skye and living in the haunted Dunbain Castle. During the film Mr. Lamb catches the students stealing food and drink (including whisky) for the celebration of "the old Scottish custom" of Halloween.

3. The Crow (1994): In some respects, The Crow is more of a Devil's Night movie than a Halloween movie (Devil's Night being another name for Mischief Night, the night before Halloween). That having been said, the plot extends well into Halloween. And while The Crow doesn't feature a lot of Halloween trappings, its plot certainly fits the holiday. The Crow centres on Eric Draven, a rock musician who rises from the dead to avenge the murders of his girlfriend and himself.

4. Monster House (2006): Monster House is an animated movie set in either the Eighties or Nineties. It centres on tween D. J. who comes to realize that the house across the street is not only sentient, but malevolent. Monster House is set at Halloween and features most of the trappings of the holiday, including trick-or-treating.

5. Trick 'r Treat (2007): Trick 'r Treat is a horror portmanteau movie, not only like the classic Dead of Night (1945) or many of Amicus Productions' horror films. What united the four stories (and the framing story) is the react that each one is set in Halloween , as well as a young trick-or-treater who appears in each story. To show you how much of a Halloween movie Trick r' Treat is, the horror emerges after some person violates a Halloween custom.