When you think about where to head for Halloween favorites, probably doesn’t immediately spring to mind. But just because Disney+ is free from blood-and-gore extravaganzas doesn’t mean it can’t scratch your spooky itch. In fact, far from it! There is a pretty robust amount of Halloween (and Halloween-adjacent) fair on Disney’s direct-to-consumer platform, including a bunch of new stuff that was recently added and so many classics, for every age group.
Here are our choices for the very best Halloween movies and shows on Disney+ right now. Unlike other Disney remakes, which start out in animation before transitioning to live-action, Tim Burton decided to remake his oddball live-action short film (one of his “after school projects” that kept him busy while animating for Disney) in the form of a feature-length stop-motion animated film. Talk about a curveball! One of his most emotionally resonant and overlooked films, the voice cast includes Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau and Winona Ryder in the tale of a young boy named Victor (Charlie Tahan), who loses his dog Sparky and decides to bring him back – through science! John August’s script repeats familiar beats from the original (which you can also watch on Disney+) but deviates in some key aspects, most notably a superb final act that sees the other kids in Victor’s class resurrect their beloved pets, resulting in some truly wonderful, “Gremlins”-style monster mayhem.
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