Looking for a movie to watch this Halloween that is just as spooky as Halloweentown? Check out our list of 33 movies like Halloweentown below! We’ve got something for everyone, from horror movies to family-friendly flicks. So grab some popcorn and get ready for a night of scares! You don’t remember the plot of Halloweentown?
The Halloweentown movie is one of the most popular Disney Channel Original Movies. It came out in 1998 and was directed by Duwayne Dunham. The story follows Marnie on her 13th birthday as she discovers she’s a witch. She then finds a secret portal that leads her to Halloweentown- where all magical creatures live separately from the human world.
Though at first, it seems like a dream come true, Marnie soon realizes that evil warlocks, curses, and other dangers abound in this new place. And, in order to save Halloweentown from evil forces, she must help her witch grandmother. The movie is full of adventure, magic, and suspense- perfect for a Halloween night in! If you’re looking for more movies like Halloweentown, check out our list below. We’ve got 33 great options that are sure to satisfy your Halloween cravings!
1. Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge
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The Cromwell family are normal people and living a normal human life, except for their grandma who resides in Halloweentown–a place where monsters go to avoid reality. However, the son of the Cromwells’ long-time rival Kalabar now has the plan to use his grandmother’s book to turn Halloweentown into a depressing replica of the real world while turning the people in the real world into monsters. Only Marnie, a young witch, can stop the evil plot.
2. Halloweentown High
The gang from Halloweentown returns in this made-for-cable feature. Marnie is a young witch living with other supernatural creatures, such as ghosts and goblins, in the village of Halloweentown. Marnie and her friends want to go to high school in the mortal community nearby so they can spend more time with kids their age. With her grandmother Aggie’s help, she convinces the town council to allow it.
However, Marnie and her friends will only retain their magical talents if nothing dangerous happens whilst they’re attending the mortal school. Although the school is a safe haven for its students, trouble does find its way there eventually in the form of the Knight of the Iron Dagger. This Knight is determined to destroy Marnie and her magical friends, and he will stop at nothing to achieve his goal.
3. Return to Halloweentown (2006)
It’s Halloween time, and Marnie Piper returns to Witch University with her brother Dylan, just in time for the 1,000th anniversary of Halloweentown. While they’re there celebrating, the Sinister Sisters plot against them, and someone evil starts scheming to use Marnie’s powers for their own gain.
4. Casper (1995)
Carrigan Crittenden is infuriated that upon her father’s death, she only inherited his dreary mansion and none of his millions. She contemplates burning the house to the ground but decides against it when she finds a map leading to hidden treasure inside the property. Upon entering the spooky mansion to collect her inheritance, she is quickly frightened off by a group of hostile ghosts. Dr. James Harvey is an afterlife therapist who she hires to exorcise the ghosts from the mansion in order for her to get access to the hidden fortune there. Harvey and Kat move in, and not long after, Kat meets Casper – the ghost of a young boy who says he’s “the friendliest ghost you know.” Casper’s uncles–Stretch, Fatso, and Stinkie–are not so friendly to “fleshes” or humans and are keen on driving them all away.
5. Twitches (2005)
The Disney Channel Original Movie, Twitches stars twins Tia and Tamera Mowry, who are known for their hit sitcom Sister, Sister. Alex and Cam are sisters who, upon learning they are witches, enjoy finding that working together only further strengthens their magic. The movie is cheesy and fun, perfect for Halloween night.
6. Double, Double, Toil And Trouble (1993)
The 1993 film Double, Double, Toil and Trouble starred the now-famous Olsen twins as Kelly and Lynn. In it, the sisters discover that their Aunt Agatha has hexed their Great Aunt Sophia. The result of their decision to help is an incredibly charming film.
7. Goosebumps (2015)
Zach Cooper was initially disappointed when he moved from the city to a small town. His perspective changes when he meets Hannah, his next-door neighbor, who is revealed to be the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L Stine. Unintentionally, Zach frees monsters from their manuscripts, and they begin to terrorize the town. Now, Stine, Zach, and Hannah must work together to get them all back into the books.
8. Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween (2018)
After discovering a captivating book by R. L. Stine, two young boys are faced with witches, monsters, and other ghouls that come to life right before their eyes.
9. Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
This ridiculous movie is the perfect way to get into the Halloween spirit! The 1991 comedy film Ernest Scared Stupid, starring the titular protagonist, is part of a series of films that also includes the holiday classic Ernest Saves Christmas. Ernest made the error of permitting trolls into a small town, and they resulted in a terrible catastrophe.
10. Hocus Pocus (1993)
On Halloween night, three sister witches who have been asleep for 300 years are resurrected by accident in Salem. It is now up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put a stop to the witches’ terror once and for all.
11. Girl Vs. Monster (2012)
After Skylar releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber, she learns that her parents are monster hunters. So she and her technologically-talented friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom and dad from these vengeful creatures.
12. Teen Witch (1989)
Similar to Marnie in Halloweentown, the main character Louise Miller (Robyn Lively), discovers she is destined to become a witch. Although it may have a reputation for being corny, the movie is definitely enjoyable. Although Louise is a few years older than 13-year-old Marnie, she is still able to relate to her as she, too, is trying to figure out how to use magic powers at a fairly young age.
13. Every Witch Way (2014)
Emma and her dad relocate to a new town, and at first, the only thing she’s worried about is making friends. But then strange things start happening; Emma discovers she has magical powers. She soon learns that she belongs to a world of Witches, Guardians, and Kanays. Before long, she’s trying to perfect her abilities before the entitled witch Maddie takes them away.
To complicate matters, she quickly falls for Daniel, the school’s swim team champion and Maddie’s current boyfriend. Emma gradually learns to control her magic and finds out that she is the Chosen One (the most powerful witch in history). Furthermore, the school’s malicious Principal intends to take the Chosen One’s abilities for themselves. If Emma wants to keep her magic hidden from Daniel, who is skeptical and hates magic, she must stop her. The school dance is the big climax, where everything comes to a head. Daniel is taken hostage by the Principal, and the only way to save him is by working together with the witches.
14. The Witches (1990)
When Luke and his grandmother go on vacation, they unwittingly discover that their hotel is hosting an international witch convention. Little do they know that the Grand High Witch is using this opportunity to unveil her plans of turning all children into mice. Will the witches succeed in their plot against Luke before he can stop them?
15. Lilly the Witch The Dragon and the Magic Book (2009)
Like many girls her age, Lilly had a big imagination and loved going on new adventures. One day, she stumbles across a magical book with a little dragon named “Hector.” From then on, her life is changed forever. With the help of her newfound friend and an ancient book, Lilly can travel through time to finally scratch her unchecked wanderlust!
16. Hansel & Gretel (2002)
Hansel and Gretel’s wicked stepmother leads them into the dark forest, where they find an enchanting world full of magical creatures and heinous monsters. But when they find a house made entirely out of candy, things quickly take a turn for the worse. Inside the house lives an evil witch who’s always hungry. Hansel and Gretel know they could end up being the next meal! Can the ever-forgetful Sandman and the runny-nosed Boogeyman save them?
17. Hook (1991)
Peter Pan, the boy who was never supposed to grow up, does just that—but at what cost? He becomes a corporate lawyer whose workaholism could mean losing his wife and kids. At the same time, visiting his grandmother Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter Pan’s kids and forces him to fly back to Neverland.
18. The Addams Family (1991)
The Addams family plans a celebration to wake the dead when a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years. The children only have a few minutes to test out the electric chair before Morticia starts to wonder if Fester is an impostor when he can’t remember any of his details from life.
19. Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)
Isabel Green is a mother of three fighting to keep her family farm running while her husband is away at war. It’s the 1940s, and she is overwhelmed with work but determined to make it through. At her wit’s end, Isabel is amazed when Nanny McPhee—the remarkable state-employed nanny—arrives at her doorstep after the events of Nanny McPhee (2005). As Isabel’s scheming brother-in-law, Phil, tries to pressure her into selling her half of the farm, the poor mother is going to need all the help she can get. Can magic still make things happen like it used to?
20. The Never Ending Story III (1994)
A young boy must defeat a group of bullies and retrieve a stolen, magical book that is a portal between Earth and the imaginary world of Fantasia.
21. Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
Jack is a fairy tale character who Inherited his father’s problems. If he wants to avoid disaster, Jack must do something heroic by Monday or flunk out of school. Eager to do well, Jack trades his C.O.W (Computer of Wonder) for a few magic beans and an unknown book that records his adventures while he’s living them. Joined by his reliable sidekick Grayson — a goose who ate a bean and turned it into something amazing — Jack scales the magic beanstalk to get back the fabled Harp of Destiny from the wicked Giant in the sky. On his journey, Jack meets Jillian: a fearless young girl who is eager to help him on his quest — though she may have ulterior motives.
22. Eragon (2006)
King Galbatorix, a disloyal dragon rider, tyrannically rules the Kingdom of Alagaesia after slaying his former friends and countrymen in his quest for power. The orphan farm boy Eragon discovers a blue stone sent by Princess Arya and quickly realizes that it is a dragon egg. After the birth of Saphira, Eragon meets Brom, who mentors him. Eventually, he becomes the dragon rider foretold in a prophecy that would free his people from Galbatorix’s tyranny. Eragon meets the rebel Varden in their journey for freedom, and together they fight against the evil sorcerer Durza and the army of Galbatorix.
23. Wizards of Waverly Place
The Movie (2009): Powerful magic spells trouble for the Russo family when cast by Alex. In order to save their family and themselves, the kids go on an epic journey.
24. Little Monsters (1989)
A young boy is terrorized by the thought of the monster under his bed. As a bet that the monster his 6th-grade brother claims exists in their shared room really does, he asks to switch rooms for the night. The brother and the monster become friends, and the brother finds a new world under his bed where he can play pranks on kids and other monsters.
25. Spooky Buddies (2011)
Disney’s talking puppies are back in an all-new movie where they explore a mysterious mansion and discover something very spooky is going on.
26. Level Up (2011)
Unknowingly, high schoolers Wyatt, Lyle, Dante, and Angie open a portal from the video game Maldark: Conqueror of All Worlds into reality. Consequently, characters from the game and the internet begin to enter the lives of these four teenagers. The group consequently finds itself having to manage its members’ everyday lives along with the extraordinary things that invade their town from the virtual world. The NeverFail always resorts to using help to send the monsters back into the game by “barding” them.
27. Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
They are two best friends from home who go on an adventure that takes them a million miles away and beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy novel about a transfer of a dull, lonely boy from his adoptive parents to his real father – the king of an exciting land.
28. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Harry Potter has never known a life outside of living under the stairs at his aunt and uncle’s house. On his 11th birthday, he learns that he is a powerful wizard and gets an invitation to attend the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to control his newfound powers with the help of the school’s headmaster, Harry discovers the truth about his parents’ deaths — and who is responsible.
29. Witches Don’t Exist (2014)
On her 13th birthday, Katie–a gifted young girl–receives a mystical amulet. This amulet was on a quest to find the fifth and last witch in order to complete the star witches. The order is unable to protect the Earth against the evil witch Concuela in its incomplete form. Katie’s best friend, Roy, is by her side as she explores her new magical powers. Grimbeck, the dandy gatekeeper of the star witches arena, and Concuela, who is evil, are both trying to find Katie.
30. Mirror Mirror (2012)
After her husband, the king, mysteriously disappears, his wife, the Queen, seizes control of the kingdom. To keep potential rivals at bay, she hides away her beautiful 18-year-old stepdaughter, Snow White, in the palace. The princess catches the eye of a visiting prince, who she eventually falls in love with. However, the Queen becomes threatened by their relationship and banishes her to a forest nearby.
Adopted by a family of dwarfs who are outlaws but have good hearts, Snow White grows into a brave young woman who wants to save her kingdom from the Queen. With the love and support of her newfound friends, she takes matters into her own hands to get back what is rightfully hers and win back the man she loves in this enchanting adventure comedy that will fill moviegoers’ hearts with happiness and passion all around the world.
31. Five Children and It (2004)
The Psammead is an ancient and irritable sand fairy that five children find one day in a gravel pit. Upon finding him, the children are granted one wish per day with lasting effects until sundown.
32. Beetlejuice (1998)
Adam and Barbara passed away some time ago, but their love for one another lives on in the home they decorated together. Even now, after death, they’re fighting to keep their house inhabitant-free, but unfortunately, a family is moving in, and not quietly. Adam and Barbara try to drive them away but end up becoming the main money-making attraction for the family instead. Beetlejuice is summoned to assist, but his intentions are not as pure as one might hope.
33. A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
The Meg and Charles Wallace series for children inspired this story. Calvin and three other female characters help the two while they’re searching for their dad, who disappeared Government Experiment. They explore the universe and find themselves in unbelievable places.
All the above-mentioned movies are going to entertain you to the same level as Halloweentown did. Add them to your watchlist and start with it today!
