10 Campy Halloween Films To Enjoy This Season

There's something purely classic Halloween about the Hocus Pocus film, featuring all the camp, colour, and subtle horror and disturbing implications of witches who eat children, without becoming too scary for most viewers to watch.

Focusing on three witches who kill children to absorb their youth—and actually succeed in doing so in the opening scene, disturbingly enough—Hocus Pocus succeeds in doing to the audience what the witches do to the people of their town: trick them into thinking they're harmless and funny and colourful and entertaining, when they, you know, literally kill children.

They also trapped a young man, whose sister they murdered, in the body of an immortal black cat, making him suffer for hundreds of years.

To be fair to the audience, the Sanderson Sisters, played by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker, are as charismatic and funny as they are cunning and threatening. Their return after centuries of death allows for some time travel, fish out of water shenanigans, that nevertheless doesn't undercut the threat they pose to the town's children on Halloween night.

It's a cult film that's self-indulgent and funny, colourful and memorable, and makes for fun viewing for the holiday.