October Movies List - 22 Plus a Few

I was reading an article this morning in which the author wrote about how, even as an adult, she has never outgrown the magic of Halloween.  I feel the same way. While I don't go trick-or-treating anymore and my only costume this year were cat ears and a collar (a Halloween-themed necklace I made years ago) that I wore during an informal virtual meetup, I celebrated all month long in other ways. I read several cozy mysteries and, just like last year, I watched a lot of movies (along with a few Halloween-themed episodes of t.v. shows). Once again, I watched too many to write reviews for all of them, but I've compiled a list and I've provided links for the ones that have reviews. 

The ones in green are movies I've seen before and the ones in orange are the ones I watched for the first time. Here's what I watched this October (listed in alphabetical order):

"Alice in Wonderland"

"Alice Through the Looking Glass"

"Black Widow" (Read my review here.)

"Clue"

"Death Comes to Pemberley" (Read my review here.)

"Frankenweenie" (1984)

"Frankenweenie" (2012)

"Halloweentown"

"Halloweentown High"

"Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge"

"Hocus Pocus"

"Into the Woods"

"Labrynth"

"Monsters University"

"Monsters, Inc."

"Muppets Haunted Mansion"

"Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts" (Read my review here.)

"Return to Halloweentown"

"Run"

"Sleepy Hollow"

"The Good Witch"

"The Haunted Mansion"

 My favorites from the entire list are "Black Widow", "Death Comes to Pemberley", "Hocus Pocus", "Monsters University" (surprisingly slightly better than "Monsters Inc."), "Run" (but difficult to watch because of the subject matter), and "Sleepy Hollow". I don't usually like gory movies, but "Sleepy Hollow" is an exception. Johnny Depp's character adds a bit of light-heartedness, which makes the gory scenes easier to tolerate. He is almost as disgusted with gore as I am!

In addition to these movies, I can add some Halloween-themed episodes that I watched - "WandaVision" (which I still love as much as I did the first time I watched it), "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", and "Friends". The actor, James Michael Tyler, who played the beloved coffee shop manager, Gunther, recently passed away from cancer. I am happy he's in the Halloween episode and I can honor his memory by watching it (and all of the other 150+ episodes he's in). He was like the seventh "friend" and he will be missed.

If you'd like to read what I watched last year, click here.

And that's a wrap on October 2021! I have lots of movies and books lined up already for November and December. Stay tuned!