1) The Addams Family
Halloween isn’t complete without everyone’s favorite Gothic family. The first Addams Family film is still a delight, no matter what your age. Beginning with the Addams family trying to pour boiling oil on carolers, the film only gets weirder from there: Gomez’s long-lost brother Uncle Fester returns to the family home, but Morticia suspects that something isn’t quite right with this new addition. He just isn’t…Addams enough.
With stars including Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, and a very young Christina Ricci, The Addams Family is a well-acted, gleefully twisted take on Charles Addams’s original cartoons and the zanier 1960s TV show of the same name.
While there’s nothing particularly scary here, there’s quite a lot of grotesquerie, a charming story about the nature of family, and likably weird characters that take a strange Gothic world and make it into a world we all want to inhabit.
I guess The Addamses just have more fun than normal people.