October is upon us peeps! 🍂 And what better way to spend an autumnal evening, than watching Hocus Pocus and getting in the Halloween spirit! 🧙🏻♀️Every year, I can’t wait until October 1st, which signals the Vampire Diaries and spooky Halloween films and TV-shows season. 🧛🏻♂️
Similarly to every white girl out there, my favourite season used to be winter. However, the last few years it changed to autumn, and Halloween became my favourite holiday, degrading Christmas to second best. Granted, living in moody, rainy England played a big role in that. 🌦
I’m sure we can all agree, that one of the best things about autumn is the cosy nights in watching films and sipping a PSL or a spiced chai. If I’m being honest, this is what I look forward to the most! 🎥
Unfortunately, this year, due to Covid-19, we haven’t had many new film and TV show releases. Therefore, it goes without saying that we need throw it back to the all time classic Halloween films and TV shows!
Here is a list of my favourite films and TV series, which will guaranteed put you in the Halloween mood! 🎃
Halloween Films
A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century. 
Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love. 
The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams’ friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families. 
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. 
Ten years ago, Faye and Lydia each opened their own bakeries in Emeryville, Ohio, after a personal and professional fall-out during a local Pumpkin Pie contest. Now their children – and co-workers – Casey and Sam, are set to carry on the rivalry as they go head-to-head in the same contest. There’s only one problem for these two people who are supposed to hate each other: they start to fall in love. 
An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. 
A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them. 
A young boy stumbles across a witch convention and must stop them, even after the Grand High Witch turns him into a mouse.
Halloween TV shows
A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries “The Originals” follows the Mikaelson siblings, the original vampires, as they struggle to find a home in New Orleans, the city they helped build. 
The story of the next generation of supernatural beings at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. Klaus Mikaelson’s daughter, 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson; Alaric Saltzman’s twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman; and other young adults come of age in the most unconventional way possible. 
Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her. 
In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer. Buffy and “The Scooby Gang” will slay their demons, survive one apocalypse after another, attend high school and college and above all, understand that growing up can truly be Hell sometimes -literally. 
The three Halliwell sisters discover that they are descendents of a line of female witches. Each has a special ability (stopping time, moving objects, seeing the future), and they can also combine their abilities into the “Power of Three” to fight demons, warlocks, and other evils. 
After centuries of quarrelling, Stefan and Damon Salvatore return to their original town of Mystic Fall, Virginia. Stefan, the selfless, brave, guilt ridden brother meets a high school girl named Elena Gilbert, who he instantly falls in love with. Damon the gorgeous, dangerous, and selfish vampire is after his brothers girl to pay him back for making him turn into a vampire in 1864. 
The story revolves around 2 brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester as they follow their father’s footsteps, hunting down evil supernatural creatures such as monsters, demons and even fallen gods while trying to save innocent people along the way. 
Explores a group of siblings who, as children, grew up in what would go on to become the most famous haunted house in the country. Now adults, and forced back together in the face of a tragedy, the family must finally confront the ghosts of their past, some of which still lurk in their minds. 
Thirty-two year old single mom, Lorelai, lives with her teenage daughter Rory in the small town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, with crazy neighbors and many ups and downs.
As always, these are my personal autumnal picks, and granted will not be everyone’s cup of tea. Therefore, I would love to hear from you fellow Halloween lovers in the comments below! What film and/or TV show do you watch on a moody fall evening? 📺
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M. x
*images and descriptions taken from IMDB
