G rated Halloween movies bring the spooky spirit of Halloween to general audiences, so its suitable for all ages and are perfect for the whole family. The movies don’t contain any strong language, violence, nudity, or sexual themes, so they won’t offend parents or disturb young viewers.
We choose for you the best G rated Halloween movies and hope you enjoy them with your family.
Coco (2017)
A beautiful but creepy movie, making it one of the great G rated Halloween movies created by Lee Unkrich, Jason Katz and Matthew Aldrich, directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina and starring Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, and Renee Victor.
Film Plot
Miguel is a young boy. All he ever dreams about is playing music, but his family hates that and refuse to let him make his dream true.
His idol is Ernesto de la Cruz the late famous musician, when Miguel went to his idol’s grave, he finds himself transported to the land of the dead, where he learns plenty of secrets about his family heritage that help him pursue his dream when he comes back to the land of the living.
Movie run time: 1 hour 45 minutes.
Movie type: Animation, adventure and comedy.
Beetlejuice (1988)
One of the funniest G rated Halloween movies created by Michael McDowell, directed by Warren Skaaren and starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page and Hugo Stanger.
Film Plot
After spending a lot of money and time to build their house, Adam and Barbara died, and another family bought their house and moved in. However, the couple’s souls are still living within the house and are trying to kick out the new family.
Instead of running in terror, the new family is amused by the mysterious powers in their new house and they try to make some money off of it, they also give it the name Beetlejuice.
Movie run time: 1 hour and 32 minutes
Movie type: Comedy and fantasy.
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
One of the funniest G rated Halloween movies created by Pete Docter, Jill Culton and Jeff Pidgeon, directed by Pete Docter and David Silverman, and starring Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Tilly.
Film Plot
Monstropolis is a city, but it isn’t not like any city you know, because it is empty from humans and only beasts are living there, in this world there are two friends called James Sullivan and Mike Wazowski, whose career aspirations gets them stuck in the human world.
Movie run time: 1 hour and 32 minutes
Movie type: Comedy, Animation and Adventure.
Under Wraps (1997)
Another one of the comedy G rated Halloween movies created by Don Rhymer, directed by Greg Beeman, and starring Adam Wylie, Mario Yedidia, Clara Bryant, Ken Hudson Campbell and Corinne Bohrer.
Film Plot
Three friends go through an adventure with an Egyptian mummy that is 3000 years old. The kids set the mummy free and if they will not return him to his sarcophagus before midnight of Halloween, he will turn to dust and lose his chance of reuniting with his immortal love.
Movie run time: 1 hour and 35 minutes
Movie type: Comedy, Family and Horror.
Arthur and the Haunted Tree House (2017)
An interesting animation movie that both adults and children will enjoy, the film is created and directed by Marc Brown, starring Melissa Altro, Ada Balon, Daniel Brochu, Bruce Dinsmore and Christian Distefano.
Film Plot
On Halloween Francine goes trick-or-treating, but she meets an old woman with a very strange and mysterious past. Binky went to Mr. Ratburn’s house, where a lot of mysterious paranormal things happen. Ladonna, Arthur and Buster suspect that the tree house is haunted.
Movie run time: 57 minutes.
Movie type: Animation.
Coraline (2009)
An animation movie suitable for family watching created by Henry Selick, and Neil Gaiman, directed by Henry Selick, and starring Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French and Keith David.
Film Plot
Coraline is a young girl that moves with her family to an old house, and because her parents are always busy, she feel bored all time.
One day Coraline finds a hidden door that leads to a parallel universe, and in this strange world everybody has two buttons instead of eyes. She feels amazing at first and has a lot of fun exploring this world until she realized it is a trap.
Movie run time: 1 hour 40 minutes.
Movie type: Animation, drama and family.
Ghostbusters (1984)
An old Halloween movie but old is gold. It is still interesting to watch it with your family and it is considered to be one of the best G rated Halloween movies around. The film created by Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis, directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver and Harold Ramis.
Film Plot
The film is about a team of researchers working in Columbia University, and they are interested in supernatural activities, but because they are doing unethical experiments they get fired from the university.
Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman and Egon Spengler create their own business under the name of “Ghostbusters” they live in a firehouse and start hunting ghosts, and finally they try to stop a big conspiracy that’s targeting their city.
Movie run time: 1 hour 45 minutes.
Movie type: Action, drama and fantasy.
Goosebumps (2015)
A funny creepy movie created by Darren Lemke and Scott Alexander, directed by Rob Letterman and starring Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Ryan Lee and Amy Ryan.
Film Plot
Zach Cooper is a teen boy that moves to a small town, he meets Hannah, the beautiful girl next door. Zach and Hannah become best friends. However, Hannah has a weird father, he is a novelist and he is writing horror stories.
Zach learns that the beasts which Hannah’s father writes about are real. These monsters from the novels start appearing and terrorizing people in the city, now Zach, Hannah and Stine had to return all these beasts to the book to keep everything under control.
Movie run time: 1 hour 43 minutes.
Movie type: Adventure, comedy and fantasy.
Hocus Pocus (1993)
One of the G rated Halloween movies created by David Kirschner, Mic Garris and Neil Cuthbert, directed by Kenny Ortega, and starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy and Omri Katz.
Film Plot
The Sanderson sisters are witches executed 300 years ago after being charged with practicing dark magic, but before they died, they cast a spell that gives them a chance to come back to life, but they have only one night to find a way to make the magic permanent, otherwise they will lose their newfound existence.
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Movie run time: 1 hour 36 minutes.
Movie type: Family, comedy and fantasy.
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
A very funny movie classified as one of G rated Halloween movies created by Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel and Todd Durham, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Andy Samberg and Selena Gomez.
Film Plot
Dracula built a hotel in Transylvania to stay away from the most dangerous creature in the world which is humans. He is accommodating all kinds of beasts and they spend a lovely time together in the resort.
But unfortunately, Dracula’s daughter falls in love with a human being named Jonathan, and she wants to marry him against her father’s wishes.
Movie run time: 1 hour 31 minutes.
Movie type: Animation, adventure and comedy.
