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Plot Summary:
Well-intentioned, eternally bumbling Ernest P. Worrell accidentally releases an evil demon from its sacred tomb. As the demon flexes its power and goes on a ruinous rampage, good-guy Ernest tries to step in to save the town from mass destruction. Trouble is, a 200-year-old curse has scared Ernest stupid, and that means hilarity all around! So, kick back and let the laugh-ridden adventures begin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, horror comedy, retro, creepy, crying, independent film, scary, offbeat, feel good, not serious
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Ernest Goes to School (1994)
Plot Summary:
Jim Varney's recurring dim-bulb character Ernest P. Worrell returns in this film as a school bus driver seeking to obtain a high school diploma.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious
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Ernest in the Army (1998)
Plot Summary:
Ernest P. Worrell is now in the military as a soldier. Once he begins, him and his team investigates a dictator who was responsible for the wars in the nearly village. Suddenly, Ernest finds a lost boy and has to keep him safe until his father recovers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, War
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, humorous, not serious, funny, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, entertaining, melancholic
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Under Wraps (1997)
Plot Summary:
A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert and Amy accidentally set the mummy free, but if they don't get him back to his resting place by midnight on Halloween, he'll turn into dust and lose his only chance of being reunited with his long-lost love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, horror spoof, cult film
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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to "Goosebumps".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, slasher, mystic, horror comedy, dark fairy tale, cult classic, action adventure, bleak, exciting
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Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, epic, slapstick comedy, feel good, not serious, surprise ending, twist ending, parody, funny
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Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)
Plot Summary:
Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the electric chair. But instead of killing him, the electrocution gives Ernest superhuman powers, enabling him to escape from jail and foil Nash's attempt to rob the bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, melancholic, surreal, not serious, hilarious, slapstick, talky, cult classic
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Ernest Goes to Africa (1997)
Plot Summary:
The title says it all. There's a mix up involving stolen diamonds which Ernest has (naturally) made into a yo-yo and given to his would be girlfriend, Rene. But Rene wants a man of action, and doesn't think that Ernest fits the bill. After the bad guys come looking for the stolen diamonds and kidnap Rene, all of her fantasies come true as Ernest has to go to Africa to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, feel good, semi serious, parody, funny, light, road movie, unusual plot structure, entertaining
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Don't Look Under the Bed (1999)
Plot Summary:
A girl calls on her brother's imaginary friend to banish a mischievous boogeyman who has framed her for his pranks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, spooky, semi serious
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Frankenstein and Me (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spooky, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending
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Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993)
Plot Summary:
The Farmer family is in big debts; they might lose their house soon. The seven year old Farmer twins, Kelly and Lynn, decide not to let this happen. They discover that somebody really mean and shrewd is responsible for all the problems of their family: it's their aunt Agatha! Thanks to the moon stone that she found years ago, aunt Agatha is now a witch. She has supernatural abilities but unfortunately uses them to do bad things. She is malicious and loves injuring others, even her own family. The girls must take the magic stone from Agatha.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spooky, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Scream Team (2002)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, exciting, horror comedy, spooky
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R.L. Stine's Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls (2015)
Plot Summary:
Teenage friends must resist the spell of an evil showman staging a house of horrors show in their small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, entertaining, scary, captivating, teen
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Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Plot Summary:
Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious
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Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
Plot Summary:
29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Zambia, UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, dramatic, fairy tale, satirical, saga, dark comedy, spooky, dark
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Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Hansen kids are in a jam. Adam and his best friend Duffy have gotten their hands on some tickets for the Headless Horseman concert, and his sister Chelsea has a date with her dreamy boyfriend Peter. The only problem is they're both grounded. Chelsea and Adam will do whatever it takes to get their mom Lynette out of the house, even if it includes a chance meeting with a very mysterious man. Everything seems to go according to plan until their little brother Taylor realizes that this stranger might be a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, captivating, gothic, horror comedy, vampire comedy
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Return to Halloweentown (2006)
Plot Summary:
As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, humorous, semi serious, teen, spooky
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A Halloween Puppy (2012)
Plot Summary:
A boy accidentally turns his mom's boyfriend into a dog.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, touching, offbeat, semi serious
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The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Plot Summary:
Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner, Sara get a call one night from mansion owner, Edward Gracey wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrive at the mansion a butler takes them to dine with Gracey. Gracey takes one look at Sara and he thinks she's his lost lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, stylized, gothic, southern gothic, scary, funny, slasher, sad, horror comedy
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A Simple Wish (1997)
Plot Summary:
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, fairy tale, funny, semi serious, humorous, mysterious, offbeat, light, romantic, clever
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Little Monsters (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, epic, mysterious, visual, creepy
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Halloweentown (1998)
Plot Summary:
On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, tense, captivating, melancholic, psychotronic, scary, teen, spooky, terrifying
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Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Plot Summary:
When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a skeptical kiddie-show host to take over the post of Father Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, melancholic, surreal, entertaining, intense, feel good, not serious, light hearted, independent film
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Hocus Pocus (1993)
Plot Summary:
After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it us up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, scary, mystical, funny, gothic, dark comedy, spooky, offbeat, psychological
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001)
Plot Summary:
In October of 1981, Curtis Danko, the creepy kid from the small town of Walker Falls, was killed in a mysterious accident. He left behind a warning to the town: "If you ever have another Halloween again, I will return and destroy you all!" Curtis was buried in a locked crypt, along with a sculpture so evil, that unearthly fates were said to await anyone who looked at it. Now, 20 years later, the Walker men have returned to Walker Falls. They start a chain of events that unleashes an army of zombies on the town. Has Curtis Danko risen from the grave to exact his revenge? And will the people of Walker Falls make it through the night?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, spooky, scary, semi serious
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Halloweentown High (2004)
Plot Summary:
Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school in the mortal world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, teen, spooky, offbeat
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Casper (1995)
Plot Summary:
Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the rickety mansion to seek her claim, she is frightened away by a wicked wave of ghosts. Determined to get her hands on this hidden fortune, she hires afterlife therapist Dr. James Harvey to exorcise the ghosts from the mansion. Harvey and his daughter Kat move in, and soon Kat meets Casper, the ghost of a young boy who's "the friendliest ghost you know." But not so friendly are Casper's uncles--Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie--who are determined to drive all "fleshies" away.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching, slapstick, horror comedy, spooky, parody, gothic
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The Witches (1990)
Plot Summary:
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, dark fantasy, scary, stylized, atmospheric, funny, retro, feel good, epic
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A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)
Plot Summary:
Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, hilarious, spooky
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Gremlins (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy, funny, cult classic, light, suspense, creepy, christmas horror
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Matilda (1996)
Plot Summary:
An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 170000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching, psychological, mystical, funny, inspirational, uplifting