If you ’re looking for some truly horrific films for Halloween , then Hulu is probably the Walter Elias Disney - have streamer where you ’ll get the most pall . But for families and others who want a ghost of horror that ’s a bit more kid - well-disposed , then Disney+ should be your streaming name and address this Halloween .
Disney may not have a reputation for scares , but the animators have put together some delightfully spooky cinema over the last four ten that are perfect for this affair . These are the three great Disney+ movies to stream on Halloween 2024 .
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The Black Cauldron (1985)
The Black Cauldronhas been hollo “ the film that nearly killed Disney , ” but that ’s not through any fault of the picture show itself . Audiences in 1985 simply were n’t ready for a PG - rated animated Disney film that has some very unsettling horror and a truly ominous baddie in the Horned King ( as voiced the later heavy thespian John Hurt ) . The film has a write up that is for the most part cobbled together from two books of Lloyd Alexander ’s The Chronicles of Prydain serial , but it works as a standalone movie that ’s been below the belt maligned for its attempt to break the Disney mold .
In the phantasy res publica of Prydain , a teenager named Taran ( Grant Bardsley ) is simply an “ assistant pig - keeper ” who has to search after Hen Wen , a copper who can grant visions of the future . The Horned King has Hen Wen kidnapped so she can lead him to the fabled Black Cauldron , which will permit him to produce an unbeatable army of the undead known as the Cauldron - Born . Taran sets out to rescue Hen Wen , and he unexpectedly befriend Princess Eilonwy ( Susan Sheridan ) , Fflewddur Fflam ( Nigel Hawthorne ) , and a strange creature known as Gurgi ( John Byner ) as they come together to search for the Black Cauldron as well as a path to destruct it .
WatchThe Black CauldrononDisney+ .
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Although Disney call this vacation classicTim Burton ’s The Nightmare Before Christmas , it was in reality take by Henry Selick . Burton create the characters and the story , but he was largely hands off for the yield of the plastic film itself . This was a hold on - movement animated picture show at meter when Disney was in its bloom Renaissance geological era in the early ’ 90s . It was a little too unearthly for the time , butThe Nightmare Before Christmashas maturate to become one of Disney ’s recurrent favorites among fan .
Chris Sarandon loan his part to Jack Skellington , the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town who has gotten a little blase with the holiday . However , Jack rediscovers the songs in his warmness — with Danny Elfman providing Jack ’s singing part and the film ’s grudge — when he get a line about Christmas . Despite the misgivings of his one true love , Sally ( Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s Catherine O’Hara ) , Jack decides to embrace Christmas and take it over from Santa Claus ( Ed Ivory ) . unluckily for Jack , the children of Earth are terrorise when he give Christmas a macabre Halloween - style makeover .
WatchThe Nightmare Before ChristmasonDisney+ .
Frankenweenie (2012)
UnlikeThe Nightmare Before Christmas , Frankenweeniewas directed by Tim Burton . In fact , it ’s a remake of the short moving picture that baffle Burton elicit from Disney in 1984 before anyone understood his more eccentric side as a film producer . The 2012Frankenweenieis a black - and - white discontinue - gesture animated picture show that mostly remixesFrankensteinthrough the lens of a Burton ’s more nipper - friendly take .
In this repeat , Victor Frankenstein ( Charlie Tahan ) is a student alongside Elsa Van Helsing ( Stranger Thingsstar Winona Ryder ) and Edgar “ E ” Gore ( Atticus Shaffer ) . After Victor ’s dear dog , Sparky , is hit and killed by a elevator car , the bud scientist is inspired by his mentor , Mr. Rzykruski ( Martin Landau ) , to add his dog back to spirit . Victor ’s experimentation shape , but he inadvertently sets off a chain reaction when other shaver in his class start resurrect their own dead pets and unleashing chaos .
WatchFrankenweenieonDisney+ .
