It’s that time of year again! The leaves are changing color, the air is getting more relaxed, and Halloween is just around the corner. For many, Halloween is a time to enjoy fright-filled movies and TV shows. But for others, it’s a time to revisit their childhood with the Halloweentown movies.
These family-friendly films follow the adventures of Marnie Piper, a young witch who discovers her heritage and learns to use her powers.
If you’re looking for a fun way to celebrate Halloween this year, why not watch the Halloweentown movies in order?
Based on characters by Paul Bernbaum, The Halloweentown film series aired as works for television on The Disney Channel as Disney Channel Original Movies. To date, there are four fantasy films released in the Halloweentown franchise.
In this blog post, we’ll look at the films in order and provide some fun facts about each one.
These family-friendly films follow the adventures of Marnie Piper, a young witch who discovers her heritage and learns to use her powers.
If you’re looking for a fun way to celebrate Halloween this year, why not watch the Halloweentown movies in order?
Based on characters by Paul Bernbaum, The Halloweentown film series aired as works for television on The Disney Channel as Disney Channel Original Movies. To date, there are four fantasy films released in the Halloweentown franchise.
In this blog post, we’ll look at the films in order and provide some fun facts about each one.
- 10/18/2023
- by Israr Ahmed
- buddytv.com
1998’s Halloweentown is one of the most beloved Halloween and Disney Channel movies, and is a gift that keeps on giving as new generations discover the film that is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
Starring Kimberly J. Brown, Joey Zimmerman, Judith Hoag and Debbie Reynolds, the film directed by Duwayne Dunham followed Marnie, who on her 13th birthday discovers she’s a witch and is transported to Halloweentown, a magical place that is facing an evil curse. The film spawned three sequels: Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge in 2001, Halloweentown High in 2004 and Return to Halloweentown in 2006.
Halloweentown, written by Paul Bernbaum, Jon Cooksey and Ali Marie Matheson, holds a score of 83 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. You can currently watch Halloweentown on Prime Video or on Disney+. The franchise is also airing as part of Freeform’s “31 Nights of Halloween.”
In celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary, take a look...
Starring Kimberly J. Brown, Joey Zimmerman, Judith Hoag and Debbie Reynolds, the film directed by Duwayne Dunham followed Marnie, who on her 13th birthday discovers she’s a witch and is transported to Halloweentown, a magical place that is facing an evil curse. The film spawned three sequels: Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge in 2001, Halloweentown High in 2004 and Return to Halloweentown in 2006.
Halloweentown, written by Paul Bernbaum, Jon Cooksey and Ali Marie Matheson, holds a score of 83 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. You can currently watch Halloweentown on Prime Video or on Disney+. The franchise is also airing as part of Freeform’s “31 Nights of Halloween.”
In celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary, take a look...
- 10/17/2023
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Tis the season for “chills and thrills” on Freeform.
The network has finalized its milestone 25th anniversary lineup for its 31 Nights of Halloween programming block for the month of October, running from the 1st to the 31st.
Seasonal favorites return like the cult classic Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton’s beloved The Nightmare Before Christmas courtesy of Touchstone Pictures. The latter title, from director Henry Selick, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
The Halloweentown franchise gets a chunk of the lineup with such features as the original 1998 TV movie, starring Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Joey Zimmerman, Emily Roeske and Judith Hoag, playing alongside Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge, Halloweentown High and Return to Halloweentown. Other major franchises on the lineup include The Twilight Saga, Monsters, Inc., The Addams Family, The Incredibles, Spider-Man, Hotel Transylvania and Twitches.
The network has finalized its milestone 25th anniversary lineup for its 31 Nights of Halloween programming block for the month of October, running from the 1st to the 31st.
Seasonal favorites return like the cult classic Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton’s beloved The Nightmare Before Christmas courtesy of Touchstone Pictures. The latter title, from director Henry Selick, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
The Halloweentown franchise gets a chunk of the lineup with such features as the original 1998 TV movie, starring Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Joey Zimmerman, Emily Roeske and Judith Hoag, playing alongside Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge, Halloweentown High and Return to Halloweentown. Other major franchises on the lineup include The Twilight Saga, Monsters, Inc., The Addams Family, The Incredibles, Spider-Man, Hotel Transylvania and Twitches.
- 9/2/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Listen, we don't need to tell you that 2020 hasn't been easy on any of us. But now, 10 months in, it's finally time to trick or treat ourselves. That's right, shockingly, October is here and with it comes our favorite excuse to stay in bed all day and binge Harry Potter followed by Halloweentown and then finish the evening off with whatever is airing on Freeform's 31 Nights of Halloween. Also here to lift our spirits: Sanderson sisters Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy will gather for a spellbinding Hocus Pocus reunion...
- 10/5/2020
- E! Online
It’s finally October and every streaming service is making sure subscribers have a lot of suitably spooky content to check out this Halloween. In the case of Disney Plus, the Mouse House’s service has this week launched its “Halloween” collection which collates every single Halloween-related movie, short film and TV special/episode that can be found across the site right now.
Many of your all-time favorite family-friendly Halloween watches are housed in the collection, too, like seasonal mainstays Hocus Pocus and Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas. Countless Disney lovers also have a lot of fondness for the Halloweentown films, all four of which can be found on D+. Elsewhere, you can catch Eddie Murphy vehicle The Haunted Mansion, classic animation The Adventures of Ichabod and Toad and the Twitches twosome.
As for the many TV episodes available, there are special Halloween-themed editions of beloved shows like Hannah Montana,...
Many of your all-time favorite family-friendly Halloween watches are housed in the collection, too, like seasonal mainstays Hocus Pocus and Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas. Countless Disney lovers also have a lot of fondness for the Halloweentown films, all four of which can be found on D+. Elsewhere, you can catch Eddie Murphy vehicle The Haunted Mansion, classic animation The Adventures of Ichabod and Toad and the Twitches twosome.
As for the many TV episodes available, there are special Halloween-themed editions of beloved shows like Hannah Montana,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
It may still be over two months until Halloween, but that hasn’t stopped Disney+ from getting in the holiday spirit. A batch of 20 family-friendly horror films have dropped on the streaming service recently, providing you with an abundance of frights to get you gradually geared up for the best night of the year, with a few stand-out entries worth looking out for.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is one of many anthology pics Disney released in the ‘40s, and is best remembered as a Boomer equivalent of Watership Down, The Dark Crystal or The NeverEnding Story in the “movies that traumatized children” category. Its first segment is based on classic kids book The Wind in the Willows, but the second, more relevant half adapts Washington Irving’s famous short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with its rich but dark animation and foreboding tone and music terrifying many of its young viewers.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is one of many anthology pics Disney released in the ‘40s, and is best remembered as a Boomer equivalent of Watership Down, The Dark Crystal or The NeverEnding Story in the “movies that traumatized children” category. Its first segment is based on classic kids book The Wind in the Willows, but the second, more relevant half adapts Washington Irving’s famous short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with its rich but dark animation and foreboding tone and music terrifying many of its young viewers.
- 8/24/2020
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
Image Source: Everett Collection
Grab your broomsticks, Dcom-lovers: Marnie Cromwell and her spooky family are here to wish you a Happy Halloween. If you haven't already heard, Disney Channel is hosting a 24-hour live-stream of all the Halloweentown movies on its YouTube channel, like, right now - so you might want to go ahead and clock out of work for the day and get to bingeing.
Each film in the series - Halloweentown, Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, Halloweentown High, and Return to Halloweentown - will be streaming on a continuous loop until Nov. 1. The live-stream video first made its way to YouTube on Oct. 24, though its description reads that the marathon has been chugging along through the entire month of October.
Related: These Disney Channel Original Halloween Movies Will Make You Scream (With Joy)
Even though we're pretty bummed that we're just now becoming privy to this information, 24 hours is...
Grab your broomsticks, Dcom-lovers: Marnie Cromwell and her spooky family are here to wish you a Happy Halloween. If you haven't already heard, Disney Channel is hosting a 24-hour live-stream of all the Halloweentown movies on its YouTube channel, like, right now - so you might want to go ahead and clock out of work for the day and get to bingeing.
Each film in the series - Halloweentown, Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, Halloweentown High, and Return to Halloweentown - will be streaming on a continuous loop until Nov. 1. The live-stream video first made its way to YouTube on Oct. 24, though its description reads that the marathon has been chugging along through the entire month of October.
Related: These Disney Channel Original Halloween Movies Will Make You Scream (With Joy)
Even though we're pretty bummed that we're just now becoming privy to this information, 24 hours is...
- 10/31/2018
- by Danielle Jackson
- Popsugar.com
Before you spend Memorial Day weekend binging on every single Disney Channel Original Movie ever created (yes, all of them – from Don't Look Under the Bed to The Cheetah Girls), refresh your Dcom memory with these fun facts.
1. Zac Efron didn't sing in the original High School Musical.
Back in 2006, you may have thought you fallen in love with Efron's vocals in "Breaking Free" and "Start of Something New", but it turns out, it wasn't actually Efron you were falling for. Another Cinderella Story star Drew Seeley actually provided Troy's vocals for the first film (and he wrote the...
1. Zac Efron didn't sing in the original High School Musical.
Back in 2006, you may have thought you fallen in love with Efron's vocals in "Breaking Free" and "Start of Something New", but it turns out, it wasn't actually Efron you were falling for. Another Cinderella Story star Drew Seeley actually provided Troy's vocals for the first film (and he wrote the...
- 5/27/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- People.com - TV Watch
Before you spend Memorial Day weekend binging on every single Disney Channel Original Movie ever created (yes, all of them - from Don't Look Under the Bed to The Cheetah Girls), refresh your Dcom memory with these fun facts. 1. Zac Efron didn't sing in the original High School Musical.Back in 2006, you may have thought you fallen in love with Efron's vocals in "Breaking Free" and "Start of Something New", but it turns out, it wasn't actually Efron you were falling for. Another Cinderella Story star Drew Seeley actually provided Troy's vocals for the first film (and he wrote...
- 5/27/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
Before you spend Memorial Day weekend binging on every single Disney Channel Original Movie ever created (yes, all of them - from Don't Look Under the Bed to The Cheetah Girls), refresh your Dcom memory with these fun facts. 1. Zac Efron didn't sing in the original High School Musical.Back in 2006, you may have thought you fallen in love with Efron's vocals in "Breaking Free" and "Start of Something New", but it turns out, it wasn't actually Efron you were falling for. Another Cinderella Story star Drew Seeley actually provided Troy's vocals for the first film (and he wrote...
- 5/27/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
Lucas Grabeel was born on November 23, 1984 to Stephen and Jean Grabeel in Springfield, Missouri. He has an older sister, Autumn. He was always interested in performing and even at a very young age, he and his sister would entertain their parents and friends with short skits, commercials and plays. School was always important to Lucas. He attended Logan-Rogersville Elementary and Middle Schools (Rogersville High School), and then Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri - as well as attending the Missouri Fine Arts Academy. In school he was a very good speaker on his feet and took 5th place in the Mshsaa Speech & Debate Championships in 2003. He also participated in all of the school’s theatrical productions - beginning with his sixth grade performance in The Secret Garden. He was in eight different school productions before graduating. In addition, he was also involved with the Y.E.S. Troup in his area.
- 6/19/2008
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- PopStar
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