Movie Time! Halloween Spooktacular (2024): Terrifying Tots!

It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Halloween Spooktacular!, our yearly dose of creepy movie mayhem to help make the holidays extra sweet and double-dangerous. The theme for this year’s ghoulish goulash of frightful fun is Terrifying Tots!, i.e. films meant for kids that were unintentionally (or intentionally) scary, leaving impressions for all the wrong reasons.

Our regular hosts “Embalmed” Ethan Brehm and “Nasty” Nate Evans are joined by “Sadistic” Susana Bojorquez for an extended look at a batch of terrifying titles that left kiddos cinematically scarred, but satisfied. A special intro from Hollywood legend Malcolm McDowell helps make this spoonful of salty sugar go down just a little easier.

Films diabolically discussed on this episode include: Sleeping Beauty (1959), Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971), Shelley Duvall's Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1989), Labyrinth (1986), Return to Oz (1985), and Coraline (2009).