Right…
You do know what Halloween is?
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There’s a joke about the post being removed and ghosts due to the season…
Frighteners is a great comedy/horror hybrid. 
Horror is my favourite movie genre. I think there’s a few classics, that helped define the genre either by creating new techniques or by doing something known so well it made it feel new, and a lot of derivatives that use the tropes created in new plotlines. The second type can be awesome (The Witch, The Babadook are two fantastic recent examples) but it’s the classics, that pushed the genre forward, that really interest me. Some genre-defining classics, imo:
- The exorcist
- Frakenstein (1930)
- The Birds
- The Shining (Kubrick)
- Get Out
That said, these are the best horror films. Halloween is more a tacky/fun celebration to me so for haloween I might go for something that’s both good horror but also a jump-scare type that lingers over a masterpiece of horror directing. In which case: Stephen King’s The Shining might be my top pick.
Candyman
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So for “Halloween” read “horror”, then…
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To buck the horror trend and stick purely to Halloween movies…
Disney made some decent ones back in my youth.
Halloweentown!
Twitches!
Also, the live action Scooby Doo movies! Do those count?
Hmm. Is E.T. a Halloween movie, would you say?
I would guess so!
Perhaps Casper and ghost busters too!
The Haunted Mansion!
So what makes a Halloween movie specifically “Halloween” - does it have to be based on events of spooky witchcraftery? Just feature October 31st, generally? Presence of Pumpkins?
Genuinely curious. I’m sure there’s a venn diagram in this
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Wouldn’t this include Harry Potter? Though we’ve always considered those films as Christmas movies. Not entirely sure why. Probably because a good chunk of the films take place during December, and ITV and Sky typically show them every Christmas period too.
Hocus Pocus
Love my horrors…insidious put hairs at the back of my head up. Blair witch (1st) really made my hair spiky!, was obsessed with that film, I went to Maryland just to see the woods! (I’m a bit weird)
… the ending was quite the most frightening I’ve seen in any film. 
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I may have to watch this now. I miss when horror films used to actually scare me, not that I actually enjoy getting scared, but it’s just not as fun! 
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Dark Night Of The Scarecrow. From 1981 it’s one of the tiny handful of ‘made for TV’ movies that’s really good. It was also made especially for Halloween.