Our October Bucket List

 

The hallowed month has arrived again, and the Hallows are excited! 
This year will be the first time we will have been away from home for Halloween (apart from our wedding night in 2019 when we went to Edinburgh) as we have booked a couple of nights in a special little type of cottage - the pets will have a sleepover with Granny and Granda.
Anyway, as we aren't going to be home for the actual day of Halloween, our whole month of celebrations will be slightly different to the usual. Still, here is a little bucket list for the month.

Things to Watch

Hocus Pocus 2 

The Witches of Eastwick

Practical Magic

The Craft

The Worst Witch Series 1998

Things to Read

The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

Hocus Pocus & the All-New Sequel

The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker by Lauren James

Llewellyn's Little Book of Halloween

Activities to Do

Samhain Dinner

Halloween-themed Lino Printing
Birthday Tattoo
Carve Our Jack O Lanterns

Places to Go

The Pet Cemetery

Saltwell Park

Beamish

Special Halloween Getaway

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I have so many posts to get up in the next few weeks, I still have one from our June 30 Days Wild as well as our little camping trip from August. Therefore I won't be posting as much dedicated Halloween content as usual but here is a little clickable list of posts from the past you might like to check out!:
Our October Bucket List 2021
31 Movies for Halloween Month
What to Read in October + My TBR
My Paranormal Life - The Teen Years
Exploring Duddo Stone Circle
Photo An Hour - A Day in My Life [October 2021]
Our Samhain & Halloween [Bucket List Update]

31 Movies for Halloween Month

As mentioned in my previous post, Our October Bucket List, we aim to watch lots more movies this October and so I drafted this list of 31 movies we'd like to get around to watching this year. Some we've already watched earlier this year. Some we watch regularly, even yearly. We may watch others that are not on the list or miss some of these that we've already seen if it means watching something new to us. 
Either way, this list is quite well representative of my particular tastes in spooky, thrilling, magical, fun Halloween viewing so if you want inspiration on something family friendly to watch this month see below!

 Hocus Pocus (1993) ✔️

The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Edward Scissorhands (1990) ✔️

Ghostbusters (1984)

Casper (1995)

Crimson Peak (2015)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

The Witches (1990)

Goosebumps (2015)  

Corpse Bride (2005)

The Addams Family (1991)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Shutter Island (2010)

The Watcher in the Woods (1981)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Frankenweenie (2012)

Return to Oz (1985)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949)

Coco (2017) 

The Reaping (2007) ✔️

Tower of Terror (1997)

The Others (2001)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

9 (2009) ✔️

The Woman in Black (2012)

Twitches (2005) ✔️

The Ninth Gate (1999)

Ghostbusters (2016)

From Hell (2001)

Benji the Hunted (1987) 

Quite the mix eh? Of course, there are many Disney options on the list as well as some Tim Burton classics and Johnny Depp features too. You'll see I am not at all into the 'gore' genre and the over the top screamo horror type movies. I love paranormal and phycological thrillers and other ghostly, magic and all-around unharmful movies but can't enjoy things to do with blood and guts - blurgh! 

I've ticked off the couple that we have already watched during the first week of this month and as of tomorrow Mr H is on holiday from work for a week which will give us plenty of time to cross lots more off the list!