From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Mean Girls: Halloween is better without the horror

Most Halloween-set scary movies are little more than lazy cash grabs, so why not opt for a surprising seasonal choice instead – The Karate Kid, anyone?

If you enjoy films of any description, Halloween is just about as bad as it gets. If you’re a coward, it can be hard to navigate your way through the onslaught of horror. And if you actually like horror, it’s even worse. Over the years, Halloween has become little more than a dumping ground for low-budget, low-imagination genre scraps that serve no purpose except to provide idiots with the unsatisfactory event-specific scares that tradition dictates they enjoy.

However, all is not lost. Not all Halloween films are bad, but the safest way to dodge the worst is to avoid horror altogether. There are plenty of non-horror, Halloween-set films that you can watch instead. Here are six of the best:

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2hroySi