Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Halloweentown (1998)

Halloweentown poster
Directed by
Duwayne Dunham
Genre
fantasy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
G
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 600 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A 13 year old girl named Marnie learns she is a witch on Halloween. She travels to a magical town full of monsters and must stop a wicked warlock.

lightheartedwhimsicalfamily-friendlycozyplayfulnostalgicfunadventurous

What happens

Halloweentown is a 1998 American fantasy comedy film directed by Duwayne Dunham and written by Paul Bernbaum, Jon Cooksey, Ali Matheson, from a story by Bernbaum. The first installment in Halloweentown series, it stars Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Joey Zimmerman, and Judith Hoag. It is the fourth Disney Channel Original Movie. The film premiered on Disney Channel on October 17, 1998. It centers on Marnie, who learns she is a witch on her 13th Halloween and is transported to Halloweentown—a magical place where ghosts, ghouls, witches, and werewolves live apart from the human world, but she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?