Top 11 Halloween Guilty Pleasures
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- They’re not great, they’re not awful, so what is it that draws us to them, here are the Top 11 Halloween Guilty Pleasures.
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Corpse Bride is genuinely one of my favourite Burton films. Me , and my brother and sister love it
+Super Viola Bros. The English language, when spoken, relies on context to establish which of three different words that sound exactly the same are being employed in any given immediate situation. If humanity can work out "they're" vs. "there" in casual conversation, I'm pretty sure we can figure out people who use "me and x" instead of "x and I" just fine.
+Super Viola Bros. lol
+Super Viola Bros. "Oh cool" , thought Luciano The Pig , " someone replied to my comment. I wonder if they share my opinion or if they disagree. Either way , I'm sure that we'll have an interesting conversation"
+LucianoThePig That movie is my Halloween tradition
+Mario121692 same
I thought that Monster House was a grossly underrated movie. I didn't really care to see it until I happened to catch it on TV once when there was nothing else on. It was so good I've seen it several more times since!
that movie gave me nightmares as a kid
+Random Girl03 I thought I was the only one! It gave me nightmares too, and all all this time I thought I was just a wuss as a kid.
+Kaese Vanoostrum no because that movie is still kinda scary to me
Yeah, I wouldn't call it a guilty pleasure at all - just a genuinely good movie with a pretty great Dan Harmon/Rob Schrab script.
0Paronomasia0 thank you, I freaking love that movie!
In the Tiny Toons segment, Babs was doing an impression of what looks and sounds exactly like Andy Rooney. Kids might have gotten that reference at the time because he was in every episode of 60 minutes, which a lot of their parents no doubt watched.
+evilcam Yeah. I think your right.
+evilcam Well, dated jokes aside, Tiny Toons was pretty great, and this halloween special is a great testament to that greatness.
+evilcam Yup, it's him. Reassuring the fact that Tiny Toons and Animaniacs was not for children but for adults. :)
+evilcam w-what does that *HAVE TO DO WITH HALLOWEEN OR SCARY MOVIES!!!??*
+HistoricaHungarica It was definitely for children, but they often added a little nod to the parents who were usually sitting there with their kids. But it is definitely for kids, with the colors, sounds, simplistic stories, etc.
My Halloween guilty pleasure? Mickey's House of Villains.
Sameeee
Jayden Dove YAAAAS I was totally expecting that to show up on this list!
it was mah show when I was a kid. Still have the VHS
Mine was always Daffy Duck's Quackbusters.
Jayden Dove hell yes
Corpse Bride is wonderful. Bittersweet and very powerful visuals. However it's not an original idea. It's based on a Russian folktale.
The only thing not original by Corpse bride is the accidental proposal. Everything else is completely different to the original story
Shhhhh
Don’t ruin it
I love corpse bride. Amazing movie.
@@milotic4243 I like its bittersweet ending. And still feel Vincent would have been better off with Emily. Victoria is such a boring mouse.
Corpse bride is nice and all but have you seen corspe husband,underrated gem
I love "Nightmare Before Christmas", but "Corpse Bride" has a special little place in my heart. It came out when I was really starting to get into Tim Burton and I was obsessed with it for a long time.
Yeah, I get that it's not perfect: the villain is boring and one-dimensional as hell, the characters are a little bland except for the dead ones (which, to be fair, may further tie into the movie's satire), but it's still a good movie.
Do you think Emily met Hector (From Coco). Both were murdered and went to the land of the dead.
@@507dannyfe This is the crossover we need
I was pleasantly surprised when I found out it was a musical. Danny Elfman writes the best musicals. Too bad it didn’t get more songs.
Man, Grinch Night was far before my time, but I actually remember it. I rented it from Blockbuster in the early 2000's. Such a weird WEIRD short.
+FootofaFerret Happy early Halloween! Have you considered doing A brief history of Doug Walker?
Oh right. We used to be able to rent movies.
The weird thing in that comment is the acknowledgement of Blockbuster's existence. It's practically fallen off the face of the Earth at this point.
+FootofaFerret hey ryder, I didn't know you watch Nostalgia Crtic
Well I didn't expect you to be here!
The Halloweentown movies they always show on Disney Channel are my jam, especially the first and last movies. They're shoddily made and you can tell that they're made for TV, but I can't help but enjoy it.
Kenzie McKeever its cheapness gives it its charm. I think everyone loves the halloweentown films.
same, i gotta rewatch that movie again sometime
I enjoyed the Twitches movies, also. :)
You liked the last one? I didn't like the last one at all.
I did, however, find the first three extremely enjoyable, though not that great.
Omg i loved those movies as a kid
I am honestly shocked that NC didn't have more positive things to say about Corpse Bride. Up until today, I've never heard a single person say it was bad. In fact, I've heard nothing but praise for it. I agree it's not Burton's best film, but as a stop motion film....it's nothing short of art. It's gorgeous, enchanting and has a very touching story. Probably the best stop motion film there is, falling only a little bit short of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The Cinema Cynic I love Corpse Bride but I admit that it is flawed
Nah I think Paranorman is.
Coraline. BRUH.
yeah it's a pretty short 'n sweet story, but the stop-motion sets are beautiful and it's got a great Halloween-y atmosphere. high replay value for me too.
Honestly compared to nightmare before Christmas it's way better with a great story, good songs, and amazing visuals.
Monster House was one of those movies I went in thinking it would be a typical kids movie, but near the end they hit you with something that's pretty heartbreaking. In the end it's a no win situation for Nubercracker, the old man. Also Corpse Bride, love it. I'll agree the animation can be pretty stiff and the mains aren't too interesting, but the villain is very hammy and the story is fun to watch unfold.
In fact the villain was similar to the villain in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit (He's also the weakest part of the movie)! Those type of villains never felt genuinely threatening especially considering they are rich already and they just want the women to compete with the main charcater! Now that is what I call lame!
+The Cinematic Mind
To the villain to the villian of what?
+AshXXMayftw Just like with his points on Corpse Bride, I certainly can't disagree with the Nostalgia Critic on Monster House's strengths, including its visual, contextual, and characteristic prowess. But I've always had one major issue with Monster House... I find it _incredibly_ mean-spirited, making it very hard to like overall. I mean, take a look at what we got here: an old man angrily screaming at and threatening a little girl AND stealing/destroying her tricycle, a boy's babysitter bullying him into submission via blackmail (breaking a flower pot and facetiously asking, "Why'd you break that?" and implying his parents won't believe it wasn't him), the babysitter's boyfriend deliberately and carelessly destroying the boy's childhood bunny doll, just to name a few.
I won't lie, the storytelling is well thought out, the visuals are strikingly creative, and the characters and writing are very smartly executed. But the fact of how downright cruel its tone can get at times just really turns me off.
CatMaster90001
I disagree, true there are some moments where the characters go above and beyond mean, but to be fair Nubercracker was only trying to protect the girl, and by stealing her bike she'd probably avoid him and his house. As for the baby sitter, The Fairly Odd Parents did the same thing. In fact the babysitter reminded me a lot of Vicky. And to answer the last question, he's just a dick, but the doll could still be fixed afterwards.
***** To each their own, that's for sure. I certainly won't doubt that others feel different about the movie, and my issues with the mean-spirited moments are probably all my own, in the very least. I just can't help but feel a bit hurt myself at how cold-hearted some of the moments are, but at least I have good enough critical judgment to tell that it shouldn't affect the overall quality of the movie itself, which, in all fairness, is definitely impressive.
Though it's quite a coincidence that you mention Vicky and The Fairly Oddparents... I have a burning hatred of that show, for reasons that are also most likely personal to myself particularly. The mean-babysitter shtick was set to an extreme exaggeration whenever it was with Vicky, almost to an insanely illogical degree. It makes no sense to me why a teenage girl would be that freaking sadistic against a 10-year-old kid, and being so bluntly evil and maniacal about it, too. My main criticisms of the show is that the majority of its characters are insufferably annoying idiots, with only a select few of them serving as the "smart" characters, and its tone and pacing is ridiculously hyperactive and overwhelming that, to me, makes Ren and Stimpy look _tame_ in comparison. Not to mention that according to old Nickelodeon ratings statistics, the show is partially responsible for the unfairly premature cancellation of Invader Zim, one of my all-time favorite shows, so my hatred of Fairly Oddparents is definitely rooted at a personal level. Knowing how many people enjoy it, I won't judge them for doing so, and I automatically sympathize with them on how downhill it's gotten with the inclusion of Poof and Sparky. But of course, I never thought it was good to begin with, so it just looks like they're setting the bar lower for themselves, to me...
I think the "lack of variety" with the expressions in Corpse Bride comes from the animation technique they used. Unlike most stop motion films where the characters have their faces replaced to change expression, Corpse Bride uses a single face but with a mechanical interior. You stick Allen keys into their ears to adjust the gears and make various parts of their faces move. I suggest looking into it, it's super cool!
Visually, this film is one of my favourites. It's so gorgeous!
Halloween Town anyone? I LOVED that movie as a kid because I was super obsessed with witches. I re-watched it recently expecting it to be incredibly lame and just make fun of it but I was pleasantly surprised. The acting is really good and the character dynamic is believable. The effects are cheesy and the ending is very much Disney Channel lame but all around it's not that bad
Especially the late Debbie Reynolds! Rest in the Greatest Peace!
Top of my list
They did in disneycember
Did you see her in big bad wolf though? Haha
Ikr
The moment Critic started saying "No, no, no, no, no..." I knew that fucker was gonna make us wait to see #1. Damn you Nostalgia Critic, AND your wildly entertaining critiques!
Awesome Ninja I know! URRRGH!! But DAMN does he know how to hang us on a cliff.
+Nigel Perry Is it weird that I'm imagining you shaking your fist angrily at the sky?
+jazzy leah Not at all.
+Nigel Perry
Didn't he do a similar thing last year with "Monster Squad"?
EdBoy1215 Yeah.
I really love Corpse Bride. It's not as good as Nightmare Before Christmas, but I still loved it.
xSonicSeedrian Finally some one else agrees
A more hidden Tim Burton gem in my opinion. It's underrated. But hell I understand why.
I wonder if Doug knows about Scary Godmother or its sequel?
+Kenpachi Ramasama NO! WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THOSE MOVIES!
+Kenpachi Ramasama My guess is that the next one probably is Scary Godmother.
+Kenpachi Ramasama scary god mother is the best bad good halloween movie
+Kenpachi Ramasama I was actually guessing that for the #1 pick! I have no opinions on it other than it's weird.
SEQUEL
Corpse Bride is such a great movie!!! Though I guess you can't expect less from Tim Burton!!
I AGREE
Yes! It's one of my favourite movies, it's beautifully made, awesome music and a cool story :)
Jette Jense I especially love the music.
+Ghastcraze The music is awesome! So is the art, and I also love the story and watch it all the time!
Tony McGrew The animation is great too! I love Burton's style :3
Hocus Pocus?
The Halloweentown movies?
What is it, Doug? WHAT IS IT?!
+Kairi Yajuu its hocus pocus, u can hear the witches laugh at the end and during the credits theres the music from the movie
+Kairi Yajuu OMG YES, I FREAKING LOVED THOSE MOVIES!
+Kairi Yajuu Eather casper or the great pumpkin
+Kairi Yajuu Hocus I'm going to assume "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."
Though I'd love to see a review of Hocus Pocus. Sure, it might have been cheesy, but I absolutely loved that movie as a kid. I wouldn't call Hocus Pocus a guilty pleasure because I think it's genuinely good.
+Phlebas i actually don't think hocus pocus qualifies cause no one ever feels guilty about loving that movie. a shit ton of people proudly and excitedly talk about watching it every halloween
I always watch Scooby Doo And The Ghoul School at Halloween...love that movie haha
I watch Scooby Doo in Zombie Island and The Witch's Ghost every year. Really, you could watch an entire Scooby Doo marathon and it would be appropriate.
Don't forget The Alien Invaders and the Boo Brothers! All the old hand-drawn Scooby Doo films are just such gold!
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Dude, YES! It's nice to see Ghoul School, Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, etc. get some love for once! I always make sure I watch Witch's Ghost at least once every October. It was one of my favorite movies as a child and still is today. Even if I can now see the plot twist coming a mile away, I don't care; it's a really charming and interesting story with a surprising amount of intensity for a direct-to-DVD kids' flick, the climax is GREAT, the animation's GORGEOUS, the New-England-in-October setting is so warm and inviting but also a bit mysterious (so it makes the perfect addition to any Halloween movie lineup), any piece of Scooby-Doo media that involves actual supernatural happenings is automatically awesome in my book, Tim Curry is amazing as always, anything involving witches fascinates me, and...THE HEX GIRLS. JUST...THE HEX GIRLS. BEST FICTIONAL BAND EVER. ❤ I even own the Witch's Ghost soundtrack! Didn't know its whereabouts for the longest time, but my dad found it sometime last year, so I've gone back to my yearly tradition of pulling it out and playing it on fall road trips every October. The songs are great for the most part (the rock numbers from Zombie Island are even included on the disc! 8D), but one or two are so silly and so distinctly...late 90s that it's hilarious. Please, give it a listen; you can find all the songs on TH-cam, and you won't regret it. xD
Necron00b I love that movie but I lost my DVD (please kill me now lol)
Victor (Corpse Bride) not having many facial expressions was a deliberate artistic choice, one that NC actually touched on in Burton's satirization of Victorian England. While I agree it makes the protagonist a titch dull, you cannot deny that it fits right in with the backwards world in Corpse Bride. Easily one of the greatest scores of any animated film (even if I'm partial to Giacchino's The Incredibles score), beautifully composed shots and scenes, and a more original, more touching story than Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride shouldn't be considered a guilty pleasure at all and should instead be heralded as one of Halloween's greatest contemporary films. I mean hey, at least Corpse Bride has a villain, unlike NBC (I don't really count the Ooga-Booga as a villain, nor Jack as a hero).
couldn't have said this better!
Huh never thought of NBC as the Nightmare Before Christmas initials actually kinda funny
More original?! It’s literally based on a Jewish folktale while Nightmare Before Christmas was an original fairytale that Burton came up with from seeing Halloween and Christmas merchandise sold at the same time.
The one thing I remember about Monster House is the uvula scene.
kevin willems what? No! Everyone has a uvula
@@rynemcgriffin1752 I know I don't...
Oh, so it's a *girl* house!
@@dagnytheartist the ironic thing is that Chowder is right. It's posessed by the spirit of the old man's wife.
The "killer trick or treating kid" is called Sam. Short for Samhain. He's supposed to be a personification of the spirit of the holiday.
I love Trick 'R Treat! I can't go to sleep Halloween night until I've watched it.
NEXT REVIEW IS HOCUS POCUS
OMG yes lol
I actually like that movie.....
that's the 3rd time. Its tapped out of material! first Lindsay, then Doug for Disneycember. there is NOTHING left to be said about that film.
Why not Casper Meets Wendy, or Scary godmother, or Halloweent Town, or Van Helsing?
He already talked about it in Disneycember 3
+FIREWING760 Who doesn't?
The Addams family. Both of them, but especially the first one. They are great films on their own, and every Halloween it feels like coming back to an old friend.
Alvin and the Chipmunks meets Frankenstein and The Wolfman are very good Halloween specials, Grinch night is awesome and well The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown will remain an instant classic!
Why is corpse bride a guilty pleasure? It's genuinely good.
That's what I was thinking
I loved Nightmare Before Christmas, and compared to that it was boring. Not much really happens in it, and the dead are nowhere as colorful or interesting as the halloweentown denizens. I frankly only remember the spider by now as a character design that stood out.
@@SwiftNimblefoot Not everything has to be zany, wacky, and vibrantly colorful to be good. I appreciate media that trusts its story and message enough to have a more toned-down aesthetic. Idk, I like the quiet lol
As usual everyone's forgetting this is a personal holloween guilty pleasure, NOT a universal guilty pleasure list. What's boring for one person, is pleasant for another person. The Corpse Bride is a guilty pleasure FOR THE CRITIC, and that doesn't mean it's a bad movie. If something is enjoyable enough to keep coming back to, then there's something good in it. We don't all react the same way to things. For instance, Moulin Rouge is not a guilty pleasure for me. It's a pleasure. I love the energy of it, at the same time, I don't share it with other people cause I'm quite aware others might not value it the same. That's what's really going on with guilty pleasures. It's stuff we love that other people might not love or even like. I remember watching the Corpse Bride. I found it pleasant, and I found it boring, and for me, boring is a killer. I'm glad some people like it though, and I can see why they like it, I'm just not like that.
Opinions.
The Lost Boys. Every year I gotta watch it!
9:41 Corps bride also the only movie to make the word "hopscotch" a bit chilling.
Huh, i got two of my wishes here. I requested Monster House and Corpse Bride for an editorial and here they are, on a countdown. Thanks Doug!
Also, my guess for the next review is Hocus Pocus!
Do you mean editorial?
Right, sorry, i was getting sleepy.
+AtOutoftheBlue OK, i fixed it
The Ed Edd and Eddy one was incredible
+Tony Mattausch Ah yes, Boo Haw Haw... Now that's a Halloween special I really ought to watch more often than I have been every year!
Anyone remember Halloween town?
And Return to Halloween town
+The Positive Lolii King nooo
+Nick Wiley Had that stuff on TV yesterday evening.
+Nick Wiley Saw it and the first sequel.
+Nick Wiley My favorite Halloween movie, I watch the first three every year.
2015 was the year for The Nostalgia Critic
Why?
HOCUS POCUS!! I could tell be the cackling at very end!
I thought that too, but it could be, and hear me out...Twilight. Hocus Pocus, while a guilty pleasure, wouldn't really get a reaction like that. It would have to be something god awful. Any thoughts?
+Daniel Landers Well the thing about Twilight is that, yes it's bad, but it's not really a Halloween movie, where as Hocus Pocus is a Halloween film. And if you really think about it, HP is very over the top and is hokey to the max. Heck, Bette Middler looks like a bucktoothed pumpkin. The writing for the film isn't super strong and the plot's really silly. The movie has 30% on Rotten Tomatoes. But aside from that, a lot of people do watch this every Halloween and has a cult following. It puts you in the Halloween spirit, so it has to be Hocus Pocus.
+Daniel Landers I really hope he didn't say all that crap about Hocus Pocus. The film is definitely not as terrible as he was making it out to be although it would still fit in this category. Halloween Town on the other hand... I love it but I definitely would see where someone would speak a lot of crap about while seeing it as a guilty pleasure but I have a feeling it is Hocus Pocus since that is arguably the Halloween film, even the blu-ray went out of stock on Amazon right before October.
+Daniel Landers um, Hocus Pocus IS god awful
+lightningspeed719 Good point actually, I always thought Hocus Pocus was neither bad nor good, more it was okay at best.
It's funny. Corpse Bride was my first Tim Burton film. My parents never showed me his films. I never saw them until I made a few friends in high school that liked his stuff. One of my friends had me over for a sleepover, and the last thing we did was pop in Corpse Bride. She fell asleep b/c she'd seen it before. Despite being very tired, I stayed up for the whole thing and fell in love with it.
Being more familiar with Burton's filmography, Corpse Bride has still been my favorite of his films. My feelings on certain films of his fluctuate sometimes, but Corpse Bride always remains my #1. Maybe it's because it's sentimental to me. Maybe it's because of the story and the characters. Despite the flaws in the film, like NC mentioned, I don't love the film any less than when I first watched it.
+Eerie0Innocence Mine (with Burton being the director) is Beetlejuice. Nightmare Before Christmas can contend with it though although Burton was just one of the writers for that film. I was introduced to Burton's style when I was very young, although he isn't one of my favorite directors anymore after really getting into films, I still love his art style.
He is one of the few that can get me to sit through a musical though, that is an achievement.
+Do NoT AdJuSt YoUr MoNiTeR just 'cause you ain't true super sand
+Eerie0Innocence You know, you raise a very good point. ^^ I guess Corpse Bride is sort of meant to be seen either at an early age, or as one of the first exposures one has to Tim Burton's masterfully unique art style, in order to have a significant enough effect upon first viewing it. That way, its flaws aren't as glaring to its audience, and its unique beauties shine a lot more effectively. Oh, how I wish I could have had as magical a viewing of it as you did... You should consider yourself VERY lucky to have such wonderful memories.
+Eerie0Innocence The movie did get boring for me at times, but once it got to the underworld scene, it actually made me happy to eventually die.
+Eerie0Innocence Corpse Bride was my first date movie.
I'm fucking calling it: the next review is Scary Godmother. I know *I* sure as hell don't know why I like that godforsaken movie so much!
IKR???
+XshadOtakuX probably maybe the same way I wonder why I like it because the jokes are so cheesy and dumb and it's so stupid it's hilarious. Plus I love the werewolf haha
Shannon Bristol True dat XD
+XshadOtakuX Wow my brother and I went through the last 6-7 years thinking we're the only ones who watched that...
+Shannon Bristol I like it because of how the kids are written, it feels like you're in 5th grade again.
I love how your reviews aren't just bad. I appreciate how even though the things you review have flaws and sometimes an awful lot of them, you almost always point out a few good things that they got right. It's really nice to find a channel that isn't completely hating on everything you review. I just subbed to you about 5 days ago and I am so glad to say I don't regret it at all. Your videos are refreshing to watch cuz you name the good along with the bad with what you review and I just want to say keep up the amazing videos. You are an awesome channel that I did refer to just about everyone I know and will continue to do so for as long as your channel exist or until I run out of people to refer you too. Again I love your channel and your videos and I'm always entertained by what you upload. Doug, you never disappoint, keep it up, you're awesome!!!!!
Dude, I can't believe you left out scary godmother!
OMG I LOVE THAT MOVIE
yea thats what i said. or as its more known by its true title Halloween Spooktacular
That was my childhood. I watched it every year religiously. It was my favorite! He should totally do a review!!!
THANK YOU
Omg my childhood! xD I also loved reading the books too lol
Nostalgia Crittic: "this is about as low budget as TV specials get"
Rapsittie Street Kids Believe In Santa Claus: Am I A joke to you?
Then how did they get that voice cast?
@@aidanredding8058 oh, well idk.
@@jeremy3261 Me neither
It's now a seasonally appropriate time to watch this
Wait, I just realized, Doug had the David Pumpkins jacket before SNL! OMG, he needs to do an episode on that!!!
You know what the most pure essence of comedy is ? Well just wait un till next week a- "TIMING!"
I was hoping for Casper Meets Wendy as well.
just so long as he doesn't retread old ground by doing Hocus Pocus, I'll be fine.
seriously, between him and Lindsay, everything that can be said about that film has been said.
Anyone else remember 'The Haunting Hour' with Emily O. As the protagonist with a really obnoxiously obvious wig? No one? Just me? Okay...
Have it on DVD
+lexie jones (loraxaddict487) I never saw it, but I remember the commercials for it scared the shit out of me.
+lexie jones (loraxaddict487) I've seen it, I just don't remember anyone of it... Wait... Coming back to me... Is it that movie where there's a dog with two heads, one that drinks the blood and the other eats the flesh?
+lexie jones (loraxaddict487) I do. I hated it, mostly because of the end.
The show or the movie? I remember both...
The assessment of "Corpse Bride" is horrible. Doug's explanation of the film pointed out how little he gets it. Love NC but really missed the mark with this one. Not a guilty pleasure; nearly a masterpiece! Also, Trick or Treat is easy to explain so I'm thinking Doug didn't see it. Someone probably told him about it. It's so much better than explained here...and definitely has some very scary moments!
Very true.
I wanna hear what you have to say about scary godmother
trulychloe it's amazing
Yes very nostalgic for me.
trulychloe I loved it as a kid, I thought it was a good movie to watch to get into the Halloween spirit
Update: NC just reviewed it in the first Nostalgiaween episode of 2017.
It's animation was bad (worse than my half-assed memory thought,) and the story wasn't executed well, but the concept _was_ interesting and grabbed my interest: a key that works in _any_ lock that legitimately takes you to another world. Very interesting indeed and I was very disappointed when the key wasn't kept a secret from the older kids. :(
i LOVE the corps bride and i love the color in the underworld i thought it was a cleaver touch.
THANK YOU, I've been trying to figure out what that one halloween special i watched on TV when i was like 11 for the past 13 years. Turns out it was The Halloween Tree
+InsomniacMatt I think that special still creeps me out, especially the spooky choral music at the beginning, and that freaky hybrid Carnivorous kite [made from circus animal posters]!
+InsomniacMatt Same here. I saw it years ago on vhs and certain scenes have always stuck with me, except I knew nothing about the film. Now I need to watch to see why I remember it.
g1rhines
Me too.
Maybe I can still find my old VHS tape downstairs tonight.
+InsomniacMatt same... it was on tv several years ago... it didn't had any commercial breaks... so i had no idea what the title was
i was sure it would be on tv in the next year...it wasn't :p
+InsomniacMatt hey if you have want to watch it you can find it on KissCartoons.com
Is it that Scary Godmother movie? The one they run on Cartoon Network every year which sucks but has a weird amount of charm you can't turn away from?
I think its on nose scary godmother is one that fit in with other and its not great but overlooked
+Mr. Marowak Mona Pizza!
+Mr. Marowak Oh my goodness, I love watching that movie (and its sequel)! XD
+Mr. Marowak im surprised they never shown it on cartoon network this year
very boring halloween it was this year
+The Countess of Tasty Food me too!
I remember watching Halloween Tree, but I had long forgotten the name of it. I'm gonna have to rewatch it now.
CORPSE BRIDE IS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER WATCHED!
Corpse Bride is my favorite movie ever. We shall make NC pay for his sins.
I think its ok. Decent story, decent characters, and pretty good animation. It has that Tim Burton charm you cant really deny.
No Charlie Brown and the great pumpkin?
it's a guilty pleasure list,it's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown is awesome to be on here!
A Guilty Pleasure Is Something You Know Is Bad (Or You Just Don't Like) But Enjoy Watching It
+Dommbuscus And The Great Pumpkin Isn't Bad
I actually had a laugh out loud at the truck being in the bar joke. That's a great gag.
Monster house is awesome! Who agrees? I have it on DVD.
I really liked it the first time I watched it. It starts from something that a lot of people an relate from their childhood. I mean, even I remember back in the day there was this creepy empty house in the neightborhood that the kids said was haunted, you know, the typical kid's creepy rumour. This picture took that and made it real.
The way it's paced is nice too, it doesn't go full horror movie from the start. It starts with kind of a mysterious tone, and has a neat action climax.
Also, one of the scenes with the cops is hilarious.
That’s the one I can’t get into. I babysit a little boy and he always makes me watch that film and I find the strange aggressive sexual tension between the babysitter and the boyfriend off putting and the parents odd and flat.
yeah it's great. lol I should own it on DVD too, dunno why I don't. it's gotta high replay value imo.
Its so nostalgic for me
Pretty sure Babs is supposed to be Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes fame
Yes. I am surprised that he didn't catch that. He was so distinctive.
I love Corpse Bride. My only problems were the villain being shitty and Victor not ending up with Emily. Come on, were we really attached to Victoria? He knew more about the dead girl and had time to fall for her, he talked to Victoria like...twice or something.
Not to mention she's about as interesting as a concrete wall
yea that was my only issue with corpse bride, loved the songs, loved the designs, the story. but the ending kind of sucked
The thing is that Emily already had died and didn't want to take away Victoria's chance at happiness considering she had that taken away from her. She did finally find peace so I'd say it ended pretty well
+Hannah McBride Well to be fair to Victoria, we were never actually given time to get to know her. But the little we did see made her seem like a foil to her mother. And Victor wasn't exactly the most exciting man in the world either. Honestly Victor and Victoria were perfect for one another. Emily gave up Victor so that Victor could start a family with Victoria, something he couldn't do as Emily presumably can't get pregnant, being dead and all. I'm not even sure she would be able to consumate the marriage.
+Hannah McBride This may shed some light as to why Victor Ended up with Victoria. Corpse Bride is not that new of a concept. its had it's on folklore for quite some time infact it was based off the tale itself. give the story a read and you'll see how similar they are. while Tim Burtan's being it own whimsical way of story telling www.scaryforkids.com/corpse-bride-story/
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wow love the new Goosebumps intro
I love monter house, it's one of the few animations I can watch over and over again
It's not technically a "Halloween Special", but I like Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed. It's mostly nostalgia that makes me like it, but I think it's one of the better live action cartoon movies.
That movie was so good! I remember being so scared of the tar monster scene at the end when it drowns them. Zombie island is the best scooby doo movie though.
+Zarbi Xii that doesn't qualify as a guilty pleasure. It's Legitimately good.
+Zarbi Xii
Nah man, it's all about that Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase. Though Zombie Island is a lot "scarier."
+Zarbi Xii I always thought Zombie Island was legitimately scary when I was younger. It's definitely the best Scooby Doo movie by far.
+John Quincy Adams the Tank Engine
*pumps shotgun* What are you saying about Zombie Island?
I thought for sure Hocus Pocus would be on the list
I think that's number 1 tbh
Hardly, the guy has said he hates it. Think is the next review actually
+Ed Kauffman Nostalgia Chick has already reviewed Hocus Pocus.
+Masterofxtreme93 It was number one. :) He just refused to review it here! XD
+Masterofxtreme93
It kind of was; Doug just REFUSED to mention it's name at the end there
Did you know? The original title of corpse bride was
Necrophelia: The Movie
Source?
I just discovered this channel a week ago and have been binging every video, and honestly, big props to the charities of the week. Most other channels just mention it in passing, but I can tell you actually care.
For me, it's the original "Scary Movie". It gives me enough laughs to counter all the horror I usually watch from September to October.
GOOSEBUMPS NOW NOSTALGICALLY PROFITABLE?!
+T for Tony A Goosebumps movie was recently released in theaters, starring Jack Black. The premise is that a group of teenagers meet R.L. Stine (Goosebumps' creator/author, played by Black) and accidently released all the creatures from his books into the world by opening a chest. Yeah, it plays on the idea that Stine "locked" away his monsters because they were too dangerous or something. The movie is basically a comedy/horror film... and since Goosebumps have been released years ago, it is considered "nostalgic".
+MrJechgo Ya I Know
I heard the movie was actually pretty good
+Iqbalx1 It's passable entertainment. Jack does a fun job as Stine, the CG is obvious but looks good, there's a TON of Goosebumps creatures for fans to identify. Though I'll admit, the opening of the movie put me to sleep.. I woke up before the real action started, but still not the best signs. XD
absolutely loved corpse bride, not as much as nightmare obviously but still
And I think Vincent is better than Nightmare but I love Nightmare still!
My dad and I used to watch The Halloween Tree all the time. It was one of those movies that became a tradition and over the years, he watched (and loved) it with all the grandkids as well. He was so pissed when my mom got rid of all the VHS tapes and he couldn’t watch it. I hunted the DVD down a few years ago and it has once again become a tradition. It’s just one of those movies I will always love.
Next week: Hocus Pocus
+jktomas Probably.
Thing is, he's done Hocus Pocus in Disneycember and Ernest Scared Stupid as its own review
+Samuel Tinker I think it may be one of the Casper movies. I'm thinking probably Casper Meets Wendy.
Is Hocus Pocus stupid? Cause I always thought it was good.
Aron puma But Hocus Pocus is still frequently requested by fans. Plus, he hated this film in Disneycember, so the reaction at the end of this video makes sense. Just because he already reviewed it in Disneycember doesn't mean it's completely out of question. Nostalgia Critic is more comedy than an actual review while Disneycember is pure review and nothing else.
Leanord Nimoy played a bald old man? Hmmmmm, sounds familiar.
+Gamelover254 He was also a transforming alien robot... _before_ Michael Bay made his own Transformers movies. Guess which Transformer Nimoy played before Dark of the Moon?
+Gamelover254 are you perhaps refering to master xehanort?
Yeah i feel the same.... there just be a key to finding out what it is though... maybe we can find it in the darkness of my closet
yes, good old master xehanort (:
+CatMaster90001 OG Galvatron back in the 1986 movie.
my Halloween guilty pleasure is the Happy Tree Friends Halloween specials.
I first watched Monster House when it first came to DVD and I got so scared after watching the whole thing once that I couldn't watch it again till Halloween of 2016, I was 18 at the time, and I found out Gil Kenan, the director of the Poltergeist remake and the co-director of the upcoming FNAF movie, directed Monster House, I've heard of haunted houses and ghosts possessing the furniture inside but I never heard of a ghost possessing an entire house and lawn, now that is freakin terrifying, wouldn't go to that house on Halloween
Sure the Monster House is scary, but is it as scary as...
Corn??? :0
*laughs in Stephen King*
Yay Garfield! I can remember watching that after trick or treating, still in my costume and being scared to death of those pirate ghosts.
I'll take those pirate ghosts any day over that old guy in the chair...
Sam Raffield True, that was probably the most terrifying part.
That story and the animation on him gave me nightmares as a kid, no lie.
Sam Raffield I still watched it every year though.
oh yes, same here. I still have the DVD lol
Personally I liked Corpse Bride a lot more than Nightmare Before Christmas.
Nightmare was then better than Frankenweenie, and I can't say much about Vincent due to its length. Mostly due to the cool animation and witty lines, something about Nightmare just falls short. I thought Frankenweenie needed a few more creatures and characters of interest. All his films are worth a watch though, especially on Halloween.
+TheTinFoilHatter So what makes Corpse Bride better than Nightmare Before Christmas, then?
+CatMaster90001 Nothing really, outside of the less polished animation I have to say that I can't find fault in Nightmare Before Christmas, I don't even like romantic movies but I found Corpse Bride to be more entertaining than his other films, maybe the charming scenes like the zombies invasion of the town, fantastic music, punny lines ("where do you keep the spirits?"), interesting set pieces with unique animation and characters.
Yes, Nightmare has all of those things done very well, right down to an awesome fight scene at the end, but I just feel like Corpse Bride is better in my eyes.
Just my opinion, anyway! I'm a normal human being, right down to a burning hatred of Google+, which has inexplicably refused to show me your comment reply and made me re-open TH-cam just to reply.
+TheTinFoilHatter Okay, that's cool. ^^ Just wondering what your reasoning was behind your opinion, is all. I'm always curious as to why people like or dislike certain things. It opens up new ways of understanding people, for me.
I see you're facing the same problems I'm facing with Google Plus as well. X3 Jesus, is it _frustrating_ right now, having to pull open separate tabs just to reply to one fucking little comment, especially when we had no problem replying to comments in the little sub-window beforehand! Why did they have to take that away from us?! It's not fair...
+TheTinFoilHatter The two I liked of his were Nightmare and Corpse Bride.
TheTinFoilHatter
If I was going to add something, I'd probably say that Corpse bride adds a little more focus on the little things, like the scene with the butterfly at the beginning or the piano duet, and I can't say there's anything less heartwarming than the scene with the living reuniting with their undead friends. I also liked the funny details, like the parents interrupting any kind of romance between two people that they are going to marry, or the fact that I'm actually charmed by the appearance of the rotting undead. Nightmare was probably a story more eager to be told but something seems to be missing in threading its fantastic scenes together.
Also, Google+ is working fine now, it just decided to pick-and-choose when it was going to be functional. I don't mind having a universal Internet site for numerous functions, I mind that the most popular function is horrendously designed.
First of all. I had no idea about Lindsey's father, and I feel awful about that. I'm glad that you include charity shout-outs at the end.
Lighter note, No one should ever feel guilty about watching Trick r' Treat. It's the perfect Halloween movie. It's festive, creepy, funny, and feels like an old episode of Tales From the Darkside.
Trick r Treat and Scary godmother and the sequel.
I don't think anyone should feel guilty about watching those. They're so great. Trick r' Treat is now a new classic. :D
J Smith I liked it. I got exactly what I wanted out of the movie, and always have a lot of fun watching it.
Treehouse of Horror is always fun.
Especially V!
+shadowlinkbds YES!
+Thomaszeblob Episode 5 would make the number 1 spot
"The late Leonard Nimoy."
...When the hell did he die?! Seriously, I was genuinely shocked to hear that!
Crash's Underwear Sadly, we lost him on February 27, 2015. As someone who grew up loving Leonard Nimoy, I was devastated. Particularly since the World had just lost Robin Williams in August of 2014.
The Halloween Tree isn’t a guilty pleasure of mine. I absolutely adore it! I can’t remember an animated special, previous to this one, that actually delved into the lore behind what is a very fascinating holiday.
I used to own a copy on VHS, as well as the original novel by one of my favorite authors, Ray Bradbury. Unfortunately I don’t know what happened to either of them.
Critic, you are so entertaining. Please never stop. I've been watching you for at least 5 years. Always gold!
yay, someone remembers the garfield halloween special. maybe you can talk about the camping special ad the Christmas special.
+Hyper Super Sonic < the camping special
Thanksgiving - and the Christmas one was #10 in his Top 12 Greatest Christmas Specials list.
+Hyper Super Sonic I have all the specials on DVD. Some of them I never even saw in my childhood.
Candy, candy, candy, candy! Steady yourself, Garfield! - watch it every year, i think i'll watch it right now! Happy Halloween!
+Hyper Super Sonic *HEYYYYYYYYYYY KIDS!!!!!*
+Hyper Super Sonic Phelous did a review on it a few years ago too
I love monster house I watch it every Halloween!!! Really underrated so glad nostalgia critic (Doug walker) gave it positive review!! :))
Nebbercracker was awesome! Also the House itself is just fantastic! GET OFF MY LAWN! Never forget that line!
+The Cinematic Mind do you want to be eaten alive??
+Sasuki Uchiha (Fem sasuke) my awesome kite XD
+Marvin's Channel No!
The body scene scared the shit out of me!
I loved Trick r Treat. I should go back and see if it still holds up.
+Ben Grieve Did you know the director of Trick 'r Treat is releasing a Christmas horror film this December, entitled Krampus?
+CatMaster90001 Yeah. It looks okay.
+CatMaster90001 i did not even realize it was the same guy
+Ben Grieve why'd you like it? Not trying to be rude, just geniunely curious because I can't find a single good thing about it.
***** It's one of the only Halloween-themed horror films I've seen. It's a unique concept. The visuals are great. It's entertaining. I did watch it again and loved it just as much. It's not an amazing film but it does what it does very well.
Corpse Bride is what Tim Burton needs to be: Complete creative control without original source material to stick to. He is the type of person where in order to be good, he needs to start from scratch and have zero restraint.
*cough* Hocus Pocus *cough*
Pretty sure that was the #1 selection
That was his number 1
Yes, I'm responding to this old ass comment
Yeah, the main problem of Monster House to me is the CGI. I feel that it looks worse than Toy Story, which was released 11 years earlier.
Caleb Jaaniste I like the animation, it's not for everybody, but I think it really fits the tone of the movie
It was mocaped i just found out
17 times, Mr. Critic. Wally says it 17 times
Halloween is Grinch Night is one of my favorite halloween special just for this back and forth "You know I like you better with my glasses off" then the grinch says "you put your glasses on and face the facts!" It makes me laugh harder than it honestly should've
Jack Black And Goosebumps in place of the Dog is hilarious
3:07 That's Andy Rooney! That's funny!
Monster House was the best.
The real Ghostbusters episodes, when Halloween was forever, Halloween 1 1/2, and the Halloween door. Are the guilty pleasures I watch every year.
Corpse Bride is NOT a guilty pleasure…it's simply a pleasure to watch :)
Corpse Bride is the BEST!
My favorite movie to watch every halloween is Scary Godmother and its sequel. The sweet cheese that is early CG animation and ham filled acting and Picilo from DBZ plays a gay skeleton where can you go wrong
hmm... that could be next week's review...
Corpse Bride, for me is anything BUT a guilty pleasure. I absolutely love it, I may even love it more than Nightmare Before Christmas
Corpse Bride is my favorite movie ever.
3:05 Pretty sure that's an impression of Andy Rooney (an old guy who used to do a closing editorial on "60 Minutes." He died a couple years ago, I think.) Which is a pretty obscure reference to put in a kids' show, even in the 1990s.
Guilty Pleasures~
Everybody has a few~
Guilty Pleasures~
You and me and even you!~
+Do NoT AdJuSt YoUr MoNiTeR thank you
+SF56tube Mine has to be the Grown Ups movies. I know they're stupid, immature, and lazy but somehow they get a laugh out of me!
Yay! Critic basically said in a way that he likes ParaNorman!
I actually watched corpse bride today and I love that movie but corpse brides backstory is so dark
Thats the point. Look at who made it.
The Halloween Tree is one of my favorites! It's an Arrington tradition to watch it while eating Halloween candy.
My grandfather also told the story on radio when he was in his college years.
I watched Scooby Doo on Zombie Island on most halloween nights
How the hell is Rocky Horror Picture Show not on this list?
+GdoubleWB Take a guess.
MastermindEpsilon Oh right. #1?
+GdoubleWB It's fucking amazing?
Like, actually god tier amazing?
Guys.
If he does Rocky Horror it could easily be a musical review like Les Mis and Moulan Rouge
Now imagine that. Him calling up Todd in the Shadows, Linkara, Kyle, hell even Linsday could come back for Rocky Horror
I do know Todd has been a bit slow on video making as of late, maybe this is brewing?
I really hope so. I want to see Doug sing a parody of Science Fiction Double Features
+GdoubleWB Because it's actually an amazing film. The point of this list was to show us "meh" films.
For me: Scary Godmother, Curious George: Halloween BooFest (yes, really), Halloween Town, even Charlie Brown on some levels! XD(It's a classic but personally I don't find it perfect. It has flaws and really nothing too special but I love it nevertheless)
I have a lot of Halloween favorites but I'll write some of the underrated ones I've always loved: Mickey's house of villains, Mickey Haunting Halloween sing along, Disney's Sleepy hollow, The worst witch (1986), Its the great pumpkin Charlie Brown🎃