The greatest Halloween movies on Disney Plus to stream this year

Young Victor relies heavily on companionship from his pup, Sparky. But, sadly, fate had other plans for the cute canine. But it just so happens that Victor has a love of science and uses that passion to bring Sparky back to life. What will happen when everyone else catches on that he is able to bring deceased animals back to life? (Hint: Nothing good.) Rated PG.  

Young Miguel comes from a tight-knit, multigenerational Mexican household, with one major rule: no music. An unplanned trip to the land of the dead reveals why that is – and that it’s based on a lie only Miguel can set straight. Sure, all the skeletons are freaky at first, but this is really a beautiful, big-hearted film about how we keep the spirits of our lost loved ones alive. Rated PG.

The Hansen kids aren't going to let the fact that they're grounded stop them from their plans. So, in hopes to sidetrack their mom, they're willing to do anything...even if that means setting her up with an eligible vampire. Rated TV-PG. 

Jack Skellington holds the honorable title of Pumpkin King. However, he's grown weary of his spooky responsiblities. When the thought of Halloween becomes too much to bare, he turns his attention toward Christmas, something he's never encountered before. What happens when he tries to give Kris Kringle a helping hand on December 24? Rated PG. 

Before the long-awaited sequel hits the streamer at the end of September, get reacquainted with the Sanderson sisters, a trio of witches from the 1600s unleashed in modern-day Salem, Massachusetts, in this cult-classic Disney horror comedy. After spending 300 years in purgatory, the coven – memorably portrayed by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy – are accidentally brought back to life by a local teenager, who has until sundown to send them back to the netherworld from whence they came. Hold on to your flying vacuums – it’s a wild ride! Rated PG.

Boomers grew up watching Judy Garland galavant through a land of Technicolor whimsy with her fabulous fairy-tale friends. Eighties kids got this acid nightmare. Set shortly after the events of the original Oz, the sorta-sequel follows Dorothy back over the rainbow, where she finds the kingdom reduced to rubble and overrun with truly terrifying creatures. Thought the flying monkeys were scary? Wait until you see the Wheelers. Rated PG.

In true Tia and Tamera Mowry fashion, the real-life twins play separated twins at birth—this time, with a few magical elements mixed in. When they retunite in the film, the sisters realize their powers are actually stronger when they join forces. Oh, the possibilities! Rated TV-PG. 

Washington Irving's grisly tale of Sleepy Hollow becomes more palatable for the kiddies in this cartoon, the second of two featurettes. Following The Wind in the Willows adaptation is this story of bumptious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his nemesis the Headless Horseman. It's a trite, chocolate-box picture of colonial days—until the Horseman shows up for one of those nightmare sequences with which Uncle Walt so relished. He sure liked to terrify his young audiences. Rated G.

Need a horror gateway for your burgeoning spookster? One of Disney’s many, many Halloween-themed TV movies, this ghost story involves a family (including David Faustino, aka Bud Bundy) battling a boil-faced evil spirit who’s something like a safe-and-sane Freddy Krueger. The story is fairly generic, but the villain is memorable enough to stay in your kid’s nightmares until they’re old enough to meet the real Freddy.    

Did Stephen Sondheim invent the multiverse? Certainly not, but he did open one with his 1987 musical. In Disney’s adaptation, Emily Blunt and James Corden venture into the deep, dark forest in search of a cure for a witch’s curse, bringing them into contact with the likes of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and other classic Grimm brothers characters. Meryl Streep is fantastic as the witch, natch.

What fun-loving group of tweens hasn’t want to befriend their own ancient mummy and try to keep it from the clutches of a band of criminals? Certainly none that we know. This boisterous good time of a Halloween flick – The Mummy for sugar fiends – is firmly in the tradition of Disney kids’ movies where the wee’uns stand up to baddies to protect a vulnerable friend. This one just happens to be several thousands of years old. 

Careful what you wish for! One teen is so over life on earth that he sends out a call to the cosmos to save him. But, he's definitely not prepared when aliens actually show up. Rated PG. 

The Sanderson sisters – Winnie (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mary (Kathy Najimy) – are back in Salem a full 30 years on from the original Hocus Pocus, and just as flamboyantly shameless as ever. But this long-awaited sequel confronts the ancient sorcesses with an immeasurably more powerful force: three sassy high-schoolers. It’s fun for all the family and the songs – especially the Elton John-written ‘The Witches Are Back’ – will be rattling around your house for days.