A selection of animated kids' movies are the perfect fare for the Halloween season, offering a variety of delightful ghouls and ghosts. These titles range from lighthearted adventures with Halloween trappings to genuinely terrifying nightmare fuel, making it surprising that they would be considered children's movies. Such movies and TV shows are great transitional horror to introduce kids to the genre, at a time of year when everyone is embracing the spooky spirit.

A handful of amazing Halloween TV specials make for short movie-like experiences, while several movies people mistakenly think Tim Burton directed are also movie fan favorites for October. Despite being marketed towards children, not all of these perfect Halloween movies have a happy ending, sometimes concluding on a bittersweet or ambiguous note. The way they blend fantasy and horror curates experiences that are somber in visuals and tone but still have the whimsical personality of the best animated Disney movies.