Top Ten Independent Animated Movies and Shorts for Halloween!

The Halloween season has become a showcase for presenting good and not-so-good works on the big screen and now on streaming platforms, each one in its context boasts of telling a story related or not related to this holiday.

Animation cannot be left behind, fun for children and adults in a framework of possibilities that allows us to choose what we want to see, some come from comedy with hints of horror with simple but very entertaining animation, and others instead fall into the irreverent but they fulfill the same task.

We can see that these independent projects may or may not be on the same level as big productions but their distribution has been limited in some cases, their success depends a lot on the audience they are directed at and how we appreciate what we are seeing.

Given all that has happened worldwide, what we viewers now seek is to entertain ourselves and have a fun time taking advantage of a day or several days off in which we can choose what we want to see.

This is our top 10 independent animated movies for these dates.

Betty Boop’s Halloween Party (1933)

Director: Dave Fleischer.
Screenplay: Dave Fleischer.
Cast: Bonnie Poe.

The perkiest and most flirtatious girl at Fleischer Studios organizes an exceptional Halloween party for her friends, one night she will have an unexpected guest and it will be Betty who prevents everything from being ruined with her particular humor.

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

Director: Bill Melendez.
Screenplay: Charles M. Schulz
Cast: Peter Robbins, Sally Dryer, Christopher Shea, Glenn Mendelson, and Kathy Steinberg.

The fun gang of Peanuts prepares a great Halloween night, but it will be one of them who takes their tradition apart waiting for a being that nobody believes exists who is said to bring gifts to all children, as expected things can not go so well.

Mad Monster Party (1967)

Director: Jules Bass.
Screenplay: Len Korobkin, Harvey Kurtzman.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Phyllis Diller, Gale Garnet, and Ethel Enis.

The most terrifying monsters in the world of cinema meet at Frankenstein’s castle to elect a new leader while enjoying a night full of scares and fun.

Garfield’s Halloween Adventure (1985)

Director: Phil Roman.
Screenplay: Jim Davis.
Cast: Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger, C. Lindsay Workman, and Desirée Goyette.

The famous and lazy cat Garfield prepares what will be the best night of his life, with his inseparable companion Odie they will walk the streets in search of the loot of sweets that awaits them but it will not be only that what they find on their way.

Monster House (2006)

Director: Gil Kenan.
Screenplay: Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, and Pamela Pettler.
Cast: Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Kathleen Turner.

A trio of friends feels a strange fascination for a house that is supposedly abandoned and that they believe is haunted, their greatest fears will come true when they discover that what is said about that house is true.

Going Nuts (2007)

Director: Juanjo Ramirez.
Screenplay: Juanjo Ramirez.
Cast: Luis Jiménez, Gonzalo Navas, Jaime Vaca, Gaspar Ramírez and Patricia Riquelme.

Cries in the hallway is a 2007 animated film created by Juanjo Ramírez that delves into the comedy and horror genre where a famous children’s story illustrator is hired by the director of an asylum to decorate the walls with his drawings, which seems like an easy job, it gets complicated when the cartoonist discovers a dark corridor behind which some chilling screams are heard, a simple but colorful project that is starring peanuts.

Attack of the Mutant Dick from Outer Space (2007)

Director: Daniel Moreno.
Screenplay: David Abellán.
Cast: David Moreno, David Abellán, María Lavarta and Toni Vicente.

A film that mixes traditional animation with live action tells the story of three astronauts who travel through space to try to find a cure for the disease of the wolf children of Mexico, everything seems to be going well until a space field of gamma rays produces strange mutations in Dr. Dickinson transforming him into a horrible being thirsty for blood and sex. Bizarre and irreverent which is not for all audiences, the plot is bad, and the effects are bad but therein lies its charm and entertainment for adults.

Coraline (2009)

Director: Henry Selick.
Screenplay: Henry Selick.
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Keith David

Based on the graphic novel by writer Neil Gaiman, features Coraline, an unusual girl who can travel to another dimension where things aren’t as fun as she thinks.

ParaNorman (2012)

Director: Sam Fell and Chris Butler.
Screenplay: Chris Butler.
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, and Casey Affleck.

Norman is not a child like all the others, he can speak with the dead, this gift will lead him to live one of his greatest adventures where he will discover that not all specters are terrifying.

Seoul Station (2016)

Director: Yeon Sang-ho.
Screenplay: Yeon Sang-ho.
Cast: Ryu Seung-ryong, Shim Eun-kyung, and Lee Joon.

Animated prequel to the successful movie Train to Busan (2016) that places us in another part of the conflict with other characters, an injured old man is bleeding but nobody offers him help, and he decides to die at the station, a girl and her boyfriend go to the station where the old man has passed away and they find that zombies plague the place, escape from them and the city seems to be impossible.

We hope that these animated shorts and movies are to your liking and that you have an enjoyable night an enjoyablelection is now available in home formats and digital platforms.

Happy Halloween holidays and let’s hope we have nightmares!