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Family Halloween favourites
  • Returning to the painstaking stop-motion animation he employed with amazing success in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton presents a hair-raising legend based on a 19th-century Russian folktale, in which a young man mistakenly weds a corpse while on a two-day trek to the village of his real bride-to-be.

    It is up to the groom's flesh-and-blood fiancée, who has been pining for the arrival of her intended, to face her wraith-like rival and make peace with her by promising to live her dreams for her and by vowing to remember her always.

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  • Inventor Wallace and his canine sidekick Gromit have set up a pest-control service in Nick Park's Oscar-winning animated adventure.

    When the pair are called in to stop rabbits overrunning a garden show they are overwhelmed when a destructive giant bunny arrives on the scene, while an interfering aristocrat contrives to make matters even worse.

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  • This 1984 comedy classic sees New York City menaced by increasingly frequent paranormal occurrences.

    And the only people who know what's going on are three extraordinarily bright but slightly odd NYU parapsychologists.

    Forced out of academia, they start their own Ghostbusting business in an old NYC firehouse, trapping pesky ghosts, haunts and poltergeists for money.

    But even the spirit exterminators are severely tested when beautiful Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and her weird neighbour (Rick Moranis) become possessed by demons living in their building. 

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  • Disney and Tim Burton got together to create this hilarious and heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog.

    After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life — with just a few minor adjustments.

    He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor's fellow students, teachers and the entire town learn that getting a new "leash on life" can be monstrous.

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  • Coraline Jones is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door that leads her into a world that's just like her own, but better!

    However, this fantastical adventure soon turns dangerous when Coraline's 'other' Mother tries to keep her forever, leaving the youngster to count on her resourcefulness and bravery to get home.

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  • This stop-motion animated comedy thriller sees a small town that comes under siege by zombies and needs the help of a misunderstood local boy named Norman, who is able to speak with the dead.

    In addition to the zombies, he also has to take on ghosts, witches and, worst of all, moronic grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

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  • After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbour Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine.

    Stine is very mysterious and a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and he protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their manuscripts.

    When the monsters are accidentally unleashed and begin to terrorise the town, it's up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get them back in their books where they belong.

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