Official Movie Trailer for Twilight, one of the films that made the Top 25 Halloween Outdoor Movies list.
We hope everyone has had a great Halloween weekend, especially as you have been screening your favorite scary flick on your Open Air Cinema outdoor movie system! We have enjoyed reviewing the our list of Top 25 Halloween Outdoor Movies, and are glad to hear that many of you have made the outdoor projection of a Halloween movie the centerpiece of your annual spooky party!
Remember these items if you are producing an outdoor movie event for tonight’s festivities:
- Bring plenty of blankets! They provide the needed cushion for sitting on the ground, as well as an additional layer of warmth if you are in an area of the country that experiences cold temperatures this time of year.
- Provide refreshments to keep your guests warm and filled (movies are always better with something to munch on!) For Halloween, we suggest hot apple cider or cocoa (you could dye the cider blood red!), warm cookies (try sugar cookies with spooky designs!), and seasonal candy (candy corn, gummy creepy crawlers, etc). Or, as we’ve suggested before, popcorn with creepy plastic bugs planted througout! Imagine the reaction of your guests when they grab a handful of popcorn, and pull out a disgusting spider or cockroach!
- Have fold-able camping chairs handy for the elderly members of your community or social circle who may not be comfortable sitting on the ground.
- Test your equipment ahead of time, so you can make sure everything is in working order before everyone shows up. Fire up your outdoor projector, and inflate your screen, as you’ll quickly see if anything is not working properly.
- Set up your outdoor air screen ahead of time. The last thing you want to be doing when everyone arrives is fiddling with the screen or un-tangling your cables. Setting up early will allow you to enjoy the company of your guests before the movie starts.
We wanted to list the Top 25 Halloween Outdoor Movies one more time, in case you haven’t decided what spooky flick to watch with your family or friends:
FAMILY HALLOWEEN MOVIES
1. Beetlejuice
2. Casper
3. Corpse Bride
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. GhostBusters
6. Harry Potter
7. Hocus Pocus
8. The Nightmare Before Christmas
9. Signs
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
11. Twilight Series
12. Young Frankenstein
SCARY HALLOWEEN MOVIES (Not for small children)
13. Amityville Horror
14. Arachnophobia
15. Blair Witch Project
16. The Exorcist
17. Halloween Series
18. Jaws
19. Paranormal Activity
20. Rosemary’s Baby
21. Scream
22. Shaun of The Dead
23. Session 9
24. The Shining
25. Shutter Island
If you are interested in obtaining an Open Air Cinema outdoor movie system in time for your Thanksgiving get together or for that special Christmas gift, contact us today! We’ll be in touch shortly, and will help you find an outdoor movie system that will meet your needs and budget.
Happy Halloween, from everyone at Open Air Cinema!
Jaws presents some great opportunities to make your outdoor movie screen event memorable for your guests or family. Specializing the setting for your outdoor movie always makes for a great experience, so if you are in a boating community, this movie is for you! We’ve seen a number of Open Air Cinema customers who have produced beach-side screenings, where they’ve set up their pro or elite screen right on the sand!
We’ve also seen boat drive in setups, where the audience will watch an outdoor screen movie from their individual boats, listening to the sound through their radio transmitters. This requires the event producer to get a powerful transmitter that will produce a strong enough signal so everyone can hear the audio loud and clear. If you are unfamiliar with such transmitters, fell free to 
As you plan your Halloween party this year, an outdoor movie screening of Rosemary’s Baby is a perfect centerpiece to your event. Your Open Air Cinema outdoor screen and outdoor projector will go up like a breeze, creating a setup that will make the evening memorable for all your guests. As the weather begins to be a bit cooler in October, make sure to bring the blankets. For a screening of Rosemary’s Baby, you could have chocolate mousse as a refreshment (the dish Rosemary partakes when she is abducted by the secret cult), and hot apple cider to keep the spirit of the Halloween season (and to make sure your guests are warm!).
If you really want to go all the way, setting up your inflatable movie screen near a scary old apartment building (like the one depicted in Rosemary’s Baby) would really add to the atmosphere of your event. If anyone has screened Rosemary’s baby in a unique way as a portable movie screen event, please post your story to the comments section below!
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Beetlejuice is a great film for your backyard cinema event with family and friends, or outdoor movie screening with your entire community in attendance. The film celebrates the “spirit” of Halloween, without being too scary or violent. If you are interested in acquiring an outdoor movie system for your upcoming Halloween event, 
But after a number of tests, she is found to be okay, and the physician recommends that Regan see a psychiatrist. But after the psychiatrist is assaulted, and the director to Chris’s film is murdered outside their apartment, the doctor finally recommends an exorcism, claiming that if Regan’s behavior is psychosomatic, she’ll respond to it positively.
The Exorcist continues in a frightening narrative of demonic possession, superstitious rites, and a flurry of truly scary events. Many cite this film as being the scariest they have ever seen. Watching The Exorcist as an outdoor movie near the woods would certainly heighten the scare factor! Backyard cinema has never been this scary!
The next morning there are alerts of a zombie led apocalypse, but Shaun and Ed are too hungover to notice, until Pete’s new Zombie self confronts the duo in the living room. Shaun and Ed are thrust into responsibility, as they now must defend themselves against the growing zombie opposition! Shaun is worried about his now ex-girlfriend Liz, and sees the imposing doom as an opportunity to prove his worth. So Shaun and Ed set out on a mission to save the ones they care about most, with the ultimate goal of ending up at the Winchester, the place they see as being most safe from zombie infestation.
Shaun of the Dead is a hilarious movie that will thoroughly entertain your friends or family at your annual outdoor movie Halloween celebration! There is no better time to host your Halloween costume party, than coupled with the joys of backyard cinema. Imagine watching Shaun of the Dead on your new 
They set up shop in an abandoned firehouse, and business gets off to a slow start. But business begins to boom after they begin work on a haunted hotel, and successfully catch and contain their first ghost. But when the EPA shuts down the power at their facility, the hundreds of captured ghosts are set loose, creating a disaster situation throughout the city.
With screening Ghostbusters as an outdoor movie, you could hold a costume themed contest for the scariest ghost, or best impersonation of a Ghostbuster! If anyone screens this film for their community this Halloween, share your story by posting to the comments section below! We’d love to hear how it went.
Daniels begins to suspect a conspiracy on the island, as things aren’t quite adding up. Yet his several efforts to expose the mis-deeds of the doctors by leaving the island are thwarted by the hospital staff and natural phenomena. The rest of the film continues in a psychological thriller with twists and turns as exciting and original as any movie we’ve seen in a long time.
Shutter Island makes a perfect pick for your outdoor movie at your Halloween Party! The film is probably too intense for small children, but is the perfect selection if you want your friends to be genuinely scared! And if you want your audience to be extra scared, inflate your 
We’ve divided the list into two sections. “Family Halloween Movies” are perfect if you’re planning on screening an outdoor movie at your family or community Halloween party. These films should be appropriate for all ages, but of course you should always keep your community in mind when selecting a movie to screen under the stars. The family list is full of fun and entertaining films that are either directly themed around Halloween, or fit the list because of other reasons (such as the Twilight Series, which appropriately is about vampires!).
The “Scary Halloween Movies” are great if you are out to really scare your friends this year at your Halloween monster mash! The list is full of classics, but also has some recent films that have definitely entered the canon of great scary movies that will be watched for generations to come. Most of the movies on this list are for mature audiences only, and so make sure you review the film ahead of time (or read our review), to make sure it is appropriate for your group. All of these films came from Open Air Community members’ suggestions, and we think there are some pretty good selections. Some of these films are definitely scary, and watching them outdoors in the woods with your inflatable movie screen will surely heighten the spook factor! Imagine watching Blair Witch Project in the Autumn woods, or Session 9 near an old abandoned building!
The old man works on gathering hundreds of folks from all around, and offers to give his land away upon his death if attendees pay a 5 dollar donation to attend the funeral. But Bush has his own agenda, and desires to come clean before all in explaining what really happened in a tragic circumstance decades earlier.
Get Low is ultimately a film about redemption, forgiveness, and the significance of those personal relationships that tie us together as human beings. The film is slow-paced and easy going, and definitely reflects the way of life that the region held in the early 1900′s. Get Low is a beautiful regionalist film, and gives the viewer a glimpse into an era and time that was not so long ago. It begs one to question their personal relationships, and the wedges that might be dividing an individual, family, or community.
In a swap for their silence, Price casts a spell on a bedknob of an old bed, causing it to take the bed-traveler wherever they want, imaginary or real! But she has her own agenda, as she is seeking a special spell called “substitutiary locomotion” that makes inanimate objects move on their own accord. The group set out on a fun-filled journey full of suspense and action that will keep your entire community entertained, and will bring back old memories to those parents who loved this movie as children. 
Even though most of your community members have likely seen Bedknobs and Broomsticks before (and probably really love it), experiencing the film on the big screen is an opportunity many have never had. If anyone has screened Bedknobs and Broomsticks as an outdoor movie, tell us your story by posting to the comments section below. We’d love to hear your story!
However, Kurz and Hinterstoisser are weary of attempting the climb, as they know of the serious risks that it poses. Yet when the army becomes even less fulfilling, they decide to drop out and attempt the Eiger North Face, also known as the “death wall”. The film follows the duo as they travel to Switzerland by bike, and their attempt to reach the summit. They are not without competition however, as their Austrian counterparts Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer are hoping to declare victory for their homeland. But when events turn the climb into a deathly situation, the four work together to survive.
North Face is a well made film, and will definitely keep you on the edge of your seat! The actors deliver first-rate performances, and show a glimpse into a time of great unrest in Europe. At first we were uneasy of the film, and weren’t sure if it would transcend the vast groups of movies made about the era. But North Faceexceeded all our expectations, and we give it a five-star rating as a potential outdoor-movie!
Through his new friendship, Hiccup realizes that his people’s perspective and relationship to the dragons may be entirely wrong – that they may be able to understand the dragons in a different way. But his forward-thinking views aren’t shared by the members of his tribe, and so Hiccup finds himself caught between the traditions of his people, and a group of dragons that he has grown to love an appreciate.
The film is fun and endearing, and promotes values of appreciation and equality that are powerful messages for your community. How to Train Your Dragon is a great pick for a Halloween movie for the month of October, and would provide some great opportunities for costume contests, concessions, and other activities that would further solidify the theme of the event, and would galvanize your community in significant ways. Overall, we give How to Train your Dragon a Five-Star rating as potential as an Outdoor Movie – this movie would really rock under the stars!
