These Disney Channel Halloween Movies Will Make You Scream (With Joy)

After three friends discover a mummy in the basement of their dead neighbor's house, they accidentally bring him back to life. While they are terrified of him at first, they soon realize that he's actually very friendly. But when they find out that he'll cease to exist if he doesn't return to his coffin by midnight on Halloween, they must scramble to try and get him there without crossing paths with their neighbor, who faked his own death to avoid paying his taxes. They eventually return him safely after saying goodbye to their new (but old) friend.

After 13-year-old Marnie fights with her mom about not being allowed to celebrate Halloween for unknown reasons, her grandmother, who she rarely gets to see, arrives for her annual visit on Halloween night. But when Marnie overhears her grandmother and mother talking about the fact that she's a witch, she and her siblings follow their grandmother to her bus headed for Halloweentown. After their arrival, they show up at their grandmother's house and try and help her solve the mysterious disappearances that have happened recently. They come to find that Halloweentown's mayor, Kalabar, is responsible, and they use their powers (along with their mother's, who eventually comes to her senses) to defeat him.

After Mike sends a message to space asking to be rescued because he thinks he's an alien and doesn't belong on earth, an alien dog named Barnabus appears and explains that Mike's message opened the stargate door. Barnabus further reveals that space creatures aren't happy with Mike because his message confirmed that people on earth have developed technology to reach them. Mike tries to explain that he thinks it happened because of a thunder strike, as he didn't think his plan would ever work. He eventually fights for earth to be a protected planet against aliens again and decides to stay.

Frances, a smart girl who is starting high school a year early, finds herself in the wrong places at the wrong times after mysterious pranks start happening in her small town. An older boy named Larry, who says he is an imaginary friend, offers to help Frances after he tells her that she's being framed by the Boogeyman. Frances's younger brother, Darwin, then gets kidnapped by the Boogeyman, and she and Larry follow him into the Boogeyworld dimension, which exists under Frances's bed. She then realizes that the "Boogeyman" is actually her old imaginary friend Zoe, who turned mean when Frances stopped believing in her when she wanted to grow up. Frances restores her faith in Zoe's existence and all becomes right in the world again.

When Adam and his big sister Chelsea both get grounded and can't go out with their friends, they come up with a plan to get their mom out of the house so they can sneak out. They set her up on a date with a mysterious man named Dimitri, but their younger brother, Taylor, discovers Dimitri is actually a vampire. He puts their mother in a trance, but after they call out to her after finding her in his mansion, her trance is broken by their true love. She throws Dimitri in his coffin to be shipped away to a sunny location and the family manages to get home in time for breakfast.

Pete is a determined 17-year-old who spends most of his time working at the local megaplex to make extra money. There's a rumor that the theater is haunted by a "phantom," or someone who was trapped in the old movie theater when they tore it down to build the new one. So when the megaplex hosts a star-studded movie premiere, things quickly take a spooky turn. Pete is also forced to babysit his younger siblings, Karen and Bryan, while their mom goes out on a date. Pete, Karen, Bryan, and original theater owner "Movie Mason" soon work together to realize that all of the mysterious things happening in the theater are because of senior manager Sean, who did everything so that his boss would finally notice him. No surprise here: he's fired right away. Pete also realizes the importance of his childhood and takes the rest of the night off.

Since the first movie, we find that the Cromwells now split their time between Halloweentown and the "real world." Things are going pretty smoothly until Marnie takes a liking to Kal, the son of Kalabar, who only wants to get close to Marnie so that he can steal her grandmother's spellbook for revenge. Marnie and her grandmother then travel back to Halloweentown to try and fix the spells he cast and mend the portal between their two worlds, which is only open on Halloween night. After getting trapped in Halloweentown when the portal permanently closes, Marnie contacts her siblings and they conjure a new spell to break it back open. The family then breaks Kal's spells in both worlds and things are calm once again.

After two children, Ian and Clare, move to a town where their grandfather just died, they think his spirit is still hanging around to tell them something. They then capture a ghost named Jumper and follow him into the forest to an abandoned building, where they find a mirror that leads to the afterlife. After making a deal with the ghosts that lets their grandfather take care of his unfinished business, they realize that a mean ghost has kidnapped him in order to become stronger. But when it's revealed that the ghost is just misunderstood, he releases his hostages and is able to finally cross over peacefully. Their grandfather is then able to finish things on earth and the family gets closure.

After living in Halloweentown for a while, Marnie and her friends realize that they want to attend high school in a nearby mortal community to spend time with normal kids their age. She's able to convince the town council to let them go, but agrees that if anything bad happens while they're there, they will lose their magical powers. Marnie begins a romantic relationship with mortal student Cody (Finn Wittrock) while her grandmother begins a relationship with the school's principal. But when the principal is found to be the cause of the recent trouble at the school (he's being used by a member of Halloweentown's council), Marnie and her grandmother fight for the mortal world to accept their creatures as they are, which they eventually do, so that they can all live in peace.

Two witches, Apolla and Artemis, were adopted at birth but meet again on their 21st birthday. After realizing their magical powers, they come to find that their homeworld of Coventry needs their help against dark forces. They join forces to restore their home and reunite with their birth mother.

Marnie (now played by Sara Paxton) decides to go to college at Halloweentown University, where she hopes to learn more about using her powers. But when she realizes that the school only teaches boring things like history and doesn't allow students to use magic, she's heartbroken. But after finding a box with her family's name on it in the school's dungeon, Marnie travels back in time to find out what's inside. She learns that it contains an amulet, which give the person wearing it the power to control anyone, something witches are forbidden to do. Marnie pretends to destroy the amulet, but actually saves it for her brother, Dylan, as he is the only one she trusts to look after it.

When Skylar, a 15-year-old girl who prides herself on not being scared of anything, finds out that her parents are monster hunters and have been captured by a monster, she does what she can to rescue them. By regaining her parents' trust, the monster's powers are weakened and she is able to safely bring them home. However, the end of the movie shows the monster laughing, which hints at a sequel that has yet to come.