Movies With Memorable Halloween Scenes (Part 2) Quiz

Answer:

Here are the films that have a Halloween scene in the story:

Halloween night kicks off the beginning of "The Batman" with a point-of-view shot (a la "Halloween's" Michael Myers or "Friday the 13th's" Jason) from the Riddler as he stalks Gotham City Mayor Don Mitchell Jr. in his home. The Mayor is playing with his son who dressed in costume ready to go trick-or-treating. Inspired perhaps by the comic book series "Batman: The Long Halloween", the overall film takes place during the Halloween season, and extends into a year long storyline. That opening scene plays like a horror film as the unsuspecting Mayor is then murdered, and the Riddler leaves a message for The Batman.

In the live-action film "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", Greg Heffley and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson go trick-or-treating in a wealthy neighbourhood called North Side, despite Greg's mother's advising them not to because it contains an area known as the "Devil Worshipper Woods." But the prospect of getting "mega candy bars" from the wealthy people there was too tempting for the two boys. They run into a group of older kids who mock their costumes, and then they get chased by a group of teenagers in a pick-up truck. They chase them through the streets, and when the teens discover Greg and Rowley hiding in a construction site, Greg's Dad sprays the teens with a hose.

There is a Halloween house party in 2001, "Donnie Darko" taking place in October 1988. Donnie's skeleton costume as worn by actor Jake Gyllenhaal has become a popular costume for real around Halloween, and his sister in the film, Elizabeth, played by real life siter Maggie Gyllenhaal is dressed as a Princess. Donnie shares a kiss with Gretchen (Jenna Malone), and then a strange watery looking tube mysteriously meanders its way all around the party at about waist height, undetected and seemingly unfelt buy all the partiers. Donnie's mood however...darkens. You can tell by the way Gyllenhaal furrows his brow and broods.

"Flatliners" is about a group of recklessly ambitious medical students who embark on a series of experiments to "see what's beyond death" by deliberately stopping each other's hearts for just a few minutes, and then getting resuscitated. Early in the film, during Halloween night, they perform their third flatline on, this time on David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon). Keifer Sutherland's and William Baldwin's characters were the first two. The campus and surrounding neighbourhood feature pumpkins and Halloween decorations and trick-or-treaters. Outside the lab, a Halloween party is depicted as college students in costume gather.

In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" one of the first major holidays Harry experiences in his first year at the wizarding world is the Halloween Feast in the Great Hall at Hogwarts. Hundreds of jack-o'-lanterns drift among the candles floating over the students' heads, as tables are loaded up with pumpkin pasties, toffee apples, and roasted meats. Black bats and orange streamers sit high on the ceiling with a starry sky overhead. In the middle of the festivities, Professor Quirrell bursts in to exclaiming that a mountain troll has invaded the castle. Of course, Harry and Ron run into the troll when trying to locate Hermione, and they do battle with it.

Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) is the new kid in town, Reseda, California, in the original classic "The Karate Kid". Very soon he has already incurred the disdain and wrath of the high school bullies, led by Johnny Lawrence, members of the Cobra Kai karate dojo. When the school's Halloween party is underway, the Oscar-nominate Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi asks Daniel why he isn't spending the occasion with his friends. Danny tells him about the troubles he's having with the bullies and doesn't have a costume anyway. So, Mr. Miyagi creates the famous shower curtain costume that Danny wears to the party, while remaining anonymous. But he can't help himself and plays a prank on Johnny, soaking him with a hose as he rolls a joint in a bathroom stall. This launches the Cobra Kai bullies into action and they chase him all the way out of the school, in their skeleton costumes, and catch up to Danny, trapping him against a fence as they beat him up. What follows is one the greatest rescue scenes in movies.

There are two Halloween scenes in 2019's "Marriage Story" bittersweet tale of the difficulties in co-parenting when separated and the heartbreak and emotional damage of custody battles. In the first Halloween scene, after Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) have already begun divorce plans, and Charlie flies from New York to Los Angeles with a Frankenstein costume for his son, Henry, that he had his theater company's costume supervisor design. But when Charlie arrives, Henry he says he wants to be a ninja like his cousins in L.A. It creates tension, so Henry goes trick-or-treating with his Mom's family, and the Charlie wants to take him trick-or-treating for a second round. It's a bleak and desperate scene. The following year, on Halloween again, the get-together is much more amicable. It's still a sad scene though, but at least they have found a way to co-parent with some respect and care for each other.

"Meet Me in St. Louis" serves up a moving look at turn-of-the-century holiday traditions, perhaps most memorably of Christmas (Judy Garland's unforgettable rendition of "Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas"), but also of Halloween. In that scene, the neighbourhood children celebrate Halloween with a bonfire in the street, a hoopla of festivities involving costumes, and the throwing of furniture and refuse into the bonfire, echoing actual 19th-century Halloween symbolic traditions of "burning away the old." The children wear raggedy ghost and goblin costumes and masks and talk about "killing" the most feared neighbour - killing means throwing flour in the face of someone. The youngest girl in the family, Tootie, wants to prove her bravery. The other kids encourage her with maybe a bit of bullying, and she says her target will be the grumpy old man everyone fears, Mr. Braukoff. Fighting off her fear, she sneaks up to his door, and throws the flour in his face. She runs back yelling. "I killed him! I killed the Braukoff!" The other kids approve and she's won them over.

"St. Elmo's Fire" follows a close group of recent Georgetown graduates, played by Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, and Andrew McCarthy. Early in the film, they gather at their favorite bar, the titular St. Elmo's Fire (in reality it's The Tombs-I've been there countless times) for a Halloween party. Everyone's in costume and jack o'lanterns are on all the tables, and Happy Halloween ribbons hand all over with skeleton decorations and all the trimmings. Robe Lowe's character, Bill gets onstage and starts playing saxophone with the band. Then he sees his wife in the bar with another man and he attacks him, whereupon he gets thrown out.

In the film classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird", the town of Maycomb has organized a Halloween pageant to keep children out of trouble, and our protagonist Scout (Mary Badham) is cast as a ham in the pageant, and so wears a painted cloth costume supported with chicken wire. But she falls asleep backstage, missing her entrance, and when she awakens, she runs onstage, causing the audience to laugh but earning a scolding from the woman in charge. Walking home with her friend Jem, they hear some noises, and suddenly are attacked by a drunken Bob Ewell. Suddenly out of nowhere, just as in "The Karate Kid," another man comes to the rescue. But instead of it being a friend, it was the reclusive, mysterious Boo Radley who the children always thought was creepy. But there is more to him than Scout thought.

And here are the films that do NOT have a Halloween scene in them:

While "Addams Family Values" is creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, altogether ooky, there is no Halloween scene in the movie. Although there is in its predecessor.

"Hotel Transylvania" is about Count Dracula's luxurious, high-end hotel that serves as a getaway for monsters. When a human boy named Jonathan accidentally discovers the hotel and develops a crush on Dracula's teenage daughter, Mavis, Dracula panics. But there's no Halloween scene.

1990's "Ghost" is a terrific movie, and a terrific costume to wear for Halloween, but the movie has no Halloween scenes in it.

Despite its horror-like tone, and monsters, there is no actual Halloween scene in Gremlins (1984). The entire movie takes place during the Christmas season, not Halloween.

The 2008 movie "Twilight" has no scenes centered around Halloween or Halloween celebrations, even though it does have supernatural and vampire themes. But no particular Halloween event.