Christopher Lloyd, Joe Pichler, Tom Amandes

A 12-year-old moves with his newly divorced father to Dad's hometown and confronts the usual bullies, town curses, and rampaging by the undead in this screen adaptation of the R.L. Stine juvenile no...( read more  read more... )vel of the same name. Danny's first introduction to Walker Falls is the police removal of his spooky door decorations because Halloween is forbidden in this All Hallows' Eve answer to Footloose. To make matters worse, his grandfather (the ever wacky Christopher Lloyd) dies in a pumpkin accident and comes back as a goofy zombie ready to help Danny and his new (girl)friend solve the town mystery. Packed with lots of gross-out zombie action and plenty of junior high humor, this PG-rated film contains mild horror scenes, but no naughty words and one innocent kiss. Fans of the book series should be satisfied with this 93-minute adaptation, which may even inspire some young viewers to pick up a book. (Ages 9 and older) --Kimberly Heinrichs

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PG, 50 min.

Directed by: Patrick Read Johnson

Release Date: October 20, 2001

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DVD Release Date: September 4, 2001

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  • February 10, 2009
    A Fun Cheesy Halloween Movie!
  • November 1, 2008
    wow just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch...its got a good cast of actors/actressess throguhout this movie...i think that christopher lloyd is great throughout this movie i think that the director of this Comedy, Kids & Family movie had don...( read more)e a really good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie.,..the special effects throghout this movie are good even though its a made for tv movie but its still good...
  • September 19, 2008
    Cute children's Halloween movie, and horror spoof by R.L. Stine. Honestly though I only bothered to keep watching because I thought Curtis Danko was ridiculously cute at the beginning.
  • January 21, 2008
    you always love Christopher lloyd right^^ the movie was cute, saw it sometime when i was much much younger
  • December 11, 2007
    Good family movie or just the kids
  • August 25, 2007
    o my gosh....lol, i feel guilty now admitting it, but this used to be one of my favorite movies....i was a little elementary school kid, adn thought it was so funny. Now i think it rather cheesy, but anyone who disses it should really reconsider, cause any person whose a kid at ...( read more)heart will feel at least a little charmed. ik that i do, no matter how cheesy i think the movie now [lol]
  • August 18, 2007
    Found this movie to be so fun.

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