An easy way to make your movie a timeless classic is to associate it with a holiday, basically guaranteeing an annual rewatch for fans. A Christmas Story and It’s A Wonderful Life play on a loop during Christmas, When Harry Met Sally or The Apartment make for the perfect New Year’s watch, and you can’t spend a Groundhog Day without thinking about watching Groundhog Day.
But Disney has really cornered the market for Halloween movies: from the many, many Halloweentown movies to The Nightmare Before Christmas, spooky family-friendly imagery is all over Disney+. But perhaps one of the studio’s most iconic Halloween movies just recently had a comeback, and now it’s repeating that strategy to make it into a trilogy.
