Twitches.
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This story was originally published in 2020 and has been updated to include two new spooky Disney Channel Original Movies.
There is a huge difference between scary and spooky. Scary is horror: jump scares and nightmares and Blumhouse. Spooky, on the other hand, is every bit as Halloween-y and supernatural without the associated terror. It’s just as festive but entirely defanged. It’s the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, and jack-o’-lanterns, and any number of Scoobys-Doo.
Just because you don’t have a stomach for horror films does not mean you have to sit out on the wonderful October tradition of ignoring trick-or-treaters and watching seasonal, thematically resonant…