Movie marathon ideas for the single mom family

October 28, 2:10 PMBangor Single Moms ExaminerShannon Buck

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Their are a great many things that Bangor area single moms can do with their children or friends during the month of October, and having a halloween movie marathon is one of them. Family members of all ages will enjoy this, as long as moms gear movies to the appropriate ages and maturity levels.

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If you do not own own these movies, you can purchase them at places like:

1. Wal*Mart
2. K-Mart
3. Best Buy

It is also possible to rent movies in Bangor. Try BlockBuster or Hannaford.

When young children are present, the horror aspect of movie viewing should be toned down. Here are some movies that would be okay for younger children to view:

• The Halloween Town series
• Scooby Doo movies and cartoons
• When Good Ghouls Go Bad
• Earnest Scared Stupid
• Casper
• Hocus Pocus
• Little Monsters
• The Littlest Vampire

For older children/young teens:

• Twilight
• Vampire High show series
• The Haunted Mansion
• Fire Starter
• Cujo
• Poltergeist

For Teens:

• The Grudge movies
• Carrie
• It
• Scream movies
• I know What You Did Last Summer and the sequals
• The Covenant
• The Others
• The Ring movies
• The original Lost Boys
• Night of the Living Dead
• Salems Lot and the Shining, both are a movie and a mini series
• Dracula with Bela Lugosi
• Pet Cemetery 1 & 2
• Darkness Falls
• Fear of the Dark
• The Stepford Wives, original and new
• The Omen movies
• Misery
• The Mist
• Village of the Damned
• The Exorcist
• The Boogey Man

For older teens/adults:

• Halloween series
• A Nightmare on Elm Street series
• Friday the 13th series
• Psycho movies
• The Entity
• Sleep Away Camp movies
• House on Haunted Hill
• Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned
• The Puppet Master
• Hell Raiser movies
• Candyman movies
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Hannibal
• The Howling movies
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies

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