Redbox.com conducted a Halloween survey of more than 1,200 members of the Redbox Customer Panel. Almost half a century after it’s release, and coinciding with the film’s 45^th anniversary, The Exorcist is still the scariest movie responders have ever seen.

The movie Hocus Pocus is also celebrating a big milestone with its 25^th anniversary this year, significantly outperforms all other family-friendly Halloween movies.

Watching Halloween movies is also a fave activity for the Halloween. Staying home and watching a scary movie (37%) edged out trick or treating (31%) as respondents favorite way to spend Halloween, while understandably parents with children at home prefer trick or treating (53%) over watching a scary movie (26%).

And people love watching these movies with their significant others. When watching scary movies, most responders (41%) prefer to have their significant other with them.

Finally, when given the option to choose popcorn or Halloween candy as their favorite snack while watching a scary movie, popcorn was the clear winner for 72% of responders.

The survey was conducted from September 11 to September 18, 2018 narrowed down the top 5 fave family-friendly Halloween and Scariest movies and they are:

Favorite Family Friendly Halloween Movie, Ranked Top 5

1.    Hocus Pocus

2.    It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

3.    Beetlejuice

4.    The Nightmare Before Christmas

5.    Hotel Transylvania

Scariest Movie Ever Seen, Ranked Top 5

1.    The Exorcist

2.    The Silence of the Lambs

3.    The Ring

4.    The Shining

5.    Saw