The top 5 kids movies from the '80s to watch for Halloween

For those of us who grew up or had our formative years during the 1980s, we're familiar with the rampant anxiety issues thanks to some of the movies that were for some reason marketed to kids.

That said, they were usually also pretty awesome movies, even if a bit traumatizing. And every year when Halloween was getting close, my brothers and I would bust out a few well-worn classics to get our fix of ghouls and ghosts and pirates and monsters and Fred Savage.

Despite the fact that these movies are all a minimum of 30 years old, they're still perfect for a Halloween screening today. So get out your air popper, unwrap some of those weird little peanut butter chewy candies, and let's crush this Halloween thing the right way—with kids' movies from the '80s.