"As temperatures drop, we're hauling out our Halloween bucket lists, making stops at pumpkin patches, corn mazes, and haunted houses. When that's all done, we'll settle in with a nice horror movie or five. To help piece together the perfect hair-raising lineup, we've pulled together 13 Halloween flicks-goofy to ridiculous to horrifying-filmed in Oregon, many of which try (with varying degrees of success) to tap into our state's particular brand of damp dread."
"This beloved late '90s Disney Channel original inexplicably stars Debbie Reynolds as a witchy matriarch whose powers include dragging a bag behind her and turning a Tupperware full of chicken wings into live foul. Filmed in St. Helens and Scappoose (the former celebrates this fact with an annual festival), we get a few loving shots of the Columbia River sprinkled among Party City costuming and world-building that includes gay werewolf hairdressers and walking tomato pincushions. In a tale as old as time, the Halloweentown sequels abandoned Oregon for greener, more Canadian pastures."
"This is ultimately my list and I make the rules, but let me at least attempt to explain why these count as a single entry: only the sequel is set in the Beaver State, but both were at least partially shot here (the original's indelible lighthouse is the Yaquina Bay light in Newport). You probably know the drill: Naomi Watts watches a cursed video tape and is marked for death; the girl who voices Lilo & Stitch crawls out of a well. These fall on the milder, moodier side of the supernatural horror spectrum, if you're looking for a"
Thirteen Halloween films filmed in Oregon range from goofy and ridiculous to genuinely horrifying and often exploit the state's damp, atmospheric dread. The Shining is intentionally omitted despite local ties, while most featured films are available to stream or rent locally. A late-1990s Disney Channel original filmed in St. Helens and Scappoose stars Debbie Reynolds as a witchy matriarch and highlights Columbia River scenery alongside eccentric costuming and world-building. The Ring films were filmed at least partially in Oregon, with the original lighthouse being Yaquina Bay Light in Newport and the sequel set in the state. The selections lean toward milder, moodier supernatural scares as well as outright camp.
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