ABC Family hopes you like Tim Burton

ABC Family continues to put all their eggs in a Tim Burton-shaped basket this Halloween. This marks the channels 17th(!) year of celebrating the holiday with the safest selection of horror-ish movies this side of your church's "trunk or treat" event.

Burton continues to dominate this year's "13 Days of Halloween" programming. If you don't like the director you're going to have a bad time, because his films are absent only four days this year. The channel has opted to fill those holes with CASPER, THE ADDAMS FAMILY and PARANORMAN ... films that might politely be called Burtonesque.

There are a few odd choices included in the mix this year, and WOW are those choices odd. 2012's DARK SHADOWS makes a quick appearance on Oct. 28, but its inclusion seems a little inappropriate. Yeah, it shares the "Fashions by Hot Topic" aesthetic seen in so many of the other films on the list, but I have to wonder how the editors will dance around the scene where Helena Bonham Carter gives Johnny Depp a blowjob. That's probably not a concern for CASPER, the PG-rated film that immediately follows it.

And if that's not weird enough, the childhood-trauma inducing POLTERGEIST is set to air Oct. 30. It's refreshing to see a straight-up Horror Movie™ included in the roster, but POLTERGEIST is just a short hop from broadcasting CREEPSHOW. And it's followed by 1986's POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE, a movie that nobody wants to see.

And THE HUNGER GAMES!? WTF, Disney?

Here's a complete list of this year's 13 NIGHTS OF HALLOWEEN. Mileage may vary.

Night 1 (Monday, Oct. 19)
1:30 p.m. ET - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"
5 p.m. ET - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2"
9 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"
12 a.m. ET - "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"

Night 2 (Tuesday, Oct. 20)
4 p.m. ET - "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"
6 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"
9 p.m. ET - "Stitchers" 2015 Halloween Special
12 p.m. ET - "Casper"

Night 3 (Wednesday, Oct. 21)
5 p.m. ET - "Casper"
7 p.m. ET - "The Addams Family"
9 p.m. ET - "Addams Family Values"
12 a.m. ET - "I Know What You Did Last Summer"

Night 4 (Thursday, Oct. 22)
4 p.m. ET - "The Addams Family"
6 p.m. ET - "Addams Family Values"
8 p.m. ET - "The Hunger Games"
12 a.m. ET - "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer"

Night 5 (Friday, Oct. 23)​
5:30 p.m. ET - "The Hunger Games"
8:30 p.m. ET - "Sleepy Hollow"
12 a.m. ET - "Matilda"

Night 6 (Saturday, Oct. 24)
7 a.m. ET - "Matilda"
9 a.m. ET - "ParaNorman"
11 a.m. ET - "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"
1 p.m. ET - "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
2:30 p.m. ET - "Casper"
4:30 p.m. ET - "The Addams Family"
6:30 p.m. ET - "Addams Family Values"
8:30 p.m. ET - "Disney/ Pixar's Monsters University"
11 p.m. ET - "Disney/ Pixar's Toy Story OF TERROR!"
11:30 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"

Night 7 (Sunday, Oct. 25)
7 a.m. ET - "ParaNorman"
9 a.m. ET - "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"
11 a.m. ET - "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas"
12:30 p.m. ET - "Casper"
2:30 p.m. ET - "The Addams Family"
4:30 p.m. ET - "Addams Family Values"
6:30 p.m. ET - "Disney/ Pixar's Toy Story OF TERROR!"
7 p.m. ET - "Disney/ Pixar's Monsters University"
9:45 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"

Night 8 (Monday, Oct. 26)
5:30 p.m. ET - "Sleepy Hollow"
9 p.m. ET - "Disney/ Pixar's Toy Story OF TERROR!"
9:30 p.m. ET - "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas"
12 a.m. ET - "Tim Burton's Frankenweenie"

Night 9 (Tuesday, Oct. 27)
4:00 p.m. ET - "Tim Burton's Frankenweenie"
6 p.m. ET - "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas"
7:30 p.m. ET - "Disney/ Pixar's Toy Story OF TERROR!"
9 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"
12 a.m. ET - "ParaNorman"

Night 10 (Wednesday, Oct. 28)
4 p.m. ET - "ParaNorman"
6 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"
8:15 p.m. ET - "Dark Shadows"
12 a.m. ET - "Casper"

Night 11 (Thursday, Oct. 29)
5 p.m. ET - "Casper"
7 p.m. ET - "The Addams Family"
9 p.m. ET - "Addams Family Values"
12 a.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"

Night 12 (Friday, Oct. 30)
2:30 p.m. ET - "The Addams Family"
4:30 p.m. ET - "Addams Family Values"
6:30 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"
8:30 p.m. ET - "Poltergeist"
12 a.m. ET - "Poltergeist II: The Other Side"

Night 13 (Saturday, Oct. 31)
7 a.m. ET - "Batman"
10 a.m. ET - "Batman Returns"
12: 30 p.m. ET - "Poltergeist"
3 p.m. ET - "Sleepy Hollow"
5:30 p.m. ET - "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas"
7 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"
9:15 p.m. ET - "Hocus Pocus"
11:30 p.m. ET - "Sleepy Hollow"