HUBIE HALLOWEEN
Kindness shines through crude humor and scary Halloween content.
Should You Watch It?
Hubie Halloween has a good heart. Its central lesson is that kindness matters even when other people are rude or cruel. The movie also promotes putting others before yourself, marriage, family, being a foster parent, and donating to a homeless shelter.
The comedy is much less consistent. Many jokes are silly, and the movie includes extensive potty humor, foul language, lewd jokes, and some frightening scenes. Adults who can handle that material may still find the message worthwhile, especially through the veteran actors’ fun performances.
The practical answer is simple: discerning adults can watch it, but this is not a family movie for children or young teens.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESHubie loves Halloween, even though the holiday scares him. He also feels responsible for keeping the people of Salem safe, despite being mocked and bullied by nearly everyone around him.
When a patient escapes from a mental hospital and people begin disappearing on Halloween night, Hubie suspects the town is in danger. His determination to protect others puts him at the center of the holiday’s frightening events.
Is It Any Good?
Three stars means an average Netflix comedy with some enjoyable elements. The veteran cast delivers even the silliest jokes with energy, making many of them funny and infectious. The set design, filled with fall colors, pumpkins, and Halloween spirit, creates a lively viewing experience.
Still, the humor often misses. Many of the jokes are silly, if not stupid, and the crude content frequently overwhelms the movie’s better qualities. Its positive themes and fun performances keep it watchable, but they do not make it consistently strong.
The Worldview
The film’s strongest moral idea is that kindness is the right response to cruelty. Characters learn that being nice matters, even when other people are bitter, rude, or taking their own insecurities out on others. The story also exalts putting others before yourself, marriage, family, being a foster parent, and donating to a homeless shelter.
A Jewish family is among the major characters, while a priest appears at a funeral. The movie also includes references to ghosts and haunted houses, although the houses are not really haunted. One character takes matters into their own hands to protect someone they love, even if he has to kill to protect them. That choice raises a serious question about whether personal protection can justify taking a life.
The film’s call to kindness and selflessness aligns with biblical teaching, though its moral lessons are presented without a clear focus on God. Scripture says, “Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:4).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong moral worldview includes a Jewish family as major characters and extols being kind and nice even when others are being mean, putting others before yourself, marriage, family, being a foster parent, donating to a homeless shelter, and a character takes matters into their own hands to protect someone they love even if he has to kill to protect them, plus a Christian element where a priest is seen at a funeral, and some occult references to ghosts and haunted houses, but the houses aren’t really haunted
Foul Language
23 obscenities, 9 profanities, a character says “God rest his soul,” a comment about swearing to God, inappropriate name calling, as well as inappropriate sayings on shirts, lots of comments about urinating and defecating as well as two scenes where peeing is depicted, vomiting, poop is lit on fire and thrown at someone, passing gas, man seen on the toilet with his pants down, dog eats his own feces
Violence
Strong and light violence, some of it comical, includes things are thrown at a man throughout (he’s a comic foil of derision for mean people), a bike crash, depiction of someone being hanged, man pushed in a hole on top of a casket and another man passes out and falls in on top of him, food fight, man hit in the face a few times, Halloween costumes with fake blood on them and other things, comment about borrowing gun and shooting someone, movie scene showing someone eating another person’s face, man runs into a tree, and gas is poured on people, and they are almost set on fire, but a character saves them
Sex
A comment about having intercourse, some lewd jokes and a married couple kisses
Nudity
No explicit nudity, but older women dressed as Harley Quinn for Halloween are wearing revealing outfits, and a young girl dressed in the costume as well
Alcohol Use
Underage drinking, but no drunkenness
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
Cigarette smoking once, but no drugs;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Lying, kidnapping, breaking and entering, mention of divorce, revenge, envy.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Hubie responds to cruelty with kindness. When is it hardest for you to be kind, and what might loving your enemies look like in that situation?
Luke 6:27–28 · Romans 12:20–21The movie promotes putting others before yourself. How could your family practice that at home, at school, or in your community?
Philippians 2:3–4 · Galatians 6:2The story includes marriage, family, foster parenting, and helping a homeless shelter. What responsibilities does Scripture give us toward family and people in need?
James 1:27 · 1 Timothy 5:8A character considers killing to protect someone they love. What does the Bible teach about the value of human life, justice, and responding to danger?
Genesis 1:27 · Romans 12:19The Final Word
Hubie Halloween offers a sincere message about kindness, family, and helping others, but its crude humor, foul language, violence, and scary content make it unsuitable for children and young teens. For discerning adults, the answer is WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY. For other options, see.
