Our family don't have any staples, but we do make an effort to watch something Halloween-y every weekend in October.
The little does one has to watch Nightmare Before Christmas at least once every year, which, despite some charm, I always thought is ridiculously overrated.
I've never been big in to slasher/horror movies, going back to being a kid. I was too chicken to watch stuff my friends watched, like the Friday the 13th and Halloween films.