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The Addams Family Movie Night

Movie-themed Recipes

October 17, 2021 | Updated: July 15, 2022 | Laura

Have a fun The Addams Family movie night with these two The Addams Family recipes! For dinner, enjoy a cheesy pumpkin soup topped with a cream spider web. The cocktail is dark purple and very mysterious and spooky- just like the Adams'. Both of these recipes are perfect for getting into the Halloween spirit!

Mysterious, Ooky, & Dark

You rang??? Hi! If you're here, that probably means you're a The Addams Family fan too. I just love this family and all of their creepiness. It's one of the best Halloween movies to watch during this time of year.

I had a difficult time deciding which version of the movie I should go with for these recipes.. so I decided to create something that fit with all of them!

Choose to watch the first film and its sequels: 1991 The Addams Family, 1993 Addams Family Values, and 1998 Addams Family Reunion. Or there's the new movie- an animated The Addams Family from 2019. In 2021, they also came out with an animated comedy sequel- The Addams Family 2. Of course, there's also the amazing TV series from 1964- one of my favorite shows!

While these two recipes may not be specifically from the movies or show, I feel like they both capture the vibes of the Addams family perfectly- dark, spooky, and mysterious. Let's get this Halloween movie night party started!

31 Days of Halloween

These recipes were created for my 31 Days of Halloween! Every day during the Halloween season I come up with a snack and cocktail recipe that pairs with horror movies, Halloween movies, or fun spooky activities. It's a great way to celebrate Halloween with delicious spooky treats!

→ Check out the entire 31 Days of Halloween!

Before I dive into the recipes I created for my Addams Family movie night, let's go over all of the food that is seen in the 1991 version of The Addams Family. There's some pretty weird foods! Warning: Spoilers

All of the Food to make an Appearance in The Addams Family (1991)

✽ Apple

At the beginning of the movie, Wednesday Addams successfully hits an apple with an arrow that has been placed in Pugsley's mouth.

✽ Cereal

While Morticia sips on a cup of tea, Gomez practices his golf swing. His golf ball ends up landing right in the middle of their neighbor's colorful bowl of cereal. It looks a lot like Trix cereal. This makes the neighbor furious, understandably, and he screams, "Damn you, Addams!" Gomes replies back, "Sorry about the window, Judge. Keep the ball. I have a whole bucket full!"

✽ Entrails

When the family's scummy lawyer, Tully, shows up the Addams' house, Morticia offers them entrails on crackers. That's internal organs... yuck!

✽ Alive Food

After Gordon (AKA: Uncle Fester) shows up, Granny is eating something on an ice pick that squeals when she bites into it. It is also very crunchy!

✽ Breakfast

Granny exclaims, 'Home cooking! There's nothing like it in the whole world." She serves 'Fester' tentacles in a blackish-green sauce and some bread. Morticia says it is 'Mama's specialite de la maison." Granny tells 'Fester' to start with the eyes!

Also, there's crusty bread and broth soup. Something dark is spread on top of Wednesday's crusty bread piece.

✽ Brandy

Gomez asks 'Fester' for a glass of brandy. He pours them each up a glass- a HUGE glass I might add. Wonder where I could find a brandy glass that big..

✽ Bubbling Cauldron

It seems like Granny is always cooking up something. In one scene, she has a cauldron bubbling beside her while she reads Gray's Anatomy.

✽ Dinner

After Wednesday and Pugsley's gory play act, they all enjoy dinner together at the table. They have some pretty weird food! Morticia tells Wednesday to play with her food. As Wednesday pokes the dark purple goop, it begins to move around the bowl. On the table, there is also something that resembles a salad and a bowl of spiky fruit.

✽ Cocktail

At 'Fester's' going away party, Morticia is carrying around a drink that is bright lime green and bubbling.

✽ More Cereal

After the Addams are forced to leave their home, Wednesday and Pugsley each have a bowl of colorful cereal.

✽ Toxic Lemonade

The family is desperate for money so the kids start a lemonade stand selling glasses of lemonade for five cents. The lemonade is smoking and after Lurch takes a drink of it, he blows fire! Also on the stand, you can see bottles of poison, cyanide, and arsenic.

✽ Pizza

Behind Lurch while he's drinking the toxic lemonade, you can see a billboard for Tombstone Pizza.

✽ Girl Scout Cookies

A girl scout approaches the lemonade stand and asks if it is made from real lemons. She says she'll buy a glass if Wednesday and Pugsley buys a box of her Girl Scout cookies. Wednesday replies back, "Are they made from real girl scouts?"

✽ Soup and a Sandwich

In the midst of trying to break into the vault, Gordon and his mother have broth soup with noodles and sandwiches.

✽ Chips

Depressed Gomez is covered in snacks while he watches TV. He's eating corn chips out of the bag.

✽ More Colorful Cereal

When Thing comes to the hotel to tell Gomez that the rest of the Addams family is in trouble, Gomez is eating a bowl of colorful cereal. This family really likes their Trix!

The Addams Family Fun Facts

Find these facts plus more over on Factinate!

✽ Originally, The Addams Family was a cartoon that debuted in The New Yorker. The characters weren't given names until the TV show aired!

✽ Anthony Hopkins was offered the role of Fester, but he turned them down because he wanted to star in The Silence of the Lambs.

✽ The house at the beginning of The Addams Family TV series was real located in Los Angeles! Unfortunately, the creepy and beautiful house was torn down in the early 70s.

✽ Who is Fester anyways? In the TV series, Fester is Morticia's uncle- no Addams blood at all! However, in the movies, Fester is Gomez's brother.

✽ Who is the grandmother? This one is confusing too. In the TV series, Grandmama is Gomez's mother. In the movies, Grandmama is no longer living. The older lady living with them is Granny Frump who is Morticia's mother.

✽ Vic Mizzy wrote and performed the iconic theme song. Neat, sweet, petite.

✽ The iconic Cousin Itt wasn't introduced until the TV series. He is Gomez's cousin and speaks in gibberish in which only the family understands.

Looking for more Halloween recipes that pair with popular scary movies?

→ Check out all of my recipes that pair with movies!

Now let's talk about the recipes I created for our Addams Family movie date night!

Mysterious and Spooky Cocktail

The Addams Family Cocktail

Isn't this cocktail so spooky?! I love everything about it. If I could turn Morticia Addams into a cocktail, I really do believe that it would look like this one!

This cocktail is made with red and blue ingredients to make a dark blue-purplish. The red ingredients are cranberry juice and grenadine while the blue component is blue curacao.

The cocktail is sweet, tart, and fruity! It has notes of cranberries, orange from the blue curacao, and pomegranate from the grenadine! The tartness is brought in with the cranberry juice and lime juice.

With a purple sugar rim, it's sure to be a Halloween favorite and give you all of the Morticia and Gomez vibes while enjoying the movie! It's also a great cocktail to serve up at a Halloween party!

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Mysterious & Spooky Cocktail

Cheesy Pumpkin Soup

Addams Family Inspired Dinner

This pumpkin soup with the cream spider web is for sure something you could find on the Addams family dinner table. Well, theirs might be made with actual spiders and web, but I think this one tastes a little better.

This pumpkin soup is packed full of lots of pumpkin, caramelized onions, garlic, fresh oregano, delicious spices, and lots of white cheddar cheese.

Never had the cheese and pumpkin combo before?! You're definitely missing out, if so. Ever since the first time I had the pumpkin and cheese combo, I couldn't get enough of it. Cheese and pumpkin is SO GOOD together, and I think the white cheddar pairs perfectly.

As for the spices, nutmeg, paprika, cayenne, and cumin work wonderfully in this soup. The soup is topped with heavy cream and ground pecans right before serving.

This cheesy pumpkin soup is one of my favorite things to eat during spooky season, and I hope you enjoy it too!

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Cheesy Pumpkin Soup

Showtime! Hope you have a great movie night watching The Addams Family, sipping on the mysterious and spooky cocktail, and eating cheesy pumpkin soup!

Category: Movie-themed Recipes
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More Dinner and a Movie Ideas for Spooky Season:

✽ Hocus Pocus (enjoy this Halloween classic with a bubbly witches brew and a dip trio that looks just like the Sanderson sisters)
✽ Scooby-Doo (chow down on a huge Shaggy sandwich and a fruity Spooky Island cocktail)
✽ The Haunted Mansion (green apple martini inspired by Madame Leota and yummy spooky spider pizza rolls)
✽ Halloweentown (a fun fall-themed menu including pumpkin hand pies and spiked homemade apple cider)
→ Check out all of my movie-themed recipes!

Bon appétit!

October 17, 2021 by Laura Ehlers

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