The Addams Family Movies Ranked from Worst to Best

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The Addams Family is an icon of happy madness, morbid fun, and macabre amusement. It is as much a sideshow as a franchise, and equal parts parachute, noose, and straitjacket. It was created in 1938 as a series of unrelated single-panel cartoons by Charles Addams, the only cartoonist The New Yorker magazine ever recommended for psychiatric evaluation. So it is a shame we’ll never know what the cartoonist would’ve thought of Tim Burton’s Wednesday, the latest and most promising adaptation of the warped family entertainment for televised consumption in quite some time.

Featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, and Luis Guzmán as family patriarch Gomez, Wednesday stars Jenna Ortega as the title character. The cast also includes Christina Ricci, the most iconic Wednesday Addams from the 1990s films directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Touted as a supernaturally infused mystery set at the Nevermore Academy, Wednesday will get a full cinematic treatment as a series on Netflix. It’s the first major live-action television Addams series since The New Addams Family revival in the late ‘90s—and the first good one since ABC made the characters iconic in 1964. The sisters, brothers, grandmamas, aunt Calpurnias, cousin Itts, and Things who carry the Addams name are always ready for a closeup.

But before Burton returned the Addams to their television roots, the kooky and spooky family went forth and multiplied on the big screen, including in a handful of films that for younger generations are the definitive Addams adventures. Thus here are the six motion pictures shaken from Chas Addams’ family tree, from the weakest root to the perennially petrified. Crawl off your broomsticks, throw on a shawl, and if you’re popping anything livelier than corn, remember to play with your food while you watch.

6. The Addams Family 2 (2021)

5. The Addams Family (2019)

4. Addams Family Reunion (1998)

3. Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)

2. The Addams Family (1991)

1. Addams Family Values (1993)