Spooky House is a 2002 American family comedy film directed, co-produced and co-written by William Sachs, and starring Ben Kingsley and Mercedes Ruehl.

[2] Alexander York, known as The Great Zamboni, is a famous illusionist who works with his wife and assistant, Dawn Starr.

While they are trying to enjoy themselves as much as they can before Max is sent to an orphanage after Halloween, the five kids also run afoul with three teenage kleptomaniac neighborhood bullies: high school students Mora, Mike the Mouth, and Dumb Dave.

The teens steal Zoe's pet goat Princess, stashing her in a graveyard near the Spooky House, forcing the kids to go after her.

When the teenage bullies torment Max, steal the wand, and destroy his bicycle, he returns to Zamboni and reports the incident, where the latter formulates a plan: the kids will steal back what was stolen, and lure the thieves to the Zamboni's house where they will foil her and Madame Boss' plans using elaborate traps.

On Halloween night, the children break into Madame Boss' shop to steal and stumble upon her meeting with the teens.

After scaring the teens with some tricks and drives them away with Shadow's help, Madame Boss arrives, holding Max hostage, but Zamboni manages to fight her off and subdue her, while one of the children alerts the police.

It's a tremendous crowd pleaser.Spooky House is incredibly likable, a consistently delightful Halloween treat that'll make kids smile and maybe even get a few grins out of the grown-ups as well.