"They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're all together ooky..."

Which was fine for TV. But the members of the big-screen Addams family do what they wanna do, say what they wanna say, live how they wanna live and play how they wanna play.

Featuring pitch-perfect performances from Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Huston , Christina Ricci and Christopher Lloyd , The Addams Family and Addams Family Values have lived on as must-watch Halloween (and any other day of the year) fare.

And Ricci's turn as Wednesday Addams, the girl with one thing on her mind (you know, homicide), remains the O.G. gold standard of sardonic adolescent morbidity.

"If you think about role models for young people, that's a great character!" the now 45-year-old actress said in 2023 on The

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