They like reading the Goosebumps books, and other scary children's stories, but most scary movies seem to have blood and gore intended for older audiences.
2006-08-04 03:48:07 · 60 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Sheltering children from the reality of what is out there is actually more damaging then letting them watch. They're less apt to know how to take it when they're older. But watch the raitings.
If you really want some good ones for kids, consider letting them watch some of the classics such as the original Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon. They are pretty tame.
2006-08-04 03:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by a_poor_misguided_soul 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
you have yourself answered the question alluding to the blood and gore in such movies and saying that these are intended for adult audience. Why do you want to spoil the beautiful world of the young ones by prematurely exposing them to it. I know cases where thoughtless parents just letting sit these wards by their sides while they were watching HBO,AXN etc. They were so engrossed in the picture that they had hardly any time to look to wideend eyes of the young ones with terror wirt large in them.The result has been either that the children has restrless sleep and would frequently wake up crying from their nightmares or their nerves were juist deadened and they were unmoved even by horror and horrors.Some even thought that these were jokersand actually laughed at the caricatures of the ghosts and the goblins. Both ways you would be depriving them of enjoying the hair-raising films by premature exposure to this genere. They have enough life before them to see the seemy side of life or rather non-life when they grow up.
2006-08-04 04:04:55 · answer #2 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone recommended "Monster House" - my wife took our 11, 9 and 6 year-old girls to see it, and left the theatre. It was way too violent and disturbing for our kids.
"Scary movies" for little kids is sort of an oxymoron. I understand your children may be different from mine, but I personally feel it's not something that's appropriate for small children. Still, Disney's "The Haunted Mansion" was mentioned, and that's pretty silly-scary, and pretty much okay, as I recall. Another good one for that age range would be the "Casper" series ("Casper and Wendy" even has perennial kids favorite Hillary Duff). My kids generally liked "Zathura," though my younger ones found it a bit intense. The Harry Potter movies are okay, with the exception of the latest ("Goblet of Fire") due to its intensity.
Understand that my wife and I are "scary" film junkies, I even more than her. We own the entire "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" series on DVD, and I count a number of good scary films as some of my favorites ("Alien," "Aliens," the "Evil Dead" series, etc.) We also love the Harry Potter series (both the books and movies - we own all of both the DVDs and the books). We just tend to believe that this kind of stuff isn't for our own kids. Again, you know your kids better than I would. Our best friends' sons are about the same age as our girls, and they ate up "Monster House" (and they allow them to selectively watch "Buffy" and "Angel" episodes as well). I hope my recommendations work for you. :o)
2006-08-04 04:03:52 · answer #3 · answered by Scott R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scream 3, scary movie 2!
2006-08-04 03:54:12 · answer #4 · answered by Ivana 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you want to scare 6-8 year old kids? Do you not like sleeping in your bed without them? BUt if you must there is a new movie Monster House, but a 6 year old little girl I know left the theater after about 10 minutes.
2006-08-04 03:52:39 · answer #5 · answered by themogleclan@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These people are just jokers.... I can't believe no one has given you a good recommendation...
Try the Neverending Story... but make sure you just buy the first movie... the other ones are pretty bad. Also, there is Labyrinth, with young Jennifer Connely and David Bowe... which was really good too... both very good movies for kids.
2006-08-04 03:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see Sandlot, Haunted Mansion, Goosebumps TV series.
2006-08-04 03:52:21 · answer #7 · answered by stephanielara87 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May be you do not like my answer but if you really love kids don't let them watch scary movies or read such stories because it left bad impact on their mind. Rather let them watch comedy movies or read jokes etc.
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2006-08-04 03:56:26 · answer #8 · answered by Ari 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have they watched the goosebumps movie series? My little sisters are 7 and they loooooove those movies when in they are in the mood for something scary.
2006-08-04 03:55:50 · answer #9 · answered by Kay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is an old movie but was really creepy and just right for that age. Its a Disney movie called "The Watcher in the Woods"
I loved it when I was 8. Its still pretty worthy even today.
2006-08-04 03:53:09 · answer #10 · answered by lost_irish_75 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look in the Family or childrens section at the movie store. I know ABC family and disney make some kid appropriate scary movies.
2006-08-04 03:51:33 · answer #11 · answered by smalltownangel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋