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gey muckle mowser posted:My niece is really into spooky stuff, ghost stories, etc, but she's only 7 so I can't really show her anything intense yet (she loved Coraline and Nightmare Before Christmas though). It's gonna be really fun showing her more horror movies in a couple years. I have a 10 year old and his favorite movie period for like 2 years was Monster House (Dan Harmon has a writing credit on it randomly). It's animated, a ton of fun, and isn't too scary even for most 5 year old kids. He moved on to watching Coraline on repeat after that, which I think is scarier than most people realize.
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I watched the 2019 animated Addams Family for the May Challenge and that's a fun little movie for the younger kids.
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FueledBySatan posted:I have a 10 year old and his favorite movie period for like 2 years was Monster House (Dan Harmon has a writing credit on it randomly). It's animated, a ton of fun, and isn't too scary even for most 5 year old kids. He moved on to watching Coraline on repeat after that, which I think is scarier than most people realize. I like Monster House, Constance is a very strong character.
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My 6 year old was getting too worked up by Hotel Transylvania, I want to introduce them to some of this stuff but I know it's too much right now. I bet when they're older they'll be real into some of this stuff though.
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Baron von Eevl posted:My 6 year old was getting too worked up by Hotel Transylvania, I want to introduce them to some of this stuff but I know it's too much right now. I bet when they're older they'll be real into some of this stuff though. When I was that age my father showed me Jaws. It was a different time.
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FueledBySatan posted:I have a 10 year old and his favorite movie period for like 2 years was Monster House (Dan Harmon has a writing credit on it randomly). It's animated, a ton of fun, and isn't too scary even for most 5 year old kids. He moved on to watching Coraline on repeat after that, which I think is scarier than most people realize. yeah Coraline has some stuff in it that even creeps me out, my sister actually put that on for my niece and I’m not sure she knew what she was getting into. Fortunately she loved it.
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Basebf555 posted:When I was that age my father showed me Jaws. It was a different time. When I was really little I was a wuss too, I got really scared watching ET when the government agents are trying to get ET and he's almost dead when I was about this age. By the time I was 10 I was watching Aliens, Terminator, Predator, Rocky Horror, and Army of Darkness. Yes, I know, one of these things is not like the other.
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yeah what kind of sick freak shows their kid Army of Darkness before Evil Dead 2
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I know it's a stretch, but The Neverending Story movies are decent "horror" films for young kids. Atreyu's horse in the swamp haunted me as a kid... 
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Basebf555 posted:When I was that age my father showed me Jaws. It was a different time. There’s no wrong age to see Jaws Bogus Adventure posted:I know it's a stretch, but The Neverending Story movies are decent "horror" films for young kids. Atreyu's horse in the swamp haunted me as a kid... Well that’s not scary really, just sad as hell
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I feel like there’s a strategical flaw in picking films for kids based on what memorably freaked us out as kids. Unless the goal is to traumatize another generation.
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Drunkboxer posted:There’s no wrong age to see Jaws It's weird because then when Jurassic Park came out in 1993 I was like two years older than when I'd seen Jaws, and my father all the sudden was concerned about taking me to see that. I had to grind him down over a period of several months before he broke down and took me to see it. STAC Goat posted:I feel like there’s a strategical flaw in picking films for kids based on what memorably freaked us out as kids. Unless the goal is to traumatize another generation. Well there's always a fine line between a traumatic movie experience and having a great time being spooked. Like, did the scene in Ghostbusters where the hands come out of the chair and attack Dana give me a whole bunch of nightmares as a kid? Absolutely, but that fear is a big part of why I ended up loving the horror movie experience. You have to learn from experience that being scared in a controlled safe setting like a movie is actually a lot of fun. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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If they felt good enough to give Jaws a PG, you should feel good enough to show it to kids 
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Show your kids the Secret of NIMH
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Deadite posted:Show your kids the Secret of NIMH YES
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Drunkboxer posted:Well that’s not scary really, just sad as hell Gmork also hosed me up pretty bad
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Bogus Adventure posted:I know it's a stretch, but The Neverending Story movies are decent "horror" films for young kids. Atreyu's horse in the swamp haunted me as a kid... Drunkboxer posted:Well that’s not scary really, just sad as hell Neverending Story is kind of existential horror. The Rock Biter surrendering to the Nothing because he failed to save his friends. The Gmork wanting to prevent anyone from stopping the Nothing because he wants it to swallow up everything including him.
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Basebf555 posted:
Yeah I definitely wouldn’t like the genre as much if I didn’t get scared/scarred when I was a kid, though obviously there’s limits. Jaws didn’t scare me though, I was probably 7 or 8 when I saw it and I was 100% on the sharks side iirc. I wanted him to eat as many people as possible because sharks are cool Drunkboxer fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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Basebf555 posted:When I was that age my father showed me Jaws. It was a different time. When I was 5(!!!!!!!), my aunt had me watch The Exorcist with her while babysitting me 
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Basebf555 posted:When I was that age my father showed me Jaws. It was a different time. I remember a time when I was fairly young where I was enraptured by Aliens but I had trouble with the Wizard of Oz and Fantasia because the tornado scene and Night on Bald Mountain were both too scary. Kids are weird.
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I watched Basic Instinct with my family when I was like 11. It was awkward.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:When I was 5(!!!!!!!), my aunt had me watch The Exorcist with her while babysitting me That is hosed
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I was probably 6 or 7 when I watched the Universal Monsters movies with my dad and I had great memories of that time, I didn't revisit them until decades later because I didn't want to spoil the memory. And then I liked them all even more when I did.
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Invader Zim Halloween special is the best of all time
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Baron von Eevl posted:When I was really little I was a wuss too, I got really scared watching ET when the government agents are trying to get ET and he's almost dead when I was about this age. I got really scared watching ET because there's a loving ALIEN and these kids don't know what they're doing. Whole movie was like that gif from Xtro or...just like Greys looking in your window at night. 
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If we're talking traumatizing children's horror, I just learned that Tom Savini made the Gooey Gus puppet/monster for the series finale of Ghostwriter.
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You know what hosed me up as a kid? That episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark where the kid gets trapped in a VR game with the computer virus. Genuinely gross body horror with the port growing out of the kid’s hand and the mindfuck with multiple layers of reality
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Pee Wee's Big Adventure also mixes up some genuine scary moments courtesy of Tim Burton not being able to help himself. Pee Wee's nightmare about his bike is horrifying. Also, gonna toss in The Witches (the Anjelica Huston version). It rules.
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Mover posted:You know what hosed me up as a kid? That episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark where the kid gets trapped in a VR game with the computer virus. Genuinely gross body horror with the port growing out of the kid’s hand and the mindfuck with multiple layers of reality The Langoliers-esque one with the glasses haunted me for a while.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:yeah what kind of sick freak shows their kid Army of Darkness before Evil Dead 2 Evil Dead is my favorite movie and I've seen it more than 75 times at this point. I've seen Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness around 5 times. I know I'm in the minority, but there's something about the first one that does it for me. Edit: I absolutely loved Evil Dead 2013. I was absolutely amazed they didn't ruin my favorite movie and actually scared me with something new. Evil Dead Rise hits very different as a parent. I actually had to leave the theater halfway through because my wife couldn't handle it. (Nobody tell her that I told anyone... I will be in trouble). FueledBySatan fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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The original is my favorite too, by a large margin. I don't know what it is, but it hits that perfect spot of being charming and genuinely inventive while also being kind of ridiculous but not trying to make it a joke.
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I just watched Influencer and I really liked it! Very cool hook. I do have a question - I assumed right away that Madison would take her revenge so I was watching looking for clues that she had survival skills, like a picture on her feed of her in a survival camp or something that was just below the picture CK was looking at. I didn't catch any clues unfortunately, but I did browse my phone a couple times. Was there any clue before the return to the island?
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Mover posted:You know what hosed me up as a kid? That episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark where the kid gets trapped in a VR game with the computer virus. Genuinely gross body horror with the port growing out of the kid’s hand and the mindfuck with multiple layers of reality Hell, I'm still scared of the Ghastly Grinner
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FueledBySatan posted:Evil Dead is my favorite movie and I've seen it more than 75 times at this point. I've seen Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness around 5 times. I know I'm in the minority, but there's something about the first one that does it for me. When I was in college we showed ED on VHS in my dorm about a million times. One of my favorite pleasures was showing it to some unsuspecting new person. “Jack.. of spades. Two… of spades.. JACK OF DIAMONDS QUEEN OF DIAMONDS RARRRRGH” edit: Also, Demon Linda doing a reprise of the “furtive gaze around the necklace” game was just 
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Who else in this thread owns the special necronomicon edition of the Evil Dead DVD?
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MrMojok posted:That is hosed Took years & years to move on from how much that movie scared (and affected) me.
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Deadite posted:Who else in this thread owns the special necronomicon edition of the Evil Dead DVD? I do and it’s totally degraded. Keep it in a ziploc lol
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Deadite posted:Who else in this thread owns the special necronomicon edition of the Evil Dead DVD? WeaponX posted:I do and it’s totally degraded. Keep it in a ziploc lol Yeah mine is practically disintegrated, looks even scarier
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Medullah posted:I just watched Influencer and I really liked it! Very cool hook. I do have a question - I don’t recall seeing any clues of this type. I think Madison being able to survive was simply necessary to the story in order for the villain to get her comeuppance. Personally I felt as soon as she saw the camp and cooking setup she should have dumped the body and bailed. Glad you enjoyed it too, I had fun watching it.
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