Horror Movies for kids.
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Mr Vampire and Encounters of the Spooky Kind - loved these movies when i was a kid.
no-no
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Well see, neither did I. Last month he stayed over at a friends, he came back and told me him and his mates had sneaked a dvd out of the older sisters room. Fucking Saw 3!!Flabbergasted!
He seems fine with it. He's had no nightmares, although he was facinated by the torture techniques.I guess saw 3 actually isn't scary, theres no suspense to it really.No feeling of an unseen threat.
Mainly I'm fucked off his introduction to horror was crap film like saw 3. I'd like to show him some decent horror which is more than just sadistic nastyness.
He seems fine with it. He's had no nightmares, although he was facinated by the torture techniques.I guess saw 3 actually isn't scary, theres no suspense to it really.No feeling of an unseen threat.
Mainly I'm fucked off his introduction to horror was crap film like saw 3. I'd like to show him some decent horror which is more than just sadistic nastyness.
I'd recommend Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs (1991). Can't recall the certificate but it was funny and had child actors in it. More like a pantomime really, but it was great (and has a "grasping landlords are capitalist bastards" theme through it too).
It did remind me of Evil Dead 3 actually - plenty of slapstick and suspense but not very much gore, although the "experiments" in the basement were a bit creepy
According to IMDB there's a sequal in the pipeline.
It did remind me of Evil Dead 3 actually - plenty of slapstick and suspense but not very much gore, although the "experiments" in the basement were a bit creepy
According to IMDB there's a sequal in the pipeline.
-=RicK=-
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Why so exactly?? If you get disturbed by this film, at whatever age then I'd be having a word with oneself. As for the vasectomy, I'm gay so theres no risk of me inflicting this film on my offspring. Prick.
scumbalina
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God, I was gonna come on and say The Spiderwick Chronicles is a bit scary like, but I guess if we're into Evil Dead and the like that's gonna seem right tame 
I do think stuff like The Others would be more scary though, if he's okay with slapstick blood and gore that's one thing but proper thriller type scares could all go a bit wrong.
Think People Under The Stairs is a bit creepy innit? I'd stick to the silly gore type stuff if he like that and avoid anything too suspenseful/jumpy myself
I do think stuff like The Others would be more scary though, if he's okay with slapstick blood and gore that's one thing but proper thriller type scares could all go a bit wrong.
Think People Under The Stairs is a bit creepy innit? I'd stick to the silly gore type stuff if he like that and avoid anything too suspenseful/jumpy myself
scumbalina
Scummy Mummy
Why so exactly?? If you get disturbed by this film, at whatever age then I'd be having a word with oneself. As for the vasectomy, I'm gay so theres no risk of me inflicting this film on my offspring. Prick.
I don't think suggesting that Braindead is inappropriate viewing for an 8 year old is that ridiculous
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I was going to say Poltergeist. It is scary, but also has the corny American family too.
When we were kids we got hold of a bunch of super-8 reels of Wolfman, The Mummy, Frankenstein etc. (*wonders where they came from...*) We got a cassette recorder and made our own sound tracks to them. Kept us busy for an entire wet summer. The following summer, we scripted and filmed our own horror/action film. We ran out of victims and recruited some of the younger kids from down the street. To keep it real, we didn't tell them everything that would happen, so their reactions were real.
We made kiddie snuff.
When we were kids we got hold of a bunch of super-8 reels of Wolfman, The Mummy, Frankenstein etc. (*wonders where they came from...*) We got a cassette recorder and made our own sound tracks to them. Kept us busy for an entire wet summer. The following summer, we scripted and filmed our own horror/action film. We ran out of victims and recruited some of the younger kids from down the street. To keep it real, we didn't tell them everything that would happen, so their reactions were real.
We made kiddie snuff.
scumbalina
Scummy Mummy
Reckon there's shit loads of crappy zombie and probably silly cannibal films that are probably as suitable as ED3 if you're happy with him watching that, I'll get Mr S to think of a few when he gets home (he's a Video Nasty geek )
)Johnny Canuck3
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So it's ok for the kiddies to see hearts being ripped out etc, but not two women kissing?
skyscraper101
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I think it all depends on the kid...
Gremlins was good when I was young and is probably the most harmless 'horror' type movie. Try Aracnaphobia too, scary stuff with bugs and stuff is good.
When I was 8 years old I watched Stephen King's 'IT' and had nightmares about clowns for a long time. I did enjoy the film though. lolz.
Gremlins was good when I was young and is probably the most harmless 'horror' type movie. Try Aracnaphobia too, scary stuff with bugs and stuff is good.
When I was 8 years old I watched Stephen King's 'IT' and had nightmares about clowns for a long time. I did enjoy the film though. lolz.
scumbalina
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Oooh, maybe watch it first as it might be inappropriate, but I remember slither being quite silly gory fun, and not very scary, more gross out stuff.
ETA...just checked and it's rated R, so maybe not!
Shaun of the Dead?
ETA...just checked and it's rated R, so maybe not!
Shaun of the Dead?
Johnny Canuck3
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Alright then. Ghostbusters.
I'd agree with Ghostbusters, but that's about it.
What a stupid idea: 'horror movies for 8 year olds'. People forget how impressionable children are, and how little it takes to frighten them, and to mark them. Even horror movies that aren't gorefests often contain symbolism, relationship ideas, etc, that can be very unsettling for children.
What is your purpose, anyway: to create an emotionally dead little kid who can become a good soldier in the Hoodie Wars of 2022?
Johnny Canuck3
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You're the step-dad, aren't you?
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scumbalina
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Have you seen the other films people have suggested? I'd say you have to judge it on the kid and the film, personally I was terrified by Ghostbusters when I was little, it really creeped me out big time, wheras something like ED3 is just a load of silliness and gore. I agree you don't know how a kids gonna react to stuff and you should be careful, watch stuff first/with them etc, but to just go by the rating (if that's how you were judging it) seems a bit irresponsible
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Reno
The In Kraut
So it's ok for the kiddies to see hearts being ripped out etc, but not two women kissing?
I was actually arguing strongly against showing anything with explicit gore to children on this thread should you have bothered to read it.
I don't think soft porn is that appropriate for 8 year olds either, as the women in Lust for Vampire and the likes do quite a bit more than chastely kissing each other, though I think these films would probably bore pre-teens more than anything. Hence my recommendation of the earlier Hammer Horrors which are better films than the later sexploitation ones.
I think 80's comedy horrors/schlock horrors would be fine for a 8 year old kid to watch - what passed for a 15 then is pretty tame by today's standards.
Anyway stuff like...
- Killer Klowns From Outta Space
- Critters
- Ghoulies
- Troll
- The Return of the Living Dead
- The Gate
- Lost Boys
- Creepshow
- The Toxic Avenger
- The Monster Squad
- Cat's Eye
etc
Anyway stuff like...
- Killer Klowns From Outta Space
- Critters
- Ghoulies
- Troll
- The Return of the Living Dead
- The Gate
- Lost Boys
- Creepshow
- The Toxic Avenger
- The Monster Squad
- Cat's Eye
etc
Johnny Canuck3
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I've seen most, if not all of them. If Ghostbusters creeped you out, you shouldn't be watching Evil Dead.
Johnny Canuck3
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I was actually arguing strongly against showing anything with explicit gore to children on this thread should you have bothered to read it.
You're recommending Hammer Films.
Sequels (1959 to 1974)
[edit] Frankenstein
Hammer consolidated their success by turning their most successful horror films into series. Six sequels to The Curse of Frankenstein were produced between 1959 and 1974:
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1959)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
All starred Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein, except The Horror of Frankenstein (not a sequel, but a tongue-in-cheek remake of The Curse of Frankenstein), where Ralph Bates took the title role. The Evil of Frankenstein stars Cushing but has a re-telling of the first film in flashbacks and a Baron Frankenstein with a very different personality and thus it isn't really a sequel.[29]
[edit] Dracula
Hammer also produced eight other Dracula films between 1960 and 1974:
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969)
Scars of Dracula (1970)
Dracula AD 1972 (1972)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
Not appropriate for an eight year old, imo.
Reno
The In Kraut
I have no idea what this bizarre cut and paste job of Hammers production history combined the lenght of time that I've been on this forum is supposed to prove Johnny, but the Hammer films are pretty harmless by today's standarts and little more than a bit of fake looking blood is shown in the early ones. It's not what I would regard as gore and nothing as dramatic as hearts being ripped out as you have been claiming. It's all very tame by todays standarts and I'm getting the feeling that as so often you don't really know what you are talking about.
stdPikachu
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I remember seeing Ghostbusters 2 when I was about 11 years old and having nightmares about it for months afterwards. I remember reading "It" at the same age and wondering why boys would want to have sex with girls.
Truth of the matter is that kids heads are capable of turning the most mundane things into icons of pure terror and stuff that can be scary to adults (often enough by referencing the child within us) can have absolutely no effect whatsoever.
Besides, people need to be exposed to stuff that scares them, if only to learn how to deal with being scared, knowing how to calm down and not losing it in a blind panic. Yeah, I would draw the line at gore until they're at least 12, but stuff that's merely "unsettling"? Guess you can call the child protection agency now.
*immediately starts petition to have "unsettling" bits of the bible and history banned from schools*
Johnny Canuck3
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You're suggesting I've never seen a Hammer film?
What I'm talking about is this: yes, hammer films are tame compared to today's movies, but to a young mind, not yet callused from years of exposure to gore and horror, the themes, the suspense etc in a sixties hammer film, are enough to produce nightmares.
I'm still not clear on why an eight year old must be weaned off Shining Time Station and Mighty Machines, and introduced to the world of bloodsuckers, and insane asylum escapers.
I re-watched it not so long since - it's way too nasty/gory for an 8 year old IMO. 'Bad' language (both sweary and racist) and adult themes n'all (incest, BDSM).
It was an 18 on release but got a re-rated to a 15 in 2002.
Johnny Canuck3
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p.s. How many of you people recommending horror movies for eight year olds, are actually parents yourselves?
scumbalina
Scummy Mummy
Mr S has a bit of a squint at the shelves this morning, and reckons Troma films would be bang on, except for the sexual content in some of them (which is pretty sexist), the only things he could find with no other "issues" like that and just silly slapstick gore were a couple of Japanese ones, Stacy and Wild Zero, but we haven't seen them for a while so double check as they might be totally inappropriate.
scumbalina
Scummy Mummy
Well, ED didn;t have a scary ginger guy in a picture frame whos ees followed you round the room, so it wasn't really an issue. I watch shit loads of 18/R rated horror films, probably a few a week and am very very rarely freaked out by them as they're usually unbelievable guff...however I still get freaked out by some 12's and 15's depending on the subject matter/level of suspense...it's an individual thing, different folk are scared by different things, same for kids.
Do step parents count? Still not sure why you though that was relevant.....and I'm a mum to be if that gives me authority over other not up the duff people on the thread, although I haven't got a clue why it would and if someone comes along who's got a kid already I guess they trump that
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I find this thread quite shocking, even if my kid did steal a DVD to watch I wouldn't keep letting them watch shit like that but that's just me
Think I'll leave the thread as I'm in danger of telling someone how to raise their kids, and no-one ever wants to hear that especially off some childless 25 year old
Think I'll leave the thread as I'm in danger of telling someone how to raise their kids, and no-one ever wants to hear that especially off some childless 25 year old
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