Horror films you can watch with kids for Halloween

10/31/2021

[MAGA2017]

Horror films you can watch with kids. Please add on your suggestions:

Day of the Triffids (1951) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) Dracula (1931) Horror Hotel (1960) House on Haunted Hill (1959) Nosferatu (1922) The Birds (1963) The Blob (1959) The Canterville Ghost (1944) The Haunting (1963) The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018) The Others (2001) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Thing from Another World (1951) The Uninvited (1944) Them! (1954)

[Flick Lives]

Ghostbusters (1984). One of the best comedic horror movies. Not for little kids obviously, but tweens on up.

[EEGator]

What the Hell does Christian Slater do now?

His finest performance was Gleaming the Cube...

[proust]

Arsenic and old lace 1944

[Carriage Hill]

“Pet Semetary” and...

All “Chuckie” movies.

[KamperKen]

"Ghostbusters (1984). One of the best comedic horror movies"

I saw this in a theater revival two years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, having last seen it in 1985. The performances were wonderful. Dan Ackroyd was one of the writers and he said on his Joe Rogan interview how a haunted farm house in his family was the inspiration for the movie.

[duckbutt]

Hubby and I are enjoying Hotel Transylvania 2 right now before the kiddos show up. It’s surprisingly funny for adults as well!

[Fedora]

Ping.

[laplata]

“The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947”

That’s a wonderful movie.

[kaktuskid]

Any of the Universal Monster movies of the 30s and 40s

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I WALK WITH A ZOMBIE
THE LEOPARD MAN
any of Val Lewton’s 1940s movies
Nosferatu
Dracula (Bela Lugosi version)
DRACULA (Mexican version filmed on the same sound stages)
THE FRANKENSTEIN series from the 1930s and 1940s.
WOLFMAN series
THE MUMMY series from the ‘30s and ‘40s.
Bowery Boys meet the Monsters
WHITE ZOMBIE
GHOST BREAKERS The scene where they describe a zombie is a hoot(You mean their Democrats.)
Any of the Abbot and Costello monster movies.
Abbot and Costello go to Mars
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
King Kong and Son of Kong
Earth VS the Flying Saucers
20 Million Miles to Earth.
Invaders from Mars (1953)
MAN MADE MONSTER. One of my favorites.

And many many more before 1968 when the Hays Code was removed and blood, guts and sex became the prime mover in horror stories. Many scenes were reshot to get the coveted “R” and “X” rating.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

TWILIGHT ZONE
OUTER LIMITS
THRILLER(with Boris Karloff)
NIGHT GALLERY

The original productions only. not the remakes.

I can still remember two of the scariest “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” that still give me the creeps even though I have not seen them since the 1960s
THE FINAL ESCAPE
THE JAR.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Definitely worth watching! Saw it last night on TCM following the original Frankenstein.(”That’s Fronkenstein!”)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I saw BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS at the drive in back in 1953. Scared the u-no-watt out of me! I spent most of the night hiding on the floorboards!
“GASP! it ate a policeman!” back to the floorboards.

Now it is fun to watch.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Definitely worth watching! Saw it last night on TCM following the original Frankenstein.(”That’s Fronkenstein!”)

[gundog]

There were several Roger Corman treatments of Edgar Allan Poe that we’re really good. “The Pit and the Pendulum” was great. Vincent Price was in that one.

[Disambiguator]

There was a rape scene, too, don’t forget.

I just saw it a week ago.

“Seda-give?!?”

[GingisK]

Me too! I still don’t like monkeys, even if they can’t fly.

[monkeyshine]

I don’t remember that. Apologies.

[GingisK]

I watched the Three Stooges with enthusiasm. I feel well rounded.

[GingisK]

The Pit and The Pendulum gave me a long bout with nightmares. It was pretty good.