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38 Scary Movies for Kids Who Like to Feel the Thrill. From those watching their first horror film to those (almost) ready for Poltergeist, here are the best flicks for every age. By Marisa LaScala ...
- Casper (1995) Starting off with a classic that you likely already know and love. Casper is about the “friendly ghost” of a young boy who haunts the halls of Whipstaff Manor.
- Nightbooks (2021) Hearing that Nightbooks was produced by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame might just clue you into how seriously scary this Netflix original film is.
- Goosebumps (2015) Based on the classic kids’ book series by R.L. Stine, 2015’s Goosebumps starring Jack Black does more than just replicate one of the series’ many scary stories.
- A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting (2020) Want some teen angst and girl power mixed in with your spooks? This could be just the movie for you. Set on Halloween night, a teenage girl named Kelly (Tamara Smart) is forced to babysit a little boy named Jacob instead of attending a party.
- The Bad Seed
- Village of The Damned
- Kill, Baby…Kill!
- Spider Baby
- Rosemary’s Baby
- The Other
- The Exorcist
- It’S Alive
- Alice, Sweet Alice
- Who Can Kill A Child?
In this horror classic that set the bar for Evil Little Girls in cinema, 11-year-old Patty McCormack stars as eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark, a prim schoolgirl with blonde pigtails who seems to be the picture of normality…that is, until the day a boy who beat her in a penmanship contest winds up drowned in a lake. After one horrific event after the n...
After a mysterious and inexplicable mass impregnation one night in a remote British village called Midwich, nine months later a dozen precocious children are born on the same day. As they age, the children—whose hair is snow-blonde and whose eyes have an odd tendency to suddenly start glowing—exhibit troubling characteristics such as telepathy and ...
In this early offering by Italian horror maestro Mario Bava, the villagers of a mountain town in Eastern Europe during the early 1900s are haunted by the ghost of a young girl who starts murdering townsfolk. It turns out that the girl was the seven-year-old daughter of a baroness and had been killed about a dozen years prior. Kill, Baby…Kill! was o...
A dark and moody black-and-white film about three orphaned siblings who live in a crumbling mansion and are all afflicted with “Merrye Syndrome,” a genetically transmitted disease that starts in early puberty and causes its victims to revert into childlike behavior. The film’s title is based on one of the three siblings, Virginia, who is infatuated...
In the first of several Satan-themed blockbusters featuring evil little children (the other notable entries are The Exorcist and The Omen, both covered below), Mia Farrow stars as Rosemary Woodhouse, a young Roman Catholic Manhattanite who moves along with her husband into a Gothic apartment building in spite of warnings that the building houses a ...
In the first of several evil-child horror films to feature a kid with Capgras syndrome—a delusion that one’s self has split off into an identical impostor—we see “identical twins” Holland and Niles Perry enjoying life on the family farm in the summer of 1935, only months after their father died in the farmhouse cellar. For most of the film it seems...
In one of the most famous horror films of all time, 12-year-old Linda Blair stars as Regan MacNeil, daughter of a single mom who begins playing with her Ouija boardand starts conversing with someone she calls “Captain Howdy.” Over the ensuing weeks and a series of medical tests that reveal nothing, it becomes obvious that Regan is demon-possessed a...
After taking contraceptives, Lenore Davis is horrified to learn that she has become pregnant with her second child. She is further horrified when the child, who is born with fangs and claws, kills the doctor and nurse who delivered him and escapes through a skylight, only to kill more people. Her husband Frank loses his own life in a fatal struggle...
In her first film appearance, Brooke Shields stars as a 9-year-old girl named Karen in New Jersey who is murdered at her first Holy Communion. Her 12-year-old sister, Alice, becomes the prime suspect in this as well as in a subsequent string of stabbings.
Released originally in Spanish as ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? and also in English as Island of the Damned, this Spanish horror film features an English couple who take an island vacation before the birth of their third child—only to realize that the island is solely populated by emotionless, murderous children. The couple then face the ethical di...
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Jun 30, 2023 · 1. Goosebumps. Horror writer R.L. Stine books come to life as a teen moves to a small town and falls for the girl next door only to learn her dad is Stine himself. Thing only get spookier from there! WATCH NOW. 2. Hotel Transylvania.
- A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020) Kelly Ferguson thought she was signing up for a simple babysitting gig on Halloween night. Well, it turns out she was recruited into a secret society of babysitters who need to be sheltered from wicked monsters.
- Nightbooks (2021) This dark fantasy film based on the children's book of the same name by JA White follows Alex Mosher, a boy from Brooklyn who loves to write scary stories.
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Film. Action and adventure. After a run of acclaimed shorts, Aardman Studios’ beloved stop-motion duo made their feature-length debut in this lovably daft horror parody.
- Casper (1995) Film. Family and kids. Sometimes, seeing dead people isn’t such a bad thing – at least, not when the apparition is everyone’s favourite friendly ghost.
Jul 19, 2022 · The scary movies for kids on Netflix range from from animated movies and laugh-out-loud comedies to science fiction and fantasy films. These family Halloween movies on Netflix will keep...
2 days ago · Not only does Netflix have a strong rotating library of scary movies, they sit along their horror original efforts, like Gerald’s Game, Fear Street, and Bird Box. How did we whittle down our list...
