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Discussion starter · #61 ·
tomanderson said:
Yeah, great lists, everyone. Some fine, fantabulous choices!

I am also really partial to the Universal monster movie classics from the 1930's and 1940's...Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolf Man. And from the 1950's, Creature from the Black Lagoon. Any kid can watch those with no problems nowadays! Very mild and totally appropriate for the Halloween season.
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for sure! I just love them, cant go wrong
 
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Watcher in the Woods (directed by John Hough, of Legend of Hell House fame among other notable films) is, I think, an honestly disturbing horror movie. It's Disney, it's PG (one of their first PG titles I believe?), it's got Bette Davis, and it has that whole thing with the parallel universe where everything is backwards (the "Nerak" entity trying to communicate with Lynn Holly-Johnson, etc) and the recurring symbol of the overlapping circles indicating the two universes intersecting. And on top of it, the story is wrapped up without anything much being adequately explained...YES, this is a nice movie for giving someone the creeps, and it does it without blood or scary monster imagery. A very good choice maybe for slightly older kids!
 
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wallace and gromit and the curse of the were rabbit , thats a fun one
and its been said but coraline definitely...button shaped cookies, that would be awesome
 
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I posted pics in my albums 2013 parties. We did Double Double Toil and Trouble for a Witch night, The Munsters go home and Munsters Revenge for Frankenstein night , Toy Story of Terror for snakes and vampires (it was my 5 year old sons choice) of course he picked snakes! Ghost night with the Ghost and Mr Chicken. We made ghost pizza and chicken wings ;) Thank you so much everyone for your help. I am keeping this thread for next year as well. You all had so many great ideas!!
 
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Thread revival!

Did anyone mention Monster Squad? That's a fun one. It might not be good for really young kids (there is a bit of swearing, mostly from the kid characters), and it gets a little intense toward the end, but all in all, it's a great showcase for the "classic" monsters.

I'm also ridiculously fond of Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolf Man. It's got all the silliness of a regular Chipmunks cartoon, plus some genuinely spooky moments, and, yes, there is singing.

Speaking of the Chipmunks, there's a DVD that I found at Target last Halloween (for $5, no less!) that had a double feature of Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolf Man and Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein. I haven't actually watched the Frankenstein one, yet, but I will in the autumn.

I also didn't notice if anyone mentioned The Little Vampire. It's got the kid from Jerry Maguire in it as a little boy who makes friends with the new kid next door... Who happens to be a vampire. It's actually a pretty cute movie, if a little cheesy (even by kids' movie standards).

Teen Wolf was one I loved as a kid... Mostly because I loved Michael J. Fox. (Still do! :D) It's more for older kids, really, but I can tell you that I watched it about a zillion times as a very young child and suffered no ill effects. (Well, other than an obsession with werewolves, but is that really so terrible?)

The original Wolf Man with Lon Chaney, Jr. is also tame enough for kids, too, honestly. No blood. No horrific transformations. Just a lot of angst, and pitchforks.
 
Discussion starter · #76 ·
Stormy so glad you revived this thread. I love hearing everyones suggestions. I actually bot 4 or 5 movies from amazon after getting everyones input.

I love Alivn and the Chipmunks Wolfman its better than the Frankenstein one but they are both great. Funny you mention the Monster Squad because as kids my brothers and I and the neighborhood kids had a Monster Squad complete with a Monster test that you had to take to be in the club. We still do this at Halloween parties, every year we do a Monster Test, Trivia. Its so fun. I have watched it with the kids, totally forgot about the language, haha... my hubby and I just looked at each other, oops, haha.... stuff like that didn't phase me as a kid I watched chainsaw massacre with my Mom but my kids are sheltered, haha...

We watched 13 Ghosts this week and it was really good, scared the kids enough but no nudity and language. We are watching the Mummy this weekend. We also did House on Haunted Hill. All of these are the black and white ones. They are still scary for the kids but none of that really bad stuff, I don't care if they are scared but don't want them to see teenagers gettin it on and blood baths, lol
 
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