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To let 10 YO DS watch a horror film?

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ProfessorMoody · 07/10/2018 00:36

DS10 has decided he doesn't want to trick or treat this year and wants to stay in and watch a "horror film".

He's seen most of the children's ones like Miss Peregrine, Hotel Transylvanias, The Witches etc.

He'd like to watch something a little more "grown up" but I can't seem to think of any that are suitable, or a 12A.

DH thinks Woman in Black is a good place to start but I was horrified that it's a 12 as I found it really scary and definitely unsuitable for a 10 year old!

What's your favourite mild horror?

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ClashCityRocker · 07/10/2018 20:01

Sorry, yeah, just looked at common sense media on American werewolf.... I think I'm getting it confused with a different werewolf film! Maybe not that one then.

Bujinkhal · 07/10/2018 20:04

Don't know if it's been mentioned already but lost boys? Scary but not too scary.

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ProfessorMoody · 07/10/2018 20:13

Edward Scissorhands is a fab idea - not sure why we haven't already watched it, as it's brilliant!

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didyouseetheflaresinthesky · 07/10/2018 20:14

Have you seen it recently? It's got a lot of swearing, some really weird bits and some pretty gruesome special effects. I would say it's too much for a 10 year old. My 12 year.old is found it quite disturbing!! It's very dark.

Seen which one, sorry, I mentioned a few?

didyouseetheflaresinthesky · 07/10/2018 20:18

The film no one else remembers that monsters inc. copied?

THANK YOU! No one else I mention it to even remembers that film existed. If I ever see it on DVD I will be elated.

SeagIass · 07/10/2018 20:20

Some of these are unbelievably inappropriate 🙈

Edward Scissorhands
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Coraline
The Hole (kids one!)
Goosebumps

are all great suggestions. MAYBE Beetlejuice if he likes macabre stuff but I’d tread carefully.

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 07/10/2018 20:22

THANK YOU! No one else I mention it to even remembers that film existed.

It never existed, Mandela effect!

Really it's really weird how few people have seen it, for years me an my sister were the only people who new of it, then netflix got the rights to add it to their collection, so you can see it on netflix.

SeagIass · 07/10/2018 20:22

Oh and what about The Addams Family films? Or Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 07/10/2018 20:22

Last year Me and my sister got her partner to watch it with us, he wasn't impressed.

mariniere · 07/10/2018 20:30

Blair witch and Freddie Kruger are some of the suggestions on here - good Lord. I was scared out of my wits by BWP in my twenties and still hate going into the corner of a dark room! And Elm street is horribly gory. Please don’t show him these. Just because there is some real sicko stuff available now, doesn’t mean these arent potentially super scary for a 10 year old.

mariniere · 07/10/2018 20:31

And Babadook... seen the trailers and couldn’t watch that now Confused

surlycurly · 07/10/2018 20:33

I was going to suggest 'the others' too. I show it to classes if 11/12 year olds and they always love it. Creepy but not scary.

didyouseetheflaresinthesky · 07/10/2018 20:33

He didn't like it?! I still watch Little Monsters now, on a patchy VHS tape that has to be tightened before it will play.

MissionItsPossible · 07/10/2018 20:46

Funhouse is one of my favourites! The roller coaster is called The Devil’s Elbow

All I remember is Dade as I’d never heard of that name before lol

Did anyone read the goosebumps story The Horror of Camp Jellyjam? 😷🤢🤮

Thurmanmurman · 07/10/2018 20:47

Did I honestly just see someone suggest Nightmare on Elm Street for a ten year old?! I think more along the lines of Ghostbusters or Beetlejuice. Nightmare on Elm Street FFS!

Ontheboardwalk · 07/10/2018 20:47

Poltergeist hell no

I’m still scared from watching the original around the same age. Clown under the bed and the TV, it’s a no from me for this film

As others have said Stranger Things might be a good choice

ChoudeBruxelles · 07/10/2018 20:48

Ds loved tremors a couple of years ago (he’s now 12). B movie horror.

Thurmanmurman · 07/10/2018 20:53

Rosehip. Have you actually seen The Green Mile or is that suggestion a joke?

Miladymilord · 07/10/2018 20:55

The green Mile!

Wtaf is wrong with people

NotUmbongoUnchained · 07/10/2018 20:59

I watched nightmare on elm street younger than 10 🤷🏻‍♀️

Green mile suggestion did make me laugh though!

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ProfessorMoody · 07/10/2018 21:00

I was a bit Confused at the Green Mile suggestion!

I think the original Poltergeist is a PG.

I was the one who said perhaps Blair Witch. I've never come across anyone who found it remotely scary, it was a bit of a joke when it came out because of how boring it was! DH vetoed it anyway as he said it's way too slow.

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ChoudeBruxelles · 07/10/2018 21:01

Ds wasn’t the least bit scared of jaws and actually laughed at the shark eating quin at the end. Scared by lake placid though.

cannotfindanickname · 07/10/2018 21:02

Not Coraline. My daughter used to have nightmares about the button eyes

cannotfindanickname · 07/10/2018 21:03

What about ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’?

MissionItsPossible · 07/10/2018 21:06

Poltergeist cannot be a PG I refuse to believe it? Maybe downgraded from an 18 to 15?

The chair stacking scene terrified me!

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