To ask for horror film recommendations for my 10 year old

[Jennifer124]

Dd has been asking to watch a horror film. She's been quite sensitive in the past so I don't want to let her watch anything too horrible, and I think it's quite a bit down to people in her class talking about things they've watched.

They are also working on horror stories in school. She's also asked to watch bird box.

Does anyone have any ideas of films I can let her see that are a bit scary (enough that she feels she's watched a horror film and give her a bit of 'street cred') but not enough to terrify her?

My DSD who is 10 abso loves horrors.
(She started watching them at her mum's btw incase anyone thinks we allowed her 1st)
She's seen all the big ones.
IT, the ring, paranormal activity, the nun, house on haunted hill etc etc

She finds them funny?? Lol

Not that I think your 10 year old would because even at an adult age some of these films freak me out lol

Beetlejuice? That's not scary at all and she might enjoy other Tim Burton films.

My 10 year old has watched all the usual children's ones - Coraline, Corpse Bride, Hotel Transylvania etc.

You could try Goosebumps, Miss Peregrine or the House with the Clocks in its Walls. The Witches, Labyrinth, Ghost Busters, Casper. The original Poltergeist is a PG.

Mine has also seen Beetlejuice.

There are plenty of child friendly horror films.

Goosebumps
Edward Scisorhands
Nightmare Before Christmas

Do you remember Beetlejuice? That’s a PG.

Google PG horror films, there’s quite a few including suggestions above like Coraline, Goosebumps and The House with Clocks in its Walls.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with an age appropriate horror. You’re obviously going to let her turn it off if she doesn’t like it. It’s not like your locking her in a room with the Texas Chain Saw Massacre on.

Beetlejuice is a UK 15, but IMO is fine for a ten year old.

Has someone actually suggested a 10yr old watches 'seven'??!!! What on earth is wrong with some people

Ah yes. Google UK PG horror films instead.

Well she will probably be up all night for a while if you watch a proper horror. Bird box is good and for an adult not a horror at all, for a child though, probably too scary. I wouldn't let my ds 10 watch it.

ProfYaffle, has good suggestions, I wouldn't go for a adult horror yet.

Jaws? It's a PG, a classic, more a thriller than horror, but might work? And it sounds much scarier than it is.

Or Miss Peregrine, which is a 12? Though my bold ten year old turned it off when the monsters appeared.

Maybe jaws. I suppose its not a conventional horror, but at least the horror is only in the sea and can't come and get you in your bed at night 😱😂

Scooby Doo

Original Ghostbusters?

They are also working on horror stories in school.

Really?

I loved horror movies at that age. Started watching Nightmare on elm street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and the likes with my dad when I was about 8. But if your DD has never really watched them then you need to start small. Beetlejuice is great, Gremlins too. Perhaps things like Ghostbusters or Nightmare Before Christmas. The sort of kiddy horror movies.

Wow ok thank you for all your "advice"

I was under no circumstances going to let her watch what an adult would class as a horror film :/

I was thinking along the lines of things like gremlins, laberynth, as mentioned above, goosebumps is a great idea. I wasn't going to let her watch bird box, that's just something she's asked for. I don't want to be her cool friend, if I did I'd bung her the exorcist and let her have at it.

I asked on here because I thought there might be some suggestions of things that will be "horror" to a teen year old but not scary enough to traumatise her.

Thanks for those that didn't assume my awful parenting and actually gave some great suggestions

Also to clarify, she was a sensitive child but is much more hardy these days. I don't want to terrify her, hence asking for ideas!

Horror is a VERY broad spectrum.

Some people call Jaws a horror film. Yet until recently when it was upgraded to a 12 it had been a PG. I saw it at 7, didn't cause me any harm or nightmares. I'd certainly watched the first three Halloween films by the time I was 11.

Most of the Hammer Horrors wouldn't be regarded as scary and most are rated 12 these days. Same goes for the old black and white Universal horror films of the 1930s and 1940s like Frankenstein and Dracula.

Arachnophobia is rated PG from memory and has comedy along with some scares but I wouldn't class it as a horror film.

Carry on Screaming is a comedy film. In no way is is a horror film, it merely spoofs Hammer films.

Ok maybe I phrased it wrong? Although I'm not sure. Yes they are writing their own scary stories in class. Again, I'm not suggesting an adult horror. But a film that is a bit scary for a child

Frankenweenie is good.

Goosebumps is the only age appropriate thing

No it isn't. There are many age appropriate "scary" films.

We do "horror" in Year 6. It isn't really horror, it's more mild tension or spooky than horror. Fantastic for literacy, descriptive writing, tension building etc. I usually use Anthony Browne's The Tunnel or Into the Forest, The Witches etc.

The new Ghostbusters is good too, plus it’s good for girls as it’s an all- female cast.