Halloween movie recommendations for 12 year olds

[LittleMonks11]

DD has suggested Scream (as a peer her age has watched it) but I'm thinking no having looked at the ratings and reviews.

They have all watched Stranger Things and can handle a bit of gore in the context of monsters/fantasy - but Scream (any of them) is more about serial killer on the lose in the 'normal' neighbourhood and jumpy. Am I right?

In which case - any recommendations for her Halloween movie night sleepover?

They are all recently 12 not nearly 13. Difficult age to be honest for this kind of dilemma! Growing up but not grown up.

TIA

The Woman in Black.

Gremlins?

Ah Woman in Black - thanks

She watched Gremlins with us Christmas 2021 (at my suggestion) and was scared! Oops!

My kids love Hubie Halloween, light comedy with some good jump scares

That looks perfect! Thanks.

My only worry is she dismisses it because I recommended it! Or she's watched it.

Woman in Black
Nightmare before Christmas
Corpse Bride
Sixth Sense

Me and DD watched The Craft recently, the Neve Campbell one.

Common Sense Media is a good site for real life opinions on movies, with reviews from both parents and children.

We are having the same issue in our house! We watched 'the others' with ours at the weekend and she coped well with it - didn't find it scary at all.

Hocus Pocus

DD is a couple years younger but loves Beetlejuice, The Craft, Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic, Coraline, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare before Christmas.

Hello! Honestly, I think Scream would be fine.

It's dated to a point where I think Stranger Things is scarier and more gory.

I personally think the 18 rating is more to do with the themes (serial murder!).

There's no nudity - yes, two characters have sex but it's soooooo tame. It's funny! And the script is very sassy and ALMOST a parody.

Put it this way, I HATE horror films and I watch Scream every halloween.

You could alternatively watch Scary Movie... but weirdly, that might be even more inappropriate!!!

The Craft is a teen girl CLASSIC tho. And they did make a (massively inferior) sequel a few years ago, that she might like as it's a bit more up to date?

Oh I love The Craft! Watch it every few years!

I watched scream and scream 2 when I was 12 at sleepovers it's fine - the jumpy bits are what they like at that age especially when they are with friends. My DS is 12 and watched scream last week as it happens - he loved stranger things too.

I agree with pp that it is dated now and actually very tame compared to scary films like "The ring" which I think is only a 15. There is no actual nudity or proper sex scenes in scream, no scenes of taking drugs etc. And scary movie is a spoof of it and I'd say prob slightly more inappropriate as a lot more innuendos and sexual references but to "get it" you'd need to have seen scream first anyway!

What about "I know what you did last summer"? Oh and not technically Halloweeny but the Final Desitination movies are good for a smidge of scare.

Dd(11) loved the Quiet Place movies. Higher cert, but dh and I had watched them when they first came out and decided she could handle it, which she could.

Beetlejuice?

Practical Magic? Or are some of the themes a little too mature?

What's that one with Nicole Kidman, is it The Others?

What is the Goosebumps one called? That's great fun with suitably scary bits

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have said we will watch Hubie Halloween as a family

And will revisit Scream as she asked about it again - had I made up my mind?!

That frightened the life out of me. I think too creepy for her.

I personally think Scream is a bit too old for her, some of the kills especially the first one, are really quite brutal. Having said that I was watching much worse at her age and I am currently binging a horror movie a day for October so 🤷

I watched Casper the other week lol What about Little shop of horrors ? Although I guess the dentist may be questionable. I remember watching Jumanji and being quite scared but I don’t think that’s Halloween. You could try Stardust- has pirates, witches etc. I’d say it was Halloween themed