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deaddmwalking wrote:So with Halloween approaching my kids wanted to watch some scary movies (ages 12, 8, 4). I don't want to traumatize them so we've watched several movies that are supposed to be scary but not TOO scary.

Hocus Pocus?

Also, Tremors was great for a comedy/horror movie series.

Goosebumps. E.T. Secret of Nimh.
I lean conservative since 4 and 8 year olds in the mix.

Good Halloween shows for the very young are tricky, since Halloween is kind of inherently an 8-18 year old kind of holiday, so I'm scraping the barrel a little bit. That said, I liked the first Halloween Town even when I was very little, and it's one of the better Disney Channel originals.

I would also recommend the Tremors TV series. And maybe Beetlejuice, but that movie does have one bit of profanity in it.

Chamomile wrote:Good Halloween shows for the very young are tricky, since Halloween is kind of inherently an 8-18 year old kind of holiday, so I'm scraping the barrel a little bit. That said, I liked the first Halloween Town even when I was very little, and it's one of the better Disney Channel originals.

It doesn't help that there are people who think "Kids need to know about the real world. Let's make Watership Down, and advertise it with rabbits so they want to watch it."

It may just be because I enjoyed it as a child, but I recommend the Grinch Halloween short, Halloween is Grinch Night.

I've found Ernest Scared Stupid fares well with 8 year olds but can be a bit intense for weenier 4 year olds. Compared to Tremors though I'd think it would be fine.

When my sister was 4, the two movies she insisted on watching over and over and over again were The Wizard of Oz and Aliens. She would grab my arm and say "I wanna watch the skin coming out of the lady movie!" until I put it on. Again.

She had very good taste. Those two movies hold up after you've seen them upwards of thirty times. My parents were kind of pissed when they came home and Emma was on the couch watching Aliens, but after I pointed out that she would cry if I didn't put it on, they forgave me. I still have legit no idea how she saw it the first time.

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Edward Scissorhands is a good one. Technically more Christmas than Halloween, but everything Tim Burton is a little Halloween.

FrankTrollman wrote:When my sister was 4, the two movies she insisted on watching over and over and over again were The Wizard of Oz and Aliens. She would grab my arm and say "I wanna watch the skin coming out of the lady movie!" until I put it on. Again.

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Yeah, I feel like the things which would upset my young siblings were essentially random aside from one variable: pets. Pennywise the Clown? Sure. Chucky? My sister wasn't a fan, my brother didn't mind. Aliens & Predator were a huge hits, although they definitely didn't see them at 4.

Putting this guy in danger was a bridge too far though:

FrankTrollman wrote:When my sister was 4, the two movies she insisted on watching over and over and over again were The Wizard of Oz and Aliens. She would grab my arm and say "I wanna watch the skin coming out of the lady movie!" until I put it on. Again.

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Aliens was advertised to kids, and they made toys. Also, Terminator. Even at the time I was confused why those were being advertised to children.

One more quote than end quote there.

Now that you mention it, I remember the toys, but was T2 at least supposed to be more family friendly or whatever?

T2 had a 10yo protagonist and was released at a time when Arnie was no longer really seen as appropriate to be cast as a robot slasher so yeah, T2 was most likely kid friendly relative to T1.

Was super violent and rated R, but yeah, nevertheless it was expected kids were gonna watch it. Hell I watched it when I was under 13.

I was lucky enough to see it in the theater when I was 9. I stumbled out like I had seen a spaceship land.

I watched it when I was 14 (thought it was the best thing ever), and my 7-year-old brother was allowed to watch it. We'd run around the back yard with his air rifle (which was lever action, like the shotgun) trying to cock it by spinning it. It's a miracle no wrists were broken.

My fundamentalist step dad had some very weird standards on what was okay for a kid to watch. 7-year-old watching T2? A-okay. 15-year-old seeing boobs for 3 seconds? Grounded.

Maj wrote:Again... Putting this in Rocks because I'm not lost.

I didn't hate the first episode of Batwoman. The opening scene has seriously bad CGI and I had to talk myself out of judging the show for it. But I don't hate the show yet. It's pretty clear who's who. I'm interested in how it turns out.

It will most likely end up losing my interest like the other shows, but the batworld was always the most captivating for me.

On the third episode, and I actually look forward to watching it. The CGI leaves something to be desired, but it's only in a few scenes and I think the story is interesting enough to overlook.

Saw the Zombieland sequel. It was pretty solid. Definitely wasn't bad. I recommend.

Watchmen (the series) had me sitting at the edge of my seat from 10 minutes in until the end of the first episode. The action scenes are a lot more grounded than the Snyder movie.

So far, it is a once-every-few-years level show.

rasmuswagner wrote:Watchmen (the series) had me sitting at the edge of my seat from 10 minutes in until the end of the first episode. The action scenes are a lot more grounded than the Snyder movie.

So far, it is a once-every-few-years level show.

Really really liked the first episode.

Jeremy Irons old horse-riding guy is Adrian Veidt, right? Even though the paper said he's dead, I guess that was just so he could quietly retire somewhere

And too bad Don Johnson's character exited in the first episode. I'd like to see more Don Johnson acting

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FrankTrollman wrote:When my sister was 4, the two movies she insisted on watching over and over and over again were The Wizard of Oz and Aliens. She would grab my arm and say "I wanna watch the skin coming out of the lady movie!" until I put it on. Again.

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Aliens was advertised to kids, and they made toys. Also, Terminator. Even at the time I was confused why those were being advertised to children.

I had toys from both. But it was a while before I saw either.

Meikle641 wrote:Saw the Zombieland sequel. It was pretty solid. Definitely wasn't bad. I recommend.

The original Zombieland was the movie my now wife and I saw on our first date ten years ago. We would've watched the Zombieland sequel on our anniversary even if it was just Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg reading the phonebook at each other. But we both laughed. It was good and I would recommend people seeing it even if you didn't have a deep connection to the first movie.

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Casablanca was a good movie. It's a good thing nobody's tried to remake that with a modern cast and a director who wants to go a different direction with it.

"Zach Snyder's Casablanca"

Iduno wrote:Casablanca was a good movie. It's a good thing nobody's tried to remake that with a modern cast and a director who wants to go a different direction with it.

"Zach Snyder's Casablanca"

It is a good movie!

And when you know that it was filmed before the Allied invasion of North Africa - when the actors began singing La Marseillaise those are real emotions in a very uncertain world.

deaddmwalking wrote:

Iduno wrote:Casablanca was a good movie. It's a good thing nobody's tried to remake that with a modern cast and a director who wants to go a different direction with it.

"Zach Snyder's Casablanca"

It is a good movie!

And when you know that it was filmed before the Allied invasion of North Africa - when the actors began singing La Marseillaise those are real emotions in a very uncertain world.

Yeah, I'm assuming the remake rumor is an internet hoax.