The Top 10 Horror movies you could show to your kids and not feel bad about

[masterdebater]

My 10 year old really enjoyed the original 'Little Shop of Horrors'.

[Andrew]

I cannot believe I did not think of it before, but how about "Invaders from Mars?"  In many ways, it is from a kid's perspective.

[JaseSF]

Most 1950s Sci-Fi would fit the bill nicely as most features monsters and/or aliens and some even ray guns, robots and rocketships.

[the master]

cannibal Holocaust

i spit on your grave

last house on the left

the faces of death

[the master]

i believe i killed this topic

[Terf]

My dad let my 11-year-old brother watch some giant creature flicks from the '50s or older. King Kong, The Black Scorpion, Them!, Mighty Joe Young and maybe one or two other ones I can't remember... (There were some intense scenes in there, but my bro was watching it mainly for the animation effects anyways. )

[JJ80]

In terms of monster flick anything with dinosaurs would certainly do. "The Land That Time Forgot" (unless they dislike dinosaur deaths), or "Jurassic Park" .

[Fishasaurus]

Any Godzilla or other daikaiju movie would be fine, including the non-Asiatic ones like King Kong, Reptilicus and Night Of The Lepus.

[Rev. Powell]

I wonder if Rapscallion will update us on what made the final cut...

[Nukie 2]

Todd Brownings Freaks.
It'll teach kids to respect that which is different.

[Raffine]

Todd Brownings Freaks.
It'll teach kids to respect that which is different.

...and if they don't they'll be attacked by a gaggle of mud-cover freaks and turned into a chicken lady!

[Frogger]

I think the biggest concern for me in sharing films with my daughters is language.  They are remarkably clean in their speech and I am very proud of that, I don't want to debase their vocabularies any more than I can help.  We watched TREMORS a few weeks back and I had forgotten that Kevin Bacon dropped an F-bomb when they killed the first big worm.

Well they learn it from school anyway it makes very little difference where they learn it. However it is best if they are exposed to it by you rather than their peers.

Any way my dads version of looking after the little kid. Which if I ever have kids will also be used by me.

Alien and Aliens. He fast forwarded through all the chestburster scenes so I got a speed up version of that horror. Great films to show a 5 year old. You will not have any idea of how many years I had nightmares of head huggers and chest bursters.

Critters was another I remember. Rather cute on the horror scale.

Germlins.

Now my own 6 would be.

Dawn of the dead.
Day of the dead.
Both orginal versions of course.

Christine.
Predator
Ginger snaps.
silence of the lambs. (I would like to see how my kids react to that film)

[Psycho Circus]

Imagine making a 5-6 year old sit through Braindead or Evil Dead 

[Doggett]

Poltergeist
Halloween
The Terminator...I sat waching this with my mum when I was 8 and I'd call it a horror !!!
The Fly '86
Gremlins
Tremors
The Thing '82
Alien
Jaws
Killer Klowns is a 12 certificate in the UK


Important rule!!!!!
Always fast forward sex scenes...
You'll just be embarassed.

Remember when you're watching a Bond film with your folks and Bond starts to try his luck...
Even though they're family friendly it can still be kinda gross.

[Doggett]

Don't show children Christine it'll only bore them

It did me.