Scary Movies 101: A Guide to Watching with Your Kids

From mild (Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie) to more wild (The Lost Boys), here's a primer on the spook factor of classic films to see with your toddlers or teens (12 Photos)

Thelma Adams on Oct 23, 2011 at 12:20PM

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Scary Movies 101: A Guide to Watching with Your Kids

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Halloweentown (1998, PG)



Age Group: 7 to 15
Spook Factor: While there's a lot of magical zapping going on, and a reptilian warlock, nothing looks too real in this nudity-and-profanity-free tween coming-of-age comedy about a modern multi-generational magic-using matriarchy. Granny Aggie (Debbie Reynolds) arrives declaring there's trouble back in Halloweentown, and recruits her daughter (Judith Hoag) and granddaughter (Kimberly J. Brown), who has to cast a spell before her 13th birthday so she won't lose her witchy powers forever. It's like a supernatural Bat Mitzvah.

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