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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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001, PG)



Age Group: 7 to 17
Spook Factor: The Harry Potter series gets scarier as it goes along, but the first one in the bunch has 11-year-old Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) meekly entering the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, meeting soon-to-be best friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), and battling the forces of evil. There's no profanity or sex, but it's definitely a kids-in-peril movie with a three-headed dog, a troll, and a dangerous plant all threatening bodily harm -- and, on the psychological front, Harry dealing with his parents' death by misadventure.

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