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

United Feature Syndicate (UFS)/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection.

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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966, G)



Age Group: 4 to 10
Spook Factor: In this warm bath of scary movies, Linus awaits the arrival of the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown gets rocks in his goodies sack, Snoopy dozes, Lucy continues her campaign of harassment against her beloved Schroeder -- and the simple piano soundtrack echoes the humor and melancholy of growing up in a world where the parents are garbled voices and passing feet. There's a certain security in knowing that our fears of Halloween rarely exceed what happens to poor, oppressed, yet ever hopeful Charlie Brown.

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