For younger kids, Bozdech recommends sticking with animated movies to help remind them that it's not real, plus limiting the scary movies to mysteries as opposed to monsters. Tweens can handle ...

If you have a love for horror, you’ll want to share that with your kids. Of course, you can’t throw them into the world of Scream and Saw. You need to find age-appropriate scary movies.

and scary kids. Spooky, terrifying children often pop up in horror movies. In most films, kids are precocious and harmless, which makes the juxtaposition of a horror movie kid truly jarring.