"Scary" Movie Recs for a 10yo (1 Viewer)

[chet]

My 10yo son wants to watch something scary. Anyone have a recommendation for something that'd be appropriate for him. PG-13 stuff is ok. Thx

 

[Leroy Hoard]

My 10yo son wants to watch something scary.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Maybe something from the Evil Dead series?

 

[Gawain]

Original Night of the Living Dead

 

[Rick James]

Human centipede.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

The Witches?

Troll and Troll 2

 

[Rustoleum]

Gremlins?

Some of the humor may not be exactly PC anymore though.

 

[Bucky86]

Chucky?

 

[Bucky86]

Pet Sematary

 

[Lutherman2112]

House (1986).

Horror comedy. Some startling jump outta your seat stuff, but nothing really horrifying.

 

[Scoresman]

My parents put me in front of the Exorcist when I was around that age. Scared the #### out of me, but my ball hair grew in thicker as a result.

 

[chet]

Any of these on Netflix?

 

[Galileo]

Goosebumps

 

[Gawain]

Any of these on Netflix?

ReAnimator is. That's a good one too.

 

[Scoresman]

Army of Darkness

 

[Bucky86]

Children of the Corn

 

[Bucky86]

Arachnophobia!!!!!!!!

 

[JB Breakfast Club]

Army of Darkness

Yes. Or Drag Me To Hell.

I'll throw in Tremors as well. It features more Kevin Bacon than the above options.

 

[sbonomo]

man, i remember watching nightmare on elm street about that age....to this day i still don't watch scary movies.

 

[gianmarco]

Gremlins?

Some of the humor may not be exactly PC anymore though.

This is exactly what I thought of. Steel Magnolias is another.

 

[MindCrime]

Last year at Halloween, my then 10yo son and I started watching some of the classic horror films (I think it was AMC doing nightly movies). I'm talking classics like Karloff, Lugosi, black and white. Scary, but not blood and guts , scar them for life scary. My son loved them.

Quick scan of Netflix:

Black Sabbath (Karloff)

White Zombie (Lugosi)

The Fly (Price)

 

[gmbacm]

Wizard of oz. Those ####in monkeys.

 

[Lutherman2112]

Gremlins?

Some of the humor may not be exactly PC anymore though.

This is exactly what I thought of. Steel Magnolias is another.

 

[Courtjester]

The original Poltergeist is still pretty good for that age.

 

[heckmanm]

Scared the #### out of my stepson with The Birds around that age. Extra fun because he was at the start because it was black & white.

 

[sports_fan]

Maybe an old school monster movie? They're not scary. The Creature of the Black Lagoon, Them!, The Forbidden Planet, Rodan, The Incredible Shrinking Man. All are good fun.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

The original Poltergeist is still pretty good for that age.

Good one

Will make the kid terrified of clowns though

 

[Evilgrin 72]

The original Poltergeist is still pretty good for that age.

My mom took my brothers and me to see that in the theater. I was 10, brothers were 8 and 4. I loved it. The 4 year old cried like a beatch. I still break his balls over it.

 

[cstu]

The People Under The Stairs.

 

[Joe Summer]

"The Watcher In The Woods". Produced by Disney but not what you'd expect from them.

 

[gianmarco]

Little Shop of Horrors

 

[dutch]

Monster House. Yeah it's animated but it is a good movie with a good story and it has some very intense parts for the younger set. Think of it as the darker side of Up.

 

[dutch]

The People Under The Stairs.

I need to revisit this movie with my 13 year old. I remember liking it a lot when I saw it when it came out.

 

[dutch]

If your kid can handle something a little more mature but with a wicked bit of humor I'll throw out a newer movie called Housebound. Some nice twists and turns and you will have to explain whats going on at certain points but it is fun.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Paranorman

Signs

Cloverfield

The Mummy/Mummy Returns

War of the Worlds

Jaws

Duel

 

[ghostguy123]

Army of Darkness

winner

 

[dancer]

Dr. Who series - watch the episode "Blink" as that can stand alone (if like it then can go back and watch whole series - perfect to watch as adult and 10 year old)

 

[flapgreen]

The Stuff

 

[Foosball God]

Signs?

 

[nysfl2]

The ring

The Sixth Sense

 

[Foosball God]

Saw

 

[General Tso]

Wizard of oz. Those ####in monkeys.

those nasty ####### talking trees too. God I hated that movie as a kid.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Critters

The Gate

 

[VA703]

Critters

he beat me to it

 

[(HULK)]

Those Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer movies are really not very scary and have an overabundance of hot 20 somethings tarting it up and pretending they're high schoolers.

 

[hagmania]

Jurassic Park!

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Alien. Alone, at night, and in the dark.

 

[chet]

Some good recs in here. Thx

 

[Statcruncher]

Just introduced my 9 year old to the Jaws and Alien series. You should have seen his face during the chest-burst scene.

 

[Fennis]

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