Scary movies for kids!

When I was a kid, i loooved horror movies. Not horror movies for kids, no no no: the hardcore stuff. Movies children ought not watch. Movies that made me run up stairs like I was being chased by the Devil himself. 

I sometimes still do. And I'm 49 now.

You see, my dad worked as a captain on ships that sailed in international waters when I was a kid. Norway has their own international church for sailors and other Norwegians residing abroad, The Norwegian Sailor's Church. These guys among many services supplied norwegian ships with books and films. Every ship had a little library trolley full of books and VHS's. At the same time, the HSE factor was quite low: sailors were allowed to bring their kids aboard their ships for summer holiday. I often spent 4-6 weeks aboard my dad's ships -and boy did I get all up in those movie trolleys! 

At night, when no one else was around, I brought my bag of foreign exotic candy, snuck into the galley, stole some treats from the pantry, popped open a box of Coca Cola, huddled up in the sofa and watched hours and hours of horror films. One of the first films I saw on the high seas was Frankenstein (1931). Needless to say: it stayed with me! I guess I was ten years old at the time. Maybe nine. I watched movies like Jaws, The Thing, Clash of the Titans, The Blob, Poltergeist... Just writing about it now gives me goosebumps! I have no idea why the Sailor's Church supplied the ships with so many horror films. I guess they themselves were not very aware, either. It was a simpler time, I guess. Perhaps they just supplied the blockbusters of that time. 

Today, there are plenty of scary films for kids available that does not mess up their brittle developing minds like the horror of the 80's did with mine. 

One dark Ocotober night, as the Rookies at the Horror Rookie Academy felt both winter depression and October anticipation rising,  they decided to put their horror heads together to carefully curate a list of tips on scary movies for kids. You can find these tips below. Read this list wisely, though: some of the films mentioned here can be a bit too scary for the smallest kids.

...and remember, dear reader: we did this for you. This is all for you. 😇

Title	IMDb
Spirited Away	8,6
Coco	8,4
Are you afraid of the dark? (series)	8,2
Jurassic Park (1993)	8,1
Ghostbusters (1984)	7,8
The Goonies	7,8
Coraline	7,7
Beetlejuice	7,5
Wallace And Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit	7,4
Gremlins	7,3
Corpse Bride	7,3
Big trouble in little China	7,3
Labyrinth	7,3
The secret adventures of Tom Thumb	7,2
The Monster Squad	7,1
Fright night	7,1
The Dark Chrystal	7,1
The Addams Family	6,9
Frankenweenie	6,9
The Burbs	6,9
The Witches (1990)	6,8
Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events	6,8
Something Wicked this way Comes	6,7
Monster House	6,6
Death Becomes Her	6,6
Creeped Out	6,6
The Witches of Eastwick	6,5
Halloweentown	6,5
Wendell and Wild	6,4
Goosebumps	6,3
Muppets' Haunted Mansion	6,3
House	6,2
Scaredy Cats	6,2
Casper	6,1
Hocus Pocus 2	6,0
Ragnarok	5,9
Vikaren	5,8
Nightbooks	5,8
Ernest Scared Stupid	5,8
The Curse of Bridge Hollow	5,6
Masha's Spooky Stories	5,5
Roald Dahl's The Witches	5,4
Hubie Halloween	5,3
The ten lives of Titanic	5,2
Scooby-Doo	5,1
Radiopiratene	4,8
Rom 213	4,5
The Nightmare before Christmas	8
Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)	8
Paranorman	7
The House with a clock in its Walls	6
Svein og Rotta og UFO-mysteriet	5