scary movies

i haven't got kids but i have a younger sister and know her friends, i think it depends on their personality and maturity, i wouldn't show a scary movie to a child who has frequent nightmares or is a nervous person, if they are ready and seem calm in scary situations then let them watch one and take it from there.

I agree with the first answer. My kids don't really watch movies that often and when they do, they prefer cartoons and comedies. But my 7 year old does watch some things which other people would find scary. Usually he'll watch them fairly early in the day so he won't have nightmares! It can be difficult to decide what is scary and what's not. My youngest who is nearly two has only just got over seeing a certain programme come on which used to really scare him - that was a children's programme! If you loo at some of the programmes which are made for kids, you won't think twice about most scary films!

Out of all my kids only 2 liked them i dont like them and when they were real young no i did not let them to watch them.

I have a 2 year old son and one time I let him watch 'War of the Worlds' he got scared while the little girl (Dakota Fanning) is screaming. I doubt that he got nightmares though because he slept through the night without screaming or kicking. I think it depends on how you explain to your kid that the movie is not real and people just made it up so that people at home will have something to watch.

I still don't watch scary movies or I will have bad dreams. I wouldn't let my kids watch them either. I remember The Birds by Alferd Hitchcock, that movie scared me for a long time. The same goes with The Exorcist I watch it when I was 16 and was scared for about a month after that. I keep on looking at the closet and feeling my bed tremble. Just don't care for scary movies.

Their grandpa made the mistake of letting my kids watch the movie The Fog. It scared the crap out of them and they had a hard time sleeping in the dark after that movie. I try not to let them watch anything scary. Sometimes they like to sit and watch my law shows with me and sometimes they are too scary for them.