Kids’ Halloween Movies That Are Actually Terrifying

This teen flick isn’t easy to stomach, even if you ignore the horrific fact that it was distributed by The Weinstein Company.

Jim Varney was only 50 years old when he died, which really isn’t that much older than you are now. Just something to think about.

Though he is indeed a friendly ghost, Casper’s very existence reveals that death is no release from the torments of the world, and even the grave holds no relief.

Even a cursory look at how the world began treating the Olsen twins after they grew up should be enough to strike fear in the heart of even the most hardened horror movie fan.

Hey, it had “children” in the title. How the hell were we supposed to know?

Two of the three female leads were older than 35 when this movie came out.

This chapter of the Air Bud franchise was so scary to focus groups that it had to be released straight to DVD.

The scariest part about this movie about Dracula’s faraway resort for monsters is how low the bar for children’s entertainment is.

Sigourney Weaver’s character being able to afford a Central Park West apartment on a musician’s salary as recently as the 1980s exposes viewers to the unfathomable horrors of the current New York City real estate market.

In the first act, a dog gets hit by a car, and we couldn’t even finish the rest.

Intended to be just a bit of stop-motion Halloween fun, many kids left the movie screaming after being exposed to British humor for the first time.

Not everyone’s Halloween traditions are the same as yours, okay?

Nothing is more horrifying than seeing the great Debbie Reynolds reduced to a Disney Channel original movie.

You just know those dogs were their owner’s only income until the day they died.

What seems like a magical movie at first gets frightening when children realize they’re watching something from 50 years ago.

What’s more terrifying than Casey Kasem being dead, but Shaggy’s IP lingering on forever?

A seemingly innocent movie about a boy who writes a fan letter to Dracula takes a terrifying turn after the actor voicing the vampire is revealed to be Ray Liotta.

This film still haunts kids’ nightmares with its casting of an unfunny Eddie Murphy 30 years past his comedic prime.

Oh, Christ, who put this on? Where’s the remote? Oh, God, no.