37 Best Horror Movies for Kids Movies & Films

Top 37 must-see best horror movies for kids movies from 97 horror movies for kids movies, including Spirited Away, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Monsters, Inc., It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Young Frankenstein, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, The Secret of NIMH, and Corpse Bride ranked…

Top 37 Best Horror Movies for Kids Movies of All Time

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Score: 9.27/10 IMDB: 8.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 910,117

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 15205725
Plot / Synopsis: Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside, much to Chihiro's dismay. On the way to their new home,…
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi

Score: 9/10 IMDB: 7.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 453,775

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 439454989
Plot / Synopsis: After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his…
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore

Our Take on Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Score: 8.7/10 IMDB: 8.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,034,802

MPAA Rating: G | Gross: 290642256
Plot / Synopsis: A city of monsters with no humans called Monstropolis centers around the city's power company, Monsters, Inc. The lovable, confident, tough, furry blue behemoth-like giant…
Directors: Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich
Stars: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn

Score: 8.55/10 IMDB: 8.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 23,444

MPAA Rating: TV-G | Gross:
Plot / Synopsis: The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween, with Linus hoping that, finally, he will be visited by The Great Pumpkin; while Charlie Brown is invited to a…
Director: Bill Melendez
Stars: Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Sally Dryer, Cathy Steinberg, Ann Altieri

Read Our Young Frankenstein Review
Score: 8.39/10 IMDB: 8.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 176,152
Comedy, Back from the Dead, Campy, Cult Classic, Mad Scientist, Madness, Medical, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 86273333
Plot / Synopsis: A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback…
Director: Mel Brooks
Stars: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

What We Thought of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Score: 8.37/10 IMDB: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 154,327

MPAA Rating: G | Gross: 56110897
Plot / Synopsis: It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to…
Directors: Steve Box, Nick Park
Stars: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith

Exploring The Nightmare Before Christmas – Full Review
Score: 8.35/10 IMDB: 7.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 396,857

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 93745329
Plot / Synopsis: Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas…
Director: Henry Selick
Stars: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O`Hara, Catherine O''Hara, William Hickey

Our Take on Coraline (2009)
Score: 8.2/10 IMDB: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 286,233

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 116896576
Plot / Synopsis: When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage.…
Director: Henry Selick
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David

Score: 8.13/10 IMDB: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 47,849

MPAA Rating: G | Gross: 14665733
Plot / Synopsis: Mrs. Brisby, a widowed mouse, lives in a cinder block with her children on the Fitzgibbon farm. She is preparing to move her family out…
Director: Don Bluth
Stars: Derek Jacobi, Elizabeth Hartman, Arthur Malet, Dom DeLuise, Hermione Baddeley

In-Depth Corpse Bride Review
Score: 8.02/10 IMDB: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 315,326

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 53401527
Plot / Synopsis: Set back in the late 1800s in a Victorian village, a man and woman by the names of Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot are…
Directors: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse

Score: 7.9/10 IMDB: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 238,041

MPAA Rating: G | Gross: 573368
Plot / Synopsis: The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of…
Director: Mel Stuart
Stars: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole

Detailed Review: ParaNorman (2012)
Score: 7.81/10 IMDB: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 113,589

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 56003051
Plot / Synopsis: In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock is a boy who can speak to the dead, but no one besides his eccentric new friend,…
Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Beetlejuice (1988) Review
Score: 7.76/10 IMDB: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 405,161
Comedy, Haunted House, Possession, Supernatural, Back from the Dead, Campy, Dysfunctional Family, Haunted House - Inherited
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 74664632
Plot / Synopsis: Adam and Barbara are a normal couple...who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate their house and make it their…
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger

Ghostbusters (1984) Review
Score: 7.74/10 IMDB: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 471,211

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 243640120
Plot / Synopsis: Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler work at Columbia University. where they delve into the paranormal and fiddle with many unethical experiments on their…
Director: Ivan Reitman
Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis

The Witches (1990) Review
Score: 7.65/10 IMDB: 6.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 57,396
Supernatural, Campy, Witchcraft
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 10360553
Plot / Synopsis: A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have…
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Paterson

Full Review of Goosebumps (2015)
Score: 7.51/10 IMDB: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 101,991
Creatures, Mystery, Supernatural, Thriller, Dangerous Exploration, Haunted, Mutants, Teens
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 80080379
Plot / Synopsis: After moving to a new small town, teenage Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) meets the beautiful girl next door, Hannah (Odeya Rush). But every silver lining…
Director: Rob Letterman
Stars: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Ryan Lee, Amy Ryan

Full Review of Gremlins (1984)
Score: 7.43/10 IMDB: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 265,347
Holiday, Christmas, Christmas - Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 153642180
Plot / Synopsis: Minature green monsters tear through the small town of Kingston Falls. Hijinks ensue as a mild-mannered bank teller releases these hideous loonies after gaining a…
Director: Joe Dante
Stars: Hoyt Axton, John Louie, Keye Luke, Don Steele, Susan Burgess

What We Thought of Frankenweenie
Score: 7.43/10 IMDB: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 122,715

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 35291068
Plot / Synopsis: When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to…
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Catherine O`Hara, Catherine O''Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan

Score: 7.4/10 IMDB: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 554,050

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 206459076
Plot / Synopsis: When Willy Wonka decides to let five children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release five golden tickets in five separate chocolate bars, causing…
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor

Monster House Horror Movie Review
Score: 7.33/10 IMDB: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 147,511

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 73661010
Plot / Synopsis: 13-year-old DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of the street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his…
Director: Gil Kenan
Stars: Ryan Whitney Newman, Steve Buscemi, Mitchel Musso, Catherine O`Hara, Catherine O''Hara

Score: 7.27/10 IMDB: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 32,059

MPAA Rating: G | Gross: 6455330
Plot / Synopsis: From a riddle-speaking butterfly (Richard Klein), a unicorn (Mia Farrow) learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all of the others having…
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Stars: Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein

What We Thought of The Amazing Spider-Man
Score: 7.26/10 IMDB: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 738,594

MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: 262782352
Plot / Synopsis: Peter Parker (Garfield) is an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle…
Director: Marc Webb
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen

Halloweentown Horror Movie Review
Score: 7.26/10 IMDB: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 23,089

MPAA Rating: TV-G | Gross:
Plot / Synopsis: Marnie, Dylan, and Sophie Piper have their first out of many adventures! On Halloween, while Marnie is arguing with her mother Gwen, the kids' grandmother…
Director: Duwayne Dunham
Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Judith Hoag, Joey Zimmerman, Phillip Van d*ke

Score: 7.23/10 IMDB: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 411,822

MPAA Rating: G | Gross: 268492764
Plot / Synopsis: Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. "Sully" Sullivan (John Goodman) are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these…
Director: Dan Scanlon
Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren, Peter Sohn

Score: 7.2/10 IMDB: 7.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 315,073

MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 63711145
Plot / Synopsis: Mikey Walsh and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of…
Director: Richard Donner
Stars: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green

97 Horror Movies for Kids films sorted alphabetically from A-Z

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1). A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

What We Thought of A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting

Score: 5.42/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 5,092 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.8/10 | Metascore: 3.1/10 | MPAA Rating: PG

A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting is Streaming on Netflix

Plot / Synopsis: A babysitter embarks on a mission to save a child who's been abducted by monsters...

Director: Rachel Talalay
Stars: Tamara Smart, Oona Laurence, Tom Felton, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, Lynn Masako Cheng

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2). Addams Family Values (1993) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Exploring Addams Family Values – Full Review

Score: 6.91/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 122,403 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.6/10 | Metascore: 6.1/10 | MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: $48,919,043

Addams Family Values is Streaming on Netflix

Plot / Synopsis: A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love. Tagline: The Family Just Got A Little Stranger. Get ready for a kookier, spookier and altogether ookier experience when ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES arrives on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc™ for the first time ever on October 29, 2024 from Paramount Home Entertainment. An...

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci

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3). Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 5.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,838 | MPAA Rating: R

Plot / Synopsis: While the Chipmunks are working at the amusement park, Majestic Movie Studios, in a singing attraction...

Director: Kathi Castillo
Stars: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Michael Bell, Jim Meskimen, Frank Welker

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4). Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman (2000) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 5.43/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,061 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Plot / Synopsis: It's the Chipmunks' third and final full-length feature! Alvin is struggling with nightmares of werewolves...

Director: Kathi Castillo
Stars: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Maurice LaMarche, Miriam Flynn, Rob Paulsen

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5). Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 6.57/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 42,225 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7/10 | Metascore: 5.9/10 | MPAA Rating: G

Plot / Synopsis: An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain. Tagline: The most magical one of all!...

Directors: Robert Stevenson, Ward Kimball
Stars: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson

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6). Beetlejuice (1988) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Beetlejuice (1988) Review

Score: 7.76/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 405,161 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/10 | Metascore: 7.1/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $74,664,632

Comedy, Haunted House, Possession, Supernatural, Back from the Dead, Campy, Dysfunctional Family, Haunted House - Inherited

Beetlejuice is Streaming on HBO Max

Plot / Synopsis: A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.Tagline: Say it once... Say it twice... But we dare you to say it THREE TIMES...

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger

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7). Casper (1995) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Detailed Review: Casper (1995)

Score: 6/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 154,516 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.3/10 | Metascore: 4.9/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $100,544,179

Casper is Streaming on Netflix, Hulu

Plot / Synopsis: A paranormal expert and his daughter bunk in an abandoned house populated by three mischievous ghosts and one friendly one.Tagline: Who says there's no such thing as ghosts?...

Director: Brad Silberling
Stars: Chauncey Leopardi, Spencer Vrooman, Malachi Pearson, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle

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8). Casper Meets Wendy (1998) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 3.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 8,363 | Rotten Tomatoes: 1.7/10 | MPAA Rating: PG

Plot / Synopsis: Living under the care of his uncles: The Ghostly Trio, Casper has been letting them push him around and making his afterlife miserable by having him do chores for them while they are scaring "fleshes" for their amusement. While deciding to go they are on vacation, Casper meets with a good little witch girl named Wendy, whom she and...

Director: Sean McNamara
Stars: Cathy Moriarty, Shelley Duvall, Teri Garr, George Hamilton, Hilary Duff

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9). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 7.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 554,050 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/10 | Metascore: 7.2/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $206,459,076

Plot / Synopsis: A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker. Tagline: Oompa-Loompas are crazy for Coco-Beans...

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor

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10). Coraline (2009) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Our Take on Coraline (2009)

Score: 8.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 286,233 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.1/10 | Metascore: 8.0/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $116,896,576

Plot / Synopsis: An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.Tagline: Be careful what you wish for...

Director: Henry Selick
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David

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11). Corpse Bride (2005) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

In-Depth Corpse Bride Review

Score: 8.02/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 315,326 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.4/10 | Metascore: 8.3/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $53,401,527

Corpse Bride is Streaming on Netflix, HBO Max

Plot / Synopsis: When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.Tagline: Loving You Is Like Loving The Dead...

Directors: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse

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12). Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 5.11/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,091 | MPAA Rating: TV-Y7

Double, Double Toil and Trouble is Streaming on Hulu

Plot / Synopsis: The Farmer family is in big debts; they might lose their house soon. The seven year old Farmer twins, Kelly and Lynn, decide not to let this happen. They discover that somebody really mean and shrewd is responsible for all the problems of their family: it's their aunt Agatha! She has supernatural abilities but unfortunately uses them to do...

Director: Stuart Margolin
Stars: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Cloris Leachman, Phil Fondacaro, Eric McCormack

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13). Dumbo (1941) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 8.8/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 148,100 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.6/10 | Metascore: 9.6/10 | MPAA Rating: G

Plot / Synopsis: Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential. Tagline: Walt Disney's Latest . . . Most Lovable . . . Funable Characters !...

Directors: Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson …
Stars: Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher, Edward Brophy, Hall Johnson Choir, Cliff Edwards

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14). E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 9/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 453,775 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.9/10 | Metascore: 9.2/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $439,454,989

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is Streaming on Netflix

Plot / Synopsis: A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world. Tagline: He is afraid. He is totally alone. He is 3 million light years from home...

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore

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15). Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Full Review of Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)

Score: 4.66/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 13,525 | Rotten Tomatoes: 2.2/10 | Metascore: 3.8/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $14,143,280

Comedy, Campy, Hell

Plot / Synopsis: Ernest unleashes an ugly troll that plots to transform children into wooden dolls in the town of Briarville, Missouri...

Director: John R. Cherry III
Stars: Jim Varney, Eartha Kitt, Austin Nagler, Shay Astar, Jonas Moscartolo

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