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Originally posted by Carrie@Apr 29 2004, 11:46 PM
Somehow the terms "horror movie" and "no graphic violence" don't mix. Can you tell I grew up in the 70's and 80's? 
Silly funny scary is no problem (they handle "scary"), I just wouldn't want the butcher's knife - repeated hacking - maimed bloody corpse kinda stuff.
I was thinking of getting them MP's Quest for the Holy Grail. Much of it would go over their head but they'd still get a major kick out of it. (Not horror, I know, but a "classic" nonetheless.)
Still, we're talking 6 and 4 (on Sunday) yrs old here so pretty much anything is lost on them except for what's blatantly presented on-screen. But I'd much rather hear "I'm not dead yet!" and "I'll gnaw at yer ankles!" than the two of them role-playing Dori and Marlin. 
(A 4yr old boy trying to sound like Ellen Degeneres in a high falsetto has got to be one of the top 10 sounds guaranteed to set your nerves on edge...)
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I'm a 70's horror buff too, but my kids are 8,7 and 3, so they really aren't into the hack and slash. They like monster movies and creature features.
I own the Elm Street Boxset, but only to be a completist, as I got bored when Freddy went from a legit scary boggeyman to a gameshow host of death. I prefer my horror a little more straight forward (unless it's unintentional humor in my revered "bad movies")
My daughter likes Freddy Kreuger, but he frightens my son, so doesn't watch (I never force my kids to watch scary movies and if something's too intense, we turn it off and discuss the movie (they have also become dvd extra feature addicts like me and love to see how these movies were made as it takes away the scariness for them)