Redditors on kid-friendly horror

[froodle]

So, our kids, boy 6 and girl 8, are BEGGING literally daily for a scary movie. They swear they are ready for it. We've shown them poltergeist and sleepy hollow and they did fine. They keep requesting to watch the remake of IT, but I'm not sure about that one.

When I think about it, it was watching horror movies as a kid when I developed my love of the genre. Movies as a kid scared me in a way that I still chase to this day. The Shining at age 10 did me, and is still one of my all time favorite films and books. So, I want them to get to enjoy the feeling of being truly scared by a movie, but I don't want to traumatize them (at least not permanently).

I want to avoid anything extreme, and any film with too much intense gore (blood is fine, just nothing crazy) or sexual violence is out, of course.

Examples of movies I think are too much: Sinister, IT, Hereditary, Evil Dead remake, etc

What would you recommend? Help me scare these kiddos good for their first time.

LakmeBun: Maybe the ones with critters in them, like not too realistic ones eg. Gremlins. There's also more kid friendly tv shows (and books!) Goosebumps, Are you afraid of the dark, Eerie Indiana... I think those might be better suited for them than straight up horror at that age.