Room on the Broom
Rating: TV-Y7
Why it might be scary for some: There’s a scene with a dragon and another with a monster made from mud that could be tense for your toddlers, but they’re not super scary scenes!
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Rating: TV-G
Why it might be scary for some: Like most Olsen twin movies, this one staring the adorable twins is more silly than scary. However, younger kids might be scared of Aunt Agatha, who lives in a creepy house and talks about grave-digging, blood, and being cruel to others. She’s trapped her nice twin sister in a mirror for seven years but gets pushed into the mirror and stuck behind it herself, which younger kids might need to know is actually impossible.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Rating: G
Why it might be scary for some: The only things that might be perceived as scary in this claymation flick are when the rabbit transforms into the were-rabbit and the scenes where the townspeople attempt to go after it with guns and garden tools.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Rating: PG
Why it might be scary for some: This Tim Burton classic isn’t so much scary as offbeat; however, younger children may be frightened by the fact that Jack is a skeleton or by the other Halloween creatures. If they can get past that, though, they’ll love this classic.
Halloweentown
Rating: G
Why it might be scary for some: This Disney Channel Original is mostly fun and games, but younger kids might find the battle at the end in which a few of the characters are frozen into a trance-like state a little frightening. Really young kids may be upset simply by the appearances of some of the Halloween characters.
Rating: G
Why it might be scary for some: This adorable Disney movie is so wholesome and hilarious, that is, until you factor in Randall. In the scenes toward the end when he has Boo strapped to a chair to steal her screams and then runs away from Mike and Sully with her, little ones might get a bit upset.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Rating: G
Why it might be scary for some: As long as your kid can get past the fact that the headless horseman is, well, headless (though really it’s just the town bully in disguise), and that he wants to chop off Ichabod’s head with a sword, this Disney tale is mostly a tame one.