Tigger’s got them triggered. After a fourth-grade class in Florida was shown the slasher film “Winnie the Pooh: Honey and Blood” by their math teacher this month, experts are warning that horror ...

It is easy to see Halloween as an inappropriate time for children. With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like it is luring kids into topics they are not ready to ...

There's a big difference between playing peek-a-boo with kids and truly scaring them. Identifying the level of scariness associated with an activity, particularly when selecting movies to watch with ...

It's Halloween season, which means it's time for candy, costumes and horror movies. But experts warn only two of those things may be appropriate for kids. An outraged parent at the charter school ...

My colleague Ailsa Chang recently spent some time talking with NPR staffers about the movies. It is the latest in our regular series Cineplexity. Here's Ailsa. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) ...

Sam, a confident kindergartner, had chosen his scarecrow costume early and was trying it out on his grandfather. “Am I scary, Grampa? I want to be scary! Do you think people will know it’s me?” Grampa ...

Gizmo is all cute smiles and cooing till his owner deviates from a few simple rules. Allstar Picture Library Limited/Alamy Horror has always helped us establish the boundaries of acceptability by ...