The people most excited about Halloween are little kids. For humans aged between 2.5 and 10 years old, there’s really nothing better. They get to dress up and go out—at night!—and strangers give them candy. There are leaf piles to jump in and fake skeletons to scream at. But it can also be a nightmare, if they get too scared. Halloween works best for young kids when it's a mixture of spooky and sweet, one that's light on the spooky and heavy on the sweet. Halloween movies and TV shows for kids this age need to follow a similar mix of saccharine and savory. For this age group, actual horror movies are totally wrong, and even some seemingly kid-friendly films like Ghostbusters are actually more nightmare-inducing than you might remember. To help new parents with young kids, we’ve compiled our favorite spooky-but-not-too-scary little-kid films that are available for streaming right now on Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu. We even added in a few for the tween set, too.
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