"Haunted Mansion" director Justin Simien said seeing scary movies as a kid helped him "feel like you can face the darkness of the world" Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at ...

The spooky season is upon us, and with it a surplus of scary decorations, movies, TV shows and books. Enormous Halloween yard figures fill store aisles, and fake witches, skeletons and monsters peek ...

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) ...

Sometimes you need to stir the pot a little on family movie night, and scary movies are a great way to do that. Still, nobody wants to traumatize their children with anything truly terrifying, and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Almost everyone loves a good scary movie now and then—even the younger members of your family! But how do ...

For the littler little ones who may not be up to very scary stories, Donna Liquori recommends "Narwhalicorn and Jelly" by Ben Clanton. "Death at Morning House" by Maureen Johnson is Donna Liquori's ...

This post contains spoilers for "Five Nights at Freddy's." "Five Nights at Freddy's" is a hit both at the box office and on Peacock, where it just became the most watched entertainment title in the ...

Dr. Bethany Cook, PsyD, MT-BC, is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of For What It’s Worth: A Perspective on How to Thrive and Survive Parenting. She's a sought after therapist and quoted ...