Public-domain horror has given us killer Pooh bear, murderous childhood icons, like Steamboat Willie-era Mickey, and a graveyard’s worth of “sure, why not?” premises. Some are fun, some are… choices.

From haunted houses to button-eyed nightmares, these family-friendly horror classics prove scary movies can thrill audiences ...

Decades of watching severed hands crawl around independently in various iterations of The Addams Family or horror-comedies like Idle Hands and Evil Dead II won’t really prepare you for the melancholy ...