In my house children are declared too old for door-to-door trick or treating in 8th grade. This is because Halloween tends to be a risky night for teens to have fun and yet stay out of both danger and trouble. Sooo... After they stop whining and arguing I have had to offer alternatives. Sometimes they are content to dress up and be the one to answer the doorbell and pass out candy to the little tykes. Sometimes that isn't enough and we invite between 3-6 friends over for a Halloween party here at my house.
My favorite thing is to let them stay up eating popcorn and watching scary movies [within rating limits] and eating Halloween foods, and so forth. The favorite movie alternates between the spoofs of scary movies and a really old scary movie... "Wait Until Dark." It stars a young Richard Crenna, Alan Arkin [not Adam, Alan], and Audrey Hepburn. The kids generally grouse until the movie gets going. Despite themselves, they get into it as the tension builds and invariably scream and jump at the moment of peak surprise. [It's not as scary on a small screen as a movie theater screen, but if you have a good sized tv it can still make you jump!] Another favorite is Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" which although lacking in today's CGI effects, can still make them shiver and comment on birds on telephone wires even months later. If you have no teens, head to a local video/DVD store and check these out yourself!
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