What the Hell happened to horror themed kids shows?!
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Cold_In_Space — 14 years ago(February 29, 2012 08:09 AM)
Born in '94 and grew up with 90's shows until they took most of them off the air. I still prefer those shows with few exceptions. Eerie is just as awesome today as it was back then.
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BrainGremlin — 14 years ago(March 01, 2012 01:53 AM)
I haven't even bothered watching most recent shows. Things have changed so much and I really dislike where kids' shows are heading (but to be fair, they had started heading this way before I stopped watching them). Things are far too dandy nowadays. Hmph, even Courage the Cowardly Dog is darker than most shows today. This generation of children will grow up thinking the world is perfect, only to have the truth hit them all the harder. Of course, it doesn't
have
to be at all gritty. But I think this "honky-doriness" in many cases gets to the quality of shows. Things are just ridiculous and stupid.
And Goddamn. You '94s turn 18 this year, don't you? Oh, how time flies.
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johnyanks326 — 14 years ago(March 01, 2012 12:55 PM)
Nice! Haha glad to see someone else my age roaming these boards. But yes, it's gotten seriously ridiculous these days. Everything is all blind love and perpetual happiness, it seems. When, in actuality, life is totally different animal. Hopefully these kids know reality and TV are two separate things, or else they're sure to be in for a heartily grim surprise
I'm actually already on my way to completing my proposed Are You Afraid of the Dark? comeback pilot. Who knows, maybe Teen Nick'll smarten up and decide to bring one of these shows back, with all this newfound 90's nostalgia that's suddenly burst onto the scene out of nowhere..
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keeleevoncupcake — 13 years ago(September 12, 2012 11:30 AM)
I'm so glad The Haunting Hour was mentioned. While it may not have as much competition on the air, I think it is better on so many levels than all its children's horror TV show predecessors. (Not that I don't love Goosebumps, Eerie, Afraid of the Dark, etc, but THH is really something special.)
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RussianRoulette — 11 years ago(April 05, 2014 07:37 AM)
I know, right? I was born in 1988 and I was very young when these shows were on.
These posters must have watched them when they were in syndication or online.
And I agree with the OP, we really need some good horror kid shows on TV like Goosebumps and Eerie, Indiana. I also really miss the old horror anthology series like Are You Afraid of the Dark (my personal favorite), or for an older audience Tales from the Crypt and Tales from the Darkside.
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shred-com — 11 years ago(May 05, 2014 02:12 AM)
I was born in 1988, and yes I watched all these shows too, and still watch alot of them today. However people list like 5 shows from a whole decade like there was a whole ton, and ignore that the 2000's had like 5 similar shows itself. Some of them weren't as popular though. People have to actually watch these horror shows when they come on tv.
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generationofswine — 10 years ago(May 20, 2015 06:35 PM)
Take it from an old man that was 11 when this first aired the problem is what we think you young people are able of handling.
Eerie, Indiana
was created as a nonviolent kids show, you know, because at the time they thought GI Joe was too much for kids.
Watching GI Joe was going to turn me into a gun totting spree killer. So was the A-Team.
The same thing happened a generation before me, when Scooby-Doo came out because the Blue Falcon & Batman were too violent for kids to process.
Now, however, kids horror shows are too frightening for kids to process.
Look at family movies now. Rewind back to Gen-X, to my childhood,
Gremlins
,
Indiana Jones
, &
Ghost Busters
were all family films. Today
The Avengers
is made for teenagers & up, not really movies that it's approved to take your little kids to see.
They had to rape the last Indiana Jones to keep it's family film persona.
Shows like this, for kids, are disappearing because of decades of molly coddling that suggest that children can only handle rainbows & puppy dogs & cute anamorphic animals that whistle Zippidy-Doo-Da out their a$$ holes.
You want to know why shows like this aren't made any longer? It all dates back to the Comic Code:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
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Son_Of_A_Bitch_Must_Pay — 9 years ago(May 25, 2016 07:37 PM)
The Haunting Hour on The Hub was pretty good with some dark episodes but its cancelled now, Nick has something called "The Haunted Hathaways" which prob is just a lame tweenie show
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