Saturday, October 31, 2026
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Your kid wants to watch their first scary movie. What do you do? It’s Halloween, they’re wired from a stomach full of candy, and your nerves are fried after a night of trick-or-treating. Plus, you don’t want to scare them so badly that you’ll be up all night looking for monsters under the bed. Luckily, we have the list for you. Below, we rounded up the best, kid-friendly spooktaculars for the whole family (or a couple of scaredy-cats) to enjoy. —Josh Rosenberg, editor, news & entertainment
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Relax, there isn’t a jump scare in sight.
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Who doesn’t like getting scared? Apparently, a lot of you. While Halloween is undeniably the season for watching the scariest movies ever made, sometimes, it’s a bit much. Plus, let’s be real. The world is plenty scary already. So, what is there to do when you want to get festive for Halloween but can’t stomach another jump scare? Luckily, we have a list of movies just for the occasion—and the right audience.
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Let me tell you about these two men, Doug Deason and Luke Metzger. Two men who seem like they should be yelling at each other in a Buc-ees. Men who achieved something amazing together.
Where to start? Well, let’s see. Deason is a Trump guy. Actually, more salient: Deason is a Ken Paxton guy. And not just one of his guys but one of his big donors. Ken Paxton, yes, Texas’s embattled attorney general and current Republican candidate for United States Senate. Paxton, charitably, isn’t the best candidate the GOP fielded these midterms, but Trump wanted him in the race, and Trump got what he wanted, and now Paxton is locked in the race of his life, at real risk of losing to a candidate whose party hasn’t won a Senate seat in Texas in thirty-eight years. Earlier in the race, none of the GOP donor establishment wanted to support Paxton. But Deason did, out of a mix of genuine friendship and an affinity for some MAGA priorities, especially the ones that want to see the branches of the federal government pruned back.
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Would you rather accidentally set your arm on fire with spilled gasoline or spend decades grappling with a paperwork mistake? Gary Streiner, who personally experienced both while making 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, says there’s no contest: “Oh, believe me, I would take the burn again.”
Streiner was the sound man on George A. Romero’s classic indie zombie flick, but since everyone on the makeshift Pittsburgh project did multiple jobs he also helped create visual effects, like the fireball on a porch chair that would later engulf his limb. His brother, Russ Streiner, was another multitasker, playing the taunting brother Johnny in the movie’s opening, and serving as jack-of-all-trades co-producer. Both were loyal Romero confidantes who helped him found Image Ten, the production company that created the apocalyptic undead tale.
So both were among those bitten in the ass when Night of the Living Dead accidentally ended up in the public domain due to a copyright mistake that was anything but simple to fix.
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