I suppose my girls were about 8 when I found Creature From the Black Lagoon at the library. They LOVED it, and still do. When they were 10 I got “Dracula”, thinking it would be another fun, old-time black and white horror flick but not too scary.
Boy was I wrong! We didn’t get too far into it and the girls were really frightened. We had to stop it!
My mom was NOT happy that I’d seen the movie although I don’t remember having nightmares....was scared silly in the theater, though.
Love those old Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, etc. movies now!!