Poltergeist is a classic too. I remember enjoying the trilogy on VHS. In fact, I still have the tapes in my attic. Need to find a way to set up a second hand VCR on a mini movie projector one of these days.

I totally get the 'being scared by films about famliies / children in danger' now. I might not have children, I have three young nephews and a niece and most of my friends have young children now. Our perspective and thus our fears change when we grow older, depending on our situation.

I actually watched Bird Box a couple of days ago. Mainly because I remember reading the novel a couple of years back. What I liked about it, was the fact that the evil is hardly shown ( besides all the car crashes and fires ).

Yes, nowadays it's real ( close to ) life horror that scares me more, but I much rather watch the nostalgic type of scary movie that doesn't leave me with a sick to the stomach / man this was disturbed kind of feeling ( think torture horror ).

Thank you for your elaborate comment :>)