Full of kids at heart, the kids media industry is unsurprisingly rife with Halloween-lovers.

And Andy Yeatman, CEO of Miraculous Corp, is one of those super-fans. He hosts a neighborhood Halloween party every year and says he goes really hard on yard decorations. In terms of his go-to fright-night watch as a kid, Yeatman referenced a common favorite among our poll respondents: “As a Gen X child of the ’80s who is not into slasher movies, I’m a bit too old to have enjoyed classics like Hocus Pocus and The Nightmare Before Christmas as a kid,” he says. “So I’ll have to go with It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

Producer Jaimie Galloro (formerly with Nelvana) and writer Melinda LaRose (Alma’s Way, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood) also mentioned this seminal ’60’s special from the great Charles M. Schultz as their favorite Halloween TV treat. The passion of Linus, who believes with every fiber of his being that the Great Pumpkin will show up at a pumpkin patch by midnight, gives it a winning charm. Plus, respondents said there’s something endearing about trying to make Halloween more like Christmas, by waiting up all night for a magical being to make an appearance. (It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is currently available on Apple TV, the exclusive streaming home for Peanuts content.)

Some other favorites noted by respondents include the similarly gentle Halloweentown and Hocus Pocus, while some cited Coraline, which flirts with scarier and more mature undertones. 

And a few folks gravitated toward actual horror titles, even at a young age. “Paranormal horror movies terrified me every time I watched them,” says freelance executive producer Athena Georgaklis (formerly with Nelvana). “The Exorcist and The Omen were classics. And then came Poltergeist, where a regular suburban family is terrorized by a supernatural being. It had everything! It still is one of my top Halloween go-to films.”

As kids suit up for some trick-or-treating tonight—and adults suit up for their next Halloween-themed pitch—it’s also a good time to reflect on how things that scared past generations just won’t spark the same fear for today’s kids. “The sound and image of a TV screen that goes to snow [like in Poltergeist] still brings me back,” Georgaklis points out. “[That’s] a thing this generation will sadly never be terrified of.”

So what scares kids now? Whoever figures that out might just have the next big Halloween hit on their hands.