Now that Eddie thinks back on it, that movie also scared him as a kid. The conversation sparked The Bobby Bones Show to talk about the non-scary movies that scared the crap out of them as kids.

Use the acronym HELP to remind yourself how to talk to kids about scary events in the news. Yes, it's harder when we're scared ourselves, but if we follow the HELP method, we can do it!

Several studies have shown that males like scary films much more than females do. "It's not that they truly enjoy being scared," says Sparks, professor of communication at Purdue University.