On The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Neil Patrick Harris acknowledged that he had an 11-year-old fan of the horror genre. The How I Met Your Mother star, 49, and her husband David Burtka have two kids together; while Gideon enjoys video games, Harper enjoys horror movies.
Harris claimed to have already binge-watched It and Stranger Things.
Despite the fact that Season 4 of Stranger Things has an MA classification in Australia, many younger children have joined the fandom.
"What do you say to a girl who wants to watch horror movies?" Harris asked. "Do you say 'Absolutely not?' Because then she wants to watch them more."
He chose Stanley Kubrick's The Shining after she pleaded with him to watch "the scariest movie he's ever seen."
He confessed that he wasn't sure if he ought to have let her to view it.
“I don’t know if it was a good call,” Harris added with a smile. "It is still really scary. Like, Jack Nicholson, super freaky, bloody elevator ... the girls staring. Scary."
Harper, however, assured him that the 1980 film was "mildly disappointing."
“She said, ‘That was the scariest movie that you’ve ever seen?!’ And I was like, ‘Well, it’s not scary like 2022 scary — it’s a different style scary,’” Harris added.
“And she’s slept in our bed for like the last four nights,” he said.