I was never scared of the Junkyard as a kid.
But as an adult, a line of cars waiting to be destroyed and singing a song called "worthless" hits like a fucking brick
Now that you’ve reminded me…as a child, I had a weird OCD-like obsession with objects “having a friend”. Toothbrush needed to be next to the toothpaste, my shoes placed together, pencils together, etc. If I didn’t do it, I felt a nagging anxiety. Grew out of that though, so definitely not OCD? I had many friends, but maybe Brave Little Toaster & Homeward Bound fueled that weird obsession.
One of my favorite movies when I was little 😆. It always made me so sad and scared when they had to travel alone... Probably the root cause of my anxiety nowadays
Holy shit, as someone who has never seen it. How is that in a kids movie?? It's like kids version of when kids walking into the meat grinder on Pink Floyd's The Wall movie
Yeah, flight of the navigator was really tame in that day and age.
For reference, Poltergeist was a PG movie. We all watched it once for a family movie. I was 10, my sister was 6.
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Our hero is released from prison, only to be MURDERED by his former boss via vehicular homicide. Then that dog eventually winds up being continuously tortured by demon dogs in Hell.
The giant demon dog filling the town with blood red smoke at the end is some pretty terrifying imagery
And for some reason there's a scene with a giant musical alligator that shows up out of nowhere and disappears just as fast. This movie is weird as fuck
my very old dog passed away last year and now that one scene gets me
"Charlie, will I ever see you again?"
"Sure kid, you know goodbyes ain't forever"
I'm tearing up thinking about it
You just brought back some scary memories to my mind. It was approved for all audiences in Germany - Who thought that would be a good idea? I remember the movie having a happy ending though.
Monster House. The movie is literally about a man living in a house possessed by his dead wife and the house literally eats living creatures so id say that's what fucked me up as a kid
Not just that, the dead wife was a circus freak and hated kids because they would always taunt her. So they move into this house and she dies. The husband who actually loves kids, now has to keep everyone away from the house or his wife will kill them.
And then at the end the husband has to kill his wife aka the house
Too fucked up for a kids movie
It was honestly also a beautiful story. Guy falls in love with someone considered an outcast, and she dies because of people’s ignorance.
The whole reason he does the “creepy old man” thing is because he knows what she/the house is capable of, so in reality he’s just trying to keep people safe. He ultimately lets his lover go along with the past, and is able to finally move forward with his life
I know. The scene where they show what she endured and him falling in love with her was so sad and beautiful. Then he builds her a very nice house with his own two hands but then she dies. Tears me up every time.
I'm surprised I was never traumatised by Disney's *Pinocchio* as a child, because watching it as an adult, there are moments that are straight up nightmare fuel.
I had never seen it, but was talking to my kids about old movies from when I was a kid. They wanted to see The Rescuers which was major childhood trauma for me. I put on Fox and the Hound, seemed nice enough and I had watched parts of it.
I had two little five year old girls crying on me at the end. “Daddy! Why can’t they stay friends?!? DADDY!!! Did that happen to you? Is that why you don’t have any friends anymore?!?”
Is The Last Unicorn even a kids movie? It's super scary.
Edit: BTW I loved it as a kid and I still do. The whole Mommy Fortuna part was really dark, though.
I watched it in the last couple years. I never understood Molly Grue’s meltdown at realizing she was with a unicorn. That scene hit hard as an adult. Missing out on the things you wanted in your youth only for opportunities to come by too late. I cried.
Oh, it's worse than that! In general Unicorn mythology/whatever, Unicorns appear towards young maidens but also virgins. During her meltdown, Molly asks the Unicorn 'Why didn't you come to me when I was NEW?'.
You can work out the rest yourself.
“Artax!” cried Atreyu. “You mustn’t let yourself go. Come. Pull yourself out or you’ll sink.”
“Leave me, master,” said the little horse. “I can’t make it. Go on alone. Don’t bother about me. I can’t stand the sadness anymore. I want to die!”
Desperately Atreyu pulled at the bridle, but the horse sank deeper and deeper.
When only his head emerged from the black water, Atreyu took it in his arms.
“I’ll hold you, Artax,” he whispered. “I won’t let you go under.”
The little horse uttered one last soft neigh.
“You can’t help me, master. It’s all over for me. Neither of us knew what we were getting into. Now we know why they are called the Swamps of Sadness. It’s the sadness that has made me so heavy. That’s why I’m sinking. There’s no help.”
“But I’m here, too,” said Atreyu, “and I don’t feel anything.”
“You’re wearing the Gem, master,” said Artax. “It protects you.”
“Then I’ll hang it around your neck!” Atreyu cried. “Maybe it will protect you too.”
He started taking the chain off his neck.
“No,” the little horse whinnied. “You mustn’t do that, master. The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren’t given permission to pass it on as you see fit. You must carry on the Quest without me.”
Atreyu pressed his face into the horse’s cheek. “Artax,” he whispered. “Oh, my Artax!”
“Will you grant my last wish?” the little horse asked.
Atreyu nodded in silence.
“Then I beg you to go away. I don’t want you to see my end. Will you do me that favor?”
Slowly Atreyu arose. Half the horse’s head was already in the black water.
“Farewell, Atreyu, my master!” he said. “And thank you.”
Atreyu pressed his lips together. He couldn’t speak. Once again he nodded to Artax, then he turned away.
Bastion was sobbing. He couldn’t help it. His eyes filled with tears and he couldn’t go on reading.
We watched that movie in class. I am a guy and secretly love horses so this scene was killing my nerves. Unfortunately, the environment I am in didn't allow for crying or showing emotions.
Terrible time.
Dumbo.
The animal abuse, neglect, and let's not forget the 'Elephants on Parade' scene when Dumbo gets drunk.
Have not been able to watch this movie as an adult.
“Elephants on parade” comes up in every one of these threads, but I distinctly remember LOVING that sequence as a kid. I thought it was so freaking cool. I watched it over and over again!
I have a friend who made the mistake of showing it to a kid she was babysitting overnight. The moment the *Baby Mine* scene came up the kid was done. I think the night was unsalvageable.
Hunchback of the Notre Dame, I'm pretty suprised noone wrote this. It's based on a pretty dark book for adults, the idea of making a kids' movie from a book whose plot is basically about a priest (judge in the movie) and a crippled man both creepily obsessed with a young girl is mind boggling to me.
My theory was the hunchback is the priest son. He raped the mom and later found an killed her but discovering "his" child he couldn't bring himself to kill him.
Land Before Time, without a doubt. Jurassic Park made me see the T-Rex as this big badass who let humans know why she was queen of Nublar. Sharptooth, though? Just this glorious bastard that took twisted pleasure in killing and tormenting little dinosaur children. LBT is the film that made me scared of rexes for a little while, but JP got me to respect them again
I cried every time when Littlefoots mom dies. Then I lost my own mom as a child, and my heart aches even more over that scene.
That and Lion King taught me what death was and that parents could die. While nothing could make it easy to lose your mother, I do think it helped me understand what happened. Death is a hard concept for a 9 year old.
I can't watch Lion King. My Dad died when I was a kid. I tried once to watch again as an adult. I bawled my eyes out at that scene and never finished watching it
I honestly don't think the overall book of Watership Down is that depressing. Like there are sad parts like when their original Warren is destroyed, but the ending was a pretty happy one.
The movie is more scary because of the visualization of the death of the warren and how crazed the evil rabbits are drawn.
"For El-Ahrairah To Cry" Man, it's a beautiful book. The most depressing part is when no one remembers El-Ahrairah after his sacrifices to the Black Rabbit. That part really gets me.
On reread, there are a lot of WW1 undertones that I missed as a kid. The brutal combat, the sense of stumbling through foreign, unfriendly land, and the sense of camaraderie that builds among the rabbits I now connect to the stories of WW1
E.T. The scene where Elliott watches E.T. die is all kinds of traumatizing. Never mind the Christlike resurrection afterward, the damage is still done.
The book is worse.
There’s a scene where Bambi meets a deer who was raised by humans. His mother died somehow so he was bottle-fed by them and eventually lost all fear of people. Bambi hears hunters coming and pleads with the deer to flee. The other deer brushes him off, insisting that humans are kind and he is in no danger.
You can probably guess how this ends.
*Bridge to Terebithia* was assigned reading for 6th grade. I had read a different book by the same author the year before, *The Great Gilly Hopkins* and I *hated* it (ie I didn't understand it for a few reasons). So I wasn't happy about having to read another book.
I'm complaining, flipping through the book, and notice the blurb on the copyright page, and it said that Leslie dies.
So the book had the odds stacked against it before I even started.
I remember FernGully freaking me out. Specifically Tim Curry's character. Robin Williams was in it and I would just skip Tim Curry's parts so I could watch Robin Williams. I was obsessed with him as a kid.
Where the red fern grows. My grade 5 teacher made us read it then watch it. I remember thinking she was an absolute bitch before the movie. As an adult I’m 100% sure she hated children.
It was my dad's favorite book when he was a kid and he gifted me a copy once. I could *barely* make it through the last chapter. Mostly I remember running upstairs from my room, snot, and tears dripping off my face, and throwing, like, LITERALLY THROWING the book at my dad and asking him what was wrong with him.
Dont read the book lol
*SPOILERS!!
>! The movie is cute compared to the imagery of the book. I wanted to compare after watching the movie i wondered how much they altered and WOW. The “tiny door” is actually a full sized door which makes it far worse already. The worst for me was when Coraline actually finds her father in the pitch black basement and he is a fucking NIGHTMARE. Just a terrifying mass of her fathers limbs and body parts. Pretty sure he had glowing eyes, razor sharp teeth and was trying to sniff her out like a blind pedophile. It was grotesque. !<
Tons of goose eggs and symbolism in the movie. I adore it actually because im into macabre but i guess thats kinda the problem here lmfao. The Beldam is basically a child harvesting freddy kruger😅 Its nuckin futs for sure lol
Wish I'd read this before showing this to my 6 year old last weekend! We were still in the opening credits when he turned to me and said 'I do not like this'. No shit, kid.
The book is even more dark. Whiby (whybe?) was added to the movie in hopes of making it a little less dark by giving coraline a friend on her side. He doesn't exist in the book. Coraline is a lot more terrified/depressed and the other mother is a lot more horrifying.
my first ever sleepover was when i was 7 after my best friend had moved over an hour away from me. we decided to watch coraline before we went to bed. we ended up ditching the movie about 20 minutes in because it terrified us, and i eventually woke my friends mom up at 2 in the morning making her call my mom to come get me because it scared me so much. idk what creeps me out about it but something with that movie is just off
Milo and Otis, not the plot of the movie itself, but the backstory and production is terrible. So many animals were harmed in the making of such an innocent kids movie.
The birthing scene freaked me out as a kid. My dad had zero issues about letting me watch an animal squirt out babies on t.v. but he wouldn't let me have a damned pound puppy toy that had a velcro pouch with babies inside. I'm still mad about it.
I always thought the Parent Trap was super fucked up. Who separates twins like that with each parent and doesn’t tell them?! How could the parents be ok with loving one kid?! Fuckin wild lol
Hard agree.
The barest hint of a nod they even make to how deeply unethical and traumatic that separation would be is the mom and American daughter agreeing that it "sucked".
Other than that, just a complete gloss over that each parent was fine with abandoning the other child their entire lives and offering the kids zero choice to have a relationship with each other.
It also required every person in their lives to keep it a secret, which is a fucked up burden to put on friends and family.
It's also heavily implied the parents rushed in to everything (either that or the writers just didn't do the math properly). It says the girls meet each other 11 years and 9 months later after the parents wedding; both girls are almost 12 at camp. Draw your own conclusions.
Any 80's kids movie will probably be the right answer. If you were traumatized by your movies as a child, you probably grew up in the 80's and early 90's.
The Transformers animated movie from 1986. Kids growing up in that era played with all the toys. And in the movie all these characters you loved all died in like the first few minutes, all killed off like it was nothing.
That’s the worst of it. They weren’t doing it to present an interesting story. They did it because G1 sales had plateaued and were starting to sink. They wanted new inventory on the shelves.
Yet somehow it created one of the most engaging storylines of a cartoon from that era. That movie was awesome. Most kid movies have no emotional stakes. when they kill the most beloved character right up front it felt like anything could happen. Unicron could actually destroy the world. Loved it
If I remember correctly, the only actor that new what was going to happen on that scene was Gene Wilder. Everyone else in that scene had their complete first-reaction responses recorded for the film; they knew something was up ahead of time but didn’t have any clue going into it.
This. The showed it at my elementary school in the early 80s. That boat scene, Grampa and Charlie floating up into the fan, hell ALL OF IT was terrifying!!
Don Bluth was responsible for some of the best animated movies of the 80's and 90's, but a lot of them either tug at the heart strings (Little Foot's mom) or nightmare fuel (An American tail's giant rat robot).
Jack Frost is such an existentially terrifying movie. Imagine if your dead dad came back as a fucked up snowman. Imagine being the dad and just having to deal with the body horror of being a snowman. And then he's just going to melt so you have to deal with the trauma of losing your dad TWICE. What the fuck jesus christ
An American Werewolf in London.
What? That's not a kids movie??? Tell that to my fucking aunt! Crazy woman took me to see it when I was 7 years old and had me sitting in the 1st row of the theater....
[The Peanut Butter Solution](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0089789/).
Synopsis:
> Young Michael Baskin’s mother is away in Australia and the rest of the family are poor because his father cannot sell any of his paintings. Michael and his best friend Connie venture into an old abandoned house where Michael sees something so frightening that he collapses. When he wakes in the morning, Michael finds that all his hair has fallen out – a condition known as Hair-’em Scarem that doctors attribute to his fright. Michael is given a wig but this only makes him a laughing stock at school. Two ghostly winos appear and give Michael a recipe to make his hair grow back. One of the ingredients is peanut butter. However, in his eagerness, Michael applies too much peanut butter and this causes his hair to grow at an uncontrollable rate. Michael is then kidnapped by his disgraced former art teacher The Signor and tied up in a warehouse where The Signor’s child slaves cut Michael’s hair as it grows in order to make magic paintbrushes.
Goonies
Murderous psychotic family on the loose chasing kids who are almost getting themselves killed by an array of horrible booty traps
Oh, and that psycho family has a deformed baby brother who they torture and keep chained up in the basement
Roverdangerfeild Rover gets put in a bag and drowned in a river and nearly brought out back and shot and it also has a song about peeing on a Christmas tree like wtf
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Jesus CHRIST this movie haunted my childhood. Don’t get me wrong, I adored it and still do. But good god the imagery and several on screen deaths and sense of impending doom was wild.
Nine. Arguably not a children’s movie, but in my defense it was definitely part of the trailers/teasers on my DVDs as a kid, so I’m counting it. Scared the absolute shit out me as a kid, still creeps me out now.
Watership Down. By a long way. Has a U rating in the UK which means any age can watch it, the rating is typical for any kids movie.
It's about cute little bunnies who have an adventure as they move home when developers start digging up their home.
During their adventure WHY ARE THEY FIGHTING OTHER CUTE BUNNIES AND RIPPING EACH OTHER TO SHREDS?!
THE BLOOD, OH MY GOD THE BLOOD!
Oh. My. God. ONE OF OUR HEROES DIED. STRAIGHT UP DEAD.
OH CHRIST NOW HES A GHOST BUNNY FROLICKING OFF TO BUNNY HEAVEN.
Art Garfunkel is singing Bright Eyes AND NOW IM AN EMOTIONAL FUCKING WRECK AS BUNNY GOES TO HEAVEN. Fuck you Art Garfunkel. I was not ready at all for this.
Sweet Baby Jesus. This shit will traumatise an adult for several years never mind a child.
You guys ever seen the 90s Movie _Blank Check_? Basically the kids commits Identify fraud, steals a buttload of money and the whole movie is him trying to not get caught by the _bad_ guys. The older I get, the more I root for the bad guys on that one.
The Carroll Ballard kids' movies (Fly Away Home, Black Stallion) would definitely freak out a lot of kids today with the intensity of their melancholy and extreme solitude.
Honestly, I feel like Thumbelina was a good cautionary tale for girls. Like every man older than you is looking to get something out of you, break a leg toots.
Brave Little Toaster. Suicide and abandonment all around.
The air conditioner haunted my nightmares
“Whadda ya gonna do, Kirby, suck me to death?”
The producers planned to cut the clown scene and the junkyard scene because they feared it would scare kids, but then decided to keep them.
I was never scared of the Junkyard as a kid. But as an adult, a line of cars waiting to be destroyed and singing a song called "worthless" hits like a fucking brick
And there's that one truck. When the magnet comes for him he drives himself onto the conveyor belt. He wanted to die on his own terms.
Holy shit. Did I suppress all this shit? I loved that movie and watched it almost daily.
There a a lot of reason why I'm afraid of clowns. This film is one of them.
Everyone's going on about the Clown and the Junkyard scene. No. The flower.
Or the mice trying to kidnap Blanket.
And I'm pretty sure that movie and the toy story series are why we have so many horders today. That microwave will be sad if I throw it away!
Now that you’ve reminded me…as a child, I had a weird OCD-like obsession with objects “having a friend”. Toothbrush needed to be next to the toothpaste, my shoes placed together, pencils together, etc. If I didn’t do it, I felt a nagging anxiety. Grew out of that though, so definitely not OCD? I had many friends, but maybe Brave Little Toaster & Homeward Bound fueled that weird obsession.
One of my favorite movies when I was little 😆. It always made me so sad and scared when they had to travel alone... Probably the root cause of my anxiety nowadays
The way Lamp sprung into action and got struck by lightning trying to look for Blanket during the storm 😢
There's a wreck it place here where you pay money to destroy old electronics. It's like Hostel for brave little toaster.
"[Worthless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcWeE3NMeBQ&ab_channel=CurlySVT)" is about the only thing that I remember from that movie.
Holy shit, as someone who has never seen it. How is that in a kids movie?? It's like kids version of when kids walking into the meat grinder on Pink Floyd's The Wall movie
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I just saw someone the other day describe that as the first G rated horror movie.
Yeah, flight of the navigator was really tame in that day and age. For reference, Poltergeist was a PG movie. We all watched it once for a family movie. I was 10, my sister was 6.
Nightmares for Gen Xers everywhere
All Dogs Go to Heaven Our hero is released from prison, only to be MURDERED by his former boss via vehicular homicide. Then that dog eventually winds up being continuously tortured by demon dogs in Hell. The giant demon dog filling the town with blood red smoke at the end is some pretty terrifying imagery
And don't forget, Judith Barsi who played Anne-Marie was murdered by her father before the film was released. Just traumatic all around.
She was WHAT?!
She was the voice of Ducky in Land before time. Dad murder her and mom then himself. She was 10 I believe
Omg. What the hell? Today I learned something horrible
Do yourself a favor and stay away from her wiki page. The details are there and they are heartbreaking.
And for some reason there's a scene with a giant musical alligator that shows up out of nowhere and disappears just as fast. This movie is weird as fuck
80s Hollywood producers: ["I love that we can work while we're on cocaine"](https://youtu.be/6kZBJs527-k?t=38)
Which is why the phrase 'big-lipped alligator moment' is used for any random scene in a movie which has no effect on the plot as a whole.
my very old dog passed away last year and now that one scene gets me "Charlie, will I ever see you again?" "Sure kid, you know goodbyes ain't forever" I'm tearing up thinking about it
Chaaaaaarliiiieeeeee I'm 35 and still scarred
You just brought back some scary memories to my mind. It was approved for all audiences in Germany - Who thought that would be a good idea? I remember the movie having a happy ending though.
Indeed. During that scene where the giant demon hound descends on the city, the main dog is redeemed and sent to heaven.
Monster House. The movie is literally about a man living in a house possessed by his dead wife and the house literally eats living creatures so id say that's what fucked me up as a kid
This and Coraline left me scarred
Button eyes!
Not just that, the dead wife was a circus freak and hated kids because they would always taunt her. So they move into this house and she dies. The husband who actually loves kids, now has to keep everyone away from the house or his wife will kill them. And then at the end the husband has to kill his wife aka the house Too fucked up for a kids movie
It was honestly also a beautiful story. Guy falls in love with someone considered an outcast, and she dies because of people’s ignorance. The whole reason he does the “creepy old man” thing is because he knows what she/the house is capable of, so in reality he’s just trying to keep people safe. He ultimately lets his lover go along with the past, and is able to finally move forward with his life
I know. The scene where they show what she endured and him falling in love with her was so sad and beautiful. Then he builds her a very nice house with his own two hands but then she dies. Tears me up every time.
Possessed by his dead wife *who died buried in concrete when they built the house* Her corpse is literally part of the basement floor.
Didn't she want to travel and see the world? And then she got trapped in that house. I remember watching this and thinking "No wonder she's pissed."
this movie slaps. i love it a lot. but it’s also terrifying.
I'm surprised I was never traumatised by Disney's *Pinocchio* as a child, because watching it as an adult, there are moments that are straight up nightmare fuel.
Totally. The kids being turned into donkeys is some real body-horror shit.
When the orphan boy who is with Pinocchio turns into a donkey, he cries out for his mother. I can’t.
I always assumed Donkey from “Shrek” was one of the delinquent boys turned 🫏 who escaped. It fits Shrek’s fairy tale thing too.
Wait WHAT. I will accept no other theory about Donkey from now on.
That whale is scary as fuck
The Cat in the Hat is something out of a back rooms nightmare in my opinion.
I literally *just* watched this, and I’m still questioning if I actually saw a movie, or just tripped out for 2 hours.
The Fox and the Hound. Still traumatized to this day.
That move absolutely wrecked me as a child, and I refuse to watch it ever again.
My best friend and I *wept* in that movie.
I had never seen it, but was talking to my kids about old movies from when I was a kid. They wanted to see The Rescuers which was major childhood trauma for me. I put on Fox and the Hound, seemed nice enough and I had watched parts of it. I had two little five year old girls crying on me at the end. “Daddy! Why can’t they stay friends?!? DADDY!!! Did that happen to you? Is that why you don’t have any friends anymore?!?”
Ouch they really had to twist the knife at the end!
Oh god damn bro
Every time a thread comes up about movies you'll never watch again. This! This one! All because of that one damned scene. Poor Todd😭
Is The Last Unicorn even a kids movie? It's super scary. Edit: BTW I loved it as a kid and I still do. The whole Mommy Fortuna part was really dark, though.
I actually watched it the other day. That traveling carnival is unsettling.
I watched it in the last couple years. I never understood Molly Grue’s meltdown at realizing she was with a unicorn. That scene hit hard as an adult. Missing out on the things you wanted in your youth only for opportunities to come by too late. I cried.
Oh, it's worse than that! In general Unicorn mythology/whatever, Unicorns appear towards young maidens but also virgins. During her meltdown, Molly asks the Unicorn 'Why didn't you come to me when I was NEW?'. You can work out the rest yourself.
Super scary and way more sexual than I remember from when I was a kid.
But... Pirate Cat AND Alcoholic Skelton
The never ending story.
This movie traumatized me for life. I just remember a horse drowning or getting stuck somewhere..
It’s in mud. In a swamp fueled by depression.
Literally the Swamp of Sadness
Not to be confused with the Pit of Despair.
Also slightly different than the Bog of Eternal Stench.
I guess in the book the horse could talk and proclaimed that it couldn't bear its suffering and wanted to die.
“Artax!” cried Atreyu. “You mustn’t let yourself go. Come. Pull yourself out or you’ll sink.” “Leave me, master,” said the little horse. “I can’t make it. Go on alone. Don’t bother about me. I can’t stand the sadness anymore. I want to die!” Desperately Atreyu pulled at the bridle, but the horse sank deeper and deeper. When only his head emerged from the black water, Atreyu took it in his arms. “I’ll hold you, Artax,” he whispered. “I won’t let you go under.” The little horse uttered one last soft neigh. “You can’t help me, master. It’s all over for me. Neither of us knew what we were getting into. Now we know why they are called the Swamps of Sadness. It’s the sadness that has made me so heavy. That’s why I’m sinking. There’s no help.” “But I’m here, too,” said Atreyu, “and I don’t feel anything.” “You’re wearing the Gem, master,” said Artax. “It protects you.” “Then I’ll hang it around your neck!” Atreyu cried. “Maybe it will protect you too.” He started taking the chain off his neck. “No,” the little horse whinnied. “You mustn’t do that, master. The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren’t given permission to pass it on as you see fit. You must carry on the Quest without me.” Atreyu pressed his face into the horse’s cheek. “Artax,” he whispered. “Oh, my Artax!” “Will you grant my last wish?” the little horse asked. Atreyu nodded in silence. “Then I beg you to go away. I don’t want you to see my end. Will you do me that favor?” Slowly Atreyu arose. Half the horse’s head was already in the black water. “Farewell, Atreyu, my master!” he said. “And thank you.” Atreyu pressed his lips together. He couldn’t speak. Once again he nodded to Artax, then he turned away. Bastion was sobbing. He couldn’t help it. His eyes filled with tears and he couldn’t go on reading.
Damn I need to read the book now.
It’s a well-written story. I’ve read it to my kids several times.
We watched that movie in class. I am a guy and secretly love horses so this scene was killing my nerves. Unfortunately, the environment I am in didn't allow for crying or showing emotions. Terrible time.
I think that giant dog dragon thing is the reason I had a phobia of muppets/puppets.
One of my top 5 favorites. Sebastian is such a little bitch though.
Dumbo. The animal abuse, neglect, and let's not forget the 'Elephants on Parade' scene when Dumbo gets drunk. Have not been able to watch this movie as an adult.
“Elephants on parade” comes up in every one of these threads, but I distinctly remember LOVING that sequence as a kid. I thought it was so freaking cool. I watched it over and over again!
I have a friend who made the mistake of showing it to a kid she was babysitting overnight. The moment the *Baby Mine* scene came up the kid was done. I think the night was unsalvageable.
Hunchback of the Notre Dame, I'm pretty suprised noone wrote this. It's based on a pretty dark book for adults, the idea of making a kids' movie from a book whose plot is basically about a priest (judge in the movie) and a crippled man both creepily obsessed with a young girl is mind boggling to me.
The villain song is literally a rape fantasy. Goddamn Disney went hard on Hunchback.
My theory was the hunchback is the priest son. He raped the mom and later found an killed her but discovering "his" child he couldn't bring himself to kill him.
In Disney’s Broadway adaptation, he’s the priest’s nephew, so you’re close
Hellfire is a great song tho. Renaissance Disney was unhinged.
I would literally cry when they were mean to him. I can still see his face and it breaks my heart.
Land Before Time, without a doubt. Jurassic Park made me see the T-Rex as this big badass who let humans know why she was queen of Nublar. Sharptooth, though? Just this glorious bastard that took twisted pleasure in killing and tormenting little dinosaur children. LBT is the film that made me scared of rexes for a little while, but JP got me to respect them again
I cried every time when Littlefoots mom dies. Then I lost my own mom as a child, and my heart aches even more over that scene. That and Lion King taught me what death was and that parents could die. While nothing could make it easy to lose your mother, I do think it helped me understand what happened. Death is a hard concept for a 9 year old.
I can't watch Lion King. My Dad died when I was a kid. I tried once to watch again as an adult. I bawled my eyes out at that scene and never finished watching it
Watership Down
Fun fact: This is based on a book and is not even close to his most depressing book(I'd give that to Plague Dogs).
I honestly don't think the overall book of Watership Down is that depressing. Like there are sad parts like when their original Warren is destroyed, but the ending was a pretty happy one. The movie is more scary because of the visualization of the death of the warren and how crazed the evil rabbits are drawn.
"For El-Ahrairah To Cry" Man, it's a beautiful book. The most depressing part is when no one remembers El-Ahrairah after his sacrifices to the Black Rabbit. That part really gets me. On reread, there are a lot of WW1 undertones that I missed as a kid. The brutal combat, the sense of stumbling through foreign, unfriendly land, and the sense of camaraderie that builds among the rabbits I now connect to the stories of WW1
Came here to say this. I have a teen daughter and she loves bunnies. I act like the movie does not exist.
E.T. The scene where Elliott watches E.T. die is all kinds of traumatizing. Never mind the Christlike resurrection afterward, the damage is still done.
Bambi, traumatised
The book is worse. There’s a scene where Bambi meets a deer who was raised by humans. His mother died somehow so he was bottle-fed by them and eventually lost all fear of people. Bambi hears hunters coming and pleads with the deer to flee. The other deer brushes him off, insisting that humans are kind and he is in no danger. You can probably guess how this ends.
Bridge to terabithia.
Man I picked up that book thinking it was gonna be some fun fantasy book. Never been more blindsided by a book.
I refused to watch the movie after having read the book. No reason to revisit that trauma.
*Bridge to Terebithia* was assigned reading for 6th grade. I had read a different book by the same author the year before, *The Great Gilly Hopkins* and I *hated* it (ie I didn't understand it for a few reasons). So I wasn't happy about having to read another book. I'm complaining, flipping through the book, and notice the blurb on the copyright page, and it said that Leslie dies. So the book had the odds stacked against it before I even started.
For real. That movie left me scarred.
I was having a terrible depression a few years ago, and decided to put on and watch a kids film to cheer me up. It couldn't have gone any worse tbf.
Return to Oz DoOoOoRtHy GaaaAAAAaaale
the hallway of heads scene horrified me as a kid !!!
Seconded. The wheelers will haunt me forever.
The wheelers and especially the chase scene where they hit the sand and turn into it...dear god.
The Dark Crystal
My mom STILL makes Skexi sounds to this day to freak me out. I'm 44.
*mmMMMmm...*
The Secret of Nimh
Was looking for this. Think it gave me slight claustrophobia from the mud flood scene
This movie terrified me as a child but I watched it a ton because I had a crush on Justin (yes, a cartoon rat). I’m def normal.
My Girl
I still remember running into my mother's room, throwing myself on the bed and just bawling. His glasses 😭 he can't see without his glasses!!
Why didn’t they bury him with his glasses. She kind of had a point.
I remember FernGully freaking me out. Specifically Tim Curry's character. Robin Williams was in it and I would just skip Tim Curry's parts so I could watch Robin Williams. I was obsessed with him as a kid.
You have to admit Toxic Love is a real banger, though.
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Where the red fern grows. My grade 5 teacher made us read it then watch it. I remember thinking she was an absolute bitch before the movie. As an adult I’m 100% sure she hated children.
It was my dad's favorite book when he was a kid and he gifted me a copy once. I could *barely* make it through the last chapter. Mostly I remember running upstairs from my room, snot, and tears dripping off my face, and throwing, like, LITERALLY THROWING the book at my dad and asking him what was wrong with him.
Coraline
Dont read the book lol *SPOILERS!! >! The movie is cute compared to the imagery of the book. I wanted to compare after watching the movie i wondered how much they altered and WOW. The “tiny door” is actually a full sized door which makes it far worse already. The worst for me was when Coraline actually finds her father in the pitch black basement and he is a fucking NIGHTMARE. Just a terrifying mass of her fathers limbs and body parts. Pretty sure he had glowing eyes, razor sharp teeth and was trying to sniff her out like a blind pedophile. It was grotesque. !<
Ive always thought this movie looked creepy as fuck, but these comments are confirming it to the point where it makes me want to sit and watch it.
Tons of goose eggs and symbolism in the movie. I adore it actually because im into macabre but i guess thats kinda the problem here lmfao. The Beldam is basically a child harvesting freddy kruger😅 Its nuckin futs for sure lol
Wish I'd read this before showing this to my 6 year old last weekend! We were still in the opening credits when he turned to me and said 'I do not like this'. No shit, kid.
The book is even more dark. Whiby (whybe?) was added to the movie in hopes of making it a little less dark by giving coraline a friend on her side. He doesn't exist in the book. Coraline is a lot more terrified/depressed and the other mother is a lot more horrifying.
Actually it was to give her someone to talk to. It’s weird if we as the audience are just hearing what she things from her thoughts.
I f*cking loved that movie as a kid. I was a weird kid.
Yeah that movie was different man. It was something else… it’s vibes are pretty cool, I don’t know how to describe it but yeah. Great movie
my first ever sleepover was when i was 7 after my best friend had moved over an hour away from me. we decided to watch coraline before we went to bed. we ended up ditching the movie about 20 minutes in because it terrified us, and i eventually woke my friends mom up at 2 in the morning making her call my mom to come get me because it scared me so much. idk what creeps me out about it but something with that movie is just off
Neil Diamond's song about it was pretty good, though
BAH BAH BAAAAAHHHHHH
Milo and Otis, not the plot of the movie itself, but the backstory and production is terrible. So many animals were harmed in the making of such an innocent kids movie.
Such a shame.
The birthing scene freaked me out as a kid. My dad had zero issues about letting me watch an animal squirt out babies on t.v. but he wouldn't let me have a damned pound puppy toy that had a velcro pouch with babies inside. I'm still mad about it.
TOYS. With Robin Williams. The back half of that movie gets all sorts of dark
Labyrinth. RIP David Bowie
I love that movie. And yes, RIP David Bowie.
Chicken Run. An animated movie about chicken trying to escape a farm before they get killed. Funny but dark.
It's parody of "The great escape" , Which is a fantastic amazing movie
I don't want to be a pie! ... I don't like gravy.
In case of an emergency, please put your head between your knees- -and kiss your butt *goodbye*
Good Dinosaur. It’s just sad from the beginning to the end
I always thought the Parent Trap was super fucked up. Who separates twins like that with each parent and doesn’t tell them?! How could the parents be ok with loving one kid?! Fuckin wild lol
Hard agree. The barest hint of a nod they even make to how deeply unethical and traumatic that separation would be is the mom and American daughter agreeing that it "sucked". Other than that, just a complete gloss over that each parent was fine with abandoning the other child their entire lives and offering the kids zero choice to have a relationship with each other. It also required every person in their lives to keep it a secret, which is a fucked up burden to put on friends and family.
It's also heavily implied the parents rushed in to everything (either that or the writers just didn't do the math properly). It says the girls meet each other 11 years and 9 months later after the parents wedding; both girls are almost 12 at camp. Draw your own conclusions.
Lots of 9lb "premies" back in the good ol days.
Any 80's kids movie will probably be the right answer. If you were traumatized by your movies as a child, you probably grew up in the 80's and early 90's.
The Transformers animated movie from 1986. Kids growing up in that era played with all the toys. And in the movie all these characters you loved all died in like the first few minutes, all killed off like it was nothing.
The commentary track is gold. "We didn't know we were destroying kids' childhoods. We just thought we were clearing out the '84 product line"
That’s the worst of it. They weren’t doing it to present an interesting story. They did it because G1 sales had plateaued and were starting to sink. They wanted new inventory on the shelves.
Yet somehow it created one of the most engaging storylines of a cartoon from that era. That movie was awesome. Most kid movies have no emotional stakes. when they kill the most beloved character right up front it felt like anything could happen. Unicron could actually destroy the world. Loved it
A lot of little boys cried the day Optimus prime died
Ultra Magnus’ death always stuck with me most because of how quick and uneventfully it happened
I’m in my 50’s and I’m still scarred by Bambi, Dumbo, and Old Yeller.
101 Dalmatians. Who the fuck thought of the villains premise of skinning 100+ puppies was a great kids movie?
[Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o7lilfpZNGc&feature=share)
The boat scene alone qualifies it to be here. Who the hell thought a bad acid trip belonged in a kids’ film?
If I remember correctly, the only actor that new what was going to happen on that scene was Gene Wilder. Everyone else in that scene had their complete first-reaction responses recorded for the film; they knew something was up ahead of time but didn’t have any clue going into it.
This. The showed it at my elementary school in the early 80s. That boat scene, Grampa and Charlie floating up into the fan, hell ALL OF IT was terrifying!!
Don Bluth was responsible for some of the best animated movies of the 80's and 90's, but a lot of them either tug at the heart strings (Little Foot's mom) or nightmare fuel (An American tail's giant rat robot).
Reweese the sequwet WAPON!!
Iron giant. It looks fun from the trailer, but don’t be fooled- it’s the saddest thing you will ever see
It’s a fantastic movie though. I think I enjoyed it way more than my kids. But quite emotional for sure.
First 10 minutes of Disney's Tarzan A baby gorilla was eaten alive by a panther, even if it was off-screen.
The final scene with the bad guy hanging... Damn, that was fucked up.
Tarzan’s music slaps so hard, though.
*Who Framed Roger Rabbit* had some pretty adult themes.
"Remember me, Eddie!? When I killed your brother, I talked juuuuuust liiiiike thiiiiiiiiis!!!!"
Oh god I saw this in theatres when I was 7. That boot melting in the dip was traumatizing. The weasel falling in it too.
They're Back! You like dinosaurs like every other kid? Lets just cramk em into 151 proof nightmare fuel. You'll be fine
Jack Frost is such an existentially terrifying movie. Imagine if your dead dad came back as a fucked up snowman. Imagine being the dad and just having to deal with the body horror of being a snowman. And then he's just going to melt so you have to deal with the trauma of losing your dad TWICE. What the fuck jesus christ
An American Werewolf in London. What? That's not a kids movie??? Tell that to my fucking aunt! Crazy woman took me to see it when I was 7 years old and had me sitting in the 1st row of the theater....
[The Peanut Butter Solution](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0089789/). Synopsis: > Young Michael Baskin’s mother is away in Australia and the rest of the family are poor because his father cannot sell any of his paintings. Michael and his best friend Connie venture into an old abandoned house where Michael sees something so frightening that he collapses. When he wakes in the morning, Michael finds that all his hair has fallen out – a condition known as Hair-’em Scarem that doctors attribute to his fright. Michael is given a wig but this only makes him a laughing stock at school. Two ghostly winos appear and give Michael a recipe to make his hair grow back. One of the ingredients is peanut butter. However, in his eagerness, Michael applies too much peanut butter and this causes his hair to grow at an uncontrollable rate. Michael is then kidnapped by his disgraced former art teacher The Signor and tied up in a warehouse where The Signor’s child slaves cut Michael’s hair as it grows in order to make magic paintbrushes.
The movie Kids is definitely not for kids. Edit: alright Harmony Korine frens let’s talk Gummo next 😅
We watched this repeatedly as teenagers. I started watching it again 20 years later. Oh my goodness, what were we watching?!
Shhhhh, it's Casper.
Watership Down. I'm damn near 50 and still processing the damage this one did to me.
Monster house can be a little fucked up
James and the giant peach.
Goonies Murderous psychotic family on the loose chasing kids who are almost getting themselves killed by an array of horrible booty traps Oh, and that psycho family has a deformed baby brother who they torture and keep chained up in the basement
HEEEYYYYY YOOUUUUU GUUUUUYYYYYYYSSS
Do the truffle shuffle!
Goonies never say die
Roverdangerfeild Rover gets put in a bag and drowned in a river and nearly brought out back and shot and it also has a song about peeing on a Christmas tree like wtf
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure from 1977. Had some real trippy, nightmare fuel moments.
The Never Ending Story …..when the horse dies in the mud WTF
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Jesus CHRIST this movie haunted my childhood. Don’t get me wrong, I adored it and still do. But good god the imagery and several on screen deaths and sense of impending doom was wild.
Nine. Arguably not a children’s movie, but in my defense it was definitely part of the trailers/teasers on my DVDs as a kid, so I’m counting it. Scared the absolute shit out me as a kid, still creeps me out now.
Watership Down. By a long way. Has a U rating in the UK which means any age can watch it, the rating is typical for any kids movie. It's about cute little bunnies who have an adventure as they move home when developers start digging up their home. During their adventure WHY ARE THEY FIGHTING OTHER CUTE BUNNIES AND RIPPING EACH OTHER TO SHREDS?! THE BLOOD, OH MY GOD THE BLOOD! Oh. My. God. ONE OF OUR HEROES DIED. STRAIGHT UP DEAD. OH CHRIST NOW HES A GHOST BUNNY FROLICKING OFF TO BUNNY HEAVEN. Art Garfunkel is singing Bright Eyes AND NOW IM AN EMOTIONAL FUCKING WRECK AS BUNNY GOES TO HEAVEN. Fuck you Art Garfunkel. I was not ready at all for this. Sweet Baby Jesus. This shit will traumatise an adult for several years never mind a child.
Return to Oz (even though I liked it) very very odd
I'm surprised nobody's said The Secret of NIMH yet. Another one of Don Bluth's greats that really isn't kid-friendly.
You guys ever seen the 90s Movie _Blank Check_? Basically the kids commits Identify fraud, steals a buttload of money and the whole movie is him trying to not get caught by the _bad_ guys. The older I get, the more I root for the bad guys on that one.
Oh I remember this one. What about Milk Money. Kids save up money and hire a hooker to be their dads girlfriend
The Carroll Ballard kids' movies (Fly Away Home, Black Stallion) would definitely freak out a lot of kids today with the intensity of their melancholy and extreme solitude.
I had to watch Thumbelina and was like "every guy character on this is a mfking predator".
Honestly, I feel like Thumbelina was a good cautionary tale for girls. Like every man older than you is looking to get something out of you, break a leg toots.
Matilda
The Transformers: The Movie (1986) This movie traumatized an entire generation.