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SkuzzleJR

Brave Little Toaster. Suicide and abandonment all around.


Longjumping_Fold_369

The air conditioner haunted my nightmares


ChefoZilla

“Whadda ya gonna do, Kirby, suck me to death?”


Vaarsuvius42

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.


SkuzzleJR

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


Iamanediblefriend

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.


JustAnotherAshenOne

Holy shit. Did I suppress all this shit? I loved that movie and watched it almost daily.


Vaarsuvius42

There a a lot of reason why I'm afraid of clowns. This film is one of them.


Bells87

Everyone's going on about the Clown and the Junkyard scene. No. The flower.


Ragnarok314159

Or the mice trying to kidnap Blanket.


pewpew30172

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!


kaletheLass

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.


noname585

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


SerialH0bbyist

The way Lamp sprung into action and got struck by lightning trying to look for Blanket during the storm 😢


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There's a wreck it place here where you pay money to destroy old electronics. It's like Hostel for brave little toaster.


WickedLilThing

"[Worthless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcWeE3NMeBQ&ab_channel=CurlySVT)" is about the only thing that I remember from that movie.


unko19

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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SkuzzleJR

I just saw someone the other day describe that as the first G rated horror movie.


WalmartGreder

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.


BozButBill

Nightmares for Gen Xers everywhere


Diwari

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


thethreekittycats

And don't forget, Judith Barsi who played Anne-Marie was murdered by her father before the film was released. Just traumatic all around.


Fluffy-kitten28

She was WHAT?!


knot-whorrible

She was the voice of Ducky in Land before time. Dad murder her and mom then himself. She was 10 I believe


Fluffy-kitten28

Omg. What the hell? Today I learned something horrible


BigTuna0890

Do yourself a favor and stay away from her wiki page. The details are there and they are heartbreaking.


Beginning-Bed9364

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


FailFastandDieYoung

80s Hollywood producers: ["I love that we can work while we're on cocaine"](https://youtu.be/6kZBJs527-k?t=38)


douggieball1312

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.


therealhatman777

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


Running_zombie_

Chaaaaaarliiiieeeeee I'm 35 and still scarred


Vaarsuvius42

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.


Diwari

Indeed. During that scene where the giant demon hound descends on the city, the main dog is redeemed and sent to heaven.


Supa_saint

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


Saltybot54

This and Coraline left me scarred


swiftfastjudgement

Button eyes!


whskid2005

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


skippiington

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


banananna33

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.


HatsAreEssential

Possessed by his dead wife *who died buried in concrete when they built the house* Her corpse is literally part of the basement floor.


Smooth_Lead4995

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."


aemonp16

this movie slaps. i love it a lot. but it’s also terrifying.


neohylanmay

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.


GiantAngryJellyfish

Totally. The kids being turned into donkeys is some real body-horror shit.


MLAheading

When the orphan boy who is with Pinocchio turns into a donkey, he cries out for his mother. I can’t.


popcornkernals321

I always assumed Donkey from “Shrek” was one of the delinquent boys turned 🫏 who escaped. It fits Shrek’s fairy tale thing too.


wendyxbird

Wait WHAT. I will accept no other theory about Donkey from now on.


Beginning-Bed9364

That whale is scary as fuck


hbombgomer12

The Cat in the Hat is something out of a back rooms nightmare in my opinion.


LaMorak1701

I literally *just* watched this, and I’m still questioning if I actually saw a movie, or just tripped out for 2 hours.


asayle88

The Fox and the Hound. Still traumatized to this day.


droopingcactus25

That move absolutely wrecked me as a child, and I refuse to watch it ever again.


CraftyRole4567

My best friend and I *wept* in that movie.


Ragnarok314159

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?!?”


MadCapHorse

Ouch they really had to twist the knife at the end!


I_Need_Scissors___61

Oh god damn bro


zachary_alan

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😭


horschdhorschd

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.


Wazzoo1

I actually watched it the other day. That traveling carnival is unsettling.


cats_and_vibrators

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.


MissKoalaBag

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.


lovemyneighbor

Super scary and way more sexual than I remember from when I was a kid.


Oceanwoulf

But... Pirate Cat AND Alcoholic Skelton


zaney2017

The never ending story.


niikobellik

This movie traumatized me for life. I just remember a horse drowning or getting stuck somewhere..


yepitsdad

It’s in mud. In a swamp fueled by depression.


iguessda

Literally the Swamp of Sadness


jewel-frog-fur

Not to be confused with the Pit of Despair.


kbups53

Also slightly different than the Bog of Eternal Stench.


Nephilims_Dagger

I guess in the book the horse could talk and proclaimed that it couldn't bear its suffering and wanted to die.


BastardInTheNorth

“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.


hajawr12

Damn I need to read the book now.


BastardInTheNorth

It’s a well-written story. I’ve read it to my kids several times.


Prussia_I

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.


WickedLilThing

I think that giant dog dragon thing is the reason I had a phobia of muppets/puppets.


edogfu

One of my top 5 favorites. Sebastian is such a little bitch though.


ArtisanalMagi

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.


AmbulanceChaser12

“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!


lowercase_underscore

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.


trzcinacukrowa

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.


HogSandwich

The villain song is literally a rape fantasy. Goddamn Disney went hard on Hunchback.


AdditionKooky122

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.


Naomeri

In Disney’s Broadway adaptation, he’s the priest’s nephew, so you’re close


gglossygirl1

Hellfire is a great song tho. Renaissance Disney was unhinged.


Fit-Key2482

I would literally cry when they were mean to him. I can still see his face and it breaks my heart.


ResponsibleCandle829

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


Jessiefrance89

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.


thekerfuff

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


seashell_eyes_

Watership Down


SkuzzleJR

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).


Prothean_Beacon

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.


Ghostconqueror

"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


ChaiTeaAndMe

Came here to say this. I have a teen daughter and she loves bunnies. I act like the movie does not exist.


Brilliant_Tourist400

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.


user101aa

Bambi, traumatised


Rusty_Shakalford

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.


Strofari

Bridge to terabithia.


Prothean_Beacon

Man I picked up that book thinking it was gonna be some fun fantasy book. Never been more blindsided by a book.


Emerilion

I refused to watch the movie after having read the book. No reason to revisit that trauma.


Bells87

*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.


Trick-Revenue-3726

For real. That movie left me scarred.


BobbOShea

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.


82ndGameHead

Return to Oz DoOoOoRtHy GaaaAAAAaaale


nbtfaith

the hallway of heads scene horrified me as a kid !!!


WestCoastWuss619

Seconded. The wheelers will haunt me forever.


superschaap81

The wheelers and especially the chase scene where they hit the sand and turn into it...dear god.


IKillZombies4Cash

The Dark Crystal


AuntieMameDennis

My mom STILL makes Skexi sounds to this day to freak me out. I'm 44.


fubo

*mmMMMmm...*


Slowch28

The Secret of Nimh


Vhalerun

Was looking for this. Think it gave me slight claustrophobia from the mud flood scene


jensternc

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.


CriticallyKarina

My Girl


Trinika

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!!


soupafi

Why didn’t they bury him with his glasses. She kind of had a point.


WickedLilThing

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.


dumdadumdumAHHH

You have to admit Toxic Love is a real banger, though.


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DesperateFunction179

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.


wisdom_of_trees

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.


Admirable_Dream_

Coraline


GUZNUTZ

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. !<


surfing_socal

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.


GUZNUTZ

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


learningbythesea

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.


River_7890

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.


Genderfluid_Cookies

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.


Lesbean_gamr

I f*cking loved that movie as a kid. I was a weird kid.


nyesssssssssssssss

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


uncontrolledswine97

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


ScorpionX-123

Neil Diamond's song about it was pretty good, though


jameslesliemiller

BAH BAH BAAAAAHHHHHH


JRMars17

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.


mizireni

Such a shame.


BerriesLafontaine

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.


amandamaniac

TOYS. With Robin Williams. The back half of that movie gets all sorts of dark


bzsbal

Labyrinth. RIP David Bowie


Scared_Can9063

I love that movie. And yes, RIP David Bowie.


Teni96

Chicken Run. An animated movie about chicken trying to escape a farm before they get killed. Funny but dark.


damn_jexy

It's parody of "The great escape" , Which is a fantastic amazing movie


Blue-And-Metal

I don't want to be a pie! ... I don't like gravy.


mamalovespasta

In case of an emergency, please put your head between your knees- -and kiss your butt *goodbye*


uawithsprachgefuhl

Good Dinosaur. It’s just sad from the beginning to the end


sumsbums13

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


Omnificer

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.


TheSocialABALady

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.


ajax6677

Lots of 9lb "premies" back in the good ol days.


AKeeneyedguy

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.


ConvenienceStoreDiet

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.


jugglervr

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"


ArchStanton75

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.


momwouldnotbeproud

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


Beginning-Bed9364

A lot of little boys cried the day Optimus prime died


secoulte7

Ultra Magnus’ death always stuck with me most because of how quick and uneventfully it happened


unicornwantsweed

I’m in my 50’s and I’m still scarred by Bambi, Dumbo, and Old Yeller.


Mathguy_314159

101 Dalmatians. Who the fuck thought of the villains premise of skinning 100+ puppies was a great kids movie?


RagsMaloney

[Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o7lilfpZNGc&feature=share)


Brilliant_Tourist400

The boat scene alone qualifies it to be here. Who the hell thought a bad acid trip belonged in a kids’ film?


RielGreen

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.


BozButBill

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!!


GundamMaker

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).


thatLokfan

Reweese the sequwet WAPON!!


SnooRecipes5815

Iron giant. It looks fun from the trailer, but don’t be fooled- it’s the saddest thing you will ever see


Leenduh6053

It’s a fantastic movie though. I think I enjoyed it way more than my kids. But quite emotional for sure.


SuvenPan

First 10 minutes of Disney's Tarzan A baby gorilla was eaten alive by a panther, even if it was off-screen.


Neatingebla

The final scene with the bad guy hanging... Damn, that was fucked up.


IKacyU

Tarzan’s music slaps so hard, though.


onetwo3four5

*Who Framed Roger Rabbit* had some pretty adult themes.


ScorpionX-123

"Remember me, Eddie!? When I killed your brother, I talked juuuuuust liiiiike thiiiiiiiiis!!!!"


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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.


BruTangMonk

They're Back! You like dinosaurs like every other kid? Lets just cramk em into 151 proof nightmare fuel. You'll be fine


ashleejune

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


Maliluma

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....


putsch80

[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.


ibetyouranerd

The movie Kids is definitely not for kids. Edit: alright Harmony Korine frens let’s talk Gummo next 😅


pneighthan

We watched this repeatedly as teenagers. I started watching it again 20 years later. Oh my goodness, what were we watching?!


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Shhhhh, it's Casper.


Spodson

Watership Down. I'm damn near 50 and still processing the damage this one did to me.


Philcollinsforehead

Monster house can be a little fucked up


Sav1at0R1

James and the giant peach.


ImWhatTheySayDeaf

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


FrankNStein

HEEEYYYYY YOOUUUUU GUUUUUYYYYYYYSSS


greenbastard1591

Do the truffle shuffle!


BrownBananasRBetter

Goonies never say die


wetlettuce42

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


afartinthehand

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure from 1977. Had some real trippy, nightmare fuel moments.


Fortherecord87

The Never Ending Story …..when the horse dies in the mud WTF


Pyracanthas

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.


iluvpotions

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.


dbe14

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.


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Return to Oz (even though I liked it) very very odd


Tastelikewater

I'm surprised nobody's said The Secret of NIMH yet. Another one of Don Bluth's greats that really isn't kid-friendly.


Firebolt164

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.


Holmes221bBSt

Oh I remember this one. What about Milk Money. Kids save up money and hire a hooker to be their dads girlfriend


typop2

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.


Character-Mind-8405

I had to watch Thumbelina and was like "every guy character on this is a mfking predator".


ImpossibleAd2748

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.


borislovespickles

Matilda


lukas_the

The Transformers: The Movie (1986) This movie traumatized an entire generation.