Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 05:25 pm
it's like the special edition guide to nightmares
Gakked from Fyrdrakken:
Top 10 Films That Traumatise Small Children and 10 Great Children's Books For People Who Hate Their Children
I'm going to make a point about the movies one, since the books one is just laughable.
Watership fucking Down - if you are like me and saw that shit during the impressionable pre-eight-years-old age, you might have come out of it with a strong terror of a.) mist and b.) life. Who the hell gives that to a kid to watch? Network TV, that's who. I mean, if I was going to ever say "What makes me unable to watch a horror movie or anything involving fog", this movie is the reason. I cannot talk about this rationally because I do not remember any of it but I remember terror, and despair, and a general feeling that the world not only sucked, but it would only get worse from here on out.
People. I cannot read the book. I have looked at it and felt my entire body twitch in sheer horror. And I remember the opening sequence and the ears and the legs and how the entire world was out to kill them. Kill them all. Adn by them, I mean, me, because I was below-eight and lookie there, I identified with the small, soft creature being everyone's dinner.
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The Secret of NIMH (not listed in top 11) - to this day, I still can't comprehend anyone sane put that in a movie theatre for anyone below the age of fifteen. I have the children's edition book somewhere. Again, let me point out, I cannot remember any of it. But I remember watching, and I remember fear. Overwhelming fear.
Agree with their list? Disagree? I have a couple of others that doubtless I'll be flashbacking to over the next few days. I mean, Bambi hurt, and Ole Yeller hurt, but just looking at The Dark Crystal is stirring things deep in my psyche that may mean yes, I did see that, and there are very good reasons I do not remember it.
Yes, yes, yes, my mood is indeed distressed.
ETA: WHY THE HELL DID I GO BACK AND WATCH THAT DAMN HAZEL CLIP? RABBIT TURNED TO LEAVES AND RED EYED STYLIZED DEAD RABBITS! WELCOME TRAUMATIC CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE. THERE GOES MY SLEEP FOR A FEW DAYS.
ETA 2: Right, so I've just--helped everyone relive their traumatic childhood media experiences. Um. You're welcome? IT'S NOT LIKE I WILL BE SLEEPING EITHER OKAY?
Top 10 Films That Traumatise Small Children and 10 Great Children's Books For People Who Hate Their Children
I'm going to make a point about the movies one, since the books one is just laughable.
Watership fucking Down - if you are like me and saw that shit during the impressionable pre-eight-years-old age, you might have come out of it with a strong terror of a.) mist and b.) life. Who the hell gives that to a kid to watch? Network TV, that's who. I mean, if I was going to ever say "What makes me unable to watch a horror movie or anything involving fog", this movie is the reason. I cannot talk about this rationally because I do not remember any of it but I remember terror, and despair, and a general feeling that the world not only sucked, but it would only get worse from here on out.
People. I cannot read the book. I have looked at it and felt my entire body twitch in sheer horror. And I remember the opening sequence and the ears and the legs and how the entire world was out to kill them. Kill them all. Adn by them, I mean, me, because I was below-eight and lookie there, I identified with the small, soft creature being everyone's dinner.
Adding:
The Secret of NIMH (not listed in top 11) - to this day, I still can't comprehend anyone sane put that in a movie theatre for anyone below the age of fifteen. I have the children's edition book somewhere. Again, let me point out, I cannot remember any of it. But I remember watching, and I remember fear. Overwhelming fear.
Agree with their list? Disagree? I have a couple of others that doubtless I'll be flashbacking to over the next few days. I mean, Bambi hurt, and Ole Yeller hurt, but just looking at The Dark Crystal is stirring things deep in my psyche that may mean yes, I did see that, and there are very good reasons I do not remember it.
Yes, yes, yes, my mood is indeed distressed.
ETA: WHY THE HELL DID I GO BACK AND WATCH THAT DAMN HAZEL CLIP? RABBIT TURNED TO LEAVES AND RED EYED STYLIZED DEAD RABBITS! WELCOME TRAUMATIC CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE. THERE GOES MY SLEEP FOR A FEW DAYS.
ETA 2: Right, so I've just--helped everyone relive their traumatic childhood media experiences. Um. You're welcome? IT'S NOT LIKE I WILL BE SLEEPING EITHER OKAY?
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From:I read the book first when I was 10. Loved it, but ... yes. Black Rabbit Terror.
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From:I adore Watership Down, but I'd never take a kid to see it. But then, I had the advantage of reading the book first.
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From:Oh man, those death trees.
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From:So I'm very glad that I read Watership Down and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH at the proper age, long before either movie came out. And actually, I've never seen either movie, although I hear WS is actually pretty good. If scary.
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From:Ahem. Sorry. Didn't mean to shout. What a list. I'm going to go to my corner now.
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From:The movie that got me when I was five was Little Shop Of Horrors (PLANT EATS PEOPLE! AX MURDERS! DENTISTS!), but I suppose I never should've been allowed to watch it in the first place.
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From:Admittedly, some movies made me cry as an adolescent (I'm looking at you, E.T.), but that was generally because I'm a sap for certain tropes. (I cried at Titanic too, sue me. *g*)
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From:My traumatic movie? Wizard of Oz, and the Flying Monkeys. Still don't like that part.
(What's bugging me? The columnist called Hazel "she." Hazel's *male*. I've never seen the movie, but I've read the book.)
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From:Heh. I caught that too.
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From:I was a totally wussy kid and I remember Wizard of Oz and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory freaking me out, too. Ditto with the falling off the train bridge part in Annie.
My kid tho, loves Dark Crystal and Empire Strikes Back but he's totally afraid of Dobby in Harry Potter... hee. So who knows, right??
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From:The other one, I've never been able to find anyone who knows it - it had these rabbits, okay, that for some reason were being engineered genetically/nuclearly to be big and stuff. But they were also aggressive, okay? So the little daughter of one of the dudes wants one, and gets one, and she loses it! And it goes and breeds GIANT MAN-EATING BUNNIES that live in CAVES and EAT PEOPLE. AUGH.
That said I also have a definite zombie phobia and when I turn off the lights at night I have to leap into bed because THE ZOMBIES ARE UNDER THERE. GODDAMN ZOMBIES INFEST EVERYTHING.
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From:I've seen it - I think, maybe. Are you thinking of Night of the Lepus? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/plotsummary) Your summary sounds a bit like Night of the Lepus, but not quite how I remember, that is except for the man-eating bunnies! (and they were scary)
Ah, the fantastic B-Movies I saw on late night television when I was a teenager. Brilliant.
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From:Babe in the City was bad enough, and I was in my 30s!
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From:So while the Dark Crystal gave me nightmares, the only part about it I really remember is the giant cockroaches (this may be where my cockroach Problem comes from, mind you), the others... half of them I've never seen, and those I know I was exposed to, I don't remember many of the bad bits because I wasn't paying attention.
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From:And I have said that to you twice today. *twitch*twitch*
The Fox and the Hound...Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.... *will NEVER SLEEP AGAIN, OKAY?!*
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From:The Land Before Time was rather traumatizing as well.
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From:The other two movies that traumatised me were Planet of the Apes at the drivein when I was 7. I think I was safely asleep in the back, woke up, saw the apes chasing a guy, and had hysterics. For soem reason I wasn't taken to the drivein again for *years*.
The other was The Birds, which my babysitter let me stay up and watch iwth her when I was in first grade. Oops. She wasn't my babysitter again after that...
Those books? Some of them are just damned creepy for kids!
And are evidently meant to be, unless they're for use with abused kids to get them to talk about it?
But I read a book that traumatised me for *years* -- a book of Christian Happy Stories for Children at the drs office when I was 8 or 9. In one, two boys are in the hospital, and one is very ill. The other tells me that Jesus walks thru the ward every night, and if you raise your hand, he'll take you to heaven so you won't suffer any more.
I (seriously!) was terrified to have my hands out from under the covers at night until I was in my late teens. What if he was checking out my house and I rubbed my nose at the wrong time, adn BOOM, dragged off to heaven by this scary guy with blood on his hands???
*ahem*
Hi! I'm not sure how I ended up here; I've been following random links.
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From:I think ET should be on that list as well though. Apparently I had a nervous breakdown in the movie theatre midway through that one, once the scientists got him. *shudder*
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