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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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The Never Ending Story and Willy Wonka both scarred me for life when I was kid. Oh, and also Bambi, which, btw, is not a great movie for a kid who was raised by a single mother.

Oh man. I am so glad I didn't watch Neverending Story. I'll keep it that way.

And yet, I loved Labyrinth. Clearly something is wrong with me.

It was David Bowie!I think that's why I loved it too.

I loved Labyrinth, but it made me hideously uncomfortable when David Bowie started dancing with ehr in that dream sequence. I don't know why, but it just freaked me out when I was a kid. To this day, I cannot watch that entire scene.

Maybe it was the codpiece.

MAYBE?

Obviously.

that codpiece could destroy a small nation! :D

For an adult, it's a bit sweet, a little sad, and has some effects which are now laughable, but there's plenty of Nightmare Fuel in there for impressionable kids. Atreyu's reaction to losing his horse. The Nothing. The Childlike Empress's final moments of panic and pleading. Bastian being torn between beliefs. The half-seen Gwarg. The terrible breakup of the lands and resulting destruction of an entire world. The creepy, largely unexplored nature of the link between Atreyu and Bastian.

It's potentially very emotionally powerful if you're the right age.

Oh lord. All I remember about Neverending Story is statues with laser eyes. That image haunted me for years.

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