Posted on 11/26/2011 6:04:44 PM PST by DemforBush
There are those who believe we must guard and protect children from the hurts and traumas of the big bad world for as long as possible. Then there are those people who believe we should toughen kids up by exposing them to and even pummeling them with terror and depravity. Those people become children’s filmmakers. Don't believe me? Gaze upon the list below and find a hall of horrors to give Wes Craven nightmares...
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I thought the original Willy Wonka’s character has a great sense of dry humor. The Depp character reminded me of Michael Jackson for some reason... with really weird teeth. Plus, (not to over-analyze but the original one showed strong family ties of Charlie and his Mom/grandparents. The newer one sort of skated over that... losing the true message.
“E.T. may not be traumatic, but it sure sucks.”
True, but not as much as the Atari 2600 video game based on it. :-)
The atheist knock-off of Narnia & LOTR didn't get a mention.
He needs to learn to be a more tolerant hipster.
Old Yeller ain’t fer sissies, that’s fer shore.
Interesting responses, everyone. While I continue to disagree with the list and the author’s premise, I definitely see where some of you are coming from about your own childhood experiences. No offense is intended to anyone who did find a particular movie scary/traumatic as a kid.
The movie that scared me - I mean REALLY scared me - as a kid was a made-for-tv horror film with Karen Black called Trilogy of Terror. The third story about the Zuni Warrior Doll made me want to hide under the blankets and never come back out!
Of course, one *could* point out the fact that if I had obeyed my parents and not snuck out of bed to watch something they told me I wasn’t allowed to see, the whole situation could have been avoided... :-)
I was to young to remember it but my mom told me I got very upset when Bambi’s mom died.
But kids tender feelings weren’t spared in the olden days. Reread some of the Grim’s fairy tails our great grandparents read to our grandparents.
Is that the one where Karen Black threw the wooden doll into the oven? A black cloud of smoke comes out and she is possessed by the warrior? Yeah... scary stuff. (Don’t beat yourself up... I read “The Exorcist” when my parents forbade it. We passed it around class in my Catholic School. Swear I didn’t sleep for several weeks thinking the bed was shaking!!!)
Apparently the loosely-defined genre "children's movie" should not contain malevolence, violence, conflict, danger, negative outcomes of any sort, victory, defeat, startling images, unexpected shocks; in short, any single excitement that might motivate a child to see the thing in the first place. One suspects the author either despises children or is blissfully unacquainted with them.
Dumbo is awesome, and also considered racist by busybodies who need lives. Oddly missing from the list is another great film, Spirited Away.
Happy Feet...nothing but two hours of Algore Propaganda.
Yep, that’s the one!
Yep, that “Trilogy of Terror” was a pretty spooky one. I also recall a “Night Gallery” episode involving a doll, which was pretty memorable. Generally, I didn’t get too scared as a kid watching horror films. One of the only exceptions I can remember was staying up late to watch the film “Black Sabbath” (1963) with Boris Karloff. Yipe, somehow that one got under my skin!
But of course, these weren’t ‘kid films,’ so I guess we’re straying from the premise of the article a little.
Dont know about anyone else but the original Transformers the Movie from the 80s seriously messed me up to the point that I’ve never watched the thing again nor really played with the toys afterwards. Some of my friends were the same.
I lost patience about halfway through this list (Although Old Yeller has always disturbed me, but not as much as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).
It lost credibility with “ham-fisted Christian overtones” with Chronicles of Narnia.
If people don’t understand allegories, they shouldn’t try and write for a living.
How about “Something This Way Wicked Comes” put out by Walt Disney.
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