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The 26 Most Disturbing Kids Movies Ever (Ultra-Mega BARF alert!)
babble.com ^ | 11/25/11 ? | Cole Gamble

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at babble.com ...


TOPICS: Education; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bambi; kids; movies
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To: DemforBush

the website truly lives up to its name


21 posted on 11/26/2011 6:24:23 PM PST by bigbob
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To: DemforBush

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.


22 posted on 11/26/2011 6:24:31 PM PST by momtothree
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To: buccaneer81

“E.T. may not be traumatic, but it sure sucks.”

True, but not as much as the Atari 2600 video game based on it. :-)


23 posted on 11/26/2011 6:24:58 PM PST by DemforBush (Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad get me out of this!)
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To: DemforBush
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
There are plenty of reasons The Chronicles of Narnia might scare a kid: creepy English children, goat men, ham-fistedly overt Christian themes.

The atheist knock-off of Narnia & LOTR didn't get a mention.

He needs to learn to be a more tolerant hipster.

24 posted on 11/26/2011 6:25:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Since Obama's only challengers in 2012 are in the GOP debates, including him the next 15.)
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To: DemforBush; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono

Want to see something REALLY scary?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfu1gvM5U0


25 posted on 11/26/2011 6:26:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Since Obama's only challengers in 2012 are in the GOP debates, including him the next 15.)
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To: DemforBush

Old Yeller ain’t fer sissies, that’s fer shore.


26 posted on 11/26/2011 6:28:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." Ann Coulter)
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To: TomGuy


27 posted on 11/26/2011 6:30:53 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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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... :-)


28 posted on 11/26/2011 6:30:57 PM PST by DemforBush (Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad get me out of this!)
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To: svcw

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.


29 posted on 11/26/2011 6:31:13 PM PST by DManA
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To: TomGuy
I didn’t pull up each one, but I noticed Old Yeller.


30 posted on 11/26/2011 6:32:08 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
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To: DemforBush
The scary thing about this movie is The Nothing. You know, the thing consuming all of Fantasia. And what is The Nothing? A giant lizard? A sentient, radioactive cloud? Worse: The Nothing is nothing. It is oblivion — the great unknown; the cold and lifeless void beyond our realm of understanding. Hey kiddies, wrap your little heads around that meaty chunk of existential crisis. Thank you, Neverending Story; you are more depressing than reading No Exit. Oh, and that princess? Some say cute, I say creepy.


You know, he kind of has a point with this one. I love the idea of it. What's the one thing you can't run away from? That''s right!
31 posted on 11/26/2011 6:36:28 PM PST by OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings
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To: DemforBush

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!!!)


32 posted on 11/26/2011 6:36:54 PM PST by momtothree
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To: DemforBush
Some great comments. I do suspect Mr. Gamble had his tongue in cheek for at least some of these criticisms; nevertheless, exactly what it is he finds disturbing leads one to conclude that he is somewhat, well, disturbed, himself. The proclivity of animals to fight one another in Narnia? Really? Would the author prefer lions, wolves, rabbits and squirrels dancing around together singing stupid songs about brotherhood? That may be fine for producing little liberals but at some point they are certain to be mugged by that "red in tooth and claw" problem AKA the Real World, generally before the little nippers have forgotten the words to "Hakuna Matata". It needn't be a movie that mugs them but it certainly oughtn't be the movie who sets them up for it.

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.

33 posted on 11/26/2011 6:38:28 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: DemforBush

Dumbo is awesome, and also considered racist by busybodies who need lives. Oddly missing from the list is another great film, Spirited Away.


34 posted on 11/26/2011 6:40:22 PM PST by sand lake bar (You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.)
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To: DemforBush

Happy Feet...nothing but two hours of Algore Propaganda.


35 posted on 11/26/2011 6:41:29 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: momtothree

Yep, that’s the one!


36 posted on 11/26/2011 6:44:04 PM PST by DemforBush (Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad get me out of this!)
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To: DemforBush

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.


37 posted on 11/26/2011 6:57:18 PM PST by greene66
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To: DemforBush

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.


38 posted on 11/26/2011 6:59:19 PM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: DemforBush

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.


39 posted on 11/26/2011 6:59:43 PM PST by PrincessB (Drill Baby Drill.)
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To: DemforBush

How about “Something This Way Wicked Comes” put out by Walt Disney.


40 posted on 11/26/2011 7:00:30 PM PST by SkyDancer ("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
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