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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Old Yeller?? Puppy snuff film...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osRX86BYsVg&feature=related
ps. I thought Ben Sharpio wrote this article..
I never did figure that out. We had it on the Amiga. What were you supposed to do to make it to the next level? I always died.
Baby mine, don't you cry.
Baby mine, dry your eyes.
Rest your head close to my heart,
Never to part,
Baby of mine.
I remember that movie, more like late teens. Yeah, he might be a jerk but I think he was just giving a nice compliment on that one
But on the subject of disturbing kids fare, I'd have to nominated Babe: Pig in the City, which left a test audience of children sobbing hysterically, causing Universal to basically leave it for dead before it was ever released. It's a kids movie made by the director of The Road Warrior that feels like... a kids movie made by the director of The Road Warrior. It was also one of the best films of 1999.
I remember that old Karen Black movie! It freaked me out then and I still don’t like to think about it.
Mark
It ranks right up there with “Titanic” on my list. My girlfriend talked me into taking her, and we both ended up hating it.
Amen to that. It confirmed my belief that Spielberg was/is one stunted guy.
ROFLMAO! (Tears rolling down my cheeks, literally!) I will never forget that film.
OK, I think I’ve probably watched an average number of movies. Maybe slighly above average - though I’ve seen exactly 2 movies in the past 2 years in a theater: Atlas Shrugged and The Hangover.
I have seen 3 of the 26 movies on this list: ET, Wizard of Oz and, I think, Bambi. I say I think because I was about 4....but I believe I recall seeing it.
The only movie that ever frightened me in my life was Wizard of Oz.....just because of the Wicked Witch, who as a child I found very scary for some
reason.
Of the remaining 23, my quick tally was 13 that I’ve even HEARD of.
Hank
So Sweet!
My Momma used to sing Gershwin and Cole Porter tunes to me.
Maybe that’s why I am so weird now! LOL!
There was a scene in Snow White (1938) when the evil witch was making her poison apple in the dungeon.
There was a skeleton on the floor of a man who had died reaching for a cup of water. The witch cackled, “Want Some WATER?” and she kicks the tin cup at the skeleton, shattering it into a million pieces. To my 6 year old mind, THAT scene was more disturbing than any other scene I have ever seen in a cartoon, because of the cruelty it implied. At the time, Disney was criticized for this scene, the “Baby Mine” scene, and of course, the group of crows that sang “When I see an Elephant fly”.
Like I said before, “Scary” is fun.
Cruelty, Loss, Abandonment, etc, aren’t.
Of course, then there was the time Luke Skywalker came home and found his entire foster family slaughtered.
It’s always SOMETHING!LOL.
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