Creepy Children's Movies

My son loves Nightmare before Christmas, but James and the Giant Peach scared the shit out of him...he's 5... He loves Secret of Nimh, too.

the one with all the famous people .. sammy davis jr, scott baio, telly savales, john stamos, patrick duffy, carol channing, etc? i LOVED that. and the jabberwocky was absolutely terrifying.

escape from witch mountain
return to witch mountain
the electric grandmother

I wanna go rent movies now. I still haven't seen Watership Down and I really want to.

Did anyone ever see the movie version of the Plague Dogs? I think they only released it on video. That was actually more disturbing then Watership Down.

not a childrens' movie per se, but "Clifford" the Martin Short/Charles Grodin one.

YES! I loved that movie. It was so sad at the end, where he had to give up on magic.

Aaaaaah Watership Down used to scare the pants off me! I remember watching it in class for the first time, at like the end of term, and i was so scared I fell off my seat...and everyone laughed At least it lightened the mood eh!

And THE LAST UNICORN! Oh god! That bit where the skeleton drinks the wine and his eyes start glowing.... Jebus Christ. Gave me nightmares for years. I watched it again a few years back, I was more scared of how I'd feel than when i actually saw the bit, but it's still creepy. *shudder*

God, i was just going to say that. This is one of my little brothers favorite movies, but every time i see it i can't help but think how wierd it was to put a dude who kidnaps children in a kids movie.

Bah. That's like the argument that gay couples shouldn't be able to adopt because the kids will get teased. They're being raised with a sense of security that'll get them through. Once they're past that stupid elementary school stage then their names will become a thing of interest rather than ridicule. Particularly to people who recognize the names.

Plus they're 1/4 Korean, so they look just 'ethnic' enough to get away with oddish names.

Totally agree with you about Care Bears, it gave me nightmares! In fact I had forgotten about it, worried about sleeping tonight now!!!



[Edited on Nov 29, 2004 by cara]

i seriously closed my eyes through the nightmare before christmas and i dont even think i was that young when it came out.. lets see, i'm 19 now....

i recently saw pippi longstocking .. really fucking weird. the 70s overdubbed version that i think is the most common.

i can't see them doing a carater like that in this day and age

it wasn't really a kids' movie, but Clash of the Titans freaked me out as a little kid (and not just because of the bare-chested Harry Hamlin). When the statue's head falls off and all of a sudden the eyes open? And I was genuinely afraid that if I looked at Medusa in the eyes, I'd turn to stone.

I wonder if kids nowadays are scared by the Harry Potter movies or LOTR...

depeds on the film

my neice was scared by moments in finding nemo lion king and brother bear

but she s only 2

I don't know if someones mentioned this already, but in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when Willy Wonka takes them on the boat and shows them loads of scary shit! It's a really scary in film anyway on loads of levels

Also in an ill advised use of public relations i heard that Steven Gately (the gay member of Boyzone) has been cast to play the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I thought that was really funny-it shouldbe written in a book of 'what roles not to play if you are gay!'

Oh man... those movies totally creeped me out. I had a huge little boy crush on Kim Richards, though.

The Elm-chanted Forest

fucking wierd

I was terrified of Mr. Boogedy when I was young.

Secret of NIMH scared me so bad.
and i'm SO HAPPY someone else is scared of E.T.!!! everyone fucking loves that movie and I hate it

oh and the last unicorn... it didn't exactly scare me but i had a morbid fascination for that movie

It wasn't a kid's movie, exactly, but a movie that every single kid aside of myself loved was...Gremlins. That they were freaky is one thing, but I have this memory of a scene where they get into a traffic light and make cars crash... I'm sorry, I still get nightmares.

Dragonslayer with Peter MacNichol from Ally Mc Beal. F'in weird. Good story. Decent special effects for 1981. It was on cable a few months ago. Blah, bleh