Top 20 Movies We Can't Believe We Watched as Kids

[@WatchMojo]

Which film traumatized you the most when you were a kid? Let us know in the comments below. For more content like this, click here: kzbin.info/aero/PLmZTDWJGfRq1rbF0nCpzhbAu-LZ2mKkaO&si=52AWIvPx6F-bhPmK

[@tarryteeth]

Your videos are awesome Watchmojo

[@Northcoastrails]

Awesome list

[@DerekDolcy]

😮ah grimlines.

[@DerekDolcy]

😮grimlines did .

[@andreking7138]

I wish I had never seen Indiana Jones as a child!

[@UsagiOhkami]

What makes All Dogs so hard to watch is knowing that Judith Barsi, who did the voice of Anne Marie (and Duckie in The Land Before Time) was tragically never around to see it, to make another movie, or to grow up. Burt Reynolds had to deliver his lines in the finale scene to her pre-recorded voice and couldn’t make it through the takes without crying. All Dogs itself didn't traumatize me (though a few on this list did), but knowing Judith Barsi's story from a young age reallt affected me.

[@KevinMullins33]

I 100% agree. So sad!

[@JenniferLipska]

I agree. What happened to her was heartbreaking.

[@WolfMannKB]

I'm familiar with her story but never heard the bit about All Dogs Go To Heaven

[@kathrynthegreat1111]

Breaks my heart to know what happened to her 😢 I loved that movie as a kid as Charlie gets to go to heaven for a selfless sacrifice and his song “let me be surprised” ❤❤ great music 🎶

[@trinaq]

While many of these films are dark, and have mature themes, at least they didn't talk down to their young audience, and understood that they're intelligent enough to grasp these topics, as they'll be facing them at some point in their lives.

[@ClockWithoutNumbers]

especially when you realize some of these movies were the last roles some of the actors had before they died.

[@michelehahn7845]

Yes! I totally agree

[@Danielle-fb4oq]

I completely agree

[@MustacheGuyDisappeared]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😮😮😅hesaidshesaid

[@olleselin]

Yeah!

[@lessenowls8787]

You should rename this video to: "Top 20 Movies That Shaped Us as Kids".

[@PoeticProse7]

Yes! ❤

[@BossBast1]

exactly, these intense scenes and hard truths stick with you for life...

[@ToonCaperA113]

I certainly agree with you!

[@ardentdesir5796]

But then the clickbait wouldn't work

[@davidknightx]

I'm so glad my youth was filled with entertainment like this that didn't coddle me; but instead, treated me with respect that I can handle the hard truths of reality. All the straight A's in the world won't save you if you're not terrified and running away from the nice man asking you to get into his car.

[@PoeticProse7]

Instead of labeling these as inappropriate because they upset or challenged or scared us, let's all admit what they actually were: growth points. These challenging movies taught us lessons and through them we grew. More children need them more than ever. Tell me you weren't able to handle the death of a friend because of Artax, or felt better after the Secret of NIMH.

[@katieyearty194]

Exactly! Just like "dark fairy tales" did for children of the past, these movies are a way to teach that lessons in life can be dark, confusing, and even downright terrifying. They also taught us that when life is confusing or scary, we will find our way through and grow as people because of the experience. Coddling children won't make life easier for them, only teach them to avoid serious discussions and decisions that they will eventually be forced to face without any proper understanding.

[@IrishNMC]

Parents not allowing their children to watch these films is what's wrong with the world. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of these. 80s/90s kids watched them, and everyone turned out OK.

[@DerekDolcy]

😊 yea agreed 👍 irshnmc.3

[@DerekDolcy]

😊yea true 👍

[@DERRTYCHYBO]

Did they though

[@IrishNMC]

@@DERRTYCHYBO 😂 True

[@ace448]

My therapy bill says differently

[@sesshyandenvyfreak]

R.I.P Judith Barsi and David Bowie

[@dreamguardian8320]

Amen to them both.

[@ashley.harrison]

You forgot The Land Before Time. Little Foot’s mother died in that. So traumatizing.

[@dobbysock5695]

Absolute tear-jerker

[@melissacooper8724]

What about Bambi? His mother was killed by a hunter!

[@michellelamar8965]

And tge behind-the-scenes story if Ducky/Anne-Marie (all dogs go to Heaven) makes those two deserving of thectop spot on the list.

[@kovacks2280]

Holy shit yes

[@dreamguardian8320]

@@melissacooper8724 And the death of Mufasa in the Lion King.

[@toddsimpson9164]

12:25 the girl died during production, so the guy who voices the dog got emotional when reading their final scene since hers was recorded earlier.

[@FordLancer]

Burt Reynolds, he had to do several takes because he loved that kid so much it broke his heart hearing her lines being played to him. Having the strength to do that scene really brings out the emotions of love and kindness he had for her.

[@Corlynxable]

Judith Barsi was murdered by her father. Burt Reynolds, voicing the dog, was alone with the sound recording guy during the farewell scene, because he needed several takes to do it. It wasn't only a farewell for the movie, it was also a farewell to Judith from Burt.

[@DragonQueenDrago]

I was coming to comment this, it definitely makes the movie more sad and real

[@Shrider_180]

I came looking for this comment

[@robbyosborne9708]

​@@Corlynxable What's even sadder is that the director, Don Bluth sensed that Judith was going through trauma in her home and wanted to help her before it was too late.

[@IAmKyndle]

The 80s surely was the peak of kids movies. Especially dark fantasy.

[@dreamguardian8320]

I for one am lucky and glad I was born during the golden age of the 80s.

[@zombietori23]

The Neverending Story is a masterpiece. I watched it when I was about 5 years old the first time, and it was immediately one of my favorite movies and still is to this day. Like most things on this list, there’s nothing wrong with it. Kids can handle darker subject matter, you just have to let them and have an open line of communication afterwards to help them process any negative emotions they may have. Negative emotions happen every day in real life, experiencing them in media is a good way of making the real life negative emotions easier to understand, process and deal with.

[@arielle8010]

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Beetlejuice is the first thing that popped into my head, that movie has a waaaaaaay different tone when you're an adult. The part that stands out is when there's a group of teenagers in football uniforms, and one of them looks around at all the dead people and says "coach? I don't think we survived that bus crash..."

[@amethyst659]

For me it was the beauty pageant woman showing slit wrists

[@CJKhaos]

As a 90s kid I have watched nearly al of these, multiple times, before I was 10. Nothing wrong with kids seeing these films.

[@Shellz386]

Well, now you're an adult, talking to yourself on youtube. I blame those movies.

[@CJKhaos]

@@Shellz386 🤪

[@sunayocarissime5309]

No but still considered generous amounts of nightmare fuel no doubt.🤣🤣🤣

[@dantesreaIms]

​@@Shellz386your boring

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

Today, we have micro aggressions. People today are much scarier than the movies of yesterday.

[@lindabroer8995]

Adults should stop looking at these movies with adult eyes. It is okay for children to be scared and learn about death when in a safe environment. I lent my nephew the first four Land Before Time movies and my sister-in-law became angry with me when she found out the first movie is very different from the others. I asked her which one my nephew liked best and why and she grudgingly had to admit it was the first because the baby dinosaurs were born. The fact that the mother died and that sharptooth is scary as f didn’t bother him at all. He watched that movie on repeat.

[@CJKhaos]

How is The Black Cauldron not on this list.

[@corymckee3460]

And the Last Unicorn

[@CJKhaos]

@ good shout

[@BossBast1]

or mononoke

[@blueraccoon1088]

Or 9?

[@jasonwethy8360]

Let's quit pretending that Beetlejuice is a childrens movie. Any movie that's PG 13 was a teen movie. Oh look Stand by Me. Another one that's not a children's movie.

[@jasonwethy8360]

Indiana Jones movies are adult movies.

[@d43m0n412]

The point was that we watched them anyways as kids

[@jasonwethy8360]

@d43m0n412 except they explicitly said those 2 were children's movies.

[@Thefatmexican912]

​@@jasonwethy8360Although it has strong adult themes related to the films you mentioned at least stand by me is actually intended to be a a movie for kids being thats what the book was intended for bet you never even knew Stephen King wrote the book then movie is based on

[@Waytigo]

and watership down? really? might as well put heavy metal on this list as well.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Who framed Roger rabbit is awesome 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@gishman5000]

One of my favorite cartoon movies

[@Reaperguy67]

​​@AndyHouse-v1m it's sad that you like your own comment and lie about others. Also he doesn't get anything for it

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🏆🥇

[@Reaperguy67]

@@BlackHatCinephile spam

[@trinaq]

A thousand times "Yes" to "Coraline", "" Roger Rabbit" and "Watership Down." I remember watching the latter film in class when I was about 12 or 13, and our teacher having to listen to a lot of complaints from enraged parents of traumatised children.

[@LazyIRanch]

I didn't see _Watership Down_ but I read the book, and it was NOT written for children! It's an adult book that deals with subjects too dark for some "grown-ups". Just because a film is animated doesn't make it appropriate for children. I wouldn't allow a kid to see _Fritz the Cat_ just because it has a cartoon cat.

[@vermontvoice13]

I didn’t see Watership Down until I was an adult and even then I was like wow wtf did I just see??

[@josephjohnson5415]

Our childhoods were so much better than modern sheltered kids. These "adult themes" are only creepy or too much for squares who are afraid of their own shadow. Kids today need some mental toughness because they're being sheltered from trauma or hard lessons.

[@thatguywhowearsblack]

What was more bizarre was children's toys and television programming for the likes of the Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, even ROBOCOP and the TOXIC AVENGER.

[@elconferencistaaspergeraut3806]

In this movies' defense (at least most of them), the idea is to teach children that life is not always happy and simple. It has its harshness and crudity, and try to avoid them is not a good idea. That's why I feel grateful to them, as disturbing as they were since my childhood.

[@Hepler-s2b]

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf(the book), was not a kids book. Honestly kind of a miracle they made the movie who framed Rodger rabbit, as kid friendly as it is

[@dreamguardian8320]

I enjoyed the movie myself.

[@TheImaginator972]

You wouldn't believe me but when I was little I was first introduced to "Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom" and yes, that movie really traumatized me for life but it remains one of my favorite Indiana Jones movie growing up.

[@CrazyKoala1990]

It's been so long since I watched the Indy Jones movies... is that the one where they ripped out hearts? That traumatised me too as a kid

[@TheJmore]

Hey WatchMojo you spectacularly fucked up saying Roald Dahl’s name.

[@GrandmasterDevo]

Glad I'm not the only one to notice that.

[@olvialee7221]

My mom watched All Dogs Go to Heaven when she was a kid but as of now, she couldn’t because of the passing of the sweet Judith Barsi

[@vermontvoice13]

Very sad demise of a little girl indeed

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

E.T. was the first movie I saw in the theater. My parents told me I was traumatized. Now I love scary movies. It's healthy for kids to feel fear in a safe place.

[@dawnieangel76]

I watched The Secret of Nimh the year it came out. I was only 6. I have been fighting for animal rights, not using anything made with animal parts or tested on animals, and to end animal testing itself since then, before it was mainstream. I used to actually write letters, make phone calls, go to the businesses I could that were local or my grandfather would drive me to. At 48 I still haven't stopped. Was it traumatic? Absolutely. Did it make me a better person at a young age? Damn right.

[@seantlewis376]

I watched these with my kids, and some I saw as a kid myself. Roald Dahl was a childhood nightmare genius, but Matilda was a horrifying movie with a happy ending where Matilda's parents end up miserable, and Matilda spends her life with her amazing teacher. Different subject: I think I was four or five years old when I saw The Wizard of Oz. The wicked witch gave me nightmares. I read Watership Down, and did not take my kids to see it. I didn't want to see it myself.

[@paprikaphd]

While the Raiders of the Lost Ark did have a couple frightening moments, Temple of doom was way worse. I definitely have nightmare memories of that dinner where they eat the snakes and monkeys brains, and then they literally tore out one guy‘s heart. All of the stuff with the slave kids being beaten, it’s terrifying.

[@rebeccamcdermott9259]

Oh, definitely!!. I saw it way too young!. And some of the scenes were cut out as well. Never saw the dude getting his heart ripped out until I was much older. Never even knew that was in it!.

[@COMPFUNK2]

The reason why a lot of ‘80s babies like myself saw Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gremlins is because they’re both rated PG (the PG-13 rating didn’t appear until July 1984). To that point, I’m surprised Poltergeist isn’t on this list.

[@aaronb8637]

The 80s and 90s were a wild time lol.

[@jacobdrolet4262]

What about American Tail and a land before time many others too,fantastic job on the video watch mojo.

[@angelapalmer3464]

Black Cauldron,Wizard of Oz, Something Wicked this way Comes, and Watcher in the Woods.

[@karinporter9849]

Something wicked this way comes freaked me out so much I still can’t watch it today

[@angelapalmer3464]

@karinporter9849 me too!

[@michaellocke6897]

1 of the best WatchMojo lists to date!! Almost all of them are classics to me!!! 👍

[@marktheroux9465]

Even as a young kid I was fascinated by how imaginative these films are. For example, Who Framed Roger Rabbit had humans and cartoon characters co-existing, which I thought was such a cool concept. I loved The Brave Little Toaster as well: hey look, living appliances! I remember watching Raiders of the Lost Ark with my family and I kept my eyes open out of morbid curiosity when the Ark was opened, and I was just happy to see the bad guys get punished. My absolute favorite childhood movie was (and still is) Pee-wee's Big Adventure: I can quote it word-for-word. I loved the creativity of the nightmare sequences and Large Marge's infamous face trick. If there's any scene that got me emotionally worked up, it's the one where Pee-wee rescues pets from the burning shop.

[@MxPotato84]

Drop Dead Fred was a childhood movie that traumatized me. An acid trip I didn’t ask for.

[@ARIXANDRE]

Tim Burton left some scars with Batman Returns and Beetlejuice.

[@aliciawentzshadows]

The Brave Little Toaster and All Dogs Go to Heaven were my favorite non-Disney movies growing up. All Dogs has as a big place in my heart as I watched it a lot with my mother and every time I watch it, I think of and remember her.

[@elettradamaggio311]

The only movie that deeply traumatised me as a kid was Bambi, the scene with the hunter is heartbreaking. I got no trauma from these movies, however, being a mom now, i can tell you that watching them WITH an adult is necessary.

[@maxhorner2409]

And they always put it on right before deer season.

[@jackrodakthemovieguy1726]

I never regret what dark or over mature movies I saw as a kid. This list would be better if it were movies kids find acceptable, but adults cringe incredibly loud at

[@cajayson8301]

I'm shocked you did not include "Bambi" and "The Black Cauldron"

[@kovacks2280]

Gremlins 😅😅😅 I LOVED that as a kid.....also what about Poltergeist? Now that scared me.....

[@errantwinds-up8uu]

The Brave Little Toaster. WHY! On the other hand, I watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as much as I could, the child catcher didn't really scare me. Just depends on the kid I guess.

[@robertjames9096]

I think Roald Dahl actually highly hated children. His books are horror novels not kid stories for sure.

[@celticpoet21]

Not to mention he was chiefly inspired by dark fairy tales from his own childhood including the original works of Brother's Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. Most of which are just as, if not more terrifying and brutal.

[@michaelmonthey5974]

You know “Stand By Me” is Rated R, right? That should have been enough for parents to notice.

[@tarryteeth]

Your videos are awesome Watchmojo 🎉❤❤❤

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

Aw 😂 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. My sister and I loved the soundtrack and would listen to it all the time and we also loved the movie. But my sister especially got terrified of the Kid Catcher. I don’t remember being very scared by that movie but I did find the Kid Catcher very creepy. I mainly just loved the music and costumes though. I actually sang Doll On A Music Box in an audition for Suessical when I was about 8. I got in and played the only Who who got their own line 😂

[@d.wright6635]

The worst part about Gremlins is that it spoils a very important childhood secret about Christmas. We were not prepared for that!

[@Blacjac84]

Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, wrote the book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Not Roald Dahl.

[@vermontvoice13]

They’re talking about the movie screenplay not the book in this video

[@sasamichan]

the idea that kids movies need to be sanitized, free of scares and other such content is BS Kids can be OK with any thing as long as there is a happy ending. Let kids see these kinds of films, they get over it, they enjoy it, and it makes them stronger. we should not be protecting children we should be making them able to face real life.

[@corymckee3460]

The creepy elf main characters were FAR scarier in The Dark Crystal than the monsters shown

[@SuperBoy-ps9dz]

Those characters freak me out. 😬

[@lordnightingale7346]

Movies before were very different from nowadays.

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🥉

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@BlackHatCinephilewaste of time giving pointless medals

[@mateusramos7805]

Watership Down mentioned! A movie everyone should watch (and a book everyone should read), but only after 16

[@ToABrighterFuture]

"The Fox and the Hound." It gave me a fear of abandonment that took me a long, long time to get over.

[@riversong4997]

Oh my gosh yesssss 😭😭😭😭😭

[@CrazyKoala1990]

I cry EVERY DAMN TIME

[@jonathangriffin8060]

When these movies came out, those of us who watched them as kids remember watching them for the entertainment, not for what was or wasn't inappropriate as far as the content was concerned. In other words, previous generations (mine being Generation X) didn't read that deep into thse movies like the generations of today often does.

[@4eversmokey]

Kangaroo Jack should be on this list. Not a children's movie like it was advertised

[@blueraccoon1088]

Agreed

[@arielle8010]

EXACTLY!!!!!!!

[@cianroe3233]

Most kids movies today just prefer to play things safe, so it was great that movies like these exist so that we can feel a bit scared while watching.

[@roxannesigurdsson2218]

Now in my 40s, watching all the movies I watched as kids now questioning why I was aloud to watch them.

[@mreshadow]

Aloud what?

[@jasonwethy8360]

Because your parents understand the correct way to raise children.

[@mreshadow]

@@jasonwethy8360 Being 40 means being told to go play outside with no means of communication or knowledge of where your kid was. Having a key to the house at 8 years and being on your own. I'm not 100% certain that it was being raised right, but I loved the independence.

[@autistictreasures72]

Jumanji was one I thought should be for older audiences. I saw it at age 7, and am still scared of it

[@wilberwhateley7569]

If this would traumatize kids today, then our society has raised a generation of total softies - even as a kid I didn’t find these films upsetting!

[@michellelamar8965]

I agree with the comments about not coddling and sheltering kids too much. I was born in 1980 and MANY of these I had in VHS and watched REGULARLY as a quite young kid. We were fine. Don Bluth had the philosophy that you can traumatize kids all you want in a movie and they'll be fine as long as there's a happy-ish ending. I feel my generation turned out just fine watching these in elementary school.

[@michellelamar8965]

The specific ones in this list I watched Ad-infinitum as a kid: especially #1-8 1) Willy Wonka 2) Return to Oz 3) Secret if Nimh 4) Beetle Juice 5) Neverending story 6) Dark Crystal 7) All Dogs 8) Chitty Chitty 9) Gremlins 10) Labrynth 11) Who framed Roger Rabbit 12) Raiders (didn't like as well as Temple of Doom) #9-11 I watched at least a couple times and probably didn't like as well as 1-8 My Girl and Stand By Me are really good but just happens I never saw until my 20's. Others that I loved and watched more than can be counted, that should be on the list 1) Last Unicorn 2) Land Before time 3) Temple if Doom (as mentioned) And bonus: one most probably weren't watching as kids, especially not obsessively as I was The Color Purple Has been my #1 fave since i was 6 till today.

[@TornSparrow1974]

I always wanted my own "Fizgig" from The Dark Crystal. :o)

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

I never asked my parents about _The Brave Little Toaster,_ and I’m glad I didn’t.

[@samanthaengstrom8811]

Charlie wasn't killed by his best friend. He was killed by his boss, Carface. I recently described this movie to my mom and she was shocked. Organized crime, gambling, drinking to excess and murder. I watched it on repeat as a small child. As an adult i watched it once and bawled my eyes out during the final scene.

[@CJKhaos]

1:18 wait. How did she just pronounce Roald Dahl

[@CJKhaos]

6:30 she did it again 😮

[@TheJmore]

@@CJKhaosVery badly. Absolutely shocking mispronunciation

[@ChiSportsNut18]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was unnerving. Besides what happens to the children, the Oompa Loompas sing a song about an obsessive gum chewer named Miss Bigelow who bites her tongue in half in her sleep. Which is thankfully impossible for more than one reason.

[@MsFeistyy]

Correctly. It's a Norwegian name that most people learned an anglicized mispronunciation of because their teachers hadn't encountered it before.

[@KevinMullins33]

I remember watching Raiders Of The Lost Ark at a young age…at night. 🤦🏼‍♂️That melting face scene along with the skeleton and mummy scene is truly terrifying

[@joeharrington8962]

One of my earliest memories is being TERRORIZED by Watership Down. NOT a kid's movie, don't know why it was marketed as one.

[@sneakykamon]

My absolute favorite thing about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is the fact that that same tunnel scene earned it a spot on Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments😂😂😂

[@SomeGuy-rc2lc]

Charlie saying goodbye was devastating to see as a kid, but once you learn the real life story behind the scene it might be the saddest scene in movie history.

[@patrickschramm2796]

I will never forget The Brave Little Toaster Horror Clown. Why did it have to be one? Watership Down is what scared me the most as a kid. But Animal Farm, Grave of the Fireflies, Simon Birch and Felidae also packed quite a punch.

[@p.terodactyl6848]

Let's also not forget Disney's two 80's horror attempts: "The Watcher in the Woods" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes."

[@JensenWorship]

The Last Unicorn should be on here. The Harpy, The Red Bull, King Hagrid....*shudders*

[@BraeMartin-sw6xk]

I think it's safe to say that Wonka gave a deeper understanding about Wonka's lessons about greed, based on all he went through because of people consumed with greed.

[@darwiniacroft]

The point of telling stories with upsetting themes to kids is to prepare them for adulthood (brothers Grimm, classic nursery rhymes, etc), so these movies are totally appropriate (depending on the temperament and age of the child). My daughter has actually seen half of them, and her biggest complaint is that they were boring, lol. Kids are not as fragile as some people think. They’re mini humans, and part of being human is knowing how to deal with all the crazy and horror in the world, which you certainly can’t do if you don’t even know it exists. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, though!

[@jakes3059]

We saw many, many movies we were too young for. No PG-13 rating left a wide-open space for all kinds of cinema. Did us good and exploded our imaginations.

[@1971chrismiller]

You'd be surprised what my parents let me watch as a kid. Slasher movies, R rated horror movies. Even Porky's and Heavy Metal

[@philosophiesoflife8744]

I saw most of these as a child. Labyrinth was a favorite...but one scene did scare the shit out of me: right when Toby was taken. The sudden silence when he stopped crying, and then the goblin moving around and growling under the blankets as Sarah approached the crib...just really creeped me out!

[@Red_Sun779]

Many of these horrified me as a child to the point that I never tried to give them a second chance, except for "Nightmare before Christmas". Coraline is a nightmare, I watched it as an adult and it terrified me.

[@KevinMullins33]

What’s also sad about All Dogs Go To Heaven is that it was Judith Barsi’s last movie and it came out after her death and the end scene is super saddening when you think about it

[@michaelmonthey5974]

Watchmojo has been hard on Walt Disney’s Pinocchio lately. I watched it many times as a kid and it’s one of my favorite films of all time. To be honest, the donkey scene never scared me at all. The whale may have put me on edge a little, but that’s about it.

[@kathrynhill5796]

What’s the matter with those movies? I don’t see anything wrong with them. I watched them when I was a kid and I still liked them.

[@CatraTheEverLiving]

Of all these movies, "Return To Oz" traumatized me the most, probably followed by the skeksis.

[@lruf1332]

The boat/tunnel scene from Willy Wonka 💯!!

[@CelestialDragonKnight]

Doesn't "The Transformers: The Movie" deserve an honorable/dishonorable mention?

[@54raynor]

I remember watching My Girl in the theaters as a kid, as I was a big fan of Macaulay Culkin after Home Alone. When we got home, I was reading a magazine when Mom came up to me and asked if I understood that Mac didn’t really die. I held up the magazine, which featured Mac on the cover for a feature interview.

[@Animeguy300]

Parents should check the ratings on the movies before taking the kids to the movies

[@Mau13-m7q]

Kids weren't soft back then. Roger Rabbit was my favorite movie and I was watching the Nightmare on Elm street movies before I was 10. Parent's today think they need to "protect" kids from damn near everything today.

[@blueraccoon1088]

I saw original noes 20 years ago and my baby sitters didn't care what I want to watch but it never affected me

[@nicolebaxter824]

Facts! My mom started showing us horror movies when we were quite small, in fact because my sisters dad didn't want to be part of their lives when they started asking about who their dad was my mom convinced them their dad was Freddy Kruger 😂 This summer one of the girls got married in Vegas, Freddy Kruger married them

[@robertcamara1529]

I still remember how vicious the rabbits were in Watership Down. My 9 year old self will never let me forget it!

[@VisuallyImpairedGamer1987]

While the Land Before Time didn't traumatize me as a kid, revisiting it as an adult showed me how it can be nightmare fuel. I introduced it to my son when he was 3, and while he enjoyed it, I couldn't help but notice the unsettling atmosphere of the film, the protagonists being in constant danger and Little Foot's mother's death.

[@michellelamar8965]

You might or might not want to goigle "Judith Barsi" depending whether ir not you want to add to the trauma.

[@VisuallyImpairedGamer1987]

@@michellelamar8965 The Judith Barsi situation is one of the saddest stories in entertainment. I didn't know about that until many years later ,but when I found it, it did add to the overall depressing tone of the film.

[@MrTopKat92]

Fairy Tale Theater with Shelly Duval. Especially the one with Rapunzel traumatized me for over 24 years.

[@joshkittrell914]

The Temple of Doom freaked me out as a kid with the bug trap. My mother hated the dining scene with the chilled monkey brains more than she hated Kate Capshaw's character.

[@TRUTH-r7q]

My siblings used to call me crazy for laughing at the scary scenes in movies😂 I just didn't take it serious because I knew it was fake

[@MichasBreakdown]

I would have expected "Plague Dogs" to be in the number one spot. The list had some movies that - well, not traumatised, but frightened me a bit as a kid - but for sure, Labyrinth was not one of them. That movie, IMHO, didn't belong on this list and for sure not in the top spot.

[@bluejem1315]

A sad fact adout all dogs go to heaven is the little girl Anne Marie ,played by Judith Barsi was murder by her father. May she rest in peace.

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

Oh my gosh! The Secret of NIMH! My little sister loved that movie when she was little (which I later on found out was just because she liked the red jacket the character wore and I don’t even think she realized how creepy that movie was). I haven’t seen it since I was probably 7-8 years old. I pretty much only watched it because my sister wanted to. Neither one of us really understood how dark that movie was but I was terrified by most of the story and the visuals in the movie

[@Ally-r8u]

The Britney love is so REALLLLL. Need you guys to re visit her albums badlyyy

[@michellelamar8965]

The specific ones in this list I watched Ad-infinitum as a kid: especially #1-8 1) Willy Wonka 2) Return to Oz 3) Secret if Nimh 4) Beetle Juice 5) Neverending story 6) Dark Crystal 7) All Dogs 8) Chitty Chitty 9) Gremlins 10) Labrynth 11) Who framed Roger Rabbit 12) Raiders (didn't like as well as Temple of Doom) 13) Pinnochio #9-13 I watched at least a couple times and probably didn't like as well as 1-8 My Girl and Stand By Me are really good but just happens I never saw them until my 20's, if memory serves. Here are a coupke Others that I loved and watched more than can be counted, that SHOULD be on the list 1) Last Unicorn 2) Land Before time 3) Temple of Doom (as mentioned) And bonus: one most probably weren't watching as kids, especially not obsessively as I was **The Color Purple Has been my #1 fave since i was 6 till today. If it was a common movie for kids to watch then it woukd be on this list.

[@BMiller627]

I remember watching both Return to Oz and Labyrinth for the first time back to back as a kid one day on the Disney channel.