9 Deceptively Innocent Movies With Incredibly Dark Moments

[@ryanm.6005]

How about Richie Rich where John Larroquette's character shoots Richie in the chest? The audience knows he has some science goop on his clothes to make them indestructible, but still, a 10 year old just got shot with a handgun in a kids movie.

[@heathermiller5765]

​@@archmage_of_the_aether Lol beautiful man right there 😁

[@ericthompson3982]

Ah, yes. Stand by Me. The incredibly innocent movie based off of a Stephen King story called The Body.

[@RustyShacklefordLLC]

Sorta like that super innocent movie The Shining where a gifted boy and his parents go on a soul searching vacation at a lovely hotel.

[@DTA707]

I never thought a Stand By Me as an innocent movie 😂

[@heathermiller5765]

​@@archmage_of_the_aether *Stephen

[@mattlatakas7051]

Well, it's definitely not a kids movie either...

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

Well, assuming you just know the movie as "Stand By Me" not the Body nor the Stephen King connection, then the movie does seem like an innocent coming of age story. Yeah, the boys mention they are looking for a body, but it's framed like a treasure hunt, thus it is shocking when they find a rotting corpse.

[@dobby9996]

Oh my god how the hell did I never notice Mama Bear in Shrek? That caught me so off guard 😵‍💫

[@Maykay524]

I literally just watched shriek last night with my kid for the millionth time for myself and still NEVER noticed this! I had to show my son and his mind was blown too lol

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

YES! I remember the scene of baby bear crying and did not make the connection that mama bear was missing. Oh my goodness... Farquad is the worst. 😂

[@dylanogg347]

Same here, pal. That blew my mind.

[@aquabuddha]

The Karate Kid was a great call. But without drunk Miyagi's confessions, I don't think he would have been as loved and cared about by fans. It also showed the surprisingly impressive range of the late great Pat Morita.

[@DonDraper8288]

The cadence of your delivery drives me absolutely mental.

[@floreio]

Omg! I’m so glad it wasn’t just me-uh!😂😂😂

[@Sarah.6.6.6.]

Same. He’s my favorite 😈

[@benrig89]

The Miyagi story is even darker if you know about the Battle of Okinawa. The Japanese leaders convinced a large portion of the population that the invaders were a bunch of animal rapists, and that it was better to kill themselves than be captured. There is actual video footage of Okinawan women throwing themselves off cliffs with their children while American soldiers beg them to stop in the background. Now imagine young Miyagi as an American soldier watching that, his own people offing themselves in such a way.

[@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556]

The Issei (Japanese Americans that fought is WW2), were exclusively sent to fight in the European theater due to fears of conflicting loyalties. The idea that Miyagi would see that, while horrible, wouldn't have happened unfortunately.

[@jessetorres8738]

Side note about Pixar's Up: I once saw a behind the scenes video where they explained it takes a little over 150 helium balloons to lift 100 pounds, so imagine how many helium balloons it would take to life a small house, all its furniture, & 2 people in it (as well as how fast Carl had to work to inflate all of those balloons in 1 night)!

[@azozeto]

11:47 tell you have never read a fairy tale without telling me you have never read a fairy tale

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

Innocence? Riiight.

[@jamesoneavatar8644]

Bridge to Terabithia was the most shocking film I've seen. It was advertised as a Disney-esque fantasy, but became anything but. Similar to My Girl, but more out of the blue

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

Not to anyone who read the book.

[@FreeRangedPuppets]

I feel like Finding Nemo should at least get an honorable mention. Man and his essentially pregnant wife move into their dream house only for the wife to be murdered and EATEN leaving the one remaining fetus is in critical care leading to a child with a physical disability. The child with a physical disability and his traumatized father who truly has PTSD then goes with schoolmates to a dangerous location where Nemo is kidnapped by literal monsters in front of his terrified father. His father, Marlin, then spends the rest of the film searching for his lost son while encountering 3 serial killers, one of which gets high and goes on a murderous rampage, what is essentially a cave monster intent on eating him, being electrocuted repeatedly while trying to save his mentally disabled friend, survives in the mouth of a giant for who knows how long, and when he finally finds where his son was being held captive all he gets to see is his son’s lifeless corpse. Not to mention that Dory cannot remember ANYTHING about her past and has presumably been wandering around scared and alone for God knows how many years until she runs into Marlin. Is there a happy ending? Sure, but holy shit! Way to traumatize every child who sees it right out of the gate!

[@peachysbaby3088]

Absolutely 💯

[@CashelOConnolly]

Yeah,it’s a bit fishy 😂

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

Anyone who knows a thing or two about real clownfish knows that movie would be even darker in real life. In fact it's likely it was the father who ate his own kids because none of them were actually viable except one and then he would would turn into the mother and have offspring with the surviving child because apparently that species of fish can do that as they already have both sets of organs from birth.

[@chefdean7257]

Don't forget, Gene Wilder improvised the acid trip tunnel scene, the other actors had no clue what was happening. So their reactions are legit confusion and panic.

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

I thought the director set it up and told Gene Wilder, but none of the other cast knew? Since these days, people are trying to blame Stanley Kubrick for traumatizing Shelley Duvall, I'm shocked no one is attacking Mel Stuart for arguably actually traumatizing children. 😬

[@trinaq]

Rest in peace, River Phoenix. It's a tragedy that he died well before his time, and could have been just as successful as his brother Joaquin had he lived. The scene where Chris confesses about the milk money always breaks my heart. 💔

[@SolCresta3405]

“I never made it to the sixth grade, kid, and it doesn’t look like you’re gonna, either.”

[@jamiekjackson]

One of my personal favorites is James and the giant peach.

[@nmv33]

Everytime I watch the first 2 Chocolate Factory’s movies, the more I’m convinced that they weren’t make for kids. 😂

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

We loved Roald Dahl books when we were kids. "James and the Giant Peach" with the wicked aunts is also great reading.

[@Crosshair1990]

The book was called Charlie and the chocolate factory.

[@edvaira6891]

As was the 2005 Johnny Depp remake…

[@matthewdrummond1340]

10:33 Creepy as Sid was he didn't know the toys were sentient up to that point

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

It is an epic point in the film when Sid finds out!

[@calebmaybin6896]

What's rarely ever brought up in MCU is Valkyrie was a slaver (no qualms) and is now King of New Asgard. Imagine if her people, or Earth, found out about her past? More ammo for the Thunderbolts to be the heros that hold the Avengers accountable.

[@joesjoeys]

That "Farquad" was a TAD too close to the naughty version, eh Mr. ADR?

[@Maykay524]

I just watched Shrek last night with my kid! I’ve seen it at least 1,000 times since it came out and NEVER noticed this!

[@OccuBot2011]

Stand By Me is NOT some innocent family movie. Lolol none of its themes are wholesome. Cmon

[@Cicero_Artifon]

the chapters are a nice addition thanks

[@littleaussierippa]

Stand By Me is based on a story called The Body by Stephen King. So its darkness comes as no surprise.

[@simonmeadows7961]

"...enough grim material..." I see what you did there! "... enough Grimm material..."

[@RandomPerson-sf9vd]

My brothers and sisters in Christ; Kung Fu Panda 2 had a genocide within 3 minutes. How did you forget the movie with genocide!?!

[@patrickstiadle3857]

Ok, so not all these lists can be gems, but this one is quite impressive. A lot of I Can't Believe They Went There moments in this one 😃

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

I've seen Shrek multiple times and never noticed that. lol Though, tangent, I'd say classical fairy tales do tend to be dark, so Shrek was merely being faithful to that notion while also parodying it.

[@michaelaugust4313]

So you think Wonka is a narcissist? Definitely not a perspective that I’ve ever heard of.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

I do not exactly agree with that, either.

[@Zett76]

If you can get your hands on it, go watch "Train de Vie" (Train of Life). While the premise is not sounding very "innocent" - Polish jews flee east, from the German invaders in 1939 - it's depicted as a surprisingly light comedy, with lots of laughs. And THEN it has one of the darkest moments in movie history. You know it when you see it.

[@DaLumpy1]

But…what about Woody traumatizing ole Sid by talking? lol. Did didn’t know they were sentient

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

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[@anthonywaggett9317]

Almost half of your list was Pixar but could probably be filled just by them - A Bugs Life (ethnic subservience/slavery): Monsters Inc (Night Terrors); Finding Nemo (Death and Kidnapping); Cars (Obliteration of the human race); Wall-E (Loneliness and environmental destruction): Coco (Death); Onward (Death and loss); Turning Red (Puberty - god that's terrifying) and worst of all Lightyear (how to destroy childhood and adult memories of an amazing franchise). I haven't seen the Pixar films I don't mention but I'm sure they have dark aspects. And no-one should ever watch the Home Alone films for 2 reasons, McCauley Caulkin is annoying and more seriously, shifting Tom and Jerry violence and child neglect/abandonment into a live action kids film are is not in anyway entertaining or responsible.

[@DaWoWzer]

Sid is just a creative kid, i hate the idea of him being portrayed as evil cause he didn't know toys are alive, like wtf who would think toys are alive?

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

When I was a child I would put away my dolls and animal toys because I was convinced that they might come alive and run around while I slept. I would blame "Trilogy of Terror" for that, but I thought the same thing about the taxidermed animals in museum exhibits when I was really little--imagine how I loved seeing "Night at the Museum" the first time. 😂😂

[@birdie2010]

The only dark part of home alone 2 in New York is when chump shows up

[@dcpunisher4781]

You idiots are still stuck in 2020. Typical vaccinated-lemming Orange Man Bad madness. Are you tired of losing yet? Vamonos Let's Go Brandon.

[@mm277hb]

eh. i think you’re stretching it a little on this one. 😂

[@lippybabe27]

Matilda, anyone?

[@djmattblack]

Most Roald Dahl stories have a fair amount of darkness in them

[@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556]

How so? Legit question. :-)

[@joshuacampbell289]

Harry and Marv done that stuff to themselves.

[@jamespope7669]

These movies would be absolutely 💩 without those dark moments.

[@joshw1619]

Not once did Mr incredible even come close to infidelity... Wtf they on about?

[@mattlloyd6651]

That was my question too. He was there for the thrill of the old days as a superhero - not to score with Mirage.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

I thought that was a stretch, too.

[@dylanogg347]

Bingo on #06 and #05.

[@starryagent9936]

Here’s another one: both Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2. Both movies appear to be funny, comedy-driven vehicles for Jack Black, that appear to parody martial arts movies. Instead, we get a story of abandonment and pride and unfair expectations in the first movie and LITERAL GENOCIDE in the second. Need I say more?

[@rzrhed8728]

Anybody else think Hella is ridiculously hot?

[@peachysbaby3088]

THANKYOU, Thor, took thee biggest l out of the mcu heroes.

[@thegodofz8230]

And like that, you've lost me. Lilo and Stitch is the easiest number one here. Between this and glazing Matrix 4, y'all f*cking suck. Ntm Sinbad: LotSS, Once Upon a Forest, or All Dogs Go to Heaven. Again- suck