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Y’all youngins had it easy. Give Rikki Tikki Tavi a spin. Orson Well was a horrifying narrator for a children’s cartoon. I had nightmares forever behind that show.
I don’t know what this is from but: Ew
Side note: it never fails to miff me, that bible bashers burned women and children alive at the stake, and instead of seeing that as a travesty, media backs up the bible bashers and demonises witches. People who were mainly midwives and healers. It hurts my brain.
My kids still watch Witches. They love that and Labyrinth.
HMMmmmmmMmmm?
I hate your whine!
One of my favorite movies growing up! I showed it to my kids when they were about the same age and scared the shit out of them lol.
I showed it to my kid when they turned five and they still make the skeksis noise sometimes
People talk about how stuff from the 80s and 90s was nightmare fuel, or too uncanny to be charming, or just plain strange. I contend that there was more creativity in the 80s and 90s and we were seeing performance artists and craftspeople at their absolute peak. When I look at something like Dark Crystal and compare it with something like the latest sterile CGI pixar or dreamworks movies, I feel sad.
I fear for the day Hollywood decides to remake Labyrinth. Amazing movie with some of the greatest puppetry ever. Today it would probably be a 3D CGI crapfest. Also who could ever replace Bowie? Somehow I think they’d get Will Smith in there.
1000% they would cast Will Smith.
Labyrinth is one of my favs, I rewound the tape so many times it broke. But I don’t see a movie getting made today about a grown man kidnapping a baby so that his 16 year old sister will come be his captive “obedient” lover in his castle where he keeps his riding crops but no horses. Just sayin.
I don’t know, they did a solid with the Dark Crystal prequel.
Fun note: we bought a dragon puppet at renfair from a guy who made puppets for Jim Henson’s son.
We also have the caterpillar and Ludo from Labyrinth on our oddities shelf. Oh, and I named our dog Fizzgig because that’s what he looked like as a pup: all mouthface no body.
Through adult eyes, absolutely.
As a child, fuck the Skeksis.
Artax died from sadness.
It’s kids movie, let’s start it out on a happy note, eh?
Nah, horse dies of sad right off the bat.
Dream a dream
Coreys ASSEMBLE!
“Heh”
-Feldman
First generation MLP is literally like Trolls (left pic) in terms of color and spirit
Let’s skip to generation 4
One oft the Spykids Movies has these bizzare Creatures, the stuff of Nightmares
It’s from the movie The Witches, rewatched it a couple years ago as an adult, still a fun movie.
The witches. Mother fuck that movie. This scene, and really the whole movie gave me the creeps as a kid. Charlie and the chocolate factory weirded me out too. Fuck Roald Dahl.
Mine was Time Bandits.
Horrid recurring nightmares of either being chased or stuck in the cage floating over an abyss.
Best movie for 8 yr old me. Watch it at least 8 times over a course of a 3 days.
Would have watched it more if I didn’t have to return it.
Note: I was into anything scary or creepy as a kid
I used to love his books as a kid. It was only as an adult that I realised that torturing and murdering children was his favourite theme in his kids books.
Oh, I very much caught that as a kid and it was part of what weirded me out.
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It is OK not to be happy all the time.
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It is also OK not to be the best, or even to be the worst!
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It is OK to acknowledge your behavior or thoughts are bad and to really experience your negative behaviors and thoughts - you can regret or feel sadness about them without looking away to escapism.
Finally, even if you are the worst among your peers, at least you aren’t as bad or sad as characters of old fashioned tragedies and cautionary tales which are meant to give kids intuitive understanding of the three principles above.
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hey Sora make a megamix of all the traumatizing childrens movie moments
ow… right in my trauma…
The only family movie that gave me nightmares as a kid was the return to Oz.
Dooooooortheeeeeee GAAAAAAAAAAALE
That still haunts me.
wheelers!
they could climb stairs so fast wtf
Thanks, I’d forgotten that trauma. Am now having terrified toddler flashbacks.
Not only does the brave little toaster have a song where cars in a junkyard sing about how worthless they are before they are crushed to death but one of those cars drives himself onto the conveyor belt before the magnet can put them there because he wanted to die on his own terms.
WTF were they showing us yo.
But my cohort had Watership Down
Described recently as the best example of cosmic horror/literary irony
Art Garfunkel’s song “Bright Eyes” is absolutely, beautifully, brutally sad.
You’re worthless!
Whole movie is so gothic. But the danger feels so real in that one and in American Tail.
I blame BLT for causing some minor hoarding tendencies.
There are no cats in America is actually a deeply troubling introspection of American immigrant racism of both the immigrant and the recipient country.
WTF were they showing us yo.
Life, bro. Real fucking life reflected in the shiny surface of an animated toaster.
True. I do like with children’s stuff doesn’t shy away from things that are more real.
Couldn’t agree more, children’s shows should absolutely be about peeling away the thin veneer of sanity that’s all there is protecting us from the gargling, writhing chaos and madness that lies in the darkness beyond.
It builds character.
Exactly. Hell look at what sesame Street did back then with Mr Hooper.
