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Another great kids movie that will actually traumatize them for life

posted 16 years ago by leoric21
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In this movie monsters, that you can't see, can drag you into the forest and kill you.

knowing too much can get you sent to another dimension that you can't think in and if you leave you will turn to dust and die.

this is a great movie great effects nice humor easy to follow but will traumatize lil kids like under 6 or even 10

just like "the never ending story" "The Labyrinth" "Legend" "Return to Oz"
and of course the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

"the never ending story"

a kid gets sucked into a book and is chased by an evil rolling fog called The Nothing.

morale of the story, fog can kill you and if you live on the coast as a kid thats a bad thing.

"The Labyrinth"

david bowie can kidnap you so you can marry him or he will kill you bother oh and he controls an endless army of demony troll thing that also want to kill you. All while singing a catchy tune

moral of the story stay away from efeminite British guys.
im pointing at you Beckham!!

"Legend"

the devil wants to marry Ferris' girlfriend and kill shiny Unicorns.
Oh and his demons can use magic and are not puppets.
"the beast" is the scariest bad guy ever in a movie ever. And this still holds up today

go ahead name a scarier bad guy
I DARE YOU!!

"return to OZ"

as i write this I'm hiding under a sheet just thing about this horror classic.

most of you friends are turned to stone. your friend are scary almost scarier then the bad guys. the roller thingies are very scary and the main bad guy has a hall full of decapitated heads.

moral of the story you cant go home again because they want to kill you there.

"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

candy yay!!!... right?

WRONG!!!

you can drown in a chocolate river.

gum will make you fat GUM!!

soda will get you chopped to bits

TV will make you shrink

and squirrels wil bite off your face

yeah i know wrong movie but you got to admit that was scarier then get thrown in the garbage

oh and if you win you get to be alone in an elevator with a creepy guy who uses who uses little people slave labor.

all great movie but are kinda scary for the intended audience

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[–] Alexej 16 years ago

I wonder what kind of fairy tales you read as a kid if you think any of those stories would traumatize children for life.

The only thing that can hurt children for life is growing up watching nothing but the Disney Channel! Well, and Barney the purple dinosaur.

Brad Renfro 1982 - 2008

[–] A_Bob 16 years ago

Little Red Riding Hood: A wolf eats anold lady, then eats her granddaughter as she is visiting her. A man hears the commotion and goes to the cabin, axes the wolf to death, cuts him open, and saves the two.

Chicken Little: A chicken fears the sky is falling and is tricked by a fox to take shelter with her and her friends. The fox then eats them all.

Jack and the Beanstalk: A boy climbs a large beanstalk and, while barely escaping the castle found at the top, takes (or rather steals) on three spearate trips up it a bag of gold, a hen that lays golden eggs, and a magic harp that plays itself. The harp screms to her master as she is being taken against her will and the giant chases him down. The boy gets down first and chops the beansalk down as the giant is descending. The giant falls down to the ground, and is killed.

Moral of that story?: stealing is good. And if you are caught, killing the person who is after you is fine.

Bob

[–] Alexej 16 years ago

Exactly! And I don't think the current generation of children is going to be hurt any more than we did.

Brad Renfro 1982 - 2008

[–] mizpriz29 16 years ago

My kids are 10, 8, 5, 4, and 2--I have a 15yo too, but you mention the under 10 crowd. Right now their favorite movie that they watch all the time is Spiderwick. I don't see it scarring them anytime soon.

Neverending Story: They used to watch that all the time until they got tired of it. They loved Falcor and wanted their own luck dragon.

The Labyrinth: my 8y's favorite movie of all time, she used to have a crush on David Bowie. Eek. Now I'M scarred for life!

Legend: they've never seen that, because I'm afraid it's actually Tom Cruise who would scar them for life. Kidding, actually we've just never rented it although I saw it a few times as a teen.

Return to Oz, they haven't seen that but they'd probably be okay with it.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory/also Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: meh, to both of them. They loved them, then moved on. Although the tunnel scene in the original did scare the crud out of me when I was like 8.

I might add The Goonies to the list, that's got some scary stuff in it, but it is one of my kids' all-time favorites, along with my own.

Ooh, don't forget Harry Potter. There are some parts in those movies that are really not for the very young or easily scared. But my kids wore out our Harry Potter DVDs. *sigh*

Pirates, Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, The Mummy, Indiana Jones--none of those are really kids' movies but kids watched them anyway, including mine. They loved them all. Except my 8yo, who is reading this over my shoulder and insists that I mention she hates Spiderman. LOL

I guess my theory is that kids are either desensitized now--but we don't watch rated R movies and I don't let them watch PG-13 scary movies unless I've seen them first and think they can handle it. Or some kids can handle things others can't--I know that to be true, because a lot of things my kids consider very un-scary scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I don't expose them to a lot of scary stuff, but if they're watching something that potentially could disturb them or give them bad dreams, we have a discussion about special effects, acting, costumes, etc.

My kids are pretty much like me though, they'll eat up a good fantasy or action movie and want more!

~*~ Kristin ~*~

[–] jakesavedme 16 years ago

I think network primetime TV is far scarier than The Spiderwick Chronicles. Kids understand fantasy.

[–] mizpriz29 16 years ago

Great point!

~*~ Kristin ~*~

[–] cinephyler 16 years ago

proof there's no license required for parenting...

[–] mizpriz29 16 years ago

I'm not exactly sure what point you're getting at, since I did mention that I don't let them watch R movies, and I screen the PG-13 ones before deciding whether they can watch them or not.

My kids are all actually very sweet children who behave in public, don't ever say swear words themselves, and get along well with other children in school. They also get good grades and hardly ever get in trouble. I do, however, encourage their imaginations, and I don't shelter them. Don't be so quick to judge.

~*~ Kristin ~*~

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[–] mizpriz29 15 years ago

Now I went and looked up clips of Return to Oz on Youtube, and I don't think I've actually seen that movie. Parts of it look so familiar, though. I think I read the book. I'm just going to have to rent it now - although I'll see it first before the kids, it does look very scary!

~*~ Kristin ~*~

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[–] mizpriz29 15 years ago

The head scene is especially familiar. I either read it, or saw the scene. I wouldn't be surprised if I rented the movie and discovered I actually have seen it. I'm sure I never saw it as a kid though, or it really would have scarred me for life. The scene with the people on wheels is really freaky.

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[–] zandylovesRISK 13 years ago

You sound alot like my parents. When I was a kid, my sisters and I(currently old sis 20, me 18 and younger 16) used to watch Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and other movies like it with out really flinching at all. I don't like super gross movies like any of the Saw or scary Friday the 13th

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[–] mizpriz29 13 years ago

Yeah. I think I only saw one of what they consider the "classic" 80's slasher movies when I was 14 or so--one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, but I've never watched any of the Friday the 13th movies. Out of curiosity, a few months ago I looked up some Saw scenes on Youtube (no kids in the room) and I couldn't watch any of them all the way through. Too gory.

[–] zandylovesRISK 13 years ago

Some of my friends told me a few scenes and I don't plan on seeing them ever after the describing

Half-Blood Son of Poseidon, Son of Adam and Gryffindor 7th year

[–] mizpriz29 13 years ago

I agree, I wouldn't either. It's just senseless gore. I'd rather enjoy a good story and feel good about the movie after it's over.

[–] zandylovesRISK 13 years ago

I was watching Underworld on tv today and that's probably border-line for anyone under 14 thought it's R. My friend would watch Family Guy or something funny after a scary movie before going to bed

Half-Blood Son of Poseidon, Son of Adam and Gryffindor 7th year

[–] sweetmystique32 16 years ago

Dude, that's nothing compared to Brothers Grimm tales. Ever read how Little Red Riding Hood was originally told, before Brothers Grimm ever got a hold of the story?

"The antagonist is not always a wolf, but sometimes an ogre or a ‘bzou’ (werewolf), making these tales relevant to the werewolf-trials (similar to witch trials) of the time. The wolf usually leaves the grandmother’s blood and meat for the girl to eat, who then unwittingly cannibalizes her own grandmother. Furthermore, the wolf was also known to ask her to remove her clothing and toss it into the fire. In some versions, the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him, and the story ends there. In others, she sees through his disguise and tries to escape, complaining to her "grandmother" that she needs to defecate and would not wish to do so in the bed. The wolf reluctantly lets her go, tied to a piece of string so she does not get away. However, the girl slips the string over something else and runs off."

And they all lived happily ever after. The End.

Of course Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault modified the story a bit.

Give me Willy Wonka anytime over that !

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[–] nilbog_king 16 years ago

Thats why I love the original fairy tales so much better than the watered down disney versions. I like this movie coz its a tad closer to the original more frightening tales than the *beep* disney versions. TRUE fairy Tale lovers unite!

[–] mizpriz29 15 years ago

Oh, I know! I actually read the original Grimm's tales in 3rd grade. I wonder how I sneaked that past my mom? LOL

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[–] sweetmystique32 15 years ago

i wonder too

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[–] BrightHawk 15 years ago

It *is* rated PG.

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[–] Cinderling 15 years ago

When I was a kid I never thought that hard about those movies. And I was never traumatised. You'll be surprised as what flies straight over kids heads.

[–] Plan9_Channel7 15 years ago

It's all part of being a child, I think - life is scary and all that, but these films allow you to confront fears in a safe way. Hopefully they won't go too far and scar you for life though.

I saw all of them when I was little, and the only one that bothered me was Return to Oz - I loved it, but it scared the crap out of me (that Mumbi woman, or whatever her name was). Bits of the Dark Crystal scared me as well. Children will find odd things scary too though; I remember being scared of the Snork Maiden in the Moomins...maybe that's just me.

Even at the age of 9 or whatever, I just had a crush on David Bowie in Labyrinth...scary hair though.

[–] tazmarinz 15 years ago

when i was 7 years old, my parents were going through their horror movies phase. stuff like amityville horror, nightmare on elm street and predator can indeed scar a kid for life...

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[–] Hezzer_Wezzer 13 years ago

The movie that did leave an everlasting fear with me was actually Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Saw it when I was five and then refused to watch it until I was about twenty two. To this day, I physically can't go near anyone- even a person I know- in a Maleficent costume.

Oh my god! That is the one movie that traumatized me as a kid. I remember seeing that movie when I was about 4 or 5 at the theater. For weeks afterward, I would wake up screaming because of nightmares involving Melificent.

A few years ago, when they re-released the movie, I bought it on impulse at Walmart. I watched it once and promptly gave it away. Though it didn't scare me, it still did give me the creeps and I just didn't want it in my house.

From time to time to this day, I have nightmares that I'm running up the spiral stairs in the tower trying to get away from something. I always fall down on to the steps and no matter how hard I try, I can't get up. I don't even know what's chasing me because I can't see around the curved staircase.

Thanks Sleeping Beauty. :-)

[–] arjun53 15 years ago

When I was a kid I saw Willow and it sacred the hell out of me with the witch who turned people into pigs and the troll who lived under the bridge! Haven't watched it recently though...

[–] jenniferles1000 15 years ago

great posting by the way i agree this movie would be disturbing for a child but i loved it the best of the recent child fantsy films. not as good as the old ones like Labyrinth and Neverending story but still really good.