Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
A Serbian Film. Any age is too young
There’s some others in the same genre too. Cannibal holocaust was one I think. Salo too, less intense but still pretty fucked up. The human centipede too.
So if you want more regrets in your life …
I guess i just don’t put them on the same level in my head. Visually shocking g vs morally horrifying. Salo i have avoided now since Serbian Film because I’m a little more cautious lol
Growing up in the 80s meant that pretty much any kids movie was going to be traumatizing. Gremlins: horrifying. Neverending Story: emotional damage. The Land Before Time: can’t think of dinosaurs without tearing up. It’s like the whole movie industry was explicitly devoted to fucking us up.
Hey, don’t forget Transformers: The Movie, the one in which all your heroes just fuckin’ died (so some greedy toy company execs could boost sales).
I vividly remember watching that movie in the theater. My brother and I were so hyped we were standing on our seats for the opening song. Then they had Optimus Prime cuss and we absolutely couldn’t believe it. When he died, I had never seen such bullshit. Optimus Prime can’t die, he was the toughest robot ever.
Flight of the Navigator was awesome.as a kid. Kinda fucked up when I rewatched it a few years ago
can’t think of dinosaurs without tearing up
It may be of solace to know that dinosaurs have survived that mass-extinction event in the lineage of birds.
Watership Down
My parents thought it was a nice cartoon about rabbits I guess. Weirdly, My nightmares where mostly about the intro with the special art style, mostly…
Oh it’s a nice cartoon about rabbits, very child-friendly! The fact that the Wikipedia article has a section called “Effects on children and BBFC classification” that opens with
Watership Down has developed a reputation as a distressing children’s text, with Ed Power of The Independent describing the film in a 40th anniversary retrospective as a “classic” but which “arguably traumatised an entire generation”.
sums it up pretty well!
We’ll it doesn’t haunt me but looking back it was RoboCop. That movie is a bit much for a 6 year old to watch.
Akira. My father rented it for my brother and me because “animated movie is for kids”. I was 4, and my brother was 3.
I don’t remember much of it clearly, thankfully. I know Akira is a classic but it turned me off of anything body horror forever.
Don’t watch Tetsuo the Iron Man then. Director (Shinya Tsukamoto) has all kinds of horror movies which are sure to find that one phobia you have and ride it hard.
