In my childhood I saw an animated movie called Alakazam the Great that was almost nothing but disturbing images.
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T (not to be confused with Dr. T and the Women). Remember the roller-skating twins who were joined at the beard?
Oh, and I thought some parts of Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer were a little intense, and I probably shouldn’t have made my six-year-old nephew watch it all those times.
Sorry about that – I missed the earlier posts that discussed this movie.
Remember Jason and the Argonauts? Animated skeletons, a carved wooden figurehead that speaks with the voice of Hera, and when I was little I had bad dreams about the giant bronze statue that comes to life to drive them off Crete. There’s nothing gentle about Greek mythology.
Fairblue, you rule. That film came bubbling up out of my subconscious while reading this thread - I only remember snippets of it 'cos I saw it when I was quite young, and it made absolutely no sense to me. But the imagery was creepy, to say the least. And I couldn’t remember what it was called.
Now I’m gonna have to have a creepy animation fest and rent Watership Down and The Mouse and His Boy so I can either give myself a real good case of the heebie-jeebies or undergo a uniquel cathartic experience.
Disturbing in a different way, but I’ve remained pissed off about the recent Jim Carrey “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” fiasco-- the absolute worst was when the movie implies that the Whos are having a key party. That really disturbed me at age 26, mostly because they were desecrating one of my favorite books from when I was little.
Does Clash of the Titans count as a kids’ movie? I used to be fascinated with it whenever I could catch it on TV. The part where Perseus battles the giant scorpions would always freak me out. I’d watch it, sure, but from at least 20 feet away.
::reads Zebra Oedipal analysis of The Neverending Story::
:eek:
I’ve read the book countless times, and the book explains the relationship between Bastian and his father much better than the movie does. The book indicates that there is a kind of disconnect that occurs between the two after the death of Bastian’s mother; this is only hinted at in the movie, but never really explored.
As for Falkor, I’ve always thought he looked more like a giant cocker spaniel instead of a sperm cell. This is considerably different from the book’s description of him.
Isn’t Falkor described as “Lionlike” and covered with pearly scales in the book? And with ruby-red eyes. Also, Ateyu 
is green with purple/black/blue hair.
Speaking of “The Mouse and his Child,” remember the various scenes with Peter Ustinov’s character dismembering hapless tin toys, including one so ghastly that even HE runs away in horror? No wonder I have flashbacks watching the droid torture in “Return of he Jedi.”
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I loved “Labyrinth” as a child. Now, when I watch it, I am unable to stop staring in mute horror at David Bowie’s crotch. Honestly! That thing is bigger than he is! Who let him leave the dressing room dressed like that?!
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Proof yet again that you can find a website about anything.
You made me happy this morning, thanks! 
When I was little, I recall seeing something on the Disney channel. It was a crudely drawn cartoon featuring a little walking omega as the main character. Didn’t talk, dance, or interact with anything, just walked around on its bandy legs and falls in a pond or somehthing. Eventually it gets chased by a boulder, and the music picks up, the omega starts running like crazy - and the picture boils away as if film had caught fire in a projector.
Of course, I was watching it on TV, and I’m not sure if I even knew what burning cellulose was supposed to look like. I do know that I thought it looked something like a microscopic view of the human capillaries in action (little bubbles all over the place) , and it scared the hell out of me, because that little thing now had to be running inside someone and that idea was somehow horrible beyond words.
I now wish I knew what the heck that cartoon was. Anybody?
Should clarify: Seeing David Bowie’s crotch does not make me happy…the fact that a site exists about it made me laugh, that is what made me happy.
Actually The garbage pail kids was a topps card/sticker series that parodied cabbage patch kids and baseball cards
It was really gross
Like one would be called snotty sally and yould get a graphic picture of either a kid eating snot or having green pus run out of every orfice or something equally gross and would have some gross stastic on the back
The actual one i remeber was scotty potty or potty scottie it basically showed a kid in a toilet covrered in sludge
Supposedly it was never intended for kids but that became the core auidence
A whole first edition can go for around 150 to 300 bucks
Any other set after that is basically worthless
I don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but **Anastasia ** featuring Meg Ryan and John Cusack’s voices was especially creepy for me, as an adult, when I watched it.
It is no way meant for smallish children. I would say no one under 8 at the youngest, unless you like answering questions about
“Why was Rasputin killed?” “Why is he in hell?” “mommy, what’s it all about?” (Rasputin is the bad guy and does all his communicating from the depths of hell -nice, huh? )
Very disturbing.
The **Flying Monkeys ** never bothered me half as much as when the **Cowardly Lion ** would get so scared that he would run through a window to escape. That scared me right out of my skin *every time * as a child. I would run wildly out of the room and wait for the ‘coast is clear…it’s over’ from my family. What could be so frightening that it would make you jump out a closed window? I still can’t watch it.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but **Anastasia ** featuring Meg Ryan and John Cusack’s voices was especially creepy for me, as an adult, when I watched it.
It is no way meant for smallish children. I would say no one under 8 at the youngest, unless you like answering questions about
“Why was Rasputin killed?” “Why is he in hell?” “mommy, what’s it all about?” (Rasputin is the bad guy and does all his communicating from the depths of hell -nice, huh? )
Very disturbing. (FTR, there was nothing in the cartoon about Rasputin’s famous long schlong either. Kinda disappointing, if you ask me :D) ( It’s not a Disney.)
The **Flying Monkeys ** never bothered me half as much as when the **Cowardly Lion ** would get so scared that he would run through a window to escape. That scared me right out of my skin *every time * as a child. I would run wildly out of the room and wait for the ‘coast is clear…it’s over’ from my family. What could be so frightening that it would make you jump out a closed window? I still can’t watch it.
b]Christmas on Division Street** ? Fred Savage plays a kid who befriends a homeless man in the library. The homeless man gets a room in a shelter somewhere, but winds up giving it up to a family with small children. When Fred Savage goes to find the guy on Christmas morning, the family tells him that homeless guy went to sleep in the alley or whatever. Fred Savage finds him frozen to death. Yikes. Nice heartwarming Christmas fare.
The Little Mermaid ? I was always creeped out when Ursula the Sea Witch changes back into her big nasty octopus self on board that ship (she was in disguise as a pretty young girl to trick the prince) and comes crawling on her tentacles across the deck of the ship with this look of utter rage on her face. I can’t imagine what little kids think when they see this scene…it scares the crap out of me, and I’m 32.
Ummmmmm hmmmmm. I’ll bet. We believe you, KarlGrenze, sure we do.
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I thought of another one - the dinosaur extinction sequence in the original Fantasia. Very unpleasant - especially when they’re trying to get water and dying of thirst/starvation.
Mute horror my ass. I’ll go on record as saying that seeing David Bowie’s crotch makes me happy.
When Harry Reems (as the Doctor) tells Linda Lovelace that the reason she can only achieve orgasm from deep throating is that her clitoris is in her throat. As a child the idea that such a strange anatomical mutation could occur was very disturbing to me.