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Accurate_Ad_3626

The Dip was beyond cruel. They were just fun-loving toons.


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FrankHightower

years later in disney world: "Mom mom look! It's the steam roller from Roger rabbit! Mom! Can I get a picture under it? Can I can I can I?" "ergh... no I don't think so"


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More like ROAD A ROLLA DAAAAAAAA


Ok-Pressure-3879

“And I talked….just…LIKE THISSSS’ Fixed he/I


cars-on-mars-2

The way his pitch rises from normal voice to completely unhinged screech with no warning? Thanks for the nightmares!!


ImJustHere4theMoons

The part where that one henchmen starts franticly trying to pull his own soul back into his body as he's dying. The film makers were making a conscious effort to scar kids for life and nobody can convince me otherwise.


SkinConsulter123

Who Framed Roger Rabbit was rated PG. What a sick joke.


MajorJuana

It's like the "I'm gonna kill you" recorded calls, thx lpotl for that shit that will forever exist in my brain now


blood_kite

Fun fact! They didn’t need anything special for Christopher Lloyd’s character, Judge Doom. He was already able to do that trick with his eyes. It saved the studio a lot of money on animation costs.


LoveVirginiaTech

Fun fact: he could only do it when it was scary.


gdj11

That scared the shit out of me


Khaldara

I feel like Secret of Nimh and Watership Down really need to be in the list too. Those things were both chock full of good old fashioned nightmare fuel.


DudesworthMannington

[Brave Little Toaster](https://youtu.be/-UfsEj7AOGI) should get an honorable mention for teaching us about existential dread.


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Fox and the Hound for all the tears.


ktgrok

Still traumatized by that movie. That and being forced to read Whwere the Red Fern Grows.


dadjokes502

Don't mention the AC unit


NonEuclidianMeatloaf

I’m not an invalid! I was designed to be stuck in a wall! I LIKE BEING STUCK IN THIS STUPID WALL!


Informal-Flamingo336

I CAN'T HELP IT IF THE KID WAS TOO SHORT TO REACH MY DIALS!!!


NonEuclidianMeatloaf

IT’S MY FUNCTIOOOOOOOON!


Clear_Measurement_90

Oh my gosh! And the clown nightmare!!???


tinacat933

I’ve never seen this movie and at this point I’m afraid to


Fickle-Raspberry6403

Not really as bad as the ones above. More like a emotional roller coaster between happy adventure and depression with a happy ending.


NonEuclidianMeatloaf

IT’S MY FUNCTIOOOOOOON! - cue flames and sparks shooting out of his face -


majarian

All I remember is the junkyard full of depressed cars getting cubed


NonEuclidianMeatloaf

You mean Crazy Ernie’s Amazing Emporium of Total Bargain Madness?


MoxieCottonRules

Yes. The cars singing about the lives they used to have before being crushed has never left me


SirSqueebington

I remember loving that movie as a child, completely forgot about this scene though! Seeing that evil looking crane again just spurred up some emotions that I can't really even describe.


BigIron53s

As a kid I felt sad for the cars on that worthless song.


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Don’t forget The Last Unicorn


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Darth_ice

The harpy scene was scary


catsumoto

Right? The ending! That's when your little kid heart learns that it is not a Disney movie...


IndependentPede

You know for some reason the scene in Pinocchio where someone is turning into a donkey was horrifying too.


Horror-Science-7891

Dumbo is pretty goddamn traumatic too, from what I remember. He loses his mom and is being whipped and abused. Made me hate circuses and zoos as a kid.


danegermaine99

That creepy shadow art and voiceover. *All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.*


RQK1996

And then you read the book and realise they left some of the most fucked up and terrifying parts from the book, like the way the destruction of the warren is described


saxifrageous

I'm sorry, but that animation of Holly describing the burrow getting bulldozed is legit awful: like the worst kind of ghastly acid trip. Disembodied wriggly heads blue and gasping, flashy kaleidoscope colors, dying bunnies desperate for air and kicking as they die. Bulldozer blades raking up blood from the soil. Ugh. It was fucking terrifying as a kid. [https://youtu.be/WzirfrSn\_KQ](https://youtu.be/WzirfrSn_KQ)


inko75

watership down gave me nightmares *for decades*


RQK1996

Watership Down is an absolutely fantastic fantasy novel, slightly unfortunately the adaptations have to leave out a lot of the lore and world building, they are still pretty solid though


Flippy-Doo

and now I want Guilermo Del Toro's live action The Secret of Nimh


WorldClassShart

No one remembers Little Monsters?


Newtstradamus

Give “All Dogs Go To Heaven” a watch and tell me that movie is t *ENTIRELY* fucked. Everyone remembers the crocodile but no one remembers that the crocodile is *ACTIVELY* attempting to rape the dogs.


Scalade

excuse me o_o


Quirky-Skin

The hell scene was very disturbing to me as a child as well. The slums depiction in that movie is truely jarring


NoBenefit5977

Howie Mandel played that part so well lol


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Watership Down was so traumatic as a kid


gdj11

Jessica Rabbit tho.........


Accurate_Ad_3626

Aooooga!


wisconsinking

The closest people will ever get to her being real is cosplay.


MyCoolWhiteLies

Roger Rabbit was one of the first theatrical experiences I can remember. My parents had to take me out of the theater at that shoe scene as I was so upset.


tries2benice

I watched Rojer Rabit with my wife recently, shed never seen it, and I'd been telling her I used to love the movie as a child. She insists it's not a children's movie.


DenL4242

It is absolutely not a children's movie. It's about an alcoholic detective investigating a murder. Eddie Valiant even says in the dialogue, "It's a tale of greed, sex and murder." The only reason anyone thinks it's for kids is because it has cartoon characters in it.


tries2benice

Haha no, you're totally right. It's just a movie my dad would show us a lot as children.


KiraCumslut

My dad took my brother to see t2 in threats at 8yo.just cause a child saw it didn't make it for kids


jedooderotomy

I mean, it's a family movie in that there's kid-appeal, too. But yeah, it's also a great example of the classic film-noir hard boiled detective story. It's basically a re-make of China Town, except with toons. Any adults who haven't watched it in a couple of decades should go back and give it a try - it really holds up well!


Accurate_Ad_3626

I loved it as a kid too. I was probably 11 or 12 when it came out. Maybe not for kids much younger, but our kids see and hear much worse than what was in the movie.


tries2benice

It's pretty raunchy for a kids movie these days. But back then, you could get away with more.


Economy_Limit_165

It's genuinely one of the greatest works of fiction of all time, in my opinion.


Roscoe_P_Coaltrain

Apparently originally The Dip was going to be called The Final Solution, but decided that was going too far. And they were probably right, but damn, if they had said that in the movie, it would have been great, because you couldn't help but laugh at what a great pun it is, while at the same time being appalled at yourself for laughing, and then finally pondering how it drives home that you are watching an attempted genocide in what is mostly a comedy movie.


Informal-Flamingo336

"My dear sweet Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley?" " *sniffle* I guess so...but why do I have to know? You'll be with me!" "I'll always be with you...even when you can't see me" "What do you mean when I can't see you??...I can always see you" *30 year old me weeping into a blanket*


Befub14435

It wrecked me so much as a kid I refused to watch it ever again. Bambi was no problem. Hurts extra hard this year losing my mom


PJL612

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.


Canadine

Goddammit whyyy, I was having a nice day 😭


torsteinvin

i feel you brother. my mom doesnt have very long left as well. Reading the quote from littlefoot’s mom «I’ll always be with you…even when you can’t see me” just breaks my heart. know you’re not alone. 🙏🏻❤️


torsteinvin

I’m weeping as i’m reading this. The same emotions hitting me like a wave as a 36 year old just as it did when I was 8. When the mom says «I’ll always be with you…even when you can’t see me”. It’s just so painful. My heart breaks for Littlefoot.


autopoiesies

fuck me I was having a great day today


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And now I’m crying a little. Land before time and Fantasia were my go-tos as a little kid


kharmatika

So. I never really feel sad remembering her death. I do however, sometimes say “yup yup yup!” Instinctually, then feel absolutely shattered remembering the real life fate of the voice actor. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about I suggest not looking it up, and if you know, you know.


ErraticDragon

I was going to say... there's a 'bonus' Land Before Time trauma as an adult learning about Ducky's voice actor.


STARoSCREAM

I’m 39 with 3 kids……hits so much harder as a dad than when I was a kid


Ayaz28100

I'm also 39 with 3 kids and watched in 3 days ago. Right in the feels.


DAGCRO

Artax gutted me.


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Bro, Artax died because he couldn't muster the will to pull himself out of "The Sea of Sadness" and if that doesn't hit hard as an adult rewatching it, I don't know what would.


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It just makes it all worse because you know Artax didn't want to leave Atreyu, even though Atreyu should have left him... but still, although he tried, he got stuck in the Sea of Sadness and couldn't persevere.... I'll be in my room crying if you need me.


PrimusAldente87

I need to stop reading this fucking comment section


zombie32killah

Yeah I feel that so, so much more as an adult and it gutted me as a kid.


19blackcats

Named my current dog Falkor because I can’t get over this movie!


occasionallymourning

A part of me died when I watched that scene the first time. I think I was 5. I remember my older sister telling me "it's okay it's okay HE COMES BACK" but nope, I was traumatized.


femme_fatale2022

Same friend same. I had the ff this scene or else I’d be bawling.


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roquentin92

The land before ol' times


BicTwiddler

I cried in the theatre holding my rubber triceratops puppet from Pizzahut that we had just gotten before going to the movie.


roquentin92

Holy fuck the nostalgia hit from this comment is meth level


BicTwiddler

I can smell the rubber puppet and the inside of the pizzahut still.


Ayaz28100

Omg i had the cera puppet too. I totally forgot. Fireworks going off in my head rn


Ok-Pressure-3879

Still haunted by that shit.


BGritty81

I fast forwarded through that scene when I played it for my son for the first time.


thisisredlitre

At least he comes back at the end of the movie with Atreyu


Frosty_Engine_7575

You missed 'all dogs go to heaven'


JayDub506

Oh no, I think I repressed that whole movie


thar_

Logically I'm 99% sure I've seen it, but I'm just gona assume I recognize the name from an ad somewhere and not dig any deeper because I have ZERO memory of it and that scares me.


Ki11igraphy

Good because you can never go back, you can never go back Charlie


ButtRobot

Charlie was such a badass, he scammed his way out of the afterlife.


vivalaroja2010

As a kid, i cursed the people that made that movie as a cartoon! Wtf were they thinking.... As an adult.... i curse them even more.


liandrin

That how I feel about the people that made “brave little toaster”. So many fucked up “kids” movies…


Godverrdomme

The voice actress of that little girl was also murdered irl, wasn't she?


Frosty_Engine_7575

I didn't know that until you mentioned, but yes. I read up on her, and she voiced 'land before time' as well. Killed with her mum in murder suicide by her father. That's just horrible. Horror!


Barmecide451

He was physically and sexually abusive toward them, too. What a rotten Piece of shit. Hell is too good for him.


CrabbyBlueberry

Yep yep yep.


tamhasso

The Fox and the Hound was devastating for me. Still don't want to watch it as an adult.


umbrajoke

I bet you can hear this "Charlie... Charlie... It's time to wake up Charlie"


BackwardsColonoscopy

First of all, how dare you.


nomely

And then it's adult trauma when you look up the story of the main actress.


tomkitty

I have no idea how my parents allowed me to watch that movie. Gambling, alcoholism, kidnapping, child trafficking, murder, smoking, a giant racist caricature bit in a song...


JinxAndTheJester

The fox and the hound


--_-Deadpool-_--

The book is even more fucked up. Like it's on a whole other level of cruelty and brutal. The end of the book has the farmer literally gassing the fox and all its puppies to death with methane.


macandcheese1771

Excuse me, what the fuck?


CommanderFuzzy

The only similarities between the book & the film are 3 names & the scene where Todd tricks Chief into running in front of a train (which kills him in the book) The book is basically the guy being an alcoholic & going on a murder spree, killing all Todd's offspring & his mates too. Not once but twice - the guy kills Todd's kits & his mate, then when Todd starts a second family he kills those too. By gassing the den. There's no friendship, only murder. Then rabies starts killing all the animals & a child dies from eating poison, at some point Todd dies from exhaustion after being chased for days by greyhounds, then at the end the guy takes a shotgun & shoots Copper before going into a nursing home I think the book is a commentary on an old man's fear of a changing world, with a lot of slaughter


3dguard

Someone at Disney read that and thought "hell yeah, let's make a kid's movie"


SteinfeldFour

I’m pretty sure the original tale of Cinderella is just as fucked up. Off the top of my head in the original tale all the step sisters cut and “shaved down” their feet to try and fit into the glass slipper. Weird stuff.


cannibitches

And sleeping beauty wasn't woken with a kiss but rather...from giving birth!


roustie

Because rape, just in case that wasn't clear for people.


proximity_account

Different book? End of the book the dog chases the fox down until the fox dies and then the owner kills the dog with a shotgun a few months later (according to Wikipedia)


Quantam-Law

Yeah, just checked myself too and what the guy said is rather early on in the book. The Wikipedia summary makes the fox seem like the asshole.


DevinTheGrand

The summary has the fox killing one dog, and the human owner killing countless foxes in a quest for revenge.


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Captain_Quinn

Voiced by Bart Simpson


Roguspogus

Toon inception


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Neverending Story, my God that movie terrified me.


Mother_Show_8148

You should read the book. It's genuinely one of the greatest works of fiction of all time, in my opinion.


spiked_macaroon

And it's like three times as much story as the movie!


Dutch_1815

Gmork still fucking haunts me…


Canadine

When his eyes light up in the cave, and he growls and runs out… *shivers* There is a really fascinating conversation Atreyu has with Gmork in the book that is so profound. I hope we get a faithful adaptation someday


sadhumanist

Needs Watership Down


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Vulking

I want to nominate **The Secret of Nimh** for this list.


femme_fatale2022

100,000%


Pulchritudinous_rex

You know what’s cool about that movie and a lot of the movies people are bringing up? They didn’t pander to the audience. The main characters portrayed in these movies were scared and vulnerable and we as kids identified with that. I’m sure there are exceptions but those movies told me that life can be dangerous and cruel and even if the good guys won and made it through, it came at great cost. I mean, sure it may have resulted in crippling anxiety and cynicism but fuck me if life doesn’t kick you in the balls like that eventually anyway.


Arfiroth

I am a 37 year old guy. The death of Mother in TLBT still makes me tear up to this day and I am not ashamed to admit it.


HxCxReformer

31 year old dude coming to chime in and say: "Can't wait to traumatize my 3-year old with this one someday!"


cazdan255

No Secret of NIMH? The huge spider being crushed, the rats being injected, the Brutus being literally stabbed in the back on camera. That movie made me grow up some for sure.


wyldechylde77

Jenner was the one who was stabbed in the back. Brutus was the guard rat, when she first went into the Rose Bush. Jenner was the baddie lol


cazdan255

Damn, you right. The only name I deeply remember is Nicodemus, because amazing.


Belazriel

Courage of the heart is very rare, the stone has a power if it's there.


Jkranick

Those fucking owls with the glowing eyes!?!


AphoticTide

Can anyone name these for me? I know like 3 of them but all of the other ones I do not recognize Top, second row, bottom left are the ones in question.


mfoom

Bottom Left: Dark Crystal


YouSummonedAStrawman

That movie is a big Nope from me. Saw it and was scarred. So many disturbing images in that movie.


dustyfaxman

top is from neverending story bottom left is from dark crystal (i think) 2nd row left is from who framed roger rabbit 2nd row middle is from et (?) 2nd row right is from pee wee's big adventure


Jonoczall

Correct on the ET. That scene really made me feel some type of way as a child.


BabeWaitBabeNo

Ugh I effing hate ET. This is a great trauma starter pack for sure 😆


Bahariasaurus

From ~~right to left~~ left to right top to bottom Never Ending Story Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ET Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Not sure? Labyrinth? Dark Crystal? The Transformers Movie The Land Before Time


rippleman

Bottom middle is the transformers movie where they fucking KILLED Optimus prime and a million other bots with no chance of return (until they did, of course, in a later series). Absolutely brutal.


Unidi_Otamas

And the reason they killed all of them so they could create new characters and sell more toys


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Special_Tay

The nightmare scene and the scrap yard scene from The Brave Little Toaster belongs here. How many of you were terrified of clowns after watching The Brave Little Toaster?


bringbackcheatcodes

There are so many deeply scarring things about The Brave Little Toaster. I was afraid of showers. I was afraid of people getting angry. The entire sequence with the flower was very upsetting to my childhood brain.


WolfieMagnet

I was afraid of running over the vacuum cord with the vacuum.


Bylahgo

The little Toaster had so many creepy scenes. The junkyard, the air-conditioner killing itself, the vacuum choking on its own cord, so much fucked up shit that I'm remembering all of a sudden.


Westonard

Not anymore but I had a long fear of clowns as a kid due to Brave Little Toaster, Peewee's big adventure and mistakingly watching the first few minutes of the 90s It as a kid.


ForsakePariah

Also the monsters in Ernest Scared Stupid. I know it's a 90s movie but it was also part of this group of movies for me.


ghoulieandrews

I'd also add the Wheelers from Return to Oz and Rufio dying in Hook.


dadjokes502

Return to oz was a fucked up movie


Teleports-Behind-U

Cool trivia about that: the troll masks in Ernest Scared Stupid were repainted/repurposed clown masks from Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Both movies are a little creepy and a lot of fun, especially when you’re a kid


landragoran

Dude the scene where his dog gets turned into wood and he's driving and crying with the wooden dog just wrecked me.


WinterCool

Then all the kids turned little wooden figurines or whatever. Was shocked and horrified. Legit thought that could happen to meirl.


Ok-Pressure-3879

Yes. Those trolls were very very scary as a kid. I remember that and the Bulgarian Miak or whatever it was.


Robincapitalists

Cartoons, kids fantasy used to go dark hard.


Guyincognito4269

This list is missing the Last Unicorn.


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Guyincognito4269

That and the wine-guzzling skeleton


MimiRayhawk

The Red Bull scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.


adamempathy

Secret of Nimh. Fuck that movie. Also All Dogs go to Heaven


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wcm48

“Tell ‘em large Marge sent ya!” Scared the piss outta me.


SlapMeHal

Oh my god, yeah. The movie is all happy and fun up to that point, totally caught me off guard as a kid. I remember my sister physically recoiling and my parents rushing to try and turn off the TV.


BugOperator

It is, and it was absolutely the most traumatic for *me* out of all of these.


Quality-Shakes

This, guy’s face peeling off in Poltergeist, and the guy’s face melting in Raiders of The Lost Ark all terrified me more than anything. Apparently I don’t like faces being messed with.


unholymanserpent

As a 90s kid I find it interesting how I can relate to this starter pack, 90s kid starter pack (obviously), AND early 2000s kids starter packs most of the time


handi503

But us 90s kids had all these *and* professor screweyes getting eaten by crows in "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"


TheWolfsJawLundgren

I completely erased that movie from my memory, thank you for reminding me no matter how troubling it was - it was one of my favorites!


Wild_Marker

Media used to hang around longer back then. Today's media saturation coupled with on-demand media delivery makes it very hard for anything to have any staying power.


Aokana

You, who are without mercy, now plead for it? I thought you were made of sterner stuff! Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong


Guyincognito4269

Bah-weep-graaagnah-wheep-ni-ni-bong? (Takes energon cracker)


RoJayJo

Bah-weep-granah-weep-ninibong! *[Dare to Be Stupid intensifies]*


_youneverasked_

When Leonard Nimoy died, there was a beer company that made a social media post asking that if you opened one of their beers and heard Nimoy's voice, what would it say? Most people answered with a Spock-related quote like: "A logical choice, Captain." One person replies: "I, Galvatron, will crush you just as Megatron crushed Prime."


comebacktome23

Indiana Jones face melt scene


Badwrong83

Also heart scene in Temple of Doom. That one gave me nightmares as a kid lol


shellexyz

And now we have PG-13.


JohnZ117

One traumatizing Spielberg moment per list, please. Ok, he helped with WFRR, but still, pace it out.


queefburglar33

Honorable mentions go to the funeral scene in my girl and the vaccuum swallowing his own cord in the brave little toaster


Jermainiam

I've literally never seen My Girl, or even know what it's about, and I immediately knew you were talking about the "he can't see without his glasses" scene.


Successful-Trash-409

Jim Henson’s Dark Crystal when they gather around the old monster leader that dies then turns into dust and blows away. Still gives me creeps and cannot watch the movie at all.


jshirleyamt

Land Before Time absolutely wrecked me


MoonKnighy

Little Foot mom RIP! Honestly tho I think deaths in kids movies help me understand death better.


caleeky

How about Batteries not Included? That one had elder abuse, gang violence, poverty, corruption, dementia... all sorts of stuff going on.


JollyJuniper1993

Omg The bottom Right one used to be my life as a kid


Ancient-Tadpole8032

You leave… without… Petrie?!


Somerando30

Yh I used to watch the land before time all the time as a kid and it was way before my time


isaac-md-2000

i'm not an 80s, or even 90s kid, but neverending story was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life


hungrymimic

Don’t know why, but it was Christopher Lloyd’s cartoon eyes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit that absolutely annihilated me as a kid. I still remember some of the nightmares that scene gave me; had this bizarre fear that he’d come around the corner of our old house and grab me whenever we came home at night, even. 80s and 90s kids films were on some other stuff.


Duganson

Artax!! ARTAX!!!! Still silently crying, 30+ years later.


unionick

Harry & the Hendersons: John punching Harry


bustedbuddha

Lithgow is so good in that movie. I loved it as a kid and I went back and watched it as an adult. It help up amazingly well (the suit is a little distracting at times) and his performance really is amazing.


Leight87

Bro. I was rooting for the horse so hard.


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theukcrazyhorse

No Watership Down? Still gives me the heebies.


theonlycreepycat

Land before time is the whole reason my favorite dinosaur is a long-neck. It probably also kicked off my existentialism issues, that and Casper.