Unironically a fantastic film and book though
My mum did this. I made it to the first death (hawk) and ran crying into the kitchen where she was. I was 4.
Then my first husband did this! He got me the DVD and it is still unwatched in the plastic wrap.
My current husband downloaded plague dogs because it’s criterion and that rests unwatched on the hard drive because I cannot even watch anything by this director.
However, I did read the book Watership Down in college, and wasn’t traumatized. I also collect copies of the book Private Life of the Rabbit which Richard Adams used as a source book
It was some terrifying stuff. The vision Fiver has. Holy crap. Even the intro with Frith and the animals…it was dark but epic. Young me was scared shitless, but older me kind of liked it (And was also scared shitless).
I was a happy sun child before watching that… Afterwards I was emo and hated the world for existing.
Seagull says piss off was a real edgy moment for 6 year old me
If you watch the trailer it’s kinda clear it was not meant for kids. Watched it in 4th grade, loved it.
Double featured with Pom Poko and you really hammer it home
This shit traumatized me as a child.
I was about to snark that parents that give a fuck can refer to a movie’s age rating but then I learnt that, until recently, it was classified in the UK as U (universal, suitable for all) because “Animation removes the realistic gory horror in the occasional scenes of violence and bloodshed”. That’s certainly a view. Good thing to know that I just have to animate all of the fucked-up shit in my head and that makes it okay to sell to children. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down_(film))
Edit: 6 and up in Germany. Cool. Cool cool cool.
Using Boost for Lemmy? Also having issues with the Wikipedia link? Here’s a working hyperlink: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)
I remember watching this in school… as a treat
What did you do to that poor substitute teacher???
I think you misspelled “threat”…
So Heavy Metal rates U?
Only if you blur all the boobs. Remember, grotesque violence is okay but the human body is an abomination never to be seen
*in America
The Animals of Farthing Wood was the hot shit when I was in elementary school.
To be fair it is not that gory, it is mostly just genocide
Lol, stuff like Hellsing Ultimate must’ve given them a reality check.
I don’t know how but somehow I managed to avoid this one as a kid. I rented tons of videos and this one was square in the middle of them, but something about it made me avoid it like the plague. And this was long before internet, nor did any of my peers see it and tell me about it. Knowing how frail my mind was at that age, that was undoubtedly a good thing.
Maybe the place where you rented movies had a version with this cover
Lol it did, this brings back memories. I also seem to remember a still image of a roadkilled bunny(?) on the back which threw me off. But maybe that’s just Mandela effect.
Same here, I have no clue how I avoided this one either. Maybe my parents guided me away every time I reached for it and I just don’t remember? I honestly don’t know.
My parents had it for us at home. What does that say?
Depends. Did they just put you in front of it when you were 4 or did they wait until you had reached a certain mental maturity and watched it with you?
I think they had the same view as the British rating agency : animation removes all worries
Did your parents get a kickback from your therapist?
They might have been after something. Alien proceeded the Empire Strikes Back on our childhood copy
Yep, Dr. Lipschitz was definitely giving parents kickbacks.
Watch it now, tell us if you are any less frail
Considering my current tastes in media, i doubt it’d do much. Although I’ve always had a soft spot for animals, even the animated kind.
Pairs well with a brave little appliance
Still my favorite animated film but I am a simple man.
I still wonder how the power cord bled when the bad man chopped it, or is that a false memory?
Kids going to watch the bunny movie and instead learning what happens when you accidentally put male and female hamsters in the same cage.
They hug 🤗
After they hug too many times, the girl hamster starts to get a bigger belly and then tells the boy hamster to go away. Since the boy hamster can’t go anywhere, the girl hamster eats his face while you’re at school. The end.
really fast
That’s the good stuff, right there.
This movie about fireflies also looks cute, and it’s made by Studio Ghibli!
‘The Big Friendly Giant’ yeah fuck this shit. More like Giants eating kids while they sleep because they can smell their flesh.
- Watership down
- Grave of the fireflies
- The big fucking giant
Trifecta of nightmares
The secret of NIMH?
Roald Dahl’s stories were nightmare fuel if they were written by anyone else, because his style just made it seem so goofy. Just think of fantastic mr. fox: the entire countryside is destroyed as a titan of the industrial age brutally hunts down pitiful animals trying to scrape by. The witches? Literal torture porn as children are changed into mice and put through all manners of hell.
Even his semi-autobiography was about how children tortured each other in boarding schools. I remember his tales of having to warm up a toilet for the older boy in charge of him, and how they were all whipped/caned by the older students.
How you gonna do Fleshlumpeater like that?
Still to this day this is one of my favorite books. I was given it as a kid because I had a pet rabbit. Bigwig is badass.
“Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!”
I still remember that even though it’s been over a decade since I last read the book. XD
