Children's film or TV shows that were too F-ed up for kids?

steddyeddy · 13-03-2015 3:38pm #1

Recently seen the film Return to Oz. This was a children's film where Dorothy was sent to a mental institution, a witch has a case full of disembodied heads and there's a desert where people turn to sand if they touch it

. Retrospectively this seemed a bit adult for kids. What TV shows or films disturbed you as a kid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBfmR4rEeHU

Mesrine65 · 13-03-2015 3:39pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075491/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

LookLordSugar · 13-03-2015 3:39pm

Ulysses

mariaalice · 13-03-2015 3:42pm

The witches, The little princess.

force eleven · 13-03-2015 3:43pm

HR Pufnstuf. The 60's version I knew. Apparently remade, ignore that one...

Grays Sports Almanac · 13-03-2015 3:44pm

Forty Coats was a bit warped at times.

Ruu · 13-03-2015 3:46pm

Some episodes of Worzel Gummidge. The Crowmaster kept threatening to throw him on the bonfire if he was bad.

homer911 · 13-03-2015 3:48pm

Without a doubt, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (due to the child catcher)

Grays Sports Almanac · 13-03-2015 3:48pm

Ruu wrote: »

Some episodes of Worzel Gummidge. The Crowmaster kept threatening to throw him on the bonfire if he was bad.

Not only that - but he could literally rip his own head off and stick on another one!

Birneybau · 13-03-2015 3:49pm

Also, Aunt Sally in Worzel Gummidge.

awkwardboy · 13-03-2015 3:49pm

"The Boy From Space" really freaked me out when I was a kid.
I saw it in school but I have no idea why they showed it to us. That's the early eighties for you I guess...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifqn0vursW8

Links234 · 13-03-2015 3:49pm

The Dark Crystal

Everything in those days was ****ed up and it was great.

dante2015 · 13-03-2015 3:53pm

we used to watch a program called middle english in primary school i was about 8 and they showed a ghost story

basically a family go on holiday to a cottage in the middle of nowhere everything is fine till dad turns up and thats when the crying starts,

they turn on the radio there is wailing, they go to sleep and there is wailing, everywhere in the house there is just this crying they dont know where it is coming from and then turn on the tele and an old womans face appears and is wailing and crying, turn out she thought the dad was her long dead son and she came back as a ghost and was crying over him,

scared the **** out of me i couldnt sleep for weeks after that

Duggy747 · 13-03-2015 3:54pm

Watership Down!

Ren & Stimpy fairly pushed it for a kids show, they got in trouble quite a few times with Nickelodeon about sneaking things in kids definitely wouldn't have picked up on.

One episode they were salesmen selling the old rubber nipples for milk bottles. They get to one house, a husband and wife, where the innuendo is laid on thick and the husband is told by her that he has perfectly good nipples that he never uses. He replies back that they're all old and chewed up :pac:

Falthyron · 13-03-2015 3:57pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnamFerzNvw

"Jack-a$$", children smoking cigars, drinking beer - this would be an 18s rated movie by today's certification standards. I saw this as a child and didn't think much of it, but I saw it again recently and I couldn't believe what was being shown as a 'kids' film. I know it's a cartoon and by Disney, but even still, this would not be given a kids rating today.

TerrorFirmer · 13-03-2015 3:57pm

Ren and Stimpy.

Watched it recently again and I actually could not believe this could ever have been broadcast to children. It's often inappropriate but constantly deeply disturbing.

robfowler78 · 13-03-2015 4:00pm

+1 for water ship down thought the general was going to get me for years after......

Akrasia · 13-03-2015 4:04pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Ren and Stimpy.

Watched it recently again and I actually could not believe this could ever have been broadcast to children. It's often inappropriate but constantly deeply disturbing.

Disturbingly hilarious

Akrasia · 13-03-2015 4:07pm

If I was gonna pick any kids show that is totally inappropriate for kids, it has to be 'Bratz'

Horrible show

Harry Palmr · 13-03-2015 4:08pm

Children of the Stones
The Tomorrow People
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Shadows (ITV)

Theflyingegg · 13-03-2015 4:11pm

Have to admit the show Goosebumps used to scare the daylights out of me as a kid. Yet I watched it every week.

The Pheasant2 · 13-03-2015 4:12pm

The queen post transformation in Snow White scares the **** out of me to this day

A Brad Maddox Guy · 13-03-2015 4:20pm

Similar to Ren & Stimpy; Rocko's Modern Life. Watched an episode a few weeks ago where Rocko's elderly neighbour felt unloved by her husband and proceeded to spend the episode trying to seduce Rocko. Brilliant but clearly targeted towards adults on a kids channel.

chopperbyrne · 13-03-2015 4:36pm

https://defendingcontending.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/the-boy-in-the-striped-pajamas.jpg

MRnotlob606 · 13-03-2015 4:40pm

Thank this post and you will get a complimentary anema and a foot massage by a man with leprosy.

13-03-2015 5:08pm

Rimini Riddle.

Pumpkinseeds · 13-03-2015 5:13pm

Animal farm was a bit too warped for kids. Then again a lot of stuff from the 70's and early 80's was fairly dodgy, yet we all survived. Looking back at the kids programming from those days it seems that most of the stuff was made by people off their heads on drugs.