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

Mickeroo · 13-03-2015 5:25pm

Watership Down has already been mentioned but scared the **** out of me.

The Last Unicorn was quite traumatic for me too.

Rocko's Modern Life was great and I seem to remember Earthworm Jim being in a similar vein in terms of jokes that were aimed at adults.

In terms of more contemporary stuff I don't see how a child would truly appreciate the psychedelic weirdness of Adventure Time or Spongebob Squarepants.

keano_afc · 13-03-2015 5:27pm

Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

Its got a Universal cert! Its terrifying.

Banshee
Scary ghost coach
Eh, did I mention the banshee?
Sean Connery's Irish accent

jacksie66 · 13-03-2015 5:33pm

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13-03-2015 5:34pm

I found most fairy tales scary, none more so than The Snow Queen.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is an awful thing to watch as a small child, my parents took me to the stage show in the West End and I was terrified. I dreamt about The Child Catcher for a long time afterwards.

Good family fun.

RollieFingers · 13-03-2015 5:49pm

The Moomins used to weird me out as a kid

Simon Gruber Says · 13-03-2015 5:58pm

Macavity. wrote: »

The Animals of Farthing Wood, loved it as a child.

This was the most depressing cartoon ever. Something awful always happened in it.

brevity · 13-03-2015 6:00pm

Whenever a thread like this pops up I always end up mentioning Are you Afraid of the Dark? Some episodes (the clown one, dead ghost kid with red jacket) were just terrifying. It ended up getting banned in our house.

The first Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That scene in the tunnel was nuts and really not suitable for young children.

There was an Australian TV show, Round the Twist, that had a few eerie episodes which, I guess you could say, freaked me out.

Nothing else really springs to mind. Maybe Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories...

circadian · 13-03-2015 6:01pm

Ren and Stimpy

pragmatic1 · 13-03-2015 6:01pm

Worzel Gummidge
That scary robot/computer monster woman from superman.
The Ernest film with the troll.

circadian · 13-03-2015 6:05pm

The Batman cartoon was pretty dark, great too.

Some Animaniacs stuff was a bit close to the wire and Freakazoid was plain mental. First episode has a voyer/kid snatcher in a trenchcoat!

syklops · 13-03-2015 6:09pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Rimini Riddle.

/thread.

Its amazing how few people remember this program. Maybe some people were so traumatised by it their mind purged it from their minds.

Macavity. · 13-03-2015 6:10pm

So messed up. Poor Ash.

syklops · 13-03-2015 6:25pm

Round the Twist had some genuinely creepy episodes.

SEPT 23 1989 · 13-03-2015 6:32pm

the answers lies in what particular drugs were popular in the era that the kids programmes were made

those wild weekends that the wide eyed producers and creators experienced were not left at the studio door at 9am Monday morning

Badly Drunk Boy · 13-03-2015 6:48pm

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

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.

I'm sure George Orwell didn't have kids as his target market when he wrote Animal Farm but it was easier to film it in animation than real life.

Rimini Riddle has already been mentioned, and when I watched it, I was probably a 20 year old student, watching along with my younger siblings. Great stuff!

This is the only clip that seems to exist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj83EfAuAos

MikeSD · 13-03-2015 6:51pm

Don't know if anybody mentioned Courage the Cowardly Dog, but between "Return the Slab" and the fungus episode, I was fairly traumatised.

Paramite Pie · 13-03-2015 7:03pm

Animaniacs really pushed it far sometimes... the 'finger Prince' joke went waay over my head as a kid!!!:D

Santa leaving "a big load" is another one from animaniacs.:pac:

Falthyron wrote: »

"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.

Just goes to show that we're over protective these days. And yet kids are still far less innocent today!!

Dramatik · 13-03-2015 7:28pm

Used to scare the **** outa me when I was a kid. Straight paedo vibes off this lad!

IamtheWalrus · 13-03-2015 8:12pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOka5aY3EQ

Found it too scary.

Mickeroo · 13-03-2015 9:02pm

Oh I forgot about Eerie Indiana too, some creepy episodes in that.

Bipolar Joe · 13-03-2015 9:04pm

These shows are clearly fantasy, I got no problem with those. That iCarly show, though, shit like that around now, that's pretty uncool. Little girls broadcast themselves over the internet.

brevity · 13-03-2015 9:04pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Oh I forgot about Eerie Indiana too, some creepy episodes in that.

RTE really ****ed up the scheduling of that show (amongst a load of other good shows). I think they aired the same episode each week at 3 different times and on different days.

LenaClaire · 13-03-2015 9:21pm

The Fogbrook Thing. It was a short video at the beginning of the Space Camp VHS when you rented it in Australia.

My friend and I ended up hiding under her bed until her father got home

MayoForSam · 13-03-2015 9:35pm

The Incredible Hulk (TV series with Bill Bixby) - as a kid I used to feel physically nauseous every time he transformed, those weird eyes and the music always freaked me out.

The Backwards Man · 13-03-2015 9:49pm

Couldn't remember the name of this for years, finally got it from boards a few months ago. Scared the crap out of me as a kid, think of a six year old watching Skippy or The Flying Doctors and this slimy green thing appearing on screen:eek: