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

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    #62
    WhatNowForUs?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭WhatNowForUs?


    The weekend that is in it

    The Flight of the Doves.


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    #63
    D-FENS
    Registered Users Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭D-FENS


    Always found this weird, a show on Children’s ITV about an invisible alien that only a boy can hear,





    This fella also scared the crap outta me



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    #64
    KomradeBishop
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    Barney the dinosaur was creepy as fúck really.


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    #65
    steddyeddy
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    Anyone ever hear of Candle Cove?


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    #66
    Rubberlegs
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    Johnny Bravo was a bit OTT, though funny. "Hey Foxy Momma , you smell kinda pretty, wanna smell me ?", amongst other gems :)


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    #67
    shamrock55
    Registered Users Posts: 7,208 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    My 7yr old is really freaked out by the film coroline, she cant even look at the dvd cover, i had to get rid of it altogether:D


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    #68
    Malari
    Registered Users Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Worzel gummidge was revolting! He was just a dirty old man, totally creepy.


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    #69
    MRnotlob606
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    Birneybau wrote: »
    He didn't have it easy when it finished...

    http://usvsth3m.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DdFQL3t.jpg

    But he did manage to carve a good rap career for himself.



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    #70
    afkasurfjunkie
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    My husband is still terrified to this day of The Goonies, and Cocoon.
    Eerie Indiana, now that brings back memories. I remember that lunchbox episode.
    Also had totally repressed memories of watching animal farm as a child. Realised when reading the book for a college module that I'd been so upset by the scene where boxer is brought off to the knackers yard.


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    #71
    Saralee4
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    I mentioned this before in another thread but The Labyrinth with David Bowie was very dark.

    It is suggested that bowies charachter at least twice her age, was romantically interested in the 15 year old Sarah (jennifer conolly ). Some people actually think that the dance scene in the film where Sarah eats a peach that makes her seem to hallucinate is a metaphor for date rape.

    When I watched it as a child, I just thought, it was a girl going round a maze trying to get her baby brother back from a bad guy wizard :)


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    #72
    Wang King
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    Jim'll fix it


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    #73
    steddyeddy
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    Erie Indiana was the one were Elvis was his neighbor and bigfoot raided his garbage every morning wasn't it? Round the twist was another great one. They were always trying to catch the ghost in the attic.


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    #74
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Under the mountain was a show that creeped me out.
    Another was Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell bay. Even though there was nothing creepy in it, something about all the characters really made my hackles rise.


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    #75
    bodhrandude
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    I don't know if this made it on to tv but its pretty popular on the net and kids seem to love it, the nutters. Happy Tree Friends.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #76
    Tony EH
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    'Into The Labyrinth'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwLnIf4JO8


    'Under the Mountain'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJpUA3hQyO8



    For kids apparently.

    The titles alone on 'Into the Labyrinth' used to scare the bejaysis out of me. But, in 'Under the Mountain', an Australian program shown on BBC in the 80's, there were these mud men that were horrific to a small child.


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    #77
    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,973 ✭✭✭cena


    goosebumps


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    #78
    Woshy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Woshy


    Anyone remember The Demon Headmaster? It was seriously freaky


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    #79
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Time Bandits
    Into the Labyrinth
    The Dark Crystal
    Ren & Stimpy


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    #80
    EoghanIRL
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    Courage the cowardly dog is such a strange and weird yet amazing show :P


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    #81
    Bongalongherb
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    Not sure if this was posted already... El weirdo cartoon banned from TV.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqi5F5MqqTQ


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    #82
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,153 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Gilbert the Alien voiced by the great Phil Cornwell....he really was far out there for a kids Saturday morning show



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    #83
    Diabhal Beag
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    How in the name of ****e was I meant to turn out a well adjusted adult after being subjected to Animals of Farthing Wood as a ween? Never stood a chance tbh.


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    #84
    Whatsisname
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    Hocus Pocus used to give me the heebie jeebies.


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    #85
    JupiterKid
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    How could I forget Dr Who? Some episodes sacred the sh*te out of me as a kid.

    There also a game show in the early/mid 1980s which was a bit like The Crystal Maze where the kids had to solve problems or else face evaporation at the end. That scared a very timid 7 year old me!


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    #86
    McDermotX
    Registered Users Posts: 14,764 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    How could I forget Dr Who? Some episodes sacred the sh*te out of me as a kid.

    There also a game show in the early/mid 1980s which was a bit like The Crystal Maze where the kids had to solve problems or else face evaporation at the end. That scared a very timid 7 year old me!

    Sounds like The Adventure Game's Vortex challenge ??



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    #87
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    McDermotX wrote: »
    Sounds like The Adventure Game's Vortex challenge ??



    Yep. That's the one indeed!:pac::pac:


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    #88
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Forgot about Catweazel, what the bloody hell! :)


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    #89
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Wait, so can I blame these messed up childhood cartoons for the way I turned out ?


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    #90
    Mike Guide 69
    Registered Users Posts: 6,509 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    "Inhumanoids" for those of us a certain age and disposition, this was an animated programme shown on "Super Channel" (remember that channel) back in the late 80's, was shown , i think, on a Friday afternoon.

    Anyway the concept of the cartoon was a cross between Transformers meets The Living Dead, was scary as hell for a nipper of my age. How it was broadcast was beyond me, ah the nostalgia!!!!!


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    #91
    Jimbob1977
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    Chocky - creepy alien presence

    Children of the Stones - satanic references, cult

    Earthfasts - stones moving on the Yorkshire Moors. A 200 year-old drummer boy appears from a rock

    Elidor - young children pursued by an ugly soldier and his 'gimp' accomplice

    Under the Mountain - New Zealand kids chased by alien shapeshifters. More like a junior horror

    Terrahawks - that ugly Zelda creature with her mutant children


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