Movies, TV shows or books that used to upset you as a kid?

[MiracleOfSound]

Was there a movie or TV show that used to always upset you, no matter how many times you saw it?

Edit: I've added in books so people can put that in too.

It can be sad, scary, something that made you angry, whatever.

I'll start us off with a traumatic memory that I'm sure many of you will remember.

This still makes me tear up...

Hasbro ruined my life with this for a while, and all so they could bring in a new toyline, the assholes.

There were helplines set up all over America for traumatised kids after this, no joke.

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[RyQ_TMC]

Mufasa's death in Lion King made me and everyone I knew as a kid cry, to the point where I consider it a defining feature of my generation.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Silver Bullit

That movie scarred me beyond believe.

Edit. Oh, you meant emotionally crippling movies/TV shows. I thought you meant scary.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Mufasa's death in Lion King made me and everyone I knew as a kid cry, to the point where I consider it a defining feature of my generation.

I had a feeling that one would pop up. Hated that bit.

Bambi's

Spoiler

mum getting shot

was another moment that used to have me in hysterics.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Silver Bullit

That movie scarred me beyond believe.

Edit. Oh, you meant emotionally crippling movies/TV shows. I thought you meant scary.

Sad, scary, doesn't matter all memories welcome.

The witch in Last Unicorn used toscare the shit out of me.

 

[Arkvoodle]

Dumbo again here.


Maybe "Old Yeller" too but in retrospect I think that helped my development as much as anything.

 

[Frequen-Z]

Morbius from Spiderman used to give me the willies. Not sure why.

 

[mmkorn22]

Lion King. Mufasa's death and Simba's reaction.

That part made me cry like a *****.

Also, this probably doesn't count, but when I was little, my mom bought me a bunch of those read along cassette tapes where you listened to the tapes and read along with the book that accompanied it. The little red riding hood tape fucked me up. When the wolf talked, he used this loud, deep, demonic voice that scared the shit out of me. As soon as that mother fucker started talking, I started screaming and clawing at my ears to get the headphones off me. It scared me so bad I was afraid of the cassette tape itself. All my mom had to do is show it to me to get me to cry. She thought that was hilarious.

I found that tape a couple years ago. I still won't listen to it.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Also, Monstro the whale from Pinocchio had me shitting bricks as a wee lad.

Then again, that whole movie was one huge ass trip. Little kids smoking cigars and turning into donkeys to be sold to the salt mines. Pinocchio was saved but all those other kids were completely fucked.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Warning: I've literally just cried like a baby watching this trailer... nostalgia and the music, be careful if you watch it at work lol.

Don't think I could handle the whole movie again, it was too traumatic:

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[Casual Shinji]

Warning: I've literally just cried like a baby watching this trailer... don't think I could handle the whole movie again, it was too traumatic:

*sniff* Oh, you bastard.

This was my Bambi back in the day. The score itself still makes me sob like an infant even today.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

*sniff* Oh, you bastard.

This was my Bambi back in the day. The score itself still makes me sob like an infant even today.

I know, it's crazy right?

I literally burst into tears as soon as I heard those opening string melodies.

Childhood memories are powerful.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Childhood memories are powerful.

They are indeed. While you were crying your eyes out while watching Bambi, I was rolling with laughter whenever someone got torn to pieces in Jurassic Park (the toilet guy, o góds the toilet guy). Fun times for a 7 year old.

Why are you looking at me like that...
I was a normal child I swear!!!

Anyway, the only thing that really upset me was the Power Rangers. Not that I cried, all the stupid sparks instead of blood made me so angry. I demand that my fights with insane Japanese monsters are at least vaguely realistic dammit!

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Watership Down - it's an animated film about rabbits, surely it must be a good movie for kids to watch, no?

Wrong - it's like showing your 4 year old Saving Private Ryan, if the cast of that film were all violent cartoon rabbits. Children will get traumatized over innocuous things or emotional moments in otherwise lighthearted fare, but watching Watership Down will probably scar them for life. It's a good movie, but the PG rating and the fact that it's animated (and about rabbits!) combine to fool many a parent into thinking it's a kid-friendly option.

Guess what my parents let me watch as a child?

Also Dark Crystal, another film that repeat viewing as an adult confirms is just genuinely disturbing no matter how old you are when you see it, which my parents let me see when I was in my formative years because it was a Jim Henson film with puppets - this taught me a valuable lesson: Puppets can be just as terrifying as things we traditionally think of as being scary.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Watership Down - it's an animated film about rabbits, surely it must be a good movie for kids to watch, no?

Wrong - it's like showing your 4 year old Saving Private Ryan, if the cast of that film were all violent cartoon rabbits. Children will get traumatized over innocuous things or emotional moments in otherwise lighthearted fare, but watching Watership Down will probably scar them for life. It's a good movie, but the PG rating and the fact that it's animated (and about rabbits!) combine to fool many a parent into thinking it's a kid-friendly option.

Guess what my parents let me watch as a child?

Also Dark Crystal, another film that repeat viewing as an adult confirms is just genuinely disturbing no matter how old you are when you see it, which my parents let me see when I was in my formative years because it was a Jim Henson film with puppets - this taught me a valuable lesson: Puppets can be just as terrifying as things we traditionally think of as being scary.

Ghaaa... Skeksis.

The part where the old shrivelled Skeksis dies and crumples into a rotting maggoty corpse made me one very upset little kid.

And what was with those guys with one arm? They were fucking creepy.

 

[Disaster Button]

GODDAMN YOU DUMBO!

That fucking pink elephant scene.

You have really nice eyebrows. And oh yeah, that scene.

And yes, in the Movie Flubber when Weebo dies, I cried all night when I was younger, and when she comes back at the end I remember screaming out, "BUT SHE'S NOT THE SAME!" It was really horrible and I still find it quite emotional to this day.

 

[Disaster Button]

You have really nice eyebrows.

Oh, thanks.

I realise that may seem weird, but I hate eyebrows, like to the extent where I think no one should have them.. but, yeah. Anyway I thought you'd like to know.. I'm just gonna go before I make myself sound even more weirder..

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Childhood memories are powerful.

They are indeed. While you were crying your eyes out while watching Bambi, I was rolling with laughter whenever someone got torn to pieces in Jurassic Park (the toilet guy, o góds the toilet guy). Fun times for a 7 year old.

Why are you looking at me like that...
I was a normal child I swear!!!

Anyway, the only thing that really upset me was the Power Rangers. Not that I cried, all the stupid sparks instead of blood made me so angry. I demand that my fights with insane Japanese monsters are at least vaguely realistic dammit!

I think we all laughed at the JP toilet scene.

Anyone seen Felidae?

That's another utterly fucked up animated movie. Cat gore.

Watership Down... no. Never watching that ever again.