Not only does the brave little toaster have a song where cars in a junkyard sing about how worthless they are before they are crushed to death but one of those cars drives himself onto the conveyor belt before the magnet can put them there because he wanted to die on his own terms.

WTF were they showing us yo.

People talk about how stuff from the 80s and 90s was nightmare fuel, or too uncanny to be charming, or just plain strange. I contend that there was more creativity in the 80s and 90s and we were seeing performance artists and craftspeople at their absolute peak. When I look at something like Dark Crystal and compare it with something like the latest sterile CGI pixar or dreamworks movies, I feel sad.

That scene from The Neverending Story scarred me for life. You know the one I'm talking about. Poor Artax.

Remember that the people making kids movies today are the ones who were the kids watching those fucked up movies from back in the day.

That, to me, says two things:

1. What the hell were our parents’ generation trying to do to us, and
2. The people making kids movies today are trying to save the younger generation from their trauma.

Never forget David Bowie's Codpiece. 🫣

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/brian-henson-confirms-david-bowies-codpiece-in-labyrinth-was-intentional-exclusive/

Side note: it never fails to miff me, that bible bashers burned women and children alive at the stake, and instead of seeing that as a travesty, media backs up the bible bashers and demonises witches. People who were mainly midwives and healers. It hurts my brain.

The only family movie that gave me nightmares as a kid was the return to Oz.

Pfft whatever. I grew up with super friends. It was the most watered down, sanitized version of super hero action you can get. My daughter watches kids superhero stuff and they actually fight all the time. She reads the warriors books that have parts where cats rip each other to shreds.

Things are different these days of course, but this post is horseshit.

First generation MLP is literally like Trolls (left pic) in terms of color and spirit

The witches. Mother fuck that movie. This scene, and really the whole movie gave me the creeps as a kid. Charlie and the chocolate factory weirded me out too. Fuck Roald Dahl.

1. It is OK not to be happy all the time.

2. It is also OK not to be the best, or even to be the worst!

3. It is OK to acknowledge your behavior or thoughts are bad and to really experience your negative behaviors and thoughts - you can regret or feel sadness about them without looking away to escapism.

Finally, even if you are the worst among your peers, at least you aren't as bad or sad as characters of old fashioned tragedies and cautionary tales which are meant to give kids intuitive understanding of the three principles above.

Child catcher from Chitty Chitty bang bang: "lemme just slip into your dreams. Btw I'm under your bed now "

Y'all youngins had it easy. Give Rikki Tikki Tavi a spin. Orson Well was a horrifying narrator for a children's cartoon. I had nightmares forever behind that show.

One oft the Spykids Movies has these bizzare Creatures, the stuff of Nightmares

ow... right in my trauma...

Ok so the dark crystal is a genuinely terrifying film DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR KIDS

hey Sora make a megamix of all the traumatizing childrens movie moments