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Have you seen Brave? I thought that was pretty terrifying in the cinema with the surround sound. My sister watched it with her older children after me and she said there was apparently a warning just before it started that it wasn't suitable for under 7s but I didn't see it and don't think I'd have left by that point after paying, watching trailers etc. my daughter was 4 at time of watching and came and sat on my knee which is not at all like her.

Yeah I have watched Brave and I must admit I didnt notice the warning at the start but I did think some of the scenes were a bit dark for children. I do think watching films like that at the cinema does make a massive difference just by how loud it is! Good film though

Coraline. Only kids film that's scared dd2.

I took the dts to the cinema for Coraline and dt1 was hysterical, I think he was 6 at the time.

I can remember being shit scared by the Dark Crystal as a child!

I'm 35 and am STILL scarred from Watership Down. Dark, trippy, dying bunnies. Why would this be appropriate viewing?

Def watership down

As a child the child-catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang terrified the hell out of me.

Coraline. My ten year old, my FEARless ten year old who tried to watch Dexter over my shoulder on my lap top and shrugged when I turned it off..... she couldn't sleep for about a week after Coraline. She wanted me to watch it again with her to make the memory of it less scary. is that a good idea?? or would she just refresh her terror??

These posts are really helpful so thank you! I have heard that Dark Crystal was pretty creepy although I havent seen it, the same said for Watership Down although that sounds like it would creep me out even now!

I have seen Coraline and I completely agree that that is enough to have kids hiding behind parents and pillows alike! Any film where the characters have their eyes removed in exchange for buttons is creepy whether for adults or children!

Keep them coming

Was going to say Watership down too. My grandparents used to make us watch it every christmas but it is just not child friendly. I thought the frog princess was pretty scarey.

My dds have never watched anything which they've found too scary - they've been pleasantly scared by things like Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, but never been disturbed by it.

I'd also say Coraline was the scariest children's film I've seen. The fake mother in Coraline is very disturbing. IMO the idea that someone you trust could turn nasty, or an evil/distorted version of someone you trust, is much scarier than a monster/character that is unambiguously evil.

My mum went to see Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland at the cinema when she was young and has never watched either since, she still thinks they're terrifying.

I was scared of Bambi...

DD finds all movies scary - she is 5. I expected it with Snow White etc, but we had to stop watching the Tinkerbell movie because she was so scared. She finds anything risky or suspenseful frightening. I'm not sure what to do about it - there is a film club at school that she desperately wants to go to as all her friends do, but she had to be taken out of Wall-E etc. It happens with books too (especially if I do the voices). I try to make her continue so she can see it all turns out all right, but I feel mean doing that, and sometimes she won't. It is almost impossible to avoid everything she might find scary, so I don't.

I used to be scared of Labyrinth

oh yeah the evil queen in snow white terrified me when I was little as well.

I think there is a sense of pleasure to be taken from being scared when you're younger, I know even though Monster House scares my cousin he still insists on watching it...

I definitely see it with films like Snow White especially when she's making the potion to turn into the hag. Labyrinth was pretty scary aswell to be fair and was definitely one of my childhood favourites to watch nonetheless.

I think its pretty common now for films to have that form of horror in them I mean thinking back alot of the films I used to watch had moments in that were pretty dark...

Wonder why...

NoGinorWine4Mu1berry - dt1 managed to watch it again at home, and so it wasn't quite so scary with lights up, sound down a bit and I think it did help. It was the bit where the mother turns into a spider that got him, he's scared of spiders in any case.

I really didn't get that labyrinth thing, didn't find that scary at all.

I was really surprised that my ds at 3yo found Arietty really scary and asked for it to be turned off. i think it was the tension and sense of foreboding especially when the Borrowers went on the missions to find supplies that did it.

Ironic as i'd vetoed How to Train your Dragon in favour of Arietty as Arietty was a U and the PG rated 'Dragon' had supposed scary fight scenes, but when he later watched 'Dragon' a few months later he loved it!

Also thought Brave was scary and picking up on what Melopmene said about Coraline:
"IMO the idea that someone you trust could turn nasty, or an evil/distorted version of someone you trust, is much scarier than a monster/character that is unambiguously evil" - I thought the mother turning into bear was like that! (although to be fair it was just the roaring the kids found scary!)

DD was scared of Bruce the shark in finding Nemo ffs! She was only 5 BUT only got scared after watching it daily for about 4 weeks!

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Think it was a 12 rating so not for little children, but F me that was scary !

It scared me too!

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Another vote for Coraline

Sleeping beauty. That horrible witch in it!!

We had to leave the cinema during Brave. It was too much for DS5.

He cried