To think, with hindsight, showing The Neverending Story to a class of 6 year olds was a terrible idea?!

My worst was being shown Threads (post nuclear war holocaust film) just before we broke up for Christmas at the age of 15. Which also happened to be on the same day that Lockerbie happened - to say it shook me up.. slight understatement :(

We watched Star Wars in year R. They offered us to watch it during a beautifully summer day and I remember looking out of the window and wishing I could go outside.

I have never watched Star Wars since. I was terrified.

Yeah because there's nothing inbetween telletubbies and the never ending story that you could put on for a 6 year old 🙄

Let's all just stick with Teletubbies and flowers and rainbows 🙄

I don't remember much about the Never Ending Story but the show that sticks out for me was Ghost Watch, Halloween 1992.
It was like watching The Exorcist live from London.. Aimed at children, I think they advertised it on Blue Peter! Terrifying!!

I was up late for some reason (maybe a family bbq or similar) and ended up seeing ‘Jaws’ that was on TV that night. I wasn’t very old and was scared to put my feet to the bottom of the bed and worried about him coming up through the toilet. I knew logically that was impossible but still scared me.

Six year olds are probably a bit too young to process the death of the horse.

Horrible scene.

At the end of year 3 I took my Jason and the Argonauts VHS into school. My teacher decided she could show it in a separate room, so people could leave if they found it too scary. I think that kind of agency is important.
I generally loved NES, had it on video, but for many years I would just nip into the kitchen or to the bathroom while Artax drowned. Absolutely no way would I show it to my kids now.
Interestingly, Watershipdown caused me no issues at all, but I'd had the book read to me before I saw the film. I think that must make a difference.

Ghostbusters is now classified 12A, though for sexual references rather than frightening scenes.

Watership down, I've only watched ot the once and that was enough. I have 4 dc and 2 are adults now and the younger 2 are teen/pre teen and none of them have watched it after how I go on about it

Loved return to oz but think I was older when I watched that

That is quite a disturbing movie.
I was shown watership down around 6 years old at school and had about 15+ years of recurring nightmares of being trapped in a rabbit warren being chased by the creepy rabbit from watership down. Probably contributed to my claustrophobia as well.

Ugh those wheelers were terrifying! I still have that film - the Nome King is horrible as well

Yay, there's more than one of us!

I was terrified of this for years, but could not remember what film it was from at all!

Then watched it as an adult with DP and it all came flooding back. And it's the least scary thing ever!

Don't know why it had such an affect one as a kid, but I'm glad I'm not the only one.

My aunt was a teacher who worked with teens with literacy difficulties... She had a bunch of easy to read books about quite adult topics.

Aged around 9 I was in her classroom for a day and read through "My Hiroshima" ("I found the bodies of many of my friends," "I saw people with their skin hanging from their fingertips") and "This is the house that crack built" (people gunned down in fields, teen pregnancy and in-utero opiate addiction), both complete with illustrations.

I think the fact I can still remember the words and the pictures more than 20 years on is testament to the impact.

Totally wrong. I won't watch it even now because the horse drowning upsets me so much. Plus there's a lot of really frightening material in it. It's not suitable for 6 year olds and I would be upset if a 6 year old of mine was being shown it.

I loved that as a young teen.
You can get it on Audible.
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Odysseus-The-Greatest-Hero-of-them-All-Audiobook/B006347LH2

I adored Mombi and her heads!! She seemed very glamorous to me, and to have the option of swapping out your face and hair at a whim seemed impossibly fun...

I loved that Tony Robinson series on Odysseus, you can buy the books online still although the illustrations aren’t the same as the original. Best retelling of history for children before Horrible Histories.

The Wheelers !! Ye gods yes i'd forgotten about them!

And Mombi was it? The Queen with all her heads all alive in the room of cases 😲

I vaguely remember that in the tick tok costume was one of the presenters from blue peter. I haven't googled to check so could be wrong.

I remember, at school, reading a book or story about a legendary character called Edward Mordake who supposedly had a face on the back of his head. (A bit like Quirrell/Voldemort in the first HP book.)

Apparently the face could laugh and whisper to him and stuff and he begged to have it removed but they wouldn’t so he killed himself. I had nightmares for months.

YANBU . First year senior we were shown a graphic video of a woman giving birth. I went green and had to leave the room. Gave me a lifelong fear of giving birth. Had a planned CS but it’s a shame really if I hadn’t felt so negatively about childbirth I would have loved more children.

From archive.org 😀

https://archive.org/details/the-flight-of-dragons-1982-rankinbass

Oh god @ZenNudist I often think about the bloody Zoul dog things. Absolutely terrifying. I've been really scared of dogs ever since, but thought it was just me who was so traumatised by this. I'm glad there's someone else! I never understand people enjoying horror films when I can't even cope with Ghostbusters 😅

@MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking I loved Flight of Dragons, I actually bought my kids a dvd copy of it from eBay a few years ago but I've lost the copy...where did you find the online version?

There are sanitised versions. Or just read the non-gory ones. I’ve read some to DS aged 5/6 and he enjoyed them (sanitised version of the Odyssey without all the shagging Circe and hanging of handmaidens, the Minotaur, Trojan Horse, Medusa).

Incidentally, I remember an amazing Tony Robinson series called “Odysseus the greatest hero of them all” on tv when I was a child, but can’t find it anywhere online - can anyone help? He also did a series on Boudicca.