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

Return to Oz - the wheelers, the Queen with all the heads in glass cases. Scary but I loved it! Never ending Story was also fantastic but 10 year old me was thinking “put the fucking Amulet on the horse and ride out of the swamp” RIP Arrex

They are very careful now!
Our year 6 DS's class had to pick from U rated films at Christmas as the teacher said she couldn't show them PGs as their parents weren't present.

Watcher in the Woods nightmares for years - Shown at a kids club I watched it a few years ago still terrifying!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watcher_in_the_Woods_(1980_film)

No he worked with Gene Wilder.

No he didn't I've everyone's names confused!!

Prior!!

This - where all the wires whip round her?

Was that Superman 3 with Richard Wilder - the comedian. I might have made that name up! Even the 'glass baddies' coming back from didn't bother me as much as that!

YANBU! My school also did this in the 80s - what were they thinking???? Watching that poor horse drown in a mud swamp, and the wolf beast - they must have been on glue showing that to little kids.

Absolutely awful some of these stories! Children of a certain age are unable to process dark film/TV material and so should not be allowed to watch it as certain content can be very damaging to them, even if the content reflects themes from real life (death, disease etc). Completely irresponsible by the adults involved.

Watership down was horrific.

I liked the never ending story but I love dogs so wasn’t scared🤔🤣

Gremlins terrified me- aunt let me watch it and my parents went mad! Oops!

We were always shown The Wizard of Oz back in the 70s, I was terrified of the wicked witch and always had to leave the room.

I saw Deep Impact by accident on TV when I was about 10 and it turned me from an already anxious child to being convinced I was about to die any moment. Nightmares about running from walls of water for years. Now i'm on all the good meds and I fear nothing through my chemically-induced haze ;)

It was ghostbusters that scared me as a young child. Was scared to open my fridge, terrified of the "dogs" (zoul?) And thought a clawed hand was going to reach over any chair or bed and drag me to hell!

DC1 now 24 was scarred for life by being 'forced' to watch ET during a wet lunchtime when she was in reception.

Took year 5 and year 7 to see the BFG both girls devastated when the mean giants trashed his lovely cave. Seems that’s a trigger in our family for some reason they had watched far worse but both crying and wanted to leave at that scene!

The biggest shock in our house in NES was when i explained that Atreyu is a boy 😂 For some reason all 4 were convinced he was a girl for quite a while !

I came on to say Ring of Bright Water and Watership Down! Both shown in quick succession at my school to a group of 7 year olds. I’m still triggered. 😂

My DCs cope ok with NES. They all get a bit 😳when the horse starts sinking but each and every time they turn and look at me and say ''but he's ok really and comes back at the end doesn't he mum?'' and i say ''yes'' and then it's all alright 😅 EVERY TIME

I want to second Ring of Bright Water. I was taken to see that at a cinema when very young and when the lovely otter got ... dispatched, suddenly and horribly and without warning, i wailed the place down ! I cried so hard and was still crying when we got home 😝

I loved the neverending story as a kid but the horse sinking bit was so traumatic and drawn-out

Last year I took the elder Gdcs (then 6 and 7) to see the new Railway Children film, at their request.
Totally unsuitable IMO for younger children - soon after the beginning there’s a scene with a black American soldier (troops during WW2 U.K.) being savagely beaten up by fellow American servicemen) - and it didn’t improve. They were used to watching all sorts but they found it very upsetting - I had to take them out when it was less than half over.

To be fair I hadn’t actually checked. It was a PG - from the title I’d assumed it’d be a U and fine for their ages.

We were shown the 1972 film 'The Pied Piper' at school at the age of 7. Highlights included a wedding cake that turned out to be full of rats, and as the film progressed, more and more characters developing buboes on their faces and succumbing to the plague. Lovely film for children 🙄

Same! I thought of myself as pretty tough until that day 😅

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Loved box of delights and we read children of the dust too. Both were great. Favourite book though was Fireweed

Remember films that are pg will not necessarily be suitable young children, even U, there's a Uc rating when it's for young children.

That said we liked watching family films where there was something for adults, chicken run is a great example, for small kids it's just funny chickens, for adults it's the great escape plus lots of other film references. Recently watched the next chicken run film and not a child in sight.

Parents need to make their own judgements though, as an adult I often watch films ranked pg which aren't kids films, they just don't happen to have adult content

My DM had the vinyl (yes I’m that old) version of Peter & the Wolf and I don’t know if she was asked, or volunteered it, but for some reason we listened to it in our infants class in the 70’s. I must have been about 6ish?

I’m not sure which age group it’s aimed at really but it’s always stuck with me and the sound of the wolf (can’t remember which musical instrument plays the wolf) 🐺 gives me shudders to this day. 🤣

I'm 52 and still not over the horse in the swamp of sadness.
Watership down terrifies me.
And don't get me started on Hartley Hare.....