Weird and horrible PG rated films

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I’m watching Cats (2019) 😧 and would like more of this sort of horror please!

Big: small boy has sex with adult woman
Mannequin: human man has sex with plastic woman
Splash: human man has sex with mermaid.

Lemony Snickets : a series of unfortunate events.

Round the twist was mental, an episode which stayed with me was the one where a girl grew scales and then eventually turned into a mermaid.

Last unicorn still haunts me, Wtaf was it?!

Dot and the kangaroo, thank you whoever posted that I have just googled. I tried to describe it to someone many moons ago and they were convinced I had dreamt it. So weird.

Edward scissorhands is on sky right now. I’m recording it and was going to watch with dd. I can’t really remember the story. Maybe it isn’t ok for her then..

Seconding poltergeist- I watched that way too young and have been forever scarred by it!!

To be fair, most of the young kids I know wouldn't be remotely interested in Mannequin or Splash. Possibly they might watch Big.

Came on to say Return To Oz but I see that I've been beaten to it by several people. I've seen it multiple times as a child and the sound of those Wheelers still haunt me (I'm 37). My friend introduced her 8 and 6 year old to Temple of Doom last week. I don't think mine would be interested in it. Apart from the heart ripping scene (which is what stops me putting it on for them), the violence is quite slapstick, but I think there's too many quiet scenes with dialogue to hold certainly the 6 year olds interest.

Yes for return to oz!!
That scene of the headless woman and the hallway full of screaming heads still makes me shiver! It horrified me and many sleepless nights whenever I saw it!
Coraline is pretty freaky but I do love it do like that one (have it on dvd)
I also loved frankenweenie

@RoseMartha My DS (8). LOVED Unfortunate Events. I was incredibly disturbed by it, but he loved it.

I watched the 1998 version of Parent Trap with them the other day. I cringed when 11 year old Lindsay Lohan said to the girlfriend character that there was more to a marriage than sex. I was waiting for DS to ask me what sex was, but he didn't. He was scandalised when the mother character used the word 'bloody' though.

Definitely agree with Neverending story.... The terrible horse in the mud scene, the nothing wolf and I used to hate the scene when the giant turtle was sneezing and kept making him fall in the mud.... Not scary but looked exhausting!

My son's 9 and 12 watched splash the other day I have a feeling the older of the two was more interested in the first scene where she walks out the sea naked than anything else

Not about scary films but when ds was younger (14 now), we used to watch all the family films ma and dh had watched as kids. Ferris Bueller, ET etc but shocked how much casual swearing were in some of them and some really inappropriate sexism. We actually switched Big off because it did a really prolonged close up of a woman's boobs hanging out of a top! Funny thing is these were all family films back in the day and nobody was shocked by the racism/sexism and I don't really noticing any of it the first time round. How times have changed.

@Bbq1 I've noticed this too and not just in old films. DH and I are rewatching Entourage as it's back on Sky. The way women are referenced in it by the main five is awful. That said, there are some fantastic strong female characters in it, who don't take any bullshit. Women seem to fall into two categories, strong, powerful feisty types, and vapid supermodels.

Another one for return to oz! Very traumatising! I haven’t watched it for years, but I’m sure there was a bit at the beginning with just a row of heads in a room, really scary!

Ralph breaks the Internet is a freaky film

Also, the land before time. Such a sad, traumatic and yet, uplifting beautiful film.

Agree with Neverending story, labyrinth etc. I was fascinated by all those weird 80’s films as a kid but then you look back as an adult and think....eh? Old goblin king David Bowie (with his crotch bulge) basically trying to get it on with teenage Jennifer connelly! Never mind the throwing the baby through the air sequence (I do LOVE that song though “you remind me of the babe - what babe? The babe with the power!”)

Also Goosebumps. That ventriloquist dummy is horrible! my ds was absolutely terrified of that episode - used to come into our room in the middle of the nights for ages after watching it!

And the round the twist mermaid episode I vividly remember too - I remember a bit where she had what looked like fingernails stuck all over her hands and started ripping them off? Bleurrgh!

Big: small boy has sex with adult woman

Yes to this ^ I rewatched it last year, as had fond memories of it from being younger, but I don't think it's aged too well, and definitely would have if it was a young girl and a man..

Also yes to Hocus Pocus, I love it but haven't shown by kids it yet because of all the virgin references.

To the PP asking about Edward Scissorhands, if your DD is a teen I think it would be ok, but I wouldn't show it to her if she's under maybe 11, it is sad.

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Thanks. She’s nearly 12. It can just stay on the box for a while. I am trying to take advantage of her finally wanting to see some more grown up stuff....

TV show called the Storyteller, one episode had a man crawling along the floor in a really disturbing manner and I was quite scared by this when I was 8 or 9

Return to Oz....the wheelers, the headless queen with all those decapitated heads, the nasty lady at the orphanage with the electric brain machine. It's so so dark and a million miles away from the original. I did love it though.

The Witches never scared me as a child but ds watched it when he was 7 and cried....

The singing ringing tree

Does anyone remember The Brave Little Toaster? I think it was possibly Disney but very disturbing!

Coralline scared the living shits out of me. The Other Mother behind the wall, fuuuuuucking hell. Made worse by the fact that DS went through a phase of loving it and watching it every other day. He slept like the innocent babe he was, while I laid awake terrified and staring at the ceiling thinking about buttons for eyes.

As for Watership Down, I watched that for the very first time a couple of years ago. Oh dear god, that should have been an 18! I was utterly devastated by it.