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!

@EllaAlright it’s even more tragic when you learn of Dicky’s voice actors real life tragedy www.mamamia.com.au/judith-eva-barsi-death/

Living Daylights is now my least favourite Bond film. I’ve started watching a Bond a day with DS (12) and I was fucking horrified at the RAPE scene where he convinces the virgin tarot reader to have sex with him by using a deck of all “lover” cards. Horrible references to how her boss/master would have shagged her when he no longer had any use for her psychic abilities 🤢🤢🤢

Not a film but what about the animals of farthing wood....some of them had really awful deaths! And it was a kids show on CBBC....

😳 sorry, Ducky’s*

Another vote for Monster House. The kids were petrified and so was I. Very threatening.

just came on to say - the original jaws really wasn't a PG.

My brothers were allowed to go and see it at the cinema with friends, after much debate, they were about 11 and 12, and I remmeber that they werw worried about being let in. I was about 9 and could not go as I was too young for the certificate, and wouldn't get in.
But I don't think the certificates were the same? I think that 12 and 15 were something else? But it was one step up from PG?

That was in 1976. Give or take a year.

I've found it:

Steven Spielberg’s classic thriller about a great white shark which terrorises a small beach community, was first released uncut in 1975 with an ‘A’ certificate – which meant that the film may be unsuitable for younger children.

But as a cinema goer in 1975, a 9 year old would not have been allowed in to an A.

It was then bizarrely put as a DVD on video and dvd release.

Dragonheart terrified me age about 6. We use to go to a 'cinema club' where parents could just drop kids off, there was a film, then 30 minutes or so brake with one of the cinema staff hosting, then another film (yep, crap 90's childcare). So possibly the fact I was a 6 year old, alone with a 8 year old didn't help. Spent most of the film hiding in the toilet (pre-mobiles so couldn't ask to be picked up)

@Oscarthegrouch47 I used to love animals of farthing wood. Had a bit of a crush on fox

The watcher in the woods defo!

I cant find it anywhere though. I watched it on you tube a few years ago but it's not on the new Disney app.

Yes to Return To Oz and The Witches.

Hunchback of Notre Dame is a weird Disney one.

The BFG - not the recent one, but the cartoon from about 1989. The BFG himself was really ugly, never mind the other giants! And it had some really scary moments: the BFG's sandal stepping on the camera, and a giant eating a child who had just had a happy dream.

Watership Down what traumatizing movie - all those dead rabbits - I'll never forget it. Seriously WTF!

The Darby O'Gill banshee gave me nightmares for years

Return to Oz though - I always loved that movie

It seems to me that a lot of 'modern' films get a PG or 12 or 15 rating due to CGI violence.

OTOH older films (before CGI) had more (female) nudity, sex and swearing and 'adult themes'. This is embarrassing to watch with teenage DC and more disturbing generally.

That Disney film, not sure whether pg or U but it was awful.
Ghost Ship I think it was called, where they all get sliced in half by some sort of invisible wire.
horrible film and not for kids.
anybody seen it?

My first thought was witches which traumatised me as a small child but then I remembered I'd watched fellowship of the ring in the cinema and was 10 or 11 then so checked. The first 2 Lord of the Rings films are both pg rated. The freaking balrog only rated pg!!!

Ghost ship is a horror film and has a 15 rating. Not a good horror film but is definitely not child friendly! I watched it at about 13 and thought it was rubbish even then!

Newtothenet. The singing Ringing Tree - that was baffling and terrifying at the same time.

Coraline....O....M....G!!!!

@Devlesko that's a 15 not PG!

Fantastic Mr Fox, is so weird, my DS2 loved it though.

Know been said a lot but agree....Return to Oz!
When you see the first one all sunshine and colour...then you have this! Wheelers..screaming heads.. headless woman..the electric machine. Lovely.

Dd age 11 has been asking to watch scary films maybe I need to show her some of these.

We watched brave little toaster recently as I loved it as a child but it is really freaky in parts (and probably is why I'm terrified of clowns) in fact lots of children's films have scary clowns in them.

My addition is ace Ventura not freaky but definitely not child friendly. Far too many questions from the dds, I hid the DVD 😂

@MilkNoSugars Thank you! I couldn't remember the name of that film and it was the one that scared me most as a kid.

Also there was some animated movie based in Oz, think there was a little girl called Roo (may have made that up) who was rescued by kangaroos, who were in turn hunted by humans. I found it terrifying 😂

I don't know the rating of it and I'm fine with most of these but I find Box Trolls terrifying and creepy as hell. weirdly the 10 yr old is fine with it.

@TitianaTitsling
Dot and the Kangaroo
That's what it's called! It traumatised me!