Kids films that make you feel inexplicably uneasy

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The original 1971 version of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is on, and I’m just keeping half an eye on it (no one is really watching it, it’s just on!)
I can’t exactly explain why, but this film makes me feel on edge,
like it has a menacing undertone to it.
Anyone else feel the same? Or any other films make you feel this way?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is another, it has that awful Child Catcher in it!

The Bluebird (1940) with Shirley Temple. It’s creepy but mesmerising at the same time. I felt very uneasy watching it as a young child in the 80s and it is still has the same effect on me as an adult to day!

legend with Tom cruise. And return to oz used to freak me out too.

I agree with this- very dodgy even if it was just implied, so wrong!

Diana Dors was brilliant in it! I remember first watching in school as an end of term treat, 40 odd years ago. It scared the life out of me! Watched it again as an adult a few years ago. Still bloody terrifying.

I watched the Adams Family yesterday spit roasting the parents at camp! Setting fire to the set with children in it. I loved it though.

I LOVED The Water Babies.

I really wanted a white bedroom like Ellie. The woman who kept appearing at the side of the road was creepy though.

I was singing High Cockalorum earlier in the week.

Juno, the musician Dad grooms her and her parents seem cool with it.

Little Mermaid, only because I was scared of the Conger Eels as a child.

I like the Polar Express, but you’ve got to watch it as a horror film imo. The animation is fecking scary.

I was creeped out by The Land Before Time films.

Maybe not quite the same, but Big Bird: Follow that Bird made me sob throughout my childhood. Effectively Big Bird ends up in care as his social worker thinks he'll be happier with his own bird kind so he is ripped from his Seasame Street family. I found it absolutely heartbreaking despite the happy ending...

Glad to see others saying The Witches

I'm 32 and still never got past the part in the big room where they all start turning 😱😰

@Simonjti don’t think Juno is a kids film, I think it was written to be viewed through adult (cynical) eyes

Just from the title of the thread my first thought was Charlie and the chocolate factory, although I quite liked it as a child. The newer Johnny Depp version came out when I was about 18 and I watched it once and refused to ever watch it again, that freaks me out even more. Also agree about chitty chitty bang bang.

The Polar Express for sure.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is one of my most favourite films. I recently visited the site in Munich where the factory scenes at the gates were filmed, the original gateposts are still there. I was beside myself!

Bugsy Malone

The dark crystal, those bird type creatures the skecksies I think they were called were awful.

It gave me nightmares as a child, DH said I was oversensitive so got DS1 to watch it as a child he also had nightmares. I can't understand how it is a children's film.

The original Charlie and the chocolate factory and also Mrs Doubtfire- I even flicked past it this evening!

This was a set text for my Year 4 children. I read it and was utterly shocked. My Ds1 at the time has global development delay and I thought it was too hideous for him. I researched and they say it is meant to be for years 6 and above- not year 4. So I mentioned it to his english teacher that I felt it was a bit much, and her response was; 'Well, it makes the children feel comforted that they do not live in abusive situations'.

My reply? I work in child protection with the Local Authority and on the legal side of things as a child protection specialist. So don;t give me platitudes about 'it only happens to other people and in books'. And I still think Year 4 was way way way too young for that.

Any Christmas films where they plant the idea that FC isn’t real.

Bridge to Terabitha... 😢 😢

Dumbo, specifically the surreal “pink elephants on parade” sequence. It scared the bejesus out of me when I saw it at the pictures aged six or so, and gave me some pretty horrific and memorable nightmares.

The singing crows made me a bit uneasy as well, if I’m honest. I was a hopelessly overimaginative child.

Yes, what’s going on in Polar Express? Made me feel really uneasy. Not the same cinematography but wall-e made me feel the same.

Why the polar express?! Can anyone explain? I love that film! Can’t think why it’s scary/disturbing

Lady and the Tramp, in particular the scene when Tramp is kicked out of his home in the rain 😭. I know it all turns out ok but not the point.

And YY to whoever mentioned Carolina. How the fuck that is meant to be a kid's film is beyond me.

Ooh, just remembered another one, a little more recently. Took the grandkids to see “Coraline”, and the button-eyed people gave us all the heebie-jeebies.