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!

A lot of these films where my favourites as a child, and my children love them now.... currently sat in my coraline pjs surround by lots of memorabilia from these films.... including the wheelers from return to Oz lol

Polar Express is disturbing because of its 'Uncanny Valley' effect. The characters look almost completely, realistically human but not quite.

The scene in the train where the boy finds all the abandoned puppet toys is obviously designed to tap into very common fears of clowns/puppets etc.

Also, once they reach the North Pole the tinny music echoing constantly in the background is such a lonely, desolate sound.

Labyrinth for me as well. Bloody terrifying listening to that baby cry and not being able to get to it.

Bridge to Terabrithia is truly upsetting, i cried so much and it really lingered on my thoughts - oh!! and my huge teenage son still refuses to watch bedknobs and broomsticks as it is too scary apparently…but we love polar express (except for the scary carriage of broken toys!!)

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It was a book with me - “The Red Shoes”where the girl was cursed & couldn’t stop dancing. Her feet were torn to ribbons 😢

Yes, I but Bambi on the other day as some background noise while I worked and I had to turn it off it was that stressful waiting for the mum to die!

I had to be taken out of the cinema during Bedknobs and Broomsticks as I was too scared.
It was the football sequence that did me.

Same, I can't watch anything with him in. Everyone thinks I'm weird 😆

The Last Unicorn.

I found plenty of the previously mentioned films weird and /or disturbing too but mostly not inexplicably.

BBC Pinocchio adaptation was very sinister

I think it came out in the late 70’s or early 80’s

The sense of fear and cruelty is part of the point, same with the Grimm Brothers tales. I loved those growing up. There's something about feeling that terror once removed which is part of growing up and learning emotions.

The Rescuers. I still watch it but it has a very uneasy feeling

The incinerator scene in Toy Story 3 deeply deeply disturbed me - as an adult! DS wasn’t scared, but to me it seemed like Holocaust references and I hated it. I’m probably over reacting but that’s how I felt. Kids wouldn’t think of that.

As a child, Wonka scared me, and not a film but a kid’s programme, Chorlton and the Wheelies petrified me. Don’t know why. Just something about the “wheelies” was terrifying.

Polar Express for me too! It makes my heart race even thinking about it, I can watch any horror movie and be fine!

Polar Express - creepy as fuck

I was terrified of Edward Scissorhands as a child.

Coraline should be an 18 😅

Not sure if it can be classed as a kids film but when it came out it was seen as a kids film, Howard The Duck, I never saw it till a couple of years ago and I have no idea how it was considered a kids film. It was bloody awful.

the scene where she was about to get it on with Howard was vomit inducing, I hope she realised that most ducks penis are shaped like a corkscrew.

Truly awful film.

God it’s so fucked up isn’t it. Really. If someone were to summarise most Disney films in a line or 2, we’d be truely appalled.

Nanny McPhee
I could see beyond her horrible physical appearance and the 'baby' being roasted and eaten ( it was a chicken)
But the food fight at the wedding did it for me . I cannot abide food fights.

( and everything was purple or turquoise which was even ranker)

My 14 year old is obsessed with films and we saw Coraline in the cinema and it was a PG. I felt it should have been a 15.

On that sort of subject- why on earth was Flow a U? We went last week and people had brought their 2-3 years olds thinking it was a kid's movie. Cue screaming and distraught children! We thought it ought to have been a PG at least, IMO.

Never Ending Story

Artax and the Swamp of Sadness
But that's not inexplicable

School of Rock. Something off about the entire premise.

I absolutely loved Thumbelina as a child and happened to catch it on one of the movie channels last year. I thought I’d put it on for the nostalgia but it was bloody traumatic - the poor girl was essentially trafficked! The horror of the singing frogs, Mr Mole, and the pimp like beetle man. Deeply creepy and unsettling.

Elf isn’t a children’s film though is it?