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!

Well there just films we are not meant to take them personally.
Either watch or you dont.

Also just remembered Coraline..🤯
Also the live action Pinocchio about three years ago. That was absolutely bloody awful...

Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit terrified me...then he straight up murdered that poor little shoe. Arsehole.

My son has just recounted ‘Homeward Bound’ as the scariest film he has ever seen, apparently I mentally scarred him with it!

I think the problem with watership down was the implication it was a child friendly film about bunnies..many of us were taken to the cinema by unsuspecting parenrs/ grandparents in the 70s.
Even later on dvd, the packaging appeals to children.

Was looking for this one!

I loved it. So did my son from he was around 5. Super tight trousers though.

I had forgotten about Bedknobs and Broomsticks. The bit where the suits of armour come to life and start walking around is terrifying.

I was at work one day in the bakery at the supermarket where I work. It was a very windy day.. We had various trolleys in the yard.. I looked out at one point to see all the trolleys sailing across the yard by themselves... Very reminiscent of the suits of armour!!

Did anyone else find the landslide in the railway children a bit scary. When the music went all eery and the trees started moving slowly down the hill on their own and no one knew why. One of the trees was dead and looked almost like it had arms raised up.

Not a film but the series “The storyteller” that blooming hedgehog man

@mrsannefourmile With the Polar Express, for most people it's the uncanny valley effect: the humans are almost totally realistic, but look dead behind the eyes like some politicians. Compare Anna and Elsa in Frozen - they're deliberately made to look cartoon-like to avoid this effect, with their big eyes. See also Princess Fiona in Shrek; early designs of her were uncanny valley, according to the producers. Also, in Polar Express, lots of the characters are hard to work out, such as the train conductor, and the chap who rides on top of the train; and it's unclear whether he's a ghost or not.

Not a film, but in the stage musical of Mary Poppins, one of the most controversial scenes is the "temper temper" song, where the children are angry, and all the toys in the nursery become human sized, and put the children on trial; and the judge (Mr Punch) is holding what is very obviously intended to be a spanking implement. This song was considered so terrifying that it was pulled from the musical, but you can see it on Youtube. I only saw it as an adult, and thought it was quite inventive and funny; and I bet the adults were more scared by this scene than the children!

With the Wizard of Oz, my brother was scared by the wicked witch. Then, of course, there was the White Witch in the BBC series of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, played by large ham Barbara Kellerman. Absolutely terrifying.

In the animated film of the BFG from 1987, there's a moment in which one of the nasty giants eats a boy who has just had a happy dream, causing Sophie to scream "Noooooooooooooo!!!!", and spurs her on to catch the giants once and for all.

There's also that scene in Toy Story 2 where Jessie the cowgirl doll sings sadly about how the girl who played with her grew up, and moved on to make up and teenage things, before donating her to charity. That scene probably disturbs the adults far more than the children.

I do think we need to be wary of "protecting" our children too much from "scary" films; children need to "feel" fears like this in a safe way, it's another way in which I think the wrapping children in cotton wool is going too far these days. Yes, the times move on, and standards about what is "acceptable" change, but I think lots of the replies here say more about the reactions of the adults, rather than the children. I mean, if you think about it, some of the Great English Classics which teenagers are forced to study are actually pretty disturbing, such as Romeo and Juliet.

Definitely Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ExMIL sent it as a gift to the DCs back in the days of dvds. We threw it out.

I hate that movie with a passion. It's deeply misogynistic imo.

I came on to say the exact same thing about Dot and the Kangaroo! Very creepy- but yet I still watched it as a child more than once.

The Wizard of Oz. I was scared of it as a child, but had forgotten how scary it was to me and suggested the DC watch it one Christmas when they were little. They hated it and wanted to know why I'd put on such a weird scary film.

We haven't revisited it since, but were talking about it recently having just watched Wicked and thought we might give it another go as a comparison. I suspect it still won't go well 🤔

Yes! It's always creeped me out, along with The Wizard of Oz

Glad to know I'm not the only one traumatized by Dot and the Kangaroo! 😂