What age would you let your child watch watership down?

[inmyslippers]

Just that? Terrified me as a child but I'd still watch it 😆

I must have watched it at six too. I was quite a very sensitive child and found it highly disturbing. I also bawled at a cartoon version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I have never watched Bambi!

Never. The bit with the birds

Nope, it's really scary and I'm 47.

Other parental consent No No's would be forcing an 8 YO to listen to Jeff Wayne's War of the World for months on end. (Looking at you Mum and big Sisters - many thanks for the nightmares). It got to a point where I hid the tape under a pile of table cloths, where it remained for a good ten years. Hahaha!

Letting your 7 YO watch 9 (My Bad), I thought it was a kids film.

My parents hired it for us on video reasoning that it was a cartoon so suitable for kids. It is not a children's film! I'm not sure at which point it was turned off, either the rabbit being garroted with barbed wire and blood coming out of it's eyes and nose or the swearing seagull.
The Plague Dogs was provided as rainy day entertainment at school when I was about 11 as again, adults had assumed because it was a cartoon.. God, bits of that will stay with me forever - - hideous.

I remember watching it as a child about 10/11 years old and I was fucking devastated. I would avoid 😂

6? It was and still is my favourite film. Cant wait for my child to be old enough to enjoy it. It's so beautiful!

Never. It’s horrific. You should also avoid The Bridge to Terabithia.

This is very good advice. The bridge to Terabithia was listed as a family friendly film, what !!
Several years on my teen dc still reference being encouraged to watch this film as a sure indicator that parents cannot be trusted to make sensible decisions.

There's probably a whole generation of people who get flashbacks from Art Garfunkel.

Never revisited it, one watch was enough. Maybe helped me on my road to life long vegetarianism

Never, I can’t wait it and I’m 33, I still haven’t been able to watch all of the fox and the hound.

We did impressions of the big fat baddie rabbit (name?) leaping towards the camera with the blood on his mouth!

I was about 7, and this is the scene which gave me nightmares. (It's the General, that rabbit's name.)

It is beautiful from an illustration point. But also traumatic.

I did enjoy the recent remake.

I have been up actual Watership Down, and didn't see a single rabbit...

There's probably a whole generation of people who get flashbacks from Art Garfunkel.

He has a lot to answer for!

Never.

I am also still traumatised by Birdie dying in Tottie.

My 6 year old has seen it and all of the Jurassic park/world films. And 9! Didn’t realise 9 was an adults film.

Never! It traumatised me 🤣

Actually my dc are 26, 18, 10 and 8 and I don't think any of them have ever seen it

6 maybe? depends on their maturity, what else they've watched, and how they've reacted to it.

Hell no. Watched at probably about 8 and it was horrible. Have never encouraged mine to watch it.

The images are still seared in my brain (see pic). Not one for kids at all!

What happens in watership down?! I've never seen it! I'm a 30 so assume I'm old enough to know

I recall it being shown as "entertainment" at a birthday party when I was about 5. I was bored. Couldn't concentrate long enough to be actually upset.

It's a long film with complex issues. For teenagers and up.

Nope, never. My mum also had a weird sense of what was acceptable with films...Christine, Poltergeist. & still does, I make sure I check what she's exposing my own kids to after a few bizarre choices. She's fab apart from that!

The bridge to Terabithia was listed as a family friendly film, what !!
Several years on my teen dc still reference being encouraged to watch this film as a sure indicator that parents cannot be trusted to make sensible decisions.

Oh no, my kids have seen this movie too! . They also have the book!

Also not for children, 'when the west wind blows'

To be fair @WaltzingToWalsingham the issue was I sold it a feel good family film for a Friday night ( Netflix lied)
There were rather too many dead children for this to be the case!
If you were expecting something different it is probably fine.