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 watched Jaws when I was 13 on a bootleg VHS video. Traumatised me for life. Still won't go in deeper than waist height sea!

Think there are many of my generation who have an irrational fear of sharks because of that bloody film!

The newer version of Watership Down is a lot less traumatic. It's still good.

I can't even think about Bright Eyes without getting all sniffly...

14. It is not a kids’ film.

I cried at the end of Moana though, so I am perhaps not the best judge.

I wouldn't let mine at small age watch the film but we had a wonderful set of dvds of loads of episodes from a TV series of Watership Down. Safe to watch and they absolutely loved it. About 20 minutes per episode and always a go to when they were a bit older for comfort watching when they were poorly. Wouldn't know where you could get hold of it now though

www.amazon.co.uk/Watership-Down-Complete-Collection-DVD/dp/B008YUP0DU/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=watership+down+tv+series&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1622140602&sr=8-7

It gets me every time. I’m scared of general Woundwort, I cry and the beginning middle and the end when lord froth sends the black rabbit. Love it! But still can’t believe I watched this is school as a treat

80s childhood!

The Black Rabbit 😱😱😱😱😱

I was 6 or 7 and saw it at the cinema. Terrifying!

It was never woundwort or the bad rabbits that bothered Me though they were a bit scary.

But the black rabbit scared me out of my wits.

And the creepy Warren where the rabbits got amazing food but every now and again one of them would just .... disappear ...

I loved it as a child, must have been 6 when I first watched it. Looking back a lot of films I watched were quite dark in places but watership down has blood so did go the extra mile lol

Watched aged 5, still terrified of rabbits now decades on.....

@NakedBanana

I watched Jaws when I was 13 on a bootleg VHS video. Traumatised me for life. Still won't go in deeper than waist height sea!

Think there are many of my generation who have an irrational fear of sharks because of that bloody film!

I have to say, despite going 2km+ open water swims I STILL have an irrational fear of random sharks!

@MargaretFraggle oh my goodness I loved Totty the Story of the Dolls House. No one else ever remembers it. Or Marchpain.

Misbeehived Marchpain was horrifying!

I have just googled the plot to The Road to Terabthia and am slightly traumatised

The Road to Terabthia sounds like the manic pixie dreamgirl trope for children?

I watched it when I was about 6. I genuinely still have a recurring nightmare about it and I'm in my 30s. It's harrowing.

NEVER! Absolutely horrifying, I was traumatised by it and wouldn't let my children watch it.
But then maybe they're not as sensitive as me so would possibly be OK..... I saw the original Jurassic Park at the cinema at the age of 5 and had nightmares for weeks about being eaten by dinosaurs; my eldest was keen to watch it at the age of 6 and he loved it so
But Watership Down is terrifying. Just no at any age.

Never, I wish I had never seen it as that image of them being buried in their warren is etched into my mind forever

@WeatherwaxLives Apparently, aged 5, I made my mum stay in the cinema through the repeat of the 'supporting feature' film and the intervals until we saw Bambi's mummy alive again. Only then I was prepared to leave.
'Traumatised' doesn't begin to address those issues!

@Horehound

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Nailed if first post 😆