If you go back and read the actual original grimms fairy tales no childrens movies will creep you out again.
in the original cinderella for example. One of the step sisters in order to fit her foot into the glass slipper chops her big toe off.
the prince in order to trap the princess has the steps of his palace smeared with pitch and when Cinderella makes her escape at midnight she loses the slipper in the pitch and almost tears her feet off.
At the royal wedding the step sisters get their eyes pecked out by birds.
In the three little pigs, the Wolf iirc actually eats the piggies, and then he goes to sleep by the river. While he's asleep a woodsman cuts the piggies out of the wolf's stomach, puts rocks in, sews him up and throws him in the river to drown.
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The Smurfs never really sat well with me either. That mean ugly man wanting to boil and eat them (or turn them into gold). The fact there was one female and all those males. There was an episode where a zombie-like plague went around. I remember being horrified seeing some of my favourite characters catch the disease. Then there was a another weird episode where some of the characters somehow became kids and stayed that way.
I recall Little House on the Prairie disturbing me too when the fever went around and some of the kids died. You just didn't expect it from that kind of show.
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I don't know, Gremlins was awesome. My girlfriend at the time insisting that I take her to see it.
And there are all these kids in the theatre with their folks, and Phoebe Cates tells the story of how her dad died stuck in the chimney and kids are sniffling and I burst out with the loudest laugh ever.
Sometimes its great to have those moments in the theater where its a sober moment or emotional moment and all you can see is how bad the script writers were on that dad.
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I was terrified of the ads for "The Nightmare Before Christmas" when I was a little kid.
Never even watched it until I was a teenager, obviously it isn't scary at all, but some of that stuff to a 5 year old is pretty freaky. Doesn't help that "This Is Halloween" used to play at the Calaway Park haunted mansion I was also afraid of.
Coraline is Neil Gaiman's swing at a kid's story, of course it's going to be a little weird and off-putting. But there is no excuse for Return to Oz. Holy #### what a creepy movie.
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Not creepy but there were those 30 minute cartoons that played near Xmas that were incredibly sad for a kids show.
- The Happy Prince
- The Littlest Mermaid (non disney version where she dies at the end)
- The Selfish Giant
Sad stuff for a little one.
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