Comments on: The Darkest Moment in the History of Children’s Films

By: bri

bri — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:53:04 +0000

they dont make films like this anymore…..everything has to be soo happy so we dont disturb our kids…..i dont think i have seen a kids film with any creepy parts in a while. i mean even pixtar has gone soft…..i remember when Sid from Toy Story was the scariest kid ever…and still is, and how Hopper would try to smoosh the ant’s heads, or the creepy snake monster in Monster’s INC. Now its all about happy rats cooking food.

By: ken

ken — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:27:00 +0000

Any pity for the Gelflings?

Henson didn’t leave much doubt when he named his film, ‘The DARK crystal’.

By: Manders

Manders — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:42:40 +0000

I’m also slightly disturbed, but I think I remember hearing once that this movie’s storyline is supposed to contain some “Christ/Resurrection” themes. You know…Toaster dies to save the Master, then the Master takes him and makes him whole and new again. Anybody? Anybody? No?

Secret of NIMH, An American Tale and The Land Before Time, though? Making children cry like that is just mean.

By: Zzyzx

Zzyzx — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:13:23 +0000

@neubauer: I 10000% agree with your fear of running over the cord with the vacuum. That green vacuum screwed me up. If I’m ever in a situation where I’d have to vacuum a house with an indoor waterfall, I think I’d pass out and shit myself.

I remember having a fear of throwing out my old things as a kid. I’d hide my old, ratty socks from my mother so she wouldn’t throw them away while I was at school. I honestly believe, and still believe, that inanimate objects that serve me well in life deserve to be treated with dignity after their useful life is over. Cars, especially.

There were a lot of dark animated movies back then. Remember “An American Tale”? I’ll stop there. I’m depressed enough. Fievel would make it worse.

Well, goodnight, slothead.

By: J.D

J.D — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:16:23 +0000

I think there is a period in everyones life when The Wizard of Oz is their favorite film. The darkest moment in children’s films for me probably came when Dorothy Gale is given electroshock therapy in the 1985 film Return To Oz. I’ll never trust Auntie Em again.

By: Doyle

Doyle — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:04:47 +0000

dude. ruining my favorite childhood movie. haha

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:52:01 +0000

I love this film. I loved in when I watched on VHS at my grandma’s house as a pre-teen and I love it now. It’s beautiful, dark and deep.

By: neubauer

neubauer — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:48:22 +0000

@ Katie: To this day I am afraid of vacuuming over the cord! I had forgotten about the origin of this fear until now. Come to think of it, the times I’ve seen a large magnet in a junk yard, I get creeped out. Wow. I wonder what other subconscious appliance issues I have as a result of watching this movie. I watched it probably every other day at some point as a child, but I only remember the “city of life” song. The rest is blacked out…

By: Spunk-Monkey

Spunk-Monkey — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:08:34 +0000

That movie really had some hot and cold animation moments; some parts were executed amazingly well while many other sequences are straight-to-dvd quality. I had thought the most disturbing part was the musical low where the “new” home appliances sing an amazingly annoying superiority song. But there’s a sequel that tops that sequence, featuring Carol Channing as a singing ceiling fan. Even my toddler felt that she was being punished.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:17:11 +0000

Brave Little Toaster epitomizes what good animation can do for the average child, like Iron Giant did….today’s Dreamworks crapola is disgusting to say the least, dumbing our kids down even more….