The Most F**ked Up Kids' Movies Of All-Time

All Dogs Go to Heaven

"Our hero is released from prison, only to be MURDERED by his former boss via vehicular homicide. Then that dog eventually winds up being continuously tortured by demon dogs in Hell."

"The giant demon dog filling the town with blood red smoke at the end is some pretty terrifying imagery."

‐ Diwari

Brave Little Toaster

"Suicide and abandonment all around."

- SkuzzleJR

"The air conditioner haunted my nightmares."

- Longjumping_Fold_369

"For some reason the part when the vacuum tried to eat its cord really freaked me out as a kid."

- ThoriatedFlash

"There’s a lot of scary stuff in that movie but the flower might be the worst."

"I remember feeling like, despair for the first time as a child seeing that."

- purplefirefly6102

"The blender getting killed onscreen. I first saw Brave Little Toaster when I was around six, but I knew from the atmosphere of that scene what was really going on when you see the shadow of that wire getting cut."

"I was kind of horrified, and the the very next scene is another customer coming in asking for radio tubes and Radio is put on the chopping table but survives at the last second."

- EeSeeZee

Monster House

"The movie is literally about a man living in a house possessed by his dead wife and the house literally eats living creatures so I'd say that's what f**ked me up as a kid."

- Supa_saint

"Not just that, the dead wife was a circus freak and hated kids because they would always taunt her. So they move into this house and she dies."

"The husband who actually loves kids, now has to keep everyone away from the house or his wife will kill them."

"And then at the end the husband has to kill his wife aka the house."

"Too f**ked up for a kids' movie."

- whskid2005

Coraline

"Coraline scares me so much more as an adult than it ever did when I was a kid."

"I still love the movie and watch it several times a year, but somewhere between childhood and adulthood I got way more scared of dolls and puppets and sh*t, and I don’t actually know why."

"Like nothing happened to make them scarier."

- Writing_Nearby

"I loved Coraline as a kid. I still do!"

"And the books are actual nightmare fuel, but I highly recommend giving them a read because the lore is really interesting and the story is different."

- SimplyAurallz

Pinocchio - Disney animated version

"I'm surprised I was never traumatised by Disney's Pinocchio as a child, because watching it as an adult, there are moments that are straight up nightmare fuel."

- neohylanmay

"When the boy who is with Pinocchio turns into a donkey, he cries out for his mother. I can’t."

- MLAheading

"Ugh, watched it for the first time with my partner and two kids, during that scene all I could do is look at the two kids and wonder how they were not crying while I was on the brink of tears..."

- NurseJessisStressed

Peter Pan - Disney animated version

"The racism in Disney's animated Peter Pan is pretty f**ked up."

"Princess Tiger Lily and the song 'What Made the Red Man Red?' is just gross if you're an Indigenous kid watching it."

- LakotaGrl

The Cat In The Hat

"​The Cat in the Hat is something out of a back rooms nightmare in my opinion."

- hbombgomer12

"I literally just watched this, and I’m still questioning if I actually saw a movie, or just tripped out for 2 hours."

- LaMorak1701

The Last Unicorn

"Is The Last Unicorn even a kids movie? It's super scary."

"BTW I loved it as a kid and I still do. The whole Mommy Fortuna part was really dark, though."

- horschdhorschd

"I watched it in the last couple years. I never understood Molly Grue’s meltdown at realizing she was with a unicorn. That scene hit hard as an adult. Missing out on the things you wanted in your youth only for opportunities to come by too late. I cried."

- cats_and_vibrators

"Super scary and way more sexual than I remember from when I was a kid."

- lovemyneighbor

The Fox And The Hound

​"The Fox and the Hound. Still traumatized to this day."

- asayle88

"That move absolutely wrecked me as a child, and I refuse to watch it ever again."

- droopingcactus25

"My best friend and I wept in that movie."

- CraftyRole4567

E.T.

"​E.T. The scene where Elliott watches E.T. die is all kinds of traumatizing. Never mind the Christlike resurrection afterward, the damage is still done."

- Brilliant_Tourist400

"The bit where the kids find him in the ditch looking like a piece of fine Italian deli meat.."

"Also the feds in biohazard suits crashing through the kid's house scared the f**k out of me at 7 years old"

- feeb75

"Having your home invaded is terrifying enough....seeing it through the eyes of the kids and the mother screaming 'This is my home!' Sends chills down my spine."

- LaCroixBoy89

Where The Red Fern Grows

​"Where the red fern grows. My grade 5 teacher made us read it then watch it. I remember thinking she was an absolute b*tch before the movie. As an adult I’m 100% sure she hated children."

- DesperateFunction179

"My 5th grade teacher made us read the book and watch the movie too. She cried during the end of both."

- BadBackNine

"I read and watched this in 5th grade also. Shudder sobbed through most of it. Added it to my list of things that made me an overly empathetic adult"

- maiden-of-might

Dumbo — Disney animated version

​"Dumbo. The animal abuse, neglect, and let's not forget the 'Elephants on Parade' scene when Dumbo gets drunk. Have not been able to watch this movie as an adult."

- ArtisanalMagi

"I have a friend who made the mistake of showing it to a kid she was babysitting overnight. The moment the Baby Mine scene came up the kid was done. I think the night was unsalvageable."

- lowercase_underscore

"I was a really sheltered kid and never picked up on how awful it was. So then I have a kid and I’m like “oooo let’s watch Dumbo!” What in the actual f**k?!? I turned it off. I honestly don’t know if my kid ever watched the rest of it."

- littlescreechyowl

Bridge To Terabithia

"One of a few movies that have actually made me cry. I went in expecting some Narnia like thing and I was wrong. I still get mad thinking about that movie"

- KickittoHester

"My mom has still not forgiven me for asking to see it in theatre’s as a kid. We all bawled our eyes out. Same damn thing with Marley and me being shown on Christmas Eve, why did we go and why did they think that was an appropriate release to make people cry 😅"

- Troll101Catz

"I was having a terrible depression a few years ago, and decided to put on and watch a kids film to cheer me up. It couldn't have gone any worse tbf."

- BobbOShea

Watership Down

"This god forsaken movie was literally the source of ALL of my childhood nightmares. Deadass. Grandparents brought it over when I was 4. I was not ready."

"I don't blame them though, they didn't know lol"

- Flaminmallow255

"I've always been fascinated by this because I read the book quite young (I think I was seven or eight) and loved it instantly. I don't recall finding it upsetting at all, and it's remained my favourite novel into adulthood through many rereads (I've obviously come to appreciate the themes more as I've gotten older). The movie, alternatively, while pretty faithful to the book, I've always found pretty unsettling, even though I didn't watch it until I was an adult. I don't want to say it's not an appropriate story for kids, but there's just something about that movie..."

- VictoriaBells

"I saw it in the times before my memories form. Just uttering the title gives me chills."

- Sensitive_Ladder2235

While no one was hoping to traumatize kids with these films—we hope!—there were some really messed up moments described here.

So what's your most f*cked up kids' movie?