People Are Sharing The Child-Friendly Movies That Traumatized Them As Kids, And I Agree With Several Of Their Choices

"When Vada starts crying about how he needs his glasses, it gets me every time." —u/rojarty

"I actually didn't remember him being allergic to bees, so for the longest time I thought that dying was just the normal reaction to that many bee stings. Suffice it to say, I was quite scared of bees as a kid. Actually still a bit scared of them because of that movie." —u/Kardessa

"The scene where all the guys in white suits showed up scared me so much." —u/dotardiscer

"I first saw E.T. when I was like 5. I was totally fine with it up until E.T. was face down in the water, pale [and] dying. That's the part that freaked me out to the core. I couldn't watch it again for six years." —u/theowlsfavoritejoke

"From Bambi's mom to Old Yeller, Walt Disney has the blood of generations on his hands." —u/Rocketop999

"Fu*king Bambi. My mom died, and I watched that movie a few months after. Nobody told me Bambi’s mom died." —u/ImaginationSad2803

"They billed it as such a wonderful fantasy movie, and it's just, 'Hey kid, imagine if the person you cared about the most died. Isn't that fun? Your parents paid for you to cry!'" —u/2d6BrainDamage

"This is the only kids movie that genuinely traumatized me to this day, just [because] I had no idea going in. It was brutal for me as a 12-year-old. I was watching it on TV, and my parents came running after I started bawling my eyes out." —u/Flubber_finder

"The Brave Little Toaster goes way harder than any modern cartoon ever would. It's kind of a downer movie. Well, not really, but it's not a 'happy, adventurous' cartoon journey. It's a discomforting, morbid kind of travel story. These kitchen appliances are suffocating in quicksand/mud or getting their innards pulled out by humans. Not to mention the human that almost gets crushed at the end and the toaster that actually gets crushed." —u/Tezypezy

"The sinkhole was the part that gave me nightmares. Kirby in denial and Blanky’s last words: 'I’m not scared.' Holy shit, that scene gave me nightmares. Literally even the happy parts in the movie are terrifying." —u/pau7les

"It teaches the lesson that people only care about you if you can do something for them, and that’s it’s somehow okay to be bullied when you can’t." —u/Redacted_G1iTcH

"For a Christmas special, it's really mean-spirited. People would hate it if it came out today." —u/ScorpionX-123

"I still have random nightmares about overly large fruits." —u/xBLACKxW1NGx

"I found the aunts to be absolutely terrifying; like, I would pretty frequently have nightmares about them." —u/selloboy

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame is darker than I remember as a child. The one torture scene took me by surprise because I definitely didn’t remember that." — Anonymous

"That movie fucked me UP as a 4-year-old! I knew something intensely fucked up was happening during the opening scene when Frollo tried to throw Quasimodo in the well. I was terrified and fascinated — like baby's first existential horror, LMAO. I had nightmares about the red-robed monks for ages!" —u/marm0rada

"My mom desperately tried to convince me to stop watching The Land Before Time when I was little. I ended up being an absolute sobbing mess every time I watched it, but kept insisting that I wanted to watch it. My mom eventually just threw the tape away and told me it broke." —u/Sunshine030209

"I still remember watching it on VHS. My mother was baking cookies. I felt a breakdown coming on from Littlefoot's mom fighting to the death. I pretended to test the cookies from the next room while quietly sobbing. The cookies [were] a little soggy from quiet tears, but good nonetheless." —u/IntheCompanyofOgres

"My dad took my brother and me to see it when we were kids, and I never forgot the scene where the severed arm was replaced by a stick." —u/arbitrarytrombone

"That entire movie was a fucking fever dream; even now, just the vibe of the kid being alone among all these adults is just a weird vibe." —u/KeepCalmCarrion

"My baby cousin (about 2 at the time — I was 12) was messing with the remote and put it on randomly. Landed right at the scene when Dumbo gets drunk and starts hallucinating. Within moments we were both crying, and I turned it off. Still haven't seen that movie in full, 14 years later, and I never will." —u/Nik-ki

"All the stuff that happens at the beginning with Dumbo's mom, and when she's in the cage and they're saying goodbye and she's rocking him with her trunk. That shit would still make me bawl my eyes out today, guaranteed." —u/anonmymouse

"Full-blown sexual assault as a throwaway joke on multiple occasions." —u/Totes_Not_an_NSA_guy

"The scene where they flattened Judge Doom and he gets back up haunted my childhood." —u/DeadpoolsGirl

"'I can feel my body dying all around me' was a line that stuck with me as a kid. My sister and I used to cry whenever she got turned into a human. Such a cruel thing to do to an immortal creature." —u/LVII

"I was way too young when it was in the theaters. I was in those full-body sobs by the end." —u/gobobro

"The scene where they take off their faces is pure nightmare fuel."  —u/International_Lake28

"The scene with the girl in the painting moving and aging while trapped. I freaked the hell out as a kid and had to be dragged out of the theatre. To this day, any media that references being trapped in any form of media freaks me out, and I have severe problems with mirrors." —u/galactabat

"The NeverEnding Story had this one scene where a knight approaches this gate. I VIVIDLY remember this gate fucking pulverizing the knight. When the protagonist walks by the knight's corpse, the visor of his helmet flips up to leave nothing there. I turned off the TV, probably pissed my pants, and most definitely had nightmares about it." —u/polarkaiser

"My mom took me to [see] it at the cinema. The horse died, and I was done. [I] had a meltdown, and she had to take me out the theater. I have never watched the rest of it." —u/Solifuga