Movies that traumatized me. Okay. So I was a sensitive and sheltered child and under an "animation only" mandate because in the 1980s pretty much all animated content was for children? Right? Well, no one told Mr. Don Bluth that. Mr. Bluth is sort of the anti-Walt Disney or at least a return to 1930s Disney where traumatizing your younger viewers was seen a character-building (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Snow White, early Disney had ZERO chill). He is responsible for such classics as "An American Tale" (the first one), "All Dogs Go To Heaven", "The Scret of Nihm", and the first three (I think) "Land Before Time" films. These things may be animated, but they ain't for kids, imo. I remember in particular being TERRIFIED of of various sequences, especially the doggy Lucifer smog demon (Mr. Bluth had A Thing about smog demons). All my friends have fond memories of this movie, but even after watching it as an adult, it was akin to watching the Pink Elephants sequence in "Dumbo": still trippy as hell and vaguely terrifying. I can at least appreciate how difficult that would have been to render using only paint and celluloid. Another "kid's movie" that left me with nightmares long after the fact was "The Brave Little Toaster". The repair shop and junkyard scene did me in. I can't watch it even now. Nooooooo thank you.
Movies that traumatized me. Okay. So I was a sensitive and sheltered child and under an "animation only" mandate because in the 1980s pretty much all animated content was for children? Right? Well, no one told Mr. Don Bluth that. Mr. Bluth is sort of the anti-Walt Disney or at least a return to 1930s Disney where traumatizing your younger viewers was seen a character-building (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Snow White, early Disney had ZERO chill). He is responsible for such classics as "An American Tale" (the first one), "All Dogs Go To Heaven", "The Scret of Nihm", and the first three (I think) "Land Before Time" films. These things may be animated, but they ain't for kids, imo. I remember in particular being TERRIFIED of of various sequences, especially the doggy Lucifer smog demon (Mr. Bluth had A Thing about smog demons). All my friends have fond memories of this movie, but even after watching it as an adult, it was akin to watching the Pink Elephants sequence in "Dumbo": still trippy as hell and vaguely terrifying. I can at least appreciate how difficult that would have been to render using only paint and celluloid. Another "kid's movie" that left me with nightmares long after the fact was "The Brave Little Toaster". The repair shop and junkyard scene did me in. I can't watch it even now. Nooooooo thank you.