we all have that movie we saw too young and probably scarred us for life.
RETURN TO OZ
The Secret of NIMH
The Shining. I was eight. Thanks, dad.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. I was also eight. I had nightmares about those ear-worms for days. My mother has not forgiven the birthday-party-mom who took us to see it and it’s been thirty-five years. I’m over it (it’s one of my favorite movies now) but my mother…she will never be over it.
Yes! The ear-worms! I saw it at the drive-in with my family. It was the second feature and I don’t remember the first and I don’t think I was awake for the whole ST movie but I will never forget the ear-worms.
Also Poltergeist.
MOVIE? I didn’t need a movie; TV was enough. Land of the FREAKING Lost, anyone?
Oh my god, the ear-worms. Those things still skeeve me out.
Clan of the Cave Bear and the weird caveman rapes. Just…Mom!
Princess Mononoke.
Those demon worms that burrowed into people’s skin?
The way that Moro’s severed head crawled across the ground to bite off Lady Eboshi’s arm?
The way the Spirit of the Forest’s head gelatinized after being shot off?
This was not a children’s animated movie
The Wiz. Yeah it’s a musical. And yeah the evil queen, like puts the scarecrow in a steamer.
Also Return to Oz included electroshock and was a generally very fucked up movie