Bambi names in top 25 horror movies by Time

[Mr_Tom_Morrow]

From Time.com

Amazing that the first movies parents took their tots to in the 30s and 40s were the early Disney features. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo all exploited childhood traumas. Parents disappear or die; stepmothers plot the murder of their charges; a boy skips school and turns into a donkey. Kids were so frightened by these films that they wet themselves in terror. Bambi, directed by David Hand, has a primal shock that still haunts oldsters who saw it 40, 50, 65 years ago

 

[CAPTAIN HOOK]

I would class Bambi as disturbing for its hunting scene - not a horror film. Its not a film that we associate with todays horror classics.

 

[Erika]

Traumatic :lol:

My daughter is not watching tv/movies yet but now and then she brings me a Disney book to read and because she likes lions, that book is often TLK. It is hard to explain to a 19 month old that "the daddy's little brother pushed him off the cliff and he died"

Bambi is equally awkward.

Personally, though, I always had a harder time with Dumbo.

 

[hoppypooh]

Well the modern ones are pretty traumatic too... The Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Toy Story, Finding Nemo etc.

 

[JustPlainBill]

I saw these animated feature films when I was a kid, I never found anything disturbing about them and today at the age of 42 I can honestly say I've long recovered from Bambi's loss. My kids enjoy these same films now and I don't feel any need to coddle or protect them from the message being presented.

 

[hoppypooh]

Well maybe it's because stories like Bambi, Dumbo, Lion King, Nemo etc. are realistic as opposed to fantasy/faeire tale creatures like witches.

 

[Erika]

I saw these animated feature films when I was a kid, I never found anything disturbing about them and today at the age of 42 I can honestly say I've long recovered from Bambi's loss. My kids enjoy these same films now and I don't feel any need to coddle or protect them from the message being presented.

:lol: No kidding, right? Although the Dumbo Baby Mine scene is still something I FF

I do think that... for kids older than mine :lookaroun ...it can be a good discussion opener about death and coping. My daughter's already lost a couple of loved ones but at 1 she is still too young to understand what that means other then she only sees them in photos now.

 

[JustPlainBill]

:lol: No kidding, right? Although the Dumbo Baby Mine scene is still something I FF

I do think that... for kids older than mine :lookaroun ...it can be a good discussion opener about death and coping. My daughter's already lost a couple of loved ones but at 1 she is still too young to understand what that means other then she only sees them in photos now.

I agree with you, my kids, (ages 7 & 9) are lucky that they haven't had anyone close to them pass away or have had any serious tragedy occur in their life time yet. I've had to explain to them why certain people aren't around though, like my father or brother for instance who died years before they were born. My youngest daughter adores Snow White, she at one time just a year or so ago believed that anyone who died only had to be "kissed" back to life. It took some gentle explaination to clear this up, but I know through my own personal experiance that my kids will never fully appreciate life's truly scary moments until they actually live through them. I won't protect them from these ideas or experiences, but I will try to explain it to them so they will be able to understand. These films can give kids a metaphor to draw from to try and make sense of these moments, even if it's just superficial, exaggerated or abstract. Bad things happen to everybody all the time, trying to shield our kids from these ideas will only make them more confused when these things eventually happen to them, IMHO.

 

[imagineer boy]

Well if you ask me, all of Disney's character deaths pale in comparison to Little Foot's mother's death in the first Land Before Time movie. It actually makes me cry very hard every time!

 

[Erika]

Well if you ask me, all of Disney's character deaths pale in comparison to Little Foot's mother's death in the first Land Before Time movie. It actually makes me cry very hard every time!

Oh, good call! I haven't thought of that in a LONG time.

 

[Bullredchaser]

Walt felt that kids could handle these stories.He once said that he heard stories sitting in Church about life and death,good vs evil,when he was kid.I agree with him that the first lessons I remember as a child was about life,death,where you go when you die when your good or bad.I guess some parents have concerns with there child learning about death as they may not feel comfortable with it themselves.In other countries like Mexico they have holidays like Day of the Dead where they celebrate there love ones and ancestors that have passed away and kids dress up,play with pinatas,and watch fireworks.All without any trauma.

 

[pluto77]

Oh, good call! I haven't thought of that in a LONG time.

That's probably because there's about 12 sequals all full of happiness, it kind of makes you forget about how good (and sad) the first one was.