Messed up films/shows from your childhood

I think of these horrible creatures every time I a WTB Riddler.

Never knew there was a prequel to Final Destination

Definitely not a kids film, but my Dad let me watch Akira with him when I was 5 or 6. This scene gave me nightmares for at least a month afterwards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_1qRVdIBs

Orm and Cheep, just the sickliest intro ever. Probably not that harrowing in hindsight but it touched a nerve in 3yo me.

One of the joys of going to primary school in a tiny village with a load of farmers kids was that I was compelled to watch this three years on the trot. It unfortunately didn't stop one of my friends falling down the gap in huge stack of hay bales whilst we were playing and having to be rescued by his dad basically dismantling the entire stack with his tractor before he died of asphyxiation.

My gf used to give me a bit of grief about my ability to catastrophise in pretty much any situation until I got her to watch this and explained it was a key part of my childhood. I seem to remember 'The spirit of dark and lonely water' and another where a kid electrocutes himself rescuing his football also gave me actual nightmares. To be honest I'm amazed I ever leave the fucking house even now!

I was at a school out in the country and we would get shown a few of these explicit child death movies before every summer holiday.

This was good, they didn’t really hold back on this one, the finishing line.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=slJyhOEo-SY

This scene still shits me up aged 34. I def watched Akira young and that also really stuck with me.

I’m of the Wizadora, Riddlers and Greenclaws generation. Some seriously weird business going on.

On the flip side of that era were the very awesome Bitsa! And of course:
https://youtu.be/SFt3WlSi4_U

Pancake day soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WERMGYQBXwc

That's truly awful - especially the sound of the train on the opening credits..

Not sure if re-post but this ruined learning for me.

https://youtu.be/5zIbEoGRt-Q

Bez..!

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When I was a kid my dad banned me from watching Akira, I was very much under the assumption that it it was animated then it was for kids, I then watched it on the Sci-Fi channel when i was 13/14, and loved it ever since, I must have seen it at least 20x. I hated it when they changed the voices on the remaster, it was totally unnecessary. I took my friend to see Akira the other year and I was quite surprised when I asked him if he wanted to go, that he actually did, and even more surprised that he actually enjoyed it, as Tarkofsky is about as Sci Fi as he gets.

Urotsukidōji - is fucked up.

Another thing I watched was MTV - Oddities, The Head I really enjoyed as a kid, but The Maxx, I didn't really get, but then I rewatched it a few years ago, and really enjoyed it, and the animation is excellent!

I’ve been lucky enough to see Akira in the cinema: at an all night anime event including other bangers like Ghost in the Shell, Dead Leaves and all 3 Patlabor movies. Was a great night but 12 hours in a packed cinema full of other nerds drinking Monster, eating snacks, farting, snoring and generally making themselves a bit too comfortable dragged by the end of it.

If you can find a proper screening for Akira it’s well worth it. There’s a cinema in Oxford you can book out, is that a thing in London?

Sapphire and Steel. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.

It was worse than Doctor Who at the time. Although I do enjoy watching it now due to young Joanna Lumley.

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Fuck me, I was very young when this came out, and years afterwards thinking back I couldn't work out whether it was just a really vivid nightmare I'd had, because... well it obviously wasn't fictional, and yet that couldn't really happen, could it?? Really gave me the shivers again when I found it on youtube a few years ago. Ugh!

Yeah Sapphire and Steel was well spooky

There was a TV programme on after school around the same time called Shadows. It was essentially Tales of the Unexpected for kids. Terrifying!

https://youtu.be/7FWl6jfpvvQ

another where a kid electrocutes himself rescuing his football

Robbie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-QmI78uQM
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Robbie still keeps his [football] boots.
Nobody knows why.
Not even Robbie.
After all, they'll never be any use to him.
Chances are, he'll spend the rest of his life...
...in his wheelchair.

I watched this and Apaches at school, and fairly sure it was infants, i.e. 7 or younger.
I believe it's genuinely affected my anxiety levels long term, as per @alfreddo.

Bloody hell, I remember that coat hanger motherfucker!

This messed up my head big time too especially after a few ales - I’d get all morbid and watch it to scare myself... I have it on dvd

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190925-was-threads-the-scariest-tv-show-ever-made

Jesus, I had forgotten about the Robbie Film, had his feet chopped off by a train - brutal!

This was pretty fucked up as well. I bought it on DVD about 5 years ago but still could not make any sense of it, I reckon you needed to be on acid to 'get it'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO61a-8K2Kc

That had The Cat in it right from Red Dwarf? Danny John0-Jules. I remember watching that.

I was definitely too young to be watching Hellraiser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5_-ZqJKzNc

Chorlton and the Wheelies had a witch who was pretty terrifying.

Teenage years -
When the wind blows - 1986 movie.

I've got an audio book version of Where the Wind Blows on vinyl, I've absolutely no idea where it came from, just turned up in my records.

Hah yeah don’t watch Threads.