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Howard the duck or the hunchback of notredame

amidoinitrite?

@Marimba- Almost as disturbing as..

Batman beyond return of the joker.

Hunchback is dark, but not as much as The Black Cauldron

I could name five good ones off the top of my head.

- Bambi
- The Brave Little Toaster
- The Secret of NIMH
- Watership Down
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971 version)

The Fifth Element, I watched that when I was 8. Pretty dark but still badass!

IMO, all REALLY dark "kids'" films should have been rated PG or PG13, making them NOT kids' films

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/04/09/the-darkest-moment-in-the-history-of-childrens-films/

The 1980′s may have been morning in America, but children’s animation was full of nightmares. There was The Secret of NIMH (1982), in which a mother mouse struggles desperately to save her babies from drowning in the mud as they cry out in terror. There was The Black Cauldron (1985), which was so dark that Jeffery Katzenberg was afraid it would get a PG-13 rating, and made animators remove scenes like this. There was The Land Before Time (1988), which begins with the main character’s mother getting killed by a T-Rex.

But there’s dark, and there’s The Brave Little Toaster (1987). This movie is twisted…



This is a children’s movie about an adorable talking toaster. And at the end of the film, he jumps face-first into industrial machinery. We watch him get ripped apart. The fact that anyone thought this was appropriate for children amazes me….

All those "dark" films "for kids" I appreciate today, as somewhat an adult, due to their more serious portrayal of the world.

Coraline? That's pretty dark.

Also that one where it's all in Claymation and there's a talking mask or something which supposedly represents the devil, and it's talking to some children in a Model-Town sorta thing with tiny buildings and little clay people, and it destroys the town and kills all the little people in front of the children, showing them its power. More or less.

It's pretty dark.

@marimba

Satan says something pretty true, we are nothing.

CORRECTION:

That Satan scene is from the 1986 film, The Adventures of Mark Twain, btw if you guys didn't already know that.

the thing marimba posted was scary

This probably wasnt on in the states or where ever.It was sort of like goosebumps but the kids died in the end/trapped alive for all eternity.