What's The Problem With Showing Watership Down At Easter?

[sp1814]

Pretty scary for young kids whenever it's shown, surely?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/watership-down-parents-left-horrified-as-1978-animated-film-traumatises-children-on-easter-sunday-a6956061.html

[Prudie]

I was considering posting this. I have an undecided view. I read the book as a student and found it really upsetting, likewise the film. I can see you might expect it to be a Disneyesque story of rabbits but it's quite brutal and disturbing in parts. I can only imagine the parents hadn't read/seen/heard of it before.

[Islay]

What overkill!!

I would have thought that most people are aware that bunnies get harmed and would have decided against their little darlings watching it if the little darlings were that sensitive!

[EDDIE51]

Watership Down
You've read the book
You've see the film
Now try the Pie!

[-Talbot-]

Perhaps it should have been screened later in the day ... Watershed Down.

[wolf63]

I don't have human little ones but they tend to be pretty robust animals who like a bit of 'yucky' stuff. Some of the old cartoons had people blown up and decapitated.

Watership Down is more likely to make adults a bit upset. I couldn't watch Babe with a clear conscience.

[Old_Geezer]

The parents should tell them that they're acting like kids, and should grow up !

[-Talbot-]

I'm still having counselling for Bambi.

[Marshwarble]

"You've see the film
Now try the Pie!"

This was actually used in several butcher's windows.

[sp1814]

the film came out when I was 12, and by that age I had no problem with the story (or depiction of death). Not sure how I would have reacted had I been pre-school.

But then, my irresponsible parents allowed me to watch 'The Incredible Journey' when I was about eight years old, which gave me recurring nightmares right up until my teenage years.

[Booldawg]

I was about 10 when it came out and remember seeing it at the cinema. Think we were more amused by the seagull that appeared to be saying the ruder version of pee off.

[Prudie]

I'm wondering if it's the kind of story that upsets girls rather than horrid little boys...

[wolf63]

sp ~ when I first left home 'The Incredible Journey' was on TV one weekend and me and my dog sat and watched it. Towards the end the old dog was still struggling up the hill and the family were shouting for him (Bodger?) . I was crying.

Then the phone rang and my mum said "I bet you are sitting crying over that stupid dog', 'Bodger! Oh Bodger' she mocked and hang up.

Great film

[mushroom25]

did anyone (besides me) get freaked out by this guy when you were a kid?
https://thecinematicpackrat.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/the-child-catcher.jpg

[sp1814]

wolf63

My mistake. The film you're referring to was indeed 'The Incredible Journey'. The film that actually gave me nightmares was 'Fantastic Voyage' (you can see why I got the titles mixed up).

Still gives me chills.

[wolf63]

Fantastic voyage - was that the mini sub going around a guy's body?

[Prudie]

The one that freaked me out for months was Cruella in Disney's 101 Dalmatians.

[retrocop]

Quatermass and the Pit gave me night sweats. I was about 8yrs.

[ToraToraTora]

that's the one wolf, and Raquel Welch was in it!

[ToraToraTora]

The TV Show "Lost in space" used to terrify me as a saucepan! if you see it now it's like something off Blue Peter!

[wolf63]

Retro -Quatermass and the Pit was very creepy. There was a series too.

TTT - Lost in Space was for kiddies. I used to watch it on TV.