When you introduce your kids to the stuff you used to watch when you were their age, you realize that some of that stuff is actually pretty messed up.
Here’s a list of 10 disturbing movies that millennial parents show their kids:
1. “The Dark Crystal” (1982): Yeah, it’s a Jim Henson puppet movie, but some of those puppets are legit NIGHTMARE FUEL.
2. “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey” (1983): Okay, so the two dogs and the cat make it back home safely, but it’s pretty traumatic watching them face constant peril . . . G rating or not.
3. “Matilda” (1996): Based on the book by the now-infamous Roald Dahl, it features neglectful parents and an evil teacher who throws children by their hair and force-feeds them as punishment.
4. “Labyrinth” (1986): A teenage girl calls out to the Goblin King to take her baby brother away, then instantly regrets it and tries to get him back. Featuring David Bowie in some seriously tight pants as the Goblin King.
5. “The Witches” (1990): Roald Dahl again, and these witches are seriously creepy . . . even for adults.
6. “Legend” (1985): Before he played Pennywise in the ’90s version of “It”, Tim Curry was pretty terrifying as the Lord of Darkness.
7. “Willow” (1988): It starts with an evil queen slaughtering pregnant women and their babies, in order to thwart a prophecy that says a child about to be born will end her reign.
8. “The Secret of NIMH” (1982): A G-rated animated movie about the National Institute of Mental Health experimenting on rats. (???)
9. “Hook” (1991): Robin Williams’ grown-up version of Peter Pan has to rescue his children from Captain Hook, but he doesn’t come off as a terribly good dad.
10. “Return to Oz” (1985): Electroshock therapy, wheelie monsters, and a room featuring an evil princess’s extra heads? That’s quality children’s entertainment right there.
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