Jurassic Park for me. I had an amazing JP jumper when I was like…maybe 6. It was far too big for me but I loved dinosaurs. Naturally this meant I wanted to watch the film because…well I’m 6 and it’s got dinosaurs.
Ultimately I ended up watching it with my Mum and Dad. We got as far as the iconic T-Rex chase scene and I told them to turn it off. Didn’t go near the film for another few years.
I’ve now got my own 6 year old. There’s no scenario I could envisage where I even consider letting her watch a film as gory, tense and frightening as JP.
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I’m American, but these are my examples:
- The Incredibles was the biggest offender in my childhood: it was sensory overload for me from the workplace scene to the jokes to the villain all done in a viciously brutal Pixar story formula.
- Despicable Me was another contender because that film I don’t consider friendly to kids now, because characters are jerks and the villains are the minor ones pulling all the strings (Miss Hattie and Mr. Perkins scared me badly).
- Tangled, mostly because of Mother Goethe verbally abusing Rapunzel and stabbing her boyfriend in the stomach only to get killed.
- Wreck-It Ralph also has everyone hating on Ralph for being a villain, Vanellope gets shoved into a puddle of chocolate by her own kind, Calhoun is an abusive bastard, Turbo doesn’t even belong in a movie meant for kids as a villain even though he dies a goofball later.
- Transformers: Age of Extinction, mostly because of Joshua Joyce abusing his role although the rest of the movie was okay.
- Marvel’s Avengers was fine, but Bruce Banner/Hulk and Loki were convincingly scary.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- The Boy and The Beast was a brutal coming-of-age film, but I saw it when I was a teenager.
- Black Panther, most overrated Marvel movie
- Moana, for an unpleasant fomula film
- Zootopia, worst movie ever made
You could say any film is going to scare me.
