This is one of those movies that feels like they never existed, almost like a fever dream

Holy shit I just remember how fucking scary the wild things are

This fucking movie legitimately, fully freaked me out when I watched it in school as a kid. It frightened me in ways horror movies didn't. Something about the way you couldn't fully trust the monsters, ever, and how the boy acted, the dark tones... idk.

this movie scared me more than some horror movies did as a kid. The idea that his "friends" would eat him at any moment freaked me out.

This movie was a lot darker than I remember...

“You don’t want to make this guy angry” *suddenly realizes* OH IT’S MARK RUFFALO- *DIES*

When I was younger, this movie scared me so much. In fact it still creeps me out. Glad to see I’m not the only one 😭

Unpopular opinion?: I actually really enjoyed this movie as a kid. I loved that the monsters were scary and I liked the music. I still occasionally listen to the soundtrack to this day.

Drinking game: Take a shot every time someone says “Max”

I have the weirdest sense of dread associated with this movie. I’ve never been able to rewatch this movie since the first time when I was a kid.

Watched this again on a flight and cried. I relate to his anger and deep sadness for feeling misunderstood and not knowing how to handle it. Even though I would never do this as a kid I connect to his emotions, imagination and dream like state

All i remember about this movie is that it scarred me for life. Especially when the bird guy got his arm ripped off

This movie freaked me out so much as a kid I couldn’t even go past when he got eaten

This movie scared the hell out of me when I was 7 lol. I still prefer the book.

"That's racist." That's of-fence-ive. (sorry)

the book where the wild things are was basically my childhood but the movie is more depressing than the book.

i thougt this movie was just so weird fever deam i had ._.

“Everything wrong with 17 again” tbh that movie is weird as hell

everyone saying they don’t like this movie but i loved this movie, the cinematography was great, the message of the movie could be decided by yourself and it was a big part of my childhood

This is like the nostalgia you don’t want to have.

Jesus Christ, this movie is real!? I thought this was a fever dream.

Only in a fantasy movie can a child get away with screaming and biting their parents without getting the mother of whoopings.

I remember parents being absolutely PISSED when they brought there kids to watch this when it came out and now I’m seeing those same kids talk about how terrified they were to see it. I’m so happy 😂

Am I the only one who wasnt scared of this movie. I watched it in the theaters and found it so amazing as a kid, it has always been a comforting movie to me even to this day. Watching it after all these years made it way more enjoyable because now I'm able to understand and appreciate it in a way I couldnt before making it even more incredible to me then it already was. This movie and the book as well will forever be apart of me and mean a lot to me

"is there really happiness without ppiness?" *Oh shit he's right*

This was the scariest thing ever as a kid.

"less than 14 minutes" Actual video time 16 minutes That's 2+ sins

I hope you manage to include m favourite exchange : "Carol!" "What?" "THAT was my favorite arm!"

This movie is actually hella depressing

I just came here to say that this movie traumatised me as a child. That's all. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

i’m 16 years old and just rewatched the movie and i’m almost crying of nostalgia and how deep the film is emotionally and psychologically. the movie is based on the imagination of a child

This was one of the most joyless and depressing movies I've ever seen. I walked out of the theater genuinely sad. I wouldn't have thought it possible to leach every single ounce of magic out of the book, yet somehow they managed it.

Up next: The Giving Tree, but the tree is from Wizard of Oz and throws its apple, branches, and logs at the boy.

When your allegory for puberty comes off as a journey into schizophrenia.

12:54 I was one of those kids. At the ripe age of 8, that arm ripping scene traumatized me so much that to this day every single nightmare I had has someone's arm get ripped off 😌

As soon as I got done watching it, I wanted there to be a sequel. Where a little later, Max goes back with some more life experience and helps his inner monsters through “their” problems.

This movie was so off putting when I watched it in theaters as a kid

"Are we supposed to be rooting for this kid?" Well, according to the book, no. That's the whole point. This is not at all a criticism of the video, I just find it interesting.

When I was little I found max to be incredibly relatable as a child with adhd and other problems

Mom: go play with the neighbor’s kid The neighbor’s kid:

I’ll be honest, I forgot this movie existed until this video. I didn’t like it

This is where my childhood fears of having my arms ripped off by a ,monster came from

Nobody is talking about how genuinely funny this movie is too though. Judith especially has some funny one liners, and despite the bird guy getting his arm ripped off literally being the most traumatic thing ever, him having a stick arm after was funny.

WOMAN FEED ME obviously hes been learning from his dad. Also, thats hilarious coming from a kid.

This movie was a fever dream, and it was terrifying

i’m a time traveler

I was literally talking about this movie the other day with some friends of mine about how terrifying the scene of Carol trying to eat Max was

I played tackle kickball as a child and it was called “Smeer the Queer” which I now realize is super homophobic

who else got scared of this movie when they were little? i did... *it scared the hell out of me*

Wait, this isn’t just a book!? When was someone gonna tell me?

this movie scared the SHIT out of me as a kid i’m 14 now and those weird ass creatures still scare me now. Spent the last 20 minutes trying to find this movie and at one point i thought it didn’t exist and my mind was bugging. Gives me a weird, scary nostalgia.

I loved this movie, i thought the monsters were cute but the boy was the scary one!!

This movie creeped me out so much as a kid. My primary school took us to a cinema to watch it and I remember being confused and scared as heck.

Everything wrong with Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

I took my older kid to watch this when it first came out. I remember thinking "well this is really a kid's movie for adults, huh". Later that night I met my younger kid's dad. Later still, I discovered that my former bestie was actually one of the monster actors in this. Odd couple of coincidences for me, my guy.

I remember watching this in the theater when I was like 8 or 9 and then absolutely SOBBING my eyes out when max had to leave the wild things and go back home. I just watched it for the first time in about 13 years and I still don't know why I was crying so hard at the time. I mean it was sad but.... damn💀

This movie gives me anxiety and I don't know why.

Commenters: "This movie scared me as a kid" Me: Had a 9-year-old and 12-year-old when this movie came out. *sigh*

Damn, I remember going to see this in the cinema on a school trip and everyone made fun of me for crying 😂

As a kid i loved this movie and to this day i still do and now i finally know why, i have md (maladaptive daydreaming) and this movie reminds me of it, its about a kid who is unsatisfied with his life and escapes to his mind and lives in his daydreams with monsters who care and love for him, i was like this as a kid i was disconnected from reality and was unhappy with my life without even be old enough to understand that, i created a world in my head full of beautiful forests trails and roads, creatures big and small and castles filled with amazing people to meet who were my friends, and i loved this world and all the people in it with all my heart and soul but, i felt as if i had no connection or love for real life at all, i was so sad and miserable that the only thing that really brought me any happiness or any emotion at all really was being in this make believe world in my head just like this kid, i was able to get past this stage of my life but still struggle to fully immerse myself into real life without wanting to escape to my daydreams but ive gotten better at handing my md and love my life now, i can definitely honestly say this movie resonates with me and has always had a place in my heart truly this movie is a one of a kind masterpiece. also sorry for my terrible grammar and spelling :,)

The real wild things were the friends we made along the way

This movie is creepy af

This movie made me so viscerally uncomfortable the first time I watched it

One of the best ever childhood movies I watched growing up...it's so deep and emotional, hence why many people don't understand and hate on it. If you know, you know. You have to relate to Max to understand the movie.

I haven't seen this movie since long before my parents divorced. This hits a bit different now.

Me, who knew the book since childhood: Wait there’s a movie?! 👁👄👁

This brought back so much nostalgia..

Please tell me i wasn't the only one that found this movie aesthetic and beautiful and maybe a bit scary and now i find it so funny and nostalgic!

I used to play a game called "Kill the Carrier" where the literal goal was just to tackle and force the ball out from the kid with the ball. I assume that's what they were playing.

I remember this movie scared me as a kid when he ripped the bird creatures arm off

Between the sleep pile scene and the stomach scene (not to mention how freaking dark this movie is), this movie I think legitimately is the reason for my claustrophobia.

I remember watching this as a young kid...scared the shit out of me. Glad I didn't remember much of it until watching it being sinned just now

This movie honestly creeped me out, and the book was nightmares for me.

I wish I didn’t know about this movie

This is a movie enjoyable by kids but truly appreciated by those who's childhoods are behind them, as it revisits raw emotions we only feel between that akward time of still being a child and being expected to grow up, the monsters are us, wild, sensitive, insecure children, who hate change, want attention, and have fears of being abandoned or left behind.

I remember feeling like Max never earned his redemption...was I wrong? (actually asking...I don't remember much about this movie...)

Literally everyone has read this book. It has more memories than like half of the Julia Donaldsons for me.

“Expecting a fence to go two different directions” I lost it 😂

I saw the movie as a kid and I still love it. Wonderfully bizarre.

Ok, can we just say, Where the Wild Things Are, is a really emotional movie, it's based off the first ever book I ever read and I love it

Kid: "Feed me woman!" The revolution: "The way of the future..."

Everything wrong with Lady and the Tramp (2019 - Live Action)

I watched that movie a little too young and I have always had an extreme fear of snow forts or houses of anything collapsing on me, so I was traumatised. I haven't been able to go in a snow fort with a ceiling ever since lol. They really showed emotion well, I'll give 'em that.

I remember when I was younger my school took us on a field trip to the movie theaters and we watched this movie looking back at it now i don’t know what they were thinking im surprised this movie didn’t give us all nightmares especially when that one guys arm got torn off😂🤣

In the end of the day were all our Inner Wild Child.

this is basically sesame street on acid

I watched this in theatre as a school trip, I don’t remember feeling scared. But uneasy how quickly Max and the other things emotions switched so quickly

I got this movie on dvd from my nana when I was 9, and the things on the cover scared me so much I never watched it, 6 years later it still has the plastic seal on it, somewhere in my house...

This whole movie feels like a fever dream

This was better off as a children’s book.

The Truman Show reference made my day. That movie and Groundhog Day are the best.

I actually remember crying at the end of the movie

I feel like I'm one of the few people that liked this movie. It's not a movie for kids, it's a movie about childhood. Yeah Max is selfish, but all little kids are. It's a representation of him trying to figure out the world and other people.

That thumbnail poster art looks like a Banana Splits reject leading a kid off to get a "special backstage access pass" I can't be the only one who remembers that show from Boomerang.

I watched this once as a kid, that scene of Carol punching that wall has been living rent free in my head for 10 years

I'm glad I watched this as a teen instead of as a child, my mom refused to let my brother and I see the movie when we were children because she had heard how scary it was, but I loved the book so I was really sad when she said we couldn't watch it, but boy am I glad she did.

My parents showed me this when I was a kid and I can honestly say it has scarred me for the rest of my life 😭

This movie is much more darker to me now than when I first saw it as a child

This truly is a gorgeous film and it’s really stuck with me and I love it

Someone in school forgot the title of this movie and tried to describe it, and everyone thought he was crazy except me. That literally shows how insane this movie is.