Ok Pinocchio traumatized me as a kid! But that was because of the whole donkey parts! The entire time I was waiting for someone, anyone to save those kids. Nope! Instead I was horrified to realize those kids were stripped of their body autonomy and forced into donkeys to be sold forever by the very adults who took their body autonomy away. I can never watch that scene again after seeing it as a kid. That scene where that kid turns into a donkey and is terrified calling for his mom is burned into my brain forever! Like I just wanted someone to save them! But instead those kids never get the justice they deserved! Anyways, NIMH also terrified me too! But weirdly not as bad as Pinocchio because I can never watch Pinocchio again!

This movie is made to be an horror. Each scenes has "danger", "death" and "horror" flags everywhere without moment of peace. The protagonist is "always" addressed as a widow, and not as a super-brave mom. Her children has a deadly disease. Everything is big and could kill you. A spider can kill you. The cat is an invincible monster. The Owl is an unforgiving god that could easily kill you. The rats wear weapons and are 3 times taller. The wise wizard is so sick that looks like a Lich. Humans are monstrous gods that are impossible to communicate, and that bring only destruction and suffering. Also the magic pendant, that saves the day, has to burn the hands of the user, and transmits a sensation of dangerous power. Mostly of the locations are dark, with thorns or blades around, or with other death element. The "tragedy", past, present and potentially in future, fills the story. The comic reliefs characters looks weak, and in danger also. The movie is made to be traumatizing. Also the others animations of the same group have this feeling, but a lot less exacerbated, mostly Fievel and The Land Before Time.

I seem to remember that sort of "breathy" voice acting in animated movies was really common back in the day. I don't know if it is something about how they recorded, or because they used dramatic actors who didn't usually do voice work, or probably some weird reason I can't even imagine. I actually kind of like it, it makes everything seem dream-like, which can be a good thing in the right situation.

That's a shame with Watership Down because the book is a chill read and a masterpiece. I watched the movie first as well, but I was a teen when I watched it thank goodness. It absolutely is still not a read for everyone, but I appreciate the lore of the rabbits and the social commentary mixed with like how actual rabbits work in groups. I have found some amazing fanart of the rabbit who told most of the stories of the first rabbit El ah Enra or something like that. My fave was always Fiver.

I think I mixed up the original movie and the sequel in my memory bc for some reason I thought Mrs. Brisby ended up in NIMH, but that's Timothy's journey in the sequel. But the scene with the cinderblock trying to sink into the mud definitely had the most scary energy for me when I was little

I remember watching this movie when I was young too, but I wasn't as scared of it as you were. However, I was freaked out by one character from that movie, it was Brutus. The jump scare entrance, the cold eyes, the black cape, and the spear that would spark with electricity at every thrust. I was freaked out by him. It was also weird for me to read the book and learn that Brutus was way different in the book. I was also unsettled at the scene where the rats were experimented on. It conveys very well how much pain they endured and how inhumane the experiments were.

Pinocchio also got me as a kid. And Alice in Wonderland. NIMH didn’t. I was enthralled. I feel the MC shows the rats their biases about others were wrong. She ended up saving her kids and the rats. Though, yea. Being only known by her husband was rough.

I knew immediately what movie it was when I saw the thumbnail. This movie also traumatized me as a kid. And the wedding scene in Thumbelina.

I was in shock when Justin said "damn". Swearing in an animated film?! It was one of my favorite films growing up and today I've got a morbid streak. Go figure.

I've never even heard of the film but I remember reading the book (Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH) when I was around 7 or 8 and loving it. It's quite different

The secret of NIMH scared the crap out of me. Largely because of the Owl and the sound mixing. Omg the sound mixing. I also recommend reading the book. Jeremy actually only sticks around where his character is significant to the plot! Fun fact too: Book title is "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM" but they had to change it to Brisby thanks to a copyright claim from the company who owned the toy of the same name. Gotta love the 80s!

what confuses me is, i read the book there wasn't any magic in it that was just in the movie also gener while he was in the book and was a rat that didn't agree with the plan he just left with a few other rats that thought the same and that was it the movie has so much stuff that came the F out where and adds very little or outright muddles the theme the original theme was nature vs nurture with the question was it just the experiments that mad them smart or was it them using their smarts

I don't know why but as a child most stop motion animation movies terrified me. There's just something incredibly uncanny about them I couldn't take.

I am going to assume Jeremy acts the way he does as comedy for the rating system. I cannot confirm this, but the rating system for films can be very double standards and weird for reasonings (in the US at least.) For example Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame is rated G, for a film that includes a man claiming religion as acceptable reason to essentially try to commit genocide and has a song about his sinful sexual thoughts about a woman who wants nothing to do with him. The film is rumored to originally had been going to get a PG rating, so Disney added in the Gargoyles, the stone creatures that have zero narrative purpose supposed to be comedic relief, that was enough to make it G. Meanwhile Frozen got PG due to one sexual innuendo joke about the size of men’s feet. (The US rating system is stupid and I hate it)

"The Secret of NIMH" was my favorite movie as a kid. I was very young when I saw it, but I also loved horror by then. I am a little sad to hear it is now a little known film. The book was also excellent, though in the book, Justin dies. NIMH was going to exterminate the rats, and Justin died from the poison gas they used, because he was saving others inside.

I'm 32, parents figured out I suffered migraines at 3 and I ad Osgood Schlatter's which everyone misunderstood. Also I'm trans masc NB and autistic traits. Watching your videos feels like I've found a friend

A trailer for mobius popped up while I was waiting to watch this, and in it says that the main character was once disabled but relied on a curse to become able. If I know anything from your past videos is that it is not really disability representation if it's no longer about a disabled person.

The sequel to this movie sucked. There wasn't even a statue of Mrs. Brisby, just her husband and later of her son, who was just built up as a chosen one to take down NIM.

So, my favorite movie of all time is one that sorta traumatized me as a kid - it's The Last Unicorn. Try to guess which scene/character traumatized me as a kid. Was it the talking skeleton with glowing red eyes? Nope. How about the harpy Selene? Not at all! Maybe the Red Bull? Hmm... Nope. Definitely not. Oh! What about Mommy Fortuna or King Haggard? Absolutely not! It was........ The tree with giant tits. It didn't traumatize me because it was scary, but more so it was so freaking uncomfortable to sit through. I mean, seeing a wizard get suffocated to death by a tree's giant mommy milkers while she expresses her undying love for him and caresses his face with her vines was pretty freaking weird. But that didn't stop me from enjoying the film, though. I just skipped over that scene whenever it popped up. I can handle that scene now as an adult though.

This was such a great movie, the artistry of it is amazing, and it's so nostalgic to me

For me scary childhood movie was princes mononoke. My siblings had a brilliant idea one day to make me watch it when I was 4. The bore scene, when it's blood turns to maggots, didn't stop hunting me until few weeks after. But it was good movie though

Oh man I will definitely agree about Jimmy the Crow. It's pretty common for child movies to have a groan-worthy side character whose silliness can ruin the tone of more serious movies. Like the gargoyles in Hunchback of Notre Dame. The book of NIMH is better and I recommend it. The sequel to the movie is kind of silly and feels like a goth-themed episode of Pinky and the Brain? But not like, as good as the writing of that show was.

I wouldn't say it traumatised me but when I watched Spirited Away for the first time I got pretty scared when the parents turned into pigs and didn't want to watch it anymore. I watched it later though and it's a great movie.

This movie was absolutely a book! I read this as a child and it scarred me too! We literally read it in school… i was not ready

Flushed away, and Monsters Inc. I had a sensory fear of anything that looked or felt slimy, so the frog mob, slugs, and Randle were terrifying; like I couldn’t be in the same room while the movie was playing. Thankfully I got over that fear and they are both some of my favorite movies. Still won’t touch anything slimy tho

I absolutely swear I watched this movie, but have no distinct memories of it. But, this video did remind me of the movie that truly scarred me, The Last Unicorn.

Me and all of my siblings love secrets of NIMH. Such a fascinating mixture of animal "fable" themes and.... scientist espionage plot? Really cool how they do it.

Princess Mononoke, great movie, but I was WAY too young when I watched it the first time...

This is definitely a movie I have a lot of childhood fondness for, likely because it would have been one of the earliest movies I watched that felt mature and serious, while still being accessible to a kid.

I barely remember the movie, but I knew that I liked it back then. I think the scene that did it’s job in freaking me out as a kid was when they were describing the rats’ backstory at the mental hospital. It was probably the imagery that freaked me out a lot. The scary scenes you mentioned in the video, I don’t remember them scaring me, but maybe that was just my kid brain losing it’s attention when watching the movie back then.

I remember being scarred by this movie as a child.

I grew up watching NIMH. It has always been one of my favorites! I especially loved the music (particularly the "Dream by day/wish by night" song).

Does anyone else remember this movie "Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland"? For me, I saw this when I was young then forget what it was called. Had no idea how to find it. So it sorta became this fever dream for me. I didn't realize this movie had such a impact on me. In a good way. Shaping parts of things I liked, styles, aesthetics, vibes. The Door to nightmare land & all the obscure, weird, sublime, dreamscape uncanny, Eerie creativity to it all really is just so well made. I highly suggest watching this movie if you have never seen it. Also I loved: "X-Men the Animated Series" If you would have told a kid version of me in the 90's that things would be the way they currently are now: I wouldn't have believed you and gone back to enjoying "X-Men the Animated Series". The story of mutants was universally relatable. They touched on difficult topics yet in captivating ways. (That's what 90's media is to me) Media abstractly taught me life lessons, touched on difficult situations, found intelligent ways to tell stories. So much so that when I've gone back & rewatched them as a adult. I realized how well they told & crafted stories that anyone can enjoy & appreciate them. (Pretty much anything created by Don Bluth or Written by Roald Dahl had such creative range) Growing up in the 90's there was such a wide range of Stories, art styles, topics they touched on, unique Character's, creatures. They embraced the weird, odd, macabre things. I loved how things used to embrace these things, the difficult things. Good stories used to be told, in very creative intelligent ways. Nowadays everything feels or comes off like a cheap cop out, shallow live action version of nonsense. I miss the Era of creativity, of animated series, or use of Practical effects, filming techniques and use of miniatures. Things used to make us utilize our intelligence, tap into parts of the human condition that abstractly connects us to any character no matter what kind of character, creature, specie's, talking object they are. (Just felt like I had to express this) Regardless: I am very greatful I got to grow up throughout the 90s and experience all that came along with that.

I haven’t watched either of the ones that traumatized you but I can understand why .I can also pinpoint mine..Rudolph Thr Red Nose Reindeer(Stop motion one).The abominable snow man terrified me .I had nightmares for years about the abominable eating people I love or simply chasing me . SPOILERS: Though I know he was redeemed I still was scared.I’m not any more but watching it every Christmas when I was,was scared was so much fun…

I loved this movie as a kid. It was dark, but thats what i love about it. My own existance was already dark, and it didnt shy away from very realistic struggles and overly sanitize everything. I loved the artwork, even as a kid. I didnt watch it on repeat a yon, but its always held a place in my heart as a genuinely good movie, story wise.

Huh... I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to video games, the dark, and horror movies. Yet, I've seen supposedly traumatic animated movies over and over and yet I'm pretty sure they never negatively affected me. I'm a weird child, ain't I?

Oh man, the NIMH movies were my favourite as a kid. They really scared me and gave me nightmares about being a lab rat, but they also kickstarted my fixation with science and the history of medical ethics

For me the one move I refuse to watch again is the Dark crystal.........ironic because I love The Labyrinth.

For me, I assumed that Mrs. B and her kids learned English from the rats, and they taught each other skills that Johnathon learned during his time at NIMH. I actually watched this movie a lot when I was little, but I only really remember it from rewatching it last year. But I was TRAUMATIZED by the Last Unicorn which I do now recommend giving a watch if you haven’t done so.

Baxter i believe thats what its called is a movie that traumatized me, i dont remember how old i was, maybe something between 7 and 10 sounds about right. But that movie is about a miniature bullterrier and now i learned its a horror movie. . . If i just knew that before it would have explained a lot (i will never watch that movie ever again)

I literally didn't watch Coraline until a few years ago, one time when I was younger my grandmother lent us the DVD but I looked at the jacket and read the back and was like "nope, I'm not watching this, it looks scary." Ended up watching it for the first time a couple years ago at a Halloween sleepover with my best friend.

Yeah, that "anti-animal experimentation" message that was beaten over your head in the book didn't translate well to the movie. And Don Bluth was VERY good at doing that. (even in the Penguin and the Pebble, but that is so freaking weird, but with Tim Curry)

I can't speak for others but for me the body horror and slavery aspect were terrifying to me as a child

I always thought the psionic device given to Mrs Brisby a piece of high technology, rather than magic, developed by the Rats of Nimh after their comparatively long life spans allowed them to tap their full mental potential; like most tools humans have made, the amulet could just as easily be used for ill as it could for good hence why it was given to her. The mythic themes of this story are wonderfully brought alive in this animation but considering it was largely done in Bluth's garage the rough audio can be forgiven; there's some very famous actors who lend their voices to the characters and it takes awhile to connect them to their performances but that I think is the quality of their craft.

I never saw the movie, but in second grade my teacher got this book out of the library for me because I had a higher reading level and she thought I would like it. It absolutely fucked me up, but its now one of my favourite books, and I'm glad that teacher had the guts to recommend that book to a second grader.

I still need to see that movie

I liked "Watership Down," but I saw it as a young adult and then read the book which has some cool worldbuilding stuff like explaining parts the rabbit language and their culture, etc. But I can relate to the trauma, bc I was traumatized by "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" in a similar way - the whole concept of being shrunk and having to survive in a tiny world was a literal hellscape to my young mind and i ran out of the room instead of finishing it and I was scared of anything and everything related to shrinking, stories told from the point of view of bugs, or stories with giant bugs - all into my late 20s (with the notable exception of A Bug's Life) it was only a few years ago that i worked up enough courage to watch it and was surprised how much worse it was in my imagination. Prior to that, the only thing I felt comfortable watching was Ant Man, bc he could control his size instead of being stuck that way

I saw a lot of horribly gruesome movies at 13 but passion of the christ severely csickened me

As with a lot of people, Watership Down was *terrifying.* The way it was animated just... makes it more horrible. The book is better because you don't have to see that animation.

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP THAT NOT EVERYTHING IN A STORY, LIKE MAGIC COEXISTING WITH SCIENCE, NEEDS TO BE EXPLAINED. BECAUSE IT REALLY BUGS ME WHEN STUFF LIKE THAT IS OVER EXPLAINED IN STORIES. It also makes me frustrated when writing my own stories because I don't want to write out this whole explanation about why something mystical or otherworldly or supernatural exists in this universe when that isn't supposed to be the main focus. For example, I made up a story about a psychic child being discovered by the media and the detriments of that child growing up surrounded by people who only find them interesting because of their abilities. I also had this thing planned where they'd start puberty and their powers would get progressively out of control. Now if I tried to explain why this character has powers in the first place, that would literally add nothing to the original plan I had for this story. The focus isn't supposed to be on how and why they exist. The focus is supposed to be on how their existence presently influences the world around them, and consequently, how the world around them influences them. I always feel like adding an explanation for why something exists in a story sometimes just makes the story boring and draws attention away from the main focus. Besides, I personally think it's more fun not to know why something exists in a story because the mystery around it can add to the atmosphere of your story. Plus, if you really wanna know so badly you can make theories yourself! Rant over, anyways, I just appreciated someone said what I was thinking.

AHHH I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS MOVIE I LOVED IT SO MUCH WHEN I WAS YOUNGER

i also remember it as very scary, i watched again with my younger siblings and loved it, it was a fascinating story that took a lot of risks. and in a weird way kinda realistic? like i was scared of feeling like that, the feeling of sturggle and soffication that the move shows, as i became an adult i did feel it and lived threw it, the movie became comforting, a little bitter sweet, like an inside joke about something sad, idk if anyone can relate but the movie is realistic in a very untalked about way. and i love it 100% more now, though its not my favorite. i also read the book so that might help, its a bit different. and helps flush otu the movie in my head

If you wanna see another unsettling animated movie, watch the Raggedy Anne and Andy cartoon movie. That was a TRIP

Have u seen the black cauldron. That one got me.

Tell u a good child scarring movie The polar express as a child its terrifying😶

Before I watch this video. After seeing the title and the thumbnail I wanna say one thing: *bro saaame.*

You wanna talk disturbing content in childhood movies, another one to mention is the swamp of sadness scene in "Neverending Story".

PAUSE! HOLD UP! WHICH PINNOCCIO! BECAUSE OMG THE REAL LIFE VERSION TERRORIZED ME AS A CHILD! ... sorry for the interruption, but serioisly, you said Pinnoccio, and all I remember was that locust jumpscare. TvT

Oh this one Used to scare me too but still thought it was cool thought was weird

I read the book a bunch of times when I was a kid and thought it was ok. I didn't see the movie til I was 16 so I loved it. I have a copy on DVD.

Jeremy the crow made me gay… no not even kidding this video literally awakened repressed memories in me 😂

Box Trolls traumatized me when the villain swelled up, went insane, and exploded. And the entirety of Leafie, Hen into the wild.Which should not be a kid's movie. The rest of the movies were horror movies, so no duh.

Ahhhhh Don Bluth strikes again.

The "rat jesus" thing IIRC is pure Don Bluth's nonsense and not in the book... correct me if I'm wrong?

Gremlins (1984) is more scarier than The Secret Of NIMH (1982)

Never saw this film, I liked the book though.

If you want to watch a joke of a movie that doesn’t shared any tone or vibe of the first check out secret of nihm 2 the direct to dvd sequel

Isn't NIM pretty much the main bad guy in this movie and this guy at 5:09 is sort of like a secondary antagonist?

Hi I have PTSD and I object to casual use of the term "traumatized" in discussions like this. Sorry. Idk what a better term to call it would be, but it kind of wears on me because it's so common for people to abuse the terms "trauma" and "trigger" outside of a psycho-therapeutic context. The truth is, I was scarred during my childhood by other things, but the movies like NIMH and Watership Down are actually incredibly comforting for me. It's hard to explain why. I think because other movies censor reality for child audiences. It's comforting when a movie just chooses not to. I understand why that's not for everyone though. But you don't get traumatized from watching a movie. You get traumatized by abuse of some kind. Why is it movies for kids what people focus on while much abuse is being ignored then? Hm... Probably because the abusers have power.

Y’all don’t know what it is to be traumatised by Coraline until you read the book

ya'll actually got traumatised by movies 😀