Late '80s Dark Children's Films- Page 2
Late '80s Dark Children's Films
#26re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:20pm
"This WAS the yellow brick road!"
Return to Oz put simply is amazing. A must see for everyone. It's not very dark considering the source material. Or maybe it is. But I watched and loved that movie before I can rememeber. Plus it's outlined with a truly lush score by David Shire.
The Labyrinth is also stunning. I used to go down to the local video store and rent this movie almost every week. Hoggle is a hoot and a half and Jennifer Connelly is so so so amazing.
Dance magic dance!
#27re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:21pm
"I used to rent Charlotte's Web all the time when I was little, and my mom never understood why I wanted to watch it because it was so sad. Then in the 3rd grade we read the book, and suddenly I figured out that *Spoiler* she dies in the end. I just didn't get it until that moment. O youth."
That's how I was. I loved it...until my grandmother died when I was 8 and I finally got it all. Then I couldn't watch it without sobbing hysterically.
#28re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 1:02pm
I've never understood why my parents let me watch Watership Down when I was 8 or 9, they'd read the book. Hey, let's watch someone gas all the cute little bunnies!
The Dark Crystal and Return to Oz scared the crap out of me when I was little, but I was a little scaredy cat 
#29re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 1:14pm
The Neverending Story.
Big crush on Atrayu.
#30re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 1:31pm
I was wondering who was going to mention Neverending Story. I loved that film!
Also from the 70s:
Raggedy Ann and Andy
The Mouse and His Child
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#31re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 1:42pmLoved RETURN TO OZ...of course, I saw it as an adult. LABYRINTH was great, too. Funny, both were widely-panned flops when they came out but now they got a cult reputation...OZ's director, the legendary editor Walter Murch, never directed another film. Sad.
Matthew Rask
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/2/04
#33re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 2:00pm
Um, yes
^^^"I've never understood why my parents let me watch Watership Down when I was 8 or 9, they'd read the book. Hey, let's watch someone gas all the cute little bunnies!"
#34re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 2:06pm
What about that one where the witch turns the little boy into a mouse? It terrified me as a kid.
Was it called Witches?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#35re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 2:08pmYes, THE WITCHES, Nicolas Roeg's last great film.
#36re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 2:09pmYes, The Witches, based on the book by Roald Dahl. I liked the movie, but the ending was a bit of a cop out. In the book the boy stays a mouse.
#37re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 2:09pmAhh, that movie was freaking scary. I think Willy Wonka was pretty weird as well.
#38re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 3:08pm
Dreamchild with Coral Browne and Ian Holm. "Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old."
Creatures were by Henson too...
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#39re: Late '80s Dark Children's Films
Posted: 8/26/05 at 3:21pmWhat about The Black Cauldron, an underrated Disney flick about a pig who can see the future (or something) in her water bucket? I haven't seen it in a while but I recall enjoying it very much.
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