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What are the darkest animated features ever?

post #1 of 25
4/11/07 at 11:39pm
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Sure there are funny and simply wonderful animated movies, but what animated movies you know that can scare kids or have dark themes to them?

My choices:

Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
The Black Cauldron
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Corpse Bride
Transformers: The Movie
The Last Unicorn
The Secret of NIMH
Pinocchio and The Emperor of the Night (Anyone remembers this one? scary as hell 1987 animated flick from Filmation that has a horrifying torture * transformation sequence involving a child and dark elements)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Akira
Fire & Ice
Princess Mononoke
Sleeping Beauty
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post #2 of 25
4/11/07 at 11:48pm
Grave of the Fireflies
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post #3 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:04am
Howl's Moving Castle; that's got some pretty intense war stuff going on in it, even if it's not the best Miyazaki film.
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post #4 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:06am
Metropolis
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post #5 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:18am
There are plenty of anime titles that would freak out kids, including:
Urotsukidôji
Vampire Hunter D
Barefoot Gen
Perfect Blue
Wicked City

But then I guess that goes without saying.
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post #6 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:21am
I wouldn't call Urotsukidôji a kids flick.
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post #7 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:32am
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Originally Posted by thatgumyoulike
Metropolis
Certainly one of the most depressing ones.
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post #8 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:41am
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Originally Posted by donde
I wouldn't call Urotsukidôji a kids flick.
I watched it as a kid, does that count?

The ending of that movie is pretty shitty, with the final shot of Demon torching tokyo.

One of the new Gamera's (I want to say 3)is pretty bleak towards the end.


Battle Royale was dark and it starred nothing but KIDS. But thats reaching haha.
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post #9 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by donde
I wouldn't call Urotsukidôji a kids flick.
It isn't, but it's certainly dark.
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post #10 of 25
4/12/07 at 3:08am
The Plague Dogs
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post #11 of 25
4/12/07 at 3:38am
When The Wind Blows
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post #12 of 25
4/12/07 at 3:58am
I'd toss Ninja Scroll and Watership Down (I had nightmares for years) on the list.
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post #13 of 25
4/12/07 at 5:53am
come now. We better restrict this to Western animation, cuz if we start listing the dark Japanese anime we'll be here all month. (I vote for Jin-Roh myself, in the real "dark" sense that doesn't mean what teenagers think it means)
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post #14 of 25
4/12/07 at 8:50am
The Care Bears Movie

The plot isn't something I'd call dark, but that book with the face on it scared the crap out of me when I was little. Growing up, HBO was pretty much my baby sitter. I watched whatever they were showing, sat threw it all, and probably saw a lot of stuff parents wouldn't let little kids see, but none of it creeped me out more than that old VHS copy of the Care Bears movie I found lying around my house.
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post #15 of 25
4/12/07 at 9:05am
When it comes to American animation, there is nothing that that even remotely comes close to the Night On Bald Mountain/Ave Maria sequence in Fantasia, amplified all the more by the fact that it's preceded a sequence with dancing hippos.
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post #16 of 25
4/12/07 at 9:39am
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Originally Posted by Astromarine
come now. We better restrict this to Western animation, cuz if we start listing the dark Japanese anime we'll be here all month. (I vote for Jin-Roh myself, in the real "dark" sense that doesn't mean what teenagers think it means)
Heh, I was going to pick Jin-Roh myself. Darkness in anime doesnt have to be tentacle rape. Jin-Roh is a great story that is depressingly brilliant. Good point about keeping it to western animation I guess, cant think of anything dark though.
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post #17 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:21pm
The whole Pleasure Island sequence of Pinocchio is genuinely terrifying. I'm damn glad I didn't see this film until I was in my pre-teens.
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post #18 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:27pm
-- The "Be Prepared" sequence consciously mimicking Leni Riefenstahl in The Lion King

-- Mumbles in the zoo in Happy Feet
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post #19 of 25
4/12/07 at 12:37pm
How could I forget "Hugo the Hippo"? Now there was a nightmare inducing film.
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post #20 of 25
4/12/07 at 2:36pm
How 'bout some Bakshi:

Wizards
Fire and Ice (edit: already mentioned)
Lord of the Rings
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post #21 of 25
4/12/07 at 3:08pm
The Last Unicorn is about as useful a title as Naked Lunch.
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post #22 of 25
4/12/07 at 3:58pm
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Originally Posted by Gatorboy
The Plague Dogs
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Originally Posted by 70sCinema

These two. Oh God, these two.
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post #23 of 25
4/12/07 at 9:09pm
Heavy Metal
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post #24 of 25
4/12/07 at 10:21pm
Gotta second Ninja Scroll.
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post #25 of 25
4/12/07 at 10:27pm
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
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