most traumatic movie involving a kid?
 

What's the most traumatic movie you've seen involving a kid? A kid that was probably abducted or something but later got rescued somehow.

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War of the Worlds

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Juimanji I mean slowly turning into a monkey would seriousl screw with anyones head, also the hole getting stuck in the jungle by yourself for 30 years bit.

The Sixth Sense. It was traumatic to me. I hate that kid.

I agree man, it takes that kid like a half hour to say anything.

Recently, it's gotta be Dark Water. Interesting to see if the Walter Salles remake will go down that road....

Leon: Where the boy runs down a hallway and gets gunned-down.

the ice cream truck part in the original Assualt of Precinct 13 was a big suprise i was just like "woah" when it happened

Take it back I just watched Hide and Seek

seems like all the bad **** happens to Dokata Fanning

I thought the butterfly effect had some seriously traumatic stuff that happened to the kid. He blacks out several times and he; finds his dog got burned alive, discovers himself with no clothes on in the creepy mans basement, wakes up with a knife in his hand and draws a freaky picture he can't remember of two prisoners who got stabbed.

ok granted the kid versions weren't in a lot of the movie but still pretty traumatic wouldn't you say!

wizard of oz, the labyrinth. ;)

I don't remember Labyrinth being traumatic....hmmmm... Are you talking about when Jareth takes the kid from the house?

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - I wasn't quite as young as the the little kid in the film when it came out, but I was close. My mother still couldn't resist taking me to see it opening weekend, though. When they pulled the kid out through the dog door, I flipped. That's the ticket, Mom, take a little kid to see a movie about aliens who go after a little kid... I'll be all right...no, really... :(

na, im talking of the trauma of looking at david bowie in tights with hundreds of goblins running round you dancing and jumping and sing.
"you remind me of the babe,
what babe?
the babe with the power"....
Thats traumatic.
It had to leave the kid with long lasting mental scars.

I agree. What little Dakota Fanning as Rachel in the new War of the Worlds goes through is just a tad traumatic.

One that should be terribly traumatic is George Romero's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which is based on a Stephen King short novel. It's about a 9-year-old girl who gets lost in the Appalachian forest for 9 days. In the book, this kid goes through all sorts of hell. It's, in my opinion of course, one of King's finest stories. I hope Romero stays faithful to it because it should be quite the thrill ride.

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Good point.

Ah, yes. This reminds me....

The Earthling (1980, Collinson) - You have William Holden and Ricky "I will never call you Rick no matter how ugly you get" Schroder in this forgotten gem. Another film my Mom took me to, because it had a little kid in it. I wouldn't camp for years afterwards. That first night the kid spends in the woods after the RV goes over the cliff horrified me.

This Boy's Life (1993)
I absolutely hated Dwight (Robert De Niro) in this film.

Hmmm, I found Pumpkinhead rather traumatic from the kiddie point of view. Was very sad especially for Lance Henrikson's character, really very genuinely sad for a horror.

I'll second Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But the things Dylan Baker's son in Happiness goes through is hell. That was one of the more disturbing elements in the film for me.

Any kid in a Solondz film goes through hell. Good choice.

I am disturbed. You've wanted to know what the most traumatic movie involving a kid that was abducted was for us, and now you want to know our most memorable rape scenes!

Yeah, how is prison food these days???

You're not secretly Michael Jackson are you?
Of course not, he's innocent!!!

Conan your not looking for a movie that will teach you the best way to kidnap a kid then rape them until they are emotionaly scarred for life?

because if you are. Do i got a list for you :D

I thought pay it forward treated the kid poorly towards the end...

Police Academey 4

Leon: The Professional. Not only does she run away with a hitman and learn to kill but she also walks past her apartment and sees her father dead on the floor and the rest of her family dead in the apartment.

"Sybil", starring Sally Field.

RE: Sybil

That was on TV this past Saturday, on Oxygen, I think. Did you watch it?

Nope. I haven't seen it in years. But I can't ever forget what that woman did to that little girl, the trauma that led to her pychotic break and eventual multiple personalities.

I watched some of it before I had to head out somewhere - I agree, it looked pretty bad.

I think that girl from the excorsist had it pretty bad, imagine being possessed... not to mention the mom as well, imagine being afraid of your own daughter like that. Also the little boy from the shining, I guess he was kind of possessed too.

AI - robot kid is abandoned by his mother, hooks up with a gigolo, nearly gets stoned to death, sits around under water for hundreds of years....man I hate that film

Flowers in the Attic. :( Unfortunately, I had read the book beforehand and it was FAR more graphic and sad. I was a child myself at the time, so imagine my disgust.

Parents with Dennis Quaid was disturbing and bizzare

Oh yes, imprisonment, incest and poisoned doughnuts...not a happy family film!:(

For me the most disturbing scenes involving a child are the ones in Happiness where The act that is occuring is bad enough but the way it's filmed is horrible. The direction made it seem like a scene in a carry on film with Sid James trying to get a bit of "nookie" but being foiled all the way.

that flowers in the attic movie looks really sick, I think Ill rent it

Pay it forward

I would have to agree with A.I. Artificial Intelligence and also Mommy Dearest..NO WIRE HANGERS!!!!!

Pay It Forward sucked so much that it wasn't even moving.. :(

"Champ" what happens in the end :(

Platoon, I remember watching this movie when I was nine years old and it scared me to death. I was afraid of military personnel for a little while after that too. But not anymore :D Well maybe a little http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/MyWebF...oonBarnes2.jpg

What a sad picture to choose. :bawling:

What fairly recent (within the last 3-6 years or so I think) movie was it where these boys, I think three or four of them were molested at some military school or Juvenile facilty or something and when older they get revenge? I know I should know this but it escapes me right now. Anyway it was hard to feel sorry for the guys they killed because of what they did to those boys.

Sounds like Sleepers.

I was just going to say the same thing...

I love City of God to death, but some of the scenes were hard to watch.
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Man...you love kids and guns, huh? ;)

Yep..thanks, cannot believe I forgot the name.:)

I was gonna say SLEEPERS as well.

or the movie

KIDS

I'll echo the call on City of God. Some of the scenes were just brutal. There's also Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse, which was arguably more brutal than the former, except without the violence. I can't believe a middle school girl could put up with that.

What about the little girl from 'the poltergeist' movies. She had it pretty bad.