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There's a good chance you may never look at a B-17 Bomber again without shuddering.

Tears filled my eyes when I saw her little unborn kittens ripped from her stomach! What sicko made this?!!

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• Watership Down. Yes it's a U-rated film...but Bigwig almost choking to death extremely graphically and realistically is horrifying.
  • Any of the numerous scenes in Watership Down that involve rabbits with blood coming out of their mouths are pure Nightmare Fuel. That and the hallucinations with the red eyes. "The field...it's covered with blood!" Not sure if this counts as children's film at all, really. Another animated film from the same studio, based on a book by the same author as Watership Down, (The Plague Dogs) doesn't even pretend to be a family flick.
    • The Black Rabbit is no hallucination, but he's not evil.
    • But then you have the flashback to the destruction (gassing) of the warren, with the glowing-eyed rabbits crammed into the tunnels clawing each other, trying to get out...
      • Holocaust parallels, anyone?
  • Cowslip's warren. My God...it's a nice little place with good food and shelter....then the leader does some creepy rambling about the Black Rabbit. Turns out that the warren is near a farm that leaves the food in order to fatten and trap the rabbits.
• The Plague Dogs, it's Grave of the Fireflies with puppies. See ithere. The relentless realism prevents you from laughing it off unless you are a sadist. Gah!
  • Plague Dogs was also subject to Misaimed Marketing, with a cheerful cover of cute dogs featuring the tagline "Escape to A Different World... And Share The Adventure Of A Lifetime". ("A SPECIAL KIND OF MOVIE MAGIC From The Creators Of Watership Down.") It features two stray dogs that had been captured and sold to a laboratory which experimented on animals. One of these experiments for some reason involved dropping a dog into a pool full of water and timing how long he was able to paddle until he started drowning; and that's just one example. There's also a scene of a nice man going hunting who befriends one of the starving dogs, only to accidentally shoot himself in the face. Quite messily.
• Felidae. Just picture a mystery story. With cats. And brutal, bloody murder. And a sex scene. With cats!
  • The freakiest part was the dream sequence involving a giant, insane vicar person using a sea of undead, rotting, screaming cats as his puppets and laughing... Never again... You know what makes this crazier? That man was Gregor Mendel, the founder of heredity.
  • After Francis finds out that Claudandus is the one behind the murders, he destroys the computer containing said information on the murders, subsequently causing an electrical fire. The final battle between Francis and Claudandus plays out much like Simba and Scar's final battle, only Claudandus gets clawed in the stomach. And this rips his stomach wide open, causing all of his guts to spill out.Don't eat anything while watching the scene.
  • The unfriendly deaths in the movie. This includes decapitation, and kittens being ripped out of their mother's womb. And no, there is no Gory Discretion Shot. Then again, the deaths already happened when Francis gets to them save for Claudandus.
• The scene in the Titan A.E. trailer where Earth gets blown up was TERRIFYING.