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I have done it.I watched three animated movies that would traumatize children.They're all based on books though.A while back, I read an article about the "10 Most Traumatizing Animated Movies for Children" and thought I'd watch a few.Only one was on the list.The other two were mentioned in the comments.First up was Watership Down.Now, I guess I can see why kids would be traumatized.Rabbits dying, getting caught in snares, rabbits looking terrifying and rabbits fighting each other, not to mention, one raqbbit had his throat ripped out by another.The photos I saw were plenty freaky, but not much to me.I've seen worse.They're just creepy, that's all.Wouldn't recommend letting a kid who adores rabbits watch this movie.Second and third are Plague Dogs and Felidae.Felidae is more of a series of books.Plague Dogs was written by Richard Adams, the same author of Watership Down.Felidae is like a horror crime mystery, except with cats.The horror of it is seeing how cats die in different ways.Throats ripped out, acid dropped into their heads, eventuallt reaching the brain, dead cats used as puppets(they looked like zombies, falling apart and everything), one cat having the throat slashed and the fetuses ripped from her womb(most gruesome one) and finally, one cat has his belly slashed open, thus his organs fall out.Either the creators or whatever hated cats or they just couldn't do that with humans.Oh, and there was one scene with cats mating.Well, now I know how cats do it.Finally, Plague Dogs.I was sort of watching them both at the same time(Youtube.Takes a while for it to load here.So while one was done, I'd watch it till the other finished).I almost refused to watch the beginning of Plague Dogs...Poor Rowlf was forced to constantly paddle in a water tank until he got so tired, he would sink to the bottom and nearly drown.The scientists would pull him out, resuscitate him so they could do it again another day.I flinched at the resuscitation scene.I can't take anything that looks like an operating room.Then there's the other dog, Snitter.Snitter had some kind of experimentation on his brain.They apparently did it to fuse his consciousness with his subconciousness.Yeah, he halucinates.Plenty of that in the movie.So yaddah yaddah, they escape, starve, kill sheep, Snitter accidentally shoots a guy in the face, another falls from a cliff and gets eaten by the dogs and a fox, fox dies later, dogs reach the ocean and swim toward an island that may or may not exist(Snitter was the one who saw it first and since he halucinates...).The ending was ambiguous.Snitter gets tired and Rowlf does his best to push him on.So they keep swimming until the fog surrounds them and boom.Credits start.As the credits keep rolling, an island shows up.Maybe they reached it, maybe they didn't.Maybe it was real, maybe it wasn't.It's up to the audience to decide what happened.Movie was plenty sad.Those dogs suffered so much, not to mention the monkey.Throughout the movie, they kept showing this chimpanzee in a tank.I didn't really get what was up with the monkey till I read the comments.There was this guy who wanted to see the effects of depression and put monkeys in a tank he called the "Pit of Despair".Those monkeys were never the same after it.No contact with anyone, being locked in a tank for extended periods of time...it was horrible.Humans can be so cruel...
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