Dark Films For Children

By: Eleni Ashton

Electric shock treatment, the wheelers, goblins, giant rats, shrieking eels, the nothing, death. Why wasn’t I more frightened? I loved all of these films as a child with the exception of ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ which I’m sure I would have loved.

• 01
  Return to Oz
  Walter Murch
• 02
  Labyrinth
  Jim Henson
• 03
  The NeverEnding Story
  Wolfgang Petersen
• 04
  The Princess Bride
  Rob Reiner
• 05
  The Witches
  Nicolas Roeg
• 06
  Paperhouse
  Bernard Rose
• 07
  Watership Down
  Martin Rosen
• 08
  The Nightmare Before Christmas
  Henry Selick
• 09
  The Wizard of Oz
  Victor Fleming
• 10
  Where the Wild Things Are
  Spike Jonze