10 Dark Theories About Family Movies That Actually Make Sense

Family-friendly Back to the Future first hit screens in 1985, spawning two sequels and staking its place in cinema history as one of the best film franchises ever made. While some of us are still disturbed by the fact we’re not all cruising around on hoverboards yet, there’s an even darker theory lurking behind one of our favourite 80s flicks.

Cast your mind back to the first film and that fateful evening when Marty McFly and Dr Emmett Brown meet in the Twin Pines Mall parking lot. Though there’s evidence that Doc had successfully experimented with time travel before, this was the first time putting the plutonium-powered DeLorean to the test.

Doc had no way of knowing for sure if it would work, but nevertheless straps his beloved dog Einstein in the front seat of the DeLorean and sets it to speed towards he and Marty. Sounds kind of like a suicide-murder mission to us, considering that if the experiment had failed Doc and Marty would’ve been mowed down and Einstein probably killed too.

Of course, there’s the possibility that Doc was totally confident the DeLorean would work but what if he was driven to insanity and despair by years of failure and just thought ‘f*ck it’ and designed a ridiculously elaborate and probably very gruesome method of ending it all?

Which basically means everyone’s favourite eccentric doctor was actually suicidal and didn’t think twice about taking his young friend and dog with him.