10 Most Unexpectedly Depressing Movies

If you watched My Girl for the first time as a child, you've likely got a deeply rooted trauma memory of the unexpectedly devastating direction the story takes.

My Girl revolves around an 11-year-old girl, Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky), growing up in 1972, and her unlikely friendship with a local misfit boy, Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), who claims to be allergic to basically everything.

And though death and mortality are certainly a major thematic touchstone throughout - Vada is obsessed with death for several reasons - nobody could've seen that tragic twist coming.

Shortly after Vada and Thomas share their first kiss, Thomas dies when he heads into the woods alone and is stung to death by bees, being fatally allergic to them.

Audiences thought they were getting a cute coming-of-age drama - not Macaulay Culkin dead in a casket.

Up until that moment it's a rather light-footed piece of work that then takes a sharp detour into ugly-cry territory for the gruelling final 20 minutes.