10 Movie Deaths That Ruined Your Childhood

Vada Sultenfuss is sort of a strange preteen girl. Her mother died when she was very young, she's raised by her father in a mortuary, and for that and a variety of other reasons, she doesn't necessarily relate to girls her own age.

So her only real friend is the equally strange neighborhood boy Thomas J. Sennett, a kid who is both precocious and utterly naive, allergic to pretty much everything, and played by a young Macaulay Culkin.

After Vada loses her mood ring in the woods (conveniently located next to a giant bees nest), Thomas decides to go into the forest to retrieve it. Where he is promptly stung by about a million bees and dies.

Yes, it is exactly as horrifying as it sounds.

Really, though, it's Anna Chlumsky's performance as Vada (you may recognize her as Amy from Veep) that makes the scene so incredibly devastating. The funeral is held at her father's funeral home, and she bursts in, running up to his coffin and sobbing that they have to put his glasses on, because he can't see without his glasses.