2. Bunny Rabbits Suffocating - Watership Down
CICBased off Richard Adams seminal novel of the same name, Watership Down is a 1978 animated film with a logline that would run a little something like this: When their home in the meadow is threatened, a group of bunny rabbits band together to make a journey to find a safer place to live. There has never been a more innocent, or more misleading, logline for a children's film ever written. If all you knew was the premise you may think Watership Down, despite its age, was just another charming family film from a different time when artists didn't have computers to render their animations. Instead, what you would get is a experience easily summed up as just plain disturbing. The director, Martin Rosen, didn't shy away from the source material in the least. The rabbits in Watership Down are shot, caged, mutilated, eaten, torn to shreds, and probably the most horrific of all, suffocated in scenes throughout the entire movie. There is one scene where a rabbit gets caught in a snare that is enough to churn the stomach of any hard-R-junkie. The wire in the snare grows increasingly tighter around the poor creatures throat, causing blood to form at the eyes and mouth as his circulation is cut off. On the offhand chance you actually find a copy, Rosen's second adaptation of Adams' work, The Plague Dogs, is also not the movie you are looking for on family night.