9 Children's Movies That Are Way Creepier Than You Remember

3. Watership Down

Watership Down appears to take great pride from luring children into its story with an innocent-looking animation style and characters that tots could easily fall in love with. But this is all just a set-up for some of the most fundamentally disturbing drawings ever flaunted about in a children's cartoon. The movie's trailer called it "the most unusual and provocative film you're ever likely to see," before showing a bunch of red-eyed rabbits in the mold of Bambi's Thumper on the brink of warfare. And that was still a gross misrepresentation of just how sadistic this CARTOON was going to be.

For most of the film's duration, rabbits bite and claw chunks out of each other, with the occasional dog and cat getting in on the bloodshed to spice things up. At one point a field literally runs red with the blood of animated bunny rabbits. The soundtrack for Watership Down featured an original composition by Art Garfunkel, though the whole thing would have played better with a German death metal soundtrack.

Watership Down is so overwhelmingly disturbing for an animated feature that the British Board of Film Classification receives annual complaints from parents begging them to change the rating of the movie to dissuade other children from having to endure it.