Why are Kids Movies So Dark?
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) Parents often strive to protect their kids from frightening things. The MPAA works hard to create accurate ratings in order to help parents determine if a film is too intense for their child to handle, and many parents strive to follow this guidance as closely as possible, only to be shocked when they find these children's films filled with horrifying scenes which they worry might frighten their precious darlings. However, these scenes are nothing to be concerned about, after all, there's a reason that they're included in family films and it isn't due to the writers being cruel and callous bullies who love the idea of frightening strange children whom they have never met before. These scenes are included because children like them. Dating as far back as to The Wizard of Oz , family films have been frightening kids. Many people even grow to recall that movie as one of the scariest they have seen simply because of the massive imp...