11 Kids Movies That Were Way Darker Than You Realized

Many beloved childhood favorites are actually much darker movies in retrospect. Like any facet of the film industry, kids’ movies are constantly evolving based on societal standards and current industry guidelines. Though it’s mainly the case with older classics, many family-friendly movies are much darker than one realizes when viewing them as a child due to underlying complex ideas of harsh realities. Children’s movies should certainly introduce young audiences to moral concepts and relatively tricky themes, but sometimes even G-rated movies have slipped in dim moments that don’t belong.