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10-30-2007, 05:00 AM
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bambi - oh the horror
List of the top X films are always subject to disagreement. But this may be a new low in ridiculousness. Time magazines Top 25 Horror films includes that woodland terror who puts hell's other creatures to shame:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/20...676840,00.html
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10-30-2007, 08:37 AM
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Re: bambi - oh the horror
While I wouldn't classify it as horror, per se, I would consider that moment to be shocking and scary, especially for the movie's target audience. I remember how horrified I was when I saw Bambi, and that was more than 30 years ago.
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10-30-2007, 09:09 AM
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Re: bambi - oh the horror
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List of the top X films are always subject to disagreement...
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Am I the only one who thought he was going to debate the inclusion of a movie called "Bambi" on a top 25 list of "X" (Porno) films? 
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10-30-2007, 10:00 AM
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Re: bambi - oh the horror
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While I wouldn't classify it as horror, per se, I would consider that moment to be shocking and scary, especially for the movie's target audience. I remember how horrified I was when I saw Bambi, and that was more than 30 years ago.
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My guess the horrifying part of the movie was when Bambi's mom was shot?
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10-30-2007, 10:39 AM
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Re: bambi - oh the horror
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My guess the horrifying part of the movie was when Bambi's mom was shot?
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Yes. The point Time magazine is trying to make is that that moment, coming from no where, is truly terrifying to the 3 or 4-year-old target audience who watches it. It is arguably the first movie-going "horror" moment that many people experience in their lives (I know it was mine).
As such, I think it's OK to include it.
What was your first movie horror moment? The first movie scene that scared you?
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10-30-2007, 10:45 AM
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Re: bambi - oh the horror
I completely agree with Brian. I suspect a lot of movie viewers, at least over about 30, had their first truly terrifying moments(s) watching a movie with either Bambi or The Wizard of Oz. The same "complaints" have been levied against Bridge to Terabithia, both the movie and book. In fact, when it was first published, an English class I was in (7th grade, I think) was reading it, and one of the students was so traumatized by an event (I guess he or she was reading ahead) that a parent stormed in to the school Principal and insisted it be removed from the class, and it was.
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10-30-2007, 10:57 AM
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Re: bambi - oh the horror
Also...
I just followed the link and it specifically is the Top 25 Horror films OF ALL TIME. With certain rules:
1) A director's work can appear on the list only once
2) Maximum of one movie per year
3) The list is from the beginning of film - starting with the very first film intended to create fear; Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896).
A list like this continues with Nosferatu (1922), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Frankenstein (1931), Freaks (1932) and then logically includes Bambi (1942).
Very few of these would scare modern adult audiences, but were terrifying at the time.
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10-30-2007, 12:30 PM
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Am I the only one who thought he was going to debate the inclusion of a movie called "Bambi" on a top 25 list of "X" (Porno) films? |
Nope. 
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10-30-2007, 02:23 PM
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Re: bambi - oh the horror
I agree with what John and others have said. It's doubtful parents were taking their kids to see (put any horror movie in here) but they probably did take them to see THE WIZARD OF OZ or BAMBI and these films "scared" the little kids. The first film I remember watching as a child was E.T. when I was around two years old. I still remember the film being VERY scary when the kids were being chased by the government guys, when Elliott first went outside to see what was going on and a couple other scenes.
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