Fiver’s vision of blood over the fields, and the weird bit with with the rabbits heads coming down the warren network and then combining in a mass of red eyes and teeth? Yeah.
I know. Me too.
As a child I found Watership Down genuinely scary, and it made me cry (Bigwig in a trap… Hazel trying to bite him loose), but I still watched it more often than The Secret of Nimh. My parents even bought me the VHS and The Watership Down Film Picture Book, for more convenient terror.
If children are going to be slightly terrified, it should be by a film which has life and death and violence, and ‘Bright Eyes’ and dark visuals and a trickster folk hero called El-Ahrairah. And rabbits.
Go watch it now. Even if you have to do so through your fingers.
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