>>212156128
Not at all, kids can handle being scared, and it's a lot better to be scared by a movie than by something in real life. Don Bluth got that back in the early 80s when he left Disney and made Secret of NIMH that was meant to harken back to styles and attitudes of the older grand Disney films, like Pinocchio or Sleeping Beauty, at a time when Disney was being extra sanitized out of a fear of backlash from upset audiences. This was wearing off by the late 80s and the beginning of their Renaissance but that likely was spurred on by the success of the likes of Secret of NIMH, An American Tail and Land Before Time as it is.

Like the surprisingly violent deaths of the villains in Oliver & Company, which is a fairly lighthearted film otherwise, the villain's two henchmen dogs get graphically electrocuted to death on the third rail during the subway chase and the villain gets his car plowed head-on by the train. No falling off a cliff for them.

>>211441373
this