When exactly were you robbed of your innocence? This list may point to the answer. Whether it was intentional or not, our childhood would not go unscathed because of these films. These are our Power Rankings of the movies that traumatized us as kids. (Sorry to revisit old wounds).
Title: The Witches
Release Date: August 24, 1990
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Plot: A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
Title: Child's Play
Release Date: November 9, 1988
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Plot: A single mother gives her son a much sought-after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Title: Gremlins
Release Date: June 8, 1984
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Plot: A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Title: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Release Date: June 30, 1971
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Plot: A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Title: E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
Release Date: June 11, 1982
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Plot: A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
Title: Return to Oz
Release Date: June 21, 1985
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Plot: Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
Title: Watership Down
Release Date: November 1, 1978
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Plot: A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home.
Title: The Neverending Story
Release Date: July 20, 1984
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Plot: A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Title: It
Release Date: 1990
Plot: In 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
Title: Jaws
Release Date: June 20, 1975
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Plot: When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
