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⌈ Secret Post #5683 ⌋

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Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever been blindsided by a book or movie that was a lot more disturbing than it advertised? I just remembered this book I read from my high school library — it was supposed to be “teen girl coming of age” YA lit with a message like “you’re still you no matter what you weigh” or something, but the way they decided to get that message across is by writing about a teenager rapidly gaining weight (I’m talking Thinner in reverse) due to a random disease, and nothing can stop it, I think she’s permanently in some kind of hospital by the end of the book, and realistically won’t live to be 25. Body acceptance is a great thing and I’m glad it’s becoming okay to be bigger than a stick, but that missed the mark like, holy hell.

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if this counts as unintentional horror because I have no idea what it was actually marketed as, but a friend told me, "Hey you like magical/etc stuff, you should watch Pan's Labyrinth!"

[stares at the wall in traumatized bottle to the face]

Re: Unintentional horror

[greghousesgf]

I had to talk a friend of mine out of taking his little kid to see Pan's Labyrinth because he thought it would be an OK movie for little kids because it has a kid protagonist and fantasy elements.

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

my friends forgot to tell me about the horror elements of Pan’s Labyrinth and I couldn’t even leave halfway through the movie when things got bad bc of the Pale Man. I had nightmares about that dude for weeks

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

The Rainbow Fish. I think it was meant to teach kids about sharing and social skills. What I got from it was that you have to tear yourself to pieces and give everything of yourself to other people, otherwise people won't accept you and you'll be miserable and alone. Absolutely horrifying.

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

That's really common. People who write for little kids don't seem to know that a lot of them don't grasp the concept of metaphors until they're a bit older, and will take everything at face value.

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

Weirdly enough, I got the metaphor when I was a kid and, although I didn't like the book, I never understood why the book was so controversial with millennials.

Then I reread it some years ago after having become a teacher and I was legit horrified, not because of the body horror part but because of the message.

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I first read it as an adult. XD

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

It's interesting what people remember about books they read when they were kids/had read to them. I don't remember anything about that book at all except how pretty and shiny the scales were.

The Giving Tree however, I think maybe I read a little older -- and I just remember feeling like it was unfair that the tree was always giving and the man only took. It didn't feel like love to me, and I was likely under 10 years old.

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

I've binned a couple of books because of Surprise Graphic Rape Scenes before now.

(I don't object to books with dark content. I *do* object to everything about the book telling me it's some kind of fluff or adventure and then, uh. You know.)

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

I can't remember the title, but it was about a world where only teenage girls could get pregnant, so society at large encouraged them to rent out their wombs, except the girls had to actually have sex to get knocked up (don't think IVF was a thing). There was also this big religious angle 'cause one of the girls was told by her sister that getting paid to birth a baby was a sin and she should keep her baby and run. It sounds horrifying on paper, but the book really treated it like it was no big deal. I think it was meant to be satire, but I didn't get it.

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

"Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" holds the distinction of being the only example I know of the "And I Must Scream" trope in a picture book. Anthropomorphic antelope finds a pebble that grants his wishes, runs into a lion, panics and wishes to turn into a rock, and is conscious and lonely all winter. He only changes back because his parents miraculously decided to have a picnic on that rock, then found the pebble, thought it was cool, and put it on the rock, so he was touching it and could mentally undo his wish.

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

I totally read that book! (At least I think it's the same book, your description sounds like the one I remember.) I mainly remember a scene where the main character stays the night at her friend's house and takes a shower and the bath towel can't cover all of her and her friend's dad walks in and sees her butt or something.

Re: Unintentional horror

[greghousesgf]

there was this book I read when I was a kid about this little girl who could make anything she drew come alive so she drew a bunch of animals but they started complaining about the way they were drawn so she erased them all, in effect KILLING them, except for this one bird who couldn't talk and therefore didn't complain. I was horrified. What was supposed to be the message here anyway? Don't complain about your looks or god will kill you?

Re: Unintentional horror

[(Anonymous)]

I love this museum, but they have a video that supposed to teach to be tolerant to people with disabilities and that being disabled is not the end of the world. It features a guy basically kidnapping a young disabled depressed woman with a help of her primary caretaker with people standing and ignori ng her cries for help. To show her that she can ~dance~ in a ~wheelchair~ too. Ffs.