Watership Down and The Plague Dogs

[kane_magus]

Just watched both of those films for the first time, both based on books by Richard Adams (which I have not read, yet) and both made by the same animation company, even sharing some actors (e.g. John Hurt voiced one of the main characters in each). Not going to say much about either of them, except this: I'd always heard about Watership Down and how traumatizing it supposedly is, and yeah, it gets pretty visceral at times. (Though I came out of it with a feeling of "Was that it? Was that all there was to it? That wasn't so bad.") But... well... Watership Down might as well be Winnie the Pooh or something compared to The Plague Dogs. Holy shit. o_O

Granted, this is me as a 46 year old saying that. If I'd seen these movies when I was a kid, they probably would've messed me up something fierce. (And I'm still saying The Plague Dogs kind of did mess me up a little bit, even now.)