I'm sure it's a lot less traumatising when you're big. I was somewhere between five and ten years old when they showed it on Friday Movie Night at my Catholic school's afterschool daycare program. I'm sure my parents enjoyed me being up for weeks thinking horrified thoughts in the dark about being trapped suffocating in the earth with the tormented wraiths of what used to be rabbits.

chaosvizier actually used it for this week's Thursday Reminder at the ljdq. Apparently I'm not alone in my childhood trauma.

(The alt-text on the requisite cute-animal picture says it all, really. "How to traumatize children in three easy steps. 1) Rent 'Watership Down'. 2) Tell them it's about cute bunnies. 3) Play movie. The rest, as they say, is history. -CV")