• @McDuders@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I had the VHS copy of this and the little kitten softly "meow"ing for help as he was about to be eaten by the rats was very disturbing. Especially when he was trapped in his own home and his mom and aunt couldn’t find them.

    EDIT: Here it is in full! God what a throwback. As messed up as this story is, I loved it as a kid and would watch it all the time.

    • janus2
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      1510 months ago

      oh. oh god. i thought this looked familiar.
      i’m amazed that memory even exists in my neurons still cuz i haven’t activated them shits since like 1999

    • @sorebuttfromsitting
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      510 months ago

      i don’t remember this one but I do remember Watership Down and The Rats of NIMH

        • @sorebuttfromsitting
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          310 months ago

          Watership Down is one where the teacher assessed tiny me as “high reading comprehension” but no one really delved into, does this child have emotional comprehension of literal killing fields? eh, guess I worked it out emoji finger guns and sad sigh

    • @cabbageeOPM
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      510 months ago

      Oh no I really had no idea.

    • Dr. Coomer
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      410 months ago

      I know this has to be an old children’s tale, but it’s kinda fucked up. At least it has a happy ending.

      • @McDuders@sh.itjust.works
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        410 months ago

        Nah man. The mom even mentioned that earlier she found 7 of those rats and they ate them for dinner, but couldn’t get the “father rat”, the fat one in the picture. We can only assume they were his kids that she ate. So it’s no wonder they would maybe want some payback.

    • @Thisfox
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      210 months ago

      I forgot they made it into an animation. I only know it as a book.

      • @McDuders@sh.itjust.works
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        110 months ago

        They made tons of these! The Peter Rabbit ones were my favorite. They’re such good adaptations, they tell the original stories perfectly.