Super 8 did a lot of things this past weekend, most notably putting its cast of kids in the middle of an ol' fashioned explodey train wreck. As J.J. Abrams made his homag e t o Spielberg films, he also embraced the tried-and-true 1980s movie tradition of introducing some very scary and potentially fuc!@#-up moments in so-called family movies.

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As Super 8 makes us long for the days when Goonies never say die, and when trips to the Temple of Doom came with bare-handed heart surgery, we look back at a few family movies that make the kid in us still piss our footsie pajamas.This infamous scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom helped give birth to the PG-13 rating, right around the moment when Thugee cult leader Mola Ram ripped out some poor bastard's heart with his bare hand. After after Mr. Ram turns the guy's chest into one of the punch holes from that game on The Price is Right, the horror is followed by maniaical laughter as said heart spontaneously combusts.There's no knowing where we're going... Or which way the river's flowing.... *Shudders*Look. If Gene Wilder ever invites you on a tour of his chocolate factory by way of chocolate river boat ride, don't do it. That river is made out of tears and the boat is fueled by nightmares. You'll see s!@# that will turn you white, and make you wish you left your Golden Ticket under that sewer grate. Don't believe us? See for yourself.

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The '80s were a time of upheaval for the movie industry and its ratings system, as several supposedly family-friendly films arrived on the scene with surprisingly violent and graphic content. Plenty of fingers were pointed at Gremlins, and looking back it's hard to blame parents for getting upset about its' darker scenes.But honestly, the violence is nothing compared to the movie's most disturbing scene, and no, we're not talking the bit where a Gremlin gets microwaved. We're talking about Phoebe Cates' Kate explaining to Zach Galligan's Billy about why she doesn't believe in Santa Claus. Is there a more traumatizing anecdote in all of Hollywood? Any kid who watched this film and saw their father dressed as Santa would probably have a conniption thanks to her.Temple of Doom may get a bad rap for its pitch-black sense of adventure, but Raiders of the Lost Ark started it.Children everywhere learned a very important lesson at the end of Raiders – never, ever look inside any religious artifact you dig out of the desert. Otherwise your face will bubble, boil and melt away in truly horrific fashion, complete with oozing eyeballs and maybe exploding head. It's almost as bad as discovering that Shia LaBeouf is your son, 20 years later. *Cymbal crash*E.T. was supposed to be a heartwarming tale about a boy who befriends an alien, but all it really did was show children why that's the very last thing they would want to do. When E.T. grew ill with his "frosted donut" disease, poor Elliot soon followed. And if that weren't bad enough, that led to the government sending a crack team of faceless, biohazard suit-wearing scientists to kick down the door and kidnap them both. And then when the duo make their big escape, they're chased by policemen with shotguns.Shotguns. Trained on kids, with flying Huffies?! Looks like we picked the wrong week to quit pissing ourselves.