The genre of the kids movie is a lifesaver for parents. For two hours, the theory runs that you can pop your kids down in front of a film, and it’ll keep them quiet and entertained for a little while.

Only things don’t always go to plan. Because every now and then, parents get unlucky, and stumble across the high profile film that had a veneer of friendliness, but actually would terrify their offspring for decades to come. Such as the films we’re about to discuss.

Some ground rules: we’re looking for fairly major films here – that means we can’t include the nonetheless upsetting The Magic Sword (1962) – and we’re also looking for films that induce the kind of trauma you could feasible spill out in the psychiatrists’ chair 20 years later. E.T. was upsetting, therefore, but it was a straight bat. The ones in this list? They get to you, for a variety of reasons, in different ways. Some upset, some scare, some really get under your skin. And, arguably, none of them could be made today.

Before we begin the full top 10, we have to cheat, and add in a number 11 that – given the kind of site this is – we’d be remiss to not include. And then it’s down to business…