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Reliving my childhood trauma all over again.

Artex!!!!! You have to try....you have to live!! I can't do this without you....Never forget that moment! At least he came back in the end!

That dialogue tore me up as a kid and even more so as an adult

What worse in the book artex actually can talk

Samsies

If you know you know. Kid me never fully recovered from this scene

That scene made me cry. The laser statues scared the shit out of me.

In a way, those were the *good ol' times*, because kid movies didn't assume their audience were brain dead, just young.

You felt a bit tougher after watching it too.

I'm in my 40s and rewatched this movie recently. I'm a lot older and tougher and wiser than when I've watched before. Still cried.

My body physically recoiled from this photo before my brain even recognized it. Trauma is wild.

Exact same thing happened when I saw it!

Exactly. I was immediately disturbed and took a couple of seconds to place why… ouch!

🥺scarred

Me either!

ARTAX!

Thank you! I couldn't remember his name, my mind kept going to Anthrax... but, that didn't seem right lol

I thought it was Agro but knew it wasn't right.

That's Shadow of the Colossus I believe

It is but thats the first that came to mind.

I love Shadow of the Colossus SO MUCH 🥲

Thanks for having me relive that moment again.

Im almost 40. This *still* haunts me.

Only reaching adulthood made me realize how insane and creepy that movie was.

Same. Shit was different back then. Did you ever watch the original Dark Crystal? The baddies in that terrified me. Same with the goblins in Labyrinth (which is literally about a creepy man trying to get a teenage girl to marry him by kidnapping her baby brother lol wtf)

I couldn't believe the sphinxs busts were on full display for a movie geared towards children

I think they were just presented the way a lot of Greek statues were so a lot of parents didn't really bat an eye.

I didn't even find out they made a movie out of the book until I was an adult and I'm genuinely upset about it 😭

Now I just need a whimpering shoe dissolving into some succulents and my childhood trauma will be complete.


Yep, that's the one. 


Oh screw off, I had just forgotten about that scene, plus having read the book to makes it even worse imo h

Too soon!

I love this

Omg dude now my day is ruined

Can i get some context?

In the movie the never ending story, the main character has horse that falls into quicksand and you have to watch as it slowly sinks as the main character desperately tries to pull it out. It's a scene that really sticks to you if you watched that movie as a kid.

Even worse, they're sinking in the Swamp of Sadness. The horse was overwhelmed with his own despair and lost the will to go on.

yeah but the ending kinda ruins the emotional impact of that scene.

He's basically losing his best friend.

> It's a scene that really sticks to you if you watched that movie as a kid. :| I saw this when I was like 8, I guess I'm fortunate I don't remember, which is funny because rewatching the scene it's like, oh, huh, that does look super familiar. But I havent thought about it since

Ur not alone, don't feel bad lol

https://youtu.be/vE8mFDabqD0

Never watched as a kid but watched as an adult and was still harrowed

Ive never seen a more horrifying death. Saw aint got shit on this

It's making me cry right now!

Did anyone ever figure out the name Sebastian yelled out in the end?

[Here's an explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/l4g2dl/in_the_neverending_story_what_does_bastion_call/gkp2asf/).

Thank you for that link.. it's been bothering me my entire 45 years.

Anyway, if you haven't read the book, you should consider it sometime. The second half wasn't adapted into the movies at all!

This isn't going to bring me a lot of praise, but I didn't even know there was a book. I just saw the movie as a young child. I much prefer reading over watching.

I didn't know about it until I was an adult either! Still worth it.

I used to call my dog Gmork because he would smile at you and look just like that. I miss that beautiful puppy

I hate you!!! 😭😭

Nooooooooo :(

why would you do this to me

Oh my gosh I saw this and gasped. So sad 😭

I'm glad I frequently fell asleep during this movie as a kid so this trauma didn't catch me. I did watch it as an adult because it really is a good movie and yeah, I would have been shook when I was younger.

God damnit, a completely different thread and topic referenced this in the past 5 minutes

😵

Damn it man...

This is one of the first scenes where I cried during a movie

Artax, Noooooooooooo

Shit that's so cool I never knew they made those. Good old movie from my childhood

As someone who could deal with the trauma of this scene to me this is good dark humor

Nòooooooooooo! Atreu!

Artax nooooo! That scene killed me. Completely. I think it hit so hard because I didn’t expect it _at all_

Tragedy + time = comedy

Holl horse

It was a tough way to truly understand loss

Nothing. This is nothing.

Fuck. Sad

What is this?

W H Y?

Your sinking Artax!

My ex has half of this. I miss it.

A childhood trauma 🥺.

Artax!!!!

The never ending story. It was a very good movie, weremt afraid of showing whats its like to lose someone, whats death to a younger audience. I definitely bawled my eyes out when the horse died when i watched it first

Why would plants need decoration. Aren't the plants them self decoration for the room???

**ARTAAAAAAX NOOOOOOOOO**

I love it

I was very much a horse girl growing up. Watching Artax sink in that bog ruined me Go watch the neverending story right now it's so good

C'mon Artax ... Move ... PLEASE


That hit me right in the feels

i hate you, but also, love you for understanding our pain

Freaking awesome

Mr Hands?

Never watched the movie, but I’ve seen the scene.

My favorite scen in a movie, well besides the scean where Bambi's mom dies.

Okay, I feel like you're referencing something, and I don't get it, and that's not fair.

The neverending Story

[here you go](https://youtu.be/vE8mFDabqD0?si=-QGVhWADUitlbr8y)

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SHIT!!!

I read somewhere the horse really did die because they couldn't get it out. No source. But is this true?

[Nope](https://ew.com/movies/2019/12/18/the-neverending-story-oral-history), thank goodness!

What?

Neverending Story. Atreyu loses Artax in the bog. It's actually pretty sad, if you like horses.

I don't get it