Anything Goes : Watership "Break" Down by Spike Thurbon

As Easter week comes to a close for another year, a war of opinions continues to rage here in the UK over Channel 5's Easter Sunday airing of the 1978 adaption of Richard Adam's classic novel, WATERSHIP DOWN. Outraged parents continue to slam the network for allowing a film that features bunnies being slaughtered to air on Easter Sunday apparently “shocking adults and terrifying kids”. Now don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusions of fluff and nonsense, and I'm well aware of the films gritty content, but what confuses me about the whole affair of outraged parents is that not one of them chose to change the channel? I guess that's what happens when you leave the TV to babysit your kids on Easter Sunday?! It also tickles me that a large percentage of these parents would happily allow Santa to deliver the likes of GRAND THEFT AUTO 5 in their Christmas Stockings. Personally, I loved WATERSHIP DOWN as a kid, and my childhood would not have been complete without it! I loved to be scared as a kid – whether it be from Stripe's foul demise in GREMLINS, Angelica Huston peeling off her face and revealing herself as the Grand High Witch in THE WITCHES or Christopher Lloyd's Judge Doom shrieking as he's ploughed down by a steamroller in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? Terrifying moments of cowering behind the cushions? Maybe! But equally lasting memories that still make me smile nostalgically to this day. What were your favourite “terrifying” moments from you misspent youth of childhood viewing? For the ongoing fluff and nonsense on WATERSHIP DOWN, you can check it out here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3512443/Outraged-parents-blast...