Flight of the Navigator was the closest I've seen to a G rated horror movie

I was actually surprised when I found out afterwards that it was a kid's film (and in hindsight it was pretty clear that it was the intention when the ship's robot and the alien animals were acting childish), but the initial moments with the whole atmosphere felt very creepy to me, both as an 11 year old and even now rewatching it in my 20s, the premise of a kid from the 1970s all of a sudden finding himself in the 1980s with his family missing didn't give the the impression that it was a kids film, and it especially didn't when the boy reunited with his older family and whilst staying at the hospital, developed psychic powers from his time on the alien ship and was capable of telepathically hacking into the hospital computers and projecting a 3D model of the ship. NASA forcing him to stay locked down in their facility reminded me of what happened to the protagonist in The Fly 2 and how the evil corporation in the movie was pretending to be nice but wanting him to mutate. Flight of the Navigator proves that you can make a movie creepy just from atmosphere without any gore or obscenities, and even whilst maintaining a G rating.Edit: I thing I forgot to mention, was that I saw shown the movie at school by a teacher who thought it was proof that aliens exist, and I can see her perspective because of how realistically inhuman the alien ship was with it's wingless hull and solid metal door that melts and turns into hovering steps. it reminds me of that footage of a suspected UFO that those Navy pilots saw back in the early 2000s. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/5DM7gWQ