ditto, they played it every year on the local public television station for a few years. cs lewis books were always suggested to kids where i grew up because he was a faithful servant to our one and only saviour jesus h christ, ltd without much thought given to the actual content of the books

The only disturbing stuff I remember was Aslan being sacrificed and the final book.

The first book was a decent enough children's fantasy (and now that I think of it, the ending mirrors the Star Trek TNG "Inner Light" episode). The rest of the series was pretty boring.

Then you have the final book, The Last Battle. It throws all subtlety of Christian allegory out the window to the point they might as well have just called it The Book of Revelation. It makes you angry for all the wrong reasons, takes subverting expectations to Rian Johnson levels, and proves Seanbaby's point that all stories about God are pointless because he just magically fixes things at the end after needlessly making all the characters suffer. White Anglo Saxon Christians are good, dark Arabs are evil. The end of the world is a GOOD thing that should be embraced because it will cleanse the ranks of false Christians and usher in a perfect era of "pure" Christians. Token good foreign heathens might be spared, because being good means you're really a Christian, because C.S. Lewis is monstrously self absorbed about his own faith.

Oh, and all the real world human characters from the early books? They get to join us in fantasy heaven too, because we'll mention at the end that they all just died in a train crash. lol

Fuck The Last Battle.

@Nominal
So this is all very vague (I probably would have read those when I was like 6 to 8 years old or something)
But there were parts that took place in this void before the world of narnia was created.. Thats the 'existential terror for kids' I was referring to.
Also I remember a creepy bit with this pond that turned anything which entered it into gold, and someone had dived into it and was now dead + a perfectly lifelike golden statue.

The people turning into gold statues in the creepy cursed water was in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The BBC adapted the first four books into TV movies.

I remember all of the BBC movies being weird and creepy. In spite of the low budget special effects, there was something really nightmarish about them. The Disney movies did not retain this feeling because they wanted to make them more appealing to mass audiences, but NO ONE wants to adapt the later books because they get progressively more disturbing. I had fucking nightmares about that goddamn Ape wearing the lion skin. Basically the Antichrist pretending to be Jesus/God or whatever. It's a bit much for grade 5 but then I have idiot family members that show that watched the motherfucking Saw movies with their 6-9 year old children so the Narnia books aren't that bad in comparison.