YMMV / Zindy, the Swamp-Boy

• Audience-Alienating Premise: On the surface, it looks like a seemingly-quaint jungle movie with a child protagonist and his grandfather...with Family-Unfriendly Violence and adult themes intercut with scenes of the cute kid and his animal friends. The grandfather is wanted by the authorities, both for murder (the man he killed murdered Zindy's parents, so this was also an act of revenge), as well as kidnapping the infant Zindy. Just when there's a chance for redemption for Grandpa, he dies in quicksand, and just as there's a chance for Zindy for experience life outside the jungle he gets mauled to death by a cougar.
• Nightmare Fuel: Zindy's death at the very end is geniunely disturbing.
• Padding: The incredibly long scenes of Grandpa or Zindy paddling through the swamp or Zindy playing the flute.
• The Scrappy: She's only in the final third of the film, but Anita's constant whining (though understandable since she's lost in the swamp with an incredibly weird swamp boy) makes her very annoying.
• Squick: It's clear the actor playing Grandpa is trying to come across as affectionate towards his grandson, but the manner in which he touches Zindy can get very uncomfortable to watch, given that Zindy is a small child who is often shirtless or naked (when he sleeps) and the "ew" factor gets shot into the stratosphere during the brief scene where the two of them bathe naked in the water and Grandpa is still tickling and hugging Zindy. This is made either better or worse by how the two were actually grandfather and grandson in real life.
• Stock Footage Failure: The puma rarely appears in the same shot with the human characters, and seems to have been filmed in a different location. This is frequently lampshaded in the RiffTrax.
  Kevin Murphy (as puma): I'm in Ohio! Leave me alone!

---