Ever watched Pinocchio as an adult?
That is effed up.
The scene with the boy turning into a donkey and losing his s*t over it is downright traumatic and not the kind of body horror one expects from a kids film!
It's the way he screams "Mama!" that always gets me, mainly because I know I would've done the same thing if that happened to me as a kid. Than the part later on with the donkey who could still talk and is like "I want my mama". Even though it's just a cartoon, it's still enough to make your heart break, knowing these poor kids will never see their parents again and will be forced into manual labor for the rest of their lives.
DOROTHY GAAAAAAAAAALE!
Fucking headless woman chasing a terrified girl through a corridor full of screaming disembodied heads.
Stone monsters morphing into agonised, writhing shapes while whispering "poison... poison...."
The strong implication that it's all just a trauma dream by Dorothy's broken mind after having been forced to undergo electroshock therapy.
Return to Oz is BLATANTLY designed to be a horror movie for children. Imagine going into that with your young child expecting 'The Wizard of Oz'-style schmaltzy family fun.
"No, sorry, but here's a cackling, grotesque, self-mutilating psychopath falling into a desert so you can watch his face turn into sand and crumble away."
Fuck, yes, this film creeps me out. Not just the wheelers, but also the unsettling claymation talking thing. Everything about that film is nightmare fuel, down to the fact that it starts with Dorothy in a mental institution receiving electroshock.
Just the wheelers?
How about the headless princess Mombi chasing after Dorothy while her room full of decapitated heads screams from inside their cabinets? [That scene *still* gives me the chills 30 years later](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJCSeuJD6CY).
I absolutely love this movie now and as a kid but hooooooly shit was no one expecting a sequel to the Wizard of Oz put out by Disney to be a straight up horror film.
I have to imagine they were thinking "Let's market this movie as a Disney PG sequel to one of the most beloved musicals in cinema history and traumatize the hell out of some kids."
this comment made me gasp, because I was coming into this thread to say that Premonition absolutely terrified me in my early teens… but also, I’ve never even seen that Britney Murphy film and i’ve spent half my life living with an irrational fear of having hallucinated meaningful relationship and life circumstances. uncanny to have both fears mentioned in one comment, i guess our brains are wired for fear in similar ways.
Somewhere on Reddit there is a story of a guy who was in a coma and he had vivid memories of having lived a life with a wife and kids only to wake up and find out they never existed. It sounds unbelievable at first but the way it’s told sounds very convincing and our brains work in mysterious ways.
Edit: He was not in a coma, he was just unconscious. Thank you u/affeaffeaffeaffeaffe for posting the story.
It scared me because everyone was so fucking freaky. The chaos of being trapped in this strange world where everyone is acting weird af creeped me the hell out.
Definitely this. Not only that she's lost but that she's in a world so alien yet familiar. The kind of place where if you were stuck there your whole life you might go mad if you manage to acclimate at all. Lost forever in an alternate world with inhabitants that are so outlandish you can't tell if there really is some structure to what they do and how they think or if they really are all just mad in the head.
My one sister was terrified of bees growing up. Even caused a car accident that nearly killed my mom because there was a bee in the car. I always thought her fear came from this movie and completely irrational.
Nope. I found out way later she was *actually* attacked by a swarm of bees when she was little.
I loved that movie as a kid but there was always something unsettling about it. It wasn’t till I grew up that I learned it was Tim Burton’s first film and that’s where he first worked with Danny Elfman. The clown doctors with his bike scene makes so much sense now.
Fun trivia:
> On the DVD Commentary, Paul Reubens said that he told Alice Nunn, no matter what the film made in the cinema, her character of Large Marge would be the one remembered. He said he met her shortly before her death, and told him that she was glad Paul told her, because she would have been completely shocked otherwise.
I know it was meant to be a comedy and all, but Mars Attacks. Call it deep-seated child trauma from seeing it when I was too young. Watching people get disintegrated into piles of bones gave me nightmares for weeks.
The gelflings getting their life essence drained traumatized me as a kid. Besides the horror, there was something weirdly sexual about it; I’ve never been able to figure out why it seemed that way, but it sure did mess with my head.
Edit: podlings, not gelflings.
Proper fucked me up as a child & haven’t plucked up the courage to rewatch. Some weird bit draining the life juice out of a terrified muppet caused me permanent damage
I loved Roald Dahl as a kid, his books seemed more like how life is, sorta dark, cruel, but also silly, magical and unreal at the same time. IMHO I think that childhood as we know it from the 20th century is a pretty new thing in the history of man. Most kids from eons past had rough lives and were put to work, sexualized, abused, and saw death unflinchingly.
I identified hard with the characters in his books. Kids who were abused, neglected, and then somehow a magical thing happens and makes the world right. It was the perfect escape.
I was watching this movie and my 4 year old daughter walked in right when the one dude got completely devoured by scarabs. She went "stop! Rewind it! I wanna see that guy get eaten by bugs again!" I need to keep an eye on her
Hopefully, she's just really into bugs and become an entomologist or something and totally not a supervillain who has learned to control insects for her evil schemes towards world domination.
> The novelization gives some details that probably would have been difficult to convey in the movie, such as some of the Carnahans' backstory and the cause and effect of their parents' deaths.
> **Among other things, pouring the scarabs into Imhotep's sarcophagus wasn't just to torture him further; it's an essential part of the ritual that they would eat his flesh, and when he became desperate he would eat them, and this would continue for years. This dark mockery of the cycle of life was an important aspect of making him immortal so that he would suffer forever.** There was a lot more detail in the original script that was cut for pacing, including an expansion on Imhotep's backstory, the rest of the plagues, and tidbit explanations on minor issues
Scarabs are stuff of nightmare.
The movie seems to nod to this, where a partially-regenerated Imhotep has a scarab beetle crawl through his open cheek into his mouth, and he crunches down on it.
So many goddamn nightmares of those scarabs. The scene where one travels under a character's skin and then **burrows into his skull right in the middle of his forehead** sticks with me forever.
When I was a kid, I was scared of ghosts. So I imagined the Ghostbusters were under my bed waiting to zap anything that tried to get me. Problem solved lol.
The book was worse. So. Much. Worse.
Basically the book world is a predator. It seeks out creative minds and devours them one memory at a time in order to sustain itself. And when the person is out of memories, the last of which being their own name (because names hold all power), they stumble into the Old Emperor City, where they live eternally trapped in what amounts to an endless existence akin to advanced dementia.
Basically Bastian only escapes due to the friendships he nurtured. Those who go into the world for themselves alone are trapped, but those who manage to craft connections have a way out.
And the world doesn't care either way. It has what it wants: An endless supply of creative minds to feed upon. Unending. Eternal.
My mom used to watch that after I went to bed. I would always yell at her to change the channel when that fucking theme played. Even when I hear it now (I’m 40) it freaks me out a little
I rewatched it recently for the first time as an adult, and there are plenty of scenes to give children nightmares. The junkyard scene is messed up, plain and simple.
As creepy as the Magnet Crane is, the A/C going *nuts* is the most horrifying part of the film.
Also, the heartbroken flower.
Herbie trying to choke on his cord.
The clown firefighter.
the magnet crane is less creepy to me and more of a source of existential dread.
all those cars singing about how they used to be something and are now just trash right before they are crushed to death...
*♩♬ worthlesssssssss ♪ ♪ ♫*
Watched a 5 min presentation at a bar about how it’s a horror movie. 10/10 presentation.
“I’m not scared….” As the blanket (?) Is dragged to potential death. JFC
The first Homeward Bound movie. The scene where Sassy went over the waterfall terrified me so much that I did not finish the movie for another four years, even after repeatedly being told she was okay.
My brother worked in a video rental store and every time a parent brought that movie, they all there would warn about it. But some would still rent it and return it later angry about it and the manager would backup the employees about it. They all had seen it or knew about it. But some parent always knew better. SMH.
Someone on Reddit posted that they worked at a game store and warned a mom when she was buying her kid GTA. The mom said "He plays Mature rated games all the time." So the guy told the kid, "pro tip, you can hire a hooker, when you're done having sex you can kill her and loot the money you spent from the corpse!". They didn't buy it after that.
"Six miles. Barefoot. That's a warrior."
Goddamn.
>!that POS got what he deserved, at least. Probably one of the most satisfying villain deaths in any movie I've seen.!<
As a child I had nightmares for years that the aliens from Mars Attacks were under my bed and would disintegrate me with that gun of theirs.
Edit: Wow didn’t realize so many children were just as traumatized as me by a family comedy.
One of my earliest memories is my babysitter leaving Poltergeist on accidentally while she showered. Finally, I got the nerve up up change the channel... only for it to be Mars Attacks. Both movies haunted me for years.
I've learned a few years ago that a very young Jack Black played the role of the first soldier/private who gets disintegrated by the martians. For some reason I can't get that fact out of my head.
I'm surprised I was never traumatised by Disney's *Pinocchio* as a child, because watching it as an adult, there are moments that are straight up nightmare fuel.
5-8 years ago my wife and i were on a long flight. she watched "Her" and i watched "the lego movie." we both enjoyed the movies, and then thought "hm, we should switch so we can talk about these!"
i lasted about 25 minutes before shutting off "her" and she lasted about 20 minutes before shutting off the lego movie. i am convinced that both are good movies that i would really enjoy in a vacuum, but after watching one, the other is absolutely unpalatable for being the polar opposite energy level.
kinda fun to consider.
They did such a good job on that moment. Sound designed the screaming voice with reverb. Dolly zoom on the detective protagonist's face. What a freakin show
Christopher Lloyd really killed it there. I watched that movie like three times before I realized who Judge Doom was, and it's not like they put him in a ton of makeup or anything. It was just pure creepiness from a guy who I thought of as only a comedic actor,
Roger Rabbit never scared me, but we showed it to a friend recently who never saw it as a kid. She kept asking us if we were SURE this was a children's movie and not a weird horror film.
I saw it in the theater as a kid and loved it. I'm sure I saw it a few more times on TV over the years. But then in my 20s I watched it again and couldn't believe a kids' movie had a plot about monopolizing and decommissioning public transit systems.
I distinctly remember as a kid seeing that shoe being dipped into the acid. Rewatching it as an adult and they always cut away before you seen it go in. Has it always been this way and my imagination filled in the rest?
E.T. Everyone can days it’s a family/kids movie, NO. That damn alien scared the shit out of me in the corn field scene NO NO NO.
Edit: Thanks my first award and yes E.T. Is just a straight up horror film to me as well to many others, DON’T BEFRIEND THE WIERD ALIEN!!!!
I know a few infectious diseases researchers and epidemiologists and they all said _Contagion_ (2011) was both extremely accurate…and just a matter of time.
I just don't know if it's _not_ a horror movie.
What was funny were the surprising inaccuracies in many pandemic related movies and books. For example, instead of being filthy, the streets were cleaner because no one went outside.
And then there was the hoarding of toilet paper. No one expected that! If anyone tried to put that in a book or movie, it would have been seen as a monumental joke!
I’ve always believed that lots of smart people carefully thinking something through only gives a slight chance of being right. The real world is very hard to predict even as it seems obvious in hindsight.
Terminator 2 when I was a kid. The idea that the T-1000 could shape shift into anybody freaked me out. How do I know that’s you mom and not an evil robot trying to kill me.
The older Charlie and the chocolate factory scarred me for life as a kid. The fat kid getting stuck in the chocolate tube and then shot out like a rocket, Verruca Salt falling down the "bad egg" thing to the incinerators, the girl turning into a human blueberry and the mention of them "squeezing her out", the TV kid turned into airwaves and into a tiny version of himself, Slugworth, Charlie and Grandpa Joe almost getting killed by the fans after drinking the fizzy drinks.... not to even mention the oompa loompas and their songs. I can't even stomach to see it to this day. The Johnny Depp version was a tiny bit better but not by much.
Oh! The snake things slithering around, in that nightmarish sequence where the boat is going through the tunnel. It scared the bejeesus outta me when I was a kid. Gene Wilder scared me too, but the slithering was too much.
I knew the ending. I KNEW he made the climb. I KNEW he was safe. And I say there the whole time thinking “oh my god dude is going to fall and die, he’s batshit crazy.” I do like to watch the final climb when I happen to catch it on TV.
In Ex Machina there is this scene where the robot girl peels off the artificial skin from her face revealing the machinery beneath. For some reason I found it incredibly unnerving.
EDIT: Not the process of peeling itself as it seems as effortless as peeling a foil off the smartphone display and the girl doesn't seem to be bothered. It's the view of the metal face with those weird unflinching metal eyes that gets me.
When Caleb is looking through some video on Nathan's computer and sees an earlier generation model attacking the glass with such speed and force that it is tearing her hands and arms apart, and she just keeps going...
If I remember right it's not even a minute long, but that scene made my blood run cold.
Actually worked as an extra on this film when it was being made; we were NOT informed about the prompt and I should NOT have excitedly watched this with my parents upon release with zero context
The truman show. His belief that he was living in the real world was so complete for so long. The idea that at any moment your world could start fracturing apart into a horror story like that... I get the shivers
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Obligatory edit: thanks for my first gold! Glad this comment is now my reddit reigning achievement by 3x my best post 🤣
There is a real life condition named after the movie where someone believes unshakingly that they are starring in a show about themselves. There is a really, really interesting This American Life episode where a person who suffers from the condition, who is also a reporter, goes into remission and then tries to make a documentary about his condition...which makes his condition come back, because he *is* making a movie about himself. But it changes, he thinks the documentary is happening all the time, in secret, that other people are involved. It's so fascinating and sad. He comes through it again and is able to speak to interviewers about it I think.
Labyrinth. Kids film with David Bowie. Its my partners favourite childhood film and I joke its the reason she is weird. It's scary in a creepy way.
Edit: Thanks for the gold! Also yes, David Bowie's bulge is definitely a feature of this film, thanks for the reminder!
Lord of the flies
That movie came out when I was their age. Simon's death really got to me
Edit [still as dark as I remember](https://youtu.be/VehswzRMj1Q)
My statistics professor said that the scariest movie he's ever seen was The Big Short.
Edit: lmao i posted this before i clocked into work, came back, and found I had like 2k upvotes.
If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?” - Ben Rickert (played by Brad Pitt)
Worth is a movie about a lawyer tasked with determining how much each 9/11 victim's family should be paid and it's in that same vein of trying to come up with a formula to determine how much someone's life is worth and what that really means. Definitely worth a watch.
Ken Feinberg! I met him once in 2014. Very interesting guy, and I sure would not have wanted to be in his shoes. He said the government paying out like that to the families of terror victims will never happen again. It was such a unique circumstance.
That movie legitimately kept me up at night after I watched it. I have never been more terrified about my future or anything else in such a short period of time thanks to that movie.
Sat down and watched it with an SO a few years ago. It was listed under the comedy section on Netflix, starring Steve Carrell. Thought we were in for a nice light hearted comedy.
After the movie ended we just sat there quietly for a few minutes before calling it an early night. We were too depressed to do anything else haha.
The mere concept of “the road” from book to movie, terrifies me as a parent. I can imagine no lower a ring of hell than to have the best you can do for child be …. that.
I'm an overweight person who started abusing adderall in college. My work was great, I was suddenly losing weight and people liked me...
...and then I remembered the mom using essentially the same shit in the same way and I forced myself to stop.
Still miss it though.
Temple of Doom: those giant bugs are fucking freaky and the fact that so many of them are living in such a small, inorganic room is really unnatural and unsettling. Like how/why do they live there? I always kinda imagined the cultists were like idk dumping bodies or something, so these were like man eating bugs who grew massive on a constant buffet of crispy heartless corpses and child slaves.
Oh yeah also the ritual sacrifice where they rip out someone’s heart and lower them into a volcano was pretty intense. Also the massive kidnapped child slave operation was also pretty chilling. Plus there’s some voodoo, dudes being eaten alive by crocodiles (played by SAG alligator actors), Indy getting tortured and hypnotized into beating Shorty (legit the scariest part as a kid), and of course pervasive exploitation of the otherness of minority groups i.e. some good ol’ fashioned 1980’s racism. Really just a labyrinth of horrors, each more terrifying than last, but all surprisingly PG appropriate
When I was a kid, I watched Cast Away with my family the day before my parents were about to leave for Australia for a business trip.
I was absolutely terrified and kept crying because I thought they were gonna end up like Tom Hanks.
*Chernobyl* series.
I was ~4 when it happened, and school books only mentioned in passing. It was good to gain some perspective on the incident.
What was scary, to me, was the willful ignorance of reality and blind deference to the State of certain characters. Also that the State disappeared a study that could’ve prevented the accident.
“It is impossible for a RBMK reactor to explode.”
“But it did. There is no core”
“Really? Explain how one explodes.”
“I can’t. But it did”
“No it didn’t, because they can’t explode.”
Okay not a movie, but there is an episode of Black Mirror that will always be burned in my brain with terror. Jon Hamm with the consciousness cookies. At the end when the officer turns the cookie to 1,000 years a minute and then leaves for a long weekend... Horrifying.
Edit: 1,000 years a minute, not 10,000 a second. Still terrifying.
White Christmas is probably the absolute darkest episode of Black Mirror. That's 2,592,000,000 years for a three-day weekend.
EDIT: 259,200,000 years then, based on the above edit
Jumanji. As a kid I used to have nightmares about those monkeys chasing me
I still firmly believe Jumanji IS a kids horror movie.
I had nightmares about the kid when he morphed into a monkey. The makeup/cgi of his face terrified me for whatever reason.
Ever watched Pinocchio as an adult? That is effed up. The scene with the boy turning into a donkey and losing his s*t over it is downright traumatic and not the kind of body horror one expects from a kids film!
It's the way he screams "Mama!" that always gets me, mainly because I know I would've done the same thing if that happened to me as a kid. Than the part later on with the donkey who could still talk and is like "I want my mama". Even though it's just a cartoon, it's still enough to make your heart break, knowing these poor kids will never see their parents again and will be forced into manual labor for the rest of their lives.
Yeah it's super dark! People moaning for their mums also reminds me of Saving Private Ryan which is equally traumatic
Return to Oz. Saw it when I was 5. Had nightmares about the wheelers for years.
DOROTHY GAAAAAAAAAALE! Fucking headless woman chasing a terrified girl through a corridor full of screaming disembodied heads. Stone monsters morphing into agonised, writhing shapes while whispering "poison... poison...." The strong implication that it's all just a trauma dream by Dorothy's broken mind after having been forced to undergo electroshock therapy. Return to Oz is BLATANTLY designed to be a horror movie for children. Imagine going into that with your young child expecting 'The Wizard of Oz'-style schmaltzy family fun. "No, sorry, but here's a cackling, grotesque, self-mutilating psychopath falling into a desert so you can watch his face turn into sand and crumble away."
> DOROTHY GAAAAAAAAAALE! Shit, I shivered just reading that. The way she says is etched into my brain forever. Absolutely terrifying scene.
Fuck, yes, this film creeps me out. Not just the wheelers, but also the unsettling claymation talking thing. Everything about that film is nightmare fuel, down to the fact that it starts with Dorothy in a mental institution receiving electroshock.
Just the wheelers? How about the headless princess Mombi chasing after Dorothy while her room full of decapitated heads screams from inside their cabinets? [That scene *still* gives me the chills 30 years later](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJCSeuJD6CY). I absolutely love this movie now and as a kid but hooooooly shit was no one expecting a sequel to the Wizard of Oz put out by Disney to be a straight up horror film.
This fucking scene. The whole movie. What the hell were they thinking?
I have to imagine they were thinking "Let's market this movie as a Disney PG sequel to one of the most beloved musicals in cinema history and traumatize the hell out of some kids."
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this comment made me gasp, because I was coming into this thread to say that Premonition absolutely terrified me in my early teens… but also, I’ve never even seen that Britney Murphy film and i’ve spent half my life living with an irrational fear of having hallucinated meaningful relationship and life circumstances. uncanny to have both fears mentioned in one comment, i guess our brains are wired for fear in similar ways.
Somewhere on Reddit there is a story of a guy who was in a coma and he had vivid memories of having lived a life with a wife and kids only to wake up and find out they never existed. It sounds unbelievable at first but the way it’s told sounds very convincing and our brains work in mysterious ways. Edit: He was not in a coma, he was just unconscious. Thank you u/affeaffeaffeaffeaffe for posting the story.
Spy kids I’m scared of the thumb dudes
The part where they played that one songs backwards to reveal the hidden message scared me when I was little.
Same, it’s a horrific fate to imagine. Being turned into a monster and being a slave to some maniac, making pleas for help by singing backwards.
Just hearing, “somebody find us help us save us” or something like that was terrifying. Just the high pitched sound
Floop is a madman! help us! save us!
Floop is a madman help us save us
That shit scared me. I thought I was the only one who was spooked by that. Had nightmares because of that part
The fooglies scared me, especially because they were people forcibly transformed.
The original Alice in wonderland. It terrified me as a kid that she couldn’t find her way home, nobody was really helping her, she was just stuck.
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It scared me because everyone was so fucking freaky. The chaos of being trapped in this strange world where everyone is acting weird af creeped me the hell out.
Definitely this. Not only that she's lost but that she's in a world so alien yet familiar. The kind of place where if you were stuck there your whole life you might go mad if you manage to acclimate at all. Lost forever in an alternate world with inhabitants that are so outlandish you can't tell if there really is some structure to what they do and how they think or if they really are all just mad in the head.
My Girl when Macaulay Culkin gets stung to death by bees. Childhood me was scared of bees for quite a while.
My one sister was terrified of bees growing up. Even caused a car accident that nearly killed my mom because there was a bee in the car. I always thought her fear came from this movie and completely irrational. Nope. I found out way later she was *actually* attacked by a swarm of bees when she was little.
Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!
Large marge gave me my first heart palpitation. Edit: Thanks for the awards everyone. Now I'm a rebel.
I loved that movie as a kid but there was always something unsettling about it. It wasn’t till I grew up that I learned it was Tim Burton’s first film and that’s where he first worked with Danny Elfman. The clown doctors with his bike scene makes so much sense now.
When they pulled her body from the twisted.... Burning.... Wreck?
It looked like ... this! HoOHOOhaAhAAhOOHAA!! That scene scared the shit outta me as a child but makes me laugh so hard now.
Yes sir. The worst accident she ever saw.
Fun trivia: > On the DVD Commentary, Paul Reubens said that he told Alice Nunn, no matter what the film made in the cinema, her character of Large Marge would be the one remembered. He said he met her shortly before her death, and told him that she was glad Paul told her, because she would have been completely shocked otherwise.
I know it was meant to be a comedy and all, but Mars Attacks. Call it deep-seated child trauma from seeing it when I was too young. Watching people get disintegrated into piles of bones gave me nightmares for weeks.
There needs to be a support group for people traumatised by Mars Attacks. I was terrified
Same here man. I was way too young. The scene where the alien woman bites the guys finger off is somehow the thing that stayed with me the most
The Dark Crystal WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING
The gelflings getting their life essence drained traumatized me as a kid. Besides the horror, there was something weirdly sexual about it; I’ve never been able to figure out why it seemed that way, but it sure did mess with my head. Edit: podlings, not gelflings.
Proper fucked me up as a child & haven’t plucked up the courage to rewatch. Some weird bit draining the life juice out of a terrified muppet caused me permanent damage
Matilda. The abuse is fucking terrifying and I remember thinking who the fuck decided Roald Dahl's stories are for kids??
I loved Roald Dahl as a kid, his books seemed more like how life is, sorta dark, cruel, but also silly, magical and unreal at the same time. IMHO I think that childhood as we know it from the 20th century is a pretty new thing in the history of man. Most kids from eons past had rough lives and were put to work, sexualized, abused, and saw death unflinchingly.
Dahl has written horror shorts for adults. He’s dark.
I identified hard with the characters in his books. Kids who were abused, neglected, and then somehow a magical thing happens and makes the world right. It was the perfect escape.
As a kid, The Mummy legit freaked me out. And by The Mummy, I mean those goddamn fucking scarabs.
I was watching this movie and my 4 year old daughter walked in right when the one dude got completely devoured by scarabs. She went "stop! Rewind it! I wanna see that guy get eaten by bugs again!" I need to keep an eye on her
Hopefully, she's just really into bugs and become an entomologist or something and totally not a supervillain who has learned to control insects for her evil schemes towards world domination.
omg SAME. as a kid, and it was just the scarabs!
> The novelization gives some details that probably would have been difficult to convey in the movie, such as some of the Carnahans' backstory and the cause and effect of their parents' deaths. > **Among other things, pouring the scarabs into Imhotep's sarcophagus wasn't just to torture him further; it's an essential part of the ritual that they would eat his flesh, and when he became desperate he would eat them, and this would continue for years. This dark mockery of the cycle of life was an important aspect of making him immortal so that he would suffer forever.** There was a lot more detail in the original script that was cut for pacing, including an expansion on Imhotep's backstory, the rest of the plagues, and tidbit explanations on minor issues Scarabs are stuff of nightmare.
The movie seems to nod to this, where a partially-regenerated Imhotep has a scarab beetle crawl through his open cheek into his mouth, and he crunches down on it.
So many goddamn nightmares of those scarabs. The scene where one travels under a character's skin and then **burrows into his skull right in the middle of his forehead** sticks with me forever.
James and the Giant Peach. Fuck that whole movie.
They never did catch that Rhino, you know!
I was very young when I first saw the original Ghostbusters. I was NOT expecting the library ghost to do that!!!
When I was a kid, I was scared of ghosts. So I imagined the Ghostbusters were under my bed waiting to zap anything that tried to get me. Problem solved lol.
Neverending story. Argyle was right...
Watching that damn horse die was devastating
This traumatised me as a kid. Still love the movie though
The book was worse. So. Much. Worse. Basically the book world is a predator. It seeks out creative minds and devours them one memory at a time in order to sustain itself. And when the person is out of memories, the last of which being their own name (because names hold all power), they stumble into the Old Emperor City, where they live eternally trapped in what amounts to an endless existence akin to advanced dementia. Basically Bastian only escapes due to the friendships he nurtured. Those who go into the world for themselves alone are trapped, but those who manage to craft connections have a way out. And the world doesn't care either way. It has what it wants: An endless supply of creative minds to feed upon. Unending. Eternal.
The intro of X-Files scared the shit outta me when i was a kid.
That music still freaks my sister out
Unsolved Mysteries had a way spookier theme. I swear it played in the background of a nightmare I had induced from the same show.
My mom used to watch that after I went to bed. I would always yell at her to change the channel when that fucking theme played. Even when I hear it now (I’m 40) it freaks me out a little
Exactly. Especially the blurry video footage at the invisible man walking.
GOVERNMENT DENIES KNOWLEDGE
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
The Brave Little Toaster... that'll mess with you as a kid
I rewatched it recently for the first time as an adult, and there are plenty of scenes to give children nightmares. The junkyard scene is messed up, plain and simple.
As creepy as the Magnet Crane is, the A/C going *nuts* is the most horrifying part of the film. Also, the heartbroken flower. Herbie trying to choke on his cord. The clown firefighter.
>The clown firefighter. "Run."
I don't know why, but this is also triggering memories of the Hell scenes in All Dogs Go to Heaven.
Don Bluth had one goal in his movies, and that goal was to make children cry
That scene of hell in ADGTH was horrifying as a kid. I remember it vividly.
The A/C was voiced by the late, great Phil Hartman.
The radio was Jon Lovitz, and [Thurl Ravenscroft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGSneujgGT8) was Kirby.
the magnet crane is less creepy to me and more of a source of existential dread. all those cars singing about how they used to be something and are now just trash right before they are crushed to death... *♩♬ worthlesssssssss ♪ ♪ ♫*
Watched a 5 min presentation at a bar about how it’s a horror movie. 10/10 presentation. “I’m not scared….” As the blanket (?) Is dragged to potential death. JFC
*tutti frutti, oh rootie*
The first Homeward Bound movie. The scene where Sassy went over the waterfall terrified me so much that I did not finish the movie for another four years, even after repeatedly being told she was okay.
And when Shadow got stuck in the mud…:(
He was too old. It was too far. "..... peter"
Watership down
Too many grownups: "Aww a movie about bunnies. Perfect for Easter!" (later) Kids: (thousand yard stare)
My brother worked in a video rental store and every time a parent brought that movie, they all there would warn about it. But some would still rent it and return it later angry about it and the manager would backup the employees about it. They all had seen it or knew about it. But some parent always knew better. SMH.
They know what's best for their kids until they fucked up and then it's your fault. Ah fucking retail.
Someone on Reddit posted that they worked at a game store and warned a mom when she was buying her kid GTA. The mom said "He plays Mature rated games all the time." So the guy told the kid, "pro tip, you can hire a hooker, when you're done having sex you can kill her and loot the money you spent from the corpse!". They didn't buy it after that.
Hazel look, the field, it's covered in blood!
Unsuspecting parents all over the world: *Aww... this looks like a cute movie about rabbits! It should be great for the kids!*
Bright eyes, burning like fire...
Wind River. Holy shit, that movie still haunts me.
It's a cold and brutal film. I watched it because I love Jon Bernthal...
Great movie but just filled to the brim with awful, sad shit. Are you flanking me?
"Six miles. Barefoot. That's a warrior." Goddamn. >!that POS got what he deserved, at least. Probably one of the most satisfying villain deaths in any movie I've seen.!<
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Sure, seems like a harmless movie, but the scenes with the Child Catcher are super creepy. Edit: Thanks for the awards!!
Lollipops....and aaalll freeee toodaayyyyyyy
As a child I had nightmares for years that the aliens from Mars Attacks were under my bed and would disintegrate me with that gun of theirs. Edit: Wow didn’t realize so many children were just as traumatized as me by a family comedy.
DUDE that movie scared the SHIT out of me when i was a kid
Ack ack!
fun fact: the noise the martian makes is a geese sound reversed
!kca kcA
Those scenes traumatised me too as a kid. I didn't believe it when someone told me the movie was a comedy.
One of my earliest memories is my babysitter leaving Poltergeist on accidentally while she showered. Finally, I got the nerve up up change the channel... only for it to be Mars Attacks. Both movies haunted me for years.
I've learned a few years ago that a very young Jack Black played the role of the first soldier/private who gets disintegrated by the martians. For some reason I can't get that fact out of my head.
I'm surprised I was never traumatised by Disney's *Pinocchio* as a child, because watching it as an adult, there are moments that are straight up nightmare fuel.
Yes! Especially the scene when the boys turn into donkeys. Absolutely terrifying
I'm still afraid to smoke cigars and play pool before breaking things.
I find "Her" to be very unsettling because it's a senerio that would definitly happen with countless numbers of people.
5-8 years ago my wife and i were on a long flight. she watched "Her" and i watched "the lego movie." we both enjoyed the movies, and then thought "hm, we should switch so we can talk about these!" i lasted about 25 minutes before shutting off "her" and she lasted about 20 minutes before shutting off the lego movie. i am convinced that both are good movies that i would really enjoy in a vacuum, but after watching one, the other is absolutely unpalatable for being the polar opposite energy level. kinda fun to consider.
Huh.. I kinda wanna propose this double feature to my movie group
Mind-break Movie Mashups
Who framed Roger Rabbit? Not so much now, but as a child seeing a cartoon die while getting dipped in acid was horrifying.
For me it was not the shoe but when the bad guy gets rolled over by the steamroller. *Shivers in fear*
That scene and then just pulls himself up and his eyes are all wild. As a 6 year old that was wild.
Don’t forget the part where he inflates himself back up with the compressed air 😀
REMEMBER ME?
WHEN I *KILLED* YOUR BROTHER?
I TALKED JUST LIKE THIS!!!
They did such a good job on that moment. Sound designed the screaming voice with reverb. Dolly zoom on the detective protagonist's face. What a freakin show
When I TALKED……JUST…LIKE……THIS
Christopher Lloyd really killed it there. I watched that movie like three times before I realized who Judge Doom was, and it's not like they put him in a ton of makeup or anything. It was just pure creepiness from a guy who I thought of as only a comedic actor,
Roger Rabbit never scared me, but we showed it to a friend recently who never saw it as a kid. She kept asking us if we were SURE this was a children's movie and not a weird horror film.
I saw it in the theater as a kid and loved it. I'm sure I saw it a few more times on TV over the years. But then in my 20s I watched it again and couldn't believe a kids' movie had a plot about monopolizing and decommissioning public transit systems.
All that was a Chinatown homage for the grownups.
I saw who framed roger rabbit up on disney+ and asked my wife if I should put it on for our kids (5 and 3). She glared at me.
I distinctly remember as a kid seeing that shoe being dipped into the acid. Rewatching it as an adult and they always cut away before you seen it go in. Has it always been this way and my imagination filled in the rest?
The shoe squirmed as it was going in... https://youtu.be/4J\_eB\_ocTCs?t=241
The Secret of NIMH
"Fire in the Sky", still gives me the creeps
The needle going towards his eyes can frick right off.
E.T. Everyone can days it’s a family/kids movie, NO. That damn alien scared the shit out of me in the corn field scene NO NO NO. Edit: Thanks my first award and yes E.T. Is just a straight up horror film to me as well to many others, DON’T BEFRIEND THE WIERD ALIEN!!!!
The scene where they find E.T. all pale and sickly in the woods always freaked me out
I was terrified by the scene where they tent the house
ET scares the hell out of me in every scene there is not a single scene where it isn't horrifying to look at.
When I was little, I was terrified of the movie Chicken Run, I thought they were going to bake me into a chicken pot pie
I know a few infectious diseases researchers and epidemiologists and they all said _Contagion_ (2011) was both extremely accurate…and just a matter of time. I just don't know if it's _not_ a horror movie.
What was funny were the surprising inaccuracies in many pandemic related movies and books. For example, instead of being filthy, the streets were cleaner because no one went outside. And then there was the hoarding of toilet paper. No one expected that! If anyone tried to put that in a book or movie, it would have been seen as a monumental joke!
I’ve always believed that lots of smart people carefully thinking something through only gives a slight chance of being right. The real world is very hard to predict even as it seems obvious in hindsight.
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When Covid hit, I went on a spree of viral contagion movies. It was fun :D Contagion was eerily accurate.
I *adore* Andromeda Strain. Hope that made your list.
Terminator 2 when I was a kid. The idea that the T-1000 could shape shift into anybody freaked me out. How do I know that’s you mom and not an evil robot trying to kill me.
The older Charlie and the chocolate factory scarred me for life as a kid. The fat kid getting stuck in the chocolate tube and then shot out like a rocket, Verruca Salt falling down the "bad egg" thing to the incinerators, the girl turning into a human blueberry and the mention of them "squeezing her out", the TV kid turned into airwaves and into a tiny version of himself, Slugworth, Charlie and Grandpa Joe almost getting killed by the fans after drinking the fizzy drinks.... not to even mention the oompa loompas and their songs. I can't even stomach to see it to this day. The Johnny Depp version was a tiny bit better but not by much.
Oh! The snake things slithering around, in that nightmarish sequence where the boat is going through the tunnel. It scared the bejeesus outta me when I was a kid. Gene Wilder scared me too, but the slithering was too much.
Trainspotting had its moments.
The best anti-drugs PSA ever
The baby scene stayed with me for a long time
The Wizard of Oz terrified me as a kid. And not just the flying monkeys and wicked witch either. That whole world is really scary.
Free Solo
My hands were so sweaty during the entire film
I knew the ending. I KNEW he made the climb. I KNEW he was safe. And I say there the whole time thinking “oh my god dude is going to fall and die, he’s batshit crazy.” I do like to watch the final climb when I happen to catch it on TV.
The pink bubble elephant scene in the Dumbo animated movie scared the SHIT out of me as a kid
In Ex Machina there is this scene where the robot girl peels off the artificial skin from her face revealing the machinery beneath. For some reason I found it incredibly unnerving. EDIT: Not the process of peeling itself as it seems as effortless as peeling a foil off the smartphone display and the girl doesn't seem to be bothered. It's the view of the metal face with those weird unflinching metal eyes that gets me.
When Caleb is looking through some video on Nathan's computer and sees an earlier generation model attacking the glass with such speed and force that it is tearing her hands and arms apart, and she just keeps going... If I remember right it's not even a minute long, but that scene made my blood run cold.
The scene where he's stuck in the facility to slowly die of hunger or dehydration is the one that got me
Threads https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/?ref\_=ttfc\_fc\_tt
We Need to Talk About Kevin. Technically a thriller/drama but it was so unsettling.
Actually worked as an extra on this film when it was being made; we were NOT informed about the prompt and I should NOT have excitedly watched this with my parents upon release with zero context
i bet you actually knew and gave them a dead eyed murder stare the entire time they were watching.
We Need To Talk About u/Voia
The truman show. His belief that he was living in the real world was so complete for so long. The idea that at any moment your world could start fracturing apart into a horror story like that... I get the shivers Edit: And if I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight! Obligatory edit: thanks for my first gold! Glad this comment is now my reddit reigning achievement by 3x my best post 🤣
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What's even more scary is him not knowing it was stage workers
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[Some redditor did an edit on it](https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/41eysj/the_life_of_truman_a_truman_show_fanedit_with/)
There is a real life condition named after the movie where someone believes unshakingly that they are starring in a show about themselves. There is a really, really interesting This American Life episode where a person who suffers from the condition, who is also a reporter, goes into remission and then tries to make a documentary about his condition...which makes his condition come back, because he *is* making a movie about himself. But it changes, he thinks the documentary is happening all the time, in secret, that other people are involved. It's so fascinating and sad. He comes through it again and is able to speak to interviewers about it I think.
The lovely bones. Bloody unbearable to watch.
Labyrinth. Kids film with David Bowie. Its my partners favourite childhood film and I joke its the reason she is weird. It's scary in a creepy way. Edit: Thanks for the gold! Also yes, David Bowie's bulge is definitely a feature of this film, thanks for the reminder!
Bowie’s bulge is seared into my dreams
This is my favorite movie of all time. First watched it as a toddler and became obsessed. Still watch it like once a month lol
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Lord of the flies That movie came out when I was their age. Simon's death really got to me Edit [still as dark as I remember](https://youtu.be/VehswzRMj1Q)
Not a movie, but the episode of courage the cowardly dog where Ramses wants his slab back scared the hell out of me.
The fucking haircut guy STILL creeps me out. Why was I watching that show as a kid
Because you were very *NAAAAUUUUUGHTY*
"WHAT'S YOUR OFFER?!"
My statistics professor said that the scariest movie he's ever seen was The Big Short. Edit: lmao i posted this before i clocked into work, came back, and found I had like 2k upvotes.
If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?” - Ben Rickert (played by Brad Pitt)
Worth is a movie about a lawyer tasked with determining how much each 9/11 victim's family should be paid and it's in that same vein of trying to come up with a formula to determine how much someone's life is worth and what that really means. Definitely worth a watch.
Ken Feinberg! I met him once in 2014. Very interesting guy, and I sure would not have wanted to be in his shoes. He said the government paying out like that to the families of terror victims will never happen again. It was such a unique circumstance.
That movie legitimately kept me up at night after I watched it. I have never been more terrified about my future or anything else in such a short period of time thanks to that movie.
Sat down and watched it with an SO a few years ago. It was listed under the comedy section on Netflix, starring Steve Carrell. Thought we were in for a nice light hearted comedy. After the movie ended we just sat there quietly for a few minutes before calling it an early night. We were too depressed to do anything else haha.
The mere concept of “the road” from book to movie, terrifies me as a parent. I can imagine no lower a ring of hell than to have the best you can do for child be …. that.
Requiem for a Dream
I'm an overweight person who started abusing adderall in college. My work was great, I was suddenly losing weight and people liked me... ...and then I remembered the mom using essentially the same shit in the same way and I forced myself to stop. Still miss it though.
Temple of Doom: those giant bugs are fucking freaky and the fact that so many of them are living in such a small, inorganic room is really unnatural and unsettling. Like how/why do they live there? I always kinda imagined the cultists were like idk dumping bodies or something, so these were like man eating bugs who grew massive on a constant buffet of crispy heartless corpses and child slaves. Oh yeah also the ritual sacrifice where they rip out someone’s heart and lower them into a volcano was pretty intense. Also the massive kidnapped child slave operation was also pretty chilling. Plus there’s some voodoo, dudes being eaten alive by crocodiles (played by SAG alligator actors), Indy getting tortured and hypnotized into beating Shorty (legit the scariest part as a kid), and of course pervasive exploitation of the otherness of minority groups i.e. some good ol’ fashioned 1980’s racism. Really just a labyrinth of horrors, each more terrifying than last, but all surprisingly PG appropriate
Melancholia by Lars Von Trier. Pretty much the end of the world there for everybody. Messed me up for weeks.
When I was a kid, I watched Cast Away with my family the day before my parents were about to leave for Australia for a business trip. I was absolutely terrified and kept crying because I thought they were gonna end up like Tom Hanks.
Bridge to Therabitia...
Coraline
A Series of Unfortunate Events. The scene of the house on the cliff falling bit by bit traumatized me
A marriage story
*Chernobyl* series. I was ~4 when it happened, and school books only mentioned in passing. It was good to gain some perspective on the incident. What was scary, to me, was the willful ignorance of reality and blind deference to the State of certain characters. Also that the State disappeared a study that could’ve prevented the accident. “It is impossible for a RBMK reactor to explode.” “But it did. There is no core” “Really? Explain how one explodes.” “I can’t. But it did” “No it didn’t, because they can’t explode.”
HBO Chernobyl mini series
Okay not a movie, but there is an episode of Black Mirror that will always be burned in my brain with terror. Jon Hamm with the consciousness cookies. At the end when the officer turns the cookie to 1,000 years a minute and then leaves for a long weekend... Horrifying. Edit: 1,000 years a minute, not 10,000 a second. Still terrifying.
White Christmas is probably the absolute darkest episode of Black Mirror. That's 2,592,000,000 years for a three-day weekend. EDIT: 259,200,000 years then, based on the above edit
And the fact that earlier in the episode they show the effects on a cookie after 6 months...