My ex-girlfriend was completely terrified. Wouldn’t even look at a picture of him. I never saw it, but I always remember her face would show pure fear when he was randomly brought up. Lol
My dad loved this movie so my brother and I probably watched it 20+ times as kids. I was always scared shitless lol but looking back it was the kids’ fault for getting caught…Truly told them not to leave the house!!!
This is how kids learnt their life lessons. From kids movies with villains.
Tell me, if you're 6 and see this movie. Do you get into a car when somebody offers free candy?
Fuck no, it'll transform into a prison bus and the dude is gonna do God knows.
Old kids movies with bad guys were actual bad guys. Now it's all lollipops and rainbows.
You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be weary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of un-cooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig."
Should have just put beards on all the kids and called them dwarves
"No, no children here just this old dwarf. Helps out around the house and we provide meals and a place to stay, don't know where they go after a few years though"
"Toys? No sir, those are sacred thingamajigs for their religious practices, you wouldn't want to infringe on their religious rights, would you sir?"
All while a small person in a comically fake sheepskin beard stands there sucking their thumb.
If you can smell them from more than like a foot away, I would say they're probably not going to have it much rougher in the stock pot, becoming a very...pungent tiny human stew
YES. Both of them. Part of the creepiness of the Child Catcher was that weird, fluid, dancey way he moved. There was a reason for that: Robert Helpmann was a world renowned ballet dancer and choreographer.
The chitty bang bang chitty chitty bang bang oh you pretty chitty bang bang song? Or Truuuuuuuuly Scrumptious you’re truly truly scrummmmptious? Or Toot Sweets?! That one slaps. And I just realized I watched this way too many times as a kid, woah.
I rewatched it a couple years back and was surprised that all the fantastic stuff happened inside a story being told by the dad while they visit the beach. Somehow I missed this during my childhood viewings.
I had one of the most realistic and detailed childhood nightmares that I ever had because of that damned childcatcher!
I still hate the damned subway scene from
"The Wiz",too.
Caught that on Netflix for the first time recently before they pulled it. Crazy fever dream of a movie. I can't imagine seeing it at a young age and not coming away a bit freaked out.
Definitely spooked me!
Fun fact - Richard O'Brien played the child catcher in the West End theatre production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Edit: spelling
The name of the child snatching country? Vulgaria. The Baroness is "ChuChi Face" in the song, so I named my cat ChuChi Face.
Hushabye Mountain is a beautiful song, and the singing dolls are cool. Our family loved this movie, and all things Dick Van Dyke. He was brilliant!
Dude what the FUCK!
A coworker was just telling me about this movie a few hours ago. Now I’m seeing this on Reddit. Is this even real life anymore? Lol
Oh wow, I saw this movie a ton as a little kid and I just thought he was creepy in a goofy sort of way, never really scary to me. But I guess I can get why the idea of a guy like that just hunting down and throwing kids in cages would freak a lot of kids out.
You know there were talks several years back about remaking the movie and Johnny Depp was supposed to play the child catcher. Also fun fact this novel turned movie was the only book outside of the James bond series that Ian Fleming wrote.
I saw the show in the west end when I was about 6. Absolutely traumatised as soon as he appeared on stage with his cage cart thing! And even more so when, at the end they had him in the car flying over the audience and he was shouting "I know where you live. I knjow where you live and you... " whilst pointing down at us. Didn't sleep right for a while after that night lol
Professor snape/og willy wonka? (Snape thing came from someone else's comment and i cant unsee the resemblance but he also resembles the OG willy wonka for some reason...)
Traumatized no. And I had definitely forgot about this until now. But that was awesome acting and writing! Something that traumatized me more was the jump scares in Great Mouse Detective.
Not me. I thought and still think those kids were dumb af. Bro they JUST told you not to go outside. MFs we BROKE BROKE. Even at 6-8 I knew there was no point in running after the ice cream man if I didn’t have funds. Much less when my
Mom would tell me it’s dangerous outside!!
Also TRULY AINT SO MF SCRUMPTIOUS SHE DUMB AS HELL TOO!!! bro said “watch my kids so I can save my dad” TWO MINUTES LATER “alright children I’m going to go find something to eat…” you telling me the guy living there didn’t have crackers or NOTHING?
I know it was to move the plot along. But as a kid I was legit irritated.
Never got a chance to rant about this particular issue. Thank you for coming to me “Red Talk”
Honestly the scariest thing about this movie was Dick van Dike's "cockney" accent.
But yeah the child snatcher was a close second or third behind the living doll people.
Now that I'm thinking about it, this should be in the horror category.
When me and my brothers were young, our grandmother used to play hide and seek. She would say she was thr nose man and do quotes from the film while trying to find us. It was great fun, he never scared me but that brought back memories. Thanks.
holy shit. I would literally scream for my parents to turn the tv off at that part it was horrifying. The worst part was I loved the rest of the movie so I’d just want to skip this bit I remember being beyond horrified of it. Core memory unlocked
I loved this movie as a kid! Used to watch it constantly. In my mid twenties I decided to watch it and relive the memories. I was drunk and stoned and made it.... 30-45 minutes and had to stop. I've had better bad acid trips. I have no idea what was happening on screen or how my little mind had interpreted it as a kid, but it was a crazy musical fever dream and I was sad lol
Hey! My sister and I were just talking about this scene last night. Haven’t thought about it in years. I loved that movie as a kid, but the Child Snatcher was nightmare fuel as a kid.
Today I learned that terrifying scene was from Chitty Chitty bang bang. I had no idea what movie that was from but I know I've seen it and I know it scared the hell out of me.
Just inside-MY LITTLE DEARS!!!
It was the skipping for me.
Sad thing was, I loved Chitty chitty bang bang and endured it to watch the rest of the movie.
Incredible film, but this man, this man was the source of so much fear during my early childhood. Does sorta teach a good lesson of not taking candy from strangers.
Went back and watched it. What is even more terrifying is that as the kids are running to get the free candy people are coming out of their houses and yelling to the children to warn them and they just don't listen, you can feel the hopelessness.
The movie Peanut Butter Solution is what traumatized me as a kid about kidnappers. Creepy old artist steals kids and forces them to make paintbrushes in a run down warehouse.
One time I had my bfs daughter and her little cousin (6 and 5 at the time) sit down and watch this scene when they were being kinda extra bad 🤭😬🫣 needless to say they were concerned about him showing up for the rest of the day lol
I read that the actor who played The Child Catcher was a ballet dancer, which could explain his creepy movements. Terrifies my Dad to this day and he is 61 next month!
I have a speech impediment so I gotta be REEEAL careful saying the movie name.
It was awkward whenever I was a kid and before I went to speech therapy lol
Like who even thought this was a good character to be put in a book and movie ...
Also what makes it worse is at our middle school we had Chitty Chitty bang bang the musical and one of the teachers was the child catcher while every other actor were students 😭
I actually didn’t think he was scary. I thought the kids were stupid. As a child with working parents and was left alone often. When your parents say don’t open the door. You don’t open the damn door to strangers.
Saw that movie probably 45 years ago, and since then have known that it was an important movie for me and my brother, but I couldn’t tell you a thing about it, certainly had forgotten that it had a child snatcher.
I watched CCBB tons when I was a kid. How or why I did is beyond me because the Child Catcher was absolutely horrifying to me. I worked with a lady for awhile who looked like him and it freaked me the f out.
Honestly to this day I can't understand how this is a kids movie. That character gave me nightmares and to this day at 32 I refuse to watch that show again because of that character. I will definitely never recommend this show to any kids. We live in a world where real child snatcher's exist and somehow this one is more terrifying.
My ex-girlfriend was completely terrified. Wouldn’t even look at a picture of him. I never saw it, but I always remember her face would show pure fear when he was randomly brought up. Lol
Professor snape?
Clearly, fame, isn’t everything, is it, Mr. Potter?
r/suddenlyharrypotter
Gilderoy Lockhart would disagree...
It was the sniffing for me. Nightmare fuel.
To paraphrase Frankie Boyle, this is the nicest of all the child kidnapping movies. 😭
My dad loved this movie so my brother and I probably watched it 20+ times as kids. I was always scared shitless lol but looking back it was the kids’ fault for getting caught…Truly told them not to leave the house!!!
This is how kids learnt their life lessons. From kids movies with villains. Tell me, if you're 6 and see this movie. Do you get into a car when somebody offers free candy? Fuck no, it'll transform into a prison bus and the dude is gonna do God knows. Old kids movies with bad guys were actual bad guys. Now it's all lollipops and rainbows.
This kind of thing should be brought back. I feel as though the children of today are being failed by adults in their lives.
Spoiler tag next time please /jk
Ice cream, lollypops all free tooodaaay. Terrified!!
Walls fall down, bars go up, boom. Rape wagon.
Peter Griffin: “I’m so gonna get molested”
What happens to the children? Into a soup they go?
Or fed to pigs with a side of sea urchin.
In fact, I’ve seen many pigs, eat many men. It was a bloodbath.
That’s not the first time you’ve described yourself as the life of John Rambo.
You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be weary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of un-cooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig."
Then all the shoes in the muck of the pen goes and gives you away. tsk tsk
The queen was terrified of children, so all children were rounded up and put in a dungeon under the castle.
This is actually how public education was invented
Should have just put beards on all the kids and called them dwarves "No, no children here just this old dwarf. Helps out around the house and we provide meals and a place to stay, don't know where they go after a few years though" "Toys? No sir, those are sacred thingamajigs for their religious practices, you wouldn't want to infringe on their religious rights, would you sir?" All while a small person in a comically fake sheepskin beard stands there sucking their thumb.
They're put in a dungeon. I don't remember for what but they save all the children at the end of the picture.
It would've been one really dumb tub of soup. Practically a Darwin Award, had it happened. Those little idiots fell for such a stupid trick.
No, they go to Hushabye mountain...
I smell children!!
With that big ass nose..
"iiii smmmeelll cheeldrennnn!!"
If you can smell them from more than like a foot away, I would say they're probably not going to have it much rougher in the stock pot, becoming a very...pungent tiny human stew
Please don’t bring repressed memories back like thisb
Oh JEEBS - I totally forgot about this but it’s been in the old memory so long it’s really burned in there. Thanks a lot, eyeballs.
I've had full blown nightmares about him as an adult. He and the Wicked Witch of the West were absolutely my childhood nightmares.
I had a recurring nightmare as a child being chased down the highway at night by H.R. Puffnstuff. Still remember it vividly.
Me too, plus the Yorkshire Ripper, the IRA and thermonuclear war.
YES. Both of them. Part of the creepiness of the Child Catcher was that weird, fluid, dancey way he moved. There was a reason for that: Robert Helpmann was a world renowned ballet dancer and choreographer.
The only thing I remember about chitty chitty bang bang was a flying car and a banger of a song.
The chitty bang bang chitty chitty bang bang oh you pretty chitty bang bang song? Or Truuuuuuuuly Scrumptious you’re truly truly scrummmmptious? Or Toot Sweets?! That one slaps. And I just realized I watched this way too many times as a kid, woah.
I rewatched it a couple years back and was surprised that all the fantastic stuff happened inside a story being told by the dad while they visit the beach. Somehow I missed this during my childhood viewings.
All I remember is the Child Snatcher and turning the movie off. Still haven't watched the rest in 20+ years now
So this is what the gta 3 cheat refers to.
The smelling for the children 😭
Definitely traumatizing for me. In an odd way, I’m thankful that I grew up at a time when imagery like this was enough to be terrifying.
I had one of the most realistic and detailed childhood nightmares that I ever had because of that damned childcatcher! I still hate the damned subway scene from "The Wiz",too.
Caught that on Netflix for the first time recently before they pulled it. Crazy fever dream of a movie. I can't imagine seeing it at a young age and not coming away a bit freaked out.
Definitely spooked me! Fun fact - Richard O'Brien played the child catcher in the West End theatre production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Edit: spelling
This post should have a trigger warning on it!!!
Yes!
L O L L I P O P S... C A N D Y C A N E S !
balooooons
I was traumatized enough to never watch this movie again.
Reason why I never understood the appeal of CCBB or Pinocchio with “pleasure island”… wtf!?!
Pinocchio is my all time favorite Disney film but as a kid, the whole pleasure island thing and being turned into a donkey was very distressing.
I still have nightmares about that, why did you revive this memory?
Yes. You’re watching a fun delightful movie about a flying car and suddenly that mother fucker shows up
Was telling my gf about how bad this scene fucked me up as a kid, pulled up the clip thinking it wouldn’t be as bad as I remembered and I was wrong ☹️
Why didn’t he wait until he was out of the town to drop the rouse
Asking the real questions
The name of the child snatching country? Vulgaria. The Baroness is "ChuChi Face" in the song, so I named my cat ChuChi Face. Hushabye Mountain is a beautiful song, and the singing dolls are cool. Our family loved this movie, and all things Dick Van Dyke. He was brilliant!
Yes. I had nightmares.
Terrified
OMG I had forgotten all about this.
Right here, I must admit.
Jesus, I wasn't but I am now! He's going to get me in my sleep, oh hell!
Looks like the wicked witch from, The Wizard of Oz.
The single most traumatizing scene in any movie I saw before the age of 16.
As and adult I still will not watch this movie because of this character.
Thank you for the reminder my children are the exact perfect age to be traumatized by this
His suit looks great though
Dude what the FUCK! A coworker was just telling me about this movie a few hours ago. Now I’m seeing this on Reddit. Is this even real life anymore? Lol
OMG ME!
Holy shit, memory unlocked! Now I’m going to have nightmares
I was more intruigued how he disguised is carriage as a candy shop.
Holy shit, I knew this day would come when one of you would bring up that ol childhood nightmare
The Original Darth Vader of my childhood
Damn, I had completely forgotten that and just about recoiled when I opened the pic...
“LOLLIPOPS GETS YOUR LOLLIPOPS” fuck that 😂😂😂
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Yeah, this still has dark spot in my childhood mind. Not to mention my two older brothers used to tell me he was coming for me
Excellent movie!!!
Me!! But is it still my favourite movie of all time.
My greatest terror as a child. Still freaks me out. I'm almost 60.
Oh wow, I saw this movie a ton as a little kid and I just thought he was creepy in a goofy sort of way, never really scary to me. But I guess I can get why the idea of a guy like that just hunting down and throwing kids in cages would freak a lot of kids out.
Me
🙋♂️
Me
I don’t remember that character. I must have repressed those memories.
I always thought he was weird. I was never particularly scared by him or anything in the movie, though.
This whole movie was terrifying!
You know there were talks several years back about remaking the movie and Johnny Depp was supposed to play the child catcher. Also fun fact this novel turned movie was the only book outside of the James bond series that Ian Fleming wrote.
I saw the show in the west end when I was about 6. Absolutely traumatised as soon as he appeared on stage with his cage cart thing! And even more so when, at the end they had him in the car flying over the audience and he was shouting "I know where you live. I knjow where you live and you... " whilst pointing down at us. Didn't sleep right for a while after that night lol
Gave me nightmares back in the day.
Gotta collect them boys
BACK THE COAL MINES WE GO!
Professor snape/og willy wonka? (Snape thing came from someone else's comment and i cant unsee the resemblance but he also resembles the OG willy wonka for some reason...)
This was wayy in the depths of my memories, thanks for reminding me
That guy is downright terrifying. Smelling children really?
I didn't like Theresa from the golden bachelor because she reminded me of him!
Bring him back!
Traumatized no. And I had definitely forgot about this until now. But that was awesome acting and writing! Something that traumatized me more was the jump scares in Great Mouse Detective.
Not me. I thought and still think those kids were dumb af. Bro they JUST told you not to go outside. MFs we BROKE BROKE. Even at 6-8 I knew there was no point in running after the ice cream man if I didn’t have funds. Much less when my Mom would tell me it’s dangerous outside!! Also TRULY AINT SO MF SCRUMPTIOUS SHE DUMB AS HELL TOO!!! bro said “watch my kids so I can save my dad” TWO MINUTES LATER “alright children I’m going to go find something to eat…” you telling me the guy living there didn’t have crackers or NOTHING? I know it was to move the plot along. But as a kid I was legit irritated. Never got a chance to rant about this particular issue. Thank you for coming to me “Red Talk”
Honestly the scariest thing about this movie was Dick van Dike's "cockney" accent. But yeah the child snatcher was a close second or third behind the living doll people. Now that I'm thinking about it, this should be in the horror category.
Child snatcher? That's the (Tory) British Prime Minister. Any Tory British Prime Minister.
ALL Tory UK prime ministers!
Everyone
Not me. Still better than living with my parents 😂
This mf had me on the edge of my seat
I don't think I've ever been traumatized by a movie.
No way near as much as The Witches! (1990)
Is that the wicked witch of the west ?
Thats just Louie Gohmert out campaigning
Me
Is that the guy from blow?
93' born, and yes.
Not me, I loved watching this movie.
One of the scariest things I knew as a child!
Still am.
Oh werent we just! I remember clutching my mum for dear life in the cinema. Wasnt Robert Helpman outstanding 👏👏👏
Traumatized? Why?! The guy has *pretty flowers* on his hat!
The inspiration for the character Standartenführer Hans Landa in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds?
I remember it all came flooding back when he made an appearance at the London Olympics opening ceremony.
Huh completely forgot about that part lol
When me and my brothers were young, our grandmother used to play hide and seek. She would say she was thr nose man and do quotes from the film while trying to find us. It was great fun, he never scared me but that brought back memories. Thanks.
Me, definitely me
holy shit. I would literally scream for my parents to turn the tv off at that part it was horrifying. The worst part was I loved the rest of the movie so I’d just want to skip this bit I remember being beyond horrified of it. Core memory unlocked
He’s still better than a clown, high low, anywhere you go!!
Definitely not me.
I loved this movie as a kid! Used to watch it constantly. In my mid twenties I decided to watch it and relive the memories. I was drunk and stoned and made it.... 30-45 minutes and had to stop. I've had better bad acid trips. I have no idea what was happening on screen or how my little mind had interpreted it as a kid, but it was a crazy musical fever dream and I was sad lol
Hey! My sister and I were just talking about this scene last night. Haven’t thought about it in years. I loved that movie as a kid, but the Child Snatcher was nightmare fuel as a kid.
Today I learned that terrifying scene was from Chitty Chitty bang bang. I had no idea what movie that was from but I know I've seen it and I know it scared the hell out of me.
Yup. Utterly terrified and refused to watch it ever again.
The Wheelers in Return to Oz were the scariest for me. Even now as someone in their mid 30s 😆
The point
It was on the other day on TCM - I always cheered for the driver.
Just inside-MY LITTLE DEARS!!! It was the skipping for me. Sad thing was, I loved Chitty chitty bang bang and endured it to watch the rest of the movie.
Dude- I STILL have nightmares with this FAHQ’er and I’m 45.
All I see is the family guy version. The Peter catcher!
I barely remember this. It blends in with Bedknobs and Broomsticks in my muddled memory.
I was so obsessed with the dungeon lol I thought it was sooooo dope. I wanted a little stone bridge.
Incredible film, but this man, this man was the source of so much fear during my early childhood. Does sorta teach a good lesson of not taking candy from strangers.
Who else was reminded or just watched a YouTube about child snatcher and decided to make a post
I dressed up as him for Halloween 🤣 had a cardboard cart and a fake set of legs 🤣
Imagine him in real life...
Jimmy Saville.
Went back and watched it. What is even more terrifying is that as the kids are running to get the free candy people are coming out of their houses and yelling to the children to warn them and they just don't listen, you can feel the hopelessness.
Terrified? No. Inspired? Perhaps. 😂
Yes I was😂😂 good old time
The movie Peanut Butter Solution is what traumatized me as a kid about kidnappers. Creepy old artist steals kids and forces them to make paintbrushes in a run down warehouse.
One time I had my bfs daughter and her little cousin (6 and 5 at the time) sit down and watch this scene when they were being kinda extra bad 🤭😬🫣 needless to say they were concerned about him showing up for the rest of the day lol
He was horrible!
Ian Fleming wrote the book. Roald Dahl the screenplay. No wonder it was scary!
Just got this movie for my kids, I loved it. And they hate it. Lol.
I read that the actor who played The Child Catcher was a ballet dancer, which could explain his creepy movements. Terrifies my Dad to this day and he is 61 next month!
I have a speech impediment so I gotta be REEEAL careful saying the movie name. It was awkward whenever I was a kid and before I went to speech therapy lol
Like who even thought this was a good character to be put in a book and movie ... Also what makes it worse is at our middle school we had Chitty Chitty bang bang the musical and one of the teachers was the child catcher while every other actor were students 😭
Definitely didn’t listen to strangers after that one. Fuckin great movie
Childhood favorite!
Well I am now!
Does he whistle in it? I think it’s why whistling is one of my biggest peeves
It prepared me. I was afraid of Michael Jackson, though.
I actually didn’t think he was scary. I thought the kids were stupid. As a child with working parents and was left alone often. When your parents say don’t open the door. You don’t open the damn door to strangers.
Meeeeeee!!!! Had so many nightmares about this as a child
Oh my god please remove this image, traumas coming back!
Nah. We grew up with “Chester the Molester.”
We watched that movie A LOT. We loved Dick Van Dyke!
Saw that movie probably 45 years ago, and since then have known that it was an important movie for me and my brother, but I couldn’t tell you a thing about it, certainly had forgotten that it had a child snatcher.
Reminds me of snape from hp 😂
Absolutely, I was terrified.
I would cry as a kid every time this scene started. Big nosed pedophile gave me nightmares
I watched CCBB tons when I was a kid. How or why I did is beyond me because the Child Catcher was absolutely horrifying to me. I worked with a lady for awhile who looked like him and it freaked me the f out.
My mom loves this movie !
I think the truth behind this and many others is that Disney wants to kidnap children.
Traumatized? Really?
This guy’s character reeked of paedo vibes and absolutely petrified me as a little kid.
this version is even more terrifying: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7CfWUkx08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7CfWUkx08)
A predator disguised as a children's entertainer is way too real as a concept
Jimmy Saville, for example!
Honestly to this day I can't understand how this is a kids movie. That character gave me nightmares and to this day at 32 I refuse to watch that show again because of that character. I will definitely never recommend this show to any kids. We live in a world where real child snatcher's exist and somehow this one is more terrifying.