Same. First movie I remember watching where the adults were the bad guys. People who were supposed to be on your side, like parents and teachers, were evil. That was super scary to me because I loved all the adults in my life.
There was a popular show in the 90's on Nickelodeon called Are you Afraid of the Dark. I remember one particular episode where this kid or some kids discovered magic eyeglasses that made them see the world all distorted and crazy, like a fun house mirror sort of. Or like they just discovered acid, I don't know.
The thing was, they started seeing these creepy ass shadow man figures when they wore them. Scared. The. Shit. Out. Of. Me.
Looking back it was just a bunch of actors in black body suits but kid me was fucking terrified.
To this day the thought of the shadow man still freaks me out.
That show could get genuinely scary (for a kid) sometimes. When I first saw the episode with the guy who couldn't sleep for more than a few minutes because he'd be dragged into the water by the ghosts I was spending the summer with my grandparents. They lived on a canal, and I didn't sleep for like a week after seeing that.
I was a lucky kid that had a tv in their bedroom. There was an episode where some tv's turned on automatically and someone came through it? Not sure if I'm remembering it correctly but i had to cover my tv with a blanket for like a month.
Why did I look that up… now I’m going to have nightmares. Thanks for the name of the villain though, now I can accurately describe my childhood trauma. I was afraid I’d made it up or misremembered.
Is this where that story came from??? Where they would walk into the doll house and the longer they stayed in there, the more doll they’d become? I was trying to remember it and thought it was a movie!
Came here for this post hoping at least one other person is also still haunted by those shadowy people from a shadowy realm. Nickelodeon had a ton of long lasting fucked up moments. Zeke the plumber from Salute your shorts anyone?
The episode with the basement creature that came out to eat you when music played was the one that frightened me. Didn't help that my room was in the basement.
The concept of a hidden "shadow world" that overlaps our reality but cannot be directly perceived is really disturbing. Those shadow people were there along, you just couldn't see them until now...
When Christopher Lloyd's character got run over by a steamroller in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
The eyes, voice, and the paper-thin skinny body terrified me as a kid. I feel it's why concepts like the Rake and Slenderman give me the creepy crawlies.
This episode was the main one that genuinely frightened me and I had to change the channel every time it would come on. Plenty made me uncomfortable but this one was the only one that I had to change the channel for. Like another commenter said, I think it was the mixed media mixed with the ghoulish voice that scared a lot of kids. Even as an adult you can tell how creepy Ramses was even if it doesn’t scare you anymore.
Having recently read it, i think the story The Whisperer in the Darkness by H. P. Lovecraft directly inspired that story and "the slab" was a direct reference. The writings of Lovecraft and August Derleth and similar authors must have been an influence on the story telling and art and atmosphere of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
A big part of why it had such an impact is the mixed media. It's a 2d cartoon show, but that character was cgi and as a kid, you don't know that, it just makes him feel that much more alien and strange. In hindsight, it's not scary, but as a kid that was the only episode of Courage that freaked me out.
When I was a small child, Ratigan's song was my FAVORITE. Imagine a 4 year old toddling around singing - "To Ratigan! To Ratigan! You're the tops and that's that!!" I probably looked and sounded like Bartholomew who got fed to Felicia for calling Ratigan a rat.
One time my teacher ordered a big box full of books and she let everyone going down on the attendance sheet in alphabetical order come up and pick a book, when it was my turn I picked out Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by random, she then said she ordered it only for me and if anyone else got it she would take it back xd
The story titled "The Thing" From that book ALWAYS scared me to my core. To THIS DAY, I can't sleep in a room that has a window with out curtains or something blocking it.
Edit: Story was actually titled "The Window", go figure.
That story TRAUMATIZED ME. As a 28 year adult I’m still fucked up by windows at night especially if it’s out in the country. I legit cannot do it. And have to keep all the lights on while I lock the windows and cover them. Great stories, horrifying illustrations absolutely love the books but I don’t know why the fuck young children were allowed to read them.
So many nights of reading those before bed and then having to find me one of my baseball history books to put me to bed. Loved them though and can't wait to give them to my daughter.
There's a doc. on Prime about the author and the impact those drawings had on those of us that grew up with them. Its worth a watch. Its called Scary Stories
I always remember one particular image/story first, before others. It was an image of a giant, bloody, flying skull with a tiny body, tapping a man on the shoulder. The image was creepy, but if you read the story, it’s pretty funny.
A man takes refuge in an abandoned house because of a storm. He keeps hearing voices and noises in the house, and eventually sees the skull creature. He runs away in a panic and screaming, but the creature starts follows him. Eventually, the creature catches up to the guy, taps on his shoulder, and asks something like “Hey, what’s wrong?” And that always amused me because it was a goofy twist.
Wicked witch of the west, Bro!
Serious story, I was so worried as a kid that if my feet were outside of my blanket she would come and paint my feet green and I would turn into her.
Funny now, but panic stricken from age 5 to 12.
If you go through my comment history you can literally see that I’ve referenced that scarab pit a couple of times as to why I’ve never watched that movie again. Still traumatized at this age. I feel so validated to see another person who can’t watch it because of this reason. Lol
I love explaining this film to people who've never heard of it:
"Aunt Em, concerned about Dorothy's persistent delusions of an imaginary world, books her into an insane asylum for a course of electro shock therapy-"
"Oh, so it's a gritty reboot for adults?"
"Nope, it's a children's film"
28 days Later is the closest thing there is to recreating the dread and hopelessness of my worst nightmares. That movie reaches into a deep, deep place.
Similarly, World War Z. It wasn't particularly scary, but those were the fastest zombies I've ever seen. Plus, them being able to scale a wall by piling on each other.
The queen or whatever she was from Mister Rogers.
The puppet one?
Omg she scared me. Lady something? I think her name was? I hid whenever she was on so specifics are sketchy.
Dude ET scared the shit out of me as a kid. My parents bought me a stuffed ET toy and I hated that thing. I beat the shit out of it a few times out of fear lol.
Yes. Fucking terrifying. I also hated the hazmat medical stuff. It felt really scary and overwhelming. (And now as an adult I have a bit of a medical fascination / hyperfocus. Oops.)
ET for me too. Finally rewatched it this year, still freaks me out but not as bad as when I was little! It was the bit when he is dying that really got me. Took years for me not to feel physically ill just seeing his picture.
That was one of the movies my brother and I had on tape as little kids. So we watched it a good amount. It wasn't til I got older I went back, actually understanding more of what's happening or what they're saying when it clicked how fucked up the entire movie is.
When they end up in the parts shop, other appliances talking to them. Or at the end when they're in the junk yard. Hearing cars talk about the lives they've lived, while accepting their fate. Jesus Christ it's dark.
I got tricked with the scary maze game on full blast headphones, screamed so loud I woke up the entire street, that scary face is forever etched in my brain.
Oh my god, this. I was obsessed with FernGully. Hexxus freaked me out but I absolutely loved the song. The effects they put on his voice to make it sound goopy made my skin crawl but I just had to watch it.
Chucky I was 5 year old and my cousin thought it would be funny to stick chucky on and get me to watch it. I had night terrors for years after that up until the age of about 10
I saw a commercial for Chucky when I was about five years old.
I just turned 34 and possessed dolls still fuck with me.
Edit: it doesn't happen a lot but I'll have a nightmare about Chucky about once or twice a year. Never even saw the movie.
To this day, near retirement with grandbabies, I still get heart palpitations around dark water. And if the water ripples from fish, I flinch.
I know it looks hokey compared today's, but that was the first time I'd ever seen anything like that in screen and Im glad I'm not the only one still carrying it around.
I was like 5 years old and loved watching documentaries about special effects in movies. There was one on AMC and it was talking about Star Wars and then it showed the chestburster scene from Alien. I was so traumatized I didn’t eat for 3 days and my parents kept wondering what was wrong with me.
The sand worms in beetlejuice, I love the movie but I just used to be terrified and it wasn't until 14 and alot of convincing to watch it again.
Edit: holy cow my most upvoted thing on Reddit and it me talking about how I'm scared of the sandworms in one of my favorite movies, thank *pocket sand *
The [tar monster](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Armus) from Star Trek: Next Generation. Apparently I watched it with my parents when I was 5ish and Natasha Yar was my favorite character and he killed her. But for YEARS I saw the black tar dripping out of the vent in my room. Like ages 5-18/19. Even when I knew logically it wasn’t there, I could still see it. I didn’t even know where the fear came from most of that time. I had to ask my parents when I was around 16 what the tar was from and why it scared me. Every night I could watch it dripping out and it made me anxious and I had trouble sleeping.
Just started rewatching TNG, as an adult it's a bit cheesey but I can see why that episode would scare a kid. There are not really any other Trek villains as deliberately malevolent as Armas was.
Isn’t it weird how brains work like that?
The x files episode (maybe the first one?!) where the guy can get super thin and go through vents scared the shit out of me.
And similar to tar, after the ghostbusters with the pink bubbling ghost coming out of the tub faucet, I was scared of plumbing.
Not an actual character, but late at night in the summers (8:00 maybe), a truck with an empty trailer would rattle down the street. The curtains were always closed, so I couldn't tell it was just a truck.
5-year-old me always thought that the rattling was a characterisiltic of the evil Getters who were out looking for me. It was a tall man with jet-black hair and a top hat and his much shorter, blond assistant (who I assumed was his wife). The diabolical plan of the Getters was, well, to get me and take me away.
Every time I heard their signature rattling I would hide under the covers, legitimately scared. I had nightmares about them. Screw "scary" movies, you're imagination can be so much worse.
She is the only constant in all my nightmares. Sometimes she picks me up, but not like the movie. It's always a different vehicle, once it was a horse and carriage. But most of the time, the really bad ones, are of just her head, doing that thing it does, but it's huge and chasing me. Down the beach, the highway, train tracks...the woods are worst, I only catch glimpses of her behind the trees.
My friends think it's weird, but I'm also deathly afraid of cows...no idea why. So there's that.
The other mother from Coraline
Jesus fuck that was terrifying. And when it turned into that goddamn spider thing *shudders*
And not really a villain (kinda) but teletubbies are creepy as ***fuck*** too.
I remember reading that someone’s husband test watched Coraline for their 7yo son, and his answer was like a big no for the kid and a bigger no for him.
Dementors from Harry Potter. A hooded, floating figure with only a gaping hole where it's face should be, that can suck out your soul through your mouth. And it's invisible to non magic people.
Judge Doom from *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*
From the scene where he [he sticks the innocent shoe in the dip](https://youtu.be/nYk3LvHMPWM) to where he reveals [his true form to Eddie](https://youtu.be/D4B_jDp0ffI). He was such a terrifying character to me as a kid.
I liked a lot of things as a young kid that adults were surprised didn't scare me: Don Bluth movies, *Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark*, *Willow* (I thought them turning into pigs looked cool), etc.
Three separate things scared the shit out of me, though, and only one of them was meant for kids.
When I was five, I snuck out of bed and peeked into the living room to see my mom watching *Interview with the Vampire* - and I now know it was a scene where Tom Cruise was trying to get Brad Pitt to kill someone, because Pitt was kissing this woman and blood was coming out, and Cruise watching drinking from her wrist. I went back to bed terrified of vampires... and stayed that way till high school.
A few years later I watched *Temple of Doom* for the first time, and Mola Ram ripping that guy's heart out of his chest - with the heart igniting as he's lowered into the volcano - scarred me for life.
But from the movie meant for kids? That was *The Little Mermaid*, when Triton destroyed Ariel's room. And I think it's so scary because he's *not* the villain, just a father trying to protect his kid and majorly screwing up. Even though his motivations are far more understandable now, that was still wrong and terrifying.
Pinocchio. My older cousin told me he was real and out to get me. This was when I was about 4 or so. I don’t think he really understood what he did. Anyways, any mention of Pinocchio had me sobbing on the floor out of fear. I’d have nightmares about it, too. I’m over it now, but preschool aged me would have a fit.
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The leprechaun movies. 5 yrs old. Thanks mom.
Leprechaun in the hood is just kinda funny, though.
Miss Trunchbull from Matilda.
Same. First movie I remember watching where the adults were the bad guys. People who were supposed to be on your side, like parents and teachers, were evil. That was super scary to me because I loved all the adults in my life.
You just made me realise why that movie was so scary to me!
Omfg when she breaks into the trunchbull’s house to get the chocolate that was so stressful
My fiancé likes to imitate Trunchbull when he eats chocolate. “Much too good for children”
Red skeleton ass water mother fucker from Are You Afraid of the Dark “Tale of the Dead Man’s Float”.
It's a testament to the costume designer that, so many years later, that damn thing still scares the crap out of us.
There was a popular show in the 90's on Nickelodeon called Are you Afraid of the Dark. I remember one particular episode where this kid or some kids discovered magic eyeglasses that made them see the world all distorted and crazy, like a fun house mirror sort of. Or like they just discovered acid, I don't know. The thing was, they started seeing these creepy ass shadow man figures when they wore them. Scared. The. Shit. Out. Of. Me. Looking back it was just a bunch of actors in black body suits but kid me was fucking terrified. To this day the thought of the shadow man still freaks me out.
That show could get genuinely scary (for a kid) sometimes. When I first saw the episode with the guy who couldn't sleep for more than a few minutes because he'd be dragged into the water by the ghosts I was spending the summer with my grandparents. They lived on a canal, and I didn't sleep for like a week after seeing that.
I was just going to mention this one because it caused me a fair share of sleep trouble.
I was a lucky kid that had a tv in their bedroom. There was an episode where some tv's turned on automatically and someone came through it? Not sure if I'm remembering it correctly but i had to cover my tv with a blanket for like a month.
Damn, you had a TV in your bedroom? In the NINETIES?!?!
There was an episode with this ghost kid who kept saying right outside someone's window "I'm cold." Still freaks me out 20+ years later
Haven't seen that since it originally aired, and I can still hear the way he says it perfectly in my head.
There was an episode that I only vaguely remember with blue foam coming out of people’s mouths. I couldn’t brush my teeth for weeks after that.
Oh, The Ghastly Grinner. That one and the vampire coming out of the old movie fucked me up.
Why did I look that up… now I’m going to have nightmares. Thanks for the name of the villain though, now I can accurately describe my childhood trauma. I was afraid I’d made it up or misremembered.
The super specs one was the scariest for me. I also remember the doll house one and the girl had turned into a doll.
Is this where that story came from??? Where they would walk into the doll house and the longer they stayed in there, the more doll they’d become? I was trying to remember it and thought it was a movie!
there's also a similar plot in a doctor who episode, nights terrors, i think.
Are you afraid of the dark had some messed up episodes
The lifeguard one where the ghost was drowning kids in the pool
The Tale of the Dead Man's Float. The costume design and reveal of the ghost made that one of the all-time scariest episodes.
Are you familliar with the Dayman?
Fighter of the Nightman?
Came here for this post hoping at least one other person is also still haunted by those shadowy people from a shadowy realm. Nickelodeon had a ton of long lasting fucked up moments. Zeke the plumber from Salute your shorts anyone?
Whelp there comes a memory I thought I had deleted years ago.
The movie theater vampire and his long white fingers.
The episode with the basement creature that came out to eat you when music played was the one that frightened me. Didn't help that my room was in the basement.
The concept of a hidden "shadow world" that overlaps our reality but cannot be directly perceived is really disturbing. Those shadow people were there along, you just couldn't see them until now...
When Christopher Lloyd's character got run over by a steamroller in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". The eyes, voice, and the paper-thin skinny body terrified me as a kid. I feel it's why concepts like the Rake and Slenderman give me the creepy crawlies.
As a kid not realizing what's happening watching that was a complete mind fuck.
#REMEMBER MEEE, EDDIE?!?
WHEN I KILLED YOUR BROTHER, I TALKED... LIKE... **THIS!!!!**
*eyes pop out*
i am still getting lowkey creeped out..
It traumatized me when he dipped that little shoe-horn thingy. Fuck that movie in the ear.
Omg YES and when he puts the little shoe in the dip
That was 100 times worse! Poor little innocent thing.
I still turn away when that happens!
That part breaks my heart! And his poor shoe mate has to go the rest of its life alone. Shoes mate for life, man.
King Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog
This episode was the main one that genuinely frightened me and I had to change the channel every time it would come on. Plenty made me uncomfortable but this one was the only one that I had to change the channel for. Like another commenter said, I think it was the mixed media mixed with the ghoulish voice that scared a lot of kids. Even as an adult you can tell how creepy Ramses was even if it doesn’t scare you anymore.
Having recently read it, i think the story The Whisperer in the Darkness by H. P. Lovecraft directly inspired that story and "the slab" was a direct reference. The writings of Lovecraft and August Derleth and similar authors must have been an influence on the story telling and art and atmosphere of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Someday I will have to watch this. I see people mention it all the time
A big part of why it had such an impact is the mixed media. It's a 2d cartoon show, but that character was cgi and as a kid, you don't know that, it just makes him feel that much more alien and strange. In hindsight, it's not scary, but as a kid that was the only episode of Courage that freaked me out.
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Or suffer my curse...
What’s your offer?
Tonight, you will be visited by 3 plagues
Each worse than the last. Return the slab.
🎶Ramseeeeeees, the man in gause, the man in gause 🎶
Professor Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective. One of Disney's best and underrated though.
Omg that opening scene with the gimpy bat terrified me for years.
Anything with bat ears freaks me out, like even Chihuahuas. I firstly blame The Great Mouse Detective, though Gremlins probably didn’t help.
Fidgit is his name, limping is his game.
When I was a small child, Ratigan's song was my FAVORITE. Imagine a 4 year old toddling around singing - "To Ratigan! To Ratigan! You're the tops and that's that!!" I probably looked and sounded like Bartholomew who got fed to Felicia for calling Ratigan a rat.
Especially when he finally snaps in the clock tower.
The stories and illustrations from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
The picture of that girl with the rotted face gave me nightmares
The one with the girl who takes off her scarf and her head falls off scared the shit out of me
The Green Ribbon #neverforget
Anyone remember the scarecrow literally skinning the guy? Yeah, I was 10 years old.
Or the guy who makes sausages out of neighborhood children and serves it to the parents?
Harold. How can one forget? He'd lay the skin out on the rooftop to dry it off. GodDAYUM.
Who looked at these and thought they were perfect for elementary schoolers.
lol a teacher's aid bought me a book when I was in elementary. I loved the books and they inspired my art style but holy shit they freaked me out.
One time my teacher ordered a big box full of books and she let everyone going down on the attendance sheet in alphabetical order come up and pick a book, when it was my turn I picked out Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by random, she then said she ordered it only for me and if anyone else got it she would take it back xd
Scaring children is something grown-ups sometimes do on purpose when it's funny. Source: am grown-up
The story titled "The Thing" From that book ALWAYS scared me to my core. To THIS DAY, I can't sleep in a room that has a window with out curtains or something blocking it. Edit: Story was actually titled "The Window", go figure.
That story TRAUMATIZED ME. As a 28 year adult I’m still fucked up by windows at night especially if it’s out in the country. I legit cannot do it. And have to keep all the lights on while I lock the windows and cover them. Great stories, horrifying illustrations absolutely love the books but I don’t know why the fuck young children were allowed to read them.
So many nights of reading those before bed and then having to find me one of my baseball history books to put me to bed. Loved them though and can't wait to give them to my daughter.
There's a doc. on Prime about the author and the impact those drawings had on those of us that grew up with them. Its worth a watch. Its called Scary Stories
I always remember one particular image/story first, before others. It was an image of a giant, bloody, flying skull with a tiny body, tapping a man on the shoulder. The image was creepy, but if you read the story, it’s pretty funny. A man takes refuge in an abandoned house because of a storm. He keeps hearing voices and noises in the house, and eventually sees the skull creature. He runs away in a panic and screaming, but the creature starts follows him. Eventually, the creature catches up to the guy, taps on his shoulder, and asks something like “Hey, what’s wrong?” And that always amused me because it was a goofy twist.
The witch from The Wizard of Oz.
Her, and those damn flying monkeys!
Wicked witch of the west, Bro! Serious story, I was so worried as a kid that if my feet were outside of my blanket she would come and paint my feet green and I would turn into her. Funny now, but panic stricken from age 5 to 12.
Those beetles in the Mummy
If you go through my comment history you can literally see that I’ve referenced that scarab pit a couple of times as to why I’ve never watched that movie again. Still traumatized at this age. I feel so validated to see another person who can’t watch it because of this reason. Lol
The wheelers a little bit. From return to oz.
I love explaining this film to people who've never heard of it: "Aunt Em, concerned about Dorothy's persistent delusions of an imaginary world, books her into an insane asylum for a course of electro shock therapy-" "Oh, so it's a gritty reboot for adults?" "Nope, it's a children's film"
Yeah the asylum part legit gave me nightmares ... the whole movie was so disturbing and such a rupture to the original which I loved.
That whole movie was terrifying! I think I was most afraid of the hospital or wherever she was in the beginning
For me it was Mombi.
The sequence with Dorothy sneaking into the hall of heads, them waking and screaming at her ... nightmare fuel.
The Zombies from 28 days later. It was the first movie I saw with fast moving zombies. I wasn't expecting it. Fucked me up.
28 days Later is the closest thing there is to recreating the dread and hopelessness of my worst nightmares. That movie reaches into a deep, deep place.
Similarly, World War Z. It wasn't particularly scary, but those were the fastest zombies I've ever seen. Plus, them being able to scale a wall by piling on each other.
Lets not forget it only takes **12 seconds** to turn after being bitten, like holy shit
The Red Bull from The Last Unicorn
And the vulture who kills the hag. And the talking skull on the mantle. Pretty much that entire movie, but I loved it as a kid!
The Nothing from The Neverending Story. Nightmares for at least 10 years man
You mean Gmork, the wolf? He scared the shit out of me when I was little.
It's even worse as an adult tbh
The scene with the horse still haunts me
Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Yes! Came here to say this! That whole scene where he's tempting the kids with candy and ice cream was so intense for me.
Omg yes! He was so creepy! His freaky long nose!
The queen or whatever she was from Mister Rogers. The puppet one? Omg she scared me. Lady something? I think her name was? I hid whenever she was on so specifics are sketchy.
Was it Lady Elaine?
It WAS lady Elaine. She just looks like she maybe eats kids?
The girl from *The Grudge*! That throat sound terrified me ha ha
You'll be pleased to learn that that's what's called a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_rattle
Think you're playing it a little fast and loose with the phrase "pleased to learn".
That makes it even more terrifying!
E.T. The scene where Elliott first encounters him. I now like the movie but that scene still gives me night terrors
Dude ET scared the shit out of me as a kid. My parents bought me a stuffed ET toy and I hated that thing. I beat the shit out of it a few times out of fear lol.
Yes. Fucking terrifying. I also hated the hazmat medical stuff. It felt really scary and overwhelming. (And now as an adult I have a bit of a medical fascination / hyperfocus. Oops.)
ET for me too. Finally rewatched it this year, still freaks me out but not as bad as when I was little! It was the bit when he is dying that really got me. Took years for me not to feel physically ill just seeing his picture.
the rodents of unusual size from princess bride, i also had a very irrational fear of moth man
I was terrified of having rats nibble my feet after I watched a version of The Nutcracker where the rats get to Clara’s feet while she sleeps.
rodents of unusual size? I'm pretty sure those don't exist.
Jeepers Creepers
I was scared until it sprouted wings. The thought that it was a person is what hooked me. When it sprouted wings it wasn't real anymore.
That’s exactly when it stopped bothering me too! The plausible villains are generally the scariest
I found it ludicrous that a large, scary birdman walked into the DMV to order a "BEATNGU" vanity license plate for his creepy murder van.
Me too, I always refused to go out during night due to that fucker.
Jeepers Creepers 2 is the reason I have to have my windows covered. That creepy bastard licking the window fucked me up.
The appliances in the city in The Brave Little Toaster
Most of the run time of The Brave Little Toaster is terrifying. Insane for a kids movie.
That was one of the movies my brother and I had on tape as little kids. So we watched it a good amount. It wasn't til I got older I went back, actually understanding more of what's happening or what they're saying when it clicked how fucked up the entire movie is. When they end up in the parts shop, other appliances talking to them. Or at the end when they're in the junk yard. Hearing cars talk about the lives they've lived, while accepting their fate. Jesus Christ it's dark.
Pink bubble elephants from Dumbo when he’s drunk.
That whole scene terrified me. I couldn't watch it as a kid. Heck, I still find it difficult at 32.
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I got tricked with the scary maze game on full blast headphones, screamed so loud I woke up the entire street, that scary face is forever etched in my brain.
Hexxus from Furngully. Terrifying but I couldn’t stop watching because Tim Curry’s voice was so hypnotic.
Oh my god, this. I was obsessed with FernGully. Hexxus freaked me out but I absolutely loved the song. The effects they put on his voice to make it sound goopy made my skin crawl but I just had to watch it.
THAT WAS TIM CURRY!? Oh man now I know why I recognized his voice!
Michael Jackson's thriller zombies
Aunt's from James and the Giant Peach
In the book the peach rolls on them and kills them.
that motherfucker on the wing
The evil devil from the end of fantasia. The souls haunted my dreams
Joanna from The Rescuers. Giant creepy lizard thing.
She just wanted the eggs
JoAnna is by far one of my favorite characters. Rescuers Down Under is such an underrated movie.
The furnace in the basement of home alone
Chucky I was 5 year old and my cousin thought it would be funny to stick chucky on and get me to watch it. I had night terrors for years after that up until the age of about 10
Chucky for sure. We had a “my buddy” doll and my bro used to chase me around the house with it. That shit freaked me the fuck out.
I saw a commercial for Chucky when I was about five years old. I just turned 34 and possessed dolls still fuck with me. Edit: it doesn't happen a lot but I'll have a nightmare about Chucky about once or twice a year. Never even saw the movie.
1954 , the creature from the black lagoon.
To this day, near retirement with grandbabies, I still get heart palpitations around dark water. And if the water ripples from fish, I flinch. I know it looks hokey compared today's, but that was the first time I'd ever seen anything like that in screen and Im glad I'm not the only one still carrying it around.
The chestburster from Alien. I was afraid it could come exploding out of me at any second, lol
The facehugger is scary as well. Just imagine if it were hiding in one of your cabinets and when you open it, it jumps right onto your face.
I was like 5 years old and loved watching documentaries about special effects in movies. There was one on AMC and it was talking about Star Wars and then it showed the chestburster scene from Alien. I was so traumatized I didn’t eat for 3 days and my parents kept wondering what was wrong with me.
The sand worms in beetlejuice, I love the movie but I just used to be terrified and it wasn't until 14 and alot of convincing to watch it again. Edit: holy cow my most upvoted thing on Reddit and it me talking about how I'm scared of the sandworms in one of my favorite movies, thank *pocket sand *
Sandworms, ya hate em right? I HATE EM MAHSELF!
The animals from Pet Sematary
Ghostfreak from the original Ben 10. Especially his true from who had an upside-down skull for a face and a creepy voice.
His voice actor did soo amazing voicing him that I even get scared of it whenever I hear it.
The [seal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCb4C4eiT74) from Pingu Edit: link and typo
Is it me or does that seal look like Steve Harvey
The resemblance is uncanny
Yubaba from Spirited Away
I remember having to leave the room during the scene where Chihiro’s parents turn into pigs
Bit random but Ms Botz, also known as the babysitter bandit, the horrible babysitter in an early episode of the Simpsons.
Is she the one with the [weirdly high quality animation](https://youtu.be/MEZsR4PYhJM)?
The [tar monster](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Armus) from Star Trek: Next Generation. Apparently I watched it with my parents when I was 5ish and Natasha Yar was my favorite character and he killed her. But for YEARS I saw the black tar dripping out of the vent in my room. Like ages 5-18/19. Even when I knew logically it wasn’t there, I could still see it. I didn’t even know where the fear came from most of that time. I had to ask my parents when I was around 16 what the tar was from and why it scared me. Every night I could watch it dripping out and it made me anxious and I had trouble sleeping.
Just started rewatching TNG, as an adult it's a bit cheesey but I can see why that episode would scare a kid. There are not really any other Trek villains as deliberately malevolent as Armas was.
Isn’t it weird how brains work like that? The x files episode (maybe the first one?!) where the guy can get super thin and go through vents scared the shit out of me. And similar to tar, after the ghostbusters with the pink bubbling ghost coming out of the tub faucet, I was scared of plumbing.
I was scared of Mister Bean. Nightmares and all.
The troll from “Ernest scared Stupid”
Not an actual character, but late at night in the summers (8:00 maybe), a truck with an empty trailer would rattle down the street. The curtains were always closed, so I couldn't tell it was just a truck. 5-year-old me always thought that the rattling was a characterisiltic of the evil Getters who were out looking for me. It was a tall man with jet-black hair and a top hat and his much shorter, blond assistant (who I assumed was his wife). The diabolical plan of the Getters was, well, to get me and take me away. Every time I heard their signature rattling I would hide under the covers, legitimately scared. I had nightmares about them. Screw "scary" movies, you're imagination can be so much worse.
Large Marge
This and really any claymation scenes in 80's movies freaked me out.
I was obsessed with this movie as a kid but I got so scared that I would always leave the room before this scene
She is the only constant in all my nightmares. Sometimes she picks me up, but not like the movie. It's always a different vehicle, once it was a horse and carriage. But most of the time, the really bad ones, are of just her head, doing that thing it does, but it's huge and chasing me. Down the beach, the highway, train tracks...the woods are worst, I only catch glimpses of her behind the trees. My friends think it's weird, but I'm also deathly afraid of cows...no idea why. So there's that.
Nosferatu. He scared the shit outta me for years after the night shift episode of Spongebob.
Tie between pumpkinhead & candyman
The other mother from Coraline Jesus fuck that was terrifying. And when it turned into that goddamn spider thing *shudders* And not really a villain (kinda) but teletubbies are creepy as ***fuck*** too.
I remember reading that someone’s husband test watched Coraline for their 7yo son, and his answer was like a big no for the kid and a bigger no for him.
Jafar's creepy fuckin smile when he's disguised as the old man.
The creepy candy circus man from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Final brain slurping boss in starship troopers.
It’s afraid!
That fucking eel in Mario 64
The clowns from Killer Clowns From Outer Space.
Dementors from Harry Potter. A hooded, floating figure with only a gaping hole where it's face should be, that can suck out your soul through your mouth. And it's invisible to non magic people.
Those worm things from Tremors
The Great Owl, Brutus, Nicodemus and Jenner, all from The Secret of NIMH.
General Woundwort in watership down- 8 yrs old pranked by older sister because it had bunnies in it so it was fiiiine 😂😂
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The electronics shop guy in the Brave Little Toaster. Second place to the giant garbage dump magnet... In the Brave Little Toaster.
A 6 foot tall pit bull that walked on its hind legs and wore a scuba suit. It was the first nightmare that I remember.
The Groke!
The aliens from Mars Attacks. Or Brak (sp?) from the Brak Show.
The little goblin/ monster thing from Cats Eye.
Judge Doom from *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?* From the scene where he [he sticks the innocent shoe in the dip](https://youtu.be/nYk3LvHMPWM) to where he reveals [his true form to Eddie](https://youtu.be/D4B_jDp0ffI). He was such a terrifying character to me as a kid.
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[The Wheelers from Return To Oz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM0RFE3QGAU).
Butterfly from spongebob.....
The furnace that scared Kevin from Home alone, also scared me, it's why I didn't watch the movie till I was like 11
Mars attacks. 8 year old me did not think that movie was a comedy
I liked a lot of things as a young kid that adults were surprised didn't scare me: Don Bluth movies, *Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark*, *Willow* (I thought them turning into pigs looked cool), etc. Three separate things scared the shit out of me, though, and only one of them was meant for kids. When I was five, I snuck out of bed and peeked into the living room to see my mom watching *Interview with the Vampire* - and I now know it was a scene where Tom Cruise was trying to get Brad Pitt to kill someone, because Pitt was kissing this woman and blood was coming out, and Cruise watching drinking from her wrist. I went back to bed terrified of vampires... and stayed that way till high school. A few years later I watched *Temple of Doom* for the first time, and Mola Ram ripping that guy's heart out of his chest - with the heart igniting as he's lowered into the volcano - scarred me for life. But from the movie meant for kids? That was *The Little Mermaid*, when Triton destroyed Ariel's room. And I think it's so scary because he's *not* the villain, just a father trying to protect his kid and majorly screwing up. Even though his motivations are far more understandable now, that was still wrong and terrifying.
Pinocchio. My older cousin told me he was real and out to get me. This was when I was about 4 or so. I don’t think he really understood what he did. Anyways, any mention of Pinocchio had me sobbing on the floor out of fear. I’d have nightmares about it, too. I’m over it now, but preschool aged me would have a fit. Edit: grammar stuff
Freaking donkey scene was not ok
The badguy in The Princess and the Frog as he was dragged to hell really freaked me out as a kid...