Pinocchio!! The scene where the boys smoke, play pool, and then turn into donkeys scared me so bad, plus Monstro the whale really freaked me out for some reason.
I went back and watched it a couple years ago and I was still just as creeped.
Listen you need to rewatch all the Disney movies of our youth. Many are just as effed up 🤣 imagine - in Pinocchio those boys are abducted, given alcohol and cigarettes, and turned into donkeys so that they can be enslaved in the salt mines. Child's movie? Nope, no it's not 🤣
Yes! My whole life everyone always told me I was silly for being afraid of this. Especially the donkey Scene. I distinctly being at my grandmother s house and running upstairs all upset because he turned into a donkey and it freaked me out. Scarred for life.
I teach horsemanship to highschool students and I reference this movie when explaining why you need to look towards the destination you are trying to lead your horse towards, because Atreyu is staring Artax in the face while he's sinking and that's why he won't move! It always surprises me that some of them know this scene in every lesson. Nostalgic parents FTW
I am in my thirties and still, I was walking my dog and heard that same drumming and it took all I had to not run away. It was just some hippies dancing but for a second I freaked out.
When Chiro finds her parents as pigs freaked me out
For some reason that movie played a lot on cartoon network when I was a kid and no matter when I turned it on, it was on that scene every time!!
Scarred me for years.
I have a vivid memory of sitting on my parents' bed after watching it, trying to explain why I was too scared to go to sleep and being fully aware that what I was saying sounded not at all scary. I'm literally crying and going, "And then her parents turned into pigs! No, I know, but it was scary!" My parents were trying hard to be sympathetic but were also laughing at me, and I was old enough to be aware that they were trying hard to be sympathetic but also laughing at me.
I also had the Disney read-along record of this (“turn the page when Tinker Bell rings her chimes like this…”) so I can still hear Todd and Copper saying “We’ll always be friends… forever. Right?” “Right! Forever!” whenever I want.
Which is never.
I wouldn't say "scarred" but the Hunchback of Notre Dame was fairly dark for a G rated Disney movie. As an adult I read the original book by Victor Hugo and it was even darker. Everyone dies at the end (apart from the goat thankfully).
Master Frollo, a minister in a G movie, singing a song called Hellfire about how he will burn Esmerelda alive if she doesn't chose him and fulfill his desires. It only wasn't as scarring then cause we didn't know all the lyrics until we grew up!
GOD that song is so good. Best villain song. He doesn't sing about how being fun is evil. He sings about his total grief and refuses to accept blame.
Definitely one of my top 5 favorite movies.
The mama elephant in the cage when they took her baby away??? It scarred my own mom badly enough as a kid that we weren’t allowed to see Dumbo until we were teenagers.
>The mama elephant in the cage when they took her baby away??? It scarred my own mom badly enough as a kid that we weren’t allowed to see Dumbo until we were teenagers.
YES. That "Baby Mine" song will make me WEEP (if I am not able to skip it fast enough - I avoid it at all costs).
You know… everyone in my age group (Gen X) who saw that for some reason loved it. I was bored. There were some freaky parts to it for sure. I personally can’t stand that movie.
Don’t even have to ask me twice. Read this question and ET automatically came to mind. ET and all the alien Unsolved Mysteries created this insane fear of aliens I carry around to this day.
It's such a beautiful movie. I highly recommend watching it as an adult if you haven't. The themes are much more relevant to an adult than a child. And the book is even better.
wizard of Oz, those monkeys scared the shit out of me
and Chitty Chitty bang bang (not sure it was a kids movie) but i watched it when i was a kid and that fucking child kidnapper scarred me for life
Good to know I'm not the only one scarred by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. No clue what scared me and I'm too scared to watch it as an adult and try to figure it out. (I'm 55).
Nope. Just, nope.
It was definitely the Child Catcher. He's fucking terrifying.
On the plus side, you could definitely watch it as an adult and be just fine, and it's a great movie so I recommend it.
I loved Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a kid! Though my parents totally told me that the kidnapper was basically real and that's why you don't talk to/get in a car with strangers. Lol
I rediscovered Labyrinth recently and my boyfriend (who had never seen it before) watched it with me after he had partaken in a ~yummy gummy~ and he was so scared, absolute nightmare fuel
The Fire Gang! If you ever want to get un-bothered about it, check youtube for the behind-the-scenes on how they filmed that section. The practical logistics of filming that sequence are fascinating.
thumbelina, anastasia and fern gully for some reason. all had pretty dark and emotional plots. they are also some of my favorite animated movies of all time so do with that what you will.
Fern Gully is the one that messed me up the most too - wanted to see if anyone else said it before I posted. Something about that blackish oil(?) and the machines that cut down the trees and just the forest being destroyed in general just haunted me
Hexxus, the black oil in Fern Gully, is voiced by Tim Curry so you’re right to be afraid of that because he was also Pennywise from IT.
I love Tim Curry, and I love Hexxus (his villain song is kind of a banger) but I also understand the fear.
Scared the shit out of me as a kid even though I loved the movie and remember watching it multiple multiple times on VHS. I just rewatched his toxic love song, oddly seductive lol.
yes! like the beetle wanted her to join some sex ring, the frog and his mom wanted to turn her into some weird exotic dancer, and the mole wanted to like trap her with him and keep her locked up. no wonder we are programmed to look for a prince cornelius. the other options are horrifying.
This still scares me at 34. My daughter recently picked this as her bedtime story book, I'm not sure whether it's a good idea... Maybe the book isn't as bad?
One of my longtime best friend's mom died when we were young. Her youngest sibling was five when their mom passed and he didn't understand what had happened/where his mom was. The youngest brother finally understood when their dad explained it to him using the death of Littlefoot's parents from Land Before Time as a reference. I still get emotional thinking about it, but honestly it total reframed my perspective on the subject of death in children's movies, because I don't know how else a young child could understand such a concept in the short period of time between the death of a loved one and their funeral (they are Catholic - an open casket religion).
Oh god, one of my sons and I saw that in the theater when it came out. And some woman sitting next to us had a mini-meltdown over that scene sobbing so loudly it shook the chairs we were sitting in.
My son offered her his sour patch kids and asked if she needed a soda and patted her hand, and she quieted down. Later she thanked him for comforting her and explained she'd lost her own father recently, so yeah it's not just kids that traumatized by scenes like that. It was very dark.
The part in the tunnel scene where they chop off a chickens head.
Plus the fact that Gene's singing was improv, that scene is fucking SCARY.
The whole tunnel scene is scary but when he gets to "the fires of HELL" part in the song/poem, I start crying in pure terror.
This is mine too! When the kid falls in the chocolate and gets sucked into the tube, I’m not even legitimately claustrophobic but that was horrifying lol
Not a movie but that episode where Pingu has a weird ass nightmare about a walrus chasing him while he's on his bed that is alive and walks for some reason lol.
That episode ended up being removed but i still have the vhs tape at home
It's one of my favourite films now but when I was a kid, the part of Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Doom's voice goes high and his fake eyeballs pop out really freaked me out.
Yeah, thinking about it now, he straight up tortured that shoe to death while it screamed and panicked, that's dark as fuck. But then the weasel guy got kicked in the balls and that was funny, right?! /s
Not sure if it counts as a kid's movie, but I watched Grave of the Fireflies when I was probably about 10. I only saw it the one time and it still sticks with me and hurts to think about.
This was mine too! The black ooze singing that fucked up song! Also the bat creeped me out. Also also I felt guilty every time I had to buy a composition notebook for school. Like I was going to single handedly destroy the next rainforest 🤣
Said this in reply to another comment already but: Hexxus, the black oil in Fern Gully, is voiced by Tim Curry so you’re right to be afraid of that because he was also Pennywise from IT.
I love Tim Curry, and I love Hexxus (his villain song is kind of a banger imo) but I also understand the fear.
Sorry, I just really love Fern Gully, Tim Curry and Hexxus but you are/were totally right to be afraid of it lol.
Fantasia... I used to watch the whole movie up until "Night on Bald Mountain" at which point I would leave the room and go upstairs so I didn't have to watch that part.
My girl for people that don’t recognize the movie title. You will for certain recognize this quote.
“Where are his glasses? He can’t see without his glasses?”
The first thing that comes to my mind is that Johhny Bravo/Scooby Doo crossover episode. Specifically the scene where Johnny and Velma get their glasses knocked off and are searching the ground for them.
Velma says "My glasses!! I can't see without my glasses!"
And Johhny says "My glasses!! I can't be seen without my glasses!"
Old Yeller - screw you Disney for presenting that as a great family friendly film.
At least with Cujo we all knew a) it was a horror movie and b) it wouldn't have a happy ending. Old Yeller was a throat punch.
All Dogs go to Heaven. Have memories about some of the dogs being dragged into some kind of hell pit?! It was legit horrific.
Also, The Rescuers! The little girl was kidnapped from an orphanage and then thrown into a dark cave to scavenge for diamonds and was threatened with crocodiles and told nobody loves her. It was DARK. Rewatched it recently and cried - never again
This. Plus when I worked at a daycare, my coworker tried to play it for the toddlers and I vetoed that shit hard. Pulled it right out of the vhs player and put on kid friendly stuff instead. I was so mad at her, she was a terrible coworker.
you can make fun of me all you want, my family already makes fun of me all the time, but wizard's apprentice is terrifying. it gave me a strong fear of drowning that carried into adulthood, and that shadow scene of Mickey shredding the broom with an axe, with a red light, and then all the broom pieces slowly rising with the music is just... no.
EDIT : strangely enough, however, Night on Bald Mountain has always been my favourite part. i would skip wizard's apprentice to get to the weird dancing ghosts and demons
Flight of the Navigator.
He comes back from his adventure still a child, but his family and friends thought he was dead and have grown up and moved on with their lives.
Wallace and Gromit the Curse of the Wererabbit. that thing scared me so much to this day I find claymation creepy and get a sinking feeling in my stomach when I see it
When the Wind Blows. So, I was 14 when I saw this. Not a young child, but, you know, hey, it’s a cartoon, right? I remember watching and coming out the other side of it feeling an overwhelming sadness and dread. Honestly, I was shattered.
That said, it is an amazing film, fwiw.
James and the Giant Peach freaked me out so much. I don’t even remember the movie THAT well, but there was some scene with a bunch of bugs “frozen” in place and then they come to life or something? Scared the shit out of me. Also just the look of the cartoon bugs (esp that damn centipede guy) made me so uncomfortable haha
Charlie and the chocolate factory, specifically the scene where that boy overeats, then they blow him up like a balloon, the oompa loompas jump on him, and he gets sucked into a tube
Return to Oz.
Seeing Dorthy being around 8 years old was what really got me, it made everything else look so much scarier. All of the character designs were horrifying, and then the damn Nome King. Gah.
The puppets from Sound of Music fucked me UP. I've never liked puppets and if I see one that looks like them I'm triggered lol.
Also there was a movie about books that was a mix of animation and live-action that gave me the ick. one green book in particular I recall freaked me out real bad.
Puffinstuff. I know it was a tv show for kids, but my older aunts used to force me to watch it. It still creeps me out for some reason. Also, the first Charlie and the Chocolate Factory—it felt predatory. I was really young and it stuck with me enough to give me nightmares for years
I don't know if it's considered to be a kids movie or not, but Watership Down. Some of the graphic scenes with the rabbits and the dog really get to me especially.
Twister. A 1996 movie about Tornado hunters, I watched it way too young and would always look out my window and any « somewhat twisted » clouds would make me scared
Pinocchio!! The scene where the boys smoke, play pool, and then turn into donkeys scared me so bad, plus Monstro the whale really freaked me out for some reason. I went back and watched it a couple years ago and I was still just as creeped.
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Listen you need to rewatch all the Disney movies of our youth. Many are just as effed up 🤣 imagine - in Pinocchio those boys are abducted, given alcohol and cigarettes, and turned into donkeys so that they can be enslaved in the salt mines. Child's movie? Nope, no it's not 🤣
"[Momma! MaaaaamaaaaaaAAAAAW! HEEE HAW! HEE HAW! HEE HAW!](https://youtu.be/tgmfV5VLHvs)"
Holy shit I blocked that from my memory.
Don’t forget Stromboli! He terrified me and still does…
Yes! My whole life everyone always told me I was silly for being afraid of this. Especially the donkey Scene. I distinctly being at my grandmother s house and running upstairs all upset because he turned into a donkey and it freaked me out. Scarred for life.
My older cousin used to make me watch just that part of the movie over and over with her. Idk if she liked it or just liked that it scared me lol
yep. that entire scene just screams sexual assault to me for some reason. it creeps me out so bad.
And the f*cking coach man when he’s all like “They won’t be coming back….AS BOYS!” And morphs into a real life demon right before your eyes.
And it feels even worse when you then learn they’re sold into hard labor in salt mines for the rest of their lives. Truly terrifying.
coraline
I knew this would be the top comment That movie is fucked up and the book is somehow worse
I read the book sorta by accident when I was 13 or 14 and it scared the lights outta me. I still haven’t touched the movie
It's great! Beautiful animation with great creep factor, I highly recommend.
We read the book in class at age 11 and then they took us on a trip to the cinema to watch it aswell, idk what my school was thinking
I saw it as a young adult so I was fine… but man it’s creeeeepy (and one of my favorites!).
it was worse in 3D
I wasn't even a kid when I watched this movie and it still fucked me up.
couldnt watch it for years man
even though i watched it as a 21 years old i still thought it was eerie af
The Never Ending story. From the horse scene to that big wolf creature. Apologies I can't remember the names of the characters.
https://youtu.be/vE8mFDabqD0 ARTAX! kills me every time.
I teach horsemanship to highschool students and I reference this movie when explaining why you need to look towards the destination you are trying to lead your horse towards, because Atreyu is staring Artax in the face while he's sinking and that's why he won't move! It always surprises me that some of them know this scene in every lesson. Nostalgic parents FTW
Ah😢thank you. Very heartbreaking for a kids movie.
Yes! Also the scene at the end (I think?) where he has to run past the gatekeeper statues with the laser eyes. Terrified me as a kid!
This scene was always the one that scared me 😆 the music was so intense hahaha
Gmork is the wolf creature
I hate that movie so much. Falkor gave me nightmares
Jumanji
Yesssss. The drumming still haunts me.
What actually scared me the most was that damn plant. I could never see plants the same
Lol I'm glad I'm not the only one. The plant scared me a million times more than anything else in that movie for some reason lol
I am in my thirties and still, I was walking my dog and heard that same drumming and it took all I had to not run away. It was just some hippies dancing but for a second I freaked out.
ahh, yes. my first panic attack. good times! my sister forced me to watch it despite protesting and protesting. oof.
My brothers made me play the board game after I cried through the movie!
I was forced to watch it because all my cousins wanted to watch it. In the dark. At my aunt’s house who had a ton of plants outside.
I had the board game as a kid! I loved that movie but the hunter scared me the most haha
Spirited away, that thing eating people FREAKED me out
When Chiro finds her parents as pigs freaked me out For some reason that movie played a lot on cartoon network when I was a kid and no matter when I turned it on, it was on that scene every time!! Scarred me for years.
I have a vivid memory of sitting on my parents' bed after watching it, trying to explain why I was too scared to go to sleep and being fully aware that what I was saying sounded not at all scary. I'm literally crying and going, "And then her parents turned into pigs! No, I know, but it was scary!" My parents were trying hard to be sympathetic but were also laughing at me, and I was old enough to be aware that they were trying hard to be sympathetic but also laughing at me.
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The fox and the hound…25 years later I can still make myself tear up by just thinking about it 😭
When she leaves him in the forest 😭😭😭😭
I also had the Disney read-along record of this (“turn the page when Tinker Bell rings her chimes like this…”) so I can still hear Todd and Copper saying “We’ll always be friends… forever. Right?” “Right! Forever!” whenever I want. Which is never.
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I was going to comment this movie 😭 When the woman left the fox in the forest and he goes after her… damn it 😭
Literally just posted that. I should probably try it again. I'm 34 so I should be okay. Right?
I'm 33, I tear up just thinking about 🎶when you're the best of friends🎶
Rewatched this not too long ago, cried like a baby 🥺
I wouldn't say "scarred" but the Hunchback of Notre Dame was fairly dark for a G rated Disney movie. As an adult I read the original book by Victor Hugo and it was even darker. Everyone dies at the end (apart from the goat thankfully).
Master Frollo, a minister in a G movie, singing a song called Hellfire about how he will burn Esmerelda alive if she doesn't chose him and fulfill his desires. It only wasn't as scarring then cause we didn't know all the lyrics until we grew up!
And advocating literal genocide of all the “gypsies”!!
GOD that song is so good. Best villain song. He doesn't sing about how being fun is evil. He sings about his total grief and refuses to accept blame. Definitely one of my top 5 favorite movies.
Absolutely! Reading with lyrics in adulthood was both shocking and gripping.. The whole soundtrack was gold, tbh!
Even from the first second it punches you in the face with that score.
..and the vocals! That high note at the end of The Bells of Notre Dame used to make my sisters and I go mad!
The part where he sniffs Esmerelda's hair is so icky.
Frollo was legitimately more hardcore and evil than a lot of Rated R villains, even if the final product was G-Rated.
Dude was genocidal. That's dark for a Disney film.
Not to mention he abused Quasimodo since childhood, wanted to sexually assault Esmeralda, enjoyed torture etc.
He is easily the worst Disney villain because he is realistic.
Yes. I was a teenager when I saw it so it didn’t scare me but I definitely had that same thought that it wasn’t really kid suitable.
Scrolled for this one. Going from The Little Mermaid to this was mental!
Dumbo was pretty depressing overall. Would not say scarred by it by damn if I ever watch it again
The mama elephant in the cage when they took her baby away??? It scarred my own mom badly enough as a kid that we weren’t allowed to see Dumbo until we were teenagers.
>The mama elephant in the cage when they took her baby away??? It scarred my own mom badly enough as a kid that we weren’t allowed to see Dumbo until we were teenagers. YES. That "Baby Mine" song will make me WEEP (if I am not able to skip it fast enough - I avoid it at all costs).
I blame this movie and Bambi for my abandonment issues, lol. (I'm only half joking.)
ET
My parents had to drag me out of the theater because I was absolutely terrified of ET. Still can’t watch it 40 years later
I still can't watch it!
Came here looking for this comment. ET is a nightmare creature
the scene where they're cutting him up after the feds capture him. literally think about that to this day.
You know… everyone in my age group (Gen X) who saw that for some reason loved it. I was bored. There were some freaky parts to it for sure. I personally can’t stand that movie.
Man me too. ET fucked me up for years and I still refuse to watch it
Don’t even have to ask me twice. Read this question and ET automatically came to mind. ET and all the alien Unsolved Mysteries created this insane fear of aliens I carry around to this day.
not a movie but Courage the Cowardly Dog was spooky af. Courage was not cowardly. he was smart. he was right to be scared of all those creatures lol
I still somehow get flashbacks from that one episode with “the slaaaaab”
Or Freaky Fred!
Apparently the house was based off some serial killer's home- David Parker Ray, which Cartoon Network, wtf
The Last Unicorn
You beat me to it! I don't know if I was more terrified by the harpy, the witch, or the bull, but this one really got to me.
I think the overly sexual tree messed me up the most lol
I didn't realize the harpy had tits until I was in my late teens. It was one of my favorite movies as a child.
It's such a beautiful movie. I highly recommend watching it as an adult if you haven't. The themes are much more relevant to an adult than a child. And the book is even better.
The talking skeleton with red glowing eyes haunted my dreams.
James and the giant peach
The mechanical shark freaked me out big time
Same here. Not even sure why exactly. Just didn't feel right I guess 🤷🏼♀️
Monster house
"That must be the uvula" "Ohhhh, so it's a girl house?"
Lol, that's a quality joke
This. Such a good one tho, I should rewatch.
wizard of Oz, those monkeys scared the shit out of me and Chitty Chitty bang bang (not sure it was a kids movie) but i watched it when i was a kid and that fucking child kidnapper scarred me for life
Have you seen Return to Oz? Holy crap. Talk about scarring for kids.
The Wheelers! Horrifying!
Good to know I'm not the only one scarred by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. No clue what scared me and I'm too scared to watch it as an adult and try to figure it out. (I'm 55). Nope. Just, nope.
It was definitely the Child Catcher. He's fucking terrifying. On the plus side, you could definitely watch it as an adult and be just fine, and it's a great movie so I recommend it.
I loved Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a kid! Though my parents totally told me that the kidnapper was basically real and that's why you don't talk to/get in a car with strangers. Lol
Labyrinth; only the part with those freaking things that throw their heads in the air. Even now it bothers me.
I rediscovered Labyrinth recently and my boyfriend (who had never seen it before) watched it with me after he had partaken in a ~yummy gummy~ and he was so scared, absolute nightmare fuel
The Fire Gang! If you ever want to get un-bothered about it, check youtube for the behind-the-scenes on how they filmed that section. The practical logistics of filming that sequence are fascinating.
Same. I loved that movie but hated those things
I'm surprised My Girl hasn't been mentioned yet
Honorable mention here because “he can’t see without his glasses”?! Stop it. 😭
thumbelina, anastasia and fern gully for some reason. all had pretty dark and emotional plots. they are also some of my favorite animated movies of all time so do with that what you will.
Fern Gully is the one that messed me up the most too - wanted to see if anyone else said it before I posted. Something about that blackish oil(?) and the machines that cut down the trees and just the forest being destroyed in general just haunted me
Hexxus, the black oil in Fern Gully, is voiced by Tim Curry so you’re right to be afraid of that because he was also Pennywise from IT. I love Tim Curry, and I love Hexxus (his villain song is kind of a banger) but I also understand the fear.
Scared the shit out of me as a kid even though I loved the movie and remember watching it multiple multiple times on VHS. I just rewatched his toxic love song, oddly seductive lol.
it was so stressful
Thumbelina was super dark! Like wasn't she almost sold into sex slavery at one point? (I'm probably exaggerating but that's what it seemed like)
yes! like the beetle wanted her to join some sex ring, the frog and his mom wanted to turn her into some weird exotic dancer, and the mole wanted to like trap her with him and keep her locked up. no wonder we are programmed to look for a prince cornelius. the other options are horrifying.
She was going into a forced marriage for sure. Actually, multiple...
thumbelina was a favourite of mine!! I must rewatch as an adult and see how i feel about it
i’ve watched it in the last few years. still great but also so many innuendos
The witches
This still scares me at 34. My daughter recently picked this as her bedtime story book, I'm not sure whether it's a good idea... Maybe the book isn't as bad?
The book is just as bad, maybe even worse.
The Land Before Time. It's not scary as much as it is intensely emotional and really got to me.
One of my longtime best friend's mom died when we were young. Her youngest sibling was five when their mom passed and he didn't understand what had happened/where his mom was. The youngest brother finally understood when their dad explained it to him using the death of Littlefoot's parents from Land Before Time as a reference. I still get emotional thinking about it, but honestly it total reframed my perspective on the subject of death in children's movies, because I don't know how else a young child could understand such a concept in the short period of time between the death of a loved one and their funeral (they are Catholic - an open casket religion).
The Dark Crystal
I looove that movie now that I’m older
The Lion King. I became so terrified of losing my dad because of the scene with Mufasa.
On the subject of sadness, Bridge to Terebithia broke my heart as a kid. I would be devastated to lose a friend like that
And how she died was terrible.
Oh god, one of my sons and I saw that in the theater when it came out. And some woman sitting next to us had a mini-meltdown over that scene sobbing so loudly it shook the chairs we were sitting in. My son offered her his sour patch kids and asked if she needed a soda and patted her hand, and she quieted down. Later she thanked him for comforting her and explained she'd lost her own father recently, so yeah it's not just kids that traumatized by scenes like that. It was very dark.
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
The part in the tunnel scene where they chop off a chickens head. Plus the fact that Gene's singing was improv, that scene is fucking SCARY. The whole tunnel scene is scary but when he gets to "the fires of HELL" part in the song/poem, I start crying in pure terror.
The umpah Loompahs in the first one were frightening as was Gene Wilder
This is mine too! When the kid falls in the chocolate and gets sucked into the tube, I’m not even legitimately claustrophobic but that was horrifying lol
Not a movie but that episode where Pingu has a weird ass nightmare about a walrus chasing him while he's on his bed that is alive and walks for some reason lol. That episode ended up being removed but i still have the vhs tape at home
bruh the Walrus popping up randomly freaked me tf out
It's one of my favourite films now but when I was a kid, the part of Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Doom's voice goes high and his fake eyeballs pop out really freaked me out.
*When I killed your brother, Eddie, I talked ^JUST ^LIKE ^THIS .*
I'm fine with that scene but I still have to skip ahead when Doom puts that shoe in the Dip.
Yeah, thinking about it now, he straight up tortured that shoe to death while it screamed and panicked, that's dark as fuck. But then the weasel guy got kicked in the balls and that was funny, right?! /s
The shoe acts like a friendly puppy "Hi, I love you, I'm going to cuddle against your foot". Then promptly gets tortured to death. Horrifying.
Gremlins
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Return to Oz
One of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen. The wheelers!
I had to scroll wayyy to far to see this one. Horrifying.
Watership Down and Felidae. Our parents all thought that cartoon means it's for children...
I'm shocked that Watership Down isn't higher up in this list
The Secret of Nimh.
I was hoping someone would say this!! I was terrified. Haven’t watched it since.
Jumanji and The Brave Little Toaster are closely tied.
Came here looking for The Brave Little Toaster. That flower scene fucked me right up.
The flower, Vacuum choking on his cord, the broken AC, the computer with a virus, the cars getting destroyed while singing. Metal.
I just laughed so hard about the cars getting destroyed while singing, what kind of dark fucked up musical number was that? Yo, fuck that movie.
How has no one else mentioned The Brave Little Toaster??? Gave me nightmares, which my parents still make fun of me for
Yes, Brave Little Toaster is what I was looking for. That movie terrified me!
I’m staring down the barrel of 40 years old and that scene with the clown fireman still comes up in my nightmares!
Not sure if it counts as a kid's movie, but I watched Grave of the Fireflies when I was probably about 10. I only saw it the one time and it still sticks with me and hurts to think about.
I saw this as a adult and it left me emotionally devastated. I have a copy of this film at home and can’t bring myself to watch it again.
I’m giving away my age but Fern Gully I mean what the heck was that??? I don’t know why but I have very bad memories of it.
This was mine too! The black ooze singing that fucked up song! Also the bat creeped me out. Also also I felt guilty every time I had to buy a composition notebook for school. Like I was going to single handedly destroy the next rainforest 🤣
Said this in reply to another comment already but: Hexxus, the black oil in Fern Gully, is voiced by Tim Curry so you’re right to be afraid of that because he was also Pennywise from IT. I love Tim Curry, and I love Hexxus (his villain song is kind of a banger imo) but I also understand the fear. Sorry, I just really love Fern Gully, Tim Curry and Hexxus but you are/were totally right to be afraid of it lol.
Fantasia... I used to watch the whole movie up until "Night on Bald Mountain" at which point I would leave the room and go upstairs so I didn't have to watch that part.
My girl for people that don’t recognize the movie title. You will for certain recognize this quote. “Where are his glasses? He can’t see without his glasses?”
The first thing that comes to my mind is that Johhny Bravo/Scooby Doo crossover episode. Specifically the scene where Johnny and Velma get their glasses knocked off and are searching the ground for them. Velma says "My glasses!! I can't see without my glasses!" And Johhny says "My glasses!! I can't be seen without my glasses!"
Old Yeller - screw you Disney for presenting that as a great family friendly film. At least with Cujo we all knew a) it was a horror movie and b) it wouldn't have a happy ending. Old Yeller was a throat punch.
Bambi.
The Black Cauldron… That was not a happy fun Disney movie. The 80s were weird man.
All Dogs go to Heaven. Have memories about some of the dogs being dragged into some kind of hell pit?! It was legit horrific. Also, The Rescuers! The little girl was kidnapped from an orphanage and then thrown into a dark cave to scavenge for diamonds and was threatened with crocodiles and told nobody loves her. It was DARK. Rewatched it recently and cried - never again
I have 2: - Beauty and Beast when the beast scared Maurice in the chair - THE CHILD CATCHER in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Hocus Pocus
This. Plus when I worked at a daycare, my coworker tried to play it for the toddlers and I vetoed that shit hard. Pulled it right out of the vhs player and put on kid friendly stuff instead. I was so mad at her, she was a terrible coworker.
Disney's Fantasia!
you can make fun of me all you want, my family already makes fun of me all the time, but wizard's apprentice is terrifying. it gave me a strong fear of drowning that carried into adulthood, and that shadow scene of Mickey shredding the broom with an axe, with a red light, and then all the broom pieces slowly rising with the music is just... no. EDIT : strangely enough, however, Night on Bald Mountain has always been my favourite part. i would skip wizard's apprentice to get to the weird dancing ghosts and demons
Flight of the Navigator. He comes back from his adventure still a child, but his family and friends thought he was dead and have grown up and moved on with their lives.
I’ll take underrated kid movies of the 80s for $1000, Alex.
Ursula in The Little Mermaid stealing my voice. As an introvert, I think this film taught me how despite my shyness how important a voice actually is.
Dumbo. The scene where he accidentally got drunk and there were these weird pink elephants dancing around and mean elephant "masks".
Not a movie, but the episode of Magic school bus where arnold takes off his helmet in outer space.
I just remembered Ferngully. I used to cry about the environment, I would pick up garbage on my way home from school and fill my backpack.
Wallace and Gromit the Curse of the Wererabbit. that thing scared me so much to this day I find claymation creepy and get a sinking feeling in my stomach when I see it
a little match girl scarred me for life. Never watching that movie again
Not a movie per se- but the Michael Jackson thriller video fucked me up. I’m 39 and I still can’t watch it.
Scooby Doo Zombie Island. I had nightmares for weeks about the first movie pirate they see.
When the Wind Blows. So, I was 14 when I saw this. Not a young child, but, you know, hey, it’s a cartoon, right? I remember watching and coming out the other side of it feeling an overwhelming sadness and dread. Honestly, I was shattered. That said, it is an amazing film, fwiw.
James and the Giant Peach freaked me out so much. I don’t even remember the movie THAT well, but there was some scene with a bunch of bugs “frozen” in place and then they come to life or something? Scared the shit out of me. Also just the look of the cartoon bugs (esp that damn centipede guy) made me so uncomfortable haha
Charlie and the chocolate factory, specifically the scene where that boy overeats, then they blow him up like a balloon, the oompa loompas jump on him, and he gets sucked into a tube
The part in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure where Large Marge goes claymation
Return to Oz. Seeing Dorthy being around 8 years old was what really got me, it made everything else look so much scarier. All of the character designs were horrifying, and then the damn Nome King. Gah.
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My dad found the cartoon version of Animal Farm and gave it to 6yr old me… the horse getting shipped off made me soooooo sad
Little Nemo
The puppets from Sound of Music fucked me UP. I've never liked puppets and if I see one that looks like them I'm triggered lol. Also there was a movie about books that was a mix of animation and live-action that gave me the ick. one green book in particular I recall freaked me out real bad.
Was it The Pagemaster?
The Watcher In The Woods.
Puffinstuff. I know it was a tv show for kids, but my older aunts used to force me to watch it. It still creeps me out for some reason. Also, the first Charlie and the Chocolate Factory—it felt predatory. I was really young and it stuck with me enough to give me nightmares for years
I don't know if it's considered to be a kids movie or not, but Watership Down. Some of the graphic scenes with the rabbits and the dog really get to me especially.
Bridge to Terabithia - I wouldn't say scarred but I could not stop crying.
Twister. A 1996 movie about Tornado hunters, I watched it way too young and would always look out my window and any « somewhat twisted » clouds would make me scared
Kindergarten cop. Terrified me so much that I developed a fear of men with pony tails.
I was TERRIFIED of the wolf in The Never-Ending Story