When you were a child, what perfectly innocent movie scared you?
It’s a great movie, but when I was little, Annie scared the crap out of me.
What innocent movie/movies scared you, as a child?
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Gave me nightmares for years.
I was one of the myriad children who was absolutely horrified by the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
It wasn’t a movie that scared me.It was the movie host…or maybe it was his smoking jacket? I’d hide on the side of the tv set until a commercial came on. ;)
yes The Wizard of Oz and those damned flying monkeys, angry mean trees, or when they liquidated the Witch
I also was not too fond of Frosty The Snowman when he melted either.
The Witch-Queen in Walt Disney’s Snow White had me quaking and whimpering.
We recently treated the flying monkeys in this thread.
The Princess and the Goblin.
@Jeruba Oh poo, I didn’t see that one. I hate it when I do that.
Rankin-Bass’s animated version of The Hobbit. The way eyes of the Hobbits were drawn freaked me out mightily.
ET glowing red freaked me out. It also disturbed me when his neck would grow, and that part when he’s hiding in the stuffed animals and dolls or whatever. I was like, man if I see that in my stuffies when I go to bed…that movie did not work for me lol.
Also that part in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory when they’re riding on the river. When they get under the bridge and start seeing all those visions of bugs, worms, millipedes and a seagull or something getting its neck snapped while Wonka is chanting like a freak. What the hell was that?? (I think it was made to make us think that Slugworth was the ’‘enemy’’ in the movie or start Charlie’s ’‘test’’ but eh, I wasn’t thinking about that then)
The Wizard of Oz. Erghhhhhhhhhh, that nasty witch.
@ddude1116 That movie scared me so much when I was little! So did The Black Cauldron.
Also, my parents took me and my sister to see an IMAX documentary about the migration of the wildibeasts in the African Serengheti. This movie didn’t pull any punches. We saw wildibeasts dying from exhaustion and pushing each other into a river full of alligators that they needed to cross. So many of them were eaten. When you’re six years old, seeing an animal get ripped apart by an alligator in IMAX is scary as shit.
Pinocchio. I remember after the part where the boys turned into donkeys, I didn’t want to drink beer/smoke for a loooooong time.
Return to Oz is way more terrifying than Wizard.
Old Yeller….. I hate when a movie ends and they have to shot the dog with rabies….. The star of the movie no less….
Then years later as an adult there is an indian film I saw called Karma Sutra and the star of that one gets stomped on by an elephant and it just killed the whole movie for me, still can’t believe they did it but they did.
What happened to the happy endings where the stars go off and live happily ever after…. lol
It isn’t a movie, but Dr Who freaked me out!
When I was a young kid, I saw the Marx brothers movie, “A Night at the Opera”, and it gave me nightmares. It was in black and white, and like most early black and white movies, I found this one scary. I thought the Marx brothers were strange (not funny at all), especially Harpo, who was a weirdo to me because he never spoke, as if he was autistic or something. He acted oddly and looked like a clown. After watching the movie one night, I had a nightmare.
The hunters in Bambi and The Fox and the Hound terrified me. Apparently I feel a strong connection to game.
I was scared out of my mind by “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” starring Don Knotts. The bloody fingerprints on the organ keys did me in. So silly, because it was a comedy, but I was petrified by it.
@creative1 That scene in Kama Sutra bothered me a lot too.
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