movies/tv Horrifying movie scenes as a child?

[TigerGeekGuy 4,659]

Was there ever a movie scene from your childhood that scared you for months on end? It doesn't even have to be from a horror movie.

 

For example, I remember seeing Stephen King's IT as a child and the scene where the kid is pulled into the drain with that clown's wide, tooth-filled mouth opening was enough for me to stay at least ten feet away from every sewer drain in existence for well over a year.

 

Or, the scene in Labyrinth where Sarah falls down a hole and there are hands poking out of the wall, supporting her and making faces that talk. ;~; Scared the hell out of me.

 

So, any scene in particular that scared you as a child?

Edited August 26, 2015 by AnotherTigerGeekGuy

[Chara 1,565]

When I was 8 the Tyrannasaurus Rex car scene in Jurassic Park scared the living shit out of me.

[Sunset's Shimmer 394]

The nightmare king from "Little Nemo in slumberland"

 

And

 

Hexxus from "Fern gully the last rainforest"

 

Both of those scared the hoofs off me as a kid

[Pastel 7,627]

A scene from Joan of Arc by Luc Besson, a woman is killed and then raped.

Although everything is implied, it really frightened me (it was several years ago).

[RattPitt 172]

The rape scene and subsequent shotgun castration scene from Pulp Fiction. Yes, I did watch Pulp Fiction as a kid.

 

There's also Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The scene where the birds first attack scared the hell out of me. There's also that one scene where a character is discovered dead without any eyes. That movie made me afraid of birds for years.

 

I recently saw David Cronenberg's The Fly. That entire movie's disturbing. For those that don't know what it's about, a man invents a teleporter. He uses it, but a fly is caught in his side. The teleporter is a success, but the inventor doesn't return as fully human. He gets worse as the movie goes on. Since I'm still legally a child, I'm counting that.

[SquipyCheetah 448]

I have no idea why, but after I first watched Bambi as a kid, everything about it just bothered me, causing me to become almost paranoid of the dark for a few weeks. I don't know why but even after rewatching it today, I still get this very... disturbing feeling whenever I finish watching it.

[ScarfaceOne 263]

I think it was more the unintentionally disturbing scenes of TV shows that I watched as a child. There was that Teletubbies segment involving the lion and the bear, which is creepy because they are flat pieces of wood with googly eyes, with disturbing voices. Parents got so upset about it. And I was a bit freaked out by it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idhc85tLPNQ

 

 

Then you had the Pingu episode involving the Walrus, yes, legitimately disturbing stuff. Pingu has a nightmare about a walrus chasing him and his bed starts moving. And his house flys away.

 

 

As for films. The Pink Elephants on parade scene from Dumbo disturbed me a bit. And I used to play Alien Trilogy as a kid, and had nightmares about aliens. It wasn't until I was about the age I am now though that I discovered more horrifying stuff such as Giygas, Freddy Fazbear, Spooky's House of Jumpscares, Polybius and everything. Consider me having lost my childhood innocence.

[Blue Moon 6,336]

The CGI model used for Voldemort's face in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was really scary for me, so that whole scene was was terrifying. I was also scared of the climax scenes in all the Indiana Jones movies except for Temple of Doom (i.e. first movie melting scene, third movie rapidly aging scene, and fourth film's head explosion scene).

 

Basically, my main fear was unnatural looking faces/heads, so I tried to avoid things with that.

[SilverFlameWolf 47]

When I was 6 years old I think, my brother was supposed to be watching me, he put Scream 1 on the tv, turned the light off, and locked me in the room. I was terrified...the scene that is still stuck in my memory is when Scream keeps calling that lady and then tells her to look outside and there's her boyfriend/husband tied to a chair with maggots falling out his face? NONONONONONONONONONOOOO never again. Could not bring myself to watch that movie ever again. I even despise horror movies but everyone around me likes them, so I have to watch them. But Scream, never again.

[Primarch Fulgrim 163]

For me it was the whole move of Coraline. I want to see it in theaters with my mom and sister. It was freakin scary man. And it was a movie for kids too. To this day, those LaLa Loopsy dolls they advertise still give me the spooks.

[Lexamena 391]

I am scared of Large Marge to this day.

The imagery of the ghost in the Grudge haunts me still, that she comes out of shadowy places.

[backpon 320]

Saving Private Ryan... way too young. can hardly watch war movies anymore... they scare the heck out of me

 

other than that, gotta be the donkey scene in "Pinocchio" and subsequent scenes about the donkeys getting shipped off

(funny how I now read fanfics of similar content)

Edited August 26, 2015 by QuantumPony

[Xeltor23 704]

I don't remember movies scenes scaring me a lot, but let's say the Van Helsing movie (I was pretty young)

[Mesme Rize 15,681]

It's a scene i would like to show, but i am afraid that i will probably get my butt kicked by the mods.

 

I saw a german animated movie named Felidae, which was based on a very successful german crime novel. It was about a cat named Francis, that was investigating a murder crime. The movie BTW is german, but was translated into english.

 

There was this one dream sequence, where Francis was standing in a large field of dead cats and you could literally see organs and bones slipping out of there bodies. A giant Gregor Johann Mendel was coming from the ground and was literally playing puppet master with these dead cats.

 

I was 8 when i watched that. Go to youtube, when you're curious.

[Mobley 113]

The head-exploding/face melting/old guy quick ageing and the creepy mind-control skull scenes in the old Indiana Jones films. Still makes me shudder even though I like the movies

Edited August 26, 2015 by Mobley

[Koori 156]

One scene from "The Last Starfighter", where the Beta hasn't changed completely yet and it is shown for a few seconds. I used to be unable to watch that one scene. It scared me.

 

And I do remember seeing Terminator 2 and... well let's just say there were many scenes in that movie that I was unable to watch.

[PoisonClaw 8,153]

I had the misfortune of seeing Poltergeist when I was a kid. The scene where the tree comes to life and tries to eat the kid terrified me for years. 

[Biggybrony 244]

Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Not the melty/shrivelly/explodey moments, no no, they were awesome. My most horrifying moment was after the ark is opened and you see the little girl ghost transform and turn all evil. You hear that horrible hissing noise then that intense as hell music comes on. That one ghost was terrifying. I had to gradually ween myself on to it 'cos it was one of my favourite movies.

[MLPFanatic34 3,234]

a lot of the scenes in Poltergeist, many of the deaths in the Disney movies especially Mufasa's, some of the sad scenes and death scenes in Don Bluth movies, many of the scenes in Coraline and Nightmare Before Christmas, the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, the transformation scenes in The Fly, etc.

[Lexamena 391]

I had the misfortune of seeing Poltergeist when I was a kid. The scene where the tree comes to life and tries to eat the kid terrified me for years.

 

Is that the movie where the kids braces wire wraps him up in a metal cocoon?

[Rawzy 1,302]

WHEN JEFF WAKES UP ON THE WIGGLES OMFG SCARIEST THING OF MY LIFE AND STILL TO THIS DAY..... :love: :love:

[Orablanco Account 3,705]

Everything scared me as a kid. Literally everything. I remember even being freaked out by The Mask at a younger age. I was a wuss, you see. But top honors go to Large Marge from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which scared me so much that I refused to watch those movies through most of my childhood. I had walked in on the end of Roger Rabbit, so for years my only frame of reference was that weirdo trying to kill poor Eddie Valiant, and it took my awhile before I ever found out if Pee-Wee ever got his bike back.

 

 

 

Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Not the melty/shrivelly/explodey moments, no no, they were awesome.

 

I also had no problem with that. Jim Carrey mugging in green make-up is too much, but a shrieking melting skull was just fine by me.

[Megas 27,051]

Superaging/Face Melting in Indiana Jones Raiders/Last Crusade

Edited August 27, 2015 by Green Biker Dude

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,237]

I had seen quite a few random horror films when I was younger because my family was into those a lot, one in particular I remember well is the ending to the Fly, the remake. Just...no. Even today I avoid that scene like the plague. It is just horrific and also quite sad in the end. 

[Moonlight 7,279]

I remember watching The Hills Have Eyes with my parents when I was younger and being too scared to sleep (so any gory scene in that movie for me). Even remembering waking my parents up and mother being like "there's no deserts around here go to bed," but having common sense was too much for me apparently