# Children's Movies with Creepy Scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884 "2013-05-20T23:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/1 "2013-05-20T23:35:31Z")
Some local DJs were talking about movies for children that had some very unnerving and sometimes frightening scenes in them. The following were included: Pinocchio–The donkey scene on Pleasure Island Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory–that crazy psychedelic boat ride Chitty Chitty Bang Bang–the child catcher Darby O’Gill & The Little People—the banshee and the death coach So…what scenes from children’s movies do the SDMB members think had frightening scenes in them? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/2 "2013-05-20T23:38:03Z")
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure- the Large Marge freakout face gave me nightmares ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/3 "2013-05-20T23:51:37Z")
The Dark Crystal- The Skeksis and Garthim are very creepy, as is the scene where essence is drained from a pod person. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/4 "2013-05-20T23:56:34Z")
I recall in _Santa Claus_ as seen on Mystery Science Theater 3000; the Uncanny Valley animatronic laughing reindeer were pretty creepy even to me as an adult. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/5 "2013-05-21T00:08:06Z")
The best kids’ movies often have super-creepy scenes in them. My personal favorite is when the Other Mother first turns around in **Coraline**. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/6 "2013-05-21T00:15:00Z")
I was working at a movie theater long, long ago when **The Neverending Story** came out. _Every single showing_, when the Gmork wolf-thing showed up, half the kids in the theater would start shrieking and bawling. Cue their mothers dragging them into the lobby, and a massive rush on the concessions. It was like clockwork. ---
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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > The best kids’ movies often have super-creepy scenes in them. My personal favorite is when the Other Mother first turns around in **Coraline**. Absolutely. Roald Dahl, Jim Henson and all the greats knew to give kids a good scare now and then. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/8 "2013-05-21T00:20:58Z")
The taffy scene in Raggedy Ann and Andy. I can’t even get anyone to remember what I’m talking about, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/9 "2013-05-21T00:39:59Z")
**Return to Oz** is basically a horror movie. I saw it in the theater as a kid and I still remember it with a haunted memory. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/10 "2013-05-21T00:43:12Z")
Flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz. Major trauma in my childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/11 "2013-05-21T00:44:39Z")
**Coraline** ’s other mother is more than my grandson can stand. ETA: and so say other Dopers before me. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/12 "2013-05-21T00:52:28Z")
> [@Hottius\_Maximus](#): > > Darby O’Gill & The Little People—the banshee and the death coach This was the first scene I thought of. I know several people who have mentioned, as children having the banshee scare the living hell out of them. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz. Major trauma in my childhood. This was the second scene I thought of, also the castle guards. ---
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**Snow White’s** first night alone in the forest, and the transformation of the Queen into the Hag. ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/14 "2013-05-21T00:59:28Z")
uote: Originally Posted by Hottius Maximus View Post Darby O’Gill & The Little People—the banshee and the death coach This was the first scene I thought of. I know several people who have mentioned, as children having the banshee scare the living hell out of them. The first time I saw that movie I was in third grade. The seats in the movie theater reclined back slightly. When the banshee comes for Katy and Darby opens the door, that ENTIRE THEATER full of us kids screamed and jumped back in our seats! Years later I saw it at age 13 with a friend who had never seen it before; I watched him when that scene approached and he did the same thing! Yeah it’s rather tame today and my wife didn’t get the same scare from it (although she was an adult when she first saw it) but there was magic in that movie. In fact the first scene where Darby follows the horse to Knocknasheegha is pretty creepy too. ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/15 "2013-05-21T01:07:03Z")
How did we forget The Lion King? Scar’s scene of singing Be Prepared and the death of Mufasa. ---
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> [@Mahaloth](#): > > **Return to Oz** is basically a horror movie. I saw it in the theater as a kid and I still remember it with a haunted memory. That was going to be my suggestion. My daughter’s a pretty tough 8 year old, but I’m still not sure if she’s ready for this movie. It’s one of my favorite movies, but yeah…basically a horror movie. It was the Wheelers that got into my dreams. …and I just now got that they’re the Oz analog/foil of the wheels on the stretcher Dorothy was restrained on. Holy crap. ---
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> [@Baker](#): > > This was the first scene I thought of. I know several people who have mentioned, as children having the banshee scare the living hell out of them. Yup, that was the first thing that came to mind. Totally freaked me out as a kid. ---
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A pale white E.T. going into cardiac arrest. ---
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In a TV version of Alice in Wonderland, with Carol Channing and she weirdly turns into a sheep. Tame by these other standards, but it spooked me when I was a kid: [link…feeling much better!](http://youtu.be/DrjIVhIeGnw) Also in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure - that creepy bike surgeon/clown ---
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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > **Snow White’s** first night alone in the forest, and the transformation of the Queen into the Hag. This is the one that sent my older daughter and me out into the lobby. She had a similar reaction to the forest fire scene in _Bambi_.\* > [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > The taffy scene in Raggedy Ann and Andy. I can’t even get anyone to remember what I’m talking about, though. I never saw a movie of this, but I had the original books, with Johnny Gruelle’s illustrations. Was that the one where they were taken apart to be washed? \*When she was very little, maybe four, she used to ask me to put on the “Bambi” tape over and over again. When she was a teenager, I was reminiscing and reminded her how much she loved the movie. She looked at me in amazement and told me that the movie made her incredibly sad - she used to ask to see it again because maybe _this_ time his mom wouldn’t get shot! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884.md?page=2)