# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/21 "2013-05-21T03:16:35Z")
The scene from _Labyrinth_ when the Jennifer Connelly is looking for her brother in the house is kind of scary for kids. Oh, and the banshee scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/22 "2013-05-21T03:22:03Z")
The “[pink elephants](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoysQe-2HS4)” scene in Dumbo always kind of freaked me out as a kid. It still kinda gives me the willies. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/23 "2013-05-21T03:24:58Z")
Raiders of the Lost Ark was a kids movie, right? It was rated PG! #meltingnazis ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/24 "2013-05-21T03:30:25Z")
**Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day** - [Heffalumps and Woozles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnADKgurvc) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/25 "2013-05-21T04:05:25Z")
As a kid I was home sick from school one day and I was watching a movie called A Mouse and His Child. The main characters were toys and in the movie a rat pulls apart a toy donkey with a wrench. I turned the movie off immediately and never forgot that scene, it freaked me out so much. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/26 "2013-05-21T05:41:43Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Pee Wee’s Big Adventure- the Large Marge freakout face gave me nightmares First thing that I thought of! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/27 "2013-05-21T05:52:32Z")
I haven’t actually seen the movie, but I have it on good authority that there are a couple of really creepy scenes in _The Brave Little Toaster_. One involves a junkyard and the other has visions of Hell or devils and fire. I saw them both on YouTube two or three years ago. Can’t look them up now, but I expect they’re still there. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/28 "2013-05-21T06:04:49Z")
Missed the edit window. It wasn’t demons–it was a clown from hell. And let’s not forget the “Hellfire” scene from _Hunchback of Notre Dame_. I love the scene and the song, but it’s pretty creepy and heavy for the kiddies. Also, “Night on Bald Mountain” from _Fantasia._ ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/29 "2013-05-21T12:01:30Z")
> [@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 know the [scene.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4QV4o_Qq2c) Amazing animation! ---
**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, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/30 "2013-05-21T12:09:03Z")
Not a kids’ movie, but related. [The Mad Hatter and March Hare](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyaEocladcM)’s tea party as created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop for the movie Dreamchild have never been more disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/31 "2013-05-21T12:56:53Z")
Thirding _Coraline_. It is perhaps the only horror movie that I like in the classic way. Meaning that you want to be scared on purpose and let yourself be scared. The reason that it can scare me a bit is because it uses the same animation technique as a lot of the classic holiday specials that I was exposed to as a kid, which were scary themselves as a kid and so it reminds me of watching them. If I hadn’t been exposed to them I would have found it merely droll if somewhat creepy in a Burtonesque way. It may also have scared the kids watching it in the same way a little. When I saw it in the movie theatre, I sat in the front row and upon standing up and turning around at the end all the kids were quietly gripping their seats. Which could have been a sign of rapt interest or extreme boredom 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/32 "2013-05-21T13:24:29Z")
Almost half a decade later, I can still remember details of the nightmares about Maleficent I had after seeing Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.” ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/33 "2013-05-21T13:57:44Z")
Dumbo the Elephant was a disaster, stolen from Mom and taunted by crows. No one ever buys it even if free at the annual garage sale. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/34 "2013-05-21T15:59:50Z")
In the witches laboratory in Snow White. There’s a sort of dungeon, with a door that opens into the floor of the room. Inside is a skeleton, and his arm is reaching out toward a water pitcher, just out of reach. As the witch leaves the room she kicks it toward the bones yealling “Have a drink!!” in a nasty voice. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/35 "2013-05-21T16:03:22Z")
> [@Hottius\_Maximus](#): > > … > 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… Never saw _Darby O’Gill_, but as for the others, boy howdy, I’m with you there! All of them creeped me out/scared me as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/36 "2013-05-21T16:10:40Z")
Dot and the Kangaroo - The Bunyip Toy Story - when Buzz and Woody are in the neighbor’s room with all the mangled toys. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/37 "2013-05-21T16:15:45Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > As a kid I was home sick from school one day and I was watching a movie called A Mouse and His Child. The main characters were toys and in the movie a rat pulls apart a toy donkey with a wrench. I turned the movie off immediately and never forgot that scene, it freaked me out so much. Yeeeah 😑 The rest of the movie’s not any better. That damn thing scarred me for life. A couple of years ago I tracked down the video and watched it again. I can say it’s just as creepy watching it as an adult as a child. For some reason, the scene with the infinite can of dog food always creeped me out as well. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/38 "2013-05-21T16:24:12Z")
The Secret of NIMH also creeped me out as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/39 "2013-05-21T16:33:00Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I haven’t actually seen the movie, but I have it on good authority that there are a couple of really creepy scenes in _The Brave Little Toaster_. One involves a junkyard and the other has visions of Hell or devils and fire. I saw them both on YouTube two or three years ago. Can’t look them up now, but I expect they’re still there. Please don’t YouTube scenes of The Brave Little Toaster…get the dvd somehow and watch the whole thing! It’s fantastic. And yes, there are a few creepy scenes. [Also a great book.](http://www.amazon.com/The-Brave-Little-Toaster-appliances/dp/0385230508/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369153755&sr=8-1&keywords=brave+little+toaster+book) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884/40 "2013-05-21T16:42:07Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > The Secret of NIMH also creeped me out as a kid. You know, I only got this movie when I re-viewed it as an adult. As a kid I just thought it was a cartoon about mice, but as an adult I actually understood what was happening, and what was _going_ to happen to them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-movies-with-creepy-scenes/658884.md?page=3)