Wow. I’m surprised that no one has mentioned The Mouse and His Boy . It was a cartoon movie about a wind-up toy. This father mouse had his son attached to his hands, and when wound the little mouse would do somersaults. They left their toy store and went seeking a way to not be a wind-up toy anymore, and met various creatures along the way. These mean and wild rats in that movie were very disturbing- particularly this one part where there was a dollhouse on a pole beside some railroad tracks, and the rats were partying and fighting there and tearing it up.
But that wasn’t the worst part.
The worst part was where the mice fell into a pond (or maybe a river) and were sort of trapped there because they weren’t wound up, so they couldn’t move. (Yeah, that was another creepy aspect of it.) And then the boy mouse starts looking at this “Bolo Dog Food” can beside them. It’s got a yellow label and theres a dog on the can holding a can of Bolo Dog Food. And on that can is a picture of a dog holding a can, and on that can is the same picture, etc. And then the boy mouse wonders how many there are- so he starts to count them in a watery shaky little-boy voice. And at the same time the camera view starts going through the pictures. I don’t know how long it goes on because my brain turns to jelly in the middle of it. It gave me nightmares for years.
No it is not the scottie dog it’s the blood hound who gets hit. That was pretty bad but the rat was really scary.
Dumbo
Man forget the mom in jail bit. But as you may recall the crows give Timothy a ‘magic’ feather to give to Dumbo so he can fly. No the feather is a placebo just to give Dumbo something to believe in as he does not believe in himself.
But I didn’t get that as a kid. I thought the feather was magic. So at the climax when Dumbo jumps off the platform and accidentally lets go of the magic feather I thought he was gonner!
I used to watch this kid every now and then and he always wanted to watch Star Wars on tape. But every time when they get to the Death Star he would start to get worried. Then when the light saber duel between Darth Vader and Obi Wan started the kid would run out the room screaming.
I don’t know if he ever saw the end.
Finally
The Neverending Story.
For get that this is directed by the director of Das Boot. But I dare you to watch the movie now with the idea that the makers have an Oedipal complex.
The boys mother is dead so that makes it a little sicker.
He hates his father and disobeys him. He clearly falls in love with the princess and he must name her so of course he gives her his mothers name.
That flying dog thing looks like a giant sperm cell.
The Gaurdian statues that Atreau must pass through have these huge breasts, complet with nipples, and they judge the worthiness of men and if they don’t like them they kill them.
The final bit where he actually names the princess is pretty much a sex scene with the climax being when he calls out his mothers name.
That’s twisted.
OMG OpalCat…TOTALLY with you on Nestor (The Christmas Donkey)! To this day, I can’t watch it - and I’m 30 now.
Octavia:
I will gladly join your Ewok Lovers Front. I thought they were cute, and I liked the Ewok song too darnit!
Willy Wonka:
When the Augustus Gloop (fat, eataholic, German kid) gets sucked up that chocolate river tube. I trace my current claustrophobia (mild case, but a case nonetheless) back to this moment in time.
Jin, I know exactly what you’re talking about, but I can’t remember any more than you can about them.
I was creeped out by the Pants with no one in them, but I was flat-out terrified by Something Wicked This Way Comes and by the robotification scene in the Superman movie.
Zebra, one of my former roommates insisted that there was some naughty business going on between Falcor and Attreyu. Falcor gives him the most leeringly (is that a word?) looks, especially after Attreyu wakes up after spending the night with him.
Hey! Stop messing with The Neverending Story (well, the first one, at least. The other ones are fair, and crappy, game).
"he must name her so of course he gives her his mothers name. "
Well, technically, I don’t think he did. He mentions that his mother had a beautiful name, but names the Childlike Empress “moon Child”. So either he didn’t or Mommy was a hippie.
Not a movie, but I’m surprised that no one has mentioned the “electrical monster” episode in the original Johnny Quest animated television series. One of the scientists was conducting an experiment which went horribly wrong, creating and unleashing an invisible energy being. The monster could only be “seen” by the hissing, melting footprints that it made, and the general chaos that it left in its wake. Quest and company investigated with the use of rocket backpacks, so as to stay out of the creature’s reach… at one point, one of the backpacks failed, as the footprints approached the group… I had to run from the room screaming.
It’s been about 30 years, and I still remember that.
Nimh freaked me out as a kid. Specifically, the scene where the mice and rats are being injected and are changing and it does this sequence where it is going through their DNA (I didn’t know this at the time) The music is absolutely the freakiest score I have ever heard christ that scared the hell out of me.
When Optimus Prime died in the first 15 minutes of Transformers: The Move. I was hysterial and wanted to go home; my mom convinced me to sit through the rest saying assuringly “I’m sure everything works out in the end.”
“Everything can’t work out in the end, mom. Optimus is DEAD! sob”
My elementary school showed a movie called “Run of the Arrow” to our class of 8 and 9 years olds. From what I remember, there was alot of blood and one scene where a cavalry soldier falls head first into quicksand. Not a good screening choice by the administrators.
Speaking of bad choices, when I was growing up my town’s movie theatre ran a double feature of Willy Wonka (Are you guys sure there was a chicken decapitation in it ???) with Frogs. Seeing a man having tarantulas crawling in and out of his screaming mouth just doesn’t seem to segue all that well with “The Candy Man”
Another TV one: HR Puffinstuff always gave me the creeps.
I can’t believe that i am not only going to admit to actually knowing the dolls that **jinwicked[/bold] is referring to, but also waste my first post after a long time lurking to do just that. The dolls were called Huggabunch dolls. A Google search turned up several people actually trying to track down copies of this movie!?!? Pictures of the “ghetto Cabbage Patch Kids” were fairly hard to track down, but some can be found here , here , and here here Please note that the middle link takes you to a doll named “Fluffer”…interesting, very interesting.
Iwill now return to my lurkdom fully embarrassed by this knowledge! Please do not judge! :o
I watched it a million times as a kid, and I still can’t tell you how it ends. All I remember is everything going up in flames for a mysterious and sinister reason (as a kid in the eighties I didn’t have a very good grasp on scarlet fever). Freaked me out to end, and usually made me cry.
I got pretty traumetized by a lot of childrens entertainment that featured infectious disease. My mom liked to give me copies of things like The Secret Garden, where the kids whole darn family dies of some now-eraticated disease or another within the first few pages. I didn’t really understand at that age the I was unlikely to get scarlet fever or tb, so I thought that the world was filled with scary mysterious diseases that would kill off me or my family and leave me live like the people in these books- trapped in a previous century, forced to live in strange countries and given wierd, non-battery operated toys.
There was some live-action made-for-TV version of Pinnochio when I was a kid where via special effects real boys actually turned into donkeys. That scared the crap out of me.
I also was terrified of the Planet of the Apes. I never saw any of the movies as a kid but my parents used to watch the TV show and I’d hide behind the couch until it was over. (Gorillas in general terrified me. I remember when I was really really small, like early 70’s, there was some commercial, and I want to say Sears life insurance for some reason, but it showed small animals morphing into larger ones until finally a gorilla morphed into a man. I jumped up and ran from the room screaming in terror. SOOOOOO CREEEEPY!)
And finally - First to mention it! - the part in one of the Scrooge movies where the doorknocker comes to life and goes “SCROOOOOOOOOOOOGE!!!” Aaaaah! I almost wet myself at that.
It’s a quick cut (no pun intended) of about 2 seconds when Wonka and co. are on the Wonka-ferry going down the Wonka-river and having a big Wonka-induced-freakout.
I think I’m gonna curl up in the corner I just had a flood of those good for you movies I watched in school that bothered me.
The Red Baloon when the Baloon got his
The Little Match Girl: It ended with her freezing to death
The Tin Soldier (A sort of live version) Watching him melt with the dancing girl.
Anyone familiar with National Film Board of Canada shorts might also remember the stop animation with the two neighbours fighting over a flower ending with them killing each other (the actors were live but movied via stop motion)
Damn someone was actively out to crush my spirit no wonder I’m so pessemistic!
The original Flash Gordon serials of the 30’s…Dale Arden is strapped to a table in a cave…the clay people emerge from the walls of the cave…they gather around the table…we can’t see what they’re doing to her…
Many of those National Film Board of Canada “show-'em-in-the-school” fill were freaky! And you named two of the weirdest! The Red Balloon was not only required watching, we had to write paper on it! (Grade Four) And we saw the stop-action “Neighbours” film every year from Grade 4 to Grade 8! They fight over a beautiful flower, then the fence, then the property line, eventually killing each other. Then, (again in live stop-action animation) they are buried and each of their graves sprouts a flower, similar to what started the fight. Now, if THAT ain’t distrubed viewing for children, then why do I remember it so well some 30 yeaers later?
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