# Unexpectedly creepy movies

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 4, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932 "2006-02-04T01:18:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/61 "2006-02-08T21:10:35Z")

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> [@Sailboat](#):
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> _The Brothers Grimm_. Pretty much a fluff movie, but there’s a jarringly disturbing scene involving novel kind of monster and a child.
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> Some kind of slime comes out of a dead bird from a well and after moving about as if alive, it engulfs the child and _steals her eyeballs_, running off as, apparently, a gingerbread man, and leaving the blankly eyeless child behind.

I came in here _specifically_ to mention that scene.

It steals her mouth, too!

I hid underneath my jacket for a good ten minute after that. ☹

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