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Non-Horror Movies That Scared Us As Kids

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

What has been the non-horror movie that scared you as a kid?

For me it was Ghostbusters 2. Silly I know but this movie was darker than the first movie. What scared me was the painting of the movie's villain Vigo The Carpathian. It was the way he was staring out of his painting that unnerved me. I couldn't even watch the movie until many years later.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watership Down

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Watership Down"

I remember that one. That movie is so fucked up isn't it. How that movie gets a U rating, I have no idea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Still makes me shudder.

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By *erdita Von TeaseWoman
over a year ago

nottingham


"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Still makes me shudder. "

Oh my god me too!!! Willy wonker is creepy as fook and don't even start me on those oompah loompa things

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By *emplarWarriorMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

Whats the film with the child catcher in?

is it chitty bang bang?

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Not quite as a kid, more teens was the thriller Dressed To Kill with Angie Dickinson and Michael Caine...checked under the bed and in the wardrobes before going to bed after seeing that!!

Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang petrified me as a kid though

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Still makes me shudder.

Oh my god me too!!! Willy wonker is creepy as fook and don't even start me on those oompah loompa things "

Original or remake?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watership Down...I still can't listen to Bright Eyes

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Whats the film with the child catcher in?

is it chitty bang bang?"

On my god yes!

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Gremlins

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Watership Down"

Ah yes, scarring kids for years.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Gremlins "

That movie had a moment that scared me as a kid. It was the scene when the dog Barney jumps over the counter at the bank startling Mrs Deagle causing the snowman's head she was holding to smash on the floor. I don't know why but the shot of the smashed snowman's head on the floor really upset me

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By *LUKCouple
over a year ago

Loughborough

Return To Oz. That was some fucked up shit for a kids movie.

And that scene in Superman 3 where the woman gets turned into a robot zombie thing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was fucking terrified of Jaws after a babysitter let me stay up and watch it. And Jurassic Park was really scary at the cinema.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wasn't overly keen on Gremlins

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Gremlins

That movie had a moment that scared me as a kid. It was the scene when the dog Barney jumps over the counter at the bank startling Mrs Deagle causing the snowman's head she was holding to smash on the floor. I don't know why but the shot of the smashed snowman's head on the floor really upset me"

I can't even remember details, just that I was scared and had to look away a lot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ET. Go ahead, laugh!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I was fucking terrified of Jaws after a babysitter let me stay up and watch it. And Jurassic Park was really scary at the cinema. "

I remember being unnerved by seeing that severed leg after that bloke gets knocked out of the boat by the shark.

When the lawyer gets eaten by the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, I remember staying in the cinema lobby throughout the rest of the movie after that.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out."

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat"

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"I was fucking terrified of Jaws after a babysitter let me stay up and watch it. And Jurassic Park was really scary at the cinema. "

That's just reminded me of the time not long after I saw Jaws that I went swimming and was the only person in the outdoor pool for some reason and spent the whole (brief) time I was in there scared that I was going to be eaten by a Great White...illogical I know...but I was about 10 or 11 at the time!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks."

You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

The wolves of Willoughby Chase

Watership Down

BFG

A weird half animated half live action version of Lord of the rings

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know it's not a movie, but Michael Jackson's thriller music video scared the crap out of me when I was a kid! It turns out I was right, kids should be scared of M.J

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The wolves of Willoughby Chase

Watership Down

BFG

A weird half animated half live action version of Lord of the rings"

Even the book of the Wolves of Willoughby Chase scared me!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.

You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube"

I remember that. He wrote backwards as he saw an inside out bag with writing on it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never Ending Story. Loved that movie as a kid but so much of it scared me shitless

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to hate the theme tune on Casualty I'd have to go out of the room and cover my ears.. not a movie I know but just popped into my head

Jaws used to freak me out too.

Em

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.

You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube"

that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?

and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Indiana Jones - the one with all insects and she has to put her arm in them . I have an insect phobia and I'm sure my brother forcing me to watch that bit is to blame

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The bit in Pinocchio when the boys in the fairground turn into donkeys. I HATED it!

Also, the Dark Crystal, Gremlins, that awful Tom Cruise film with unicorns and Tim Curry as the devil, and Robocop.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh and the pink elephants but in Dumbo when he gets d*unk

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.

You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube

that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?

and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense. "

Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.

You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube

that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?

and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.

Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat""

haha. i never watched most the series because i was 'ill' it but did notice it was some kind of educational programme.

couldn't find a russell brand clip of it.

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

Return To Oz defo

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.

You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube

that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?

and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.

Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat"

haha. i never watched most the series because i was 'ill' it but did notice it was some kind of educational programme.

couldn't find a russell brand clip of it."

Ah ok. Type in Ponderland mac and hat on google and click on the vid of the whole episode on Dailymotion and skip to 8:20 where he talks about that programme

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By *airymagicWoman
over a year ago

goblin city

The dark crystal

And

Watership down

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The dark crystal

And

Watership down"

That is one Jim Henson movie I find dark and weird. The Emperor Skeksis' death was just freaky when it started falling apart

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.

You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube

that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?

and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.

Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat"

haha. i never watched most the series because i was 'ill' it but did notice it was some kind of educational programme.

couldn't find a russell brand clip of it.

Ah ok. Type in Ponderland mac and hat on google and click on the vid of the whole episode on Dailymotion and skip to 8:20 where he talks about that programme"

channel 4 had blocked my country but i found a clip of it on dailymotion.

think i know where you got the idea for that scary PSA topic from now. looks good though, i'm gonna watch the rest of it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.

i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.

I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat

really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.

You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube

that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?

and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.

Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat"

haha. i never watched most the series because i was 'ill' it but did notice it was some kind of educational programme.

couldn't find a russell brand clip of it.

Ah ok. Type in Ponderland mac and hat on google and click on the vid of the whole episode on Dailymotion and skip to 8:20 where he talks about that programme

channel 4 had blocked my country but i found a clip of it on dailymotion.

think i know where you got the idea for that scary PSA topic from now. looks good though, i'm gonna watch the rest of it."

Good idea. That episode of Ponderland was where I saw that PIF of Lonely Water for the first time

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By *tmmCouple
over a year ago

harlow

Too many including some mentioned et, jaws, Jurassic park etc

But the worst one was The Witches (another Rohl Dahl) even at 24 I still haven't actually watched all the way through really should find the film and put that to rest.

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown


"The dark crystal

And

Watership down

That is one Jim Henson movie I find dark and weird. The Emperor Skeksis' death was just freaky when it started falling apart "

It's hella creepy, even now

The podlings tho

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The dark crystal

And

Watership down

That is one Jim Henson movie I find dark and weird. The Emperor Skeksis' death was just freaky when it started falling apart

It's hella creepy, even now

The podlings tho "

I found the podlings kind of adorable. I do feel bad for them being the skeksis slaves

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By *inximooWoman
over a year ago

leicestershire

Gremlins scared the crap out of me lol xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gremlins scared the crap out of me lol xx "

Still does!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Gremlins scared the crap out of me lol xx

Still does! "

As much as a couple of moments in that movie scared me when I was a kid, I enjoy watching it now along with the sequel as well. I always saw Gizmo as the cutest character in movie history

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wizard of Oz

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I just remembered one that can only be said in three simple words. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Does anyone remember a movie called Hawk the Slayer?

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By *mnipotent_BehemothMan
over a year ago

near Merry Hill shopping centre

Watership Down...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

The scene in Superman 3 where the character Vera gets cyberized by the super computer was pretty horrifying. I can still remember leaving the room as the kid every time that scene was coming up and wait until after she had been fully cyberized.

The super computer itself in the movie was scary as well when it becomes self aware and starts draining all the electricity causing major wide blackouts across the country. For a Superman movie, this was pretty dark and this was a year before we were introduced to Skynet in The Terminator.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…


"Does anyone remember a movie called Hawk the Slayer? "

I’m a year late to reply to this but, yes!!! - Classic film! And what a cool soundtrack to.

Trivia: If you recall the ending was left open (with Jack Palace’s villain awaiting resurrection) for a sequel which was tentatively planned.

Sadly, it wasn’t to be however

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By *trawberry MojitoWoman
over a year ago

over the hill & far away, like Princess Fiona.

Jaws. I have hated swimming ever since.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Does anyone remember a movie called Hawk the Slayer?

I’m a year late to reply to this but, yes!!! - Classic film! And what a cool soundtrack to.

Trivia: If you recall the ending was left open (with Jack Palace’s villain awaiting resurrection) for a sequel which was tentatively planned.

Sadly, it wasn’t to be however "

Ah ok. I haven't watched this movie ever since I was a kid and still can't watch it because of that damn hawk flying towards the camera screaming.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

On the topic of non-horror films which scared me as a kid; Jim Henson’s, The Dark Crystal. Scared the crap out of me!

Also, Disney’s live action (criminally forgotten) classic, DragonSlayer - that made me feel a bit uneasy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Dark Crystal.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wasnt a movie but terror hawks

Zelda scared me to death

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Wasnt a movie but terror hawks

Zelda scared me to death"

Ah yes. Zelda is pretty freaky looking plus the puppets used in Terrahawks were on the uncanny side.

I still loved this show. The intro is fucking awesome and it just feels so epic when the theme starts playing.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Terrahawks: Classic show and is it just me or is Dr Tiger Ninestein a dead ringer for..........Kevin Sorbo?

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

The Wizard of Oz .... those horrifying winged monkeys - urrgghh

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The Wizard of Oz .... those horrifying winged monkeys - urrgghh"

The Wheelers in Return to Oz were sort of the flying monkeys of that movie for me.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he was a creepy bastard!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he was a creepy bastard! "

His reveal always scared the hell out of me as a kid.

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By *esus H ChristMan
over a year ago

birmingham

Also Wizard of Oz for me......when the tree slaps the apple out of Dorothy's hand then tries to grab her.....Oooh and the bit when she's in the whirlwind and the evil old bag on the bicycle changes into the wicked witch......

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

All three indiana jones movies had moments that scared me as a kid.

The opening of the ark in Raiders was horrifying especially when Toht's head melts.

Donovan's death in Last Crusade had me shooting out of the room when he started aging rapidly after drinking the wrong grail.

In Temple of Doom, the only that had me leaving the room all the time was not any of the deaths but the eyeball soup during the dinner scene. I don't know why but I just didn't like anything to do with eyes.

Speaking of eyes, I still can't watch Total Recall because of the the nightmare scene at the beginning and the villain's death at the end where the eyes protrude out of the sockets. I can't stand the villain's horrific gasps for air during that scene either.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Disney’s, The Watcher In The Woods was another creepy one which scared me as a kid.

I mean, even the bloody title is pretty freaky right?

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate


"Watership Down"

It gave me nightmares

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Disney’s, The Watcher In The Woods was another creepy one which scared me as a kid.

I mean, even the bloody title is pretty freaky right? "

I agree. The POV shots are creepy and this was before it was used in the first Evil Dead movie.

The one scene that scared me was that jumpscare on the ghost train with a freaky looking dummy of a ghost or monster. I still can't stand that horrible screeching noise it makes.

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