What was the most terrifying movie scene you saw as a child in a kids movie?

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loogie97@reddit

Indian in the Cupboard. The scene where the rat jumps out at the Indian. Scared the crap out of me.

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Bebosherry@reddit

Which scene? I first watched that movie as a full grown adult and the story of Erica getting old and dying while trapped in the painting haunts me still.

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Ah geez. The creepy ones. One particular moment that I always remember was when the witches were getting so excited bordering on turned on when one of the witches asked a question and offended the Grand Witch. One was licking her lips. The were tittering and bouncing in their seats a little. The juxtaposition of that excitement with the tension of impending doom for the offending witch was so gross.

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Dish_Boggett@reddit

I rewatched that scene last year for the first time in probably 35 years. It's still unsettling.

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SomeDanGuy@reddit

Yes! The Grand High witch's true face was visually scary, but it was the fate of being trapped in the painting forever that gave me existential dread for months

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PvtHudson093@reddit

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Ugh yes. This one really creeped me out!

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pls_send_caffeine@reddit

My answer too. When the Grand High Witch takes off her human face mask...

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lobsterbandito@reddit

I had nightmares about this for months.

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dc1999@reddit

Saw the Superman III in theaters, that was bad. Also the heart ripping out scene in Temple of Doom, in the theater.

I don't know when Aliens hit HBO, but the firefight with the Marines/chestburster was pretty intense.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

You were allowed in theaters in 1983?

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Jufimbo@reddit

Most of Retun to Oz

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ReplacementAlive4370@reddit

All or Return to Oz.

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UltraconservativeBap@reddit

There a pretty good episode of the How Did This Get Made podcast dedicated to this movie

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One-Inevitable333@reddit

Fuck this fucking movie and its entire canon of nightmare fuel. They showed us this movie in school in first grade. Same year they showed us the challenger launch live. What a year for trauma

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marigoldier@reddit

Yep, just…..the whole thing.

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GitPushItRealGood@reddit

The hall of heads

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Strange-Employee-520@reddit

Came here to say the Wheelers, but they might tie with the Hall.

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SadPhase2589@reddit

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I saw this way too young.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

Totally unrelated to my original post but here we are.

OMG.... You have just unlocked one of my repressed memories!

My mom was usually OK with us watching anything and I was only 10 at the time and we had this film on.

That scene when Starling did the prison walk and some bad prisoner guy who didn't seem to like his oatmeal and just threw it in Starlings face. I never got my moms outrage from seeing that but it was the only time she made us turn off a TV movie!

There was finally a movie with a movie scene she found too offensive for her kids.

It's definitely much funnier now looking back than it was then.

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More-read-than-eddit@reddit

Body horror. Jeff Goldblum in the Fly. Good and bad guys alike in that Little Monsters film.

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TrixieLaBouche@reddit

The human sacrifice scene in Young Sherlock. Creeped me the fk out for years.

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UltraconservativeBap@reddit

My mother took my best friend and me to see Young Sherlock and we had to leave in the middle bc he was too scared and that’s all I remember about that movie.

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Vegetable-Yellow997@reddit

Also the hallucinations where the gas lamps became like snakes

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TrixieLaBouche@reddit

I can still picture it.

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MapMan992@reddit

Oh 100% this

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General-Winter547@reddit

ET getting chased by guys in hazmat suits messed me up for a long time.

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Persis-@reddit

I don’t even remember the scene, but I remember being traumatized by Watership Down, the cartoon about rabbits.

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zorasrequiem@reddit

Alien, chest bursting scene.

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ajrpcv@reddit

The Secret of NIMH. All of it.

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calbearlupe@reddit

Temple of Doom. The beating heart being ripped out of someone who is still chanting and apparently alive, scared the crap out of me as kid.

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

When Judge Doom dipped that toon shoe.

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segsmudge@reddit

I freaking loved that movie. Took my 5yo on the ride at Disneyland and we almost broke him. Whoops.

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catschimeras@reddit

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andiluxe@reddit

This was going to be my vote! This and the horrible scene from Short Circuit 2. You know the one.

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TZath@reddit

Fix….me

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IAm5toned@reddit

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andiluxe@reddit

😭

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Scrotchety@reddit

Toon schmoon, before we learn the true nature of the judge we a human being's foot get glued to a steamroller and folded against the grain against his body before his skull is pulverized like dough

That shoe got off easy

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Dustteas@reddit

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Sharpshooter188@reddit

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This scene when thr guy started freaking out from the dip too. Also the dagger eyes. But I still rewatched it for Jessica Rabbit.

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Domitiani@reddit

All these people posting adult movies (and a lot of Stephen King) ...

For me for a kid's movie it would be The Nothing from Never-ending Story. That scene with him in the cave is still creepy as hell ... heck the animatronic movement make it worse somehow.

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nampezdel@reddit

That’s not the Nothing. If you’re referring to the wolf creature, that is Gmork, Servant of the Nothing.

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Domitiani@reddit

Ah thank you - its been a while since I saw it. It is indeed the super freaky wolf creature =)

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shebreathes@reddit

I stored them together interchangeably in my memory too, friendo. Not sure why but it happened.

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Kinky-Bicycle-669@reddit

Beetlejuice when he turns into the snake.

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urfriendflicka@reddit

Honestly, Stand by me and the leeches. I have always had a thing about organisms that feed on and swell up with blood.

Also, the reanimated cat from Pet Semetary got me, too.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Not a kids movie, but I will never forget going to the living room when my dad was watching Aliens. I was maybe 7 or 8. I just happened to walk in and saw Bishop get speared by the xenomorph queen and all the white liquid gushing before he got ripped in half. I was like a deer in headlights.

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TZath@reddit

ET is a horror film and you’ll never convince me otherwise

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BaronEclectic@reddit

This is the one I was looking for. When the Government agents raided the house and set up the tent. Freaked me out.

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echochilde@reddit

I was legitimately scared of ET. One of my older cousins found out and lucky for him, he had an ET stuffy. He terrorized me with that thing.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

I was also terrified of ET. One day, I was at my Grandmother's house and suddenly noticed a McDonald's ET toy on the shelf. It was the one of him wearing a dress and wig. I screamed, thankfully they took the toy away.

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echochilde@reddit

The adults in my life thought it was hysterical. My cousin would hide it around their house. I remember bawling my eyes out because he put it on the far side of the toilet so it looked like it was leaning out. When I flipped the light on I screamed. Then I got in trouble for screaming. But not my cousin for terrorizing me.

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enters_and_leaves@reddit

The opening scene where he is being chased through the woods and the hospital tent scenes are both permanently burned into my brain.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

I just bought it on VHS the other day. I can barely remember it from seeing it the first time on TV in the early 80s but its still full of absolute charm. I binge watched Stranger Things which has a similar 80s vibe.

ET did look like burns victim now that I think of it. OMG, maybe even Freddy Krugers child!

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Ohfuscia@reddit

I just remember having to sit on my dad's lap because I was scared

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Jokierre@reddit

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Jokierre@reddit

I can’t handle this now

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Fine_Violinist5802@reddit

ouch

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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

Still scares me but the Banshee in Darby O’Gill and the Little People.

I was also scared of the magic Executioner suit of armor from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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WhiskerWizard626@reddit

OMG the banshee scared me too!! I've only met a handful of people familiar with that movie.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

I remember they played on the Disney Channel every St. Patrick's Day. Starring Scottish Sean Connery. I can still sing the song: Oh he is my dear, my darling one, his eyes are sparkling full of fun, no other, no other, is like the likes of him...

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lrdwlmr@reddit

Oh my God, I'd almost forgotten that banshee. Gave me nightmares when I was little.

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Wespiratory@reddit

The Gmork in The Never Ending Story

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abeezny@reddit

Haunted my nightmares from ages 5 to... now.

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photo_voltaic@reddit

Between this, and Artax, and the scene with the Sphinx Gate statues opening their eyes...such a masterpiece of childhood trauma.

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Wespiratory@reddit

Artax was bitterly sad, but not terrorizing to me.

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shebreathes@reddit

100% positive those statues spurned my megalophobia. Seeing Atreyu walk between them as such a small little pipsqueak... Shudder

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craftyzombie@reddit

Sphinx gate gave me recurring nightmares as a kid. Freddy Kruger had nothing on those two giant statues.

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Breakfast_Barn@reddit

dem titties doe

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TexasNatty05@reddit

Fievel and giant firework-ensconced rat robot that was designed to scare the cats. Evidently designed to scare children as well.

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Andi_Lou_Who@reddit

Wewease the cwacken!!

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Small-Bright-Things@reddit

Best part was how they kept going back and forth about whether it was time to "rewease the secwet weapon!" and you hear one small background voice go "make up your mind!" 🤣

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Least-Task276@reddit

This and the scene in All Dogs Go to Heaven where Charlie dreams he's in hell.

Bluth did a number on us kids lol. Wouldn't have it any other way though.

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

From TV. MacGyver episode "Kill Zone" (premise is sort of a rip off of The Andromeda Strain) This scene, the dog dies before this from the same exposure.

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statistacktic@reddit

Something from poltergeist 2

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nampezdel@reddit

Can’t really pick just one scene, because there were so many in The Brave Little Toaster.

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coffeeplzme@reddit

The movie is a masterpiece.

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EugeneVictorDabs@reddit

This and Watership Down for me 😬

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ExAcrobat968@reddit

The fields.. there covered with blood!

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nampezdel@reddit

OMG yes, I’d forgotten about that film!

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Illustrious_Profile6@reddit

Freddy Krueger coming up from the toilet to murder someone... I was afraid to shit for a month. My older brother snuck me into the movie theater for that one.. I def should not have been watching that yet lol

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Collapsonaut@reddit

The Jabberwocky in the live action Alice In Wonderland from 1985. The whole thing is like a fever dream to be honest.

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Snugglebunny1983@reddit

Either Judge Doom turning into a toon, or the talking toilet man from Look Who's Talking Too.

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Battle-Any@reddit

I had nightmares for MONTHS about that damn talking toilet.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

Did you know that it was voiced by Mel Brooks?

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

I lost my little dog a couple of years ago but we always used to watch this movie together because I knew she was going and they looked so similar.

I always used to tell her that if she are all her dinner one day she would be a giant flying doggy and I would sit on her back and ride her in the sky just like this.

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Small-Bright-Things@reddit

Oh, okay 😭

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ThanosWasRightAnyway@reddit

The Secret of NIMH

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SilverAsparagus2985@reddit

Someone mentioned who frames Roger rabbit and that was the kid version for me.

That said, as parenting went back then, I was subjected to the first half hour of Aliens at 7 and yep that was enough for me. I walked away I’m pretty sure when it ripped out of the woman’s belly. This is also they thought I was old enough to stay home so fabulous parenting all around. /s

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Ghastly-Jack@reddit

The elevator scene from The Shining. I didn’t even see the movie it was in a trailer i saw before some age appropriate movie. Gave me nightmares.

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Intelligent-Camera90@reddit

This was pretty scary.

Also, Oompa Loompa. Terrifying. Their songs? Stuff of nightmares. I still leave the room whenever their scenes come on. I can watch the rest of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but not them.

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electron-envy@reddit

The scene in Pet Semetary where the dead kid cuts the dudes Achilles tendon with a scalpel

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magemagem@reddit

And aunt Zelda

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DrawingTypical5804@reddit

I don’t remember being scared of kids movies. The only one I remember being scared of was the scene in Arachnophobia where the spiders come out of the bathtub/shower.

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thatsnotideal1@reddit

Willy Wonka and the descent into madness in that freaking boat ride. Scary as a kid, still upsetting at an adult

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Maxi-Minus@reddit

For me it was the scene with the kid getting sucked up in the tube. But I must have been 4 or 5 when I watched it.

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saltnshadow@reddit

Nah, definitely when the kid and Grandpa Joe were floating closer and closer to the fan and had to burp to get down.

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

Grandpa Joe is a bitch

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IrememberXenogears@reddit

All my homies hate Grandpa Joe

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

r/grandpajoehate

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SweetPrism@reddit

Pick ANY scene from The Changeling.

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Anieya@reddit

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Large Marge.

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Intelligent-Camera90@reddit

My mom legit edited this scene out of our copy, because it scared my sister and I so much.

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mac117@reddit

Showed my kid this move last month for the first time. I was eagerly anticipating the Large Marge scene and how he’d react. He gave it a light chuckle. A LIGHT CHUCKLE.

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TexasNatty05@reddit

I did the same with my kid and Jurassic Park. I remember the goat leg and Samuel L Jackson’s arm getting a jump out of me. Absolutely no response from her. 🤷‍♂️

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Then you gotta play dirty. Have someone help you spook them with props. Or the "it's not your arm on their shoulder."

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gerardkimblefarthing@reddit

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YourOwnPunkyBrewster@reddit

Oh frick, yeah! Absolutely scariest scene ever!

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

That's reminding me of beetlejuice!

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elphaba00@reddit

To this day, one of my friends swears Beetlejuice is a horror movie. We watched it at the same time. I didn't get that impression. She did.

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elphaba00@reddit

One of my coworkers said she used to watch it all the time with her kids, and they'd all laugh so hard. I was like, "Y'all are monsters."

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Andi_Lou_Who@reddit

Same! I think it was bc it was just so unexpected! I remember sitting on the floor downstairs by myself watching it at around 7 years old and I almost pissed my plants! All these years later I’m still trying to find something that scared me as much as that did lol.

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Horror_Garbage_9888@reddit

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Hammerhandle@reddit

Traumatized the fuck out of me. 40 years later, I've never watched it again.

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VinylHighway@reddit

You nailed it. This was one of the most traumatizing scenes as a youth.

Also Robocop....everything.

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thunderlips36@reddit

Not sure Robocop was a kids movie at all though

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

No, but they DID sell Robocop toys, so...

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SilentDrapeRunner11@reddit

I remember there was also a Robocop hotline aimed at kids, one of those 1-900 numbers where you talk to 'Robocop'.

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thunderlips36@reddit

Yeah the cartoon was a bit more kid-oriented than what the movie was which is just wild that they decided to make a cartoon about that

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VinylHighway@reddit

Not sure Superman 3’was a kids Movie

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catschimeras@reddit

Why did SO MANY of our parents think Robocop was a kids film?

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VinylHighway@reddit

In their defense it was on Quebec french public TV which had no restrictions late at night with no parents

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

It's funny you mention Robocop. My parents had no problem letting all of us watch anything as a family at night in the late 80s. They rented a new VHS every night and let the kids stay up late to watch everything.

I actually bought Robocop on VHS which arrived yesterday and it turned out to be a first edition VHS release which was the same cut as the cinema. I was so pumped watching it!

That however was an adults only movie which parents back then didnt seem to care if their kids watched with them (well mine didnt anyway) but Superman III was meant for kids which made this particular scene terrifying. I have no idea how the makers thought it would be OK and I'm far from a snowflake.

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ouijahead@reddit

I’ve read this on Reddit a few times lately. Somehow even the strictest of parents thought Robocop was okay. I remember the fear I felt for the poor guy that got killed by ED-209. RUN YOU IDIOT !!! Also …. WHO THE HELL PUT LIVE ROUNDS IN THIS THING !!!

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FAHQRudy@reddit

My parents were NOT along them. I didn’t see it until I was in my teens.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

I literally watched that scene just last night!

My parents just loved movies so it was dinner around the TV and they would put any new VHS tape on while we had dinner around the TV.

As kids we were just expected to cover our eyes if a sex scene or scary murder part came on. The movies itself never stopped - apart from ones that we repeat watched where my parents knew the bad scenes would come on in which case they just fast forwarded it using the remote because the kids were there

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TraditionalTackle1@reddit

My wife was raised in a pretty strict evangelical household and they were limited by the things they were allowed to watch. I was raised by a bunch of drunk Catholics who let me watch Benny Hill and 80s horror movies with lots of boobs. Robocop was a walk in the park lol. My wife is amazed I was allowed to watch all that.

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IUMogg@reddit

Ah yes, the R rated kids movie Robocop

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

Yeah, but in the 80s everything was rated R. It was fucking rad.

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VinylHighway@reddit

Superman 3 wasn't a kids movie either

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

Wasn't it? It was played regularly on day time TV. I dont have the VHS but I'm fairy certain all the Superman movies were rated as kid friendly

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ThermionicMho@reddit

"helpppppp meeeeeeee......"

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pawogub@reddit

Get off me, man!

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Sharpshooter188@reddit

Oooh God. I forgot about that scene until just now.

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18randomcharacters@reddit

Man I LOVED everything about Robocop. I wanted to grow up to BE Robocop.

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ouijahead@reddit

Even in 8th grade I walked around the house making the robocop footstep sounds. Good timing to start liking Robocop that year. That was when Robocop vs Teminator came out in SNES.

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red_bird85@reddit

Return to Oz

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jekyl42@reddit

The scene with the Queen's heads screaming at Dorothy haunts me.

And the Wheelers/Deadly Desert scenes.

The big bad evil guy too.

Total nightmare fuel.

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rulenumber62@reddit

Robocop 2, Killer clowns (Klowns?) from outer space, and Howard the duck.

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crapatthethriftstore@reddit

The Secret of Nijmegen when their house is getting drowned in mud!

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catschimeras@reddit

The destruction of the Sandleford warren in the 1970s Watership Down movie.

That awful howling noise combined with the visuals of the rabbits crammed together, foaming at the mouth, clawing at each other to get out and the one rabbits eyes rolling up white as it succumbs to the poison gas.

Amd the whole thing is overlaid with Holly's absolutely broken sounding narration...

How is this a U rating, BBFC? How?!

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Supe 3 definitely is up there. The pit of hands in Labrynth was disturbing more than it was scary.

One scene that stuck with me is the NASA scientists and isolation equipment around E.T. when they've captured him and Elliott. We watched it on reel-to-reel in school, and had lunch during the intermission. It was foggy that day and I 100% was freaked walking home in the fog after.

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Breakfast_Barn@reddit

SAME!

I was actually just thinking about this scene over the weekend when my 5yo boy asked if he could go inside his tablet. While I joked about what it would be like, I realized I could show him the scene in Tron when Flynn gets imported into his computer, so I immediately brought it up on YouTube.

As we were watching homie get scanned and sucked, cube by cube, I had the very present thought about whether or not it would be scary for my boy, because - even though it was a bit different - ladybot from Superman III scared the everloving shit out of me, haha.

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countfizix@reddit

The arson-fireman-clowns in Brave Little Toaster.

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HounDawg99@reddit

The flying monkeys in "Wizard of Oz".

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CunnyMaggots@reddit

Willow. We watched it in class when I was a kid and I had never seen little people before and Warwick Davis gave me nightmares for weeks.

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Bradical_Dutch@reddit

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The food at the dinner party, the ripping out of hearts, people catching off fire while caged up and then of course all the gator death rolls at the end… sweet fucking Christ what were my parents thinking!!!

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

The Gremlin in a Christmas tree while Do You Hear What I Hear plays.

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jekyl42@reddit

My parents took me to see Gremlins in the theater when it came out. It's the only time they had to leave a movie early with me.

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RaptureInRed@reddit

All of Watership Down. Like, the entire thing.

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JediBeagle1@reddit

The library ghost in Ghostbusters. I was traumatized in the theater and for years whenever this movie came on HBO and I was with friends I faked having to go to the bathroom during that scene.

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schmoolecka@reddit

Not a kids movie, but I was legit scared of white furry things after seeing the killer bunny part of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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themrsfreeze@reddit

This and always this

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gerardkimblefarthing@reddit

And then finding out later that those were real skeletons because it was cheaper than fake ones.

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lrdwlmr@reddit

Yup. Apparently the actors didn't know during filming, and only found out they were real much later.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

OMG! That is so true! I remember reading about it years later! There were even haunted rollercoaster rides where they later discovered the fake bodies and skeletons were not so fake after all!

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mattjh@reddit

The Peanut Butter Experiment is the answer.

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AttilaTheFun818@reddit

The finale of Secret of NIMH freaked me out.

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owlmissyou@reddit

The whole movie was rather mature for a kid's movie.

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Crazy-Ad-7869@reddit

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I saw Lost Boys at a friend's house in 4th grade ... this is definitely not a kids movie.

Also, the pulling-the-heart-out-of-the-chest scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

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lrdwlmr@reddit

Ah, Temple of Doom. One of the two movies that came out in 1984 that made the MPAA say, "y'know, maybe we need something between PG and R..."

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fendaar@reddit

The exploding parents at the end of Time Bandits.

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Darkwing873@reddit

Don't touch it! It's evil!! BOOM

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Epicardiectomist@reddit

My mom taped Temple of Doom from one of those "free HBO" weeks, and she actually sat with the VCR and edited out the heart scene. I was probably 10, and I became utterly obsessed with the missing footage. Even at that young age, I knew in my DNA that what I really wanted to see was in that missing clip.

I think my entire life of horror adoration stems from that one absent scene. So much so, I wrote the lyrics and vocals to a song using that scene as influence:

https://youtu.be/NUdxCmbOfuo?si=JY_Hj8KzmSckL6VK

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Battle-Any@reddit

The talking toilet from Look Whose Talking 2, and any scene in Ernest Scared Stupid that has the trolls in it.

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lrdwlmr@reddit

The thing that got me about Ernest Scared Stupid when I was a kid was the scene where the girl hears a noise under her bed and leans down to see what it is. She doesn't see anything, but when she raises back up and rolls over the troll is there waiting for her. Scared the absolute shit out of me.

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graveybrains@reddit

The jump scare in The Last Starfighter.

Six year old me did not need this fucking thing popping out at me in the theater:

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lrdwlmr@reddit

YES. I watched the hell out of that movie as a kid, and it's still one of my favorites, but the first several times I saw it I had to turn my head at that scene. Creepy as hell.

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small___potatoes@reddit

The Scaleri Brothers in Ghostbusters 2 & the ending to Raiders of the Lost Ark

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TheLastBoat@reddit

ARTEX!?!

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ChefCourtB@reddit

My mom let me watch Nightmare on Elm Street 1 and 2 back to back when I was 5. I didn't actually want to watch it either but we were all there together and I was wide awake on the couch in terror

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

Those were not kid movies however my mom rented out a VHS every night and it came with dinner being served up so when it was about to get scary we were told just to cover our eyes and look away.

Sometimes we even got told when it was time to cover our eyes and when to uncover them but we could still hear the horror in any case!

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palvaran@reddit

Grrreeeaaaatttt. Thanks for reminding me of the horror of that Superman movie. I had forgotten that. *Sigh*

The Nightmare on Elm Street scene with getting sucked into the bed or the TV killing the guy was pretty scary as a kid.

The Tales from the Darkside series were a guy is putting food down a garbage disposal and it starts screaming at him was scary.

Ripping faces off in V for the first time was scary.

The Stuff. Remember that movie? Kinda scary.

Oh, I know, the Return to Oz lady that changes heads. That was nightmare fuel too.

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Smoky1279@reddit

The end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when the creepy ghost comes out of the Ark to kill a bunch of soldiers and melt the face of a dude.

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JediBeagle1@reddit

Not necessarily a “kids” movie but Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn came out before PG 13 was a thing. I saw it in the theater when I was 5. If you’ve know what happens in the opening scene you’ll understand why I had trust issues with my parents from that day on.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

OMG.......

Repressed memory from 40 years ago suddenly got released.

That was definitely awful and gave me nightmares for a while

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echochilde@reddit

The scene in The Labyrinth where she falls through the pit and all of the hands are reaching for her.

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HEADZO@reddit

The snake man in Dreamscape

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JustAzConfusedAzYou@reddit

Holy shit, repressed memories arising... That robot scene really messed me up.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

This is one of those where it was exciting to have the VHS tape to watch again and again but you'd have to have an older sibling or braver buddy to tell you when the bad part was over so you can safely stop covering your eyes and watch the rest of the movie again.

However sometimes they would be mean and tell you that it was over when it wasnt or instead of fast forwarding it, they would be instead pausing or even rewinding it.

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tampapunklegend@reddit

The goblins, and specifically the goblin king in the 70s animated Hobbit movie. I loved that movie, but the goblins in the mountains always terrified me when I was a little kid.

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DaSkunk@reddit

I was just a little too young when I saw the gremlins growing out of gizmo when he gets wet.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

I found is horrifying how a movie that was so cute and sweet would turn into such a horror movie. That totally blind sided me at the time.

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

Medusa in The Clash of the Titans creeped me out as a kid.

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deblas66@reddit

T Rex gets out in Jurassic Park. The realism was horrifying

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

I was 16 when it came out and I had to babysit my kid sister so we went to watch that movie at the theater and I had never seen so many young kids crying and parents walking out of the movie with them

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deblas66@reddit

I was 9 or 10 and it was far scarier than some obviously fake monster or something

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CrumpinAintEasy@reddit

These scene in one of the critters movies where a critter eats some dudes ass when he sits down on the toilet. Ruined me. For weeks I wouldn't poop without hovering and watching between my legs.

Also a scene in I think Beverly hills cop or some cop movie where there was blood in the oatmeal. I don't know what that was all about but again, messed up my oatmeal game for a long time.

Kids just don't get traumatized enough by fake stuff anymore because they're dealing with too much of the real.

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ParticularBed6338@reddit

The Devil in the movie Legend was pretty damn scary.

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theluzah@reddit

I can't exactly remember where it is in the movie, but the scene where a kids tongue gets removed in Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Iheardtheythrowhex@reddit

Ghost Story.

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Phriendly_Phisherman@reddit

Those creepy red guys in labyrinth that want to take her head off and have jamaican accents for some reason

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Writing_Femme@reddit

Fire in the Sky - the medical experimentation. That was a big nope for me.

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antipodeananodyne@reddit

This doesn’t quite fit the description but I recall as a kid turning on the tele in the middle of the day during school holidays and Deliverance was playing. “I’m gonna make you squeal like a pig boy”. Etched on my mind. Different times back then.

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drinkslinger1974@reddit

I think the one that really got me as a kid was the scene where Luke Skywalker is roaming around Dagoba and confronts Darth Vader. When the mask blasts open and reveals Luke Skywalker‘s face that was pretty freaky to me.

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zerokiwi@reddit

The Ghostbusters opening librarian scene always scared the shit out of me. But not enough to keep me from watching about 100 times

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PvtHudson093@reddit

Yeah the Library ghost did it for me to.

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tq-dip@reddit

This is the one for me

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Separate_Counter9427@reddit

IT (1990)

George Denbrough's sewer scene in the beginning.

Killing children was not off-limits in this horror classic; absolute terror when I saw it the first time.

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Room234@reddit

I did not care for Dick Tracy when they covered the dude in cement.

Also, a lot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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Incred@reddit

Short Circuit 2. When Johnny 5 got attacked with an axe - it scared me as a kid. I was so fucking mad at Oscar.

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AustinGearHead@reddit

Anything with alien abductions. Unsolved mysteries bothered the hell out of me. Communion and those aliens were nightmare fuel.

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No_Actuary6800@reddit

Poltergeist when the guys starts tearing his skin off in the bathroom mirror

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thunderlips36@reddit

I don't think that movie was a kids movie

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itadapeezas@reddit

I watched Faces of Deqrh at a friends birthday party in the 4th grade. The monkey scene bothered me for a long time. I actually found out it wasn't real just a few years ago and I was so relieved.

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BennyOcean@reddit

The movie "The Peanut Butter Solution" was something so bizarre that it was like a fever dream that I convinced myself for years must have been some kind of bad dream. It was only when I found it online many years later that I realized it wasn't a dream but was an actual real movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089789/

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blue_suavitel@reddit

Michael Jackson Moonwalker when he transforms and when Joe Pesci tries to inject the little girl

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Shigglyboo@reddit

For me it was the movie Silver Bullet (Stephen King werewolf film). The wolf climbs up to the second floor and goes in through the window to kill a girl in her room. I slept on the second floor. Was probably 8. Too young. I was terrified that something could get me and I wouldn’t be safe even up one story.

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NoGoat3930@reddit

The Dark Crystal :

If you've seen it, you know the scene.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

This movie is getting a lot of mentions and if I have seen it I don't remember the movie at all. I'll try to see if I can pick it up on VHS because it sounds iconic!

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Whatigot19@reddit

The troll in Earnest Scared Stupid.

When the little girl looks under her bed and see nothing, only for the troll to be waiting for her on the bed when she gets back up.

I slept with a glass of milk for like 3 weeks after seeing that shit.

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Sharpshooter188@reddit

I snuck out of my toom past my bed time to see a scene from Children of the Corn where the kids were chasing someone through a field and caught up to em. Thrn basically hacked em to death. I didnt sneak out of my room again after that. Well at least until I was in my late teens.

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_thepeopleschampion@reddit

Poltergeist had so many trippy scenes

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meowEwowEE@reddit

The beginning of the dark crystal. Still can't get past the 20 min mark

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viridiansoul@reddit

Any Skexies really. They still creep me the fuck out.

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brainfreeze77@reddit

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valenx@reddit

Stallone's Judge Dredd - Robot commanded by Rico rips some guys arms off

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lopan75@reddit

Kind of a tie between the girl in the mirror in Watcher in the Woods at about 7 and the Hall of Heads in Return to Oz when I was 10. They both still haunt me a bit at 50

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itsbirthdaybitch@reddit

Watcher in the Woods was definitely traumatizing

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Grizz-Lee-2891@reddit

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this and the bathtub scene...

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detectivedoakes@reddit

The Battle for Endor is a cheesy Star Wars TV movie, that definitely has some fucked up shit for a movie aimed at kids. In the opening scene, the protagonist who had to be five or six years old, witnesses her whole family get killed by alien raiders. About halfway into the movie she has a nightmare where the raiders come for her, she goes to wake up the old man who took her in, and the leader of the raiders comes out of the bed instead. Scared the shit out of me.

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Ok_Percentage5157@reddit

Dude that Superman 3 scene still creeps me out to this day.

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xParesh@reddit (OP)

I loved the movie itself but when that scene was coming it was time to hide behind the sofa and close your eyes until the screaming stopped. Superman was also a dick in that movie so you saw for the first time heros can fall and let bad things happen to bad people but as much as Vera was a baddie, what the mini-computer did to her was on par with watching a snuff movie scene.

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Similar-Sir-2952@reddit

The dragon at the end of Alice in Wonderland movie

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North_Hawk958@reddit

The Gmork

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mattchewy43@reddit

Idk if its a kids movie but The Gate. There's a scene where a hand come out from under the bed. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.

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PORTOGAZI@reddit

Holy shit the gate!!!! It scared the shit out of me

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andiluxe@reddit

Don Bluth animation. I don’t care which movie it was… there was always at least one traumatic scene. Take your pick.

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physical0@reddit

When Atreyu is approaching the Twin Guardians and he's passing by the Knight that failed to pass in the previous attempt. The moment his helmet flips open used to scare the shit outta me.

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WritingNerdy@reddit

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-OccultOfPersonality@reddit

I watched Candyman and It (when it was released on tv). Not the best idea for an 8 year old. Every bit of those movies have affected me lol

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18randomcharacters@reddit

It.

Fucking clown in the sewer drain.

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Domitiani@reddit

HAha how is that a kids movie?!

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18randomcharacters@reddit

I missed the word "kids" in the title. I did see IT as a kid though. It came out in 1990, when I was only 9. So I probably saw it within a couple years of that.

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Domitiani@reddit

Ya it is a confusing post talking both about kids movies and what you saw as a kid. I get it!

Still, watching It as a kid if something ...

To be fair I found the book and read it at probably 10yo so ... ya.

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leash_e@reddit

The first movie I ever saw in theatres was the little mermaid. That scene where the giant Ursula come out of the ocean laughing near the end of the movie terrified me, but a lot of that had to do with just how big she was when I was not used to that sort of thing.

It didn’t scare me at all when I later watched it at home on VHS.

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epidemicsaints@reddit

The dog scene in The Thing, only time a movie has made me puke.

I love that movie but why a room of adults thought to have that on with a 6 year old in the room astounds me.

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Domitiani@reddit

Oof - definitely wouldnt call The Thing a kid's movie!

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epidemicsaints@reddit

Yeah the post is confusing "movie you saw as a kid" and then closing with kid's movie, I dunno.

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Domitiani@reddit

That is fair - my question would be who let you watch the Thing as a kid! I saw it at like 15 or 16 and I'm 90% sure I didn't finish it.

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Milkweedhugger@reddit

The shark attack scenes in Jaws, and the scene in Red Dawn where they line up the townspeople (including the Eckerd kids dad) and execute them.

For actual kids movies, it would be the boat fire at the beginning of The Black Stallion.

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