So the kid that played Anne-Marie (and Ducky in Land before time) was murdered at age 10 by her father. This was while All Dogs go to Heavan was being made. Her part had all been recorded. The scene where Charlie says goodbye to her in the movie was recorded afterwards and Burt Reynolds was breaking during the recording.
I’m pretty sure My Girl is the reason I’m terrified of bees. I’m not allergic to them, but I tell everybody that I am to somewhat justify my reaction every time one comes near me.
For me or was actually my dad watching horror movies in the afternoon while I was playing in the same room as a kid.
I think it was The witches of Eastwick that gave me emetophobia. (I just remember it had witches and the put a spell on some guy, I'll leave out the rest, because it still makes me queasy)
Other than that there's watership down, which my mom had no idea about and she thought it was just a cute movie about bunnies.
"The Snowman" A 1982 animated movie, the ending was so abrupt and sad it made me cry my eyes out as a child, my parents didn't even know how to calm me down then.
Ok, not as a little kid, but just barely out of my teens. I was a big Ghibli fan, and was so excited to be introduced to a film by Miyazaki I hadn't seen.
Went in to watch it, totally blind with not a clue as tonwhat it would be about, came out a sobbing mess.
Movies rarely bothered me as a kid. Now Unsolved Mysteries and America's Most Wanted frightened the fuck outta me. There was one where a girl came out to see her bike was moved. When she went to get a guy came out of a van, grabbed her and she was never seen again. I couldn't sleep after that I was so terrified. My mom tried to get me to calm down by saying nobody would want me.
I never really cared about what was on the episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, nor really retained the info. I just knew it was scary stuff. But that theme song is just too unsettling. And the actor, Robert Stack. I cant handle him in any other role. Watching the Beavis and Butthead movie was hard for me cause he does the voice of the agent. It ALWAYS takes me out of the movie and sets off my child hood trauma of hearing that voice when I was a kid.
When I was little, my bed time music wasn't Mash, it was Unsolved Mysteries. But my mom loved to play the game of I could stay up if I was awake. If inwas falling asleep, then i had to go to bed. Of course by the time that show aired, I was falling asleep on the couch with her. The amount of times I hear that music and feel dred cause I have to pretend im not passing out every second cause all kids want to do is never go to bed.
Now kids that same age are in bed by 9. Sometimes I made it till the 11:00 news.
I feel like the realism of this movie brought it to another level. Don't get me wrong, Large Marge was pretty freaky and the dip scene was also sad for me as a kid but I'd be comfortable with my kids watching either. This movie, not so much.
Return to Oz and the Disney made for TV Through the Looking Glass.
Return to Oz was just a perfect representation of the difference between post war America and Reagan era America. One was a technocolor dream land of fun songs, an adventurous story and spirit with a clear enemy.
The other was a washed up hellscape of a land that used to be exciting and dream filled where everything and everyone looked like a junkie. Who was the enemy? Not really sure but some dudes on wheels might mug you at any moment.
Through the Looking Glass introduced us to the concept of isolation and absent parenting, which was right on for the 80s latchkey kids. And of course when psychological horror isn't enough they brought out the terrifying life sized Jabberwocky.
My grandfather was the one to tell me the unconfirmed rumor that this film was responsible for the deaths of many cats and dogs because they would film the animals in dangerous situations, let them die, and then find a replacement lookalike. I was 9. I have not been able to watch the movie since.
And The Land Before Time, and The Secret of Nimh, Ann’s Bridge to Terabithia, and All Dogs Go to Heaven.and motherfucking Watership Down, and even Transformers the Movie.
Makers of children’s media in the 80’s were unconcerned about traumatizing us.
The Great Mouse Detective near the beginning when the bat gives you a jump scare.
Also, I watched Gremlins in the theater when I was like 6. I spent the majority of the movie hugging my friend’s mom that brought us, facing away from the screen.
Yeah, this was pretty terrifying for me as a kid too. Most 80s animatronics and puppets were. I just watched this fairly recently with my son. I never realized that the blonde teenager was Nancy Cartwright. She never escaped cartoon world....
That poor shoe. Watching it go from utter terror to helplessly accepting its fate was aweful to watch. I still have moments were I think about it and wish Eddie would have slipped the shoe out of Dooms hand.
It's like they were deliberately trying to traumatize our generation with some of the movies that were coming out around that time. Although in the case of 'Roger Rabbit" I feel like some of our parents maybe should have realized that just because it has cartoons does not mean it's ok for kids.
I remember my dad taking me to the hi-fi section of Sears when I was around 8 years old to check out the speakers and they were playing Robocop on laser disc, specifically that scene at the beginning, and it totally messed me up.
That movie The Cats Eye freaked me out big time. I thought a little ghoul was gonna come out of the wall and steal my breath when I slept. That and some crazy nightmare I had about a mad dentist. Don’t know where that came from but I couldn’t sleep alone for months lol
These two for sure. And Snoopy Come Home. I remember trying to hold back tears and my mom telling me, “it’s okay to cry” and then absolutely sobbing into a pillow.
I recently rewatched a cartoon “When The Wind Blows.” I could only remember bits and pieces but I remember it having a profound impact on me when I was little. My parents should not have let me watch it at such a young age! It’s dark. It’s about an older couple in the UK that prepare for a nuclear bomb attack and then dealing with the fallout. It’s not a happy ending.
Somehow I saw the Blob and Amotyville horror much too young so I was afraid of getting sucked down the bathtub drain and the garbage disposal turning on when someone’s hand was in it.
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
Neither.
When the dude was consciously sliced open in Robocop 2.
ClarkWGrismond@reddit
Or Alex Murphy getting shot to bits in the first Robocop. I stopped playing with my robocop toys after watching that...
ninepoundhammer@reddit
OMFG yes! I remember being traumatized by this.
"Don't you think the kid should leave?"
VinylHiFi1017@reddit
The boogeyman in the Ghostbusters cartoon. Nope. Nope. And nope.
Short_Pickle1980@reddit
lavasca@reddit
What about Large Marge?
MerryJanne@reddit
The Last Unicorn.
That-Jeweler-Girl@reddit
Yeah, that tree had some huge knockers. So did the Harpy, she had the tri-boob
Foreign_Kale8773@reddit
"I'm engaged to a Douglas Fir."
That-Jeweler-Girl@reddit
"She'll string you up on barbed wire, to make a necklace, for the Harpy!"
ChumbawumbaFan01@reddit
I can hear her voice.
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
I still don't drink red bull.
GlassAndStorm@reddit
Lol
Rahawk02@reddit
A Clockwork Orange
cutreamthread@reddit
BloodFromAnOrange@reddit
This whole movie was traumatic. Elliott getting drunk freaked me out so bad and still informs some of my decision-making.
ninepoundhammer@reddit
I forgot how sad this made me.
Hopeful_Hamster21@reddit
I HAD TOTALLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THIS! IT HAS BEEN 30 YEARS!!!
Its my fault for having eyes and a phone.....
Rare-Boss2640@reddit
“What did the shoe ever do to you?” 😭
toomanyusesforaname@reddit
Return to Oz
iwasnotarobot@reddit
I couldn’t find a gif of the wheelers, so…
Zsirhcz1981@reddit
Wheelers still give me the willies.
ChiaOtter@reddit
I showed this to my tweens the other day, and I’m relieved to tell you that it creeped them the eff out too.
byebyebirdie1122@reddit
This movie is horrifying. My brother told me it was the Wizard of Oz and for 15 years I didn’t understand how anybody liked that movie.
By the time I finally realized I had watched the wrong movie, it was too late and now the mere mention of the Wizard of Oz creeps me out.
MirthRock@reddit
This was creepy as hell when I was a kid. Kinda still is...
Zsirhcz1981@reddit
Was Don Bluth making the movie - Trauma
AsideLost@reddit
That lady getting turned into a robot in Superman III
https://i.redd.it/d22eknefc8yg1.gif
ninepoundhammer@reddit
This also terrified me.
Thereminz@reddit
heh just thikin aobut this the other day, what did you use to search for this gif
DontPokeTheCrab@reddit
How dark Brave Little Toaster was
https://i.redd.it/6jm6892x17yg1.gif
weedtrek@reddit
The AC unit, the flower scene, the repair shop, the whole movie is very disturbing.
Hopeful_Hamster21@reddit
Dont forget The Land Before Time!
lnc_5103@reddit
This and All Dogs go to Heaven destroyed me lol
weedtrek@reddit
So the kid that played Anne-Marie (and Ducky in Land before time) was murdered at age 10 by her father. This was while All Dogs go to Heavan was being made. Her part had all been recorded. The scene where Charlie says goodbye to her in the movie was recorded afterwards and Burt Reynolds was breaking during the recording.
lovelycurves84@reddit
Also, Fox and the Hound
Toddlez85@reddit
This one made so sad as a little kid and as a 40+ year old man
beardedliberal@reddit
The anger of the air conditioner… I was simply not prepared for that level of rage as a kid. Or for that matter, as an adult.
SerenityN00w@reddit
Eh, he was a jerk anyway.
Aerias_Raeyn@reddit
The AC unit — the clown — the pawn shop — the flower dying. This movie is a nightmare for a child.
That-Jeweler-Girl@reddit
I can hear the song just looking at this gif
littleseaotter@reddit
The junkyard song that the cars sing is heartbreaking
DontPokeTheCrab@reddit
Depressing. Especially when it comes to an end at the compactor. Life and death concepts in a kids movie.
InvariantInvert@reddit
Thumbalina.
Dazzling-Skin-308@reddit
How absolutely dare you traumatize me at 8 in the morning.
CinderChop@reddit
Murphy death scene 😱
ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit
This freaked me out as much as Large Marge
Appropriate-Diver301@reddit
I am gratified that so many of us share my deepest childhood movie fears
EEMIV@reddit
I can hear this
MahliSaia@reddit
When I was a kid, the part where he got flattened by the steamroller and then reinflates himself freaked me out way more than the shoe.
Roobix9@reddit
Saaaaaaame
TheNaughtyDragon@reddit
Remember me eddie?!!
StillhasaWiiU@reddit
maggie320@reddit
I took me years to watch that scene. My parents would have to fast forward at first, then I would just leave the room or turn my head.
Appropriate-Diver301@reddit
My family was watching it for the first time and I could tell something was going to happen so I hid behind my hands, as you do.
I kept asking 'is it over yet' and they said yes. Just before this part happened. Nightmares for a long time after that.
ImOldGreggggggggggg@reddit
We never fast forward this, I would just hide behind my mom and bury my head into her.
Rombonius@reddit
truly the scariest scene in movie history
NimbexWaitress@reddit
I absolutely lost my shit when I was eight years old seeing this
ciccacicca@reddit
I JUST showed this to my kids and made a big deal about how scary it would be and they were like “meh.”
Sandy_taco_lover@reddit
Large Marge
Appropriate-Diver301@reddit
It was more the part where he got flattened by the stream roller for me
I was also traumatized by the truck scene in Pee Wee's Big adventure
And the mirror scenes of Watcher in the Woods
Extension_Chart2641@reddit
THIS was the first movie my parents took me to see at a movie theater. I was 4 years old. I don't remember being traumatized from it 🤷
GarciaWolf@reddit
I don’t remember it but my mother says Bambi really shook me as a kid
GarciaWolf@reddit
Side note I do remember my uncle telling me Bambi was out back and he had a dead deer hanging out there
RyogAkari@reddit
Sucking the brain juice out and making a zombie in The Dark Crystal. That one got me real bad.
100percentfinelinen@reddit
So much of it was never made for kids but our parents didn’t know, like Roger Rabbit was definitely not for kids, but I guess no one said anything?
Robot-Candy@reddit
https://i.redd.it/d1slora7o7yg1.gif
Raggedy Anne cartoon… the candy pit was horrifying
Business-Pencil@reddit
YES
coolpartoftheproblem@reddit
jesus
ballen1002@reddit
I’m pretty sure My Girl is the reason I’m terrified of bees. I’m not allergic to them, but I tell everybody that I am to somewhat justify my reaction every time one comes near me.
t_bone_stake@reddit
“Where’s his glasses? He can’t see without his glasses!”
coolpartoftheproblem@reddit
lmao
Bellatrix_Shimmers@reddit
Ahhh sitting there helpless to save the lil one 😭
Ok_Shopping7204@reddit
Brave little toaster. I have never willingly thrown out a lamp. No matter how busted.
Lancimus@reddit
https://i.redd.it/357n785loayg1.gif
kermitte777@reddit
Cottoncloudhigh@reddit
For me or was actually my dad watching horror movies in the afternoon while I was playing in the same room as a kid. I think it was The witches of Eastwick that gave me emetophobia. (I just remember it had witches and the put a spell on some guy, I'll leave out the rest, because it still makes me queasy)
Other than that there's watership down, which my mom had no idea about and she thought it was just a cute movie about bunnies.
sasssyrup@reddit
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
The dip!
Milly_Hagen@reddit
Still haunting me .......
Bourriks@reddit
For me, it's people with eyeballs popping out in Total Recall movie.
I still can't watch this 30 years later...
--Jester--@reddit
Old Yeller? Fox and the Hound? Secret of Nymh?
The_Best_Yak_Ever@reddit
Jesus the Fox and the Hound destroyed me. I remember my dad having to comfort little Yak because I was crying and hugging my childhood Labrador.
“We’ll be friends forever, won’t we?”
:*-(
rm78noir@reddit
The worst was definitely Neverending Story.
Sirtriplenipple@reddit
I’m not sure why this is a little pony…
theflush1980@reddit
pineapplejax@reddit
Sanguine-Penguin711@reddit
Is this the teacher scene?! 😱 The absolute worst Chucky killing.
pineapplejax@reddit
Yes it is.
Legitimate_Bird_5712@reddit
WhimsicalPonies@reddit
Juliet_1982@reddit
Thank you for not posting the actual clip. I can’t
RockTheGrock@reddit
You found my number one for me.
Doun2Others10@reddit
Not THE DIIIIIP!
thats0Ktoo@reddit
absentlyric@reddit
"The Snowman" A 1982 animated movie, the ending was so abrupt and sad it made me cry my eyes out as a child, my parents didn't even know how to calm me down then.
FiversWarren@reddit
ComprehensiveStuff72@reddit
Pretty sure I contracted depression for a few days after I saw that.
marcella_coco@reddit
Omg yes, my siblings and I did the same
MaverickGalaxyJam@reddit
To this day I cannot watch that bootie scene without having a visceral reaction
CaptianBrasiliano@reddit
sin667@reddit
The blood test scene in The Thing
Acslaterisdead@reddit
Johnny five being nearly killed in short circuit 2
gnome_grown_buds@reddit
Cruel world, cruel world
this_knee@reddit
Death by dance.
XIENVYIX@reddit
I was terrified just seeing an evil Doc Brown, let alone THE DIP!
WereFlyingOverTrout@reddit
The dip 😭 and how I didn’t understand, “Is that a rabbit in your pocket or are you just happy to see me” blush
peloquindmidian@reddit
I didn't understand that the dip was just paint thinner
MightBBlueovrU@reddit
Wow this traumatized you? Its a shoe dude. A cartoon shoe. No wonder people th I nknow this generation is a bunch of wimps
coolpartoftheproblem@reddit
wow, tough guy! lmao stfu
MightBBlueovrU@reddit
Wow you sure showed me there. Fuck you and that cock holder you called your face
SerenityN00w@reddit
Unico in the Island of Magic
I can't believe this aired on the Disney Channel in the 1980's.
DiligentDaughter@reddit
Ok, not as a little kid, but just barely out of my teens. I was a big Ghibli fan, and was so excited to be introduced to a film by Miyazaki I hadn't seen.
Went in to watch it, totally blind with not a clue as tonwhat it would be about, came out a sobbing mess.
OhTheHueManatee@reddit
Movies rarely bothered me as a kid. Now Unsolved Mysteries and America's Most Wanted frightened the fuck outta me. There was one where a girl came out to see her bike was moved. When she went to get a guy came out of a van, grabbed her and she was never seen again. I couldn't sleep after that I was so terrified. My mom tried to get me to calm down by saying nobody would want me.
GrumpyKaeKae@reddit
I never really cared about what was on the episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, nor really retained the info. I just knew it was scary stuff. But that theme song is just too unsettling. And the actor, Robert Stack. I cant handle him in any other role. Watching the Beavis and Butthead movie was hard for me cause he does the voice of the agent. It ALWAYS takes me out of the movie and sets off my child hood trauma of hearing that voice when I was a kid.
When I was little, my bed time music wasn't Mash, it was Unsolved Mysteries. But my mom loved to play the game of I could stay up if I was awake. If inwas falling asleep, then i had to go to bed. Of course by the time that show aired, I was falling asleep on the couch with her. The amount of times I hear that music and feel dred cause I have to pretend im not passing out every second cause all kids want to do is never go to bed.
Now kids that same age are in bed by 9. Sometimes I made it till the 11:00 news.
Anxious-Cupcake-84@reddit
Both of those scared me if I was home alone. I always watched tho.
monji_cat@reddit
Death of Prime
HilariousButTrue@reddit
bascule@reddit
There it is. Nothing else in this thread comes close
HilariousButTrue@reddit
I feel like the realism of this movie brought it to another level. Don't get me wrong, Large Marge was pretty freaky and the dip scene was also sad for me as a kid but I'd be comfortable with my kids watching either. This movie, not so much.
bascule@reddit
It’s just straight up fucking brutal. Bloody rabbit wars
marcella_coco@reddit
Same
Treadingresin@reddit
Return to Oz and the Disney made for TV Through the Looking Glass.
Return to Oz was just a perfect representation of the difference between post war America and Reagan era America. One was a technocolor dream land of fun songs, an adventurous story and spirit with a clear enemy.
The other was a washed up hellscape of a land that used to be exciting and dream filled where everything and everyone looked like a junkie. Who was the enemy? Not really sure but some dudes on wheels might mug you at any moment.
Through the Looking Glass introduced us to the concept of isolation and absent parenting, which was right on for the 80s latchkey kids. And of course when psychological horror isn't enough they brought out the terrifying life sized Jabberwocky.
GrumpyKaeKae@reddit
That Jabberwocky scene at the end was terrifying!! My goodness!
lilith96@reddit
No-Environment-3997@reddit
My grandfather was the one to tell me the unconfirmed rumor that this film was responsible for the deaths of many cats and dogs because they would film the animals in dangerous situations, let them die, and then find a replacement lookalike. I was 9. I have not been able to watch the movie since.
lilith96@reddit
Oh dear go that's horrible
MirthRock@reddit
lying_flerkin@reddit
RockTheGrock@reddit
So much more that I know the story behind the scene when he said goodbye to the girl. 😢
coolpartoftheproblem@reddit
omg this movie… woof. i’m sad now
andiepandee@reddit
This is it for me too
CSWorldChamp@reddit
And The Land Before Time, and The Secret of Nimh, Ann’s Bridge to Terabithia, and All Dogs Go to Heaven.and motherfucking Watership Down, and even Transformers the Movie.
Makers of children’s media in the 80’s were unconcerned about traumatizing us.
Coolschmo1@reddit
Fievel Goes West. I didnt know a kid's movie could be that boring. I barely survived
milkcatdog@reddit
😭 that’s my fav movie haha
Charrbard@reddit
That damn toaster. Makes me associate bad feelings every time I throw an appliance or something out.
Anxious-Cupcake-84@reddit
I wonder if that movie is what started my personification of objects. 😬
Charrbard@reddit
I literally thank machines all the time.
Just in case.
Mandrake1771@reddit
The Great Mouse Detective near the beginning when the bat gives you a jump scare.
Also, I watched Gremlins in the theater when I was like 6. I spent the majority of the movie hugging my friend’s mom that brought us, facing away from the screen.
milkcatdog@reddit
ahh the great mouse detective is my favorite movie 🥺 but yeah.. the bat is super off putting lol
SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit
Pinocchio was rereleased in theaters in 84 when I was 5. When those boys started to turn into donkeys I was deeply disturbed.
milkcatdog@reddit
The Magic Tree of Nowhere 😭😭😭
Ill-Complaint-6634@reddit
Little’s foot mom
Professional-Put7420@reddit
Labyrinth when the puppets were ripping each other’s heads off.
Sandy_taco_lover@reddit
This friggin thing from the twilight zone movie
That-Jeweler-Girl@reddit
Yeah, this was pretty terrifying for me as a kid too. Most 80s animatronics and puppets were. I just watched this fairly recently with my son. I never realized that the blonde teenager was Nancy Cartwright. She never escaped cartoon world....
D2Dragons@reddit
Good god yes that scene gave me nightmares!
Sandy_taco_lover@reddit
I just watched it the other day …Go watch it again it still freaks me out.
LeatherRecord2142@reddit
Neverending Story was my nightmare fuel. I hated every second as a small child!
RestlessDreamer79@reddit
All Dogs go to Heaven! Charley!
_Xee@reddit
This might be the actual list of causes of this specific age group being... bent.
coolpartoftheproblem@reddit
fear/depression + parents too busy smoking cigs to care = a buncha weirdos
Pale_Leek2994@reddit
Con_re_sann@reddit
Either_Umpire9411@reddit
And the Secret of Nimh
RanklesTheOtter@reddit
Johnny 5 getting beat nearly to death in Short Circuit 2. Until he gets fixed and kicks ass.
My stomach still turns, when I see violence against machines.
Scrotchety@reddit
Worse was the smash cut of rappers screaming into the camera
LOS LOBOS KICK YOUR ASS
LOS LOBOS KICK YOU FACE
you know the rest etc etc
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
*Locos
RanklesTheOtter@reddit
That was pretty cool though, because he got to learn how to boost car stereos and got a cool pain job.
MirthRock@reddit
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
That didn't bother me. It's a shoe.
Ok-Librarian5267@reddit
Plague Dogs, the one with the whale, watership down, the fox and the hound, Bambi, I am sure I'm forgetting something prob a good thing.
Ok-Librarian5267@reddit
The prince where he gives the fancy metal to a bird.
Suitable-Fun-1087@reddit
Unico
hit_reset_@reddit
Nah man. This was forgettable compared to the Robocop acid dude. So much shit I shouldn’t have been watching.
spderweb@reddit
Why wasn't he immediately arrested for this? I don't think they mentioned that toons have no rights.
TheMagicalSquirrel@reddit
nopester24@reddit
I can hear this image
Prestigious-Hand9490@reddit
nopester24@reddit
Y'all had some lame ass childhoods hahaha!!! Not was Tar Man for me
D2Dragons@reddit
“Hey sweetie I know you’re sick so I got this nice rabbit cartoon for you to watch…”
Thanks Dad 😳
lawtalkinggal@reddit
I still think about this scene. Absolute trauma.
CapitanRonRico@reddit
https://i.redd.it/5gx933czst7b1.gif
icct-hedral@reddit
That’s not traumatic! That’s *glorious*!
Whatigot19@reddit
qualityskootchtime@reddit
Is this Poltergeist? Cats eye?
Whatigot19@reddit
Worse. Earnest Scared Stupid.
qualityskootchtime@reddit
😂 really I don’t think I ever saw it.
Whatigot19@reddit
She checks under her bed and nothing, then the camera pans up when she gets up and this MF is on top of the bed waiting for her.
qualityskootchtime@reddit
Yikes!
CryptographerPast632@reddit
icct-hedral@reddit
The “Jesus Wept” scene at the end of Hellraiser, I guess.
theFace@reddit
I can still hear the screams.
Fabulous_Stegosaurus@reddit
That poor shoe. Watching it go from utter terror to helplessly accepting its fate was aweful to watch. I still have moments were I think about it and wish Eddie would have slipped the shoe out of Dooms hand.
chriskulture@reddit
Does it help to know the shoe was voiced by Nancy Cartwright?
Fabulous_Stegosaurus@reddit
No! Not Bart! 😱
boyalien0@reddit
ranaldo20@reddit
The garbage disposal scene in "The Incredible Shrinking Woman." Messed me up!
GPmtbDude@reddit
The monster jump scare from the Twilight Zone Movie, terror at 20000 feet. For real terrified, like running out of the room screaming.
moe_saint_cool@reddit
The Neverending Story would like a word
jeng52@reddit
The scene in Homeward Bound where Sassy is in the river. I had to fast forward through it every time, even though I knew she would be ok.
Unusual-Ask5047@reddit
What happened to old yeller.
Unusual-Ask5047@reddit
What happened to old yeller.
Pard22@reddit
Yes
Helo7606@reddit
Artax......nuff said.
InvariantInvert@reddit
Thumbelina.
lying_flerkin@reddit
It's like they were deliberately trying to traumatize our generation with some of the movies that were coming out around that time. Although in the case of 'Roger Rabbit" I feel like some of our parents maybe should have realized that just because it has cartoons does not mean it's ok for kids.
Wishbone_508@reddit
Tonio775@reddit
All Dogs Go to Heaven.
took years to recover.
Greyburm@reddit
Opening scene of Beverly Hills Cop, or Robocop for me.
TheBigBangClock@reddit
I remember my dad taking me to the hi-fi section of Sears when I was around 8 years old to check out the speakers and they were playing Robocop on laser disc, specifically that scene at the beginning, and it totally messed me up.
Itchy_Ritch@reddit
E.T. was terrifying. Couldn't tell you why, I havent seen it since it was in theaters.
TheMatt561@reddit
There are so many for our generation
beeurd@reddit
The Land Before Time. You know which scene.
I'm 120% sure I'd cry if I watched it now.
Wolf_Parade@reddit
I have never seen it again and I'm still scarred.
qualityskootchtime@reddit
That movie The Cats Eye freaked me out big time. I thought a little ghoul was gonna come out of the wall and steal my breath when I slept. That and some crazy nightmare I had about a mad dentist. Don’t know where that came from but I couldn’t sleep alone for months lol
Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit
qualityskootchtime@reddit
This video for sure. That scene specifically!
Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit
kmstep@reddit
These two for sure. And Snoopy Come Home. I remember trying to hold back tears and my mom telling me, “it’s okay to cry” and then absolutely sobbing into a pillow.
I recently rewatched a cartoon “When The Wind Blows.” I could only remember bits and pieces but I remember it having a profound impact on me when I was little. My parents should not have let me watch it at such a young age! It’s dark. It’s about an older couple in the UK that prepare for a nuclear bomb attack and then dealing with the fallout. It’s not a happy ending.
Born-Agency-3922@reddit
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Born-Agency-3922@reddit
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Rust_Bucket37@reddit
Flo seems meh on this. Lol
HopeThisIsUnique@reddit
Earnest Scared Stupid. IYKYK
GenericDave65@reddit
Crazydiamond450@reddit
And_go@reddit
This whole movie was traumatic for me. So traumatic that I have still not watched it as an adult! Gives me the chills just seeing that image!
maggie320@reddit
Free Willy hitting the glass. Because of that I will never touch the glass at any zoo or aquarium.
OperationIll3918@reddit
Oh my God! It’s DIP!
Sharp_Progress_5693@reddit
Somehow I saw the Blob and Amotyville horror much too young so I was afraid of getting sucked down the bathtub drain and the garbage disposal turning on when someone’s hand was in it.
Adrasteia-One@reddit
Jaws: The Revenge, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Robocop
Kiethblacklion@reddit
I loved how I pointed out a side trauma from this scene and someone called me a monster for it...lol