People Are Sharing The Not-So-Scary Movie Scenes That Absolutely Terrified Them As Kids, And I Guess We All Had The Same Childhood
When we watch movies as kids, sometimes the weirdest things scare us...even scar us for life. On the popular r/AskReddit subreddit, u/GabeyTheArtist asked people to share an absolutely-not-scary movie scene that absolutely terrified you as a child. Some of the answers left me scratching my head (and remembering how messed up some of these movies were):
1."When the lights dimmed and the movie started, and the MGM lion roared, 4-year-old me screamed and crawled for my life over my father's shoulder and into the lap of the lady in the row behind us."
—u/TurtleRockDuane
2."When Boo started crying in Monsters Inc. and the lights started flickering."
—u/GreatXs
3."That scene in The Little Mermaid when King Triton discovers Ariel's collection of land junk, loses his sh*t and screams at her."
—u/PigeonsInSpaaaaace
4."In Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird when they capture Big Bird, paint him blue, put him in the cage, and make him sing that sad song. Terrified me as a child. Still hate it."
—u/Current-Slice9979
5."The nuclear bomb scene in The Terminator. Nightmares for weeks. I live in DC. Still live in fear that a bomb will vaporize us some day."
—u/Asininephilosopher
6."For some strange reason, the heffalumps and woozles in the Winnie the Pooh movie terrified me as a kid. I can't remember anything about that movie or why I was so scared."
—u/SadAioli3082
7."Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, when he goes crazy in the mail room, wrapping up Cindy Lou Who."
—u/bardcunninglinguist
8."In Ice Age: The Meltdown, when the iceberg slowly turns around to reveal the two water dinosaurs. I hid until I knew the next scene was playing, like the monster could see me."
—u/AddictedtoSmirnoff
9."Aladdin, when he steps into the sand lion's mouth. I always had to cover my ears and my eyes."
—u/Slowmotion_ii
10."The Fates in Disney's Hercules passing around (and at one point dropping) their shared eyeball."
—u/Friendly_Coconut
11."The Bumble from Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer."
—u/cjrjedi
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12."The end of the 'I Love To Laugh' scene in Mary Poppins, where the laughing people start to cry to get back to the ground. I thought crying was a horrible thing to show people doing."
—u/Chafing_Dish
13."The furnace scene in Home Alone. I was constantly scared of the basement after that, and we didn't even have a furnace down there."
—u/_spectre_
14."The zombie in Hocus Pocus gave me nightmares for literally years."
—u/PunkSpaceAutist
15."I have beef with Janice from The Muppets."
—u/QuetousPatootous
16."I couldn't watch the Siamese cats song from Lady and the Tramp without losing my sh*t when I was a kid."
—u/YawnfaceDM
17."In Pinocchio, when that one kid turned into a donkey."
—u/Dangerous-Coach-1999
18."The pink elephants from Dumbo scared the absolute sh*t outta me as a child."
—u/EspeonLeafeon77
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19."In E.T., when E.T. screams, running through the forest."
—u/oookaythen45
20."When E.T. gets all sick and white, and they put him in the bag. That frightened me for YEARS."
—u/Loud-Lab8802
21."Everything in Mars Attacks! scared the living sh*t out of me as a kid, then I come to find it was a comedy."
—u/SlumpDoc
22."I think when they went in the trippy tunnel in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...as a kid, it scared the heck out of me."
—u/Chris_Scagos
23."The scene of Augustus Gloop going up the pipe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
—u/the_ice_rasta
24."The witch's feet curling under the house that fell on her in The Wizard of Oz. It still seems scary."
—u/Original-Ad5439
25."The flying monkey scene in The Wizard of Oz."
—u/maler27
26."The Wheelers from Return to Oz."
—u/8u2n0u7
27."'Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!''"
—u/Boring-Pudding
28."The skeksis from The Dark Crystal really did a number on me as a kid. They were terrifying."
—u/maybetomorrow98
29."The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!"
—u/Healthy_Syllabub_765
30."When the mutant toys appear in Toy Story."
—u/Paintguin
31."The waterfall scene in The Brave Little Toaster."
—u/Accomplished_Emu_198
32."THAT Bilbo scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."
—u/aggressively-nice
33."The forest fire when Bambi's mother dies."
—u/Johnrevolta
34."The opening scene of The Great Mouse Detective. When the dad gets kidnapped by the bat."
—u/cattlol
35.And finally, "The CATERPILLAR in Alice in Wonderland. 'Whoooo are you?'"
—u/Rogue-313
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