Kids movies/stories/programmes that scared the bejesus out of you as a child

Saralee4

I was reading my daughter Hansel and Gretal last night. Shes two and she really got into the story but there were parts of it that clearly freaked her out!

Nowadays the kids programmes that she watches like Dora, Peppa Pig (although she is a little bit evil) and In the Night Garden don't really have 'bad guys' or a dark side as such.

I remember when I was younger being really creeped out by a few cartoons/ movies that really scared me.

1) Alice in Wonderland the Disney movie scared me. It was the bit where she turned into a giant and couldn't fit in the house.

2) When Pinocchio was turning into a donkey that really freaked me out and then when he got swallowed by the whale.

3) Charlie and the chocolate factory, when the girl ate the blue chewing gum and was going to blow up and when the fat kid got stuck in the chocolate pipe.

4) In Watership Down where some of the rabbits are suffocated in their burrows when the builders come in to start building the houses and when they meet those weird rabbits . Actually that whole movie scared the **** out of me.

On another note Im actually starting to see a pattern of claustrophobia in the things I was scared of - maybe that's what caused me to have claustrophobia

What Kids Movies/Stories/Programmes stopped you from sleeping when you were small?

kfallon

Pat Sharp's mullet.....

The_Valeyard

The ghost train, in an episode of Thomas the tank Engine.

The Peanut

The Witch in the Wizard of Oz. Times change so much, has no impact on my own kids. We rarely saw anything scary so she frightened the bejaysus out of me.

Edit: The childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; horrible character.

whiskeyman

The Three Billy Goats Gruff and the Troll that lived under the bridge.

Had serious issues crossing over bridges when younger!!

Duggy747

Short Circuit 2 when Johnny Five gets the shít brutally beaten out of him.

Irish Guitarist

Charlie Says always creeped me out.

That australian show on "the childrens channel" with the slimey slug things - "under the mountain" I think it was called - freaked me out in all kinds of ways when I was a kid.

Did not bother me - but I expect there will be a few people mentioning Podge off The Den too. Seems that character messed with a few childrens sleep patterns in the past.

Akrasia

The Witches with angelica Huston is a terrifying movie for kids.

I've read the book to my kids but I'm waiting until they're older to show them the film.

ceadaoin.

Not a kids movie but I was scared of robocop:o

ifritzero

earnest scared stupid , the troll scared me wooden , oh and bill and teds radical journey , when they are in hell was nightmare material .

valoren

The Intro and Theme music to Unsolved Mysteries.

kfallon

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Not a kids movie but I was scared of robocop:o

I was scard shítless of Jaws, anytime the music would start I'd leg it out into the kitchen!

Donkey Oaty

Government ads about safety in the home.

Scared the crap out of me then and still do now.

R P McMurphy

worzel gummage, yuck

Blingy

Darby o'Gill and the little people. That bloody Banshee tormented me for years!!!

Saralee4

ifritzero wrote: »

earnest scared stupid , the troll scared me wooden , oh and bill and teds radical journey , when they are in hell was nightmare material .

haha that reminds me of the ugly granny kiss in bill and ted

kfallon

Blingy wrote: »

Darby o'Gill and the little people. That bloody Banshee tormented me for years!!!

The opening scene in Ghostbusters when the old woman ghost is in the library and asks them to shhhhh......that gave me some fright!

whisky_galore

The Incredible Hunk, when Bill Bixby started going apes*t and turning green.

(btw never actually knew he turned green at the time, we had a b/w telly)

Red Kev

Pat Ingoldsby's "Pats Hat"

Cyborgs in Dr Who

Flying Monkey soldiers on the Wizard of Oz.

Saralee4 wrote: »

4) In Watership Down where some of the rabbits are suffocated in their burrows when the builders come in to start building the houses and when they meet those weird rabbits . Actually that whole movie scared the **** out of me.

Still an upsetting film in many ways.

Saralee4

R P McMurphy wrote: »

worzel gummage, yuck

No joke my granda was the absolute image of worzel gummage, no teeth aswell so he didn't scare me ha

eviltwin

Doctor Who and Knightmare which was a kids show but terrified me at time. Non kids shows would have been Tales of the Unexpected and Sapphire and Steel.

bb1234567

I remember finding the movie Animal Farm really disturbing, especially when the horse was worked to death

daRobot

Stephen Kings 'IT' and the original 'Halloween' were very scary for a ten year old.

Oh yea - was not really for children - but I ended up watching "V" when I was way too young to do so. Used to hide behind the sofa during the peeling the skin off their face scenes. Freaked me out something awful.

gramar

It wasn't for kids and I was about 6 when it was on but some scenes in V
like the one below frightened the shyte out of me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBEIZYCSy5g

Wang King

Hated the oompah loompahs in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...nightmare enducing for me.....
Also Lou Ferrigno in the Incredible Hulk TV series, I never moved so fast in my life when I saw those eyes of Bill Bixby look to the sky as he was about to change

Saralee4

daRobot wrote: »

Stephen Kings 'IT' and the original 'Halloween' were very scary for a ten year old.

its ok you just have to make sure that you don't think of 'IT'

Dog of Tears

Any 'children's' story by Hans Christian Anderson is guaranteed to be as depressing as fcuk. It's pretty much guaranteed to end with everyone dying a miserable and lonely death.

It's great as it prepares children for the never-ending misery of life once they grow up.

FTA69

Riminey Riddle. Utterly terrifying.

Turtyturd

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Government ads about safety in the home.

Scared the crap out of me then and still do now.

There used to be a government ad about a pack of dogs who'd meet up and go around killing sheep...used to scare the sh*t outta me.

The wheelers in return to Oz.

And critters.

Links234

Return to Oz, that **** was terrifying! Legend, Willow, The Dark Crystal, all those wonderful 80's movies that seemed to exist just to scare the **** out of young kids.

The Last Unicorn was pretty scary too,

whisky_galore

Oh yeah 'V' and the Halloween movie where Oirish feckers were trying to take over the world with evil kids' masks.

Duggy747

Who Framed Roger Rabbit when Judge Doom was slowly crushed by the steam roller, stood up all flat, blew himself back up, and then did this:

Steve_Carella

'Candle Cove'. Remember the TV show that kids could see but adults couldn't, even if they were in the room at the same time? The last episode where the girl starts screaming and the puppet just went mental is on YouTube somewhere. Not surprised they whipped it off the air after that!

ROCKMAN

Didn't scare the bejesus out of me but I really hated that red headed little f**ker BOSCO...

And I never trusted that 40 Coats for Wonderly Wagon ,there was just something not right about him......

FunLover18

The bank managers song in Mary Poppins and I also always being really freaked out by 'I love to laugh'. There's somthing very maniacal about laughing while floating around on the ceiling.

Interestingly enough my cousin who's about 5 is at the stage where she's watching all the Disney movies and I was shocked (and appalled) to discover that her parents fat-forward through the 'scary bits'!! Seriously, it's a kids' film!!

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCJMkDhhiX8

Grotbags:(

brevity

I remember seeing The Fisher King when I was younger and it freaked me out for some reason...

Ihatecuddles

My husband couldn't believe I had never seen Ghostbusters, so put it on for me and the 4 year old.

The 4 year old was a bit freaked out after, couldn't believe he thought it was appropriate!

The_Valeyard

Not a kids show,

but remembering watching that nuclear disaster movie 'Threads'

That would give you crazy dreams of the apocalypse.

FunLover18

If we're doing non-kids stuff as well I remember my dad showing me Fargo when I was pretty young. I still have nightmares about that woodchipper.

AudreyHepburn

The Ice Queen from the Moomins scared the living daylights out of me when I was little!

Rainbow Kitty

The music from 'Children Of The Stones' was the most terrifying thing I've ever heard, I watched it lately on YouTube and even now it still scares me.

FunLover18

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

The Ice Queen from the Moomins scared the living daylights out of me when I was little!

****, that reminds me of the Ice Queen in the BBC adaptation of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Wibbs

A 1970's TV series Children of the stones. Made for kids, but well freaky and I doubt it would be aimed at kids today. Some of the British public information films aimed at kids. Like this one. "Lonely water"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk

Well freaky. Donald Pleasance doing the voiceover? And the figure of death himself. Da fuq? *shudder* There was one on the danger of poisons in sheds that was well bloody scary too.

Mesrine65

whisky_galore

There was something unwholesome about a caged carnivorous cabbage on Pat's Chat (or was it Pat's Hat?)

brooke 2

whisky_galore wrote: »

There was something unwholesome about a caged carnivorous cabbage on Pat's Chat (or was it Pat's Hat?)

I hated Alice in Wonderland. Found the whole thing scary!

NoCrackHaving

A Canadian show in the mid-late 90s-Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Absolutely terrified me as a lot of the situations were creepily mundane-objects-masks, cameras that turned out to be evil. It took me 10 years before I ever wore a mask after one of those episodes.

Salvation Tambourine

Roald Dahl's The Witches. The bit in the conference room where they turn into witches, always scared the hell out of me.