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

Links234 · 03-02-2015 12:17PM

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 · 03-02-2015 12:17PM

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

Duggy747 · 03-02-2015 12:19PM

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 · 03-02-2015 12:58PM

'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 · 03-02-2015 01:03PM

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 · 03-02-2015 01:06PM

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 · 03-02-2015 01:08PM

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

Grotbags:(

brevity · 03-02-2015 01:12PM

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

Ihatecuddles · 03-02-2015 01:19PM

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 · 03-02-2015 01:20PM

Not a kids show,

but remembering watching that nuclear disaster movie 'Threads'

That would give you crazy dreams of the apocalypse.

FunLover18 · 03-02-2015 01:21PM

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 · 03-02-2015 01:22PM

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

Rainbow Kitty · 03-02-2015 01:27PM

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 · 03-02-2015 01:30PM

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 · 03-02-2015 01:32PM

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 · 03-02-2015 01:34PM

whisky_galore · 03-02-2015 01:36PM

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

brooke 2 · 03-02-2015 01:46PM

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 · 03-02-2015 02:00PM

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 · 03-02-2015 02:17PM

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

Saralee4 · 03-02-2015 02:30PM

didn't really scare me as such but The Labyrinth was a very dark movie. I haven't read the book. The relationship between 15/16 year old Sarah (Jennifer Connolly) and a much older Jareth (David Bowie) was icky. They kind of suggest that he had romantic interest in her and it was kind of like a controlling abusive relationship!

ifritzero · 03-02-2015 02:36PM

NoCrackHaving wrote:

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.

NoCrackHaving wrote:

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

I think that's goosebumps

WoollyRedHat · 03-02-2015 02:42PM

The Demon Headmaster, guy was **** scary.

Somecrimesitry · 03-02-2015 02:52PM

A show called Fox Tales scared me to bits when I was 7 or 8. I wonder why it only ran for one series though? Oh yeah, now I remember:

Dark & shadowy...check.
Sinister start & end...check.
Creepy voice overs...check.
Terrifying puppets...check.

Overall undercurrent to an 8 year old...kill it...kill it with fire before it gets you!!!

.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6H2FYmLFqv_H6oV-V9yqVHDAAUYaapiw

foxy farmer · 03-02-2015 02:52PM

RTE had a childrens tv series back in the 80s called The Nargun and the Stars. Based on Aboriginal folklore. There was a water dwelling creature called the Potkoorook in it who was weird. Ugly as fook and could spit water. I was convinced every night he crawled out from under the bed and was lurking under the shelf for my bedside lamp. Would be shaking in the bed.
Would love to see it again.
V was fairly frightening too.

Somecrimesitry · 03-02-2015 03:04PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

RTE had a childrens tv series back in the 80s called The Nargun and the Stars. Based on Aboriginal folklore. There was a water dwelling creature called the Potkoorook in it who was weird. Ugly as fook and could spit water. I was convinced every night he crawled out from under the bed and was lurking under the shelf for my bedside lamp. Would be shaking in the bed.
Would love to see it again.
V was fairly frightening too.

Was trying to think of that one. Never knew what the show was called before. The little cave creature was horrifying and I seem to remember rocks moving around by themselves...nightmarish stuff.

AgileMyth · 03-02-2015 03:08PM

I was always scared by how easily Harry got away with killing his teacher in the first Harry Potter movie.

He has magic powers and a taste for murder, it'll never end well.

Kim Lardassian · 03-02-2015 03:10PM

brevity wrote: »

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

Me too - Brilliant movie but it freaked me right out. I remember after a really heavy weekend having a sort of sleep paralysis type thing going on where one of the horsemen from the fisher king came into my room and started circling my bed. I Flipped!!!

Wizbit scared the bejaysus out of me, as did Paul Daniels and his creepy wife Debbie.

Wasn't Worzel Gummidge's biggest fan and Aunt Sally was hardly a barrel of laughs either!

The stouts in Who framed Roger Rabbit gave me re-occurring nightmares too.

BeerWolf · 03-02-2015 03:16PM

There are absolutely loads of creepy things that you don't often see now a days, as a child...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqi5F5MqqTQ

But of recent note, that film Coraline is freaky as hell for a kid's film!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q1J1iDP_ZA

Kim Lardassian · 03-02-2015 03:19PM

Wibbs wrote: »

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.

Just watched the clip at work... yikes.. his voice is so creepy. There's a horrible undercurrent of benevolence to the 'lesson' he's trying to convey. Show off's should be punished and fools should die! That is seriously creepy!

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

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