Things in movies and TV shows that scared you as a kid

[Paul]

I don't mean horror movies because that's too obvious.

I mean things in things aimed at kids and families that aired on TV or came out in movie theaters that scared you when you were a kid when you were otherwise enjoying whatever it was.

I have two examples:

1. The scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Judge Doom grabs the cartoon shoe (which is basically given the personality of a cute, precocious kitten) and coldly drowns it in a vat of Dip (which is something like sulfuric acid to Toons) to demonstrate the effects of Dip to Eddie and Roger. FUN FACT: The shoe was voiced by Nancy Cartwright.

2. The scene in Short Circuit 2 where the bad guys beat the snot out of Johnny 5 with a baseball bat and leave him for dead. This scene was really intense because they played the whole thing straight.

How about you guys? What scenes made you go from having a great time to terrified?

[the2ndevil]

Judge Doom post toon reveal terrified me to the point I did not want to watch beyond that point.

[DiBiase is Good]

The opening of the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The melted faces are pretty scary but the scene where that Angel’s face changed to a face of death.. f*** that!
How is it still a PG?

[Paul]

Nov 26, 2019 2:16:34 GMT -5 the2ndevil said:

Judge Doom post toon reveal terrified me to the point I did not want to watch beyond that point.

Completely understandable!

[mcmahonfan85]

ET screaming and running away from the feds at the start of the movie

[Cvslfc123]

The Coachman's face when he said "They never come back as boys" in the Disney version of Pinocchio, he literally turned into the Devil.

[Joe Neglia]

I watched Poltergeist at the age of 6. Nothing in that film really bothered me (even the clown) except that f'ing tree. We had one just like it in my backyard, and it's shadow would always plant itself on my wall at night.

[arrogantmodel]

The wicked witch of the west. Not her, but her loud pyro entrance. She was like f***ing Kane 60 years earlier.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I think I was 7 or 8. Gave me nightmares. The rest of the movie was fine, but not the raptors in the kitchen.

[The Ichi]

I didn't see that Short Circuit 2 beatdown scene until the Nostalgia Critic review and that still messed me up. It's like the director got sick that day and Scorcese snuck in to replace him.

[thechase]

The opening titles of Knight Rider.

Don't you dare come crashing through the telly and run me over KITT buddy

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

I have no idea how young I was but I was at a Family Gathering and Temple of Doom was on.

And yup. It was that scene near the climax where homeboy takes other homeboys heart. I remember it being so graphic. And I believed it. I’m pretty sure I had (had? Haha) trouble distinguishing movies from reality, so I utterly believed it.
I thought somehow that shit was feasible and remember feeling my own heart pounding. It was a very visceral, very horrifying moment I always vividly recall. The truly horrifying aspect was that he was still alive despite looking at his heart. Even saying this brings me right back to that moment haha..

Ended up loving Indy and Temple of Doom later.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

When the Witches revealed themselves in The Witches.

"You may remove your wigs!"

[genericusername]

That one jumpscare involving a little girl in that one courage the cowardly dog episode, made me stay up all night.

[James Fabiano]

I have to start it off with the obvious...

THE SCREEN GEMS S FROM HELL.

I wasn't afraid of the Viacom logos, nor of other usual suspects (the '70s Lorimar logo, any of the Paramount logos of the 70s and 80s -- well, MOST, etc. etc.). But I totally agree about the fear of the SFH. I couldn't watch Jeannie, Bewitched, etc. etc...even Flintstone reruns cause all of them retained the logo at the time in syndicated reruns.

It cannot be a coincidence that Quentin Tarantino put a soundbite of it in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood...when someone is watching TV ON THE MANSON COMPOUND.


Logos that did scare me? The Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies "twanging" WB Shield of all things. The A.A.P. ident they stuck on the beginning of Popeye and LT shorts on TV. Thames Television (only cause the first few notes sounded like the SFH jingle, as did...) The Colex Enterprises logo.

I didn't fear the "closet killer" Paramount Television logo from the early '70s, but found the one that used the fast "blue mountain" jingle weird.

EDIT: And now I found an older thread with more of my entries. officialfan.proboards.com/thread/494377/silly-scared-kid?page=4

[karl100589]

This guy.

[thatloser]

There was a documentary series on ITV (I think) in the uk, which I think was called Infested that aired in the early to min 2000's and aired around five or six in the evening (Looking for it all I can find is an American show with the same title that started in 2011, way after I saw this). In one episode it told and reenacted the story of a rat coming up the toilet and biting a women's bum as she was using it. For years after I saw that I couldn't sit on any toilet, I would instead hover above while looking down and checking nothing was there.

[Perpetual Nirvana]

Vera getting turned into a robot in Superman III.

The Lou Ferrigno Incredible Hulk.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Phantom of the Paradise, two scenes: when Beef debuts inside the coffin, and the finale where Paul Williams’ face looks like it’s ready for the grill and some BBQ basting.

Also, Robocop when Boddicker and co. shoot up Murphy, and Emil getting mutated.

[ERON]

I recently mentioned this in another thread, but I saw a couple of random scenes from Poltergeist one time when I was around 5 or 6, and they freaked me out so badly I refused to watch another horror movie until I was in my 20s, save for a few old Dracula and Frankenstein movies.

The Lou Ferrigno Hulk scared the crap out of me. The first superhero comic I ever got was a Spider-Man comic in which the Hulk showed up for a guest appearance, and I immediately closed the comic and refused to touch another superhero comic until I was in my teens, sticking instead to Disney comics and the like.

KISS used to scare me, too. I hated visiting my aunt and uncle as a kid because my parents would always send me to go play Atari with my cousin in her room, which was covered in KISS posters.