Childhood Nightmare Fuel
Discussion
Inspired by some recent Youtube videos, does anyone have moments from films or TV shows that utterly terrified them as children? I don't mean horror films that we shouldn't have been watching anyway (like my parents letting me watch An American Werewolf in London and having nightmares for weeks afterwards) but things that were supposed to be for children. I loved Ghostbusters when I was young, still do in fact, but those demon dogs terrified me to the point I'd have to fast forward every scene they were in. Even 30 years on, I wouldn't want a young child watching it. Although every time I see it now I can help but notice one of the arms cops a feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBoNpfrCBtQ
On a similar note, The Neverending Story had a drowning horse and this thing. I think they both explain why I'm a cat person.
Watership Down is something that has traumatised every child who ever watched it, but although the violence was bad enough, the worst part was recounting how their burrow was destroyed. Where he talks about being buried alive and trying to claw past dead bodies still makes me feel uneasy. It's a U-rated fun filled adventure for all the family!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzirfrSn_KQ
But the absolute worst one was The Animals of Farthing Wood, which as one comment points out is like if George R R Martin wrote Zootopia. The mice getting bloodily impaled by the Shrike was bad enough, but to this day I still remember my younger self watching the scene where the hedgehogs get run over, bursting in to tears and my mum frantically trying to come up with an explanation as to why they would have survived it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pypyDDPmIQ
If anything, it's even worse watching it as an adult. He is too terrified to move, so she goes back to him so that they can die together. In a children's cartoon show. I feel like I need to watch Requiem for a Dream or Irreversible just to try and cheer myself up now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBoNpfrCBtQ
On a similar note, The Neverending Story had a drowning horse and this thing. I think they both explain why I'm a cat person.
Watership Down is something that has traumatised every child who ever watched it, but although the violence was bad enough, the worst part was recounting how their burrow was destroyed. Where he talks about being buried alive and trying to claw past dead bodies still makes me feel uneasy. It's a U-rated fun filled adventure for all the family!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzirfrSn_KQ
But the absolute worst one was The Animals of Farthing Wood, which as one comment points out is like if George R R Martin wrote Zootopia. The mice getting bloodily impaled by the Shrike was bad enough, but to this day I still remember my younger self watching the scene where the hedgehogs get run over, bursting in to tears and my mum frantically trying to come up with an explanation as to why they would have survived it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pypyDDPmIQ
If anything, it's even worse watching it as an adult. He is too terrified to move, so she goes back to him so that they can die together. In a children's cartoon show. I feel like I need to watch Requiem for a Dream or Irreversible just to try and cheer myself up now.
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