Most Horrifying 'Kids Movie' Moments
 

When I was younger, I saw some frighting scenes in movies that were supposed to be appropriate for kids. I would like to know what kids movie moments were deemed horrible by everyone else.

Here's my top 3:

1. Judge Doom's toon transformation and red eyes from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
2. Jim Carrey's green face in "The Mask"
3. Jaffar as a giant cobra in "Aladdin"

Now, I do realize that Roger Rabbit and The Mask are not really kids movies. Roger Rabbit could technically be considered one though.

1) "The Boat Scene" From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Actually, a good chunk of that movie was horrifying to me as a child. Probably why I loved it so much.

2) "Bambi's Mom" Bambi

3) "Near Dead ET" ET
When they finally got around to releasing that movie on VHS I was surprised at how little of the movie I actually remembered. But the image of pasty, near-dead ET in the ziplock baggie lingered.

F*cking Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty. Which part? ALL OF THEM.

The big demon thing from Fantasia is also scary.

I didn't see the boat scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory until recently on YouTube. However, I always wondered why my teacher would fast forward through this scene during a school showing. Now I know why.

Another moment that I just thought of was the villain's final form at the end of FernGully.

My little sister had a crush on that... ew.


1. Pee Wee's big adventure, Large Marge eye's popping out.
2. Peniwise from it, Georgy scene.
3. Does poltergeist count? I was scared of the tree as a kid, my sister was scared of the clown.

Wow, she had a crush on The Mask. That's very surprising.

Yeah, the Large Marge scene is scary, and I think the Poltergeist movie does count because it was rated PG.

I wonder why all of these scenes (with the exception of The Mask) that everyone has mentioned were included in these movies. Were the film makers trying to scare kids on purpose? I think the scenes I mentioned from Aladdin and Roger Rabbit greatly add to the movies, but Roger Rabbit should have been rated PG-13.

The Little Mermaid terrified me for two reasons.

The scene where King Triton destroys her little cache of suface treasures. He just goes ballistic and starts blowing up EVERYTHING. I used to wander from the tv whenever that scene came up... I always felt so bad for Ariel.

And Ursula. She's easily the most hated of all childhood villains. Reason.. because she was Exactly the same as my grandmother. Behavior, voice, looks... The only difference was my grandmother did not have tentacles. I kid you not...

littlefoot's mommy died
bambi's mommy died

Roger Rabbit was a freaky scene.. the voice was the weirdest thing.. I remember Germlins was kinda scary..

This first video proves that a lot of Disney movies have psychotic final battle scenes. If these battles were live action, they would probably be rated PG-13. That's fine, but it might be a bit much for younger viewers, especially when viewed at the theater.

Four epic Disney battles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl2eB...eature=related

Judge Doom reveals his freaky evil eyes and awful voice. Don't watch this before you go to sleep, lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrojCw6amM

Cracked.com has also put together these lists. *possible profanity warning*

http://www.cracked.com/article_16795...deaths_p1.html

http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7...c-kids-movies/

That was the sequel to Germophobia, right?

Um... It and Poltergeist definitely are not children's movies.

-The monster at the end of Howard the Duck
-Beetlejuice turning into that snake thing
-Little Mermaid, the king transforming into that booger thing
-We're Back!, when the villain is devoured by crows(seriously)
-Garbage Pail Kids (just creeped me out)

I know IT isn't a kid's movie but I used to cry a lot just by seeing the cover.

Watership Down, when the rabbit was caught in the snare and started to vomit blood. That was scary for me when I was a child, and I really don't feel like watching it today, because of the lasting impression it left on me.

Another movie that creeped me out was Secret of the NIMH. The whole movie was in dark tones and atmosphere. It's an excellent movie, but a bit too scary and serious for kids.

While not a movie, it was an episode in Highway to Heaven, that left quite an impact. If anyone remembers, it was an episode when a father, his son and dog crash in the mountains, and the dog goes to find help, which happens to be in the form of the angel (Michael Landon) and his sidekick. After they find the family, they find out the dog had died in the crash and it was his ghost trying to save his family. Very upsetting as a child.

I think IT and a number of movies featuring scary clowns and dolls, is a reason why many of us are disturbed by clowns. It started with the clown dragging the kid under the bed in Poltergeist for me. Like, has anyone see the commercial for the Postal Service where the family got a clown doll as a gift, and how creepy that thing looked? Had to laugh at it though!

When I was little, I would watch the Lion King religiously every day, but I'd leave the room when Be Prepared played. I guess I thought it was scary.


And the clown doctors scene in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is still terrifying.

The only scene in a movie that I can remember being wary of was in Beetlejuice at the end when the couple was decaying and the dude's jaw dropped off......I wasn't scared...but I always had to turn away.


All that being said, I am a giant 'fraidy cat when it comes to horror movies. I get nightmares from watching them and avoided them like the plague when I was little

The 'Fireys' in Labyrinth freaked me the hell out as a kid. They pull their own damn heads off for cryin' out loud!

Also, I had Thundercats bed covers, and on one side of the pillowcase was Liono with his sword going across the pillow horizontally, and the two kids with Snarf on the other side. Before going to sleep at night, i'd make sure the pillow was on the Snarf side, as was afraid that Liono's sword would chop my head off when I was asleep...

Return to Oz, for the scene with the heads in the cabinets. That was freaky as hell.

The hag taking her magic eyeball out of her head in The Dark Crystal always grossed me out. I still find it a little sickening.

And, even though I know it wasn't aimed at kids (but they sure had a lot of youngster fans), the librarian ghost transformation in Ghostbusters freaked me out every time 'til I was about 8.
No kidding... Even fantastical utopias aren't safe from domestic violence. Made me sick even more so than when the drunken 'tards were torturing Quasimodo for fun. I mean, at least those were strangers and not trusted family members.
I always found them to be funny. Even though they were psychos who wanted to yank Jennifer Connelly's head off, it was an eye-widening scene but not scary. I guess I just had a hard time getting drawn into any fantasy movie though. Truth be told, they kinda ticked me of until I learned that they aren't really supposed to be reasonable.
The Eye of Thundera would never allow such a thing to happen!

I love that movie! And that part was absolutely terrifying.

lol, yeah that is a funny commercial. I wouldn't want that clown doll either.:D


I also avoid horror movies. They just freak me out. I guess that's what those types of movies are designed to do, but I don't enjoy it.

I haven't been scared by any childrens movies as I can remember, but every weekend I was at my fathers place he'd rent a movie we could watch.
it was most often action flicks (very often Steven Seagal) and one I remember particularly was a "American meets ninja, lives with ninja clan and fights the good ninja's cause"

the last fight scene the hero loses his sword against the more skilled enemy ninja, and the hero grabs a rock and continuously smash it in his foe's face 'til it's smashed. And you could see the disfigurement for each attack. I still remember this today
the restof the movie is forgotten.

Pinocchio. You know the scene.

MOMMAAAAA!!! MOMMAAAAA!!! MOMMAAAA!!!

Garbage Pail Kids.

1. Jabba the Hutt being strangled to death (Return Of The Jedi)
2. The Rancor monster dying emitting that puppy noise (Return Of The Jedi)
3. Ectoplasm (Ghostbusters)
4. Medusa, for the glowing eyes and bad stop motion (Clash Of The Titans)
5. The Dining scene (scarabs, monkey brains, eyeball soup) (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
6. Stepping on bugs (right after the last scene previous) (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)

I can't remember if that is the scene I didn't like or not, but there was a scene or two in Pinocchio that I hated. I'd have to see them again to remember. Alot of others I already saw listed:

Ghostbusters librarian ghost
Gremlins when the main bad one falls in a fountain
Pee Wee Herman...can't remember which scene.
That scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit that everyone else mentioned...I always hated that movie also because I felt so sorry for the little cartoon shoe that got killed in that acid. :lol:
The demondogs in Ghostbusters (the refrigerator scene especially).
Ghostbusters II when Ray got possessed by "Veego" at the end.

I won't lie, I was raised on Godzilla movies to, but there was a scene in Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster where Mechagodzilla breaks the jaw of Anguirus. Then later, he shoots Godzilla in the neck with all these lasers and all this blood starts spraying out all over the camera lens. I could never watch those scenes as a kid.

In the Tom Hanks movie called "Big" there was a creepy fortune teller/genie machine at a carnival where he makes his wish. That thing always terffied me.

I know there are many more movies but for some reason I am drawing a blank at the moment.
Jack

the the Wizard of Oz when the the gang gets attacked by the flying monkeys for the first time, and scarecrow litterly gets torn to pieces. I know he was just straw but that was particularly horrific for me.

Also in the Wizard of Oz where the witch threatens Dorthy and leaves that horriable hour glass with the blood red sand and tells her that when it runs out she'll die. :o

In Bambi when the rival buck challanges Bambi and they fight. It was just the tone transition that gets me. One moment Bambi is frolicking around with the female dear and the music is happy and the colors are bright, then suddenly with no warning that other male dear shows up with his head down to attack and the music becomes ominous and the coloring scheme gets dark.