Scary moments in movies and tv
 

I was thinking about The Neverending Story last night, and how scary The Gmork was. Which got me thinking about other scary bits of things that I watched as a smaller, younger pennydreadful (a pennylette? a dreadlette?).

So, I'm going to share something that creeped the everliving giblets off me - and still does to this day. Because hey, if my psyche is going to be irreversibly scarred, why shouldn't yours be too? :lol:

This is a song from a children's movie called Dot & The Kangaroo (based on a book of the same name)... I don't know if it's well-known outside of Australia? Apologies for the quality but it's a very old movie and it's hard to find cleaner versions of it that still have decent sound.



I'm going to go ahead and say that this song gets 80% of the credit for why I am extremely creeped out and uncomfortable with:

- the Australian bush
- the outback
- anywhere not heavily inhabited by humans
- groups of trees standing suspiciously close together

EDIT: I made the mistake of watching part of this as I uploaded it and I am in the process of regretting that decision most heartily. Now I sit here, a grown-ass adult, in a brightly lit room in the middle of the day, scared by The Bunyip Song. Curse you, Bunyip Song!!!!

F*ck. I've seen that. I actually like the animation, it'd be cool to see how it was done.

The ending to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. That villain scared me sh*tless when I was younger. (I watched it again recently and loved it, though.)

Those Facehugger and Chestburster scenes in the Alien movies: those still unnerve me to this day. I'm going to watch more of those Behind the Movie Scenes videos.
}:°\

I think it was just a mix of putting animation over the top of live-action shots that they'd filmed on location, though the technical aspects of how they'd actually do that escape me! Movie magic! :lol:

You know, penny, I DO remember that movie, and I remember loving it, but I honestly don't remember the bunyip bit. Mostly, I remember her riding around in the kangaroo's pouch like a joey, LOL!

Noooooooooo!

I remember there was another show of animated retellings of Aboriginal stories, and half of them were deeply unsettling, e.g. a lot of kids being eaten by things.

Another opportunity to post this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...&v=tVV4h38wnMI

Tried youtube-ing it but got an error so if someone wants make it viewable.

:thumbsup:

One of the scariest moments for me in movies was Kiefer Southerland in Eye For an Eye, when he's talking to the main character's little girl in the schoolyard. Since he'd already raped and killed her older sister at the beginning of the movie, it was just really creepy and disturbing for me. The fact that I share the same last name as the family (my maiden name, NOT the one I've mentioned here) it made it even more chilling.

The part where The Judge killed the shoe was pretty dark, I thought.

I'm gonna come out and say that All Dogs Go To Heaven had some really dark, creepy bits in it as well.

Yeah, Christopher Lloyd is just a generally frightening person, in my opinion. Anything he did or said (in that movie especially) was threatening; he was perfect for that role.

I've been meaning to watch All Dogs for a very long time now. Lots of old animated flicks have dark bits. Here's another example:


I love Donald Duck. Always have.

Apparently, he's my other half's gramps..... No, really- his granddad's middle name was Donald. Then again, my hubby's middle initial is "A". "____ A. Duck" I kid you not, LOL!

Oh, and penny, I decided to watch the entire movie of Dot and the Kangaroo last night, since I hadn't seen it in so long. You're right, that scene was creepy. You know, that movie is almost as old as I am, oddly enough. Now I feel really old.....

I've forgotten about CreepShow. There were some unsettling episodes in that series.

Ooh, and Tales from the Dark Side. My personal fave (and one of the most horrific in a twisted way) was Baker's Dozen. So sick....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2gsXv_QXJA

Oh Tales from the Dark side is one my favorite shows.

The Christmas episode was pretty creepy where the grandparents, I think, tell the kids about the Grither. The impending doom and then it actually being real was cool.

So many great episodes in that series. I wanna get the DVD set.

There's the movie The Wanderers, that has a gang called the Ducky Boys, who are large and number, and don't speak. The fact that they don't talk totally perpetuates the creep factor. They're especially creepy when one guy ends up in their neighborhood and tries to escape them. (Don't get this confused with The Warriors, which also features gangs.)

In Ghost, there's the part where these dark figures come out to drag down the ghosts of bad people after they've died.

In The Princess and the Frog, the villain's "death" scene was pretty dang creepy too.

The dead woman in the bath from The Shining scared the poop out of me when I first saw it, and is still burned into my brain. I can't watch it without wincing.

Are we talking Kubrick "Shining", or tv miniseries "Shining"? Because bathtub lady from tv miniseries "Shining" is the ultimate in scary. If you haven't seen it, you've gotta watch it, dude... :o

If it wasn't the dead people in the main lobby or the blood wave flowing out of the elevator scene that had me on edge.. then it was Nicholson chasing the kid through the hedge maze. I know that the kid never gets caught, but that scene was so well done..