Did any animated film scare you?

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Since today is Halloween it would be best to talk about terror and fear. And mostly in animated films of course. Now usually a film has a few dark elements but however some have more, but did any of them scare you? When I was a kid I was terrified by Bluth's NIMH. Even at the part when Nickademous talks about how they became smart.
 
I don't really remember being scared per se, but I do remember the part of Pinnochio where Lampwick turns into a donkey pretty freaky.
 
The only thing in an animated film that I remember being afraid of as a kid were some of the Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine, especially the Snapping Turks and the Nazis with snake heads for hands. To update that, they're funny to me now.

As far as being weirded out by a animated movie, nothing compares to Raggedy Ann and Andy:A Musical Adventure (1977). This was movie was the animated equivalent of an LCD trip. The animation and the visual effects were just plain freaky! Especially The Greedy, King Coo-Coo and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees' "We're going home!" freak outs.
 
The Plague Dogs did it for me. Nothing like a movie about dogs being experimented on to scar you for life. Come to find out years later, it's from the same crowd that worked on Watership Down. It all makes sense now.

....:sad:
 
That hieroglyphic nightmare in "The Prince of Egypt" still scares me to this very day. I know it's telling a story, (Pharaoh of Egypt gives the order to kill all male infants of the Israelites) but it's such an eerie scene.
 
I remember I found that "Mouse of Minsk" (from An American Tale) pretty freaky as a kid. Oh, and lots of scenes from Disney's Pinocchio!
 
yea, I remember Jafar's genie form scared me as a kid, also the Secret of NIMH & rock-a-doodle scared me when I was a kid. Don't know why, they just did. Of course nowadays I enjoy NIMH & just plain hate rockadoodle.
 
I actually found The Nightmare before Christmas a tad scary the first time I saw it. Maybe not scary per say, but queer. It was the first stop-motion animation I ever saw, and so the jointed movements mixed in with the eerie characters did leave an effect. It doesn't bother me now, but the first time I saw it, I was a little weirded out.
 
The Garfield Halloween special scared me as a kid and still unnerves me somewhat today. I guess because malevolent ghosts just seem out of place in a show like that.

And this

I just watched it again, I could have sworn the ghosts chase Garfield back home, but I guess my memory of the book version blended in with it.
 
when I was younger, I was scarred of Aliens, so that episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns wandered through the forest and everyone though he was an Alien was frightening to me...
 
Yeah, but it was a weird one, and not a movie meant to be spooky. My grandma had HBO, and once they showed Ralph Bakshi's "Hey Good Lookin'". It's about 1950s Brooklyn street gangs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Good_Lookin'_(film)

The racial stereotypes, the violence and the sexual content freaked me out a bit, especially a part near the end where one of the characters, Crazy Shapiro, lives up to his name and starts firing randomly and touching off a street gang war while hallucinating about giant naked women and other things.
 
Truly scared? Can't think of any right off. But, just as one example that springs to mind, I did think The Batman vs. Dracula achieved some genuinely creepy images (like vampire Joker's first appearance before the nurse at the blood bank, his reflection in the test tubes as Batman stalks him, and his eerie bathing in the waterfall of blood from the overturned racks of blood viles) and a good generally "scary" vibe.
 
The last thirty (actually live-action) seconds of the mostly-animated film Waltz With Bashir are horrifying, though not in a Halloween-y sense at all.

Of non-documentary movies, Perfect Blue and The End of Evangelion are among the most twisted and disturbing.
 
Nothing really comes to mind, except I do seem to recall there being a good scare in The Great Mouse Detective. I saw it in the theater and to recall a moment where one of Ratigan's henchmen lunges out from under a sheet or something as a character approaches it, facing right into the camera, and I remember it giving me a good jump. Haven't seen it in years, though, so I may no be entirely sure.


I've read that that extra bit at the end was included on the original and subsequent broadcasts, but was not included in some later airings and on the DVD. I think I still have an old broadcast recorded on VHS somewhere, but it's buried away. I'll get around to checking it one of these days.
 
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