Nightmare Fuel in Cartoons

The Nightmare Before Christmas - When Oogie Boogie loses his "skin" which reveals his whole body was made off the bugs he has eaten. That really freaks me out...:sweat:
 
I had this anime version of the Wizard of Oz on video when I was a kid. Here's a clip from it. The scene starting at about 4:40 scared the living crap out of me and fueled my fear of the dark for years.
 
I've never really had nightmares about cartoons but I've had some cartoon shows scare me.

Hey Arnold - The Haunted Train episode and Four-Eyed Jack episode. Both episodes scared me a little bit when I was younger. In the Haunted Train episode seeing the ghost in front of the train near the end the episode scared me. In the Four-Eyed Jack episode when the windows in the kitchen blow open and the wind blows the newspapers into almost like a tornado and you can see a face that's made up of the newspapers.

Courage the Cowardly Dog - The Heads of Beef episodes. The episode really freaked me out when I first saw it and I was around 9 or 10 at the time. The music in the episode scared me some too, it made more intense and memorable.
 
Dino was infected with the so-called Dino-Peptic germ. I remember seeing that creepy thing in Dino in the x-ray. Now, I was only about seven or eight at the time so it may not scare me today, but it sure kept me up that night!
 
Greatest example of nightmare fuel for me is the Nickelodeon "Pinchface" bumper. This 10-second trip scared me so much as a kid, I used to hide in safe corners during every commercial break on Nick. This bump has traumatized me throughout my life, probably because it scares me right on the first millisecond and continues to mentally whack me throughout.

Here's the link: http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/628/
You were warned.
 
Randomly, I remembered this last night when I went to bed and it disturbed me.

Back in the early 90's, The Adventures of Tintin had a cartoon series running on HBO, and since I usually didn't have that channel, I only caught a few random episodes in hotel rooms when I was traveling.

One episode had this old rich businessman-looking guy who wanted this cursed gem from some aztec temple and finally got it. TinTin and a bunch of other people were trying to warn him about the curse, and he wouldn't listen. So they all pitched tent at the guy's house to try to keep him safe one night (I guess it was one of those one-night full moon curses.)

While everybody was asleep, some decayed mummy in aztec jewelry quietly sneaks in through a window, tiptoes into the guy's room and steals his soul, then disappears back out the window with the gem. After hearing shouting, everybody runs to his room to find the guy dead.

It creeps me out to this day, because of how subtle and decayed-looking the thing was. Think Re-Dead from Zelda with gold jewelry.
 
I remember when I first saw that one The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode with Sandy Duncan where a ghost comes out from behind a bridge it scared me so much that I had a nightmare about where the ghost from the episode comes out of nowhere and scares me.
 
That's the same thing I posted earlier in the topic.



I have to say, not many other cartoons were able to scare me after I'd seen a little a girl's eyes melt out of her face.
 
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