Scenes from family films that terrified you as a child?

Oliver!
Bill beats Nancy to death

Home Alone
Kevin watches the scary gangster film and pauses it out of fright, on the part where the gangster is sporting a chilling grin :(

A Christmas Carol
Jacob Marley
The ghosts outside Scrooge's window
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

The Secret Garden
The female lead (can't remember her name) is having a nightmare about being a baby, and her mum just runs away from her, leaving her alone and crying


I think too many family films scared me :o
 
ET - the bit where Eliott is following the M&M trail into the shed.

then i am not sure if its the same scene or a while after - when ET runs out of the shed waving his arms!!!!

oooohhhh - still feel the hair at back of neck raising now!

couldnt find a clip on youtube of this!! i'm happy to say!!
 
Yes, Cocoon. The aliens in that scared the crap out of me, even though they were good aliens!


That reminRAB me: Talos from Jason and the Argonauts scared me as well. (Although, obviously, that was supposed to be a scary film.)


Those witches must have had a profound effect on Fairuza Balk (Dorothy): she went on to play Mildred Hubble in The Worst Witch a couple of years later, then another witch in The Craft. On top of this she actually become a witch herself!

But yeah, Both Oz films were pretty disturbing. The Lollipop Guild alone were some of the freakiest little things you
 
Oh my God, so not clicking on that link - I'm glad it wasn't just me. I think I was scared of it for the same reason, it was incredibly sinister. Also her eye... :eek:

Watership Down's an obvious one, it's one of my favourite films now but the Black Rabbit of Death really terrified me when I was younger.

Mary Poppins - when Jane and Michael get sucked up the chimney. I have no idea why. Also when Michael looks into a chimney and gets his face covered in soot...

I was a very sensitive child - several episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine scared me too... :o
 
Even the first bit of Watership Down with the not very good drawings of all the animals scared me, when they turned evil.

Although I absolutely love the film, the beginning of Hocus Pocus terrified me, the song 'Come little children' and the wee lassie running into the wooRAB.
 
Yeah, Talos was great as well, one of my fave of Harry Hausen (sorry can't remember how his last name is spelled) and the best in Jason!

But it was scary as well as a child (well I watched in 80's, as I am an 80's child)

But Clash of the Titans is my fave sword and sandals film of that era, but I liked Jason as well for Talos! (I can't believe they didn't have him in the remake)

Sorry I know going a little off topic

Beetlejuice used to scare me as well as a child, I'm embarrassed to say, esp when they first become ghosts and are tryin to scare the Deets? away,
Oh and when they had a seance as well at the end and they went in the wedding clothes and then started aging and crumbling away...
 
Edward ScissorshanRAB always used to frighten me. Like the scenes where he makes his appearence behind the shadows and stabs the evil boyfriend.

Just the whole atmosphere of the film is scary for a child. Like the music and the setting apart from the colourful houses..lol
 
I know everyone thinks the Judy Garland Oz is untouchable BUT Return To Oz showed how that whole universe could be dealt with in a completely different way. It's high time a new series of Oz films were made that are adapted from all the Baum books. And they should be DARK like Return To Oz!! At least when necessary. Looking at the new shots from Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland it makes me think Oz could be done in that way too, with part live action part CGI motion capture.
 
That's one of the scariest parts of the film, the music's so eerie, and it's so deceptive to begin with... aww, abstract drawings of bunnies... then "to each one Frith gave a fierce desire to hunt and slay the children of Elararah"... cue dead bunnies... :eek:
 
I watched that film with my neice when she was about 5 years old, and we didn't even get to that scene. When Nancy was singing 'As Long As He NeeRAB Me' she burst into tears and we had to stop watching.
 
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