Scenes as a child that you found horrifying in non-horror movies.
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Time for some freaky junkyard magnets!EHKOS said:
god, I will always love this movie
I highly recommend playing it if you got a chance. It's a great survival horror game with some interesting gameplay, and the story and characters still hold up well today. If you've got a PS3 it's available on PSNchickenhound said:
(I have since looked up and viewed the whole trailer, it appears to be a pretty interesting game. kinda obscure now as it was an M rated horror from the time before there was really a market for them..)
Fortunately, I think I was a lot more sheltered in terms of seeing messed up shit than some of you guys. I recall in particular the scene when Stanley first puts on the Mask in the movie as something that shook me up when I was a kid. You're stunned and not sure what the hell is happening, and your mind starts filling in the blanks with horrifying imagery that was never really shown on the screen. I had to stop watching right there, and it wasn't until I tried the film again when I was a year older that I realised it was all in my head.
I think lots of stuff can be terrifying when you're young. I recognise some of these examples, such as the Willy Wonka tunnel, and I recall the T Rex in The Land Before Time being really scary. I saw Watership Down and The Animals of Farthing Wood, though the only thing remember in them is being distinctly dark in mood and tone, and nothing in particular stuck with me.
Also; dear god, that old woman in the Robin Hood film. I grew up watching the VHS video of the classic old style Robin Hood film with that incredibly epic sword fight. I was like "when I'm a grown up, these fights in films are what I want to do."
So when I saw another, newer Robin Hood film playing on the TV, I flicked over to it to check it out; and that scene with the old woman was about 2 minutes into where I joined the film. Never went near the thing since.
I'm glad I grew up with my mother rather than my father on this topic. My mother tried to contain unsettling stuff from reaching my eyes, while my dad generally didn't give a fuck. He has a young daughter who's wailed in many a cinema audience with the stuff he's sometimes taken her to see. He told me he once took her to see The Dark Knight expecting to see "biff!s and pow!s" and had to leave the theatre with her wailing with an imprint in her mind of the Joker threatening people with knives in their mouths.
I think lots of stuff can be terrifying when you're young. I recognise some of these examples, such as the Willy Wonka tunnel, and I recall the T Rex in The Land Before Time being really scary. I saw Watership Down and The Animals of Farthing Wood, though the only thing remember in them is being distinctly dark in mood and tone, and nothing in particular stuck with me.
Also; dear god, that old woman in the Robin Hood film. I grew up watching the VHS video of the classic old style Robin Hood film with that incredibly epic sword fight. I was like "when I'm a grown up, these fights in films are what I want to do."
So when I saw another, newer Robin Hood film playing on the TV, I flicked over to it to check it out; and that scene with the old woman was about 2 minutes into where I joined the film. Never went near the thing since.
I'm glad I grew up with my mother rather than my father on this topic. My mother tried to contain unsettling stuff from reaching my eyes, while my dad generally didn't give a fuck. He has a young daughter who's wailed in many a cinema audience with the stuff he's sometimes taken her to see. He told me he once took her to see The Dark Knight expecting to see "biff!s and pow!s" and had to leave the theatre with her wailing with an imprint in her mind of the Joker threatening people with knives in their mouths.
There was a scene in the original Charlie & the Chocolate Factory where a girl eats something she's not supposed to and she turns purple and swells up like a balloon. I wouldn't give it a second thought now but as a youngster it freaked me out.
I just looked it up. That's the 1968 version, and it was a musical of all things. A musical! What twisted bastard came up with that brilliant idea??? I understand it's in the book, it couldn't be avoided, but something about that scene was just pure awfulness. I recall being attracted to Nancy as a kid, but even after her end I don't think I truly grasped the concept of death; just the general idea that I didn't want to watch musicals.DatedSandwich said:
pretty much all of Mars Attacks. I know now it's supposed to be a funny movie but as a kid all I saw was people being evaporated .
Right, that too. This kind of thing is the reason why the transporter is the one bit of Trek-tech that needs to be invented the least. (There's also the thing about how a transporter wouldn't really transport you; it would use the atoms at your destination to make an identical copy of you, while simultaneously destroying the original you. So if you got into this thing, you'd be committing suicide, but nobody would ever know it.)thaluikhain said:
Jurassic Park frightened me...when I was 4. I don't remember the incident, but I was told I ran screaming when the dinosaurs roared, along with my brother. That being said, I loved dinosaurs throughout my childhood.
I also watched a whole bunch of Fairy Tales, which often had a wolf running around in the forest after the kid protagonist. As I never wanted to be hunted by a wolf, I unfortunately never explored the vast wilderness that was my backyard. Sad, now that I think about it. I really wished I had a sense of adventure...
Not a movie, but still a horrifying scene from a game that wasn't that scary:
It made me want to curl up and hide.
I also remember watching G4, and the seeing a trailer for Bioshock, when the Big Daddy's drill went through the protagonists' hand...emerging on the other side. That was pretty fucked up, especially as a 6th grader or whatnot. I still feel queezy about it, as, I mean, A DRILL WENT THROUGH HIS HAND!
I also watched a whole bunch of Fairy Tales, which often had a wolf running around in the forest after the kid protagonist. As I never wanted to be hunted by a wolf, I unfortunately never explored the vast wilderness that was my backyard. Sad, now that I think about it. I really wished I had a sense of adventure...
Not a movie, but still a horrifying scene from a game that wasn't that scary:
It made me want to curl up and hide.
I also remember watching G4, and the seeing a trailer for Bioshock, when the Big Daddy's drill went through the protagonists' hand...emerging on the other side. That was pretty fucked up, especially as a 6th grader or whatnot. I still feel queezy about it, as, I mean, A DRILL WENT THROUGH HIS HAND!
Not to mention the host of other problems. If something went wrong with the transporter, and just one gram of matter wasn't converted back from energy...one gram of matter has about the same amount of energy as a 22 kiloton nuclear device.dreadedcandiru99 said:
My dad was a big fan of the Dark Crystal - I certainly had beef with it. The main character was frightening, forgetting about all the BAD guys in that movie, the setting was grim and I nope'd on off to Screwthatmovie Town for SEVERAL years. I finally got up the courage to face those demons when I saw it on Netflix about a year ago - THEY HAD A SOUL SUCKING MACHINE. I frowned considerably, realizing just why I was afraid, but it wasn't QUITE as bad as I remembered.
Also Judge Doom had ME hiding behind a couch for the better half of my childhood. That stuff wasn't okay with me.
Honourable mentions include that clown from the Brave Little Toaster and the X-Files theme
Also Judge Doom had ME hiding behind a couch for the better half of my childhood. That stuff wasn't okay with me.
Honourable mentions include that clown from the Brave Little Toaster and the X-Files theme
Weird fetishes? I thought I had heard of some of the weirder kinks out there, but this really blows it all out of the water.Novaova said: