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My First Fright The first scary movie I saw wasn't really scary, but the circumstances surrounding it made it so. What are your first unlikely scary movies?
Beneath the Planet of the Apes, the very last scene.
posted by billsaysthis at 2:30 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by billsaysthis at 2:30 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
"There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh!
Not a speck of light is showing..."
posted by clavdivs at 2:37 PM on October 30, 2022 [11 favorites]
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh!
Not a speck of light is showing..."
posted by clavdivs at 2:37 PM on October 30, 2022 [11 favorites]
One of my earliest vague memories is of seeing Pinocchio in Outer Space in theater! I can't have been much more than four or five, and it freaked me out. I distinctly remember starting to cry and waking up my dad, who had fallen asleep in the theater next to me.
posted by daisystomper at 2:38 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by daisystomper at 2:38 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
When I was three or so, I was at a family friend's house and there was a movie I wasn't supposed to be peeking at. In it, there was a lady taking a shower, and then a clown appeared in the shower. He had a long rubber nose, and he poked it into the lady's belly button while she screamed and screamed.
Whatever this was, I'm gonna guess that "scary" was not exactly what it was supposed to be.
posted by Countess Elena at 2:50 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Whatever this was, I'm gonna guess that "scary" was not exactly what it was supposed to be.
posted by Countess Elena at 2:50 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
When I was 3 or 4, the back half of Fantasia from The Rites of Spring sequence (NOT the dinosaur cartoon I expected) to Night on Bald Mountain worked me up to such a state of terror that by the time ghosts started heeding Chernagog's summons to dance before him Night on Bald Miuntain, I was screaming and crying with such force that my parents were asked by the people in the car next to us at the drive-in we were at to take me out of there, as I was frightening their older, presemably-more-used-to-this-sort-of-thing children.
posted by KingEdRa at 3:04 PM on October 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by KingEdRa at 3:04 PM on October 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
the weekly cliffhangers in the ‘60s batman tv series scared the bejeezus out of 4/5 year old me. i recall my father declaring that we were no longer watching that show anymore. it made me sad to have it taken away, even though i was being traumatized. to this day, there are scenes from that campy batman show that give me a visceral goosebumpy reaction.
posted by bruceo at 3:13 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by bruceo at 3:13 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
I watched Mutiny on the Bounty at maybe age 7 in a theater. The scense of guys getting keel hauled really frightened me. I ended up tearing the bottom out of my soda cup and watching it through the limited diameter of the cup. Somehow that limited the suffering I was watching.
posted by jcworth at 3:16 PM on October 30, 2022 [6 favorites]
posted by jcworth at 3:16 PM on October 30, 2022 [6 favorites]
I was probably seven or eight and I spent several weeks terrified after Alien. No, not the movie. The MAD Magazine parody. The movie was so scary that the scary propagated through a total medium-and-genre shift.
posted by sixswitch at 3:20 PM on October 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by sixswitch at 3:20 PM on October 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
Daisystomper, it’s funny you say Pinocchio in Outer Space at age 4 or 5, because I was just coming in here to say the original Pinocchio, when I was 5, in an after school presentation by the elementary school librarian.
That thing where if you talk to strangers they will kidnap you and turn you into a donkey? I was scared of that for a long, long time.
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 3:23 PM on October 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
That thing where if you talk to strangers they will kidnap you and turn you into a donkey? I was scared of that for a long, long time.
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 3:23 PM on October 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
The "sound of music". I was 6 years old and had nooo idea what it was about; confusing and scary without any context or following discussion. It was the first movie I ever saw; twas a grand family outing to go see the initial showing in our area and my folks hadn't even told me what we were going to do (I thought it was going to be like watching my dance class recital when we went into a theater..) I haven't liked movies since then, so I was tainted for life....
posted by mightshould at 3:32 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by mightshould at 3:32 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
A part of my core childhood trauma is that my (frequently absent) parents had the mistaken belief that animated cartoon= appropriate for children, and an adequate substitute for a baby sitter... As a result, I saw The Black Cauldron, Watership Down, The Secret of Nimh, The Plague Dogs and Heavy Metal, all at a very precocious age. Also Monster Squad.
And of course, I'll never forget my father's review of The Transformers Movie: "Never have I experienced so many young boys all bawling and weeping at once as when I took you to see that movie.".
posted by LeRoienJaune at 3:33 PM on October 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
And of course, I'll never forget my father's review of The Transformers Movie: "Never have I experienced so many young boys all bawling and weeping at once as when I took you to see that movie.".
posted by LeRoienJaune at 3:33 PM on October 30, 2022 [5 favorites]
I second three of these.
Watership Down is definitely one of the scariest movie experiences I had as a child, but it's hard to say whether that's intention or not on the part of the film. Still adore the book, which is scary in a different, and perhaps more pleasing way.
Transformers was bewildering to me because I went from watching a cartoon where no one ever died, to a movie where not only did nearly EVERYONE die, but some robots rusted to death in a horrdenous way while others experienced crisis of conscience and leadership I had no way of processing at that tender age.
Secret of Nimh remains too frightening to watch as a grown man, probably related to the tie-in book I had of it that only underscored the brutality of what the main mother mouse character had to go through.
posted by jordantwodelta at 3:36 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Watership Down is definitely one of the scariest movie experiences I had as a child, but it's hard to say whether that's intention or not on the part of the film. Still adore the book, which is scary in a different, and perhaps more pleasing way.
Transformers was bewildering to me because I went from watching a cartoon where no one ever died, to a movie where not only did nearly EVERYONE die, but some robots rusted to death in a horrdenous way while others experienced crisis of conscience and leadership I had no way of processing at that tender age.
Secret of Nimh remains too frightening to watch as a grown man, probably related to the tie-in book I had of it that only underscored the brutality of what the main mother mouse character had to go through.
posted by jordantwodelta at 3:36 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
"On this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building..."
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:43 PM on October 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:43 PM on October 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
My parents went to the movies every Saturday night and always took me along. Didn't matter what was playing, they picked whatever was new and interesting and that's what we saw. I suppose a kid's ticket was cheaper than a babysitter.
When I was six I saw Ken Russell's Tommy. Starring the Who and Elton John and Ann-Margret and etc etc. That movie is all kinds of fucked up to begin with (baked beans, anyone?) but then it got to Tina Turner's Acid Queen number.
Holy. Shit. How was a 6 year-old supposed to know that was a metaphor for being a junkie? What was that doing in a movie at all?
I had nightmares for a year after that.
Ironically I got a job in the pinball business about 20 years later. My parents would tell people that it was because they took me to see Tommy as a kid and all I could say in my head was uh, no *fucking* way.
posted by mookoz at 4:00 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
When I was six I saw Ken Russell's Tommy. Starring the Who and Elton John and Ann-Margret and etc etc. That movie is all kinds of fucked up to begin with (baked beans, anyone?) but then it got to Tina Turner's Acid Queen number.
Holy. Shit. How was a 6 year-old supposed to know that was a metaphor for being a junkie? What was that doing in a movie at all?
I had nightmares for a year after that.
Ironically I got a job in the pinball business about 20 years later. My parents would tell people that it was because they took me to see Tommy as a kid and all I could say in my head was uh, no *fucking* way.
posted by mookoz at 4:00 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
The movie that scared the crap out of me as a child was, unfortunately, Horror Express. I was seven.
Den Of Geek Review:
I spoilered the description of the film because it's too graphic for a thread about scary kids' movies.
My mom wasn't really good at picking appropriate movies, protecting her kids from harm, or, well, parenting.
posted by MrVisible at 4:02 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Den Of Geek Review:
This flick is a Hammer film in all but name, featuring both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in a tale that could have easily been retitled Monster On A Train. Lee is transporting a frozen and crated ‘missing link’ specimen with him across the continent. As the locomotive barrels down the trans-Siberian express, the Manchurian creature-in-a-crate breaks loose and, quite naturally, goes on a murderous rampage. The neat trick is that it causes its victims’ eyes to boil in their sockets, turning the orbs opaque white and gush red blood from their tear ducts. Delicious!
I spoilered the description of the film because it's too graphic for a thread about scary kids' movies.
My mom wasn't really good at picking appropriate movies, protecting her kids from harm, or, well, parenting.
posted by MrVisible at 4:02 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
I was nine when I went to see Moonraker, the James Bond film that has a reputation for being the most ludicrous and campy of the entire series.
That might be, but this frickin' scene where the villain sends his Dobermans after his secretary after she betrays him, terrified the everlovin' crap out of me. I just watched it again, and yup, still terrifying.
posted by jeremias at 4:15 PM on October 30, 2022
That might be, but this frickin' scene where the villain sends his Dobermans after his secretary after she betrays him, terrified the everlovin' crap out of me. I just watched it again, and yup, still terrifying.
posted by jeremias at 4:15 PM on October 30, 2022
It's a tangent because it wasn't my first scary experience, but the mentions of Tommy and Willy Wonka in this thread have reminded me that I once had a medium-grade fever and made the rookie mistake of watching them both back-to-back while lying on the couch.
While I lay there,. letting the horror wash over me and making intermittent "Uhhh" noises, my loving, caring wife, my rock and my support, leaned down into my field of view and tenderly said "I told you not to watch, dumbass".
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 4:26 PM on October 30, 2022 [7 favorites]
While I lay there,. letting the horror wash over me and making intermittent "Uhhh" noises, my loving, caring wife, my rock and my support, leaned down into my field of view and tenderly said "I told you not to watch, dumbass".
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 4:26 PM on October 30, 2022 [7 favorites]
Silent Running. Brrrrrrr. Existential dread.
posted by evilmomlady at 4:50 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by evilmomlady at 4:50 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
For me it was David Lynch's "Eraserhead". Though I *was* in college at the time.
posted by aleph at 5:02 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by aleph at 5:02 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
The youngest of five boys over 10 years apart, I musta been around 5-6 when, as usual, my parents went out on Saturday night and left us home under the "supervision" of my brothers. The late night movie was Psycho and though I was too young to process it all the ending was suitably scary AF. Soon as it ended it was time to shut down so mom and dad wouldn't know they'd let the younguns stay up too late so my brothers insisted I go down the basement to turn off the light that had been left on, immediately after which they flipped off the other light at the top of the stairs leaving me in complete black darkness while they screamed "Mrs Bates!!! Mrs Bates!!!" and I had to feel my way back to the stairs and crawl up to bang on the door.
So yeah, that scarred me for awhile.
posted by thecincinnatikid at 5:07 PM on October 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
So yeah, that scarred me for awhile.
posted by thecincinnatikid at 5:07 PM on October 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
I think we need the story of why Holmes squashing Watson's pea was scary.
posted by evilmomlady at 5:12 PM on October 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by evilmomlady at 5:12 PM on October 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
My mother liked scary movies when she was much younger. She didn't like watching them alone. So that is how I ended up watching Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist (TV edits) when I was 7 or 8 years old, with my mom.
posted by COD at 5:13 PM on October 30, 2022
posted by COD at 5:13 PM on October 30, 2022
"On this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building..."
I screamed and I hid behind the couch. Large Marge was one of the things I had to not think about when I took the garbage out in the dark at night.
Claymation scared me a lot, even -- especially, honestly -- the kind that was supposed to be cute or funny, like Mr. Bill and Gumby. It had such a biological quality. Mr. Bill looked especially sweaty and scared. But then, it wasn't that I didn't like these things, not exactly. I certainly watched them. Back then, you watched things or you didn't, and if you didn't you could stare at your hands, or upset a grownup who'd thought you'd like it -- so you watched it.
posted by Countess Elena at 5:16 PM on October 30, 2022
I screamed and I hid behind the couch. Large Marge was one of the things I had to not think about when I took the garbage out in the dark at night.
Claymation scared me a lot, even -- especially, honestly -- the kind that was supposed to be cute or funny, like Mr. Bill and Gumby. It had such a biological quality. Mr. Bill looked especially sweaty and scared. But then, it wasn't that I didn't like these things, not exactly. I certainly watched them. Back then, you watched things or you didn't, and if you didn't you could stare at your hands, or upset a grownup who'd thought you'd like it -- so you watched it.
posted by Countess Elena at 5:16 PM on October 30, 2022
The existential horror of Davy & Goliath's all alone episode.
Seeing Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1976 version) wayyyyyy too young.
Those skull guys on Danger Island as well as Ray Harryhausen's skeletons in Jason & the Argonauts.
posted by kokaku at 5:31 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Seeing Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1976 version) wayyyyyy too young.
Those skull guys on Danger Island as well as Ray Harryhausen's skeletons in Jason & the Argonauts.
posted by kokaku at 5:31 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
The beginning of The Land Before Time, when Littlefoot's mother fights the T rex. Absolutely traumatic. I loved that movie and watched the VHS to pieces, but always had to fast-forward that bit.
Also, yeah Secret of NIMH. I grew up outside DC, and when I learned in like middle school that NIMH is an actual place, I was horrified.
posted by basalganglia at 5:50 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Also, yeah Secret of NIMH. I grew up outside DC, and when I learned in like middle school that NIMH is an actual place, I was horrified.
posted by basalganglia at 5:50 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Premature Burial directed by Roger Corman.
Yes, I am a bit claustrophobic.
posted by aiq at 6:09 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Yes, I am a bit claustrophobic.
posted by aiq at 6:09 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
the weekly cliffhangers in the ‘60s batman tv series scared the bejeezus out of 4/5 year old me
I still havent gotten over Robin being swallowed by a giant clam.
posted by Billiken at 8:19 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
I still havent gotten over Robin being swallowed by a giant clam.
posted by Billiken at 8:19 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Gremlins. I have never been able to go back and watch it as an adult, it scared me so much as a kid.
posted by peanut_mcgillicuty at 8:33 PM on October 30, 2022
posted by peanut_mcgillicuty at 8:33 PM on October 30, 2022
The Lathe of Heaven terrified me, and I associate Bruce Davison’s face in that movie with years of nightmares. In retrospect, probably not the best choice of TV-watching for a kid up late, by herself.
posted by MonkeyToes at 8:52 PM on October 30, 2022
posted by MonkeyToes at 8:52 PM on October 30, 2022
The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come scene in the animated Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol gave me nightmares. It didn't help that I had a fever and was coming down with some childhood illness or other (I think German Measles), but it still ruined the show for me for good.
posted by gudrun at 9:28 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by gudrun at 9:28 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
I saw the Muppet Christmas Carol at school (probably in year 3 or 4) and was to scared to go to sleep that night. I can't remember now if I was more scared of the Marley brothers or the Ghost of Christmas Future.
posted by aussie_powerlifter at 9:47 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by aussie_powerlifter at 9:47 PM on October 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
The "Incredible Shrinking Woman" gave me a fear of household chemicals and garbage disposals that used to keep me up at night as a child, and has not completely disappeared at the tender age of 42.
posted by TheCoug at 10:11 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by TheCoug at 10:11 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Time Bandits for me. The end especially, where his house is on fire and his parents explode. Plus I think the devil is basically in it. Too much for a 5 year old!
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:13 PM on October 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:13 PM on October 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
I just came to post about Time Bandits. I saw this when I was 8, in the theater, and it thrilled me and terrified me in equal measure. I remember telling all my friends about it obsessively and incessantly.
There are all manner of freaky scenes in Time Bandits but the one that spooked me to my core was the cage prisons suspended over nothingness. Like the rest of the movie it's played for laughs, more or less, but I think that scene alone--not to mention the movie as a whole--sort of expanded my mind.
posted by zardoz at 1:17 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
There are all manner of freaky scenes in Time Bandits but the one that spooked me to my core was the cage prisons suspended over nothingness. Like the rest of the movie it's played for laughs, more or less, but I think that scene alone--not to mention the movie as a whole--sort of expanded my mind.
posted by zardoz at 1:17 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
Not a movie but Crazy Harry the Muppet who always wanted to blow things up made watching The Muppets a source of terror for me. He seemed to be a malevolent force who could turn uo at any moment and I thought he was always trying to kill all the muppets. It was years later that I realised he was just the pyrotechnic guy.
posted by gnuhavenpier at 1:17 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by gnuhavenpier at 1:17 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
The "Incredible Shrinking Woman" gave me a fear of household chemicals and garbage disposals that used to keep me up at night as a child
Yeah the garbage disposal scene is terrifying. I think a lot writers and producers in Hollywood in the 80s were secretly...I don't know, angry with children or something and made "kid's movies" really intense and/or violent. That kind of went away in the 90s, but the 80s had some crazy shit in what was considered family fare.
posted by zardoz at 1:25 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
Yeah the garbage disposal scene is terrifying. I think a lot writers and producers in Hollywood in the 80s were secretly...I don't know, angry with children or something and made "kid's movies" really intense and/or violent. That kind of went away in the 90s, but the 80s had some crazy shit in what was considered family fare.
posted by zardoz at 1:25 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
In the early 1960s my family lived in Beaver, a river town in western PA. One summer day my Mom took my sister and I to see a matinee in a big old movie palace across the bridge in Rochester. The movie was “The Nutty Professor”. I was three. How scary could it be—it was Jerry Lewis, Mom reasoned.
When the Professor drank his transformative chemical, suddenly there was a huge tonal shift, the camera angle tilted, the screen was full of broken glass and bright colors and there was Jerry writhing and choking in the middle of it all. I had never seen such chaos and it was terrifying.
My screams forced Mom to hurry me back to the lobby, where she scolded a random employee for not warning her about the film content. A very nice lady that followed us out bought me popcorn and knelt in front of me, calmly assuring me that it was all “make believe” and that nothing onscreen could do me harm.
That was the first—and last—time I was scared to tears by a movie. Never quite trusted Jerry Lewis after that though.
posted by kinnakeet at 3:13 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
When the Professor drank his transformative chemical, suddenly there was a huge tonal shift, the camera angle tilted, the screen was full of broken glass and bright colors and there was Jerry writhing and choking in the middle of it all. I had never seen such chaos and it was terrifying.
My screams forced Mom to hurry me back to the lobby, where she scolded a random employee for not warning her about the film content. A very nice lady that followed us out bought me popcorn and knelt in front of me, calmly assuring me that it was all “make believe” and that nothing onscreen could do me harm.
That was the first—and last—time I was scared to tears by a movie. Never quite trusted Jerry Lewis after that though.
posted by kinnakeet at 3:13 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
Lost in Space, the original, pretty campy, but they had this one monster that was a faceless man that featured in my nightmares for years. The Wizard of Oz, so much that was frightening, the tornado, the legs of that witch under the house, the rusted metal guy when he first starts to move, the witch melting, and flying monkeys. Still creepy af all these years later. I found the Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday morning shows really creepy too, nothing about those worlds they created was attractive at all.
posted by evilDoug at 3:30 AM on October 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by evilDoug at 3:30 AM on October 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
When I was about 7 I happened across a tv episode of something which involved a lot of people dying due to a curse, including a whole ship blowing up. It gave me nightmares for years. I (much) later found out it was an episode of Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns and a spoof, which must have gone over my head as a child.
posted by biffa at 4:39 AM on October 31, 2022
posted by biffa at 4:39 AM on October 31, 2022
This thread just brought back a memory that the fox and the hound messed me up when I was like 4 years old. My parents had the soundtrack on LP, and even looking at the cover was so upsetting for me for years. I don't even really remember what the movie is about anymore, but I have a strong aversion to it.
posted by Literaryhero at 5:20 AM on October 31, 2022
posted by Literaryhero at 5:20 AM on October 31, 2022
I also have a memory of a variety show in the 70s (maybe Donny and Marie?) that featured this Muppet-like character that would suddenly rush onto stage and eat someone. Like, swallow them whole. I'm not sure how they did it--it was basically a big head and a internal harness that could hide another person. Anyway it absolutely terrified me, and it was kind of a recurring gag so I would run from the living room if this bizarre puppet suddenly bounded on the stage.
posted by zardoz at 5:24 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by zardoz at 5:24 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
The trash lady in the Labyrinth still makes my stomach feel funny just thinking about her. That whole movie is terrifying but she is fear personified.
posted by sacrifix at 10:39 AM on October 31, 2022
posted by sacrifix at 10:39 AM on October 31, 2022
I'm surprised we've gotten this far and no one has mentioned 'Return to Oz.' Headless witch-queen, people being turned into ornaments AND sand, electroshock therapy for children, whatever the hell the Nome King was, there was something for everyone. A move I can't rewatch to this day.
posted by jordantwodelta at 11:51 AM on October 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by jordantwodelta at 11:51 AM on October 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
I found the Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday morning shows really creepy too
Asthmatic Sleestak have cameoed in my bad dreams for years. In one not-so-bad dream, they'd opened a frogurt shop with Cha-Ka.
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:23 PM on October 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
Asthmatic Sleestak have cameoed in my bad dreams for years. In one not-so-bad dream, they'd opened a frogurt shop with Cha-Ka.
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:23 PM on October 31, 2022 [3 favorites]
The Talosians. Everything about them was terrifying, but most of all their pulsing scalp veins.
posted by Don Pepino at 1:39 PM on October 31, 2022
posted by Don Pepino at 1:39 PM on October 31, 2022
I saw E.T. in the theatre at age 6: The scene where he's in the box on dry ice. That was how I learned I had a visual memory deeply vulnerable to frightening imagery, though I didn't swear off horror movies until 1999, when I had seen enough to realize that those images were permanent for me and I absolutely had to stop adding new ones.
posted by jocelmeow at 2:03 PM on October 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by jocelmeow at 2:03 PM on October 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
I'm tellin' ya, this is a bottomless well. I present to the jury exhibit 352, The Gigglesnort Hotel.
posted by zardoz at 2:11 PM on October 31, 2022
posted by zardoz at 2:11 PM on October 31, 2022
Don Pepino, that's it! Utterly terrifying. I don't remember this in the context of a skit but rather this guy rushing on stage and eating Donny Osmond. Everyone was laughing but four-year-old me was traumatized.
posted by zardoz at 4:58 PM on October 31, 2022
posted by zardoz at 4:58 PM on October 31, 2022
zardoz, this gentleman?
posted by Don Pepino at 4:51 PM on October 31
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posted by Countess Elena at 6:14 PM on October 31, 2022
posted by Don Pepino at 4:51 PM on October 31
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posted by Countess Elena at 6:14 PM on October 31, 2022
Snow White. Not the Disney animated version, but one done by actors some time prior to 1970. The scene was where the Wicked Queen had discovered that the Huntsman had lied to her about killing Snow White, so she had the Huntsman put to death. He was dropped face first into boiling oil.
posted by Jane the Brown at 9:27 PM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Jane the Brown at 9:27 PM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
Oh man, that reminds of something I've repressed for ages. When I was a kid, the teens doing the senior play sometimes performed a song for the elementary school assembly, and when I was seven or so they did a song from Kismet. It was a villain song, and I don't remember who the character was, but he was a torturer and he was singing about people he'd tortured. About dissolving a man's mother in a vat of lye! I got the absolute horrors.
This, I will not be revisiting. It sounds like brownface garbage anyway.
posted by Countess Elena at 12:04 PM on November 1, 2022
This, I will not be revisiting. It sounds like brownface garbage anyway.
posted by Countess Elena at 12:04 PM on November 1, 2022
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I've done it all my life
It makes them taste quite funny
But it keeps them on the knife.
posted by chavenet at 1:41 PM on October 30, 2022 [2 favorites]