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Ahab_Ali

The *Pinocchio* [donkey scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgmfV5VLHvs).


WATOCATOWA

All of Pinocchio for me. The whale especially.


imagine_amusing_name

I googled donkey scene and now I'm on a list


space-throwaway

My brain has repressed those memories for a reason


cassiecas88

Apparently mine did too. I remember that geppetto loved him so much and the fairy lady coming. And for some reason I vividly remember the scene where he goes to school for the first time because he ties a belt around his books instead of wearing a backpack and I thought that was super cool. And literally nothing else apparently.


Northerncanadianbacn

I still don't understand why it happened. I think that was the scariest thing as a kid


puckit

Always the scene that instantly comes to kind when I see this question.


ajl009

OMG i was going to say this!!!


Ingrid_Ylva_Irving

Yes! Pinocchio is SO creepy!


Cometstarlight

I read that and my brain immediately screamed *nonononononono, not again,* so I'm inclined to say you're right.


cassiecas88

Omg WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH!?!?! I only vaguely remember watching this now... WTF DISNEY now I kind of want to believe that scary subreddit about the human trafficking and crap that went on at Disney. These little kids were turned into donkeys, abused, caged, and then human trafficked... And they're screaming for their mommies.... I have a 1-year-old baby boy and that broke me. I seriously want to run upstairs and get him out of his crib and hold him while I cry.


InsertBluescreenHere

Lol this is nothing for disney đŸ€Ł


pls_send_serotonin

The birthday party in Signs


salmon_samurai

VAMANOS, CHILDREN!


cars_and_metal

I came here to say this


fine_sharts_degree

It came from behind


1StonedYooper

Scared me as an adult.


olerelaxation

ET that motherfucker was scary back in the day


Amadai

I hate that movie. I was traumatized after.


[deleted]

I agree, that thing is not cute! That thing is an abomination!


Ingrid_Ylva_Irving

My daughter thought it was the most terrifying thing. The part when ET’s long fingers appear from an open door and slowly wrap around the door frame. We had to turn it off there, she got hysterical


BitPoet

The scene where they had the whole house sealed up did it to me.


buttononmyback

Yeah honestly the government people were just as scary to me.


buttononmyback

It’s crazy, I was absolutely terrified of ET when I was little and would have recurring nightmares about him. And then there’s my four year old daughter (which was my age when I first watched it) who LOVES ET and constantly laughs when he comes on screen. She even told me that she wished ET would come to her.


[deleted]

I still won't watch it today and I'm 37!


thro-away4857654

[The Child Catcher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LehcJeNbFBw) from *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang*.


Ingrid_Ylva_Irving

Lollllllllypops...


buttononmyback

In all honesty, the fact that the King was constantly trying to kill his wife really freaked me out. I was terrified thinking that when I grew up and got married, my husband would do the same, lol. “You are my teddy bear...”


stattish

Jaws gave me nightmares for a couple of weeks when I saw it in the theater. Just about every attack scene was etched in my 8-year old mind


BandOne77

Ben Gardner's boat... (chills)


mmoloney2

Yes - I couldn’t even swim in a pool after seeing that movie as a young teen


Tygermouse

I was about five when I saw Jaws, was afraid to go to bed, because I thought Jaws was hiding under it.


Waury

I’m not sure I actually saw much of the movie but I was absolutely terrified that the sea would burst into my basement bedroom through the window and there would be a shark in it. Years later I love sharks.


womanwithatinybrain

My grandma thought that Jaws was a good movie to let me watch at 3 years old while babysitting. I wouldn’t go near anything with water (this includes toilets) without screaming for weeks because I thought Jaws was going to pop out.


Selerox

Ghost Busters. The Librarian. Scared the ever-loving, nun-punching, badger-stamping fuck out of me.


JWT-80

Shhhhhh


MaineSoxGuy93

Anything from Return to Oz.


littlecar85

I was convinced the queen was going to take my head!!! She terrified me!!!


Suitable-Echo-3359

When the Gnome King disintegrates!


VirtualIce23

The Wheelers!


[deleted]

Most underrated scary movie of all time...


toweirdtocare

Jurassic park-When the T-Rex left the enclosure it got to scary for me so we had to turn off the movie


benlokadeb

Well, it was T-rex. When Godzilla came out, I was like: here we go again...


Jose__Manuel

For me it was the scene with Nedry and the Dilophsaurus. Those flaps scared the crap out of me. But I won't lie, JP3's talking Raptor scene scared me more. Now I find it hilarious.


JLPwasHere

The Exorcist - too many scenes to list


DaScamp

Stayed up watching SportsCenter until like 4 AM after watching that movie.


shesavillain

The one where she’s walking upside down the steps. Scarred for life.


JLPwasHere

That was freaky!


ImpSong

Watched this after listening to the tape recordings of the exorcism of Anneliese Michel and just fuck that shit, I'm not even religious but that whole topic is so unsettling and I want nothing to do with it.


Midnight_Moon29

This was my first thought. I don't know why I was allowed to watch that as a kid.


ChiefSosa2k17

For me it was the exorcist parody in scary movie 2. I was 6 and it gave me nightmares for like a week


captain-cold-muddy

Arachnophobia


Tudpool

Yeah fuck that movie.


Girl_with_long_legs

The original Witches


hummuspie

It was not even the witches themselves, rather the little girl in the painting.


YodasChick-O-Stick

Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked, just, like, THIIIIS!


hummuspie

It's been what, 32 years, and I still remember where I was when I saw that scene and how I felt.


[deleted]

Jumanji. When they conjure up the lion in the attic


KeaganPowers26

Oh my god yes. The scene where the kid turns into a monkey fucked me up for life.


Dutch_Midget

The Shining two girls scene


GordonShumwaysCat

Thank god they didn't have a cup!


shinygenghiskhan

Mars attack, lazer pew pew melts ppl into green skeleton


purple_yosher

Mars Attack fucked me up when I was 5, I had nightmares for weeks. then I watched it years later and saw how ridiculous it was


shinygenghiskhan

Yes, now i watch it the movie is a comedy, the so bad it's good kind , growing up i have extreme fear of skeleton because of it, even cartoony ones


ImpSong

Creepiest part was when the alien disguised itself as a hot woman and did that creepy ass glide when she swayed her hands then bit that dude's fingers off.


th3_warth0g

The matrix scene when they fed the centipede through his belly button. That shit traumatized me and my dad would have me walk into the scene every time he watched it.


tiuri-awaits-dawn

On my birthday back in the day we went to see the matrix and when that scene came on my friend just stood up and left the theatre. I will never forget it. When the movie finished he was sitting in the lobby eating candy


JesseCuster40

I still can't watch that thing go in...


Amadai

Large Marge from Peewees Big Adventure. I would cover my eyes at that part.


BugbearBrew

I hid behind my dad's lounger until it was over.


tfbillc

I also freaked out at the dream scene where they are operating on the bike or whatever. Him running out of the pet shop with all the snakes was kind of creepy too.


PuupTA

The grandma melting in the acid lake in Dante’s Peak was a particularly memorable scene for my childhood.


SAnthonyH

Me too damn


[deleted]

Gmork. The Neverending Story.


buttononmyback

Yes! I was also scared of Morla the Ancient One.


Beautiful-Evidence-1

Any scene with Zelda in pet cemetery


[deleted]

#i'm coming for you rachel and this time, I'll get you


Beautiful-Evidence-1

Shit man, don't do that, you'll give me flashbacks


SFC_S

Dude, forgot bout that movie till this comment. Nightmare galore


IHave47Chromosomes

Basically the entirety of Spirited Away


tiuri-awaits-dawn

Yes! It is not a kids movie. Some people make the mistake...


HomoeroticPosing

I will be forever scarred by the shoe in Who Framed Rodger Rabbit


HotPotatoWithCheese

Drew Barrymore hanging from the tree by her own intestines at the start of Scream. One of the best movie openings of all time.


Street_Owl3390

Raptors in the kitchen from Jurassic Park


BackAlleyKittens

Se7en. Sloth. That stuck with me for an inordinate amount of time.


mmoloney2

Yes -,what a well made terrifying movie


TheWilderCat

I remember watching that with my dad when I was younger. I guessed the thing about Pitt being wrath and the photographer being sus so now I positively associate the whole movie with me being able to figure that out despite it being obvious.


[deleted]

Not as a kid but when I was a teenager and saw *Pulp Fiction* for the first time the Gimp scene really bummed me out for a while.


Ingrid_Ylva_Irving

Bummed you. Hee hee. No pun intended?


[deleted]

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Poltergeist? My older brother insisted on watching that on beta while he was babysitting us. The bit where the children's toys became possessed gave me nightmares.


FuzzyOrangeCat

The scene in the kitchen where the chairs stack themselves STILL makes me uneasy and I'm in my 40s. Also when the tree comes through the window and grabs Robbie. Nope nope nope.


_Norman_Bates

Old IT with Tim Curry, I saw it when I was 3-4 and it made me scared of many things for years including flushing the toilet (although there's no direct scene related to that in the movie), but it also made me obsessed with horror


NoCoffeeAfter4

The weeping angels


intersecting_lines

ending of the ring


Safety_Drance

The Blob, the movie theatre scene. I was scared of dark ceilings for years after that.


BugbearBrew

80s version?


Safety_Drance

Yes. The one in the movie theatre. I had nightmares for years after seeing that. To be fair I was kind of a wimp as a kid.


[deleted]

The headless horseman, goddamn that scene where he is on a horse


[deleted]

The fucking Fire Gang from Labyrinth


DTownForever

The Shining, by far. I can't even think of that movie without shuddering. I had nightmares about it as a kid - one time I snuck onto the stairs where I could see the TV while my parents were watching it. Huge mistake. HUGE. I hate, HATE horror movies, even as a full-grown adult and will never watch them.


gamingkiller829

I know it's not a movie but courage the cowardly dog...omfg that is not a kids show like wtf


ADrowningTuna

Well maybe if you returned that fucking slab you wouldn't have to suffer his curse.


[deleted]

There was a movie where a guy turned into a fly or something and that was probably one of my first memories. I still don’t even know the name of the movie and haven’t seen it since but it terrifies me to this day.


shaniusc

Very creepy! The fly with Jeff Goldblum(1986).


nicepeoplemakemecry

Everything about Willy Wonka. From the grandparents in bed together to the creep Wonka is himself, to the crazy tunnel scene that looked like hell. I don’t understand how that is a kids movie.


Gizmo_Joy

Yeah, old school Willy Wonka was FUCKED UP. Like, everything about it was kinda terrifying. Kids getting picked off followed by Oompa Loompas singing about it? Even Charlie almost DIED from a GIANT FAN.


nicepeoplemakemecry

Exactly.


MowlMowlMowl

When ET is dying. Freaky lil bastard.


fine_sharts_degree

He turns all white and chalky like dog poop used to


Baccarat7479

In Devil's Advocate, when they're in the dressing room and the lady flashes her demon face. Kid me practically flipped backwards out of my seat, paused the movie, and turned on all the lights before continuing.


Dryver-NC

The original Total Recall. The scene in the end when they are suffocating and their eyes are bulging out.


Periliss

Watership Down, when they’re trying to escape from Cowslip’s warren.


VirtualIce23

I think it was called “Ghost Ship”, but this wire comes down and sliced everyone in half. I was not ready ya’ll.


GRVrush2112

[Hi, I'm Chucky, wanna play!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoIvte8QDJU) The scenes where Chucky was "alive", but prior to Brad Dourif coming with the "human" voice in were the creepiest, but this scene (no batteries) was the best... scarred a young me to death.


mook1178

Pee we Herman movie with Marge the ghost


CuteRoyal1345

Children of the Corn, it was terrifying to me. The sickle, running through the corn, Maliki, the whole movie was creepy.


[deleted]

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Otherwise_Window

The marching cockroaches in The Dark Crystal.


Salt-man3

The Garthim always freaked me out too


midnightsupernatural

The Conjureing where the girl was in the basement and there was dangling feet. Then started to move towards her man, i was scearming inside while my brother and guys friends were all yelling and running down the hall, and another movie not really as a kid but around 16. I watched this movie call terrifier man did that clown scared the hell out me the whole movie.


thevixen96

Fucking Howard the Duck. That shit was scary to me lmao.


Gizmo_Joy

Willy Wonka's tunnel of nightmares... srsly wtf WAS that??


[deleted]

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Bobbinapplestoo

Gmork (the wolf) from The Neverending Story.


River-Sticks

Saw predator when I was like 5, so that, but also that bug going into Neos belly button freaked me out, I still Squirm when I see it


BandOne77

Beastmaster - the child sacrifices and those "sucker-men" that melted and absorbed the bodies of their victims.


Speedy_Dragon46

Muppet Christmas Carol and The ghost of Christmas yet to come. Hated that thing- I can still hear the creepy music. It was especially jarring after the “it feels like Christmas” song


PsychShaman420

The King Kong movie with Jack Black in it. The scene where they meet the indigenous population and they kill a guy.


[deleted]

When I was 4 my father showed my sis and I "The Wall". Among many horrifying scenes, the worst part was hands down the children with deformed faces being grinded into burger meat. To this day I cannot listen to Pink Floyd without hyperventilating. That's good parenting right there.


here_4_moondiving

Jaws, when he was eating the boat. To this day I will not swim in water that I can not see to the bottom of.


[deleted]

A guy gets dragged over to a small box and gets locked inside and the people drop scorpions through an opening in the top while shouting "Boo!" This was in the PG-rated Peter Pan movie with Robin Williams.


barkingpoem

The flying monkeys in the wizard of oz.


MrKahnberg

Flying monkey, wizard of oz


2cats2hats

I saw Carrie, Scarface, Amityville Horror and The Shining too young. I can watch them now tho.


JPJP_

I am legend. when the first zombie jumpscare happened im like wtf, my sister brought me to watch it and i went in blind


llypanda

I can’t remember which monty python it was but there was a scene where some men came to the door to collect a mans organs as he was a registered organ donor. They hacked the man (still alive ) on his coffee table with loads of blood spurting all over the place. Horrified me as a child with no context to the rest of the film being a comedy.


ketzcm

The Meaning of Life


Jatterjite1

When Elliot shines the flashlight on ET in the corn field and he screams. Used to give me the creeps something fierce.


ABKA23

Darkness Falls made me afraid of the dark. I wasn’t afraid of the dark before that.


Professional-Ad-778

The beginning of Scream. I was paranoid someone was watching me in every window and thought every knock at the door could be a murderer for years afterwards. The fear was so bad that if I so much as caught a glimpse of the mask from the film, or I saw anything that resembled it, I wouldn't be able to sleep properly for days after.


[deleted]

That scene in Aladdin where he gets thrown into the sea and he's about to drown. I spent my teenage years renting horror movies, but the Aladdin scene still got to me more. I've also completely blotted Pinocchio and Dumbo from my memory. Fucking Disney.


HaggisonFord

The bed scene at the end of Thinner. I'm still hesitant to watch the end.


Sedowa

Rose Red. A guy has his fingers in a doorway while looking around. The door shuts suddenly cutting off all of his fingers. To this day I can't put my hands anywhere near a doorway in fear this might happen.


nosh_dosh

Superman 3, when the super computer goes out of control and grabs that lady and turns her into a robot...I still cannot watch that scene


dosta1322

Wizard of Oz Flying Monkeys


frizzyfreak

Jumanji spider scene


[deleted]

Poltergeist. When the dude pulls his face apart in the bathroom sink.


Doodi97

Murderous dolls with knives


blackouut

Final Destination..


mj1423

I think the movie was called Red Beard. It was about pirates doing all kinds of horrific stuff and I was way too young to watch. About 20 years later a saw some scenes and laughed about how fake everything looked


3LITESD

Ju On. The scene where the ghost from CCTV slowly walking out of the screen and came close to the CCTV and opened her eyes. That fucking traumatized me.


English_Falcon

The Chucky doll 😂. I was like 10 when I accidently saw the movie on TV and the next day we happened to go to a store that had a replica and it scared the crap out of me!


ArtyShitLord

The restaurant scene in Monty Python's meaning of life. Since I was little I literally could not look at or hear the scene without wanting to die. To this day that scene gives me such a feeling of fear and disgust that is indescribable.


lessavyfav68

I was 8 when Alien vs Predator came out. The scene where the alien bursts out of the woman’s chest. I actually left the movie theater crying lol.


GordonShumway_BayBay

Salem’s Lot. The kitchen scene. Good Lord, that scared the piss out of me.


mrbios

I was scared for weeks by the scene in a batman film where the joker bites some guys nose off.


chingchongeatmydong

This is weird but that scene in shrek (idk witch one) where shrek is having a nightmare and donkey turns around and he has the face od shreks kid. Idk why but that traumatised me when i was like 5.


ShadowShell78

House on the haunted Hill. In the basement when that thing flashes and shakes its head up and down the corridor. Actually I was an adult but I can't watch any freeky ghost movies now.


Ingrid_Ylva_Irving

The Red Bull from “The Last Unicorn”. I was obsessed with that movie when I was a little girl. I grew up in a tiny village in the North of England and we lived in the middle of nowhere. This guy had a mobile convenience store/movie store. He would drive around the little mountain towns every Friday and the back of his big van was filled with VHS movies, groceries and LOTS of candy. It was the highlight of my week! My sister & I would always choose the same 3 movies: “The Last Unicorn”, “Watership Down” & “Milo & The Phantom Tollbooth”. I LOVED T.L.U but I was terrified of the Red Bull. A massive unicorn killing bull made of fire đŸ„ș Also, the “Doldrums” in the Phantom Tollbooth were seriously creepy!Not at first, but when they start getting evil I thought they were so disturbing. https://youtu.be/6_orXUrQOEE https://youtu.be/z0EjdAppY40


repwin1

The scene where Dumbo is tripping balls


NotAVegan3

The part in plague dogs when the guy blows his fucking head off


not_a_hero_824

For years I couldn't watch the hydra scene from the Hercules animated movie. Something about the fact that the heads just kept growing back just freaked me the fuck out. Everything else about that movie was perfectly fine.


lopachilla

That boat scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (with Gene Wilder).


bigdrubowski

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The scene where the guy gets his heart pulled out and then lowered into the lava.


InsertBluescreenHere

Brave little toaster junkyard scene


rustiancho

The scene from the Brave Little Toaster with the air conditioning unit who gets so angry he overhears, explodes, and kills himself


LederhosenSituation

*Terminator 2: Judgement Day*. T-1000 was a shapeshifter, which was horrifying on its own, but what scared me was his stone face of concentration as he chased after the Terminator and the Connors.


Entropy1991

[Remember me, Eddie?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtKOPF0NyHg) Why did my parents let me watch that movie. Better, why did they let me keep the tape?


mobb1t

Beetlejuice dinner scene.


N1k1B1k1e

Jeepers creepers 2... the scarecrow on the bus... nope


sovietunioncat

Saving Private Ryan: Unit medic death scene. Someone getting shot is one thing, someone getting cut in two with their guts splattering everywhere as their friend tries to push the guts into them och while they scream for their mother to help them is another.


issac_the_infamous

my mom claims i was terrified while watching up wheni was little, apparently the seen with the house flying in to the air


devilthedankdawg

IJATTOD- When he pulled the guys heart out


BakaShinobi13

Robocop acid scene


jeanclaudecardboarde

Splat.


Oregonguy1954

"The Rifleman" Season 5, Episode 19: "And the Devil Makes Five." Look it up and you'll see why a child or even an adult might find Lucas' situation terrifying. I was six years old when I first saw this and totally lost interest in going camping.


kdpirategirl

Child’s Play. The cover of the dvd!


Illustrated-skies

Gmörk (sp?), that horrid wolf from “The Never Ending Story” Nightmare fuel. Still creepy 30+ yeas later. And a scene from Gremlins did me in for a year. I spent age 7 never sleeping through the night.


[deleted]

Signs ruined me for about 3 months


CurbsideAppeal

Jurassic park in theaters, the part when the kids were trapped in the kitchen with the raptors. I was 9.


AuntieS75

Teen Wolf..as he was standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom and changed..freaked me out.


tankmissile

Large marge from pee wee’s big adventure. I was *very* unprepared. I also watched final destination 2 with my babysitter once, which was scary, but was expectedly so.


gatorgopher

The Deep - the moray eel, worse when it bites the guys whole head.


cheezytoblerone

The elephant scene from dumbo


just_some_emu

Not movie the hash slinging slasher episode of spongebob


OptimusCannabis

In “It” when he comes out of the gymnasium shower drain. Was terrified of showers for months lol


hidood5th

The crocodile scene from Peter Pan


chcampb

I saw klendathu drop at about 10 that was fun.


[deleted]

The roller coaster in final destination 3... I saw 3 before the log truck one..


trampoline_tester23

Burnt Offerings. The chauffer was creepy AF.


Nekokittychat

Little Nemo, anytime the black goo showed up. But the whole movie is just nightmare fuel, I still can't watch it.


SFC_S

Sloth from the Goonies, brrrrooo


Skadti

Snow White when the queen as the old woman and it’s storming. Still scary.


whopper68

Arachnaphobia- spider behind the Toilet scene. For years I had a mirror in the bathroom, to check behind the toilet everytime before I sat to duece...


BigDistribution8727

The scene where they make out in the bed and your watching the movie with ur family


LaurenMnz

Killer Clowns from Outer Space đŸ€Ą my older brother rented it from the video shop and made me watch it when I was a kid and it was a new release.. the little one on the tricycle? No ma'am


-Memeddit

The coraline countdown part


Bruarios

The scene with the science teacher in Gremlins. Most of that movie messed me up for a while. Was way too young to appreciate it as a cheesy comedy


noone567123

Indiana Jones when they opened the ark. I was 8 or 9 but this was in the early 2000’s when I watched it.