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Sometimes, the scariest stuff are the stuff that wasn't even supposed to be scary at all. Why? Because it just takes you by surprise. Sometimes, things that were supposed to be sweet and innocent end up in the wrong hands and end up being scarier than they need to be. Even though some of the things on the list were meant to be mildly scary, it ends up scarring your children for life. So, let's begin the list!
#10: Sex? from Matrix Reloaded
In what was supposed to be an "erotic" scene, Trinity and Neo having sex ends up just looking...off. For one thing, they look like identical twins, they both have those weird plug holes, and they have the same skin color. So it ends up looking like some awful Salvador Dali painting and looks as if they're merging together. Srsly, wtf?
#9: The Tunnel from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Imagine being a parent taking their child to this movie. "Well, this movie is just so adorable. So many bright colors, imaginative settings, and Willy Wonka's all around happy attitude. This is such a delight. Oooo, it looks like a boat. Wow, this tunnel is pretty dark. Wait? Why is Wonka singing? Why does it sound creepy. What the $%#@, there's images all around the walls. A millipede around a dead body? This is getting a little creepy--HOLY $#!%, THAT CHICKEN GOT ITS HEAD CHOPPED OFF!!!" Yeah...that's something that not a lot of parents will like.
#8: What lies under the well from Ocarina of Time
Ocarina of Time is pretty kid friendly. Colorful backgrounds, fairies, all that stuff. Then Link has to go down an ancient well. What he finds there at first are the littered remains of many poor unfortunate adventurers, but not too bad right? All of a sudden, you are seeing living severed hands, flaming invisible skulls (!), and a long necked mummified bloody creature that latches on to you with its arms rising from the ground and then nomming at your head. Good luck with that.
#7: Questionable CGI from Son of the Mask
Face it, Son of the Mask is one of the worst movies ever made. It took Jim Carrey's classic movie and butchered it in every way possible. Although most people blame it on the fact that Jim Carrey wasn't even in it, I think that the poor excuse of humor and its CGI that animated the dog and the baby were big factors too. It's one thing that it makes the d*mn dog creepy, but a baby?? A freaking baby? A baby that starts singing and talking and bouncing on the walls and giving bone-bombs to the dog? I agree with Roger Ebert when he says that, Movies in which babies don't act like babies should NEVER happen. EVER!
#6: What do you think I am, a jacka$$? from Pinnochio.
Face it, what makes Disney so amazing isn't his incredibly upbeat stuff, it's the fact that he has such balls to scare your kids half-to-death. Although many would rather put The Devil from Fantasia in this list, this was something that always scared me when I was 5. Pinnochio, the sweet puppet brought to life, tries going to Pleasure Island. However, rather than looking like Disneyland, there's something rather eerie about the place. It's atmosphere is cloudy and gloomy, the kids are buying freaking cigars, drinking freaking beer, and randomly fighting. If that's not bad enough, the boy who Pinnochio is playing pool with just randomly starts growing a tail and long ears? What the f***? Then the boy looks away and then asks "What do you think I am, a jackass?" and you see that his head has turned into a donkey head (Putting a curse word into a family film, and turning a boy into a donkey = Disney hitting two birds with one stone). Terrified after discovering this, the boy is running around, completely pannicking, and then all of a sudden, while trying to yell for help, he just lets out a donkey "HEEEEYONCH!" and grows hooves for hands. That'll show your kids what drinking and smoking does to you!
#5 You Call THIS a Sequel? from Return to Oz
Okay so the first movie contained lollipop kids, munchkins, yellow brick roads, and bright red sparkly high heels. And then when you think of making a sequel, this is what comes out? What's next, The Little Mermaid: Now With More Tentacles?
#4: Eating Babies For Breakfast Isn't As Bad As This from Trainspotting
Even before Danny Boyle made the amazing horror movie 28 Days Later, he exhibited some creep in his earlier works. Trainspotting was a movie about drug addiction. As if Requiem of a Dream wasn't polarizing enough, going back to your home and seeing your friend's dead babies just crawling all over the ceiling is just downright inconvenient. Face it, drugs aren't as fun as you think, kids.
#3 NOT THE DIP!!! from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a classic. It was just a delightful blend of animation and live action that just gives excitement, laughs, slapstick, and even some crime drama. But the movie had one aspect that made it more terrifying than most of this decade's horror movies: Judge Doom. The guy was just all gloom, loom, and...doom. Everytime this guy came, you KNEW something bad was gonna happen, but his first appearance really got your attention. Judge Doom is the inventor of "The Dip" which is the only thing that can "kill" a cartoon. To demonstrate this, he takes a jolly, innocent little toon shoe and dips it in the Dip. All of a sudden, it starts melting, squirming, screaming in agony, and it ends up looking like a red mess, similar to blood. You thought that was the worst Judge Doom can bring, but theen...
#2: "When I killed Your Brother..." from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
...You realize that Judge Doom himself is a toon. How do you find out? Why, it turns out his normal eyes are actually fake ones that pop out of his sockets and then big glowing red cartoon eyes are in them. He then tries to brutally murder Bob Hoskins, while simultaneously trying to Dip our toon heroes, Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit. The guy is just pure evil!! Oh and let's not forget that he says in a screechily squeaky voice, "When I killed your brother, my voice became squeaky...like...THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!!!"
#1: Tell 'Em Large Marge Sent Ya from PeeWee's Big Adventure
PeeWee's Playhouse is such an innocent kid friendly film, you wouldn't expect anything scary from it right? WRONG! In his big screen debut, PeeWee after losing his bike, tries to hitch a ride to get into town. He's picked up by a creepy bus driver named Marge, but then she starts talking about this ghost story about a road accident. Not too bad right? WRONG! After describing what the body looked like, she pulls off a face so crazy, so freaky, so disturbing, that that face alone puts it in the #1 spot! Wanna see what it looks like? You're freaking kidding me, you do? Well...You've been warned. Scroll down...
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WHAT THE FRAK WAS THAT??? At first she's an old lady, and then THAT! SRSLY WTF?!?! Her eyes are like freaking balloons!! Not only that, but this particular moment alone actually scarred A LOT (And I really mean alot) of small kids, who are now grown up and post blogs about how it made them s*** their pants. As if it didn't get any worse, when PeeWee, gets dropped off, she says "If anybody asks, tell 'em Large Marge sent ya." Then when he goes to the bar, he realizes that Marge was the ghost of the dead body in the road accident.
So what do all of these moments have in common? They are just so unexpected. I mean, it's not like someone would expect Freddy Krueger to pop up on an episode of The Wiggles (Though...that would actually be pretty awesome...). It just completely takes you by surprise and with little to no warning. That's it for this list. If you have any ideas for an awesome list, give me a PM about it.
...bai.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
The Milk Monsters from Akira
(Insert immature "white stuff" joke here)
The Opening Credits from Coraline
I never wanna go to a doll making factory after seeing this...
Those Freaky Human Anatomy Diagrams from Various Educational Books
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HUMAN BODIES WITH NO FREAKING SKIN!!
Wow Marge looks effin creepy as hell
The ddip of roger rabbit really freaked me out when I watched it
This needs more exposure, this was an awesome post. Spectacular work.
Ok, my Most Unintentionally Scariest Moment in a show has got to be the music from the Bugs Bunny cartoons that sounds like some evil mechanized industrial experiment. "DUMDUM DAH...DADADA DUMDUM" ARGH!
That, and ANY Rupert the Bear story. Those comics really messed up my mind as a kid. A bear, in plaid pants. Sounds innocent enough right? Yeah, I think not. The situations he found himself in were just too bizzare to contemplate. I may look at it now and laugh, but back then...freakshow.
These are some of the scariest moments of my childhood. You pretty much hit the nail on the head for me. Willy Wonka's a creeper, and Roger Rabbit was pretty strange in its depiction of enemies. I've never seen that old lady though, that was freaky! I really enjoyed this blog.
One of mine was seeing "American Werewolf in London" when I was 4... that dude stretching out was kind of freaky for me then. Later "American Werewolf in Paris" ruined breasts for me for a while... if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about....
And yes.... trainspotting dead baby on the ceiling was... disturbing, mainly due to the fact that it's a *** up notion in general, but given the movie it was a defining theme.
Also, The Thing.... where dudes head comes off and sprouts legs and runs off... that was kind of... wtf
And Ed Norton's smile in American History X after the 'curb smile' (the sound of that was freaky enough) but the smile just... psychotic and chilling in context to the lack of humanity in the action (the point, I know)
yeah, that willy wonka scene is an inspired freakout. scared the heck out of me as a kid. nice list.
Ya thats pretty scary (not)
Roger Rabbit was a scary movie when I was a kid. Especially since they were all real people and stuff. And then he started pulling his skin off and his eyes went all weird...*shivers*
@Shawn: Each of those movies you mentioned are stellar flicks though! I doubt there are many here who have even heard of The Thing or American Werewolf in London. You've just inspired me to go rent them. Classics.
How about the freaky octopus lady in "The Little Mermaid?" She was just freaky.
Very Good list, milk monsters were very creepy, not scary creepy. Another one is the eel in Super Mario 64, that thing was huge and was swimming in a giant hole with a freaking sunken ship in it... *shivers*
Man I absolutly loved being scared as a child I grew up in the 80's so I watched all kinds of horror movies.Though the funny thing is 90 percent of the horror movies didnt scare me. There where only three I can think of that took me years to watch all the way through because they where insanely morbid or scary. Hell Raiser 1 and 2, The Thing, and the Phantasm movies. Though American Werewolf was scary it went down as one of my favorite of all time I loved watching it. Especially when Jack is sitting there eating while he is talking to David and you can see the food going down his esophagus, very creepy.
Though I have to give it to ya,the insane amount of pleasure norton showed on his face from the curb stop in american history x was pretty cool.
Nice list. I definitely agree with Willy Wonka and Large Marge. I didn't go to sleep for hours.
large marge freaked me out over and over again until i played it in slow motion. then it was hilarios!dont forget:there is no basement to the alamo!
When i saw the part of Marge, i did jump and just seeing it now gave me chills.
I agree with Willy Wonka!