[ SECRET POST #3216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3216 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(The Blacklist)


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[The Sum Of Us/Russell Crowe]


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[Dan and Phil]


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[Tokyo Ghoul:re]


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[dick grayson]


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[Scandinavia and the World]


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[Doctor Who]


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[One Piece]


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[Lost Dimension]


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[Sleepy Hollow]










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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/Qyr3nnu.jpg

[herpymcderp]

Pretty sure the people who were terrified of this when they saw it must have been sub five years old. I was scared of the wolf from Peter And The Wolf (Disney version) when I was 3 years old, but this movie did not scare me at all.

[fingalsanteater]

It's pretty creepy, but I definitely was never terrified of it either. I've never heard of people claiming to be that scared of it.

[(Anonymous)]

I was fine with it, but then I saw it after I'd watched Watership Down. I'd used up all my pants-wetting terror on that.

[helenadax]

A couple of years ago I showed this film to some 7 years old kid in my class. One of them was the kind of kid who can't stop moving and speaking, but this time he was just sitting there, watching the film as if he couldn't believe his own eyes. And when it ended, he looked at me and said, amazed: "That was AWESOME!".

I watched it in the cinema. I was too old to be scared but I see why it could scare some children. The ugly guys are disturbing.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was magical, I really grokked the Henson vision on that one.

[(Anonymous)]

Different things scare different people. I've seen people saying this or that thing is scary, disturbing, and traumatizing, but I saw/read it as a kid and didn't think anything about it at all.

On the other hand, I was absolutely terrified of a picture of a mummified body I saw at around 7 years old (it was kind of like a bog body, but frozen, I think) and most kids thought that was the coolest thing.

You never know what will scare a particular person, it's quite individual.

[houtarouh]

This is me with "Return to OZ" - I wasn't terrified when I saw it in the Disney channel. Same goes for "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Beetlejuice". Then again, to each their own and people are different when it comes to being scared.

However, a movie that terrified me as a kid was "Poltergeist". One of my older sisters was babysitting me and left that movie on for us to watch. The face peeling/rotting meat scene and the clown scene terrified me as a kid (she would take one of those wind up clown dolls and scare me by making fun of that scene). What made matters worse was during a terrible rainstorm, a tree literally hit the hallway window in the house I've grew up back in Brooklyn. I've avoided that movie like the plague for years, until I've saw it on ABC Family and didn't find it that scary nowadays.

[(Anonymous)]

I was about 8 or 9 years old when I first watched it and I wasn't scared at all, it was my fave movie growing up.

[(Anonymous)]

It's the scary buzzard-like puppets and the way they tear apart one of their own, with bits of intestine flying everywhere...

[(Anonymous)]

The part that wigged me out was the old emperor dying and disintegrating into dust... starting with his nose falling off. The movie didn't scare me exactly, and I would watch it over and over on VHS, but that scene disturbed me and I woukd fast-forward through it. I think that might be the kind of thing people mean sometimes when people say it's a scary movie - it wasn't scary overall but it had parts that could disturbing to a lot of young kids.

[purpleseas]

I don't remember being scared by it, just fascinated. I watched it over and over, along with movies like Watership Down, The Secret of NIMH, Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, etc., and all those have scenes that are at least creepy and dark if not outright scary. The eighties were a strange time for children's films, which probably contributed a great deal to making me the strange writer I am today, so I'm pretty grateful for it. I was more scared by stuff like Terminator and the Incredible Hulk TV series. I used to run down my aunt's hallway and hide behind the vacuum whenever they were watching it and he hulked out, lol.

[nightscale]

This film never scared me but my best friend is terrified of the Skesis, I think we were similar ages when we saw it as well so for us it wasn't an age thing, just that we're scared by different things.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same way about the Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Fantasia. Everyone who mentions it says it was one of the most terrifying things they saw as a kid, but when I was little I found it awesome in a delightfully creepy way.

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird what some kids like and others are afraid of. For instance, I LOVED the Chernabog sequence at the end of Fantasia (demons, spirits, hellfire) and yet was terrified of The Little Mermaid.

[(Anonymous)]

I was old enough not to be completely spooked by it. It was a pretty movie. The Skeksis were creepy, and their weird split-self relationship with the Mystics was a little hair-raising. I understand why it would really freak out some people, but I don't have those kind of negative feelings toward it.

Of course, at that age, I had already been introduced to Brian Froud's art. I'd been reading a lot of children's fantasy books, a little bit of adult SF, as well as lots of old fairy-stories. The Dark Crystal was way out there, but not so much more so than Madeleine L'Engle or some of the stuff on children's television in those days.

[(Anonymous)]

TBH I just found the whole movie very ugly and unlikeable as a child. Ditto with The Labyrinth.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't remember a thing about this movie now but I know I hated it and I'm certain my hatred was entirely due to being creeped out by the puppets.

[(Anonymous)]

I was nine when I first saw this and Labyrinth. I loved them both.

[(Anonymous)]

My 8 year old has been watching it for years and loves it. I can barely be in the same room with it due to puppet phobia.

[tasogare_n_hime]

I love that movie so much.

This like me with Fantasia when I was little the part with the dinosaurs, and Night on Bald Mountain were and still are my favorite parts. Nearly everyone else seems to have been traumatized by them.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of Nickelodeon cartoons that I watched as a kid weren't scary to me, but now they are creepy to me. Stuff like Rugrats or Rockos Modern Life... creep me out now.

I was shown that Dark Crystal movie as a kid and didn't think much of it, but now it's nightmare fuel to me.

[randomdrops]

Weird. I only know adults who find it creepy, everyone who watched it as a kid has fond memories and loves it. I loved this movie as a kid, but tried to watch it a year or so ago and found it terribly boring. Beautiful and creative, but boring as hell. Sad.

[rbhudson]

Mostly the puppets with their dead eyes. I can't reasonably explain it because I only ever saw it as an adult. I saw Labyrinth both as a child and as an adult and that didn't bother me.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

TV Tropes has it listed on it's Uncanny Valley page because the two Gelflings can be a bit creepy because they're more human than anything else in the movie, and I agree with that, though it was only ever a minor disturbance and not enough to actually scare me. The essence-draining of Kira was a bit scary to me as a child, because by that time in the movie one is attached to her.

But really, most of the scary scenes for movies like this - classic 80s kid's movies that were right in my 6-10 childhood - the one movie that was more than briefly closing my eyes was not a kid's movie "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and the heart-ripping scene, which according to Mum, had me trying to crawl under the cinema chair when we first watched it.