From scary villains and their sinister practices to creepy characters who are supposed to be the good guys, it was actually pretty easy to get freaked out as a child watching a screen.
With their rose-tinted glasses taken off, Reddit users have been sharing the things that disturbed them most from children’s movies and TV.
Here’s 17 of the most harrowing responses.
1. “A lot from Courage the Cowardly Dog.” – kingtut_24
2. “Also Him from the Power Puff Girls.” – kingtut_24
3. “Sid’s toys in Toy Story.” – glovjr23
4. “The tunnel scene in Willy Wonka.” – glovjr23
5. “I don’t know if E.T. counts as a children’s movie, but when E.T.’s health starts deteriorating near the end of the movie it was horrifying.” – elliold
6. “Scooby Doo in Zombie Island. The reveal of the monsters being real was too much…” – Micaityl
7. “Tar pits in the Land Before Time movies.” – bakemeawaytoys
8. “The episode of Spongebob where Squidward time-travels. First he’s frozen for centuries, then he travels back to before people existed, then he breaks the time machine and ends up in a white void populated only by solitude and madness.” – theletterQfivetimes
“There’s a similar episode of the Simpsons where Homer keeps travelling back and forth from prehistory and keeps coming back to somewhat familiar yet terrifyingly alien versions of the present.”
9. “The ‘Pink Elephants’ skit from Dumbo.” – Kujo17
10. “There’s some surprisingly messed up stuff in The Brave Little Toaster.” – nalc
11. “The entire movie Coraline.” – bubbleaurum
12. “Neverending Story … The bit in the marsh.” – satanicpuppy
13. “In the Pinocchio movie when he goes to the Coachman who wants him to find boys to take to ‘Pleasure Island’.” – agpleezdeddy
14. “Witches, the whole movie, especially when Anjelica Huston peeled her face off.” – MedschoolgirlMadison
15. “The episode of Thomas the Tank Engine where they wall Henry up in the tunnel.” – echoesreach
16. “In Homeward Bound when Shadow was stuck in the mud pit.” – brazlsocrgirl18
17. “The Teletubbies’ Baby Sun God.” – Draaaaaaven
Why did everyone watch all these again?
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