I got into a conversation with some coworkers today and somehow we started talking about movies that traumatized us as children.
Since everyone has a story about this topic, I decided to make it a blog entry.
Here are the films that made me scream and stay up all night:
- Anything with Freddy Krueger
- Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure – the scary trucker lady
- Garbage Pail Kids
- Snow White – the witch with the big bulgy eyes
- Bonus scary thing: Facts of Life – Halloween episode where Blair has the big, burned hair.
The films that made me cry and probably still do:
- E.T. – when E.T. had to go home and couldn’t stay with Elliott. Why couldn’t E.T. and his family move in with Elliott?! (Note: I still get sad looking at E.T.'s photo.)
- Bambi – his mom gets shot!
- Dumbo – he is taken away from his mom.
- Little Mermaid – the music makes me sad and I didn’t like the fact she had to choose to either be a person or a mermaid. Why can’t she be half and half – so she can visit family and friends underwater?
- Pretty much any Disney movie – with the exception of Toy Story
- Land Before Time – the little dinosaur’s family probably dies, I can’t remember what happened but I know it upset me.
- The Chipmunk Movie – They help a baby penguin who was an orphan or something. (This is a recurring theme in all children’s movies!)
- The Wizard – Billed as a movie about a kid who is good at video games, this film is really depressing. It is about a mentally unstable kid (he is partially-catatonic) who is great at video games. When he gets put in a mental facility, his brother breaks him out so they can go play at a video game tournament. Oh and the little boy’s sister also died at a young age. So this movie has mental illness, divorce, death and Super Mario Bros. No wonder I cried!
- Homeward Bound - really any movies with cute animals!
- The Ewok Movie - I really don't remember much but there were kids in the woods and they were scared.
Movies/TV shows that affected my family: My mom remains afraid of the Wizard of Oz flying monkeys and my dad said the sight of Shirley Temple still bothers him. As a child, he was apparently forced to watch her films.
So what movies/TV really upset you?









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however, there have been plenty since then that have scared me to death.
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The devil mountain scene in Fantasia.
January 29, 2009 11:08 a.m.
Flying monkeys still creep me out, and I can't deal with anything with dolls in them. Dolls make my skin crawl.
And I don't do animal movies. Old Yeller scarred me for life. I can go through a CASE of kleenex with an animal movie.
January 29, 2009 11:00 a.m.
January 29, 2009 10:54 a.m.
The Wizard of Oz actually makes me cry! When Judy Garland sings "Over The Rainbow", and when Dorothy has to leave Oz--I always start bawling!
January 29, 2009 10:51 a.m.