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These are some scenes from movies and TV that scared the living crap out of me, whether when I was a little girl, in my teenage years, or even still to this day. (takes a deep breath) Okay, let's see if I can get through with this without having any nightmares...

Because of How It Was Built Up: Man's Return (Bambi) Even to this day, I still get goosebumps when I hear that haunting tune or see this scene: the smoke in a far-off distance, the crows warning the animals of the oncoming danger, the dark nighttime atmosphere, and the dark trees where the animals are trying to hide. Then, there's the death of that one pheasant...

Because It Jumped Out at Me: Ursula's Wrath (The Little Mermaid) Let's get one thing clear: Ursula is an awesome Disney villainess in my opinion, because of how f***ing scary she is. I was scared of her laugh during Ariel's transformation into a human; I was terrified of her transforming from Vanessa into her normal cecallian on the wedding ship; and I was horrified of how she transformed into a friggin' monster during the final battle! Not to mention her scary, low-pitched voice when she tries to kill Eric and Ariel!

Because It Was Insane: The Clown Nightmare (The Brave Little Toaster) A lot of scenes in this movie are scary (e.g. the Air Conditioner exploding or the B-Movie song), but when I was little, I could watch most of those scenes except for THIS ONE. In it, the Toaster dreams about his Master having some toast with him, but then a fire occurs, the Master is taken away by a cloud of smoke, and then flames grow as this Pennywise-esque firefighter clown appears out of nowhere and gives this creepy smirk. "Run!" he whispers to Toaster. Toaster does run for his life as the clown shoots a water hose with the liquid transforming into forks, and then the Toaster dangles above a bathtub full of water as laughter is heard! Thankfully, the nightmare ends just as the Toaster is about to die in the bathtub, but still...

Because It was Grotesque: The Thing's Dog Form (The Thing) This movie by John Carpenter is a great one to watch at Halloween, where we witness a team of Americans in Antarctica who are confronted by an alien with the ability to shapeshift into extremely identical dopplegangers of other living beings. In this particular scene, we are fully introduced to the "Thing" after it had been hiding inside a husky's body. And believe me, it is SO disgusting and scary to see that creature with a dog's face melted into its body; it's also quite disturbing to hear that ghastly cry that it makes!

Because It Was Graphic: Apaches (1977) This is a British public information film that warns children to never play on farms, because FARMS WILL KILL YOU. In those twenty-five minutes, we see six kids playing Cowboys and Indians, but then they die off one by one until only one survives. We see a girl fall from a tractor wagon and get run over; a boy falls into a slurry pit and drowns in animal feces ; a girl accidentally drinks some poison and then suffers a painful death in the middle of the night; a boy gets crushed by some falling iron gates; and another boy rides a tractor and falls down a hill on the tractor, breaking his neck and killing himself. Seriously, this film gave me nightmares the first time I watched it!

Because of Subtext: Tramp Vs The Rat (Lady and the Tramp) When I was very little, I didn't really think much about this scene, but now that I'm older, I can really see just how horrifying this scene from the animated Lady and the Tramp truly is. Anyway, a rat sneaks into the baby's nursery, and Lady tries to stop it, but that dog-despising c**t called Aunt Sarah yells at her to be quiet. Luckily, Tramp hears Lady's barks, and Lady tells him that the Rat is in the nursery. Tramp sneaks into the house and then confronts the Rat in a dark atmosphere with flashing thunder and creepy shots of the rat. And seeing how Tramp goes from being the caring and funny dog that he normally into this Papa Bear-like monster to fight the rat is even more spine-chilling! Luckily, Tramp is able to kill the Rat, but still, there's the fact that real rats have been known to creep into babies' cribs and bite them to death...

Because of the Uncanny Valley: SpongeBob Slowly Drying Out at Sandy's Treedome (SpongeBob SquarePants: Tea at the Treedome) "I don't need it... I don't need it... (long pause) I NEED IT!!" I know that this is the first episode to feature Sandy Cheeks, and that some points actually did make me smile, but I always cringe when I see poor SpongeBob slowly drying up inside Sandy's air-filled home (even after he boasted all the time about loving air). To add to that, Patrick joins him, and then he dries out, too! ("What kind of place is this?!") Now we have two friends slowly dying until they completely dry up much to Sandy's horror! I know that Sandy is able to revive them with water and let them enjoy some tea with her, but then again, just the thought of SpongeBob suffering with that creepy voice still makes me shiver... (I know, I'm a wimp LOL)

Because They Nearly Faced Death: Andy's Toys in the Garbage Pit (Toy Story 3) In this scene, Woody and the other toys have just escaped from Sunnyside Daycare, and are now at a dump with some other garbage from a garbage truck. Lotso Huggin' Bear appears to be in distress later, and then Woody and the others try to help him out of a garbage pit, but then that strawberry-scented a**hole betrays them and leaves them to die! Then, there's the big fire pit in the middle! Woody and his friends are now doomed, it seems, which is very terrifying. (imagine if you were slowly sliding down to a fiery pit and there was nothing you could do) I know that the Little Green Men later rescue the friends via "The Claw," but the shots of Woody and the other toys looking on with fear as they hold each other's hands, ready to accept their doom, is utterly disturbing.

Because They Were Alone: Philip's Jungle Dinosaur Dream (Dinosaurs: A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time!) I remember watching this live action/animated special when I was a dinosaur-obsessed kid in elementary school, and I loved it! Well, except for this one scene. During his dream about dinosaurs, Philip, the main character soon finds himself in a jungle with live-sized statues of dinosaurs all around. The sounds of prehistoric animals crying and screeching, the shots of the T-Rex eating a Triceratops, and the different angles of scenes where none of the dinosaurs move are like something straight out of a low-budget Sesame Street rip-off to watch at Halloween!

Because They Were Malicious: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (The Pagemaster) "My name is... MR. HYDE!!" That close-up of the newly transformed monster and the late Leonard Nimoy's performance always scared the living bejeezus out of me when I was 5-6 years old! In this scene, Richard Tyler and his book friends find themselves in a haunted house, where they meet Dr. Jekyll, who starts off as a seemingly normal human being, but then after he makes up a drink and chugs it down, he transforms into his other ego, Mr. Hyde. I swear, I always hid under the bed covers at night for months after watching this scene, because I always feared that Mr. Hyde would be creeping in my house or even in my room!

Because It Hit One of my Phobias: The Doctor and His Wife are Buried Alive (Tremors) When I used to watch this movie with my sister as a young girl, I always got scared when this scene came on: the scene where the doctor of Perfection, Nevada and his wife are both buried alive and killed by the Grabloids! I will admit right here and now that I am terrified of being buried alive, and this scene gave me that fear! Just the scenes of the doctor slowly sinking into the sand and then his wife being slowly buried alive while inside the car are enough to give me goosebumps.

Because of the Unknown: Searching (a Public Information Film about Fire Safety) In this PIF, we go inside a house that has been completely devastated by a fire, and we hear creepy echoes of a family screaming each other's names and crying for help. When we go upstairs, we find a scorched children's bedroom before the scene "burns", and we are given the message: "PLEASE KEEP MATCHES AWAY FROM CHILDREN." I mean, were any children playing with matches that caused that fire? What happened to them? Did everyone in the family die? We don't know!

Because I Walked in Their Shoes: Mickey Mouse in The Haunted House (The Haunted House) In this classic Disney short, Mickey Mouse comes across a haunted house and goes inside it, where he is instructed by some goons to play music for a haunted party. To be honest, most of the short is not all that scary, what with the skeletons dancing and the skeleton in the outhouse at the end. But it's when Mickey is alone in the dark with some evil shadows that really give me the heebie-jeebies. One time, at a Halloween carnival, I actually went into a haunted house with fake props and such, but it was dark and the "ghouls" kept popping out and scaring the pants off of me! Since then, I usually stay away from haunted houses - whether they''re real or fake.

Because It Tampered With my Senses: Moses' Hieroglyphic Nightmare (The Prince of Egypt) After he unexpectedly reunites with his biological siblings and learns the truth from Miriam, Moses runs back to the palace and stays in denial that he is a Hebrew and a true prince. But after he drifts off to sleep, he has a nightmare among hieroglyphics on the walls about how his adoptive father, Seti I, actually ordered his men to take all the male Hebrew babies and kill them. Moses also realizes that Miriam was right about their biological mother, Yocheved, saving Moses' life by sending him in a basket among the Nile River, and then there's the end of the dream where Moses is cornered by the Egyptian soldiers and falls into the Nile to die with the other male Hebrew babies (either by drowning or getting eaten by crocodiles). I felt every ounce of fear that Moses felt when I saw this scene, and then there's the aftermath where Moses goes over to a wall and sees the hieroglyphics of Hebrew babies dying in the river many years before...

Because It Showed the Horrors of Humanity: The Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima (Barefoot Gen) This graphic anime is actually based on the real-life events of Japan at the end of World War II, and this scene scares the crap out of me. In it, the Enola Gay B-29 drops the atom bomb onto Hiroshima, and the whole affects of the bomb are literally flashed before our eyes: the images of people literally melting and burning; the powerful blast that breaks down buildings, trees, and structures; the glass shards flying into a mother and her child; the scene of Gen's family (his brother, sister, father, and mother) getting either blown away or crushed by their falling house; and the images of the mushroom clouds going high into the sky. This scene still scares me, as it shows the dark side of us humans and war, and even today, I HOPE AND PRAY that NOTHING like this EVER happens in Ukraine.

Because It Showed the Horrors of Nature: Belle Attacked by Wolves (Beauty and the Beast) This scene is much more impacting than the one in the 2017 live action movie for a number of reasons. For one, you see Belle and her horse, Philippe, going through a lot of terror when these crazy carnivores attack them in the woods as Belle is running away from the Beast. We see the wolves giving menacing growls and expressions as they chase Belle and her horse into a frozen river, ambush her on the other side of the river, try to take Philippe down by jumping on him, break Belle's defensive stick in two, and then pull Belle down to the ground, ready to finish her off. Growing up in Alaska, we had wolves and bears, but the wolves I knew rarely attacked people (mainly because I lived in Anchorage, which is a populated city, and wolves usually stay away from urban areas in real life), so this scene is very hard for me to watch. I know that the Beast eventually rescues Belle and fights the wolves off, but still...

Because It Showed the Horrors of Tech: Eduard Delacroix's Death (The Green Mile) Sometimes, even planned and premeditated deaths can go wrong... and I mean, HORRIBLY wrong. Eduard "Del" Delacroix is conedemned to die in the electric chair (in the book, it explains that Del is on death row for rape, arson, and murder), and guess who's in charge of his execution? That's right - Percy Wetmore! That motherf**ker who bullied Del on E Block is in charge of his death, too. To add insult to injury, Percy tells Del that there's no such place as Mouseville for Del's beloved pet mouse, Mr. Jingles, and then Percy does the ultimate unthinkable: he refuses to wet the sponge for the electric chair. What follows is a shocking (no pun intended) and horrifying death for poor Del... and the audience watching this movie (including myself). Although I'm a proud supporter of the death penalty, even Del didn't deserve to die this way, as the electric chair when horrifically wrong.

Because I Felt Insignificant: Snow White Meets the Witch (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) I never wanted to watch this Disney movie because of how the Wicked Queen transforms into a terrifying old hide! If the Queen's transformation wasn't enough, that one shot of her appearing out of nowhere at the Dwarfs' cottage in front of Snow White always made me want to run and hide! The worst was still to come, as the Queen/Witch had a poisoned apple in store for Snow White, and then tempted her to eat it before she fell and dropped to the ground as if she were dead. What's even more scary is how we in the audience cannot do a thing about poor Snow White! I know that the handsome prince later comes and kisses Snow White to break the evil spell, but still...

Because of the Atmosphere: Dark and Lonely Water Here is another British public information film that never fails to send shivers up my spine! This one features an eerie voiceover by the late Donald Pleasance, where a Grim Reaper-like being called the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water lingers over unsafe water and then shows clips of children falling into these waters and either getting hurt or drowning. When one little boy is struggling for air in a creepy-looking pool, two other children come to his rescue and the Spirit disappears into his cloak; then, when one of the children throws the cloak away into the water, we hear the Spirit echoing, "I'll be back..." (no, not like the Terminator) Not only does Donald Pleasance creep me out with that narration, but also the misty and ghastly atmospheres of dangerous water are more reasons why I'm a hardcore pool person.

Because of the Sound Design: Scavengers (Lynx Anti-Fur Commercials) Last public information film, I promise! As you may have guessed from the title, this PIF shows the horrors of flies and maggots visiting dead animals' bodies as humans shop for fur coats at a high-end store. Eventually, one coat in particular releases a big load of maggots, which not only grosses me out, but also the sounds of the creepy fly buzzes give me nightmares. The commercial ends with the message, "When animals are killed for their fur, two kinds of scavengers move in. The difference is, the flies don't know any better."

Because I Cared For Those in Peril: Quasimodo Gets Humiliated (Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame) A lot of people actually find this scene to be sad (don't get me wrong, it is depressing when Quasi's dreams are crushed at the Feast of Fools), but to me this scene actually scares me more than it makes me sad - especially when the atmosphere goes yellow, and we see Quasi get tied down to a turntable (with his tunic torn up and people still throwing food at him ) before he is spun around and jeered at. I can't even imagine how terrifying it would be to be the focus of a riot and get tortured like that! What's worse is that Frollo, who is supposed to view the hunchback as his surrogate son, doesn't do sh*t to help him! Eventually, though, Esmeralda does put a stop to the humiliation and tells off Frollo (BUT SHE NEVER TELLS OFF THOSE F**KING PARISIANS FOR ATTACKING QUASIMODO!!!!! - excuse me, for I always have to blow off steam whenever this scene comes on), but still, I felt completely helpless when I couldn't help Quasi. If I were in the crowd, I wouldn't join in. I would go O-Ren Ishii or Beatrix Kiddo from Kill Bill with a Japanese sword and kill all those scary sons of b**ches.

Because This Could Happen to Me: Dante's Peak Erupts (Dante's Peak) As I mentioned earlier, I grew up in Alaska, so I know some stuff about volcanoes and the Ring of Fire. This movie is based on the horrific eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington in 1980, and it basically recaptured those events in a fictionalized disaster movie. When that volcano explodes and creates terror among the town of Dante's Peak, I always think about my early life in Alaska, and how I now live in South Dakota, which is next door to Wyoming (home to Yellowstone Park and its dormant volcano). I mean, what if the volcano in Yellowstone erupts into a supervolcano and we're all wiped off the face of the Earth? Even as I type this now and think about Dante's Peak, my stomach is tuning and churning.

Because It Made Me Recall Trauma: The Slime Bathtub (Ghostbusters 2) This scene still scares the sh*t out of me, because when I first saw this scene as a little girl, I was completely traumatized; sometimes I was actually scared of bathtime because of this scene. In it, Dana Barrett prepares a bath for her baby son, Oscar, but then some pink slime pours out of the faucet and creates this slime monster that tries to attack the mother and child! At least Dana and her baby were able to escape and find refuge at Peter Venkman's apartment, and I'm also grateful that this slime monster wasn't anything like the next entry...

BECAUSE AAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!: The Blob (1988) Speaking of slime, this remake of the 1950s horror movie of the same name still creeps me out to this day. There are too many scenes to name to put in this category: the scene where Paul is completely dissolved by the Blob, the sink, the telephone booth, the movie theater, and so on. It seems that nothing can stop that monster... until ice and extremely cold temperatures do. Seriously, where's Elsa when you need her? Because I am TERRIFIED of this movie!

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These are some scenes from movies and TV that scared the living crap out of me, whether when I was a little girl, in my teenage years, or even still to this day. (takes a deep breath) Okay, let's see if I can get through with this without having any nightmares...

Because of How It Was Built Up: Man's Return (Bambi) Even to this day, I still get goosebumps when I hear that haunting tune or see this scene: the smoke in a far-off distance, the crows warning the animals of the oncoming danger, the dark nighttime atmosphere, and the dark trees where the animals are trying to hide. Then, there's the death of that one pheasant...

Because It Jumped Out at Me: Ursula's Wrath (The Little Mermaid) Let's get one thing clear: Ursula is an awesome Disney villainess in my opinion, because of how f***ing scary she is. I was scared of her laugh during Ariel's transformation into a human; I was terrified of her transforming from Vanessa into her normal cecallian on the wedding ship; and I was horrified of how she transformed into a friggin' monster during the final battle! Not to mention her scary, low-pitched voice when she tries to kill Eric and Ariel!

Because It Was Insane: The Clown Nightmare (The Brave Little Toaster) A lot of scenes in this movie are scary (e.g. the Air Conditioner exploding or the B-Movie song), but when I was little, I could watch most of those scenes except for THIS ONE. In it, the Toaster dreams about his Master having some toast with him, but then a fire occurs, the Master is taken away by a cloud of smoke, and then flames grow as this Pennywise-esque firefighter clown appears out of nowhere and gives this creepy smirk. "Run!" he whispers to Toaster. Toaster does run for his life as the clown shoots a water hose with the liquid transforming into forks, and then the Toaster dangles above a bathtub full of water as laughter is heard! Thankfully, the nightmare ends just as the Toaster is about to die in the bathtub, but still...

Because It was Grotesque: The Thing's Dog Form (The Thing) This movie by John Carpenter is a great one to watch at Halloween, where we witness a team of Americans in Antarctica who are confronted by an alien with the ability to shapeshift into extremely identical dopplegangers of other living beings. In this particular scene, we are fully introduced to the "Thing" after it had been hiding inside a husky's body. And believe me, it is SO disgusting and scary to see that creature with a dog's face melted into its body; it's also quite disturbing to hear that ghastly cry that it makes!

Because It Was Graphic: Apaches (1977) This is a British public information film that warns children to never play on farms, because FARMS WILL KILL YOU. In those twenty-five minutes, we see six kids playing Cowboys and Indians, but then they die off one by one until only one survives. We see a girl fall from a tractor wagon and get run over; a boy falls into a slurry pit and drowns in animal feces ; a girl accidentally drinks some poison and then suffers a painful death in the middle of the night; a boy gets crushed by some falling iron gates; and another boy rides a tractor and falls down a hill on the tractor, breaking his neck and killing himself. Seriously, this film gave me nightmares the first time I watched it!

Because of Subtext: Tramp Vs The Rat (Lady and the Tramp) When I was very little, I didn't really think much about this scene, but now that I'm older, I can really see just how horrifying this scene from the animated Lady and the Tramp truly is. Anyway, a rat sneaks into the baby's nursery, and Lady tries to stop it, but that dog-despising c**t called Aunt Sarah yells at her to be quiet. Luckily, Tramp hears Lady's barks, and Lady tells him that the Rat is in the nursery. Tramp sneaks into the house and then confronts the Rat in a dark atmosphere with flashing thunder and creepy shots of the rat. And seeing how Tramp goes from being the caring and funny dog that he normally into this Papa Bear-like monster to fight the rat is even more spine-chilling! Luckily, Tramp is able to kill the Rat, but still, there's the fact that real rats have been known to creep into babies' cribs and bite them to death...

Because of the Uncanny Valley: SpongeBob Slowly Drying Out at Sandy's Treedome (SpongeBob SquarePants: Tea at the Treedome) "I don't need it... I don't need it... (long pause) I NEED IT!!" I know that this is the first episode to feature Sandy Cheeks, and that some points actually did make me smile, but I always cringe when I see poor SpongeBob slowly drying up inside Sandy's air-filled home (even after he boasted all the time about loving air). To add to that, Patrick joins him, and then he dries out, too! ("What kind of place is this?!") Now we have two friends slowly dying until they completely dry up much to Sandy's horror! I know that Sandy is able to revive them with water and let them enjoy some tea with her, but then again, just the thought of SpongeBob suffering with that creepy voice still makes me shiver... (I know, I'm a wimp LOL)

Because They Nearly Faced Death: Andy's Toys in the Garbage Pit (Toy Story 3) In this scene, Woody and the other toys have just escaped from Sunnyside Daycare, and are now at a dump with some other garbage from a garbage truck. Lotso Huggin' Bear appears to be in distress later, and then Woody and the others try to help him out of a garbage pit, but then that strawberry-scented a**hole betrays them and leaves them to die! Then, there's the big fire pit in the middle! Woody and his friends are now doomed, it seems, which is very terrifying. (imagine if you were slowly sliding down to a fiery pit and there was nothing you could do) I know that the Little Green Men later rescue the friends via "The Claw," but the shots of Woody and the other toys looking on with fear as they hold each other's hands, ready to accept their doom, is utterly disturbing.

Because They Were Alone: Philip's Jungle Dinosaur Dream (Dinosaurs: A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time!) I remember watching this live action/animated special when I was a dinosaur-obsessed kid in elementary school, and I loved it! Well, except for this one scene. During his dream about dinosaurs, Philip, the main character soon finds himself in a jungle with live-sized statues of dinosaurs all around. The sounds of prehistoric animals crying and screeching, the shots of the T-Rex eating a Triceratops, and the different angles of scenes where none of the dinosaurs move are like something straight out of a low-budget Sesame Street rip-off to watch at Halloween!

Because They Were Malicious: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (The Pagemaster) "My name is... MR. HYDE!!" That close-up of the newly transformed monster and the late Leonard Nimoy's performance always scared the living bejeezus out of me when I was 5-6 years old! In this scene, Richard Tyler and his book friends find themselves in a haunted house, where they meet Dr. Jekyll, who starts off as a seemingly normal human being, but then after he makes up a drink and chugs it down, he transforms into his other ego, Mr. Hyde. I swear, I always hid under the bed covers at night for months after watching this scene, because I always feared that Mr. Hyde would be creeping in my house or even in my room!

Because It Hit One of my Phobias: The Doctor and His Wife are Buried Alive (Tremors) When I used to watch this movie with my sister as a young girl, I always got scared when this scene came on: the scene where the doctor of Perfection, Nevada and his wife are both buried alive and killed by the Grabloids! I will admit right here and now that I am terrified of being buried alive, and this scene gave me that fear! Just the scenes of the doctor slowly sinking into the sand and then his wife being slowly buried alive while inside the car are enough to give me goosebumps.

Because of the Unknown: Searching (a Public Information Film about Fire Safety) In this PIF, we go inside a house that has been completely devastated by a fire, and we hear creepy echoes of a family screaming each other's names and crying for help. When we go upstairs, we find a scorched children's bedroom before the scene "burns", and we are given the message: "PLEASE KEEP MATCHES AWAY FROM CHILDREN." I mean, were any children playing with matches that caused that fire? What happened to them? Did everyone in the family die? We don't know!

Because I Walked in Their Shoes: Mickey Mouse in The Haunted House (The Haunted House) In this classic Disney short, Mickey Mouse comes across a haunted house and goes inside it, where he is instructed by some goons to play music for a haunted party. To be honest, most of the short is not all that scary, what with the skeletons dancing and the skeleton in the outhouse at the end. But it's when Mickey is alone in the dark with some evil shadows that really give me the heebie-jeebies. One time, at a Halloween carnival, I actually went into a haunted house with fake props and such, but it was dark and the "ghouls" kept popping out and scaring the pants off of me! Since then, I usually stay away from haunted houses - whether they''re real or fake.

Because It Tampered With my Senses: Moses' Hieroglyphic Nightmare (The Prince of Egypt) After he unexpectedly reunites with his biological siblings and learns the truth from Miriam, Moses runs back to the palace and stays in denial that he is a Hebrew and a true prince. But after he drifts off to sleep, he has a nightmare among hieroglyphics on the walls about how his adoptive father, Seti I, actually ordered his men to take all the male Hebrew babies and kill them. Moses also realizes that Miriam was right about their biological mother, Yocheved, saving Moses' life by sending him in a basket among the Nile River, and then there's the end of the dream where Moses is cornered by the Egyptian soldiers and falls into the Nile to die with the other male Hebrew babies (either by drowning or getting eaten by crocodiles). I felt every ounce of fear that Moses felt when I saw this scene, and then there's the aftermath where Moses goes over to a wall and sees the hieroglyphics of Hebrew babies dying in the river many years before...

Because It Showed the Horrors of Humanity: The Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima (Barefoot Gen) This graphic anime is actually based on the real-life events of Japan at the end of World War II, and this scene scares the crap out of me. In it, the Enola Gay B-29 drops the atom bomb onto Hiroshima, and the whole affects of the bomb are literally flashed before our eyes: the images of people literally melting and burning; the powerful blast that breaks down buildings, trees, and structures; the glass shards flying into a mother and her child; the scene of Gen's family (his brother, sister, father, and mother) getting either blown away or crushed by their falling house; and the images of the mushroom clouds going high into the sky. This scene still scares me, as it shows the dark side of us humans and war, and even today, I HOPE AND PRAY that NOTHING like this EVER happens in Ukraine.

Because It Showed the Horrors of Nature: Belle Attacked by Wolves (Beauty and the Beast) This scene is much more impacting than the one in the 2017 live action movie for a number of reasons. For one, you see Belle and her horse, Philippe, going through a lot of terror when these crazy carnivores attack them in the woods as Belle is running away from the Beast. We see the wolves giving menacing growls and expressions as they chase Belle and her horse into a frozen river, ambush her on the other side of the river, try to take Philippe down by jumping on him, break Belle's defensive stick in two, and then pull Belle down to the ground, ready to finish her off. Growing up in Alaska, we had wolves and bears, but the wolves I knew rarely attacked people (mainly because I lived in Anchorage, which is a populated city, and wolves usually stay away from urban areas in real life), so this scene is very hard for me to watch. I know that the Beast eventually rescues Belle and fights the wolves off, but still...

Because It Showed the Horrors of Tech: Eduard Delacroix's Death (The Green Mile) Sometimes, even planned and premeditated deaths can go wrong... and I mean, HORRIBLY wrong. Eduard "Del" Delacroix is conedemned to die in the electric chair (in the book, it explains that Del is on death row for rape, arson, and murder), and guess who's in charge of his execution? That's right - Percy Wetmore! That motherf**ker who bullied Del on E Block is in charge of his death, too. To add insult to injury, Percy tells Del that there's no such place as Mouseville for Del's beloved pet mouse, Mr. Jingles, and then Percy does the ultimate unthinkable: he refuses to wet the sponge for the electric chair. What follows is a shocking (no pun intended) and horrifying death for poor Del... and the audience watching this movie (including myself). Although I'm a proud supporter of the death penalty, even Del didn't deserve to die this way, as the electric chair when horrifically wrong.

Because I Felt Insignificant: Snow White Meets the Witch (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) I never wanted to watch this Disney movie because of how the Wicked Queen transforms into a terrifying old hide! If the Queen's transformation wasn't enough, that one shot of her appearing out of nowhere at the Dwarfs' cottage in front of Snow White always made me want to run and hide! The worst was still to come, as the Queen/Witch had a poisoned apple in store for Snow White, and then tempted her to eat it before she fell and dropped to the ground as if she were dead. What's even more scary is how we in the audience cannot do a thing about poor Snow White! I know that the handsome prince later comes and kisses Snow White to break the evil spell, but still...

Because of the Atmosphere: Dark and Lonely Water Here is another British public information film that never fails to send shivers up my spine! This one features an eerie voiceover by the late Donald Pleasance, where a Grim Reaper-like being called the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water lingers over unsafe water and then shows clips of children falling into these waters and either getting hurt or drowning. When one little boy is struggling for air in a creepy-looking pool, two other children come to his rescue and the Spirit disappears into his cloak; then, when one of the children throws the cloak away into the water, we hear the Spirit echoing, "I'll be back..." (no, not like the Terminator) Not only does Donald Pleasance creep me out with that narration, but also the misty and ghastly atmospheres of dangerous water are more reasons why I'm a hardcore pool person.

Because of the Sound Design: Scavengers (Lynx Anti-Fur Commercials) Last public information film, I promise! As you may have guessed from the title, this PIF shows the horrors of flies and maggots visiting dead animals' bodies as humans shop for fur coats at a high-end store. Eventually, one coat in particular releases a big load of maggots, which not only grosses me out, but also the sounds of the creepy fly buzzes give me nightmares. The commercial ends with the message, "When animals are killed for their fur, two kinds of scavengers move in. The difference is, the flies don't know any better."

Because I Cared For Those in Peril: Quasimodo Gets Humiliated (Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame) A lot of people actually find this scene to be sad (don't get me wrong, it is depressing when Quasi's dreams are crushed at the Feast of Fools), but to me this scene actually scares me more than it makes me sad - especially when the atmosphere goes yellow, and we see Quasi get tied down to a turntable (with his tunic torn up and people still throwing food at him ) before he is spun around and jeered at. I can't even imagine how terrifying it would be to be the focus of a riot and get tortured like that! What's worse is that Frollo, who is supposed to view the hunchback as his surrogate son, doesn't do sh*t to help him! Eventually, though, Esmeralda does put a stop to the humiliation and tells off Frollo (BUT SHE NEVER TELLS OFF THOSE F**KING PARISIANS FOR ATTACKING QUASIMODO!!!!! - excuse me, for I always have to blow off steam whenever this scene comes on), but still, I felt completely helpless when I couldn't help Quasi. If I were in the crowd, I wouldn't join in. I would go O-Ren Ishii or Beatrix Kiddo from Kill Bill with a Japanese sword and kill all those scary sons of b**ches.

Because This Could Happen to Me: Dante's Peak Erupts (Dante's Peak) As I mentioned earlier, I grew up in Alaska, so I know some stuff about volcanoes and the Ring of Fire. This movie is based on the horrific eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington in 1980, and it basically recaptured those events in a fictionalized disaster movie. When that volcano explodes and creates terror among the town of Dante's Peak, I always think about my early life in Alaska, and how I now live in South Dakota, which is next door to Wyoming (home to Yellowstone Park and its dormant volcano). I mean, what if the volcano in Yellowstone erupts into a supervolcano and we're all wiped off the face of the Earth? Even as I type this now and think about Dante's Peak, my stomach is tuning and churning.

Because It Made Me Recall Trauma: The Slime Bathtub (Ghostbusters 2) This scene still scares the sh*t out of me, because when I first saw this scene as a little girl, I was completely traumatized; sometimes I was actually scared of bathtime because of this scene. In it, Dana Barrett prepares a bath for her baby son, Oscar, but then some pink slime pours out of the faucet and creates this slime monster that tries to attack the mother and child! At least Dana and her baby were able to escape and find refuge at Peter Venkman's apartment, and I'm also grateful that this slime monster wasn't anything like the next entry...

BECAUSE AAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!: The Blob (1988) Speaking of slime, this remake of the 1950s horror movie of the same name still creeps me out to this day. There are too many scenes to name to put in this category: the scene where Paul is completely dissolved by the Blob, the sink, the telephone booth, the movie theater, and so on. It seems that nothing can stop that monster... until ice and extremely cold temperatures do. Seriously, where's Elsa when you need her? Because I am TERRIFIED of this movie!

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