Submitted by WhereIsThatElephant t3_11d62wx in movies
Stuff like (yes, special effects are to be left to imagination) Sindbad travels, or that 1982 Dragonslayer predecessor of the goofy CGI dragon chasing hobbits and dwarfs on end - Smoug.
On my part, Jurassic Park - feels so more realistic with their animatronics, 1979 Alien - same thing.
Do you know anything else I can scare/entice my friends' kids with? And adults as well.
edit: (they are pushing 10)
First of all. Love the motivation of scaring your friends kids. And depends on how old they are. But for some, and some scenes. Pirates of the Caribbean could be a bit spooky for em
Land before time if you want them to learn about heartbreak
Grave of the Fireflies
I guess this is a good place to ask: Where the hell can I watch Something Wicked This Way Comes and Watcher in the Woods?
10 and growing
The original Witches.
Bett Wilder?
I don't know what that means.
Here's a scene from it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiC54FkzlHU
The movie is streaming on HBO Max:
Already unsettling. Good one.
I was thinking about Hocus Pocus most likely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4e6YQFrt1s
If we're thinking about child-eating women, don't forget Coraline.
If we're thinking about witches, don't forget Paranorman.
Boxtrolls is also great - but problematically spooky.
I swear to God, not looking for child-eating movies on Sunday night, haha
Don't show them Radio flyer.
the inner-child in us
Lord no he said spooky not heartbreaking
I was born for this discussion cracks knuckles
First of all, none of these are anything like Watership Down. These are not ultra violent movies but do have a lot of intense moments and darn subject matter
All Dogs Goto Heaven, Care Bears Movie (seriously that book is fcked up), Secret of Nimh, Land Before Time, Rockdoodle, American Tale, Hannah Barabara's Heidi's Song, Hannah Barbara's Rikki Tikki Tavi, Dark Crystal Labyrinth Scooby Doo Zombie's Island Last Unicorn BATMAN Mask of the Phantasm, Flight of the Dragons, The Animated Hobbit, Brave Little Toaster, Coraline, Paranormen, Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Witches
If you want some true spookiness. Find UNICO on Youtube. It is a cute anime movie about a baby unicorn that is hidden by the spirit of the Wind from the gods who wish to destroy it.
At one point, Unico finds a kitty who wants to be human. So unico grants her wish, turning her into a young woman. She gains the attention of a local prince who ends up being a horrid demon.
Unico is forced to battle it and it basically transforms into something that makes the Fantasia beast look like Big Bird.
The movie is not gory or anything but it is probably one of the darker children films I have ever seen. It was fantastic.
Scroll through it first to see if it is fitting.
Don’t look under the bed
Just put on Monster House
Return To Oz
Wizard of Oz sequel
Poltergeist
Watcher in the Woods
The Monster Squad
Arachnophobia
Gremlins
Labyrinth
No just no. He asked for scares not trauma. Do NOT show a ten year old this movie.
Return to Oz (1985), I love that movie but my oldest child still remembers how traumatized by the Wheelers, Mombi and Gnome King.
"Little Monsters" with Howie Mandel and Fred Savage
Return to Oz.
Something Wicked This Way Comes...
The Dark Crystal was really somethin' else. Also Watership Down.
Oh and THE GATE. Still so F'd up.
The OG Ghostbusters is scary for a kid. Same for GB2. The “Flying ghost babysitter” creeped me out as a kid.
"The Black Cauldron" such an underrated Disney movie
Flight of the navigator
The boogeyman Disney movie. That shit was way too scary for kids. It still holds up.
like physically?
Mr Boogedy, scared the piss out of 7 year old me.
Secret of Nimh, The last Unicorn, Legend, Spirited Away
I played it for my kid on d+. She couldn't handle it at 6 ..lol
Watcher in the Woods Something Wicked this way Comes
….You want nightmare fuel?
Watership Down
Dark Crystal
Dumbo (both the scene where he looses his mother and “pink elephants.”)
Fantasia
The Black Hole (1979)
the Wheelers scared the hell out of me
which apparently gave ideas to the Event Horizon production
Watcher in the Woods was what I was thinking, too. Creeped out a young me.
The Princess and the Goblin and The Polar Bear King. Both pretty obscure at this point, but oh boy were they some early 90s disturbing weirdness.
The talking parcel.
Time-Touch-6433 t1_ja6wgtd wrote
The Pagemaster was kinda freaky when I was little