The astronauts breaking into the house during the 3rd act of E.T. was so frightening to me as a child that it took me nearly a decade later to finally finish that beautiful film.
Oh yes, them breaking into the house petrified me as well, as did the doctors operating on ET. Spielberg hired actual doctors for those scenes, making it appear as if they were hurting him, not trying to revive him, since that's what any child watching would think.
Same! I watched it in the living room with my dad, we were doing an indoor "camp out" where we put up tents inside to watch the movie, and that scene combined with not being able to see beyond the tent into dark corners is my #1 scariest childhood memory.
I think it traumatized me so much I erased it. Seriously! I saw that movie about 8 times s a kid, but I had no memory of that scene until I rewatched the movie last year and then 😭
I don't remember ever being scared of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was one of my favorite movies growing up. I had it pretty much memorized by the time I was an adult. Also, I think I was an adult before I realized that Judge Doom was Doc Brown. I was born in 1982.
To be honest that scared me too. I remember when I was 9 me and my best friend had the choice of seeing Who Framed Roger Rabbit vs Nightmare on Elm Street 4. We ended up seeing Nightmare on Elm street 4. I saw this later on video. What we thought was a lighthearted movie had some pretty dark characters. The guy Doc Brown played was scary on his own.
One that has stuck with me is the Sloth scene from Se7en. Saw it twice in theaters. Second time with my older sister. Started glancing at her during this scene and her jaw hit the floor.
I was gonna mention this one, too. Not only does that scene stick with you LONG after you've watched the film, but I would go so far as to call it the greatest jump scare in the history of film.
for me the lust scene was even more brutal. the guy's desperation and crying when he was telling the detectives what the killer had him do was terrifying
@@DanMurrellMovies Exactly. Phobias are (typcially) defined as an irrational fear. That why I call myself a TRUE arachnophobe, because intellectually, I know it's not that big of a deal, but the primal side just can't deal with spiders.
Ichabod Crane getting pursued by the Headless Horseman in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad I found very scary as a child. Also when Edith Horton runs disorientated and screaming after her companions vanish in Picnic at Hanging Rock,that haunted me for a long time afterwards. And finally when Dorothy disturbs Princess Mombi's heads along with her actual head while stealing a key in Return to Oz.
Same, it's the only thing I can remember that truly scared me when I was a kid, especially because the tone of the previous superman movies had nothing like that!!
for me it wasn't so much the robot aspect, nor even the idea of being turned into a monster, it was the actual showing of her being turned into the monster and how terrified SHE was that stuck with me and made that scene so much worse
@@casuallychallenged Precisely the same experience here. I loved the Superman movies and that may have turned me off of them entirely as a child. Thank heavens I had Optimus Prime for a role model later. 🙂
I'm definitely with you on that. I was like 4 years old seeing this at my neighbors house. A Superman movie, Richard Pryor, you have no idea of the horror that's about to ensue when the lady gets stuck in the machine. I think that's what makes this so unsettling is the unexpectedness of it. I put this scene over most horror movies.
I was shitting my pants. My parents banned me from watching Twin Peaks and I watched the entire show for the first time maybe 9 or 8 years ago. And I love it.
That was a big “maybe I’m not as grown up and brave as I think I am” moment for me. Which is funny looking back on. Because I think I was only in the sixth or seventh grade when that debuted. Have a much older sibling that had me stay up and watch the series in its first run.
if it makes you feel better, when they were filming the scene they tried doing it with actual logs, but they wouldn't bounce at all, so they had to use CGI
Ghost- Screeching Ghosts that drag the baddies to Hell. Carrie- the glowing eyed closet statue of St. Sebastian (i thought it was Jesus when I saw it as a horrified young Jewish boy) Child’s Play 3 - under bed Achilles’ tendon knife slice The Ring (U.S. version) - closet victim reveal “Rachel, I saw her face” Hereditary- head reveal and attic self decapitation
Ghost did have some dark scenes. The Demon. Willie Lopez, Sam's 'friend' The weird guy on the subway was super creepy. Even when it was revealed he was just a scared paranoid guy himself. I'm guessing he might have been scared of the demons and basically deciding to be a hermit trying to avoid them.
My favorite "jump scare with a crowd" is from Jurassic Park. Toward the end, everyone is fleeing from the raptors and they're climbing up into this vent. The camera is high looking down at the floor where the raptors are waiting under the vent, and there's this moment where you feel like, "Yeah, they just made it! The raptors are too late!" And then the raptor jumps. I swear, everyone in the theater had their feet up in their seats. 😂
Jigsaw getting up from the floor after pretending to be a dead corpse the entire movie and then closing the door at the end of the first Saw movie was so haunting for me, I couldn't sleep well days after watching it
Thankfully I was an adult when that movie came out. I'd imagine that would be nightmare inducing for a kid. To be honest though what scared me was when I found out they could deliver electrical shocks through the chains.
I will argue to my death that the original Poltergeist is the scariest movie of all time, primarily because it starts out so epically "normal" and suburban, that by the time we get to all the properly scary stuff, you have been living in a world that is so close to literal home, that it makes it all worse. and also a guy tears his own face off 😱
@@casuallychallenged Right there with you on that one. I saw it for the first time in day care as a kid (yes, day care) and to this day I refuse to eat anything that even looks like the bits of face in the sink from that scene in particular. That isn't all though, the tree in the thunderstorm also really stuck with me and I was terrified of thunderstorms for a year or so since I grew up in a very forested region. I re-watched it as an adult in my mid-twenties and have to agree it really is one of the best executed horror films of all time.
First movie I saw in the theater, 50ish years ago, was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. I was like 3 or 4 and that movie scared the crap out of me. I spent most of the movie in the lobby with my dad as my older sisters watched the film. Years later my then 5-year-old daughter paid me back for that, as she completely panicked in Kubo and the Two Strings when the creepy aunts wanted to take Kubo's eyes, and I spent the rest of that movie walking around the lobby with her waiting for the rest of our family to be done.
My dad always told me the story of when he went to see Jaws for the first time. When the head came out of the boat, his theater was freaking out so much they missed most of the dialogue in the next scene. That’s some effective filmmaking right there
Wow this is such an awesome idea for a video. A lot of people say “I’m gonna remember this” or “this will stick with me for a long time”. Making a retrospective where you look back on your life and talk about which moments actually affected you is a clever concept. Love your stuff Dan, I used to watch you on screen junkies and it’s cool to see individual success :)
@@Molson-xg9hsOne of my favorite TikTok comments was that ET looks like a demonic shell-less turtle that was ran through a meat grinder and then set on fire 😂 I watched ET when I was about 4, and I’m 33 now but I refuse to watch it. I just can’t!
I'm actually surprised E.T. didn't end up on this list as well. It has the best jump scare in my memory in the opening scene and follows it later with my first existential dread as E.T. starts to 'die' in the film. I was all of 6 when I saw it in the theater and sitting in the 3rd row, so that jump scare hit me like a ton of bricks. Oddly, I absolutely loved the movie and kept repeating 'Elliot' in E.T.'s voice for weeks because their friendship was adorably moving.
Every time I doubt M. night, I think back to this scene. It’s so simple and so brilliantly done. I was twice your age when I saw it and it still got me good.
Watching Signs at a drive-in surrounded by cornfields was a big part of cementing my love for horror. I could hear the kids screaming in every other car and to me it was hilarious.
I was seven when I watched Signs, but I’d couldn’t watched past the first hour because I was too scared shitless, so I ran upstairs and went to bed but I didn’t sleep all night.
Judd getting his achilles slashed in Pet Sematary scarred me when I was 6 years old. Till this day I get a little uneasy exposing my feet to under the bed.
When I was a kid I tried to convince myself that if it was a cartoon it was for kids and should like them. That movie with mice and rats, it was horrible and I watched so many times trying to like it 😢😢😢
The librarian from ghostbusters when she morphs into the monster. My brother and I always hid behind the couch from the middle of that scene until she was gone
A good list for sure Dan. Old Disney cartoons are really quite scary. I remember one where Pluto is having a nightmare about evil cats that trap him, lock every appendage in balls and chains, give him a dreadful biased court trial (while Pluto quivers in fear), and ultimately he's sentenced to be slowly burned alive while surrounded by angry mobs of cats. It was a children's cartoon that was more terrifying than The WickerMan. It's still traumatizing to me as an adult.
Brother you are preaching the truth with that bit about log carrier trucks. I go out of my way to avoid being behind them. My wife never fails to mention that movie scene when we see one.
American Werewolf in London, Jack keeps showing up to haunt Dave and his face is decomposing but he greets Dave by playing with a little Mickey Mouse toy then Dave transforms for the first time.
The Oompa Loompas absolutely traumatised me as a child and as an adult I feel really bad about it now. They used to give me nightmares 😅 ET used to really freak me out also even though he's supposed to be endearing and the third acts from Raiders and Last Crusade absolutely traumatised me also. Also that Jaws jumpscare is probably the one that got me the best when I first saw it. The tent girl TERRIFIED me as well as a kid 😂
Going way back, the Child Catcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is terrifying. For a classic jump scare, "Wait Until Dark" delivers, even in the daylight.
Raiders of the Lost Ark climax was nightmare fuel. The Large Marge moment was worse for me than the clown surgeon on Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. I can remember there was some party I was brought to, about age 5, that had a viewing of Jason and the Argonauts, and the giant dumping the people out of the boat totally traumatized me.
I watched Carrie (1976) on TV when I was ten years old. At the very end of the movie when Amy Irving's character is setting flowers on Carrie's grave and something happens. I started sitting on the end of a bed and wound up hitting the headboard. The Amityville Horror windows glowing and Jody the Pig still freaks me out.
This episode made my day. I wound up having my bf and I draft our top 10 before you went through your list so we could compare notes. There was some overlap and I am with you re ghosts/aliens. What we didn’t overlap was: scream (man watching you through vent), roach in ear Brokedown Palace, Arachnophobia (shower scene with spider washing down), High tension french film, and paranormal activity. This video stirred up a most fun convo! Love ya!
I wasn't a child but well into my teenage years, but the scene in LOTR, The Fellowship, when Frodo and Bilbo reunite at Elrond's mansion. Frodo changes clothes and when Bilbo sees the ring, he lounges at it, completely with a transformation to evil. I still close my eyes when this comes up, freaks me out.
The cremation scene in “Scrooged” terrified me. When my dad died 30 years later, I insisted on accompanying his body to the crematorium to make sure that it wasn’t like that. It‘s not, but I‘m still not getting cremated. Jimmy, don’t let them burn me! 🔥 😱
When I saw the video thumbnail before even watching, my mind immediately went to the Garfield Halloween ending 🤣 The old man, the creepy music, the being trapped on an island with ghost pirates all freaked me out as a kid.
Threads (1984) Scarred Me For Years. A Nuke Goes Off Close to Sheffield UK, Had To Watch It At School, Then We Had To Go To see My Aunt In Sheffield The Next Weekend And See All The Places That Got Destroyed In The Film. Chilling
What scarred me was watching the original Robocop movie in the theaters when I was 5 or 6 with my older brother and my father and seeing the scene where Murphy gets blasted to death by Kirkwood Smith’s character and his henchmen at that factory. Also the henchman who go dosed with toxic waste and became all messed up looking and splatting allover after getting run over.
THE LOG TRUCK! I feel so seen. I saw FD 2 and ever since even now, now that I can drive, anytime I am behind a log truck I try my hardest to overtake. Forever have that flashback
It's funny that you upload this this weekend. What traumatized me as a kid was the original Twister. The opening scene where the dad is sucked up into the tornado from the storm cellar. It made me irrationally afraid of tornadoes, when they don't occur where I live at all.
@@DanMurrellMovies I am genuinely surprised it didn't. I saw it in the theater at 6 and it terrified me to pieces. E.T. also ties for first existential dread when Elliot finds E.T. 'dying'. This ties with Decker shooting the stripper replicant, which I also saw as a small child and may be my first violent screen death experience. What are you doing Han?!?! 🙂
The first movie I ever saw in the theatre, at age 3, was the Sesame Street “Follow That Bird”. To this day I remember crying during a scene when Big Bird ran away from home and was all alone. It’s funny how movies and TV shows we encounter early in life leave such a lasting impression.
That you reference Garfield in the video is great, but for me it would be a different reference and place. I put the special “Here Comes Garfield” in the existential crisis section. The part where the music plays as he consoles Odie during the night before he’ll be taken to be put down and Garfield is helpless to do anything is always a dagger to the heart on that point for me.
The T-Rex escaping from his enclosure in the original Jurassic Park The Pale Man banquet scene from Pan's Labyrinth The Screaming Bear in the house when they are all tied up from Annihilation These scenes were all nightmare fuel for me. I don't like monsters apparently.
The junkyard scene in Brave Little Toaster. That gave me nightmares. Actually a lot of Brave Little Toaster was pretty scary - the appliance store chop shop, the AC unit meltdown, Blankie getting lost in the thunderstorm, etc. But the junkyard scene really got to me. The way the magnet dude kept hunting them down, esp when he'd go nearly silent and "close his eyes" as he came around the corner. My Girl for sure broke my heart too. To this day, if someone quotes 'He can't see without his glasses' I get misty eyed.
I never seen many of those jump scares. Some of my favorites: Creepshow part 1. The story with Leslie Nielson has one of the best jump scares. The Thing. The Blood test. A very simple but very creepy jump scare. Friday 13th boat jump. Classic, fear inducing. Repulsion (mirror scene), (from 1965, I think the only jump scare of movie but these really pay off when only used sporadically.
Stephen King recalling watching the reaction of people to that ending in the theater will always stick with me from Bravo’s best horror scare countdown from 20 years ago. Big guys jumped out of their seat and someone yelled “that girl ain’t never gonna be right”
Thank you. I stayed up all night after seeing it in the theater. All I could think about was Carrie White coming through my bedroom door. My nerves were completely frayed.
I saw Signs in a theater in the same county it was filmed (Bucks County, PA - a Philly suburb). The energy was incredible and people literally screamed when that alien walked in front of the camera. Masterful directing and editing.
I love this! For me, it actually took me a LONG time to finish Return of the Jedi as a kid because I was terrified of Emperor Palpatine. Another one that stands out, there was an interactive VHS board game of Star Trek: The Next Generation that featured you playing as a crew member working against a Klingon who'd taken over the Enterprise and that, especially the fact he seemingly talked directly to you, definitely left some scars.
One that stuck with me because it made me think was an episode of Star Trek TNG where Data loses a game to a grandmaster of the game, and Picard snaps him out of it by saying "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness; that is life."
Dan, thank you for sharing. I have different experience but the highlight of this episode for me was "...felt like an attack on me personally". I have something like that in my own repository of memories.
1) The Poseidon Adventure/Beyond the Poseidon Adventure: why you’ll never catch me on a cruise 2) Wizard of Oz: frickin flying monkeys 3) Psycho: was way too young watching this, still don’t like showering at night. 4) Jaws: think of it every flipping time I’m in the ocean. 5) The Birds: I always keep a wary eye when one too many gather. 6) Toy Story 3, incinerator scene: when they held hands and accepted their fate, I was absolutely devastated.
13:53 I can't believe you brought that up. When I was a kid I fell asleep watching TV with my headphones on listening to STP. I woke up at the end of Superman Silvergun and there is a laugh in the song, I saw the fire on TV and took my headphones off only to hear THAT laugh on TV. Fear. It was a moment I had I thought no one else did...minus the headphones and music part
9:31 Ghostbusters II was as family friendly as the cartoon? I can make a list of animated episodes that still scar me to this day. "Ragnaroc and Roll", the one where the Ghostbusters skin becomes haunted and tries to relocate, a haunted house that spits ghost out of every hole... save one, Mrs Watts Neighborhood with a memorably possessed Peter... just trying to decide which one would be the 5th opened up the floodgate. Sandman, Boogeyman, the Grundle, you know... horrors FOR kids and about kids... Thank you, JMS, you made one hell of a show.
The first three seasons of TRG were so good. When they changed the tone and writing of the episodes to be even more kid friendly, it definitely lost its edge. I bought the boxset many years ago, and while the earlier seasons were a joy to watch, the back half where a slog to complete.
Omg! The robot lady one! That was my moment of childhood terror. Although yeah, it doesn’t look nearly as disturbing now as the version stored in my kid brain.
The Blair Witch Project had me avoiding the woods for weeks. I was a teenager then. When I was much younger my Dad took me to see Ghostbusters in the theater. Had to leave before the end as multiple scenes in that one terrified me as a child.
So glad the Doctor Sleep scene got included. That is the most disturbing scene to watch of all time for me. I would have also dipped into Flanagan's TV work to include the Episode 8 jumpscare from The Haunting of Hill House. It's the best earned jump scare ever. I also would have considered the nightmare jumpscare from An American Werewolf in London just because that freaked me out the first time I saw it.
Those are some good picks. The robot lady from Superman 3 scarred me as a kid too. In fact, when I saw it, I tried to jump on my dad. He was like "Get off me".
I have only seen the trailer for Final Destination 2 and it still scarred be for life 😅 It also took me forever to watch The Mummy as the opening scene with the bugs that eat people from the inside just scared me to death as a child 😅
Signs is one of my most favorite movies of all time. And yeah I do share your feeling. I remember the first time watched the movie. I was 13, home alone, and it was day time. I just came back from school and watched the movie on TV. Then oh boy, I was jumped of my seat like Phoenix, literally acted like him. Like even I was afraid to death, I was trying to see the second look closely. That scene in Sixth sense and the other one in Final destination. I think many people would share same horror.
The Black Hole was a film that scarred me as a kid. Which is particularly funny considering when it was released it was Disney's response to Star Wars.
The ending of Friday the 13th when Jason jumps out of the water and attacks Alice in the canoe is the greatest jump scare in my opinion. The movie sets it up so great because there are no jump scares in the entire movie up to that point and it happens in broad daylight. So so great and iconic.
Where he's so pasty and white in the creek! OMG Yes! Especially after spending most of the movie building the relationship between E.T. and the audience.
Jump scare: Harry and the Hendersons. Another example of no movie being safe in the 80s. Event Horizon was probably the first horror movie that really scared me for days.
I'm a huge movie buff, like Dan, but it's one of the few movies I recognized the brilliance of, but just couldn't bring myself to finish. It was that disturbing. Especially with me now being the mom of a little boy. I just can't. From what I did see the acting was amazing though.
Most terrifying movie moment as a child: Disney's The Rescuers, where the girl is forced down into a cave to retrieve a jewel and the water starts filling it, almost drowning her. Been my no 1 fear since that day. As for Psycho, the staircase scene was scary but the turning around of "the mother" showing a desiccated skull made me actually scream. Which was very embarrasing as I was 13 years old surrounded by my peers.
The first few minutes of Signs still haunt me now - I've largely forgotten ithe movie as a horror thriller but can't escape the pure sadness of that scene at the car wreck. It still comes back to me and I could never watch it again
The astronauts breaking into the house during the 3rd act of E.T. was so frightening to me as a child that it took me nearly a decade later to finally finish that beautiful film.
Oh yes, them breaking into the house petrified me as well, as did the doctors operating on ET. Spielberg hired actual doctors for those scenes, making it appear as if they were hurting him, not trying to revive him, since that's what any child watching would think.
For real!!
This is what I was coming here to say. Even when I knew it was coming, as a kid I would hide behind the couch and cry.
Same! I watched it in the living room with my dad, we were doing an indoor "camp out" where we put up tents inside to watch the movie, and that scene combined with not being able to see beyond the tent into dark corners is my #1 scariest childhood memory.
This is why ET is not a beloved movie for me, this part of the movie ruined the rest and terrified me
I will forever be recovering from witnessing Artax in the Swamp of Sadness from The Neverending Story
Yup. That one.
I think it traumatized me so much I erased it. Seriously! I saw that movie about 8 times s a kid, but I had no memory of that scene until I rewatched the movie last year and then 😭
This was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title of the video.
The AC freaking out and dying in The Brave Little Toaster for me
😂🤣
I always thought that was more really sad than scary. The clown scene from that is really creepy though.
@@mikeharwick790 yep, I agree that scene got me as a kid too. The way it just quietly says "run" only clown that scared me
I CAME HERE TO SAY EXACTLY THIS
The whole effing movie!
"My girl" broke my heart as a kid. You're right, kids aren't supposed to die, to this day that one has stuck with me.
Same! I have avoided that movie ever since. But I can still hear the young girl saying, "he can't see without his glasses" 😭
@@tammygant4216 I started tearing up just re-watching the clip.
The same thing happened to me with Bridge to Terabithia!
Second death in Jaws is the boy on the floating raft.
Spielberg never killed a child again - see Jurassic Park.
The Bilbo jump scare in Rivendale got me hard during Fellowship of the Ring. Totally unexpected.
I completely read that wrong!🤣🤣🤣
Got you what now?
Yes, and I was 20 when I saw it. Gollum getting tortured at the start was freaky too.
The Who Framed Rodger Rabbit scene that traumatized me as a kid was the shoe going into dip
I don't remember ever being scared of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was one of my favorite movies growing up. I had it pretty much memorized by the time I was an adult.
Also, I think I was an adult before I realized that Judge Doom was Doc Brown.
I was born in 1982.
The part where they melted the toons scared me, lol…
To be honest that scared me too.
I remember when I was 9 me and my best friend had the choice of seeing Who Framed Roger Rabbit vs Nightmare on Elm Street 4. We ended up seeing Nightmare on Elm street 4.
I saw this later on video. What we thought was a lighthearted movie had some pretty dark characters.
The guy Doc Brown played was scary on his own.
The whole film was one big mind fuck for me.
One that has stuck with me is the Sloth scene from Se7en. Saw it twice in theaters. Second time with my older sister. Started glancing at her during this scene and her jaw hit the floor.
I was gonna mention this one, too. Not only does that scene stick with you LONG after you've watched the film, but I would go so far as to call it the greatest jump scare in the history of film.
@@nickkarmol7462 It's definitely up there no doubt.
Lust did it for me. When that picture hit the desk I was horrified. Couldn't touch my wife for a week
@spenzalii yeah that was brutal
for me the lust scene was even more brutal. the guy's desperation and crying when he was telling the detectives what the killer had him do was terrifying
In terms of existential dread, I think Dumbo being taken from his mother is as bleak and horrifying as it gets.
The pink elephants on parade scene is also horrifying to a child. Spooked the hell out of me for sure.
Dan is a numbers guy! Most of us know this. That said, his fear of aliens, ghosts, and clowns is hilarious to me. Love ya, Dan!
The deepest fears are the irrational ones.
@DanMurrellMovies I see!! No disrespect meant at all!! My best to you and your family.
@@DanMurrellMovies let's not even bring up Alien Ghost Clowns
Okay, irrational fears are a good one sir, my fears are the ones we make up in our minds, since our minds are worlds to themselves.
@@DanMurrellMovies Exactly. Phobias are (typcially) defined as an irrational fear. That why I call myself a TRUE arachnophobe, because intellectually, I know it's not that big of a deal, but the primal side just can't deal with spiders.
Ichabod Crane getting pursued by the Headless Horseman in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad I found very scary as a child. Also when Edith Horton runs disorientated and screaming after her companions vanish in Picnic at Hanging Rock,that haunted me for a long time afterwards. And finally when Dorothy disturbs Princess Mombi's heads along with her actual head while stealing a key in Return to Oz.
The Superman 3 Robot Lady gave me nightmares for years! It was one of the scariest things I'd ever seen as a kid
Same, it's the only thing I can remember that truly scared me when I was a kid, especially because the tone of the previous superman movies had nothing like that!!
for me it wasn't so much the robot aspect, nor even the idea of being turned into a monster, it was the actual showing of her being turned into the monster and how terrified SHE was that stuck with me and made that scene so much worse
I never saw the ending of Superman 3 for years because I would always stop the movie just before that scene.
@@casuallychallenged Precisely the same experience here. I loved the Superman movies and that may have turned me off of them entirely as a child. Thank heavens I had Optimus Prime for a role model later. 🙂
I'm definitely with you on that. I was like 4 years old seeing this at my neighbors house.
A Superman movie, Richard Pryor, you have no idea of the horror that's about to ensue when the lady gets stuck in the machine. I think that's what makes this so unsettling is the unexpectedness of it.
I put this scene over most horror movies.
I was petrified of "Return to Oz" and "Watership Down", I couldn't believe that they were aimed at a child audience. 🙀
Watership Down was intended for older audiences, but video rentals loved to market it to kids without watching it first.
So different from the original. Not what I was expecting when I saw it as a kid.
The cabinet of heads and the Wheelers creeped me the hell out in Return to Oz. 😬
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The Wheelers turning to sand and crumbling traumatized me.
@@daijishinomori9161 Thaknfully The Wheelers are less scary when you realise they can't hurt you
Scrooge’s grave in Disney’s Christmas Carol scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Bob climbing over the sofa towards Maddy in Twin Peaks
I was shitting my pants. My parents banned me from watching Twin Peaks and I watched the entire show for the first time maybe 9 or 8 years ago. And I love it.
@@user-qg8jl6by5q is that the accidental sighting of the extra in the mirror?
That was a big “maybe I’m not as grown up and brave as I think I am” moment for me. Which is funny looking back on. Because I think I was only in the sixth or seventh grade when that debuted. Have a much older sibling that had me stay up and watch the series in its first run.
Thank you for reminding me of one of the most unnerving visual images I’ve ever experienced while watching a television show
I was 17 when that aired. Yeah, friggin' scary.
The log truck in "Final Destination 2" always freaked me out, especially when I was going for my road test.
Oh trust me, that scene stays with everyone who's seen it!
@@WRDendyeah, had a conversation with a friend where neigher of us will drive behind a logging truck or a truck full of pipes after seeing that.
if it makes you feel better, when they were filming the scene they tried doing it with actual logs, but they wouldn't bounce at all, so they had to use CGI
Ghost- Screeching Ghosts that drag the baddies to Hell.
Carrie- the glowing eyed closet statue of St. Sebastian (i thought it was Jesus when I saw it as a horrified young Jewish boy)
Child’s Play 3 - under bed Achilles’ tendon knife slice
The Ring (U.S. version) - closet victim reveal “Rachel, I saw her face”
Hereditary- head reveal and attic self decapitation
Fun fact. The sound the ghost make when dragging the baddies to hell is babies crying slowed down.
Ghost. Ugh that scary one. Or Child's Play 2 when Chucky has to pull off his own hand cause it got caught
Ghost did have some dark scenes.
The Demon. Willie Lopez, Sam's 'friend'
The weird guy on the subway was super creepy.
Even when it was revealed he was just a scared paranoid guy himself. I'm guessing he might have been scared of the demons and basically deciding to be a hermit trying to avoid them.
The jump scare in The Haunting of Hill House in the car gives me chills just typing this.
My favorite "jump scare with a crowd" is from Jurassic Park. Toward the end, everyone is fleeing from the raptors and they're climbing up into this vent. The camera is high looking down at the floor where the raptors are waiting under the vent, and there's this moment where you feel like, "Yeah, they just made it! The raptors are too late!" And then the raptor jumps. I swear, everyone in the theater had their feet up in their seats. 😂
100% 😂 I swear one person almost jumped into the row behind them ha ha, never seen an audience jump so high.
Jigsaw getting up from the floor after pretending to be a dead corpse the entire movie and then closing the door at the end of the first Saw movie was so haunting for me, I couldn't sleep well days after watching it
Thankfully I was an adult when that movie came out. I'd imagine that would be nightmare inducing for a kid.
To be honest though what scared me was when I found out they could deliver electrical shocks through the chains.
Seeing Poltergeist as a kid scarred me. I still can't watch it.
I still refuse to watch the scene where the guys face falls off. 13 year old me was traumatized 😂
I will argue to my death that the original Poltergeist is the scariest movie of all time, primarily because it starts out so epically "normal" and suburban, that by the time we get to all the properly scary stuff, you have been living in a world that is so close to literal home, that it makes it all worse.
and also a guy tears his own face off 😱
@@casuallychallenged Right there with you on that one. I saw it for the first time in day care as a kid (yes, day care) and to this day I refuse to eat anything that even looks like the bits of face in the sink from that scene in particular. That isn't all though, the tree in the thunderstorm also really stuck with me and I was terrified of thunderstorms for a year or so since I grew up in a very forested region. I re-watched it as an adult in my mid-twenties and have to agree it really is one of the best executed horror films of all time.
First movie I saw in the theater, 50ish years ago, was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. I was like 3 or 4 and that movie scared the crap out of me. I spent most of the movie in the lobby with my dad as my older sisters watched the film. Years later my then 5-year-old daughter paid me back for that, as she completely panicked in Kubo and the Two Strings when the creepy aunts wanted to take Kubo's eyes, and I spent the rest of that movie walking around the lobby with her waiting for the rest of our family to be done.
In my defense, the "rowers keep on rowing" chant by Gene Wilder is still creepy AF.
My dad always told me the story of when he went to see Jaws for the first time. When the head came out of the boat, his theater was freaking out so much they missed most of the dialogue in the next scene. That’s some effective filmmaking right there
That one still gets me. Even though I’m waiting for it.
Wow this is such an awesome idea for a video. A lot of people say “I’m gonna remember this” or “this will stick with me for a long time”. Making a retrospective where you look back on your life and talk about which moments actually affected you is a clever concept.
Love your stuff Dan, I used to watch you on screen junkies and it’s cool to see individual success :)
I knew before clicking that the Superman 3 robot woman scene would make the list.
That scarred every kid that watched it.
I was deathly scared of ET. Yes, the cute alien. I hid under the table when my mom put the VHS on.
I didn’t like how he looked as a kid either. Just something didn’t sit right with me.
@@Molson-xg9hsOne of my favorite TikTok comments was that ET looks like a demonic shell-less turtle that was ran through a meat grinder and then set on fire 😂 I watched ET when I was about 4, and I’m 33 now but I refuse to watch it. I just can’t!
I'm actually surprised E.T. didn't end up on this list as well. It has the best jump scare in my memory in the opening scene and follows it later with my first existential dread as E.T. starts to 'die' in the film. I was all of 6 when I saw it in the theater and sitting in the 3rd row, so that jump scare hit me like a ton of bricks. Oddly, I absolutely loved the movie and kept repeating 'Elliot' in E.T.'s voice for weeks because their friendship was adorably moving.
I was horrified by ET too lmao
Watched signs at home as a kid, like 10yo. When the alien was shown, I remeber getting up and running to another room in my house to watch cartoons
Every time I doubt M. night, I think back to this scene. It’s so simple and so brilliantly done. I was twice your age when I saw it and it still got me good.
It’s still a pretty bad movie though.
that scene was terrifying.
Watching Signs at a drive-in surrounded by cornfields was a big part of cementing my love for horror. I could hear the kids screaming in every other car and to me it was hilarious.
I was seven when I watched Signs, but I’d couldn’t watched past the first hour because I was too scared shitless, so I ran upstairs and went to bed but I didn’t sleep all night.
Judd getting his achilles slashed in Pet Sematary scarred me when I was 6 years old. Till this day I get a little uneasy exposing my feet to under the bed.
This was probably the most scared of a movie I was... I saw this pretty young and Gage, Zelda and the mom at the end... so terrifying.
Oh man and the Gage death scene as a whole! Both of them live rent free in my head!
Actually the thing that truly traumatized me from the movie was the sister with spinal meningitis
@@g.seangourlay2593this is the correct answer.
Virtually all films made by Don Bluth have traumatized me in some variation or another
When I was a kid I tried to convince myself that if it was a cartoon it was for kids and should like them. That movie with mice and rats, it was horrible and I watched so many times trying to like it 😢😢😢
The librarian from ghostbusters when she morphs into the monster. My brother and I always hid behind the couch from the middle of that scene until she was gone
Genuinely horrifying!
I was about 5 when Ghostbusters came out.
It had some scary scenes. Mostly the dogs. But it had some funny ones as well.
This movie rocked!
That Superman robot thing F'd me up as a kid. I was legitimately shaken up. 😮
My #1 for me will be the bathroom scene in 'Full Metal Jacket'.
A good list for sure Dan. Old Disney cartoons are really quite scary. I remember one where Pluto is having a nightmare about evil cats that trap him, lock every appendage in balls and chains, give him a dreadful biased court trial (while Pluto quivers in fear), and ultimately he's sentenced to be slowly burned alive while surrounded by angry mobs of cats. It was a children's cartoon that was more terrifying than The WickerMan. It's still traumatizing to me as an adult.
Brother you are preaching the truth with that bit about log carrier trucks. I go out of my way to avoid being behind them. My wife never fails to mention that movie scene when we see one.
American Werewolf in London, Jack keeps showing up to haunt Dave and his face is decomposing but he greets Dave by playing with a little Mickey Mouse toy then Dave transforms for the first time.
The commercial for “Magic” (1978, with Anthony Hopkins) would scare the bejesus out of me when it came on t.v.
The Oompa Loompas absolutely traumatised me as a child and as an adult I feel really bad about it now. They used to give me nightmares 😅 ET used to really freak me out also even though he's supposed to be endearing and the third acts from Raiders and Last Crusade absolutely traumatised me also.
Also that Jaws jumpscare is probably the one that got me the best when I first saw it. The tent girl TERRIFIED me as well as a kid 😂
“Dog” scene in The Thing-I was 12 and walked into the room moments before 😅 slept with multiple nightlights for the next several years
So many to choose from in that classic. Also They Live!
Going way back, the Child Catcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is terrifying. For a classic jump scare, "Wait Until Dark" delivers, even in the daylight.
The aliens from V (original series) freaked me the f out when I was a kid.
The baby. Holy crap!
@@stevenmackay8053 yeah that one really messed me up for years
Raiders of the Lost Ark climax was nightmare fuel. The Large Marge moment was worse for me than the clown surgeon on Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. I can remember there was some party I was brought to, about age 5, that had a viewing of Jason and the Argonauts, and the giant dumping the people out of the boat totally traumatized me.
I watched Carrie (1976) on TV when I was ten years old. At the very end of the movie when Amy Irving's character is setting flowers on Carrie's grave and something happens. I started sitting on the end of a bed and wound up hitting the headboard. The Amityville Horror windows glowing and Jody the Pig still freaks me out.
Steven Spielberg's Duel with the homicidal truck driver scared the crap out of me at 8 years old. Opening scene of Jaws scarred me for life.
This episode made my day. I wound up having my bf and I draft our top 10 before you went through your list so we could compare notes. There was some overlap and I am with you re ghosts/aliens. What we didn’t overlap was: scream (man watching you through vent), roach in ear Brokedown Palace, Arachnophobia (shower scene with spider washing down), High tension french film, and paranormal activity. This video stirred up a most fun convo! Love ya!
Signs. One of the most underrated movies in recent history. It’s my wife’s and my favorite movie.
I saw Thriller (Michael Jackson music video) as a 7 year old in 1983 and had nightmares for a week afterwards. Great video Dan, as always.
This music video is full of nightmare fuel parts. Especially the opening scene…
I wasn't a child but well into my teenage years, but the scene in LOTR, The Fellowship, when Frodo and Bilbo reunite at Elrond's mansion. Frodo changes clothes and when Bilbo sees the ring, he lounges at it, completely with a transformation to evil. I still close my eyes when this comes up, freaks me out.
To this day I will never drive behind any truck holding anything!
Your poor uncle 😂
Clowns, you say? What about the clown toy in Poltergeist? That thing still scares me.
Most effective jump scare ever
The cremation scene in “Scrooged” terrified me. When my dad died 30 years later, I insisted on accompanying his body to the crematorium to make sure that it wasn’t like that. It‘s not, but I‘m still not getting cremated. Jimmy, don’t let them burn me! 🔥 😱
Oh man I can relate to “My girl” trauma so much.
When I saw the video thumbnail before even watching, my mind immediately went to the Garfield Halloween ending 🤣 The old man, the creepy music, the being trapped on an island with ghost pirates all freaked me out as a kid.
Dan you don’t have to explain your childhood fears. We all have those moments that are not as scary as adults but traumatic as adults
Threads (1984) Scarred Me For Years. A Nuke Goes Off Close to Sheffield UK, Had To Watch It At School, Then We Had To Go To see My Aunt In Sheffield The Next Weekend And See All The Places That Got Destroyed In The Film. Chilling
The banshee from Disney's Darby O'Ghill and the Little People have me nightmares for the longest times
What scarred me was watching the original Robocop movie in the theaters when I was 5 or 6 with my older brother and my father and seeing the scene where Murphy gets blasted to death by Kirkwood Smith’s character and his henchmen at that factory. Also the henchman who go dosed with toxic waste and became all messed up looking and splatting allover after getting run over.
THE LOG TRUCK! I feel so seen. I saw FD 2 and ever since even now, now that I can drive, anytime I am behind a log truck I try my hardest to overtake. Forever have that flashback
It's funny that you upload this this weekend. What traumatized me as a kid was the original Twister. The opening scene where the dad is sucked up into the tornado from the storm cellar. It made me irrationally afraid of tornadoes, when they don't occur where I live at all.
Yoda's introduction in Empire scarred me as a kid. A tiny gremlin harassing Luke and R2
I always hated when Elliot runs into ET in the corn field. Scared the crap out of me.
That almost made this list!
Fully agree!! So scary.
@@DanMurrellMovies I am genuinely surprised it didn't. I saw it in the theater at 6 and it terrified me to pieces. E.T. also ties for first existential dread when Elliot finds E.T. 'dying'. This ties with Decker shooting the stripper replicant, which I also saw as a small child and may be my first violent screen death experience. What are you doing Han?!?! 🙂
The first movie I ever saw in the theatre, at age 3, was the Sesame Street “Follow That Bird”. To this day I remember crying during a scene when Big Bird ran away from home and was all alone. It’s funny how movies and TV shows we encounter early in life leave such a lasting impression.
I had nightmares about the robot lady from Superman 3.
That you reference Garfield in the video is great, but for me it would be a different reference and place. I put the special “Here Comes Garfield” in the existential crisis section. The part where the music plays as he consoles Odie during the night before he’ll be taken to be put down and Garfield is helpless to do anything is always a dagger to the heart on that point for me.
WTF?? We had a few Garfield videos but not that, I must investigate…
The T-Rex escaping from his enclosure in the original Jurassic Park
The Pale Man banquet scene from Pan's Labyrinth
The Screaming Bear in the house when they are all tied up from Annihilation
These scenes were all nightmare fuel for me. I don't like monsters apparently.
That bear with the woman's scream was horrifying!
I loved that scene because it was so terrifying!
Oh god! I forgot about the pale man! Nightmare fuel. Also with you right there with the annihilation near. Frickin haunting scene
The junkyard scene in Brave Little Toaster. That gave me nightmares. Actually a lot of Brave Little Toaster was pretty scary - the appliance store chop shop, the AC unit meltdown, Blankie getting lost in the thunderstorm, etc. But the junkyard scene really got to me. The way the magnet dude kept hunting them down, esp when he'd go nearly silent and "close his eyes" as he came around the corner.
My Girl for sure broke my heart too. To this day, if someone quotes 'He can't see without his glasses' I get misty eyed.
Temple of Doom when the heart gets ripped out did it for me
All those Indiana Jones movies scared me to death as a kid
I never seen many of those jump scares.
Some of my favorites:
Creepshow part 1. The story with Leslie Nielson has one of the best jump scares.
The Thing. The Blood test. A very simple but very creepy jump scare.
Friday 13th boat jump. Classic, fear inducing.
Repulsion (mirror scene), (from 1965, I think the only jump scare of movie but these really pay off when only used sporadically.
Carrie's hand coming out of the grave bothered me for years. De Palma nailed this!😱🙈🤣
Stephen King recalling watching the reaction of people to that ending in the theater will always stick with me from Bravo’s best horror scare countdown from 20 years ago. Big guys jumped out of their seat and someone yelled “that girl ain’t never gonna be right”
@@Molson-xg9hs I have to find and watch that. Thanks!👍
@@mrc302 I found it!
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@@Molson-xg9hs I just found it.😁😂
Thank you. I stayed up all night after seeing it in the theater. All I could think about was Carrie White coming through my bedroom door. My nerves were completely frayed.
I saw Signs in a theater in the same county it was filmed (Bucks County, PA - a Philly suburb). The energy was incredible and people literally screamed when that alien walked in front of the camera. Masterful directing and editing.
I love this! For me, it actually took me a LONG time to finish Return of the Jedi as a kid because I was terrified of Emperor Palpatine. Another one that stands out, there was an interactive VHS board game of Star Trek: The Next Generation that featured you playing as a crew member working against a Klingon who'd taken over the Enterprise and that, especially the fact he seemingly talked directly to you, definitely left some scars.
I loved playing that game with my best friend when we were younger. MEV!
Totally agree with the Signs jump scare. Literally made my skin crawl. Still does.
One that stuck with me because it made me think was an episode of Star Trek TNG where Data loses a game to a grandmaster of the game, and Picard snaps him out of it by saying "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness; that is life."
Dan, thank you for sharing. I have different experience but the highlight of this episode for me was "...felt like an attack on me personally". I have something like that in my own repository of memories.
Anaconda scarred me, the idea of something killer just moving around unseen while I’m swimming terrifies me.
the Humpty Dumpty Sesame Street skit is my #1...and when Talos comes to life in Jason and the Argonauts
1) The Poseidon Adventure/Beyond the Poseidon Adventure: why you’ll never catch me on a cruise
2) Wizard of Oz: frickin flying monkeys
3) Psycho: was way too young watching this, still don’t like showering at night.
4) Jaws: think of it every flipping time I’m in the ocean.
5) The Birds: I always keep a wary eye when one too many gather.
6) Toy Story 3, incinerator scene: when they held hands and accepted their fate, I was absolutely devastated.
Monkeys should not have wings.
13:53 I can't believe you brought that up. When I was a kid I fell asleep watching TV with my headphones on listening to STP. I woke up at the end of Superman Silvergun and there is a laugh in the song, I saw the fire on TV and took my headphones off only to hear THAT laugh on TV. Fear. It was a moment I had I thought no one else did...minus the headphones and music part
9:31 Ghostbusters II was as family friendly as the cartoon? I can make a list of animated episodes that still scar me to this day. "Ragnaroc and Roll", the one where the Ghostbusters skin becomes haunted and tries to relocate, a haunted house that spits ghost out of every hole... save one, Mrs Watts Neighborhood with a memorably possessed Peter... just trying to decide which one would be the 5th opened up the floodgate. Sandman, Boogeyman, the Grundle, you know... horrors FOR kids and about kids...
Thank you, JMS, you made one hell of a show.
The first three seasons of TRG were so good. When they changed the tone and writing of the episodes to be even more kid friendly, it definitely lost its edge. I bought the boxset many years ago, and while the earlier seasons were a joy to watch, the back half where a slog to complete.
Also the Doomsday Door. Who cares what a talking door says?
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH: Gosh that nightmare sequence involving James as a caterpillar n his evil Aunts.
One moment that surprisingly unnerved me was the reveal of the woman in the alley in Mulholland Drive
Omg! The robot lady one! That was my moment of childhood terror. Although yeah, it doesn’t look nearly as disturbing now as the version stored in my kid brain.
Loved the spoiler alert 🤭😅🤣❣️ “from 1982 to… today”
The Blair Witch Project had me avoiding the woods for weeks. I was a teenager then. When I was much younger my Dad took me to see Ghostbusters in the theater. Had to leave before the end as multiple scenes in that one terrified me as a child.
So glad the Doctor Sleep scene got included. That is the most disturbing scene to watch of all time for me. I would have also dipped into Flanagan's TV work to include the Episode 8 jumpscare from The Haunting of Hill House. It's the best earned jump scare ever. I also would have considered the nightmare jumpscare from An American Werewolf in London just because that freaked me out the first time I saw it.
Joaquin Phoenix really really sold that Signs jump scare
Those are some good picks. The robot lady from Superman 3 scarred me as a kid too. In fact, when I saw it, I tried to jump on my dad. He was like "Get off me".
The birthday part scene is Signs really was crazzzy seeing it for the first time 😭😭😭
I have only seen the trailer for Final Destination 2 and it still scarred be for life 😅
It also took me forever to watch The Mummy as the opening scene with the bugs that eat people from the inside just scared me to death as a child 😅
Signs is one of my most favorite movies of all time. And yeah I do share your feeling. I remember the first time watched the movie. I was 13, home alone, and it was day time. I just came back from school and watched the movie on TV. Then oh boy, I was jumped of my seat like Phoenix, literally acted like him. Like even I was afraid to death, I was trying to see the second look closely. That scene in Sixth sense and the other one in Final destination. I think many people would share same horror.
Snow White and the seven dwarfs 😂. She's running into the forest at night and suddenly in the lightning the trees have these terrifying faces
The Black Hole was a film that scarred me as a kid. Which is particularly funny considering when it was released it was Disney's response to Star Wars.
For me it was the Kinter boy raft scene in Jaws. I saw it in a large screen theater the summer it released. I was only 9 years old.
The ending of Friday the 13th when Jason jumps out of the water and attacks Alice in the canoe is the greatest jump scare in my opinion. The movie sets it up so great because there are no jump scares in the entire movie up to that point and it happens in broad daylight. So so great and iconic.
I mean, I'm still traumatized by ET. The scene where Elliot finds him. Still today I hardly can look at a picture of ET.
Yes! That WRECKED me.
Where he's so pasty and white in the creek! OMG Yes! Especially after spending most of the movie building the relationship between E.T. and the audience.
Exorcist 3 has the greatest jump scare ever
Oh and Fire in the Sky. Ohhhhh man.
Jump scare: Harry and the Hendersons. Another example of no movie being safe in the 80s.
Event Horizon was probably the first horror movie that really scared me for days.
Well … I guess that I won‘t be watching Dr. Sleep! Thanks for having my back, Dan!
Underrated movie (i watched the directors cut, is long but worth it) but yes that scene is wild
I'm a huge movie buff, like Dan, but it's one of the few movies I recognized the brilliance of, but just couldn't bring myself to finish. It was that disturbing. Especially with me now being the mom of a little boy. I just can't. From what I did see the acting was amazing though.
Most terrifying movie moment as a child: Disney's The Rescuers, where the girl is forced down into a cave to retrieve a jewel and the water starts filling it, almost drowning her. Been my no 1 fear since that day.
As for Psycho, the staircase scene was scary but the turning around of "the mother" showing a desiccated skull made me actually scream. Which was very embarrasing as I was 13 years old surrounded by my peers.
The alien Silhouette on the roof in signs scared me so badly
The first few minutes of Signs still haunt me now - I've largely forgotten ithe movie as a horror thriller but can't escape the pure sadness of that scene at the car wreck. It still comes back to me and I could never watch it again