I dunno if "it wasn't supposed to", but the Bilbo/Galadriel ring scenes from The Fellowship of the Ring lived rent-free in my head and continued to haunt me throughout childhood

Courage the cowardly dog scared the shit out of me, but specifically there was an episode where anthropomorphic eggplant try to take over the world. I couldn’t eat eggplant for years after that, and I still mostly avoid it

The monsters in Minecraft. They always freaked me out but they're manageable with sound off. So, I listen to podcast and stuff instead of the sounds of the game

In Ocarina of Time, the scene after you get the Master Sword and walk out of the Temple of Time and see the ruins of Castle Town infested with ReDeads scared me so much, I didn't play the game for 4 more years.

My sibling and I ran screaming from the room when my family was watching a presidential debate in 1992. We were about five and were convinced that Ross Perot was an extraterrestrial. Which, to be fair, he was.

Motherfucking ET that was one disgusting looking creature

There was a commercial for funding for PBS that ran when I was a kid, and in the middle it said something like, "If we run out of funding, the channel will go" and then the screen just went black. It freaked me out so much as a kid that, in front of my whole family, I stood up and turned off the tv before it got to that part. I just stood there and glared down my fam for about a minute before I turned the tv back on.

That 3 eyed monkey from the production company logo at the end of Jimmy Neutron credits gave me nightmares for some reason.

The ending of Assassin's Creed 2 where

my parents told me that creepy james and the giant peach movie from 1996 have me nightmares as a kid, to be fair all of roald dhal media is pretty terrifying (and sketchy as heck)

please dont let this thread be the cia gathering info on how to torture children lol

I still remember getting so freaked out by the music in the Ocarina of Time Forest Temple that I had to put the game down. The ghosts and spiders didn't bother me, but those ceiling hands did.

I was going to leave the game running overnight to save my progress but the music made me so scared I had to turn it off, but I was too scared to touch the controller so I just ran up and shut the GameCube off

PBS had this program called Nova when I was a kid and it had an episode about epidemics and the black death and the hantavirus. Gave me a panic attack or something close to it. The music was super ominous.

The final part of when Luke was fighting Vader in the cave in Empire Strikes Back and the head explodes and Luke's face is in Vader's helmet

The Weeping Willow screen from the NES version of Kings Quest V. Something about the face and the music terrified me.

A lot of the discordant music in the original Metroid freaked me out too. The series has an amazing soundtrack.

There was a TV skits show for kids on Fox I watched as a kid in the 90's, God knows what the fuck it was called, but I remember there was one scene with puppet animals playing poker in a dark room and I don't remember the point of the scene nor why but as the different characters spoke it was very tense—probably for comedic effect that was lost on me—and then it just cut to the next scene/skit, but that bit remains stuck in my head as High Horror.

Also, many old timey black and white cartoons creeped me the fuck out.

The dianogas in Dark Forces. I went back and played the Anoat City level when I was like twenty and it's so silly to say but I was still scared. Like the memories of being afraid got ingrained really deeply in my brain.

Edit: I just started watching a youtube playthrough of that level and my blood pressure is going through the roof.

I remember when I was a little kid, maybe 3? My babysitter took me to see the iron giant. I thought the iron giant was scary and started crying. We left the theater within the first 5 minutes of the movie.

The opening scenes from Beauty and The Beast. The music is so creepy.

Half the scenes from Body Troopers (Jakten på nyresteinen / Chasing the Kidney Stone), including even just the trailer for it at the start of my family's Grinch video cassette. You'll probably get the most results searching for the original Norwegian title.

A imax movie of ocean life where a jellyfish was the whole theater screen. 5yo me literally ran out of the theater crying.

Sluggy the Unshaven from Yoshi's Island for almost identical reasons. "Crush you against the wall" bosses are pretty spooky until you figure them out.

the opening disaster sequence in star trek generations, 1994. i was just too young, it jumpscared me and i had to leave

Classic, although I'm not convinced this wasn't meant to be scary.

Chaos in Sonic Adventure 1. Seeing this weird water ghost slowly creep towards you at the exact moment you gain control freaked me out as a kid.

Also a lot of early 2000 music videos on MTV were weirdly creepy for me, though I can't remember specific examples rn

PS1 game called Heart of Darkness freaked me the fuck out. I could never get passed like the 3rd or 4th screen because I didn't understand how to play and despite the cartoon art style the death animations were disturbingly violent

Sesame Street monsters trying to teach me the alphabet.

The yeti from SkiFree as well as Dopefish from Commander Keen.

There was this sketch on All That about a character called Pizza Face. It was a joke about a guy with acne I think? I don't remember, but the kids would chase him down the hall and try to eat his face and it terrified me.

Also, there was an episode of this show on Nickelodeon where this guy got sucked into a hand dryer in a public restroom and for years I thought it was going to happen to me.

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