2. Write about the scariest movie you ever saw as a child.
When I was young, the scariest Disney movie I ever saw was Dumbo.
Don’t get me wrong, Bambi was definitely up there in terms of movies that have devastated me for life, but Dumbo’s pink elephants were so creepy that I often avoided the movie altogether just so I wouldn’t have to get to THAT part.
A hallucinating, drunk, baby elephant…traumatically separated from his mother, outcast by his own family with a mouse as a guardian.
But he’s just so dang cute, you can’t help but love him despite his dependency.
My daughters have other movies that scare them. They refused to see The Box Trolls because it was produced by the same creators of Coraline.
Coraline looked like a cute movie, or so I thought. I remember picking it out at Target and then playing the movie for them in our minivan at the time. They sat in the back watching it in terror. Turns out some sort of magic put Coraline in a home with parents who had buttons for eyes and they wanted to sew buttons into Coraline’s eyes. My terrified daughters couldn’t make it through the movie before crying for me to turn it off…I never should have turned it on to begin with!
Coraline forever ruined their love affair with Lalaloopsy dolls.
The truth is, I think Coraline is creepy as hell too. I’ll take a hallucinating elephant over button eyes any day.
What childhood movie scared you?
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John Holton says
A lot of Disney miovies are pretty creepy…
Abby says
Coraline, yass, verrry creepy! I too picked it for a family movie when the kids were little. It probably made them weird.
I never saw “Dumbo” when I was a kid, only watched it later as an adult. So sad sad, that one.
Patty says
A while back, I wrote about being dragged to a “grown-up” movie as a kid, “Moulin Rouge”, way back in the 50’s. Boring as hell, at least to me, but the damned petticoats led the way to me having nightmares after, when I first laid eyes on Tripe. Ugh.
In any event, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” creeped me out as a kid, parts of it with the giant octopus/squid attacking the Nautilus didn’t promote restful sleep.