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Posted: 03-11-2009 22:24 Post subject: Scary Moments in Non-Scary Films

Have you ever experienced a scary moment in a non-scary film? I was watching Smokey and the Bandit Part II last night, and it reminded me of Jackie Gleason's last film where he played Tom Hanks' father, Nothing in Common it was called.

Anyway, there's a plot about Gleason not being able to look after himself, and at one restaurant scene Hanks looks under the table and notices that his dad's foot has gone sceptic! Argh! Jackie Gleason with a big, blue foot! All the more disturbing for arriving out of the, er, blue.

So has anything similar happened to you, you've been watching a film that is in no way a horror movie then you get a fright when they fling up a horrible image or scary sequence that you've been unprepared for?

I suppose the obvious one is the "Pink Elephants on Parade" bit in Disney's Dumbo, but there must be more. Any suggestions?

Posted: 04-11-2009 21:06 Post subject:

Anybody? Surely nobody got the the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time and thought, "Well, those Nazis got off lightly!"?

Posted: 04-11-2009 21:13 Post subject:

His foot turned into James Randi? Shocked

Strangely enough, i was watching Ice Age 3 the other day and the bit where the sloth adopts the dinosaur eggs that hatch into baby T-rex's scared the heck out of me. Sometimes i forget that in some shows, nothing that sinister is about to happen (but you can see where that one could go!)

Posted: 04-11-2009 21:14 Post subject:

Raiders was the first cert 15 film i saw at the cinema, also, poss. the first movie i saw that did almost make me pee myself. On the big screen, the bit with the skeleton with the snake coming out of its mouth scared me more than the end.

Posted: 04-11-2009 21:38 Post subject:

I didn't see Pinocchio till I was grown up, but the transformation into a donkey is terrifying. I wouldn't call Pinocchio a non-scary movie, though. People forget how stone-cold terrifying the true Disney can be in between the cute prancy bits, and how much of its superiority to more recent Disney is due to the ability to deliver both.

I am also unnerved by the fish section of "Nutcracker Suite" in Fantasia, and Fred MacMurray's transformation into a dog in "The Shaggy Dog" horrified me. In my defense, I was much younger then. But I still don't want to see it or the sequel.

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Posted: 05-11-2009 13:13 Post subject:

The first movie I saw at the cinema was "Return Of The Jedi", and Jabba The Hutt terrified me!

Although my dad's loud exclamation of "I don't like it can we turn over" changed the mood slightly.

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Posted: 05-11-2009 19:37 Post subject:

You're right, bbfc.org.uk says it was an A. Perhaps i caught it a year or two later on a double bill with something else.

Speilberg always did have a peculiar gift for sneaking fairly unpleasant stuff into 'family friendly' movies Confused

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Posted: 06-11-2009 04:27 Post subject:

If we're on Disney, I'd hide behind the cinema seat whenever Jafar came out in Aladdin. I always was a sensitive child.

Posted: 06-11-2009 10:48 Post subject:

The ever reliable Cracked has a whole article on this, encompassing some of the above right here.

Enjoy Smile

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Posted: 07-11-2009 00:07 Post subject:

The bit at the end of Tron, where David Warner/Sark gets a disk in the head, and falls over and a pool of glowing goo drops out of his noggin. That bit is still Shocked