People Are Sharing The Not-So-Scary Movie Scenes That Absolutely Terrified Them As Kids, And I Guess We All Had The Same Childhood

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1. "When the lights dimmed and the movie started, and the MGM lion roared, 4-year-old me screamed and crawled for my life over my father‘s shoulder and into the lap of the lady in the row behind us."

2. "When Boo started crying in Monsters Inc. and the lights started flickering."

3. "That scene in The Little Mermaid when King Triton discovers Ariel’s collection of land junk, loses his sh*t and screams at her."

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4. "In Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird when they capture Big Bird, paint him blue, put him in the cage, and make him sing that sad song. Terrified me as a child. Still hate it."

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5. "The nuclear bomb scene in The Terminator. Nightmares for weeks. I live in DC. Still live in fear that a bomb will vaporize us some day."

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6. "For some strange reason, the heffalumps and woozles in the Winnie the Pooh movie terrified me as a kid. I can’t remember anything about that movie or why I was so scared."

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7. "Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, when he goes crazy in the mail room, wrapping up Cindy Lou Who."

8. "In Ice Age: The Meltdown, when the iceberg slowly turns around to reveal the two water dinosaurs. I hid until I knew the next scene was playing, like the monster could see me."

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9. "Aladdin, when he steps into the sand lion's mouth. I always had to cover my ears and my eyes."

10. "The Fates in Disney’s Hercules passing around (and at one point dropping) their shared eyeball."

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11. "The Bumble from Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer."

12. "The end of the 'I Love To Laugh' scene in Mary Poppins, where the laughing people start to cry to get back to the ground. I thought crying was a horrible thing to show people doing."

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13. "The furnace scene in Home Alone. I was constantly scared of the basement after that, and we didn't even have a furnace down there."

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14. "The zombie in Hocus Pocus gave me nightmares for literally years."

15. "I have beef with Janice from The Muppets."

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16. "I couldn’t watch the Siamese cats song from Lady and the Tramp without losing my sh*t when I was a kid."

17. "In Pinocchio, when that one kid turned into a donkey."

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18. "The pink elephants from Dumbo scared the absolute sh*t outta me as a child."

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19. "In E.T., when E.T. screams, running through the forest."

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20. "When E.T. gets all sick and white, and they put him in the bag. That frightened me for YEARS."

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21. "Everything in Mars Attacks! scared the living sh*t out of me as a kid, then I come to find it was a comedy."

22. "I think when they went in the trippy tunnel in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...as a kid, it scared the heck out of me."

23. "The scene of Augustus Gloop going up the pipe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."

24. "The witch's feet curling under the house that fell on her in The Wizard of Oz. It still seems scary."

25. "The flying monkey scene in The Wizard of Oz."

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26. "The Wheelers from Return to Oz."

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27. "'Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!''"

28. "The skeksis from The Dark Crystal really did a number on me as a kid. They were terrifying."

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29. "The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!"

30. "When the mutant toys appear in Toy Story."

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31. "The waterfall scene in The Brave Little Toaster."

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32. "THAT Bilbo scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."

33. "The forest fire when Bambi’s mother dies."

34. "The opening scene of The Great Mouse Detective. When the dad gets kidnapped by the bat."

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35. And finally, "The CATERPILLAR in Alice in Wonderland. 'Whoooo are you?'"

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