Recently, I asked the wonderful people of the BuzzFeed Community to share the scariest non-horror movie moments. Some of these make you wonder if the directors were totally cool scarring us for life:
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“Oh dear gawd when the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang first appeared. Terrifying!”
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“The part in The Mummy (1999) where a beetle crawls under a guy’s skin. Because of that part, I never finished the whole movie until I was well into my teens.”
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“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Watched it when I was 10…the beginning part where the grandpa jump scares you with his eyes gone and when the old bird lady gets eaten after they barricade the house. So creepy. I still hate eye monsters.”
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“Who Framed Roger Rabbit! When the big villain is revealed with the creepy voice and the horrific murder of the squeaky shoe. Total nightmare fuel.”
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“In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, when E.T. is in the cornfield screaming back at Elliot. That’s haunted me for most of my life.”
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“The flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.“
10.
“The Emperor’s death in The Dark Crystal.”
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“The part in the Goonies when they find Chester Copperpot’s skeleton under a rock. Freaked my brother out for years.”
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“Large Marge in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure still creeps me out.”
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“When the queen turns herself into the Witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. And pretty much every scene afterward has her in it. I cannot emphasize enough how she haunted my nightmares for YEARS.”
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“The furnace scene in Toy Story 3.”
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“Zordon dying in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. Nightmares for years.”
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“The scene in Any Given Sunday where the player’s eye comes out on the field disturbed me for weeks.”
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“The paparazzi guy climbing out of the toilet in Spice World. The way his body climbs out. Ugh. No thanks.”
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“The skeleton battle scene in Jason and the Argonauts. Creeped me out as a child. Still does now as an adult.”
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“That jump scare in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring when Bilbo wants his ring back.”
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“The clown in the The Brave Little Toaster.”
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“The wolf from The NeverEnding Story. Enough said.”
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“As a kid, it was the ending of Gremlins when Spike is simultaneously absorbing water from a fountain and exposed to direct light…seeing the worst gremlin of all swelling and bubbling and sizzling in the bright light was TOO MUCH for little kid me. I had so many nightmares that it was over a decade before I watched the movie again (and realized it was a comedy)! I love Gremlins now, but my Stripe-inspired nightmares are seared into my memory.”
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“The Fireys from Labyrinth (where the reddish creatures take off their heads and start throwing them around; and then try to take off Sarah’s head). To this day, that scene still gives me an uneasy feeling.”
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“For librarians of a certain age, watching the catalog cards go flying in the original Ghostbusters. All I could think was, ‘Somebody’s going to have to pick those all up and refile them.’ A nightmare if you’ve ever experienced it!”
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“The part in The Warriors when the gang arrives at the subway, and Fox gets into a fight with a police officer and is thrown on the tracks below…let’s just say I saw this movie as a kid and get nervous on the train platforms in Chicago.”
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And lastly: “Every scene with the aliens from Mars Attacks! Those little guys scared the pants off of me. To this day, I can’t watch that movie.”
What is a non-horror movie moment that terrified you? Comment below!