Scary Crap

[gemma_thompson]

Man, I'm so distracted from doing my 20 page paper so maybe I'll just get this out of the way and I'll experience a surge of productivity!

Scariest villains of my childhood:

Oogie Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas

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[tabular_rasa]

OMG I am so with you on Hexxus (he used to give me nightmares!) and the Ghost of Christmas Future/Yet To Come-- in any Christmas Carol film, honestly. I remember a particularly creepy shadowy cloaked one in a black and white version, not sure what year or director or anything, just saw it on TV one time.

Frollo never actually scared me! But we were also a bit older when Hunchback came out. I always thought he was an intriguing Disney villain since he wasn't evil just for the sake of it, but was acting on a corrupt and twisted idea of what he thought was good. (Hmm, maybe this is where my love of analyzing villains got started . . . ). And his song is still my favorite Disney song to this day!

When it first came out on video, Nightmare Before Christmas actually freaked me out so badly in the first five minutes that I stopped watching it well before Oogie Boogie showed up. I only just finally saw this whole thing this past Halloween! I was intrigued at how Oogie Boogie and Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog seem to have a lot

[gemma_thompson]

You know, I never watched the banshee movie, but you guys did link me to the YouTube clip of when she first appears. Maybe she'd be scarier if I watched her in context.

Oh I forgot one! In one of the (numerous) Jane Eyre remakes she wakes up in the middle of the night to see the crazy wife trying on her wedding dress and stumbling around like she's possessed. That was so scary :O

[tabular_rasa]

Yeah, it probably makes a difference if you're somewhere under the age of 10 and you've stayed up with your sister downstairs to watch it late on TV* and your parents are already asleep and the entire house is dark . . .

*I'm sure it was probably like, 9:00 pm, but that was late for us back then. It was back when Disney always played 2 movies every night starting at 7:00, and this one would be the second one.

I haven't seen that! But, uh, yeah, that sounds terrifying O.o

[tabular_rasa]

Also, you might enjoy this, if you're counting down scary moments in kids' films:

He totally saw the Banshee movie the same age I did, lol.

[gemma_thompson]

THE KID SNATCHER!!!!!! I forgot about him!!!! D:

[scorpiuspro]

Funny, growing up I LOVED those villains. I guess for me, it wasn't really the villains themselves that scared me but specific scenes. For example, Donovan in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" never scared me, but when he disintegrated into a corpse, I used to run out of the room screaming.

However, there is one villain who terrified me both in character and scenes: Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"

[gemma_thompson]

OMG his eyes :S :S :S
I never watched that movie. I think back when it came out my parents didn't find it appropriate? I dunno. Well, I'm going to have nightmares too lol

Sorry about us not being LJ friends. I thought we were. But now I have made it so. :)

P.s. omg Robert you're a .gif!!!!! :O

[scorpiuspro]

Yup, it's an epic .gif from my movie "Hearts & Stars"
http://youtu.be/Z0ANthmGyxc

Also, "Can Sauron come out and play?" is HILARIOUS

[gemma_thompson]

Haha thanks. Oh! Forgot one!!! Did you ever see Little Nemo and Adventures in Slumberland??

The nightmare king freaked me out.

[tabular_rasa]

Also, Robert wants to respond with:

Funny, growing up I LOVED those villains. I guess for me, it wasn't really the villains themselves that scared me but specific scenes. For example, Donovan in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" never scared me, but when he disintegrated into a corpse, I used to run out of the room screaming.

However, there is one villain who terrified me both in character and scenes: Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"

[gemma_thompson]

I added him so hopefully that doesn't happen again. It added his comment originally but I had to go and like unspam it or something weird.