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When you’re a kid, your grasp on reality is loose at best. There are a lot of things out there you’re not entirely sure are real, like blue whales, and a lot of things you’re convinced are real, like the monster under your bed. Separating facts from fiction is even harder when you watch a lot of movies.
As production assistant Ashley Bower showed with her viral tweet about movies, most kids are absolutely convinced the scary stuff is 100% real, and are terrorized by that for the rest of their lives.
She asked for people to share the movies that scarred them as children, listing her own as Jumanji, a kids movie where children are sucked into a board game and almost killed over and over. Delightful!
Oh this is a good one.
I’ll start: Jumanji pic.twitter.com/q9aVSi1Grq
— Ashley Bower (@loudandfearless) February 18, 2020
Some of the films people shared in response are legit scary horror films they had no business watching young, but a lot of bad memories came from children’s movies depicting weird and gruesome stuff. Where were the adults in the room when these decisions were being made? I’m talking about both the parents and the directors. Looking at you, Disney.
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Pinochio. The scene where Lampwick turns into a donkey freaked me out. pic.twitter.com/5EKO0JLP0r
— Vivian ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ (@vivkinder) February 18, 2020
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The CHILD CATCHER from Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang. CHILD. CATCHER. Literally. pic.twitter.com/0rABv6DyrK
— Mulled Whine ~ The @GOP is fascist garbage. (@OGintheOP) February 19, 2020
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Wizard of Oz. When those feet curled up underneath Dorothy’s house… pic.twitter.com/lqHLDQmxe7
— Lisa Bee (@leebee4life) February 19, 2020
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— preach (@preachdnb) February 19, 2020
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— Gamma Bomb Survivor (@Banner7997) February 19, 2020
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— cookiebreath (@noodletrain) February 19, 2020
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Bro the zombies in Scooby-Doo on zombie island were literally real and the gang lost the camera that had proof on it bro THE ZOMBIES WERE REAL https://t.co/IsO3sywUQ5
— skala can have little a skalami (@pochowek) February 19, 2020
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“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
When they pulled the heart out I asked my mom if I could go play arcade games in the lobby. https://t.co/cTL2rq0LVX— Zach Braff (@zachbraff) February 19, 2020
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Return to Oz. Those wheelers and the heads on a shelf? Come on! I actually thought it was a nightmare for years until someone mentioned hating that movie as well. pic.twitter.com/9K4BroLIm4
— Bike Repair Bear (@Hostilebear) February 19, 2020
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No doubt about it:
Jaws
I’m a San Diego native and seeing this with my older sisters when it came out made me give up Boogie Boarding for like a month pic.twitter.com/pH5usvsoyv
— RRP at Law (@RRPatLaw) February 19, 2020
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Poltergeist. That goddamn clown! Lol. I couldn’t sleep well at my friend’s house because she had one and a closet facing the end of the bed. I did it a few times, though. pic.twitter.com/pwXsIuPeK3
— Agent 99 Protect Wild Horses (@GetSmartResist) February 19, 2020
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My dad made me watch Clockwork Orange when I was 12
— Red Lori Bright Eyes (@RedloraineV) February 19, 2020
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The Exorcist freaked me out pic.twitter.com/DxILY6JsBf
— Ron Rhodes (@RonanRhodes) February 19, 2020
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Nightmare on Elm Street pic.twitter.com/lQheOPflJh
— GisElla (@Gis_EllaTO) February 19, 2020
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The Birds pic.twitter.com/HgY8sqyTOv
— (@FatherLococo) February 19, 2020
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My parents let me watch fire in the sky with them when I was a kid. After that I made a wall of pillows between me and my window for months. pic.twitter.com/uav1B4AGfs
— Kipp Schell (@KlimpSchoell) February 19, 2020
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The Shining pic.twitter.com/zMX5Gpt3tV
— HowlAtMe (@verroa84) February 19, 2020
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Psycho. Specifically that Universal Studio ride that recreated the shower scene.
Scarred for life. pic.twitter.com/J8a8JUXmjg— Mayumi Yoshida (@immyyoume) February 19, 2020
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John Mackenzie’s ‘Apaches’ (1977) https://t.co/l9lCPsE7AQ https://t.co/M8jgCN2qI4
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) February 19, 2020
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Kids. I was 10. Someone stocked those Blockbuster shelves INcorrectly. #notakidsmovie https://t.co/V6Oq8s1FJM
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) February 19, 2020
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The stump scene in Flash Gordon is F*****D UP!! https://t.co/1e1s4Uk2eW
— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) February 19, 2020
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Transformers, the movie (1986). They didn’t have to do Optimus Prime like that. I needed therapy after seeing that. https://t.co/lIezdBtlxw
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 19, 2020
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If you don’t say A Little Princess, do you even have a heart? https://t.co/cKjrXJgM43
— Aimee Carrero (@aimeecarrero) February 19, 2020
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Terminator 2.
I was 12. https://t.co/0LIkM4i9Fg
— Ali Plumb (@AliPlumb) February 19, 2020
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Watership Down. My babysitter thought “oooh little Bonnie will love an animated movie about bunnies!” Um…so many rabbity nightmares were in my future. 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 https://t.co/gwCGMNi8tP
— Bonnie Burton (@bonniegrrl) February 19, 2020
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Babe: A pig in the city. It’s such a weird movie with a bunch of weird talking animals and my life forever changed after watching it. Just thinking about it is making me very uncomfortable. https://t.co/4a64Ln72hH
— Alyssa Wilson (@acwnews) February 19, 2020
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Spanish movie theatres gave a negative amount of f*cks about age ratings. Result: I saw Se7en when it just came out.
The sloth scene did a good one on me. https://t.co/jgqGJ567gN
— Sam (@Spainkiller) February 19, 2020
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Flowers In The Attic 💐😬 https://t.co/nwCedp2eLB
— Chrishell (@Chrishell7) February 19, 2020
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Children of the Corn.
I grew up in a farmtown and we scared ourselves shitless at slumber parties playing ghost in the graveyard in the corn fields around each others’ houses! https://t.co/XhH0gqMEiZ
— Tonya Kay (@tonyakay) February 19, 2020
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We rented Silence of the Lambs and watched it the Poconos when I was 8. Haven’t helped move furniture since. https://t.co/tjtSN4SDiM
— PJ Brennan (@peejaybrennan) February 19, 2020