what is a g or pg rated film that scared the socks off of you as a kid?
The TV movie DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK was much more insidious and terrifying than the remake, which was an entirely different sort of movie. I still remember the woman hearing the little creatures whispering to each other about when they're going to get her. Stalking. Gaslighting.
GARGOYLES, actually. Not the animated one, but the one with the sound-design horror and the race older than humanity living underground. The last 10 minutes were eh, but the first 30 were terrifying. All they had were tape recordings of the things. www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/gargoyl...
Ghostbusters was rated PG, and it scared me as a kid a whole lot, especially the library scene.
Return to Oz. That was not a children's movie, no matter what they thought they were making.
gremlins came out when i was 2 and i was afraid of them and pronounced it “grendolins” this might have just been from commercials, idk, but i watched it later on when we rented it from the video store
Babes in Toyland. Terrifying.
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh scared the crap out of me…and he was supposed to be the good guy in the story.
Well cheating and picking from before PG-13 became a thing, Jaws LOL Picking something that would still be rated that now, parts of Fantasia used to scare me. The balrog part obviously but young me also thought the wizard was a bad guy for getting (now I realize rightfully) mad at Mickey 😅
Let me be the first to comment with this waking nightmare. Somehow Disney made a film about what happens when you travel the Warp in Warhammer 40K.
A gentle reminder that the TV Adaption of IT is rated PG-13 and managed to traumatize FAR more children then any rated R project could
Alt: It (also known as Stephen King's IT) is a 1990 ABC two-part psychological horror drama[1] miniseries directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and adapted by Lawrence D. Cohen from Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. The story revolves around a predatory monster that can transform itself into its prey's worst fears to devour them, allowing it to exploit the phobias of its victims. It mostly takes the humanoid form of Pennywise, a demonic clown. The protagonists are The Lucky Seven, or The Losers Club, a group of outcast kids who discover Pennywise and vow to kill him by any means necessary. The series takes place over two different time periods, the first when the Losers first confront Pennywise as children in 1960, and the second when they return as adults in 1990 to defeat him a second time after he resurfaces.