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[stellaluce]

i think i must have seen 2001: a space odyssey when i was very young, for upon what must have been my second viewing of the film, i was shocked to see that my lifetime recurring nightmare was obviously derived from it

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[frozenbears]

When I was 3 or so I saw the cartoon version of Watership Down, and there was this scene with statues falling over that gave me a rather acute fear of statues for a number of years after that. Among other things, I was afraid of Bob's Big Boy, a life sized Winnie the Pooh costume, and the creepy Egyptian Mummy Ernie from sesame street where Ernie and Bert are briefly stranded in the Met.

[stellaluce]

hehe. watership down freaked me out too. even as a grownup it does. and suprisingly, since i didn't have tv as a kid, i remember that mummy ernie.

a few more scare anecdotes:

the first time i saw star wars it had me in a mess. i was so scared of darth vader that i hid under the couch crying. i still remember in my mind's eye this one terrifying scene that actually wasn't in star wars at all; i must have drempt it, or made it up out of terror.

the fire swamp/r.o.u.s's, and the torture chamber scene in the princess bride also freaked me out. when i was about three or four my friend's sister was watching it and we kept sneaking and spying and trying to see because it was a "grownup movie" or so we thought, and we ended up terrified out of our wits.

[gilroysfinest]

i don't think it would be a stretch to say that i was the only terrified four year old in the theatre watching the land before time.