my parents were a bit conservative about
what i watched when i was growing up
there was supposed to be no video games
with blood all pg-13 movies had to be
googled and there were absolutely no f
words allowed i remember even finding a
library book about mummies and i opened
it up and there are all these pictures
of dried up organs i was like oh geez my
parents would get mad at me if i brought
this home now looking back i'm pretty
sure they wouldn't have been mad or
anything it's just that's how fragile my
little innocent mind was back in the day
so when i saw stuff that was certifiably
spooky it effed me straight up so like
here's a trigger warning there's gonna
be some spooky stuff being shown in this
video there's gonna be blood and
eyeballs and existential terror it's
like all here so if any of that bugs you
feel free to click away there's gonna be
no judgment find something nicer to
watch okay here we go so a lot of the
scary stuff i remember was when i was
about five or six years old so i was
super young and i was walking through an
elementary school library and i spotted
the cover for shocker on shock street
and i was like yo i don't know what this
goosebumps stuff is but i want all of it
right now my mom took me to a vhs rental
store because that was still a thing in
2005 and we picked up a copy of the
haunted mask on vhs so i sat down to
watch it i was expecting like body parts
flying off and dead people and flesh
peeling and that's mainly because i had
no idea how silly the show actually was
unfortunately i got start off with the
freakiest episode in the whole series so
rest in peace five-year-old nate the
episode starts off with the ever so
charismatic arlestein giving an
introduction hello i'm r.l stein i write
the goosebumps books man this guy just
reeks of star quality doesn't he yeah he
also literally spoils the ending so nice
going
and it ends when she discovers there is
nothing more powerful than the love of
her family and friends
so carly beth and her friendo are
outside stealing pumpkins when they
uncover the most dedicated bullies ever
these kids buried themselves and are
waiting for possibly hours on end for
these specific kids to wander over to
that very location to jump out so like
props to them
this makes carly beth appropriately
angry and she goes home her mom
surprised her with a gift it's a
it's a plaster bust of her daughter's
head thanks mom that's really thoughtful
of you then we cut to carly best school
and the same bullies put a worm in her
sandwich and here's a fun fact by the
way the actress catherine long insisted
that they put a real worm in her
sandwich i mean that probably went fly
today but still that embarrasses her
hardcore and she rips up her halloween
duck costume that her mother made in a
fit of rage so in order to get back at
the bullies she goes to creepy novelty
shop and she wanders into a back room
and the owner isn't exactly too happy
about that you're not supposed to be
here
neither these masks so she steals a mask
and the store owner like does nothing
about it
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carly about sticks that creepy head on a
stick and she goes trick-or-treating the
mask starts toying with her head and
then she just kind of acts like a jerk
to everybody
she meets up with her friend who isn't
exactly a fan of the mask and then carly
beth has a seizure after
trick-or-treating for a bit carly beth
runs off into the night to find the
bullies and then she corners them in the
graveyard now this is where the
traumatic stuff starts happening okay
help me
talked
please help me
look at this this isn't for kids i was
five years old when i saw this and it
gave me nightmares for the rest of the
week the worst part is is that this show
never explains why it happens it just
does and it freaks me out and you guys
are jerks so she goes home and the mask
won't come off so she returns back to
the novelty shop to figure out what the
heck is going on the store owner reveals
that he made the masks because he didn't
love himself for something stupid and
then all the other masks start floating
up and then they chase her and here's
spooky moment number two
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do you see this they're moaning and
they're chanting and they're chasing
after carly beth and my five-year-old
mom was like oh my god this is some
satanic levels of stuff jesus bless this
house this part freaked me out so much
that i turned off the video and i made
my mom watch the rest of it with me
anyway the masks are scared off by the
head bust thing and to be honest i don't
really blame them her little brother
puts on the mask the end so next is
invader zim used to be into this show a
lot until i saw the episode bestest
friend first off let me just say that
this show is pretty unsettling everyone
is either an idiot or they're evil
except gur who's been reduced to a hot
topic icon the soundtrack is heavy and
unpleasant the imagery is gross and grim
and it doesn't have happy endings most
of the time props to them for having
artistic merit but i mean this scared me
and all my friends so like could you not
the episode starts off when zim realizes
that he doesn't have any friends and he
doesn't want to raise suspicion because
he doesn't want to get caught as being
an alien to invade them so he sets out
to make a best friend and in order to
determine which of the kids would be fit
to be his best friend he tortures them i
have devised some simple tests to
determine who is the worthiest
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and now the final test
all these kids are left traumatized and
scarred except for one kid named keith
and he's literally the sweetest thing
ever he's a marshmallow and zim is mean
to him for no reason whatsoever so the
story progresses and keith gets a little
intrusive and spooky so zim tries to get
him to leave alone so keith assumes oh
well zim is just depressed and something
so i'm gonna throw him a surprise party
to cheer him up this is a little
problematic seeing how zim is an alien
and he doesn't want to be discovered so
he does this
thank you sim
keith
okay let's analyze this scene a bit so
these little gripper things are metallic
and pointy the nice sound effects
certainly don't help out
the camera pans over to the wall where
you see the fingers insert themselves
into keith's skull he starts screaming
in pain as the arms struggle to remove
his eyes his eyeballs are forced out of
his head and then the robotic mind
control eyes are placed into his head
also let's give the soundtrack a listen
to as well
yeah that's terrifying and it's still
scary today and i don't like this scene
one bit to top it off it ends with sweet
old keith gang mauled by a squirrel and
then he falls off the building keeping a
theme with eyeballs we have the 1999
version of the mummy with brendan
frazier man what happened to that guy
this movie is freaking awesome it's
silly and it's stupid and it's perfectly
charming and fun and i highly recommend
it if you haven't seen it but my
six-year-old self doesn't agree nothing
in this movie really scared me too badly
until we got to this one scene so the
main characters are exploring the
mummy's tomb after awakening it and
they're all chased out by booby traps
evelyn has been wandering alone and
she's finally relieved when she runs
into a party
goodness i member just starting to get
scared i've
lost everyone
it may come as a surprise but even today
i have this weird thing with eyeballs my
grandma used to have cable so whenever
we went over there we'd watch the
cartoon channels and hey arnold was one
of my favorites although i do remember
one episode particularly so everyone is
walking past the city graveyard and then
gerald tells a spooky ghost story about
like 80 years prior some lady was
waiting on her wedding day for her
fiance to show up turns out that guy was
across the street getting married to her
sister which is pretty cold to get even
she wakes up in the middle of the night
and then she puts on her wedding gown
then she heads down to the basement to
grab an axe yes an axe and then she
breaks into her sister's house she finds
her fiance and sister sleeping and then
she proceeds to chop them up in their
bed when the police arrive the next
morning she's sitting next to corpses in
a rocking chair humming a wedding march
when they wander in she commits suicide
by jumping out the window you know like
in other kids shows it was at that point
when my grandma made me turned off
because it was getting a little too
scary so like nice going nickelodeon you
guys are doing great this is like two
man
okay here's a popular choice indiana
jones and the raiders of lost ark
apparently the head exploding scene
freaked everyone out as kids but guess
what i chickened out and i walked in the
room every time this part happened so
joke's on you i didn't see it till i was
13. now the part that scared me was the
plane fight indy and this buff nazi guy
get into a fistfight next to a plane and
then this happens
i remember watching this movie with my
grandpa and he laughed when it happened
i was like what the heck that was
horrifying but now i get why he was
laughing and this scene makes me crack a
smile too remember kids the only good
nazi is a dead nazi he's become kind of
a symbol
okay last one i understand that this
one's a weird choice but sausage party
freaks me out no okay i understand that
this is childhood trauma but i saw this
when i was 16 so like that's technically
my childhood so you can shut up around
this time period when the movie came out
i was going through a horrific
existential crisis that lasted months i
just woke up one morning and i realized
oh god nothing matters everyone i know
and love is going to die and there's no
afterlife and i've been lied to my
entire life and then i went to go see
sausage party with my family the whole
movie was pretty much an analogy for
humanity's relationship with religion
and how we're all destined for eternal
oblivion how there's nothing we can do
about it and we make up fake stories
about gods and having to calm people
down eventually that becomes perverted
and then the initial ability is lost and
it's used like a political weapon
against folks it's it's you know
standard animated fair i related to the
main characters a lot everything that
they believed for their entire lives was
stripped away from them then they were
left in a cold isolated and savage
universe i was pretty uncomfortable
throughout the entire run time but then
the villain was introduced
heck yeah
somebody called doctors honestly this
beating is sick actually i feel great
real healthy not you yeah he's a literal
walking douche that murders food and
gets stronger he calls it juicing i it's
pretty clever and everything but it hit
way too close to home for me first off
he resembled the bullies from my
childhood who talked and acted similarly
and every time that he killed someone i
would just sit in my chair think about
how that character would never have
another thought or feeling arise for the
rest of eternity with no hopes of ever
returning so when he was on screen i was
tense and emotionally affected and
distressed he was an embodiment of the
existential fears and distress that was
feeling at the time and he was a much
scarier villain to me than i'm sure the
filmmakers were intending in my opinion
that's the scariest out of all the
movies and shows i mean sure talking
busts and floating masks and eyeballs
and axe brides and plane propellers are
scary enough but the tragic and fragile
human condition that's the freakiest out
of all of them the meager and helpless
state that our species lives in still
keeps you up at night what's good about
movies is that they're all fake and
they're not real and they can't hurt you
i figured that out when i was about
seven or so but the uncaring and absurd
universe that we live in that's 100 real
and you're gonna face it one day with or
without your permission nothing you do
will be remembered every feeling thought
and action that you've ever had or done
will be forgotten because there's nobody
to remember it and that's really
traumatic
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