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04th Jul 2014

JOE looks at the 10 scariest moments in some of our favourite childhood films

Childhood = Ruined...

Paul Moore

Childhood = Ruined…

After hearing that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is 43 years old this week, JOE feels slightly old. The Gene Wilder cult classic is a firm childhood favourite of ours but watching it again, as an adult, is a really bizarre experience! Let’s just say that the director and Otto from the Simpsons would have lots in common.

The trippy boat ride scene alone has images of; decapitated birds, dead people with worms crawling across their faces and giant flying monsters/insects. Cheers for that! One that note, we decided to take a look at some other really inappropriate and dark moments in childhood films that still scar JOE…

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The film just gets even more bizarre. Somehow it manages to mix wholesome feel-good family values with a story about kids that are lured into the place of their dreams only to suffer serious mental anguish! JOE has heard countless stories about how some adults are still afraid of the Umpa Lumpas.

 

umpa-lumpa

Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves

JOE thinks that Kevin Costner and ‘that’ accent will never be as  memorable as 1) Bryan Adams’ theme song, 2) Alan Rickman’s brilliant O.T.T performance as the Sheriff of Nottingham and 3) The most evil glass-eyed witch that has ever burst through the doors trying to impale a man with a spear.

Witch

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

After seeing someone’s face melt in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ , JOE really should have been more prepared for this one. What makes this scene so brilliant is that the villain Donovan hangs on while decomposing. He choose poorly!

Indiana Jones

Independence Day

It’s hard to find someone that doesn’t love this Will Smith guilty-pleasure. We weren’t smiling though when we saw this alien autopsy scene, in fact we almost shat ourselves!

Clip via – Michael Havran

Ghostbusters II

Let’s just say that it’s a good thing Ghostbusters has the comedic talents of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and the late Harold Ramis because “Vigo, the scourge of Carpathia, the sorrow of Moldavia” absolutely frightened the bejesus out of us.

Vigo

The Goonies

A stonewall classic film but this image (and the music that accompanies it) will always make JOE jump. We should have known better, after all he is called ‘One Eyed Willy’. That’s scary enough.

Eye Goonies

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

This scene is scarier than The Exorcist & The Omen combined.

Clip via – netcore2k

Gremlins

For all the madcap hilarity and cute scenes with Gizmo, people tend to forget just how unbelievably dark, violent and twisted the Gremlins films are. Naturally, JOE loves them.

Toy Story

Spider baby is real.

Spider-baby

 

The Witches

Scariest. Thing. Ever!

Clip via – socialretard28’s channel

JOE needs to go see a psychiatrist now and remove all of these traumatic childhood memories.

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