And don’t get me started on those giant scorpions.īetween the rainbows and hugs and adventures of Share Bear, Grumpy Bear, Funshine Bear and all the rest, you forgot that the tree from Poltergeist tried to eat the little critters, didn’t you? Hell hath no fury than a woman with snakes for hair who can turn you to stone with her green eyes. It’s a phenomenal film, and when the moment comes for the gang of kids to find the body they’ve been looking for, it’s genuinely unsettling.Īlthough not quite as nerve-shredding as the movie’s gross pie-eating contest. It’s a bit of a stretch to call Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Body a kid’s movie – it had a 15 rating in the UK and R in the US – but it does have a bunch of kids being a bunch of kids in it, so it was always going to attract a young audience. MORE : 10 things from the 80s you never see on TV any more If video stores still existed, I would make it my mission in life to go into every one and move the copy of The Dark Crystal from the kids section to the Extreme Horror shelf. It’s hard to pick one particular frightening moment from this movie, simply because the entire thing is pant-crappingly creepy. The Dark Crystal? Dark doesn’t do it justice. Your little eyes light up… until you get home and put the thing in the VCR, and then you cannot keep them open. Your mother/father/guardian leans down to you in the video store and asks: ‘Would you like to see a film by Jim Henson, the man who did The Muppets, and Frank Oz, the man who is Yoda?’ MORE : 20 toys from the 80s that we’d totally forgotten about… until now Here are the moments that sent shivers through millions of childhoods. This was because sneaky film writers and directors had hidden some of the most frightening scenes imaginable in their alleged kids movies, things way more disturbing than an xenomorph fighting its way through someone’s gut. It was only when you sat down to enjoy a children’s film specifically targeted at you that the real horror began. I had tried to watch Alien, but ran screaming to my bedroom long before John Hurt suffered from the worst bout of food poisoning there’s ever been.īut at least when you cowered on the couch in front of a horror film, you knew what was coming. Everyone in my class was either 9 or 10 years old. I remember arriving at primary school one Monday morning to find my entire class discussing the chest-busting scene in Alien, which had aired on terrestrial television the previous evening.
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Little is known of her appearance, but by her death, she was rumored to be second in size only to Balerion. Ridden by Aegon’s sister-wife Visenya Targaryen, Vhagar was named for a god of Old Valyria.
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