The 5 Scariest Moments In Children's Films

Films aimed at kids are usually too juvenile and simple for adults to really enjoy. A good children's film knows parents will be taking their kids to see them and so will throw in a few things that'll go right over the little one's heads but mummy and daddy'll appreciate. Sometimes though, they just scare the life out of you and leave you wondering why a loving God would allow such things. Here are the 5 moments in kid's films that scared me more than any other.

An absoloute classic of a film that was just never as popular as it deserved to be, The Pagemaster put its protagonist, Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) in constant danger, to teach him how to get over his fears of basically everything.

One of those dangers was this.

Richard meets Dr. Jekyll, who promptly turns into Mr. Hyde and chases Richard aound his creepy house. Those cold, dead eyes and jagged teeth were pretty muh everything I found scary back then. It was like a shark turned into a man and then was given Leonard Nimoy's voice.

When I was a kid and saw this film for the first time I couldn't believe I was seeing real people and cartoons on screen at the same time. Who Framed Roger Rabbit follows Roger and the detective Eddie (Bob Hoskins) as they try to uncover the mystery behind the missing will of Marvin Acme, owner of Toontown.

The bad guy is a guy called Judge Doom, who might have been Judge Dredd's old partner, I can't be sure. With a name like that he couldn't not be a villain. He gets run over by a steam roller at one point, which was scary enough, but he survives, revealing that he is a Toon. And then this happens.

I actually wouldn't watch the film for years because I was so scared of that face and its knife-eyes.

Labyrinth sees the beautiful Sarah Wlliams (Jennifer Connelly) traverse a fantasy maze to resuce her baby brother from the clutches of Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie). While Jareth prances about singing songs and wearing tights, Sarah makes her way through many dangerous and ridiculous obstacles.

She meets a lovable beast called Ludo and as the two enter a forest, Ludo falls down a pit. Continuing alone, Sarah encounters a group of strange creatures in the forest, known as The Fire Gang.

These scary freaks almost immediately start singing a song and dancing like demented tribesmen, all the while, ripping parts of their bodies off. That's right, they just straight up pull their arms, legs, noses, even their damn heads off! They juggle their torn limbs and just keep singing as though it's nothing.

Things take a turn for the worse when the creatures start wondering why Sarah hasn't pulled her head off yet. So, being the reasonable creatures they are, they try to rip her head off. Naturally terrified, Sarah grabs one of their heads and throws it at the others and makes a break for it. The Fire Gang, now pissed, give chase and threaten to behead her as punishment.

The film had only featured some mild peril up to that point, with the worst threat being a dip in The Bog of Eternal Stench. We go from smelling bad to having your head vicsiously ripped off by insane forest dwelling creatures a bit too fast for me.

A film about a young boy who wins a contest to get a tour of the worst's most exciting chocolate factory sounds like the perfect premise for a children's film. Both the film and the book it was based on are reknown and beloved but it's actually a pretty horrific story.

Aside from the Oompa-Loompas (so obviously slaves, in Roald Dahl's original draft of the book they were in fact Pygmies Wonka found in Africa) you have one child being violently sucked through a narrow pipe, one turning into a giant blueberry, another being dumped into the trash and one being shruken to miniscule size. Those damned Oompa-Loompas just calmly sing songs whenever one of these diasaters takes place, while Wonka seems to think the children deserved it.

There's one scene in particular were Wonka goes... A little insane. Words can't really describe quite what happens so, just watch for yourself.

Wow. Whoever came up with that hated kids.

Toy Story is one of those things that means something to you. You see the first as a young child and the idea of your toys coming to life is so magical and every kid on Earth wanted to believe that. Toy Story 2 was amazing as well because it was just like the first one but a little more grown up, just like we were. Toy Story 3 arrived when most of us who saw the first as little kids are now adults and it slaps you with nostalgia and demands you go see it.

Toy Story 3 scared the crap out of me though. Here I was, innocently sitting in my chair enjoying the film and being so happy to see the gang back once again and wondering what dangerous situation they'll get into this time. They've already been left behind while Andy moved house and almost taken to Japan to live in a museum. What could happen this tie in this day-care centre?

Yeah, they could end up in a giant furnace, slowly moving toward a horrible and painful demise with no hope or sign of escape. For each second of this scene, I could feel my heart breaking more and more but it's not until Buzz offers Woody his hand that it really hits. That look in Buzz's eyes, that look that he's resigned to death and would rather face it with his friends than die panicking is the moment I wanted to cry.

It's cruel to put people through things like that. Just plain cruel.