Top 20 SCARIEST Scenes from Non-Disney Kids Movies

Scaring kids isn't exclusive to Disney! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most bone-chilling moments from kids' movies, excluding Disney. Warning: Some spoilers will not be for the faint of heart. Our countdown includes scenes from movies “The Witches”, “The NeverEnding Story”, "Chicken Run" and more! Which other kids' movie moments do you feel should be responsible for your therapy bills? Let us know in the comments down below!
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[@Funny.Man101]

What kind of shoes do bananas wear? Slippers

[@StanHalen1936]

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[@Reaperguy67]

@@Funny.Man101 can you not spam

[@randomreviews4278]

3:59 like how you said non Disney but Brave little toaster is

[@Charles-N-LoriOliver]

The Last Unicorn Fight with the Great Bull towards the climax of the movie

[@Nighlocktheawesome00]

I'm surprised that Littlefoot's Mother vs Sharptooth/The Earthquake Scene/Littlefoot's Mother Dies didn't get so much as an honorable mention.

[@olvialee7221]

54: When I saw Coraline, my dad’s jaw was on the floor when the Other Mother transformed herself while counting to three. I’ll never forget it

[@Akira625]

If Willy Wonka and Secret of NIMH both came out today, they _definitely_ wouldn't be rated G.

[@christophermoore5007]

Same thing with all dogs go to heaven and Rover dangerfield.

[@FlashoftheBlades]

Is anything rated G anymore? They seem to be quite rare.

[@Akira625]

@@FlashoftheBladesMuch of the modern animated stuff that’s PG I personally think should have been rated G. It’s as though PG means “practically G” these days.

[@shanianavarro2539]

An honorable mention could have been the scene from 9 (2009) when the Seamstress uses 2's corpse to hypnotize and kidnap the rest of the group. Seeing 2's eyes looking so lifeless to then watching the Seamstress rise up behind him still creeps me out.

[@jean-mi1825]

The whole (great) movie is disturbing, though !

[@olvialee7221]

I was creeped out too

[@christophermoore5007]

9 is rated PG13.

[@christophermoore5007]

9 is rated PG13.

[@olvialee7221]

57: Rasputin’s appearance in Anastasia creeped me out when he was first introduced in the movie but his song, not so much. But it did give me chills

[@Animeguy300]

The Other Mother has the most scariest scenes

[@genaragland4979]

Return to Oz when Dorothy was in the head chamber of Princess Mombi and they all woke up and started screaming. Messed me up.

[@rebeccamcdermott9259]

Surprised that wasn't included. The wheelers alone were pretty terrifying.

[@manueltapia1859]

​@@rebeccamcdermott9259yes but is a Disney Movie technically, and don't forget the wheelers and how almost Dorothy gets a shock therapy but thankfully is saved by another girl 😮

[@spilleraaron4748]

One of the scariest moments for me was the Lampwick donkey scene in Pinocchio! That’s horrific

[@prestonestes1388]

Naw. The Evil Queen becoming the Hag terrified me as a child. I refused to watch Snow White until I was 8.

[@nickcervenka8756]

Ha, the donkey scene awakened interest in animal TFs

[@joshuaball5916]

They did say Non-Disney kids movies right?

[@nickcervenka8756]

@@joshuaball5916 it's based on a book and it happened there too

[@Akira625]

Monstro was even worse.

[@briannab.1712]

Let's not forget the scene in Chicken Run after Edwina's death when we see inside the human's house and there are chicken bones on the table, implying that they ATE HER! Makes you look at chicken a little differently afterwards.

[@hayeonkim7838]

The other mother and abandoned toys are truly the characters of my memories! Thanks for interesting and valuable video as always ❤❤❤

[@olvialee7221]

55: Toxic Love didn’t scare me but the true reveal of Hexxus got my eyes big

[@J.P.Robles]

Yea he went from being a skeleton to being a skeleton

[@kevinlee7678]

@@J.P.Robles Yeah, why is his death form not included here?

[@Holy_Calamity]

I was surprised The Plague Dogs didn’t make the list. Talk about a horrific premise for a cartoon movie. Released in 1985, this British animated film follows two dogs who escape a lab that practices vivisection on all kinds of animals. The whole movie is despair fuel at every turn.

[@rebeccamcdermott9259]

Yeah, that's a pretty disturbing movie. Beautiful film, but not an easy watch at all especially that ambiguous ending.

[@manueltapia1859]

Specially the end really sad 😢, I only watched once but was enough 😢

[@Honey059]

I was a kid when I saw that scene in ET. I remember crying thinking that he died and I did not watch it any further. Then many years later, after I've grown up, we got Direct TV and they showed it. So, I decided to watch it and found out that he didn't die after all. He in fact lived and just went back home. But for years, I was so traumatized thinking he died but he didn't. Now that's powerful story telling.

[@damarispierce2883]

The wiz was straight up nightmare fuel. The underground scene with the creepy hobo man and his puppets chasing the crew was OUT OF LINE

[@dougerrohmer]

Before I started watching this, I said to myself "Myself, I wonder if they are gonna include the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang child catcher dude". I absolutely soiled myself as a kid when that scene happened.

[@noahppinkrevail]

I thought a similar thing but for the Chockey

[@olvialee7221]

@@noahppinkrevail The Chokey. From Matilda

[@AshParth560]

Even outside of Disney, these movies still be fun with some of their dark themes. Hell, i grew up with some of these. 😅

[@alexisklein136]

I swear I was the only kid who was absolutely TERRFIED by that damn wolf puppet in Neverending Story. It gave me nightmares. Everyone else I knew was like “ seriously? It’s a horrible puppet”

[@ma3mc3mu-X]

There’s a lot more tragedy about Edwina. She knew she was going to die, she would’ve survived if she did ask anyone for at least _one_ egg to survive, she refuse to tell anyone. Edwina was so depressed that the *only* way of escape was basically suicide. Makes you wonder if the expression on Edwina's face is fear... or anticipation?

[@SeanGrantstormpinball]

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure actually had two solid jump-scares. Large Marge gets all the buzz, but the clown doctor dream sequence where the main doctor takes off his mask to reveal and even scarier grin underneath actually freaked me out more!

[@manueltapia1859]

And the pet store burning but thankfully Pee Wee saved the pets 🎉

[@triffus]

The Mom dying in The Land Before Time, and Bambi of course.

[@PoeticProse7]

The Mr. Hyde scene from Pagemaster gave me nightmares.

[@ChibiProwl]

And it's so sudden. 😮A jump scare even now for me as a dorky 43 year old Florida female.😮

[@PoeticProse7]

@ChibiProwl Right?! It came right the hell out of nowhere with Leonard Nimoy shouting!

[@dreamguardian8320]

Disney's the Legend of Sleepy Hollow gave me nightmares, or a least made it hard for me to sleep or go out at night.

[@PoeticProse7]

@@dreamguardian8320 That laugh definitely still chills me!

[@rebeccamcdermott9259]

Actually, Watership Down was originally classified U as the PG classification didn't exist back when it was released. And it's actually not supposed to be a kid's movie. The book is pretty dark so obviously the movie adaptation had to be as well. It gave me nightmares for a straight week when I was a kid. It's my favourite animated movie now, but it did seriously traumatise me as a child.

[@henri_ol]

I don't even think that Caroline is a Kid's movie 😂

[@AshParth560]

I mean, it was originally a kids novella written by Neil Gaiman and the movie does have the same feel to such. Rather, it does feel more adult than such.

[@olvialee7221]

Coraline

[@LaprasIcepops]

Yea lol

[@misssagittarius297]

Coraline You're Welcome 😂😊

[@catthekitty9286]

I’ve watched it and it was so terrible so scary yea no

[@TheCommenterDragon]

Yup, The particular scenes from these movies are indeed some of the scariest. But you have to admire the level of dedication that the cast and crew put into bringing these scenes to life, I mean after all some of these movies are classics.

[@brianwhite9339]

Monster house is deffenatly the scarriest animated monster!

[@Alice-ln8mg]

The Wheelers from "Return to Oz" always freaked me tf out. I grew up with 80s and 90s films so I had a high threshold for weird, but the Wheelers still give me the creeps to this day.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

I’m forever grateful that I’m over my fear of the Abominable Snow Monster from the 1964 _Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_ Christmas special. Those two close-ups of him made me duck behind a chair until the chase ended when I was a kid.

[@Charles-N-LoriOliver]

Loving this list.... Takes me back to my childhood.... Every movie was a classic of their time

[@olvialee7221]

What about the cannibal scene in Galaxy Quest? That scared me. What I thought was going to be a cute scene just made me faint in horror

[@SolCresta3405]

Who said Watership Down was a kids movie?

[@christophermoore5007]

Don't let that PG rating fool you.

[@Akira625]

Look the cute bunnies... ripping each others' faces off!

[@AshParth560]

It is PG but ya can never fall for such. 😅

[@christophermoore5007]

@@AshParth560 the face peeling scene from poltergeist. How did that get a PG rating?

[@SolCresta3405]

@@AshParth560 Either way, never watching it, glad I never grew up with it. My childhood was already frightening.

[@aleccarr9611]

FINALLY- MY FEAR AS A KID OF THAT FREAKING PUPPET SCENE IN THE POLAR EXPRESS IS RECOGNIZED

[@Supasmartguy]

No werecats from Scooby Doo on Zombie Island?

[@Funny.Man101]

Why are owls so carefree? Because they don't give a hoot.

[@alphagojira5647]

I'm with you on this one. But Felidae was downright disturbing, it's basically about cats and a murder mystery, the nightmare scene was way beyond nightmare fuel.

[@tigerclaw8775]

The Top 10 Scariest Monsters in Comedy Movies (excluding Animated Films): • Terror Dogs (Ghostbusters) • Sandworm (Beetlejuice) • Gremlins (Gremlins) • Killer Klowns (Killer Klowns from Outer Space)

[@Carcerian]

All these movies are scary to kids, while Disney movies are scary to parents! 😆

[@soultaker8468]

I remember when I was in elementary school, my teacher wanted us to do some "dramatic readings" (for a lack of a better word) of select passages from Roald Dahl's books, my teacher DEMANDED that I read Willy Wonka's lines from the tunnel of doom scene. I had a week to practice it and my teacher loved it

[@Buggy-su4oy]

In Home alone 2 the scene in which Kevin take his scary Christmas Eve stroll through the dark streets of New York and gets harassed by the residents and then he gets into the cab and he and the viewers get the close-up of the freaky cab driver's face and both he and them end up. terrified.

[@FrancistheBrave]

Yes lol. The cab driver was nightmare fuel 🤣🤣🤣

[@olvialee7221]

53: Monster House did. That movie SCARED me when I was a kid. Big time

[@melissawinn996]

Coraline , the witches, return to Oz and watership down terrified me when I was a kid 😭

[@olvialee7221]

59: I hate, hate, hate the boat ride from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Scared me when I was little in disturbing fashion. It’s like putting scenes of The Ring in Cats Don’t Dance

[@ChibiProwl]

Ditto.😮 You have Wonka saying which direction we are going. 😮His eyes are darting side to side, he sounds batshit insane, and then there's the damn tunnel! 😮 What idiot thought THAT number should be included?😮

[@elven4648]

You missed two. The T. rex attacking Littlefoot’s mom in The Land Before Time. And the Devil emerging from the shadows in Legend

[@justineld4905]

How is the troll copying the little girl's voice from Ernest Scared Stupid not on this list? That movie was terrifying! It's the "8th level Mario Bros" of kids horror!!!

[@alexisklein136]

That is my favorite Ernest movie! I was a little too old to be scared but it was still creepy.

[@twist58]

So much can go on in any animated or live action kids film. These non-Disney films prove they have no boundaries in being dark.

[@KimsLantern]

In Coraline, the Other Father ‘pulling a long face’ scared the absolute bejesus out of me the most, actually. It came out of nowhere and was absolutely horrifying as well as morbid.

[@nickcervenka8756]

The Tunnel scene in wonka was the only one on this list that got to me as a kid. The part where atreyu is walking in between the statues and you see the guy's charred remains freaked me out when i saw it.

[@olvialee7221]

What the hell? So sorry for my language. Who had the idea of making Watership Down? This is pure nightmare fuel. The narration is enough as it is and I don’t know how to ask strangers of their opinion towards this movie

[@olvialee7221]

You mean Ron. You got it mixed up. Ron was the one that got in a chokehold by a spider

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

The Kid Catcher was the scariest thing on earth to my younger sister when she was little 😂

[@manueltapia1859]

The heads on the chamber that all sream and Dorothy almost get a shock therapy 😮

[@nathanielpatterson-rc9dq]

Somehow the Child Catcher never frightened me when I was a kid, but I became a lot wiser about stranger danger after seeing him.

[@thablackguy84]

10:11 Lol "Dark chocolate" That's a very nice way of putting it...

[@olvialee7221]

56: Excuse my language but I have to say this, The Giant Mouse of Minsk scared the crap out of me. I’m like OHMYGOD! That is beyond scary!

[@Sugerloadedgirl789]

Good that you remembered Constance! Not JUST Coraline! ^^

[@olvialee7221]

(Just fainted)

[@Sugerloadedgirl789]

@@olvialee7221 Look I'll ALWAYS say Monster House > Coraline.

[@olvialee7221]

@@Sugerloadedgirl789 I just get easily scared. That’s all

[@nickmontes9599]

I saw Coralie a lot of times, and I still love it to this day.

[@user-wf5be9qm3m]

6:21 OMG, I remember sitting behind the couch, very scared when I saw those giant spiders in Harry Potter for the first time. I'm actually a bit surprised that 2's death from the movie '9' from Tim Burton and Focus Features is not in this list, my most favorite animated movie of all time. But that's not really a kids movie.

[@olvialee7221]

60: The lizard aliens from Zathura gave me the heebie geebies. I was chattering my teeth since I saw this in theaters. Might be an adult but still creeps me out

[@olvialee7221]

The only scene in The Wizard of Oz that got me scared was when Tin Man got picked up by the ghosts and fell on the ground. I nearly screamed and peed my pants when I was little

[@dansiciliano4506]

Actually that was the Tin Man who got picked up and the Lion said "I do believe in spooks".

[@olvialee7221]

@@dansiciliano4506 Thank you for correcting me

[@HFXmermaid]

The Owl from Rock a Doodle, and a bunch of the creatures from The Secrets of Nim

[@ChibiProwl]

The owl from Secrets of Nimh, the cave-in, and Jenner's death to name but three.

[@rundown132]

Scariest, non disney, kids, how specific is this list going to be lmao

[@olvialee7221]

58: 9 did freak me out but the animation is amazing. Saw it in theaters with my cousin Fancy

[@C3T1C]

Why wasn’t Death Wolf on this list? The scene where puss has a complete panic attack is kinda scary for kids.

[@Funny.Man101]

How much do dead batteries cost? Nothing. They're free of charge.

[@C3T1C]

@@Funny.Man101 haha

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@C3T1C He has been spam replying in the comments by the way

[@W2acvcf]

Mom rented Watership Down when I was six thinking it was a cute kids' movie because of the bunnies on the cover 😅 The tunnel scene still haunts me :|

[@dreamguardian8320]

You know what they say, never judge a book (or video) by its cover.

[@nickmontes9599]

I like ALL of theirs creepy things in kids movies, I have no problem with them, when I was still a kid.

[@J2341tube]

Monster House is a CLASSIC!

[@olvialee7221]

52: My friend Jessica watched Coraline nine times on DVD

[@ShayTheValiant]

Why does no one ever remember the movie 9? It came out the same year as Coraline, and is far more disturbing.

[@olvialee7221]

I do. I remember it

[@scottg9236]

I read that the horse in never ending story was trained to not panic when going under water and did not die. I read the horse was actually given to the boy that played Atrau after the move wrapped.

[@olvialee7221]

312: I forgot about The Polar Express. I almost screamed when this scene came up

[@Baseds__Backup_Account_3]

Lots of children's movies back in the day have terrifying scenes in em ya know. Then again, that was back then when they had the balls to be scary, of course, and not like todays mostly meaningless bs, unfortunately, lol.

[@BloodMoonBall]

I'm surprised Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? isn't on here. Not that he was really scary to me.

[@ChibiProwl]

He wasn't really scary, but sadistic. That poor shoe.😢

[@BloodMoonBall]

@@ChibiProwl Yea, he didn't scare me either. But that shoe didn't deserve a death like that. That was a cute little shoe.

[@cameronjr8]

Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

[@C3T1C]

Yes that should have been on this list, as the only dreamworks movie on this list.

[@melodyfae8735]

I mean, I haven't seen it in a long while, but there were some scenes from The Pagemaster that definitely scared me a little as a kid. Also, Land before time. I'm not sure I had totally say it scared me as a kid, but the Littlefoots mom fighting the Sharptooth and then dying... it was a lot as a kid. Also, whilst not a movie; I saw a few episodes of the animals of farthing wood as a kid; it's not for kids.

[@ThomasEhrlich-fc8nj]

It is a Disney movie, but the climax from The Fox and the Hound with the bear gave me perhaps the worst nightmare in my life. And I wasn't even in Elementary School yet, and I still recall every horrific detail of that nightmare.

[@olliesmith2890]

Is Ghostbusters counted as a kids movie, if so the scene where the Terror Dog takes Dana, chills my bones still. I can just imagine people screaming at that on the big screen in 1984, as it was a creepy movie till then, then it goes full on 18 rated horror in that moment.

[@DefkonAndLector]

I remember I was like 14 and my sister was 5 and my mom took us to see Coraline in 3D. Ny sister got terrified by the movie, but never told us. My mom then bought some special edition holographic 3D dvd version of coraline and that shot went missing and we never found it. YEEEEEARS later after we were all way older, I brought up the missing movie. My sister admitted that she hid it at the bottom of our trashcan so we couldnt watch it again 😭😭😭

[@Barbieof2000s]

The chicken run scene was so heartbreaking 😔

[@Shanosuke]

I didn't realize people were really bothered by most of these. I was a kid when the Dob Bluth movies were in theaters and I thought the scenes deemed "Scary" were friggin awesome. When I got American Tale on VHS I watched the mouse of Minks scene over and over. Jurassic Park should have been on this list. As a kid that was one kids film that left a lasting trauma

[@TheVeyZ]

The Brave Little Toastet nightmare with the clown scene was scarier than the blender scene. Also, with Hexus in Fern Gully, the scariest scene was when he became a tared lava skeleton and smiled at the camera.

[@autumbreeze1129]

I'm gonna be brutally honest... I was NEVER scared of The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. My reason? How he first tried to lure the kids out. I liked lollipops just as much as the next kid when I was young, but the way he repeatedly offered them to lure the kids out immediately made my child brain go "what? Just lollipops? Seriously? That's all you're offering? You think I'll be lured out JUST for lollipops?". And, even after he started naming other sweets that I WOULD normally have been tempted by, at that age, the second I'd dismissed you, you had no chance of recovery. So, when he started naming ice cream, chocolate and so on, I was like "uh uh. You had your chance and you blew it. Go away". Yeah, I was a pretty bratty kid if you made me dislike you and The Child Catcher starting off by only offering lollipops to trap me made me instantly dislike him. It honestly makes me laugh whenever I think about it. I was offended that he hadn’t tried harder to trick me into letting him kidnap me😂

[@MegazoneMusic23]

As A HUGE Don Bluth fan, I approve of him having 2/20 SCARIEST Scenes from Non-Disney Kids Movies. American Tail and Secret of Nimh look like Disney because (technically) Don Bluth *was* a Disney Animator. He is also in charge of being a part of Disney movies, TV shows that were totally Dark.. Probably on the Panel of some of the Darkest Disney Movies while he was at Disney: I.e "The Black Cauldron"

[@xFliseyx]

I was five when I first watched Watership down. It was horrific, I cried through the whole thing.

[@dafilmqueen556]

There's also the real life horror that haunts All Dogs Go To Heaven to consider. The horrific tragedy of the lead kid actress and her mother getting murdered by her abusive father. If you think that scene in All Dogs Go To Heaven is scary, remember this is the same film that was Judith Barsi's final film role before her murder. Don't think you can find something more horrifying than that..

[@liftytheraccoon12]

Scariest childhood movie moment for me is this one scene from Paranorman where there were those cloud witches screaming and screeching a lot in the sky

[@beetlejuiceblues12]

I was gonna genuinely be offended if Watership Down didn't make the top spot, cuz I had nightmares for ages after watching that as a kid, and cried every time I saw a rabbit

[@everythingcollectibles]

That damn thumbnail!! 😭😭😭

[@robbiemorrison7085]

Watership Down was originally released as a U in the UK, which is your G in the states. Got regraded recently.

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

E. T.’s Death: How To Make Children Cry Like Their Adults Watching A War Movie Or Titanic

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

#13 was a dream come true for me! Aragog and his family were so cute!

[@alondraxiquivicente120]

Coraline gave me nightmares when I saw it for the first time

[@joshuamohlman]

I was freakin’ TERRIFIED of Coraline’s fake mom as a kid

[@Mile-ph3mq]

You Know When I Watched Monster House For The First Ever I Was Never Afraid Of Seeing The Kids Going Toe To Toe With The House Itself Because All I Saw Was The Neighborhood Being Under Attack And Needed To Be Saved, So I Loved The Film

[@istvangergelypalosi8795]

Top 10 Scariest Scenes from Victor and Valentino

[@josh72456]

I’ve not seen The Brave Little Toaster, The Secret Of NIMH though seen bits of it, and All Dogs Go To Heaven.

[@chocothun1]

Honorable mention to “The Seventh Brother”

[@darkgardenrecords9264]

I was a full grown ass adult when I saw the Toy Story 3 incinerator scene. Getting ready to cover my 6 year olds eyes.

[@mountaindragon117]

Wallace and Gromit: The curse of the ware rabbit, Bridge to Terabithia and Coraline haunted me as a kid and teen.

[@ross.2003]

Monster House and Coraline scared me as a kid. And Coraline still scares me to this day (I'm 20).

[@5ftOfRage]

How many times are going to make this video

[@MrXon]

Left out Legend and Labyrinth, always will think the devil woud look like Tim Curry's Darkness from Legend, and the creatures from Labyrinth and creepy David Bowie (awesome film and performance) are memorable in nightmares

[@Shebeast3]

the great mouse of minsk is so badass

[@BrokenBanner]

Thought the Wheelers from Return to Oz would have been on the list.

[@msdiplomatic86]

I love the toxic love song Tim curry was awesome. I think hexxus was my favourite. I obviously loved the bad guy

[@krishnasharma-mf2un]

My parents showed me evil dead when I was a kid. That kind o scarred me.