Why are kids obsessed with horror?

[@assassinproduction1]

7:40 it’s not a trash can, but the scene of “tarman” emerging from the vat in return of the living dead is close to what you’re describing. When I was little kid my dad left that movie on and fell asleep and that scene of tarman lifting up and later eating dudes gave me nightmares for months after.

[@halloweengf6481]

came here to say this

[@thewerepyreking]

Nice

[@himothaniel]

Also Return of the Living Dead. The zombies pop out of toxic waste barrels.

[@groobs]

Also came here to say this yeeee

[@retro_jojo3159]

Thought of tarman too

[@supermonkeys9995]

you know what im doubting her love of spooky

[@SpringDavid]

I like spooky things, but I love scary things

[@mewingdaspider7818]

Impossible.

[@drinkmorecocacola]

She hasn’t even seen hereditary. And when she does she won’t understand it. If she does understand it I’m 36 and she’s smarter.

[@Brokentwobutton]

There's always Event Horizon. It's like a litmus test. Where could we possibly go that we don't need eyes?

[@efu2046]

Leo calling a toddler "pussy" when the kid got scared because of Bambi is my highlight of this video. 10/10

[@SweetisSin]

My Mom played the first Resident Evil game back in 98. I was around 4 years old and I would watch her play and imitate being a zombie. I would crawl around, making zombie noises and pretending to eat her brains. My Mom thought it was the cutest thing but my grandma not so much lol Rip Mama I will cherish that memory forever ❤️

[@izshtar]

seeing a parent play game is amazing lol.

[@ryanb4940]

I love you have that memory with her. ❤❤❤

[@lol349]

L

[@Pkjackal13]

That is absolutely adorable

[@pbsuite]

I'm sorry

[@jamiesanders193]

I was such a dork that I would freak myself out reading pg-13 horror movie plot synopses on wikipedia- that said, I never stopped doing it.

[@forestfire3549]

This is what I always did, and it scared me every time

[@isaachartikainen6178]

19 years old and i still do this :/

[@djsalad7891]

Yup

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

That just seems stupid to me but I was raised on some odd things and I remember watching many R18+ movies as a kid, I live in Australia so they're not like DeadPool or anything but Thirteen Ghosts, The House On Haunted Hill, One Missed Call etc, lots of the classics, plus I played a lot of Silent Hill when I was Younger, honestly the ratings kinda got lost to me after I turned 16, I just watch any movie that's good and if it's a horror then I hope it's not a jumpscare schlock.

[@cinder7258]

@@CerealExperimentsMizuki I’m Australian and I’ve at her deadpool

[@nothing4mepls973]

One time as a small child, I was showering while my mom was doing laundry. The sudsy water from the washing machine backed up into the drain pipe of the tub, so from my perspective all of a sudden there's these bubbles oozing up out of the drain of a pink bathtub. I had just seen ghostbusters 2 that week, and I freaked out and started screaming thinking that the slime ghost had come for me. She still laughs about it to this day, loves telling the story about hearing bloodcurdling screaming, running in a panic to check on me thinking I had fallen and broke something just to find me backed against the shower wall, eyes locked onto a harmless pile of bubbles in sheer terror.

[@jasmine-ruff-puff9951]

I got traumatized by the bugs in The Mummy when I was like 7. It took YEARS for me to believe my family when they said it wasn't a horror movie lmao

[@LeoVader]

that was a last minute cut from the script! the scarab scene RUINED me

[@lemonworm]

holy fuck same they stressed me out so much and i totally was convinced those kinds of bugs were real

[@ViviSectia]

@@lemonworm Those scarabs aren't real but there are bugs like them that burrow under your skin. Botflies are some of the more horrific ones.

[@MerkhVision]

Same except I was 5 and saw it in a theater! But I never said anything about it to my family.

[@Turtlee.]

I WAS SO SCARED OF THE BUGS, i never got nightmares but it made my skin crawl

[@beansfebreeze]

I think a lot of it is similar to the idea of rollercoasters in that we spend so much time avoiding danger that we relish the opportunity to experience contained versions of it. We get a rush of adrenaline and our emotions are amped up for a bit but we still walk away safe.

[@obscure.reference]

@Humpty Cumpty it’s just entertainment bro

[@beansfebreeze]

@The Cat-Ear Femboy Café cringe comment

[@obscure.reference]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 saying horror movies are “image training for boys and exposure therapy for girls” is something a schizophrenic with no grasp on society would say. doesn’t even make any sense. are boys supposed to train themselves to get murdered while having sex? is that something girls will be exposed to a lot, and should prepare for? is getting murdered, or being chased by a killer something women want to escape to? this dude is spouting garbage thoughts, it’s not rude to tell him he’s out of touch with reality, it’d be less responsible to just ignore something like that. you trying to turn this into something totally unrelated about media criticism, and fucking behavioral biology as if that’s at all relevant, isn’t helping anyone and isn’t inciting a discussion, you’re just defending someone who’s trying to apply nonsensical sociological concepts to the horror genre so he can come up with more pointless generalizations about men and women.

[@obscure.reference]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 three disjointed replies? do you know how replies work? so weird. doesn’t matter because everything i said stands, this guys borderline sexist pseudoscientific ramblings don’t make any sense, and rather than making an effort to make sense out of them, you’re opting to follow pedantic lines of thought. you really thought you did something with that last reply though didn’t you lmao. you can either attempt to explain how the original baseless assumption makes sense, or keep sperging and continue to muddy the actual point. it’s up to you.

[@cloudsteele1989]

@@obscure.reference The reason it could be 'exposure therapy' is that the more you see your fears, the less scary they can become and this is especially helpful when those fears are amplified. For example Eight Legged Freaks; watching this can change their fear from 'spiders' to 'huge ass spiders'. Perhaps they watch a lot of gorey films and now if they witness an accident where someone's intestines are out, instead of just throwing up and passing out they might be able to actually help the person. For 'image training' I think a lot of people while watching horror are putting themselves in the situation mentally, not to follow the characters steps and get killed, it is to think of different ideas or analyze why someone failed to defend themselves and get killed. Of course, neither of these are actually gender specific.

[@ZYST]

I appreciate how you nailed avoiding demonetisation by swearing on the 30th second of the video

[@Fluffy6555]

Demonization. AKA spooky demonetization.

[@ZYST]

@@Fluffy6555 how fitting isn't it ;)

[@joshcantrell8397]

Is that really how it works?

[@HNemo880]

@@joshcantrell8397 yes

[@Zasticky]

My two young nieces love scary things. The two pieces of "scary" media I've shown them that always ask to watch when they're with me is "Over The Garden Wall" and Jack Stauber's "Opal." I thought that I was pushing it when showing them "Opal" since they're both younger than 7 but then I found out their parents show them gorey horror movies often and they're into it, the youngest especially. One time at an event she wanted to roleplay as Chucky and I was her victim and she was quoting Chucky lines, pretending to lob off my limbs, and when I played dead she would go up to my corpse and say some voodoo jargon to revive me and kill me again. The stuff that they seem to actually be bothered by are La Llorona and the Leprechaun from the movies.

[@jonahdietz6141]

Having that dolphin that impales Willie traumatize you as a child is something I never thought I'd have in common with another human being.

[@14fallingstars]

honestly the most horrifying piece of media I saw in elementary school was a commercial that aired during the evening news, so clearly it was supposed to be appropriate for all ages. it was an ad for popcorn shrimp, and the plot of the ad was that two adult shrimp were eating the popcorn shrimp, only to realize it was made out of their children. Still more upsetting than any piece of horror media I’ve ever seen even now as an adult!!! Who the hell thought that was a good premise for an ad?

[@Luca-jf9dk]

Yea exactly "meant for all ages" media is so much more fuckimg scarring for me than any horror movie. I remember seeing this music video that came on tv afyer school showing these dead sailors singing a song. Gave me my first existential crisis abt death. I knew horror was meant to scare me, but watching afternoon tv i thought i was safe.

[@cyathea9563]

seeing that ad would discourage me from buying/eating popcorn shrimp, so i dont know what drugs whoever greenlit the ad was on...

[@lucasgraeff5391]

wow dude this is horrible! do you remember in what year this happened? I feel like old TV was just nuts

[@HeartAndMind34]

i think i remember something like that...

[@NigelMelanisticSmith]

Here's a link I believe: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqO9h4Wuh96md5Y

[@KevinJennissen]

I appreciate the perspective that seeing something disturbing won't permanently harm a kid, but just cause the damage isn't permanent doesn't mean it's not damage. It's really hard to watch your kid suffering, regardless of what it is. Awesome video, Leo!

[@MrDacedric]

Absolutely, but suffering also makes us more resilient as people, and I reckon if the damage isn't long term it'll only serve to make the kid more prepared for the next scary thing they see.

[@iidoyila_live_]

i enjoy and have always enjoyed my chances to suffer safely -- don't try too hard to wall people off from the world they live in

[@maddieb.4282]

You really can’t protect your child from all suffering lmfao

[@KevinJennissen]

@@maddieb.4282 Very true. That would be ridiculous for someone to claim.

[@catalystcomet]

Thank you for having a compassionate and healthy outlook on the situation. It's disheartening to see some of the replies to your comment. When I was about 6 or seven I was exposed to evil Dead and the only part I really remember was the part with the tree and the woman, maybe it was Vines I don't know but it was horribly graphic and it did traumatize me to this day. So while we can't protect our kids from all things, we can also be sure to not needlessly abuse they're psyche at such a young age by exposing them to shit that we know is going to fuck them up. I don't think most of the people here understand how the mind forms. Just because it doesn't traumatize a person forever, doesn't mean it doesn't change their behaviors as children which will then go on to change their patterns as adults. I still don't like to go to the bathroom in public stalls simply because of the drains which are sometimes there. All I can think about is 'It'

[@peckc16]

Generally the term for a lot of this is "emotional voyeurism". Media in general allows us to run through emotional responses in a safe way. Great especially if you live a particularly safe or emotionally stable life.

[@LolaliciousSmiley]

The scariest thing I've ever seen is the Gingerbread Man from the 2005 Brothers' Grimm movie. -child looks down well -thousands of crows fly out of the well attacking her face in the process -the girl stumbles back with muffled screaming as she desperately tries to clear her face of black sludge -as she does, it's revealed that her face is fucking gone, but she's still screaming and crying -a small form gurgles forth from sludge on the ground with the girls eyes floating around in it -it forms legs and runs away laughing For 2 or 3 years I was afraid that my shower head would suddenly cover me in goo, I would lose my face, suffocate, and die.

[@mitropolit_prime]

I still remember the horse.

[@LordCuckoldacus]

Scariest part for me was the horse that like swallowed the boy in a sack. That shit was so incredibly fucked to me. Edit on this: I went and rewatched the clip, I didn't realise how much I'd repressed that scene, I'm 20 now and I still felt sick watching it, do not reccomend at all.

[@mothmanofficaltm8397]

I remember a scene from that movie, and I was desperately searching for the source!! I appreciate this more than I can express, I had caught a glimpse of that movie when I was younger.

[@LolaliciousSmiley]

@@LordCuckoldacus I had forgotten about that part. I remember the horse's horrible, undulating stomach as it galloped away. I will not watch it again. I saw the movie once in theaters and then once more a few years ago. That is enough.

[@pancakedino8309]

I hated that movie and the scariest part for me was the fact that the child in that scene shared the same name with me

[@Gus-tw7zw]

I remember my mum bought me the entire box set of Neon Genesis Evangelion on VHS because she thought it was a kids friendly cartoon like Gundam (that I used to watch on toonami) and the cover reminded her of the power ranger megazords toys I loved. The existential horror of it truly fucked me up for a while. 10/10 would scar again.

[@dalanology]

Also watched NGE as a kid. I loved every minute of it, unnameable fears and all.

[@cosmiceyness]

Bruh

[@laosvegas7494]

LMFAAAAOOO HOLY SHIT 💀💀💀😭

[@inkchariot6147]

W Mom

[@Izkuzz]

When I was in middle school, Darren Shan(author of the Cirque du Freak and Demonata series) came to my school to do a reading of the first two chapters of Lord Loss. I don't think the staff putting on this event had read ahead, because no one was ready for how graphic that second chapter is. The expressions on their faces growing more and more twisted the further he read is a memory I will treasure forever.

[@maldrix5449]

The "Are You Scared of the Dark" episode that got me was the one with the x-ray glasses that let you see shadow people. It scared the crap out of me.

[@mikehuntishairy]

The show is called "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" :)

[@AlexP-es7ky]

As a kid I was scarred by the Thriller music video. It wasn’t the zombies, it was Michael turning into a Werewolf in the beginning. I still can’t get that image of his face out of my mind. It haunts me.

[@Sam-wv4fz]

Yep, I turned it right off at that point. Watching it now I'd say it holds up pretty well (yes yes insert Jackson not holding up remark), it's genuinely quite horrifying and my goodness if I'd kept watching as a child those zombies would have been the cherry on the top.

[@HotStrange]

Me and the homies every time Leo posts: 🤯🥵🤰🕺🏻💃

[@GoodbyeBlueMonday]

How did you know I was wearing a blue suit!? How did you have an emoji for my love of disco!?!...Is this comment coming from in my house!!!?!!!??

[@HotStrange]

@@GoodbyeBlueMonday yes 😈

[@randomguy2402]

Why one of them pregnant 💀

[@azianperc]

The credits bit was so good I forgot to watch for my name.

[@Nordley]

Leo cracking himself up mid sentence is my favorite thing

[@cliffridenour6675]

Used to say I was scared of all sorts of stuff so I could stay in my sister's room, but the only thing I was actually afraid of was being alone.

[@DeathToMayo]

When my niece was barely able to talk she was terrified of videos of bears fighting and would run out of the room. She would later start to ask if she could see more videos of bears fighting and would get really scared and run away but became just a bit braver each time. She just seemed fascinated with being scared by the bear videos.

[@nathandotson6350]

Dude the Demonata series was my favorite when I was younger, and I had never seen anyone else ever talk about it!

[@hexane360]

I wonder if a lot of it is the instinct to see and understand danger. Especially in pre-industrial times, so much of being a kid is learning what's safe and what might kill you, so it makes sense that kids like to see and experience scary things. I think this is also a big part of why horror captures the interest of adults too.

[@hexane360]

Also, I think this video ties into a lot of the same concepts (also CJ the x is really good): kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZaoeWVng759g7c

[@anime17love]

It's wild how similar our experience with horror have been. I was a HUGE wimp, constant fear, but read all the books in my Elem. School library marked as "Spooky". Eventually got hella traumatized by a "killer doll" movie marathon with my grandmother, couldn't sleep with one without having nightmares, then got obsessed with haunted doll stories (I bought one on ebay, shut up, w/e, I was like 10, it was a time). I read that first chapter of Demonata in 9th grade and it messed me UP, you don't even mention the part where the dead family members are used as puppets by the demons, wtf Darren Shan is insane it's amazing. I binged Cirque Du Freak in middle school and was so messed up with existential dread when I finished the last book. I was not a kid who slept ever.

[@LeoVader]

the part where the dead family puppets were taunting him and he couldn’t react is actually what made me think to include it, but the first chapter was easier to describe haha. haunting stuff

[@bigmilk13_]

I remember being terrified for weeks after I was riding in a mini-van with one of those little flip-down TV's and my "smokes weed and tells you conspiracy theories" cousin put on the Tim Curry version of "It". I don't even remember any specific scene from the movie, just that I was completely terrified for weeks afterward. I was then fascinated by horror movies and would freak myself out by watching horror movie trailers on youtube. It took me a while to get over those fears, but years later I went back and watched all of the movies whose trailers had freaked me out. I had a great time, and I'm a huge horror fan now. I totally agree that being able to experience horror in those contained environments was an empowering experience, and it lasts with me to this day

[@nignamedmutt7270]

"IT" was ironically the first movie that made me realize most horror movies suck(at least aren't "scary") and got to the point where I'd give just about any horror movie a try. IT, like nearly every Stephen King movie(or movie based off his books) starts with a great premise and takes it to such stupid bizarre levels that it turns to shit by the end of the movie. I've always had severe arachnohobia, but seeing IT portrayed as a giant spider just made me roll my eyes, and when they beat it with a fucking inhaler and slingshot I lost all faith I had in this supposed "king of horror". The best horror movies(as I see it) aren't even "scary". The best horror movies just make you uneasy and leave you with a tainted association of some everyday object/event. Jaws: The ocean/swimming in general The shining(kubrick'smasterpiece, none of the shit that Stephen King takes pride in): Isolation and the idea of your parental figures snapping and turning on you Rear window: Your lack of knowledge of the people you live closest to The Birds:.... you can figure that one out Psycho: Showers Psycho was the one that really made this click in my mind. I watched it at like 10 years old and liked it, but thought it wasn't anything too special. Then a couple weeks later, I noticed something strange happening. I caught myself taking a shower and I would daydream about "what would I actually do if someone barged in to attack me RIGHT NOW?" I mean, I can probably rip the curtain rod down and swing it, maybe throw the shampoo and stuff at them, but really.... there's NOTHING I could do(and if I even COULD fight back, the odds that I don't slip are so fucking low, and if I can even see with shampoo all over face leaves me totally defenseless). And then it finally clicked: OH SHIT! PSYCHO MADE ME AFRAID(or paranoid) OF SHOWERS! WOW, THAT'S EXSFTLYWHAT THE MOVIE WANTED TO DO! GREAT JOB! And to be honest, I don't think ANYONE would be able to defend themselves in that moment. Even the best trained navy SEAL would be fucked if someone barged in with a knife during that moment. Yeah, they might have a better chance and even get to snap their killers neck, but all it would take is a quick poke to the neck and you're as dead as the woman in Psycho. IT was overrated though growing up. It helped with making clowns scary, and sewers were pretty spooky after that. A few moments in the opening were genuinely good horror content, but I never understood(even watching it at like 10 years old, probably the perfect age to get spooked by it) how it got such a monumental status as a horror icon. And don't even get me started on the fucking trash heap that is the book lol

[@joelsmith3473]

Oh man, that Poltergeist face scene was one of the first that really stuck with me, made worse by the fact that the movie was a low-quality incomplete recording on VHS.

[@zashiki_warashi]

i too used to be a lil pansy ass scaredy pants as a child, yet shows like Are you Afraid of the Dark? and A Haunting on the discovery channel were my SHIT. at least until it was time for bed, then I regretted watching it. but then the next day I'd be flipping through the channels and "yay A Haunting is on!!", forever perpetuating the cycle of self inflicted fear. but i was IMMENSELY fearful of any horror movie throughout my entire childhood. like even just seeing trailers would have me in absolute terror and I would avoid them at all costs. but then one day in my freshman year of high school, I was 15 and halloween was coming up. I was watching tv when out of the blue I suddenly got the strongest urge to watch a horror movie as if it were the most normal thing for me to do. Like my fear of horror just flipped off like a switch. So i tuned in to AMC's scary movie marathon that they do every october and just sat there and watched horror movies. the craziest part? no bedtime regret, just sleep. except A Haunting and other shows like it continued to fuck with me for a few more years after this lol

[@lisaclare2248]

"Mother, how are the killers?" That part wrecked me

[@concept8192]

everyone always asks "who are the killers" but never "how are the killers" :(

[@rulingdiesout]

This is one of the most underrated channels on KZbin, incredible writing

[@karlcarlsburg9641]

Agreed. Only a matter of time until people catch on to this channel

[@paul4000]

Ffs calling a channel “underrated” is the most annoying thing on KZbin right now. Don’t get me wrong, Leo is great and I’d let him sit on my face in a heartbeat-but just say you enjoy the video and move on with your life, nobody is entitled to tons of likes and views.

[@rulingdiesout]

@@paul4000 I mean by saying he's underrated I basically am saying I enjoy the video, I'm just saying that the quality of the videos would justify more attention. It's just a simple compliment👍

[@paul4000]

@Callum McDonell Fair enough, I’m a bit drunk at the moment and probably overly emotional-sorry to be so aggressive

[@lautaroescarlon7501]

How come youre all blue letters

[@Chandlest]

When I was a kid the movie Signs kept me up at night. Specifically that one scene where it's like home movie footage of an alien walking around, not doing anything in particular. Freaky stuff man

[@MrDacedric]

Signs and that scene had me fucked up for quite some time.

[@Jeorin]

Signs scared a friend of my sister so badly she peed herself.

[@ssharkbait]

I never understood the fear of that scene as a kid. It just looked like one of those horribly fake videos of a Bigfoot walking through the woods to me. So many things scared me as a kid then but never that scene.

[@yourbestpallshawn4139]

Say cheese or die terrified me as kid especially the Tv episode. But what really messed me up for awhile was that final destination scene where the dude gets his ass stuck to the pool filter and it sucks out his organs. I was terrified of pools for years lmao.

[@Teefs001]

Another hilarious and intriguing video! Can only imagine the fact that kids' brains haven't fully developed the parts that help with emotional regulation and sensory experience makes horror media more intense.

[@bretthake7713]

Oooh interesting I was thinking it was this same reason that it's less intense for them, as if they don't really understand the gravity of what they're seeing

[@Ehlihr]

my favourite pingu episodes as a child and the ones i still remember are all the scariest ones, like the one with the walrus. hellish episode

[@Sam-wv4fz]

I missed out! I watched a ton of Pingu but those ones never made it my way until grown up me found them on KZbin

[@sharpeningtheaxe]

“There is no kid on this planet who has been permanently scarred by a horror film” idk about that- I didn’t recover from some of the scarier stuff I saw in films as a kid until well into adulthood, and even now some of it sticks with me. It also almost completely ruined my ability to enjoy most horror-related content to this day because I grew up never knowing if it was going to be exciting or traumatizing. I have no doubt that I’m an outlier, but things could have been a lot different if I was eased into horror and gore content at a rate I could handle.

[@ssgoko88]

Nah you're just eager to blame someone else for a perceived shortcoming. Its a lot more likely you just dont lik horror, and you've been watching it so you could avoid feeling left out.

[@taliathetall]

I was terrified of the martians in the comedy "Mars Attacks" I can remember actually trembling in my bed, unable to sleep and my dad not understanding why I was so upset.

[@peckc16]

Growing up my parents actively allowed me to watch scary movies with them and I think I developed a healthy relationship with fear. I moved on from fearing the alien in Signs to real things, like climate change and hospital bills-or the grand daddy fear- capitalism

[@Fimbleshanks]

Any philosophical musings I had on children's relationship to horror went right out the window with that credits scene. Kitty cats and horror icons being domestic? Hypnotic combo, apparently.

[@mutantzombie8603]

Cirque du freak and demonata, both by author Darren shan, were two of my absolute favorite childhood book series. So good. Lord loss is an incredible and terrifying antagonist.

[@anthropoflower]

Sir, I think you are reffering to a Return pf the Living Dead movie, some of them have 'Tarman', who is a classic zombie preserved in a barrel of a certain chemical that brings the dead back to life, the gov was experimentimf and left the barrels behind, anyways. The zombie tends to jump out from a lid in movies pt. II and others i cant recall of the franchise. I just think your child mind thought a metal barrel was a trash can (:

[@JusAnIdea]

Came here to add exactly that! Think its the third one?

[@walrusArmageddon]

Mooore Braaains!

[@OpoOnTheGo]

Demonata was so awesome, I remember getting grounded for the summer. Like mattress on the floor grounded lol. My friend had lent me cirque du freak, after I finished that my mom picked me up the first demonata book. It was way more vivid than cirque du freak, it was clearly written for the aging audience he had wrote cirque du freak for.

[@cameron9644]

I cannot believe you brought up the dolphin episode in treehouse of horror. That traumatized me as a kid.

[@aviioc_6449]

I was such a big Darren Shan fan as a kid lol, both Cirque du Freak and Demonata were classics to kid me

[@IAmMightyMike]

The Demonata was wild! Especially where it ends. Shan is crazy in the best way

[@martinhorvath4117]

I can't believe you didn't mention the Moon face from Coward Dog. It literally haunts me since my childhood. and i rarely get spooked.

[@ALEXGAYMAR2312]

"The next video is going to be a little spooky" *Puts on The Silence Of The Lambs*

[@rovaan57]

I really like your content, I don’t know how to put it other than it feels like there are maybe 10 or 12 real people on this entire platform, and you are one of them.

[@STSGuitar16]

Bro, the part about even the movie covers you'd see at the Blockbuster or Family Video giving you nightmares hits so hard lmao. The cover of the original IT with Pennywise on the front haunted me for literal years. Later, unfortunately for me at the time, youtube clips of the scary parts of The Exorcist soon soon filled the spot that IT had occupied for so long in my mind, and became my number one source of those childhood nightmares for a very long time lol. Ah, to be young and scared by horror movies again...

[@Sam-wv4fz]

I remember the scary covers so vividly. Ghost Ship looked like it really went hard with that misty atmospheric cover and the big skull ship. IT was another, and the worst was this more niche Russian film called Visions of Suffering.

[@STSGuitar16]

@@Sam-wv4fz visions of suffering sound Russian as hell

[@jeffvenancius]

Nice Michael just helping granny walkin the street

[@eleanorruth2843]

The whole slappy bit sent me. Great vid Lord Vader!! When I was a kid I was petrified of horror media because I saw the Doctor Who episode 'Blink' when I was eight and it frightened me so bad I refuse to watch it even to this day. One time at a sleepover my friends watched it and I sat in the kitchen with some milk and pet their dog. Because I'm cool like that.

[@SpookyCabins]

Dude. Lord Loss made me look over my shoulder while reading it in middle school because I was convinced I should NOT be reading that. What a messed up beginning.

[@darkninjafirefox]

My parents were once watching the live action version of Sleepy Hollow and I, being a nosy kid up past my bedtime, wanted to watch it. For years I thought trees were filled with blood and was scared of the movie but I always wanted to watch it when they would. I loved scary stuff growing up

[@vrthief]

You know what’s on another level of spook? The cat and the hat, same with the grinch. I got so scared of the creepy makeup and faces on both, I cried and begged my parents to turn it off in the first 15-20 minutes. Like when the cat in the hat jumped out of a closet, shit was spooky!

[@JulianKable]

To answer your question about why people and especially children seem to enjoy or be drawn to fear, some of it is to do with the part of our brain responsible for attention, the amygdala. Evolutionarily speaking the most important thing to be attentive to was things that made us afraid like lions, tigers and bears [Oh my!]. A lot of our fears and our natural strong desire to engage with things that cause us fear speak to this. fear and excitement are also largely the same biological experience and our perception is what mitigates our experience so fear in a controlled and safe setting can be exciting, much like a rollercoaster. I am also hopeful that no child has been impacted into their adulthood from scary media but unaddressed childhood trauma is definitely a thing and its totally possible. Anyyyways, another great video mate! Love your content and sense of humour :]

[@SkinnyEMedia]

08:16, SCARY MOVIE 2 is only disturbing in that showing a clown puppet being abused was quite horrifying even if it was meant to be dark comedy. Remember seeing a brief clip for it assuming it was some weird movie for young'uns but oh boy, the 18-cert on the film was giveaway it WASN'T. BRIDE OF CHUCKY, wanted to see that as a child because of the talking puppets, couldn't due to the law restricting the film to 18 and up

[@josephstanichar5434]

Idk if I'd call being scared of severed heads a phobia I feel like if you're NOT scared of severed heads something's up

[@char1211]

My parents would allow me to watch pretty much whatever but I had a bad habit of watching things I actually didn't want to just because my friends wanted to. I was already scared of the dark and anything remotely scary I watched gave me nightmares before the age of ~8. My mom sat down and talked to me about it when she realized I would insist on watching things I didn't like so we decided that I wasn't allowed to watch anything I didn't enjoy 😂 It really helped me set boundaries with my friends and I think that's one of the first times it clicked with me that my parents always had my best interest in mind with their rules and limits. My parents never forbade me from pursuing my interests so I had kid friendly horror books and a couple cassette tapes with creepy stories I loved listening to. Enjoying horror is all about knowing your limits and that's something a kid needs help with. Completely preventing them from finding those limits feels so unproductive to me because learning to deal with the world in a safe and healthy way is what childhood is all about. Why forbid your kid from learning something?

[@msthecommentator2863]

I work at an airport, and I once saw a kid (couldn't have been older than ten) with their parent, holding tightly to a full sized Chucky doll like it was their prized possession. And not the happy "Good Guy" version, the scarred, serial killer version. Kid's got good taste. 😂

[@scrambled5948]

0:46 they’re fine billy, they came out with a new album about a year ago

[@ems786]

'Slappy did it' nearly killed me 😂 I love the idea of how horror can be an escape for kids, and over the garden wall is truly amazing as an adult who dabbles in the genre

[@AdvancePlays]

Haha I had a similar experience reading Lord Loss at around 12. I was so shaken by the image of that little demon puppeting the protagonists hollowed out family members that I felt so sick, intense bellyache, that I had to just lay on the couch rubbing it for like an hour. My mum even came and put a damp cloth on my forehead and got me snacks lmao

[@Greyshadow63]

While we’re talking about random stuff that terrified you as a kid, does anyone else remember Eureka? It was a sitcom/procedural about a guy who stumbled into a town full of scientific “anomalies”, and my parents let me watch like two episodes with them. I could never finish them, though, because I always got too scared partway through.

[@bucsrule9]

how did i know you were gonna bring up demonata. I fucking loved that book series, so graphic at such a young age

[@MarvinMakesVideos]

Watching this made me remember how good the Return of the Obra Dinn soundtrack was.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

Not that I actually got to watch them, but I used to be obsessed with horror movie VHS covers back in the day (and there were a *lot* of good ones in the 80s). I remember the Creepshow 2 one especially, with a scene from The Raft on the back, and something about that gave me nightmares for a long time.

[@MortalGlare]

Oh my god, I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anyone on here talk about Darren Shan before! That made me so happy to see. He was one of my favourite authors as a kid, finding out he was also Irish was pretty sweet too.

[@StandSilent]

I can't say for certain but the zombie in a trash can sounds like night of the Living Dead part 2 which was more a spoof zombie film. I remember there's a scene where a zombie gets cut in half with a shotgun and the upper half follows the group around very slowly through a radio station. It's funny but also terrifying.

[@jackwinna2441]

BABE WAKE UP!!! Leo Vader just posted!!

[@TheFunnydude109]

just woke up, so glad i didnt miss this

[@alexjames2264]

Haha babe....

[@jimjam719]

I was very, very scared of Chucky when I was a young teenager, maybe 12 or something. I wasnt allowed to watch or read any horror, and I wasnt particulary interested in it either due to not being exposed to it. I didn't even *see* Chucky. Just the retelling of a friend who watched it with her parents was enough to scar me deeply, I was too "cool" to make her stop telling the story and instead pretended to gleefully listen. I couldn't sleep afterwards, developed something along the lines of paranoia and I couldnt even talk to my mother about it because I was scared that she'd get angry at me. It must have taken months, if not years, of developing my own coping mechanisms, my own "theories" on how I could prevent something like it happening in real life, to be able to not think about it daily. I told myself: "it can happen only on nights when its windy but the trees dont move" and "the doll is vulnerable to falling from heights". I even made up a continuation of the story that had a happy ending in a frantic attempt to calm myself. Of course, that didnt work very well lol Im hindsight, my imagination must have made it all seem much more violent and gory than chucky actually is ( I think? I still havent watched it and dont plan to) Up to this day, I still dont watch any "shock based" horror (like gore or jumpscares etc), and I still get month long "flashbacks" when I do watch a too bloody movie trailer or something (Unfriended comes to mind). I might just be a sensitive person regarding violence, but I do partially relate that sensitivity to that particular retelling of Chucky due to it being my first exposure to such brutal violence, even if the pictures were just my own imagination.

[@nerderiffic8682]

i get so happy whenever i see people bringing up darren shans books! i grew up on his series and have so much nostalgia but everyone i talk to has never heard of them also flex time i have a signed copy of Lord Loss and i love it xD

[@fatteneddessert]

by far the most rewarding after credits scene of all time

[@autumn.frost1286]

When I was a kid I used to love horror and would re-watch them all the time, especially the original black and white House on Haunted Hill. Used to keep me awake for years but totally worth it. Plus Vincent Price is in it, so what's not to love

[@AzureRadio]

"How are the killers?" "Coming out of their cage and doing just fine, son"

[@NicoleSoul49]

Please keep going dude, I love your channel! You are really good at subversive comedy and I hardly see your punchlines coming. You're really great at what you do. Keep it up!

[@coolbeans5911]

the spooky & scary and morbid & macabre was my jam as a kid. Horror is just such a fascinating genre, and i feel sad for people who didn't get to experience good children's horror because of restrictive parenting, because kid's horror stories has so so much to offer

[@BodencePlays]

I’m so glad I found your channel. I don’t have the attention span for “essay” style videos anymore, but it’s super easy to stay engaged in your content. Keep up the good work!

[@cyathea9563]

as a child, i would go to the dvd section of the store while my parents were paying for groceries and look at the pictures on the horror movies' cases and read the synopses on the back. it freaked me out but i could never stop myself. fun times

[@vhs3760]

i remember reading R.L. Stine's Cheerleader series and being SO affected by it. there's one scene where they find one of their friends drowned under the ice and her corpse is described as bloated and deformed...man, that STILL freaks me the fuck out!!

[@MichaelTurner856]

Is that sepreate from goosebumps?

[@vhs3760]

@@MichaelTurner856 yeah, it's called like Cheerleaders: the first evil, the second evil, etc. they're aimed at a slightly older audience.

[@MichaelTurner856]

@@vhs3760 thanks for the info. I might check them out

[@hotchic4000]

@@MichaelTurner856 yeah they're closer to the fear st. series he has for teens/young adults

[@rafakegamestutoriais5455]

That Scary Movie 2 intro also scared me a lot as kid, holy shit we were dumb

[@songoten597]

Always a pleasure when this man uploads.

[@mait4051]

I have always been into superheroes. My dad was the one who introduced me to heroes such as the flash, Spider-Man, Batman, and at one point, the wonder twins. He showed me the Wonder Twins because they’re twin brother and sister just like my sister and I, but superheroes. He then showed me an episode of what i think was dc superfriends in which the wonder twins appeared in. The plot focused on vampire “apocalypse” and i remember being terrified and traumatized by it. I was really young and the part where they had people board up their houses, scared me so much.

[@LeoMafraArt]

It’s been a while since I laughed out loud multiple times with a yt. You rocked this one! 10/10

[@psygamez7727]

As a kid I saw a movie where a kid gets his neck eaten and to this day I still have a very rational fear of, you know, not wanting to have my neck eaten

[@Kazooples]

I’m definitely traumatised from certain things I saw on tv as a kid, BUT, I am autistic, so I always saw things as being a lot more real than they were, I didn’t understand sarcasm properly for a long time and it’s probably thanks to my brother’s sense of humour that I made it this far lol

[@rutela3668]

As a kid, my dad always told me scary stories or even did some fucked up shit to scare me, like lock me in the basement for a few seconds after telling me stories about monsters down there. I never got trauma from this thankfully. I grew up watching horror movies because of my mum, who liked them and let me just exist and watch most movies. What really lit the fire of my love of horror was 100% scary stories to tell in the dark. I would read the book and avoid the art and peak every so often. I'd then sit later thinking about those pictures from the glances. The visceral fear it caused me was such a unique emotion that I began to love spooky and creepy stuff indepdently from grown ups around me. I began to become fascinated by the morbid ever since that book. Halloween was always my favourite holiday too. I always looked forward to the halloween movies, and adult horror movies on cable TV. I was a very visual kid, I didn't understand my emotions or had any critical thinking skills so it wasn't to ease my anxieties or whatever adults try to theorize. I think I loved horror because it was subversive, morbid, other worldly, different from what was happening in my daily life. I was always a weird kid, and I think horror was a perfect medium that clicked for me and my weirdness. I cannot explain why I love horror media now even as an adult. Most of them are truly bad, but its just something about them that just works for me. I don't get scared by horror media anymore, but I must consume it anyways.

[@LeglessCatMonster]

Demonata was the best, and this is coming from a kid/adult who’s never liked horror. Happy to see it mentioned!

[@MrReaper5]

I still think about Lord Loss sometimes. One of my favorite books as a kid, but very cursed. A demon uses his sister like a hand puppet.

[@OverloadDSN]

So strange that these videos don’t get more views! Been a fan for a while and I love the content

[@callmeperch]

Hey the Return the Slab Guy is honestly terrifying and the different art style convinced my younger self that it was real

[@chloehaley5719]

I clicked so fast when I saw this pop up

[@Leafpool2]

I used to go out of my way to find the VHS copy of IT every time we went into blockbuster and scare the pants off myself trying to get myself to look at pennywise's claw hands. specifically i didnt like the hands because they reminded me of this type of lemur that scared me called an aye-aye. any tapping on the wall was pennywise the aye-aye clown in our walls and he was going to kill me. didnt stop me from asking my parents stuff about IT all the time. Which just kind of spiraled me down a horror rabbithole that i never left 💜

[@Sam-wv4fz]

When you finally watched it, was it gratifying or disappointing or somehow both?

[@Leafpool2]

@@Sam-wv4fz a little bit of both lol. I was proud I was finally able to watch it, and it wasnt half as bad as the nightmarish gorey images I'd created in my own child mind but i was sitting there like "wow...*this* is what scared me so bad?" I still love the miniseries but it doesn't scare me at all haha. I learned my lesson and now I don't let myself get so in my head about horror movies so I have more fun x3

[@not2shabby694]

Anytime Leo posts, I immediately press the notification without hesitation. Even if I'm currently watching a video I'm really interested in.

[@mikeb6085]

Bro Leprechaun 2 is one of my childhood all time scariest memories. When the old guy locks him in a safe I believe, and he offers a wish if he lets him out... and the pot of gold starts growing in his belly, and it becomes like a massive tumor, and the skin is all stretched and taut showing the outline of the gold and everything... and oh god, I'm pretty sure Leprechaun takes his gross sharp nail and slits the guys belly like it's a scalpel... that mental image tormented my impressionable child mind for years

[@teamcyeborg]

As a recovering kid obsessed with horror aesthetics, I can confirm that it's because the world is fucked so sometimes you just need to see a fucked up little guy doing fucked up little things

[@MartinCoteQc]

thank you Leo for producing such quality content not like any others. your art gets in my head like no other content. i believe in the beauty of the internet because of guys like you.

[@altusshow7574]

Hey Leo, in the beginning of Return of the Living Dead, a zombie is in a barrel, kind of melted. Gave me a scare as a kid, I'm wondering if this is theovie you watched? There were many behind the scenes made about that movie, so good chance that might be it.

[@liammozz]

The film you can't remember might be the return of the living dead

[@Cocoboco13]

I had a recurring bit at the end of every nightmare I had as a child; didn't matter what the content of the nightmare was but at the end I was always endlessly running across the stage of an empty auditorium with Slappy (from the original Goosebumps show) laughing at me and chasing me across the stage.

[@ebonydarknessdementiaraven4610]

I was obsessed with horror as a kid omgg. My favourite show was grizzly tales for gruesome kids and that dentist episode still haunts me. I also remember accidentally watching clips of the exorcist when i was like 8 and it horrified me lmfao