YMS Inspired List.
- The Inquisitor boss battle in Drakkan: The Ancient's Gates. Also the Skeleton King's catacombs, I HATED losing at this game and it sucked that there weren't any cheats or anything I could use to get out of it either, i've had nightmares that are kind of like that.
- Rats. This one was mainly due to a children's story from a series of books, the story in particular: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers. It's about Mrs Twitchit and her many kittens - who are a mischievous bunch. Tom Kitten, the star of this story goes off and disobeys his mother and he ends up in the attic with a hungry rat couple named Samuel Whiskers and Anna Maria. Poor Tom Kitten is tied up and rolled up and almost made into a roly polly pudding. Yes, you heard me right! A children's story where a kitten is almost eaten by rats. No, this isn't by Edward Gorey. I know the plot sounds more like something out of an episode of Tales From The Crypt rather than a story for little kids..but remember, even the most innocent children's tales have dark themes and subtext. True story, at my old house - whenever there was some strange noise in the attic my loved ones would say that Samuel Whiskers was there.
- Mosquitoes. This is something that would happen at our old house frequently, I was always scared and paranoid about mosquitoes coming in, which happened quite frequently sometimes. So much so that I refused to go to sleep because of this.
- Silence. The reason I listen to music when I go to bed and even when I sleep is because i'm afraid of silence, it's just creepy to me. If I didn't have my music to listen to through the night, I would be awake all night quivering in fright and crying.
- Spiders.
- The dark.
- The Queen/Witch from Snow White.
- Kirk Langstrom becoming Man-Bat (Batman: The Animated Series)
- The level with the shark and also with the Scorpions in Tomb Raider IV The Last Revelation.
- The level with the spikes in the wall in 'Prince Of Persia: 3D'.
- This one clip from the Tonight Show With Jay Leno. I can't remember what it was called but it was basically a short-ending skit before the end of the show, Jay is in his dressing room and he takes off his hair revealing he is bald and he takes out his eyes and teeth which are contacts and fake ones as he sits down and puts on an eyepatch. It made me become paranoid, and made me think that one of my comedy heroes wasn't what he seemed.
- Photos of Josh Peck in character for 'The Wackness'. I love Josh, but the pictures I saw of him looking kind of stoned and well dead inside made me worry about his future and what would happen to him if he went down this path, but then I realized it was only a character and he was getting into the role for a movie.
- Jo turns evil (Beetleborgs episode 'It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World')
- Flabber getting frozen by Nukus and almost melting (Beetleborgs Metalix: The Movie).
- Black Licorice. This game on the Nickelodeon website has you hand out candy to trick or treaters..sounds nice and harmless, right? Well here's the thing, you have to avoid giving them black licorice or else if you give them that they'll shout 'BLACK LICORICE? I HATE BLACK LICORICE!' in a demonic sounding voice and they'll transform.
- Game Over screens. I hated losing at video games for a while, it especially hurt me badly when I was playing those Disney action games like A Bug's Life and Hercules. Mainly because at the end if you get to the game over screens the villain outright mocks you. With the former it's Hopper and with the latter it's Hades. Believe it or not, Hopper did manage to scare me a few times, especially in the movie. Hades? Not so much but he could be pretty threatening. And in the Tarzan action game, it was the gorilla father that speaks to you.
- 102 Dalmatians commercial. I used to be terrified of Cruella in general but there's a commercial for the '102 Dalmatians' that used to frighten me, it had a kid get dalmatian toys as cereal prizes and she started seeing spots everywhere and getting that crazy black and white hairdo and cackling evilly just like when Cruella goes insane in the movie.
- Titus's Death from 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'. I know Jack Black's character in this wasn't likable in the slightest but still..it's Jack Black, you can't just do away with him like that. Then again none of the characters in this franchise are intelligent and even remotely likable. Granted I still hate Ben Willis, but it's only because now he is such a laughable villain due to how ridiculous it got when the third movie came out. I mean they practically went the full on 'Jason wannabe' route and made him an immortal undead being that looks more like Robert De Niro as Frankenstein's monster (what? He does!). Still..the scene with Titus being killed off really upset me. Now..not so much, I find that the only thing scary about this franchise is that it even got sequels to begin with.
- Pikachu Revolts (Pokemon). Basically Butch and Cassidy use Drowzee to brainwash all Pokemon to disobey their trainers and turn evil, this episode scared me especially seeing sweet lil Pikachu with those evil eyes. The fact that during the jukebox segment they used footage from THIS episode in the 'To Be A Master' song video kind of makes it worse.
- Jigglypuff's Lullaby (Pokemon). You know when I mentioned Jigglypuff on my least favorite characters list? Well I used to be afraid of her, mainly because of the episode where she sings her infamous lullaby. I have sort of an aversion to a lullaby or anything that sounds like one because I know that some of them are pretty dark hence why they are used in horror movies ("Hush Little Baby" being used in Evil Dead for example), and her one just made me cry and terrified me because it reminded me of that part of Poor Unfortunate Souls where Ariel's voice is taken away. Yet I have no problem with songs which are meant to mirror lullabies such as 'Come Little Children' from Hocus Pocus or songs that have a nightmare/dream theme and a lullaby motif like for example 'Enter Sandman' or 'Lullaby' by The Cure. Jigglypuff has been used in a creepypasta, albeit the picture of her looks evil and she has blood dripping from her soulless black eyes. Apart from her lullaby and all, she's actually kind of comedic especially in the anime and in Pokemon Snap where you can interrupt her by playing the poke-flute.
- 'The Worms Crawl In'. I used to have a crippling fear of sorts of death or what basically what would happen to the body once the soul is up in whatever your version of the great beyond is and this song pretty much sums it up - it's 'your body slowly rots away and you can't do anything about it because you're deceased' and 'worms are gonna make a meal out of you'. Now, the song doesn't scare me so much. In fact it's kind of funny in a sick and twisted way.
- The Puppetmon Arc (Digimon). Specifically the aspect that he basically turns his victims into puppets. Inanimate object transformations always creep me out due to the feeling of helplessness because you're turning into something that cannot move without someone doing it for you and you don't have any limbs or anything. Living toys, dolls and animatronics are alright and I love the servants-turned-objects in Beauty And The Beast, but still..inanimates that don't have limbs and can't move on their own? Pretty terrifying to me.
- Garlic Jr arc (Dragon Ball Z).
- The Mutant Toys from Toy Story. Granted Sid is a psycho and everything, but the toys did kind of creep me out and yet I felt awful for them because of how they were treated.
- Christopher Walken. Back on my old account I mentioned that I hated Chris Walken, but in actuality that's actually because I was scared of him at the time. But I realize now that's part of his charm and I love him for that now. He plays evil characters so well though.
- An Old Story (Goosebumps). There's a reason why I don't do age change related stories, because well...I find both age regression and age progression to be kind of morbid and creepy, especially thanks to stories like 'Pattycakes'. In this one Goosebumps episode two boys are given prone cookies by their elderly aunt who is apparently a witch and they start aging and turning into elderly men..why? Because apparently the aunt and her friends are lonely. The ending of the episode has one of the boys return to normal but the other eats baby food and becomes a baby. There's just something off putting about age regression that irks me, especially if you're regressed to act and think like a baby or toddler (heck that's why I don't like diaper fetish or toddlercon art, because it gives me that vibe and that's why I don't do things like diapers, wetting and babyification, or sissyifications - at least the latter is optional) like in that 1973 film 'The Baby' which is about someone who is mentally regressed to act like a toddler by these crazy women that are supposedly his 'care-takers'.
- Find The Ghost Of Elvis. You know those type of 'Scary Maze Game' challenges where you have to look around for something? Well this was one of them, only you had to look for the supposed ghost of deceased rock legend Elvis Presley and you didn't have any kind of visual clues, you just had his singing to go by, you just had to listen to his voice to pick up the clues. But when you get close enough you- The Haunted Mansion/Phantom Manor. I never actually went on the ride itself, I just remember having nightmares about going in there and one of the nightmares was pretty much one in which the entire park was covered in complete darkness and of an invisible force pulling me and my friends towards the mansion. I remember the Ghost Host's voice in this particular nightmare sounding like a mix of Mark Hamill as the Joker and John Kassir's famous 'Crypt-keeper' voice crossed with Carnage from Spiderman (the PS1 Spiderman game). I now am fascinated by it, especially by the portraits (I wonder who designed those).
- Uka Uka (Crash Bandicoot series). In particular when he appears in the game-over screen for the third game.
- Nickelodeon closedown cows. If you had Nickelodeon in the UK/Europe you would have had the cow closedown with the animated cows signing their signature song, I used to be afraid of this, mainly because of the jarring animation style and also because it meant that I would have to wait until tomorrow for Nickelodeon to return. hear a scream followed by this monstrous face appearing on screen.
- Jim Carrey's Grinch. Specifically the teaser trailer and a newspaper/magazine article were to blame for this and also a grinch doll a friend had, specifically one that was modeled after the toon-grinch but still it was very creepy looking and I always thought it was following me. Now, the grinch is my favorite Jim Carrey movie and character, and of course i'm a huge Jim Carrey fan thanks to this and others.
- The Honey Monster. For those who watch commercial videos on Youtube you might know this big fella, he's basically a yeti-type monster with golden yellow fur and with a deep gravelly voice. The Sugar Puffs Honey Monster used to scare me specifically the ads with the kids 'hulking out' and turning into the monster after yelling 'I WANT MY HONEY!" in a deep, beast-like voice. They got rid of these ads and gave the monster a new look, and the commercials had him do things like extreme sports and being a spy. I used to have nightmares about him and that the cereal isle had nothing but Sugar Puffs boxes on the shelves.
- Rats. This one was mainly due to a children's story from a series of books, the story in particular: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers. It's about Mrs Twitchit and her many kittens - who are a mischievous bunch. Tom Kitten, the star of this story goes off and disobeys his mother and he ends up in the attic with a hungry rat couple named Samuel Whiskers and Anna Maria. Poor Tom Kitten is tied up and rolled up and almost made into a roly polly pudding. Yes, you heard me right! A children's story where a kitten is almost eaten by rats. No, this isn't by Edward Gorey. I know the plot sounds more like something out of an episode of Tales From The Crypt rather than a story for little kids..but remember, even the most innocent children's tales have dark themes and subtext. True story, at my old house - whenever there was some strange noise in the attic my loved ones would say that Samuel Whiskers was there.
- Mosquitoes. This is something that would happen at our old house frequently, I was always scared and paranoid about mosquitoes coming in, which happened quite frequently sometimes. So much so that I refused to go to sleep because of this.
- Silence. The reason I listen to music when I go to bed and even when I sleep is because i'm afraid of silence, it's just creepy to me. If I didn't have my music to listen to through the night, I would be awake all night quivering in fright and crying.
- Spiders.
- The dark.
- The Queen/Witch from Snow White.
- Kirk Langstrom becoming Man-Bat (Batman: The Animated Series)
- The level with the shark and also with the Scorpions in Tomb Raider IV The Last Revelation.
- The level with the spikes in the wall in 'Prince Of Persia: 3D'.
- This one clip from the Tonight Show With Jay Leno. I can't remember what it was called but it was basically a short-ending skit before the end of the show, Jay is in his dressing room and he takes off his hair revealing he is bald and he takes out his eyes and teeth which are contacts and fake ones as he sits down and puts on an eyepatch. It made me become paranoid, and made me think that one of my comedy heroes wasn't what he seemed.
- Photos of Josh Peck in character for 'The Wackness'. I love Josh, but the pictures I saw of him looking kind of stoned and well dead inside made me worry about his future and what would happen to him if he went down this path, but then I realized it was only a character and he was getting into the role for a movie.
- Jo turns evil (Beetleborgs episode 'It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World')
- Flabber getting frozen by Nukus and almost melting (Beetleborgs Metalix: The Movie).
- Black Licorice. This game on the Nickelodeon website has you hand out candy to trick or treaters..sounds nice and harmless, right? Well here's the thing, you have to avoid giving them black licorice or else if you give them that they'll shout 'BLACK LICORICE? I HATE BLACK LICORICE!' in a demonic sounding voice and they'll transform.
- Game Over screens. I hated losing at video games for a while, it especially hurt me badly when I was playing those Disney action games like A Bug's Life and Hercules. Mainly because at the end if you get to the game over screens the villain outright mocks you. With the former it's Hopper and with the latter it's Hades. Believe it or not, Hopper did manage to scare me a few times, especially in the movie. Hades? Not so much but he could be pretty threatening. And in the Tarzan action game, it was the gorilla father that speaks to you.
- 102 Dalmatians commercial. I used to be terrified of Cruella in general but there's a commercial for the '102 Dalmatians' that used to frighten me, it had a kid get dalmatian toys as cereal prizes and she started seeing spots everywhere and getting that crazy black and white hairdo and cackling evilly just like when Cruella goes insane in the movie.
- Titus's Death from 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'. I know Jack Black's character in this wasn't likable in the slightest but still..it's Jack Black, you can't just do away with him like that. Then again none of the characters in this franchise are intelligent and even remotely likable. Granted I still hate Ben Willis, but it's only because now he is such a laughable villain due to how ridiculous it got when the third movie came out. I mean they practically went the full on 'Jason wannabe' route and made him an immortal undead being that looks more like Robert De Niro as Frankenstein's monster (what? He does!). Still..the scene with Titus being killed off really upset me. Now..not so much, I find that the only thing scary about this franchise is that it even got sequels to begin with.
- Pikachu Revolts (Pokemon). Basically Butch and Cassidy use Drowzee to brainwash all Pokemon to disobey their trainers and turn evil, this episode scared me especially seeing sweet lil Pikachu with those evil eyes. The fact that during the jukebox segment they used footage from THIS episode in the 'To Be A Master' song video kind of makes it worse.
- Jigglypuff's Lullaby (Pokemon). You know when I mentioned Jigglypuff on my least favorite characters list? Well I used to be afraid of her, mainly because of the episode where she sings her infamous lullaby. I have sort of an aversion to a lullaby or anything that sounds like one because I know that some of them are pretty dark hence why they are used in horror movies ("Hush Little Baby" being used in Evil Dead for example), and her one just made me cry and terrified me because it reminded me of that part of Poor Unfortunate Souls where Ariel's voice is taken away. Yet I have no problem with songs which are meant to mirror lullabies such as 'Come Little Children' from Hocus Pocus or songs that have a nightmare/dream theme and a lullaby motif like for example 'Enter Sandman' or 'Lullaby' by The Cure. Jigglypuff has been used in a creepypasta, albeit the picture of her looks evil and she has blood dripping from her soulless black eyes. Apart from her lullaby and all, she's actually kind of comedic especially in the anime and in Pokemon Snap where you can interrupt her by playing the poke-flute.
- 'The Worms Crawl In'. I used to have a crippling fear of sorts of death or what basically what would happen to the body once the soul is up in whatever your version of the great beyond is and this song pretty much sums it up - it's 'your body slowly rots away and you can't do anything about it because you're deceased' and 'worms are gonna make a meal out of you'. Now, the song doesn't scare me so much. In fact it's kind of funny in a sick and twisted way.
- The Puppetmon Arc (Digimon). Specifically the aspect that he basically turns his victims into puppets. Inanimate object transformations always creep me out due to the feeling of helplessness because you're turning into something that cannot move without someone doing it for you and you don't have any limbs or anything. Living toys, dolls and animatronics are alright and I love the servants-turned-objects in Beauty And The Beast, but still..inanimates that don't have limbs and can't move on their own? Pretty terrifying to me.
- Garlic Jr arc (Dragon Ball Z).
- The Mutant Toys from Toy Story. Granted Sid is a psycho and everything, but the toys did kind of creep me out and yet I felt awful for them because of how they were treated.
- Christopher Walken. Back on my old account I mentioned that I hated Chris Walken, but in actuality that's actually because I was scared of him at the time. But I realize now that's part of his charm and I love him for that now. He plays evil characters so well though.
- An Old Story (Goosebumps). There's a reason why I don't do age change related stories, because well...I find both age regression and age progression to be kind of morbid and creepy, especially thanks to stories like 'Pattycakes'. In this one Goosebumps episode two boys are given prone cookies by their elderly aunt who is apparently a witch and they start aging and turning into elderly men..why? Because apparently the aunt and her friends are lonely. The ending of the episode has one of the boys return to normal but the other eats baby food and becomes a baby. There's just something off putting about age regression that irks me, especially if you're regressed to act and think like a baby or toddler (heck that's why I don't like diaper fetish or toddlercon art, because it gives me that vibe and that's why I don't do things like diapers, wetting and babyification, or sissyifications - at least the latter is optional) like in that 1973 film 'The Baby' which is about someone who is mentally regressed to act like a toddler by these crazy women that are supposedly his 'care-takers'.
- Find The Ghost Of Elvis. You know those type of 'Scary Maze Game' challenges where you have to look around for something? Well this was one of them, only you had to look for the supposed ghost of deceased rock legend Elvis Presley and you didn't have any kind of visual clues, you just had his singing to go by, you just had to listen to his voice to pick up the clues. But when you get close enough you- The Haunted Mansion/Phantom Manor. I never actually went on the ride itself, I just remember having nightmares about going in there and one of the nightmares was pretty much one in which the entire park was covered in complete darkness and of an invisible force pulling me and my friends towards the mansion. I remember the Ghost Host's voice in this particular nightmare sounding like a mix of Mark Hamill as the Joker and John Kassir's famous 'Crypt-keeper' voice crossed with Carnage from Spiderman (the PS1 Spiderman game). I now am fascinated by it, especially by the portraits (I wonder who designed those).
- Uka Uka (Crash Bandicoot series). In particular when he appears in the game-over screen for the third game.
- Nickelodeon closedown cows. If you had Nickelodeon in the UK/Europe you would have had the cow closedown with the animated cows signing their signature song, I used to be afraid of this, mainly because of the jarring animation style and also because it meant that I would have to wait until tomorrow for Nickelodeon to return. hear a scream followed by this monstrous face appearing on screen.
- Jim Carrey's Grinch. Specifically the teaser trailer and a newspaper/magazine article were to blame for this and also a grinch doll a friend had, specifically one that was modeled after the toon-grinch but still it was very creepy looking and I always thought it was following me. Now, the grinch is my favorite Jim Carrey movie and character, and of course i'm a huge Jim Carrey fan thanks to this and others.
- The Honey Monster. For those who watch commercial videos on Youtube you might know this big fella, he's basically a yeti-type monster with golden yellow fur and with a deep gravelly voice. The Sugar Puffs Honey Monster used to scare me specifically the ads with the kids 'hulking out' and turning into the monster after yelling 'I WANT MY HONEY!" in a deep, beast-like voice. They got rid of these ads and gave the monster a new look, and the commercials had him do things like extreme sports and being a spy. I used to have nightmares about him and that the cereal isle had nothing but Sugar Puffs boxes on the shelves.
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