Ok, yeah, I was probably like three years old. But my only memory of this movie is watching the beginning and being completely freaked out xD.
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well considering I was 6 when the movie came out it was kind of scary but still really cool.
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Hell yes it did!
I was about 3, and seeing the boy being horrifically sucked in to the board game at the beginning as he screams in terror was horrifying for me. I remember seeing the VHS on the shelf and feeling the hairs on my neck stand up.
Other films that scared me as a child:
Pinnochio (the donkeys and the whale)
Witches (boy turned into mouse)
Indiana jones last crusade (guy crumbling into dust)
The Mummy (scarab beatles)
IT (clowns!)
BFG (giants)
Princess Mononoke (giant boars and wolves!)
Jurassic park: lost world (T. rex)
Anastasia (Rasputin)
Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.
Funny. As a teenager at the time, I mainly watched Anastatia for Rasputin.
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I am with you 100% on Jumanji, Pinocchio and the Witches. Jumanji I did end up loving and it became one of my favourite childhood movies but the other two, I still haven't watched them since I was a child and I still remember every detail vividly! They scarred me for life!
I never watched IT, I know how scared of clowns I am and have always been so I pretty much avoided that one at all costs.
Anastasia didn't really bother me that much.
BFG was my favourite Roald Dahl book when I was little so that never scared me, he was just so lovable that I found it easy to ignore the other giants as being a threat.
I never saw any of the Indiana Jones movies until I was much older so luckily they never scared me.
For a kid that was pretty much scared of everything when I was younger, I was never scared of Jurassic Park or The Mummy and actually held them as two of my favourite movies as a kid, although one of my friends was absolutely terrified of the scarab beetles and still is!
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I'm with you on Pinnochio and I didn't see that until I was a young adult but them turning the kids into donkeys still bothered me.
shareMost of the movie is great, light-hearted fun that I loved as a 13-year old. But I have to admit, the scene where Alan disappears into the game is actually quite disturbing if you think about it! We hadn't really seen anything supernatural up to that point. Ok, some bats squeaked in the fireplace. But then we see our main character's body disintegrating and being blown away as he screams for his friend to help him. It might have killed him for all we know. We don't know he's going to survive yet. So that part did freak me out when I was little.
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OMG YES!! When I was a kid, THIS was THE HORROR MOVIE to watch! The things that FREAKED me OUT the MOST were the CREEPY ASS Drum Beating, Alan being SUCKED INTO THE BOARD GAME, the Lion, but I HATED the HUNTER the most. I still don't get it, what happened when they stuck the sword in him? It looks like it just fell out and did nothing!
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Watch that scene again carefully. The sword hits his the sleeve of his shirt, right off to the side of where his skin would be. It only cuts through cloth.
What's terrifying is how he casually breaks the sword's blade and keeps chasing Alan.
I was 10 when this first came out and I very much enjoyed the intensity, but I was never "freaked out".
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The only part I remember ever being freaked out by was when Alan and Sarah first played the game and he was sent to the jungle. Oh and also at the beginning when Alan finds the game. That *thump, thump* was creepy. I don't remember how old I was when I first watched it, probably about 4 or 5.
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Yeah it definitely freaked me out.. i was about 6/7 when i saw it in the Cinema; for me it was one of the important movies of my child hood that really shaped my perception and love of film.
I haven't seen Jumanji in possibly a decade but i still sometimes find myself inadvertently humming the theme. I think i probably found the moving Vine/plants and the lion in the attic the scariest ...the drums too!
Funnily enough i found myself pondering about Jumanji just the other day.. i was envisaging the 'Modern sniper rifle' that Van Pelt traded his old musket in for and was wondering what it actually was. After Google image searching the matter i immediately recognized the rifle to in fact not be a rifle at all, but the South Korean USAS-12 Automatic shotgun (easily recognizable to those who dabble in today's contemporary first person shooters) dressed up to look like a marksman's rifle. Possibly wont mean much to most, but i found this pretty amusing.. :)
It sure freaked me out, especially with the creepy spiders. My cousin had the guts to get the board game and claimed he heard the drums lol
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