This guy's creative works have
terrified children for so long, he gets his own category.
Remember, this page is for describing general sources of
Accidental Nightmare Fuel.
An American Tail
- The grotesque and terrifying Giant Mouse of Minsk
, a mechanical monster that the mice sic on the cats at the end. Smack dab in the middle of the Uncanny Valley, because it was a real, and frighteningly detailed, model transferred to animation via rotoscope.
- Plus the relentless Parental Abandonment theme of the movie can be very upsetting for a little kid.
- Also, this troper could have sworn that during the storm sequence, all of the waves gain demonic faces.
- They do.
- Pariodied in "Spongebob vs. the Big One". The title wave has a demonic face and eats a surf board. However it was more funny when they did it.
- Strangely, what bothered this troper about the storm scene was the fish flopping down the stairs.
- Seconded on the fish, but only because I felt bad that they would die. What scared me about them was when Fievel got to the top of the stairs and looked out across the ship during the storm. I just remember tons of ghostly spasmodic fish flying through the air over the deck while this ridiculously eerie, wailing music played. It was such dramatic music for the sight of fish. Nothing about it even sounds scary now, but it was just so surreal and weird.
- The scene where Fievel explores the sewers and is stalked by giant roaches and some kind of pike-thing is incredibly disturbing.
- The ferocious Cossack cats, designed in the same style as Dragon in The Secret Of NIMH, put this editor off the movie for several years as a child. Not to mention the scary-as-hell owner of the sweatshop that Warran T. suckers Fievel into. And then, just to top it off, Fievel learns that there are indeed cats in America... when one swallows him!!! (He gets better, but still...)
- This troper, who has yet to see the movie again at some point in the future, saw the movie when he was about 4 or 5 years old. He found the part where Fievel nearly gets eaten by the cat totally intense.
Winnie the Pooh
- Heffalumps and Woozles. Don Bluth worked on this movie, though it isn't entirely known whether or not he worked specifically on that scene in particular. Wouldn't surprise anybody, I doubt.
