Other Things that Make Me Go Bump in the Night

Last year, I listed a few things that I was deathly afraid of as a kid, and again as an adult. Here are a couple others that scare me; Doesn't replace
The Cave of Bad Dreams as my top fear, but they're memorable enough.

6. Biollante

I first got the movie featuring the monster as a Christmas gift far long ago (in fact, it's with me today in good condition). Though the
creature doesn't scare me as much, there are a few things about plant monsters that can give me chills (watch the remake of Invasion of
the Body Snatches with Jeff Goldblum for a better example). The puppets of both her forms were well constructed, perhaps the
best one they've made in the Heisei series. I haven't played Godzilla: Unleashed in a long while, but I do recall having a ball
with her.

Her theme song is where most of the scare factor lies.

5. Professor Screw Eyes (We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story)

Though he's placed rather low on the list, as a childhood movie of mine, he goes at least this far. Why I put here I will cover next month
after my retrospective on The Land Before Time' 30th Anniversary.

4. Random Nightmares

If you were ever to ask me if I have dreams of the future, my answer would be "yes." I still have firm memories of nightmares of me not
graduating seventh grade because of a bad teacher (hell, a lot of my teachers since Seventh Grade put me through a bad environment).
But there are some... Random ones... One instance involves me being cornered in a shopping mart by a flying, red furred anteater
(the creature coming right at by surprise is what woke me up).

3. The Test of Fear (Star Fox Adventures)

It's very fortunate that you are just watching this instead of playing the damned thing. After beating the Lightfoot's Test of Strength
with bloody knuckles (literally), Fox McCloud is finally able to enter the Krazoa Shrine under the village. Here you are given
a test to "get through your fear." Then this cutscene plays.

All the while, you are supposed to keep the dial within the lime green space as it flies wildly. If you make it, the Spirit is yours; if not
you get a cutscene where everything goes white and someone laughs at you.

Problem with that is the visuals and sounds will get you distracted. After a few times, I just started crying. Then, an idea occured to me:
turn off the sound and cover most of the screen.

This may not be the best Star Fox Game, but it does have it's moments...

2. Coraline as a Whole

The story behind this is a big one, and it was well before my movie reviewing hobby. My siblings picked me up from a Robotic's Club meeting around Ten O' Clock in the even to see this movie. I wanted to go home and some shuteye, but my brother refused and we went anyway (we rode in a big ass white van, and I didn't trust my brother well also). It was in the middle of this Hanzel and Gretel esque story where things got truly scary. The fact that a Friday the 13th Movie was playing in the booth next to us made it worse, especially just when Coraline was escaping the Beldam the second time.

If you haven't seen it, I will get you to watch it forcefully. Certainly a good tool to teach your children, "Stranger Danger."

1. The Tar Monster Disguise from the first Land Before Time.

Again, I'll go into more detail on the film itself, but this certainly gives me a hard time to snooze. I know it's the kids (sans Cera) in disguise, but what the honest hell is that thing supposed to be? It has the head of an elephant thanks to Littlefoot and Petrie but what else? And the noises it makes, whatever or whoever is making that noise... "Shudders..."

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Anyway... Today's the Eight Anniversary the show where this website gets it's existance from. I may not have been there in the beginning, but if it's gonna end on 2019, then after "Godzilla: King of the Monsters," I wouldn't miss it and beyond for the world.

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