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Disturbing/Freaky moments

posted 11 years ago by Zarathustraz11
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How did some of the episodes end up on air? some of them were actually pretty brutal and scary.
Take for example, Werewolf Skin; The kid grabs a shovel an starts beating the crap out of two werewolves. Or One Day At Horrorland, one of the monsters is holding the decapitated head of a girl..

I know right now that these episodes probably would`nt be on tv right now. I`m just wondering how they ended up airing some of them because re watching them, They`re actually kind of disturbing.

Any episodes or moments that stand out to you?

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[–] DrJesus 11 years ago

The episode where the kids move into a new house and uncover something supernatural and no adults will believe them is pretty scary.

[–] eyelash_wishes 11 years ago

What's the name of the episode?

[–] chris-w-1 11 years ago

The whole episode of 'stay out the basement' was pretty weird. Certainly freaky and some crazy sound effects.

[–] jnorgle 7 years ago

I read a fan fiction from that a few years ago. They took the freaky and really ran with it...

[–] allexx282344020 11 years ago

The ghost next door.

The entire story for the two episodes (that I've just watched for the first fine on Netflix), was quite dark and more of an adult theme.

[–] rocko90 11 years ago

most of the stuff on goosebumps was pretty tame. AYAOTD had a lot of disturbing themes/moments, not just in terms of a kids show that would not be on nowadays.

I think "An old story" was the most disturbing. first of all the aunt is turning her nephews into old men just so her lady friends have company like.... umm.... and then they kill her in the end (like actually on screen) by aging her to death with prune juice!!!

[–] rocko90 11 years ago

also The headless ghost was pretty graphic with the kid getting his head pulled off and the kid falling down the dumb waiter and being unable to tell between the strawberry ice cream and the kids crushed head.

not to mention the ghosr talkinv about twisting the kids head off.

its one of the few goosebumps thats pretty graphic (albeit off screen)

[–] leopoldfilmmaker 10 years ago

"welcome to dead house" is STILL, to this day, horrifying. No just for a goosebumps episode, but for horror films everywhere. Check it out on netflix.

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[–] MrHim 10 years ago

"Welcome to Dead House" is what came to mind when I entered the thread. That one always terrified me as a kid.

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[–] mjn-seifer 10 years ago

I still need to watch more episodes of the TV series, but this thread makes me think of the things that they didn't adapt on to TV. Addmittidly these books are interactive, so they can't be adapted, but I have one book where the reader gets his/her skin pulled off by skeletons, one where his/her skin either disolves off or peels off and his/her organs shrival up, one where his/her face melts off very painfully, and in the same book his/her head can explode from the top, and his/her face melts a bit in that ending too. R.L. can be pretty graphic when he wants to be especially in the last two examples.

Even if they weren't gamebooks and where just normal Goosebumps books, it would be a challenge for these to get aired as children's shows.

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Why is your favorite final destination the 4th.......

[–] mylesdunhill 10 years ago

I just finished watching the episode Ghost Beach, and I found the twist to be very disturbing and this is why. So this brother and sister are staying with some elderly relatives and the episode emphasizes how they keep giving the kids a lot of food to eat every night. Meanwhile the kids find skeletons of dead dogs at the beach, where the friends they meet say that the ghost of the beach kills and eats the dogs. Now the twist of this episode is when a dog comes barking at the elderly relatives at the end indicating that they ARE the ghosts. And the elderly man looks at the dog and then to his wife and says "It's too early for breakfast but why don't you whip us up something in the kitchen to eat". Implying that they were feeding dead dogs to the kids the entire time. I found this to be pretty disturbing for a kids show.

[–] zak6009 10 years ago

"The Perfect School" had some serious tense moments and disturbing scenes. Especially when they drug the guy in his sleep and take him to that room to be measured. That whole half-conscious experience was quite disturbing for a kids show, I remember even being 10 at the time and thinking it's too full-on for Goosebumps.

[–] kmay144 10 years ago

The end of 'My Hairiest Adventure", when Jasper the cat is revealed to now be a baby girl as a result of the doctor's testing. The shot where the baby opens her eyes to show cat eyes always got to me.

[–] Mystidgh 10 years ago

Stay out of the basement, where there the girl can't decide which flower is her father, also the scene with the dad forcing his children to eat the green gunk for breakfast & green blood then oozing out of his arm was very freaky.

[–] ZombieJesus92 10 years ago

Remember "Karsville"? The plastic people gave me nightmares! The show was eventually banned in the UK, I think.

[–] Mystidgh 10 years ago

^^ Agreed, I put that down as one of the creepiest episodes. The whole concept of a mini town with these creepy plastic doll people. The episodes that did not scare me at all, were the ones that contained too many gory monsters. I think ghosts are much scarier.

[–] ZombieJesus92 10 years ago

Oh remember the ghost one when the little girl turned out to be dead? I swear that inspired The Sixth Sense!