I see this community died and it appears there aren't any stragglers. It wasn't until junior high, when my friends' obsession with the film got the better of my curiosity, that I revisited it.Aw. The "This Is Halloween" sequence in particular, in which the denizens of Halloween Town get up to spooky high jinks, absolutely petrified me. While the film is beloved by many children, I was - if it isn't yet clear - not remarkably brave. I was just like James, shouting back at the animation, "You're just a lot of smoke and noise! I'm not afraid of you!"īurton's Nightmare Before Christmas was another rite of passage. On my revisit, while the Rhino was still scary, I felt buoyant about being able to finish the film. After reading Roald Dahl's novel in fourth grade, I had a renewed interest in seeing the movie. Take James and the Giant Peach, a movie I refused to see for years because of my terror of the Rhino. And with Burton, I had that sort of encounter over and over again. I finished the movie, unduly proud of my accomplishment.īecause that's the great thing about That Scene, whatever yours might have been - the part when you realize you've grown up to not be afraid of it anymore. And while I felt a little thrill of terror - I was okay. Large Marge bugged her eyes, as she always did. When it finally got to That Scene, I remember giddily bracing myself. It was only as a preteen that I eventually returned to Pee-wee, drawn as much by my memories of it being disturbing as by my curiosity. Instead, I credit him with helping me grow up. Yet I don't resent the childhood nightmares - and there were many! - for which Burton is solely responsible. Perhaps the greatest engineer of the wickedly sadistic genre of "children's horror," though, is Tim Burton, who is back in theaters today to give a new generation of youngsters nightmares with his stylistic take on Disney's Dumbo. Then there was that time my dad put on Pee-wee's Big Adventure, another movie ostensibly "for kids." Did he have any idea he was about to scar me for half a decade with Large Marge?Īlmost everyone once had That Scene, the one that was too scary to get through as a child, be it the shark attacks in Jaws or the trash compactor scene in The Brave Little Toaster, which, I maintain, is one of the scariest movies ever made. But did the grown-ups trying to keep me entertained while they gossiped in the kitchen know about the Rhino? It's a nice movie for children, they said.
It always started innocently enough: Oh, I'll just put on James and the Giant Peach for you, they said.
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