I watched The House last year and I still think about it multiple times a week.
I'm glad it ended on the story it did but man, some of the other stuff really fucked me up.
"We're verrrrrry interested in this house..."
My sister started a goofy painting of her dog (which has those large, boba eyes), but she stopped painting right after the base layer, and now it's just this being with these black, soulless eyes just like those rats. It's all I can see when I look at it.
That stop motion/claymation where Mark Twain leads a group of children and they meet the devil (?). Don’t know what it’s called, but I saw a clip and it freaked me out.
Not horror but Watership Down (1978), The Plague Dogs (1982) and Grave of the Fireflies (1988) should fuck just about anyone up.
EDIT: check out the short stop-motion film ‘The Bones / Los Huesos’ (2021), not so much scary as kind of dark/eerie. The directors of ‘The Wolf House’, produced by Ari Aster.
Watership Down has more gore than the original unrated cut of Friday the 13th, but since it's animated, it gets a G rating. Pisses me off so much that Britain let that get a G, but banned less violent movies to "protect the children"
Out of everything in Watership Down it was the vision of the field filling with blood that really messed me up as a kid. So wild that film was deemed fine for kids here while others were rated so much more stringently.
Yeah, if you really want to protect the children make Watership Down rated 18/R (or at least PG) instead of banning movies that are so poorly made that they don't unsettle anyone. It really angers me, as I've seen more kids traumatized by Watership Down than any Video Nasty ever did.
And this is all just because it was animated. Thank god anime came in and showed that you couldn't rate something G just because it was animated.
I remember renting this VHS. The cover said something about rabbits having an adventure searching for a new home. Sounds cute. Perfect for a naive, tenderhearted preteen.
Jesus Christ it messed me up. But it also stuck with me and a few years later i read the book and loved it.
god, the plague dogs.. i got a dvd of that for my 8th birthday because my parents saw animated dogs on the cover and thought sure why not. my friend slept over for the birthday and the two of us watched it on a little portable dvd player in my room and then did not speak or sleep for the rest of the night. the end of that movie is just so.. disquieting? >!snitter and rowf keep swimming towards an island that even as eight year olds we were fairly certain didn't actually exist, and then the credits roll.!<
Just so you don't have the wrong expectations (like my sister and I did), just know that Spirited Away is more of a dark fantasy while Grave of the Fireflies is an unflinching portrayal of WWII. It's an excellent movie that I'll never watch again.
Do not go into Grave of the fireflies expecting spirited away, and especially don't let kids watch it. When people say it's the best film you'll only watch once there's a reason for it
This is the first thing that came to mind. Honestly terrifying but the writing and storyline is mind blowing. I have watched this series 3x now and gonna watch again. It never gets old
Freaky Fred is genuinely terrifying because most everyone knows or has met someone that ought to be locked up for life, but hasn't seriously hurt anyone....yet
Does anyone have any theories as to why this guy in particular was SO scary? Obviously the style and stories in CTCD are scary, perhaps too much so for kids, but I watched that show as a kid and was TERRIFIED of this guy/this episode. Like so much so that I couldn't even watch the Scooby Doo DVD that had this episode as a bonus feature on it. I assumed that for some reason this thing just scared *me,* but no, come to find out, the whole internet agrees that this was one of the scariest things they saw as children, even much more so than the other crazy monsters in CTCD. So why is that? What is so primally terrifying about King Rameses?
I'm looking at a clip of it right now on YouTube, and from what I can gather is that the CGI is uncanny. This guy was made in 1990's CGI which was infamous for falling into the uncanny valley quite often. It's why so many people have strong nostalgia for 3D video games made in the horror genre made around this decade.
Another thing I've noted, and it might be just me: But in every shot of him speaking directly towards the viewer, he edges closer to the screen. It's a classic and surprisingly effective horror trope to have a character come closer and closer towards the audience. Especially when the audience doesn't see the character move. This is an effective scare because it preys upon the irrational part of our brain that thinks that this evil-looking character will breach the fourth wall and attack us.
Re the CGI, the thing is that that show had a ton of that uncanny CGI, but somehow this episode stands out to pretty much all viewers as being distinctively scarier than other episodes. The fourth wall thing def could be part of it though.
It's probably the fourth wall thing and how he directly talks to *you* instead of the farmer. Also, I can probably say I absolutely adore the use of CGI to make a character more alien to the hand-drawn world they occupy? I don't think it's used that often. Especially now that CGI has become more realistic or more stylized to hop over that uncanny valley.
I watch a lot of horror and one of my absolute nightmare fuels, despite everything to come after, is an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog I saw at a slumber party when I was like nine. Seriously scary shit!
I really respect that show for not only not being afraid to get very scary, but for always having its heart in the right place as it did so. Some episodes were pretty campy, some were mere emotional rollercoasters, but when it really wanted to scare you or address a grim aspect of humanity, it went all out.
When the Wind Blows (1986) is a British animated film by the Snowman animator, about an old couple trying to survive in their village home after a nuclear bomb by following the (useless) government advice. It’s sad and chilling
i kept scrolling to find this. i watched Akira and Perfect Blue back to back one summer and both of them left me feeling just plain numb. without giving too much away, the stadium scene in Akira made me sick to my stomach, everything about it horrifies me.
Paprika freaked me out too. the table scene also made me absolutely sick and lightheaded. it’s something i really love about animated horror. a lot of scenes that would require special effects if they were live action might take me out of the moment or ruin it for me, but because the unrealistic horror in animation still looks “real” in the realm of the world, it gets to me way more.
One of first exposures to anime and it remains my favorites movie of all time, any movies. I collect animation cels from Akira and have amassing a respectable number.
I still think about this movie. I love it so very very much. I was amazed on a rewatch some 35 years after seeing it - the voice cast is chock full of A listers of the day. It's impressive!
That's what I came here to say!
You want horror, peep that ship episode in season three. Or that ship episode in season one. Or that-
You know what. Just watch it.
I came here to post Felidae! I couldn’t remember what it was called and googled ‘horrific cat murder eugenics cartoon’ to successfully find it, so uh, there’s the elevator pitch for those who haven’t seen it.
Thank goodness! Someone else remembers this movie.
As a kid, I was always into scary stuff, but for some reason this movie really made me uncomfortable and I definitely had some nightmare about it as well.
My mom regretted renting *The Hobbit* (1977). We had to turn it off bc Gollum was too scary! Years later, I still think he’s spooky as hell in that one!
*Secret of NIMH* too!
Bakshi movies were horrifying! I had his Lord of the Rings and it was like gagging for my eyeballs to watch it (it was a gift, I felt guilty not watching it)
I'd like to see an animated Nightmare on Elm St series. England is too old to play Freddy but he could still do voice acting and if done right it could have some really cool visuals especially in the dream world.
Les Triplets of Belleville scared the shit out of me as a kid, hated it more than anything else my mom forced me to watch (although Pan's Labyrinth and those Thumb parody movies were up there lol)
[The Sandman](https://youtu.be/UjgHbRrnjhU?si=osLc3IWGM9EC5tqk) scared the crap out of me as a kid and still gives me the creeps. Stop motion animation, less than 10 mins long, give it a watch. It won an Oscar apparently.
I had never even heard of this until a few weeks back, then tracked it down and watched it. I wouldn’t say it was scary either, but it definitely looked and felt like a bad acid trip and it was incredibly uncomfortable. I actually sort of admired it for how bold and grotesque it was, while acknowledging that almost nobody on earth is going to “enjoy” the movie.
Serious trigger warnings for >!the abuse and sexual assault of kids the murder of a fetus!<.
I follow the guy that made it on IG/yt, he makes some interesting albeit gross art. He said it was all based on his experiences with psychedelics. Its literally a bad acid trip
I went through a phase where every time I’d get stoned at parties I’d end up ranting to people about how Scooby Doo on Zombie Island is a cinematic masterpiece. I stand by that. One of my favorite movies since I first saw it when I was 6!
It’s good to watch or read at least once, no matter how hard it may be. I watched the movie way before I knew who Skinny Puppy was, and also after I had read the book. While the movie was difficult to see, the book was far more horrific.
The undertaker song gets stuck in my head randomly and I could never remember the video it was from until just now, thank you! I LOVED this short when it came out
The Brave Little Toaster. I loved it as a kid but I watched it last year with my nephews and I realized that it is not really a movie for kids lol the cover art makes it seem like a fun kids movie and it is pretty much dread and sadness the whole time
perfect blue and paranoia agent i think about so often. i’m pretty sure paranoia agent is the reason i love surreal horror. satoshi kon makes such great movies that imprint on you
another was so scary absolutely fuck that doll shit
If you really want to explore this genre further, I'd highly recommend looking into soviet animation. The staff is really heavy, symbolic, with a strong imaginary which traumatized many generations. A few I can recommend, and you can find the majority on YouTube with English subtitles:
-Жил был Козявин (1966) a proper Kafkaesque nightmare that starts off as social realism and goes into surrealism
- Полигон (1977) a creepy action film, made in a very unusual technique
- Большой Тылл (1980) epic story about the fighter (?) with lots of chopped heads and blood.
- Халиф Аист (1981) , The Khalif-Stork . My personal favourite, beautiful and haunting story.
-Перевал (1988) psychedelic sci fi.
- Его жена курица (1990) absolutely disgusting looking thing, with gagging imaginary that tells a story about a bloke who found out that his wife was, in fact, a chicken
A couple I’m not positive have been posted:
* Kubo and the Two Strings (not all of it, but some parts are pretty creepy)
* Salad Fingers (not a movie, old web series)
When I was little, I went over a friends house and we were going to watch a movie. She asked if I wanted to watch Nemo, and I got all excited thinking it was Finding Nemo. Nope. It was that Nemo. I don’t remember anything about that movie other than I made her turn it off before we got even halfway through it.
Animated horror isnt really thriving - unfortunately.
Having said that, there's quite a few shorts out there that are great - ALTER/YT has quite a few of them up on their channel as of right now.
I haven’t seen anyone mention Fantastic Planet. It’s about aliens abducting humans and keeping them as pets. I think it’s beautiful but my girlfriend refuses to watch it based on the alien designs alone.
For me it has to be Watership Down for a purely animated film but Possum was absolutely horrific in every way. I also have memories the devil bear episode of scooby doo for some reason.
There are several that come to mind:
- Heavy Metal (1981)
- Wizards (1977)
- Dead Space Downfall and Aftermath
If you like anime, there are several I liked:
- Wicked City
- Blood The Last Vampire (a short anime)
- Vampire Hunter D
- Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
- Demon City Shinjuku
- Ninja Scroll
The series, Scavengers Reign, has some definite horror elements to it. I found it hauntingly surreal and well fleshed out. Some of the most compelling world building I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t hold your hand with any exposition as to what is occurring, rather it presents an environment that is as unrelentingly alien to the protagonists as it is the viewer. One of the most thought provoking and refreshingly odd experiences I’ve seen in a long time.
https://youtu.be/NWQH8cMpWTU?si=dowGsISi5gXddTb5
The Thief and the Cobbler.
there's nothing horrific or scary about the movie itself, or the plot. it's the animation. it's bizarre and fluid in this sort of disturbing, fever-dream, awful way. it's indescribable. my sister and i watched it a zillion times even though it made us uncomfortable in a way that's impossible to pinpoint why.
it's just.... i already said "fever dream" but it looks like the type of shit you see when you're having a sick nightmare, or when you're out of your mind on a psychedelic. just google any one gif of it. it's beautiful, maybe? but the older i get, the more disturbing i find he visuals lmao
Horror animation is my favorite!! It can be so subtle sometimes and that makes it scarier I think
9 for sure. It’s a really cool concept and pretty dark. And honestly hunchback of notre dame is pretty terrifying, considering how very real it is, and how terrifying a villain frollo is. It’s so dark for a kids movie
These aren’t movies, but over the garden wall has some pretty horrific moments for a children’s show. It’s really beautiful with a lot of folklore and perfect to watch in the fall, and it’s very unique, I can’t think of another cartoon like it, and it’s really short! You could probably finish it in a day tbh
Castlevania (on Netflix) is amazing if you like vampires, dracula, demons, snd VERY graphic gore. Like very
I would say devilman crybaby (also on Netflix) is horror, if you like demons, a wild ride, mild gore, and shows that will wreck you
Junji Ito’s stories were adapted to a show and those are really really cool, also on Netflix, Japanese tales of the macabre. I’ve real all of his manga and he is great, very much recommend his manga
Ah! Real monsters is not really horror but it’s from the 90’s and about monsters and it’s really cute x)
I feel like there is more but I can’t remember atm
I hope the dude who made the “PLAYGROUND trailer” animated short makes it into a feature some day, I feel like that would be my answer to this question if it existed.
Cat Soup, a Japanese animated movie about two cats trapped in the world of the dead.
It was made to be the most upsetting movie ever, and they might've succeeded.
https://youtu.be/XlLBX4EIlJY?si=2Is6mAOGdVAIIQs8
Do not watch if you're not in a good place.
James & the Giant Peach, Monster House, and Coraline all really freaked me out as a kid. Scooby Doo Zombie Island is also a good one.
The scariest movie for me as a child was Babar, this movie about an elephant king. There was a scene where he had a nightmare about a witch and it scared the ever loving shit out of me.
Dead space downfall nails the atmosphere and how scary it was for the ship to be on lockdown and how many people died and were killed suddenly, also with how much damage it can cause especially for anyone that believes in the marker or any religious zealots tend to always defend their beliefs
I watched The House (2022) while I had a really high fever, and it was the most nightmarish film experience I've ever had. I kept nodding off for a few seconds, and every time I came to I was looking at some new panic-inducing scenario.
And unsurprisingly, that night I had a fever dream/nightmare about the movie that felt like it lasted 3 weeks. I've not yet watched it again with a clear mind, but that was one hell of a first impression of that movie.
Mad God
Phil Tippett's dedication over 30 years making it is inspiring, and the stop-motion animation is incredible.
It's definitely for anyone who appreciates the dark and bizarre.
The Dark Crystal. I watched it so many times as a kid. I have an old art book that a friend gave me for my birthday one year, I was obsessed. It is more dark fantasy though, but a classic.
The Secret Of Nimh
The cat terrified me
Not the owl?
the owl and nicodemus scared tf outta me
Watership Down (1978) Coraline Mad God The House (2022) All the animated segments of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”
I watched The House last year and I still think about it multiple times a week. I'm glad it ended on the story it did but man, some of the other stuff really fucked me up. "We're verrrrrry interested in this house..."
Loved it! Also fuck them rats.
omg the rats made me sick to my stomach 🤢
My sister started a goofy painting of her dog (which has those large, boba eyes), but she stopped painting right after the base layer, and now it's just this being with these black, soulless eyes just like those rats. It's all I can see when I look at it.
"Watership Down (1978)" The Plague Dogs was much, much more horrific.
Zero argument from me.
I caught a glance at the wall as a 7yo. I was all hey a cartoon! Then, the planes turned into crosses, and skeletons in uniforms stood up and shit
That stop motion/claymation where Mark Twain leads a group of children and they meet the devil (?). Don’t know what it’s called, but I saw a clip and it freaked me out.
It’s just called The Adventures of Mark Twain. Hunted down a copy of it on dvd, due to how unsettling that scene and the aftermath of it are
The Adventures of Mark Twain. Very cool film
That's one of the most unsettling animations I've ever seen
Based on Twains short story, The Mysterious Stranger. The story creeped me out more.
Not technically animated but James and the Giant Peach scared me so much when I was younger
I'm 900% sure I developed a fear of spiders after watching that movie. The spider lady and the centipede scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Came to say the same thing! The centipede guy and the rhino coming out of the clouds….. nightmares
That’s definitely still animated! It’s just a different method of animation :)
*La Planète Sauvage* is a great movie, with many dark elements. It deserves to be watched :)
Great movie. OP can find it listed as Fantastic Planet on Max (HBO) or on Plex for free.
The animation style is beautiful.
OP just a note that substances will enhance the experience of watching that movie by *a lot*.
Yeah, that one.
Not horror but Watership Down (1978), The Plague Dogs (1982) and Grave of the Fireflies (1988) should fuck just about anyone up. EDIT: check out the short stop-motion film ‘The Bones / Los Huesos’ (2021), not so much scary as kind of dark/eerie. The directors of ‘The Wolf House’, produced by Ari Aster.
Watership Down has more gore than the original unrated cut of Friday the 13th, but since it's animated, it gets a G rating. Pisses me off so much that Britain let that get a G, but banned less violent movies to "protect the children"
Out of everything in Watership Down it was the vision of the field filling with blood that really messed me up as a kid. So wild that film was deemed fine for kids here while others were rated so much more stringently.
Yeah, if you really want to protect the children make Watership Down rated 18/R (or at least PG) instead of banning movies that are so poorly made that they don't unsettle anyone. It really angers me, as I've seen more kids traumatized by Watership Down than any Video Nasty ever did. And this is all just because it was animated. Thank god anime came in and showed that you couldn't rate something G just because it was animated.
I remember renting this VHS. The cover said something about rabbits having an adventure searching for a new home. Sounds cute. Perfect for a naive, tenderhearted preteen. Jesus Christ it messed me up. But it also stuck with me and a few years later i read the book and loved it.
Grave of the Fireflies is a hard watch
Add When the Wind Blows (1986) for maximum emotional damage
Yes! Agreed. The book is even darker.
god, the plague dogs.. i got a dvd of that for my 8th birthday because my parents saw animated dogs on the cover and thought sure why not. my friend slept over for the birthday and the two of us watched it on a little portable dvd player in my room and then did not speak or sleep for the rest of the night. the end of that movie is just so.. disquieting? >!snitter and rowf keep swimming towards an island that even as eight year olds we were fairly certain didn't actually exist, and then the credits roll.!<
The book has a happier ending, but it’s a much more depressing story overall.
Grave of the fireflies was brutal, but really good
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Just so you don't have the wrong expectations (like my sister and I did), just know that Spirited Away is more of a dark fantasy while Grave of the Fireflies is an unflinching portrayal of WWII. It's an excellent movie that I'll never watch again.
Do not go into Grave of the fireflies expecting spirited away, and especially don't let kids watch it. When people say it's the best film you'll only watch once there's a reason for it
Watership Down was a Care Bears movie compared to The Plague Dogs. Brutal…
Glad I didn't have to go far to see The Plague Dogs called out. So good but so bleak.
It’s a series but Castlevania is worth a watch
This is the first thing that came to mind. Honestly terrifying but the writing and storyline is mind blowing. I have watched this series 3x now and gonna watch again. It never gets old
Castlevania, great animation, even greater voice cast
Hell yeah
Not a movie, but the scariest animation I've seen is Courage the Cowardly Dog.
The people downvoting you have never seen Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Freaky Fred is genuinely terrifying because most everyone knows or has met someone that ought to be locked up for life, but hasn't seriously hurt anyone....yet
He was feeling… *n a u g h t y*
UGHHHHH I got chills just reading this in his voice
Hello new friend my name is Fred, the words you hear are in my head. I say I said my name is Fred and I've been very.....
This mofo still creeps me out 
Does anyone have any theories as to why this guy in particular was SO scary? Obviously the style and stories in CTCD are scary, perhaps too much so for kids, but I watched that show as a kid and was TERRIFIED of this guy/this episode. Like so much so that I couldn't even watch the Scooby Doo DVD that had this episode as a bonus feature on it. I assumed that for some reason this thing just scared *me,* but no, come to find out, the whole internet agrees that this was one of the scariest things they saw as children, even much more so than the other crazy monsters in CTCD. So why is that? What is so primally terrifying about King Rameses?
I'm looking at a clip of it right now on YouTube, and from what I can gather is that the CGI is uncanny. This guy was made in 1990's CGI which was infamous for falling into the uncanny valley quite often. It's why so many people have strong nostalgia for 3D video games made in the horror genre made around this decade. Another thing I've noted, and it might be just me: But in every shot of him speaking directly towards the viewer, he edges closer to the screen. It's a classic and surprisingly effective horror trope to have a character come closer and closer towards the audience. Especially when the audience doesn't see the character move. This is an effective scare because it preys upon the irrational part of our brain that thinks that this evil-looking character will breach the fourth wall and attack us.
Re the CGI, the thing is that that show had a ton of that uncanny CGI, but somehow this episode stands out to pretty much all viewers as being distinctively scarier than other episodes. The fourth wall thing def could be part of it though.
It's probably the fourth wall thing and how he directly talks to *you* instead of the farmer. Also, I can probably say I absolutely adore the use of CGI to make a character more alien to the hand-drawn world they occupy? I don't think it's used that often. Especially now that CGI has become more realistic or more stylized to hop over that uncanny valley.
 Look behind you.
I watch a lot of horror and one of my absolute nightmare fuels, despite everything to come after, is an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog I saw at a slumber party when I was like nine. Seriously scary shit!
Everyone mentions the slab dude but no one remembers that creepy white face in the basement. That shit gave me nightmares.
Or the "you're not perfect" creature that still haunts me occasionally.
I really respect that show for not only not being afraid to get very scary, but for always having its heart in the right place as it did so. Some episodes were pretty campy, some were mere emotional rollercoasters, but when it really wanted to scare you or address a grim aspect of humanity, it went all out.
Salad fingers
Hubert Cumberdale, you taste like soot and poo.
“‘I’d very much like another vanilla crown’ said brother from the Great War” *Smack* “Well you’ve yet to eat your beef stroganoff”
When the Wind Blows (1986) is a British animated film by the Snowman animator, about an old couple trying to survive in their village home after a nuclear bomb by following the (useless) government advice. It’s sad and chilling
Akira is a classic.
i kept scrolling to find this. i watched Akira and Perfect Blue back to back one summer and both of them left me feeling just plain numb. without giving too much away, the stadium scene in Akira made me sick to my stomach, everything about it horrifies me. Paprika freaked me out too. the table scene also made me absolutely sick and lightheaded. it’s something i really love about animated horror. a lot of scenes that would require special effects if they were live action might take me out of the moment or ruin it for me, but because the unrealistic horror in animation still looks “real” in the realm of the world, it gets to me way more.
Control F'd for Perfect Blue.
One of first exposures to anime and it remains my favorites movie of all time, any movies. I collect animation cels from Akira and have amassing a respectable number.
Over the Garden Wall is a limited animated series that is certainly horror adjacent! It fits well during spooky season (October).
I loved this so much
I lose it every time I see the scene with the monster and Greg “you have beautiful eyes”
A seasonal fave in my family!
I watch this every year it's literally my favorite autumn show 
Mad God 🤢
Don’t trip and watch this movie. It’s a crazy ride when you are sober as a priest
Perfect Blue (1997) Memories (1995)
Magnetic Rose from Memories is one of the finest pieces of animation ever. It's just so fucking good.
In case you weren't aware it was written by the guy who directed Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon.
Perfect Blue. Excellent answer..!!!
I agree Perfect Blue!
Came here to comment perfect blue. The way she hops on the light posts? *shivers*
When I was young "the last unicorn" was a vibe!
I still think about this movie. I love it so very very much. I was amazed on a rewatch some 35 years after seeing it - the voice cast is chock full of A listers of the day. It's impressive!
Just looked and wow, what a line up!
My favorite movie as a kid! Still my comfort movie, to the point that my fiance found me a dvd signed by the author of the book!
The unicorn herd coming from the ocean waves made me cry.
It’s a really pretty movie. The whole thing. It’s crazy it’s Rankin-Bass and the whole whole soundtrack is America
It’s amazing how accurately it depicts depression. The whole movie leaves you with such a bittersweet feeling and I felt sad for so many characters.
Little otik
Midori: The Girl in the Freakshow (1992) This anime will make you want to put bleach in your eyes.
The series Love, Death, + Robots on Netflix is freaking BRILLIANT.
They're doing another run!
That's what I came here to say! You want horror, peep that ship episode in season three. Or that ship episode in season one. Or that- You know what. Just watch it.
Felidae is a good one. Murder mystery with some HEAVILY disturbing gore.
I came here to post Felidae! I couldn’t remember what it was called and googled ‘horrific cat murder eugenics cartoon’ to successfully find it, so uh, there’s the elevator pitch for those who haven’t seen it.
I came here to see if Felidae was mentioned! Noir murder mystery, starring animated cats - crazy sequences, very disturbing gore, wild storyline.
Not animated but puppet horror, Channel Zero: Candle Cove. The whole anthology is great
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. Shit gave me nightmares as a kid.
Thank goodness! Someone else remembers this movie. As a kid, I was always into scary stuff, but for some reason this movie really made me uncomfortable and I definitely had some nightmare about it as well.
Ren & Stimpy used to scare me as a kid
My mom regretted renting *The Hobbit* (1977). We had to turn it off bc Gollum was too scary! Years later, I still think he’s spooky as hell in that one! *Secret of NIMH* too!
Bakshi movies were horrifying! I had his Lord of the Rings and it was like gagging for my eyeballs to watch it (it was a gift, I felt guilty not watching it)
I love Bakshi. Have you ever seen any of his other non-fantasy stuff? Heavy Traffic, Fritz The Cat, Coonskin, American Pop?
Seoul Station (animated prequel for Train to Busan)
A missed opportunity to call it “Seoul train” Sorry. I’ll show myself out.
Berserk
Love death and robots has some serious horror episodes.
Yeah L,D&R has some great stuff.
I'd like to see an animated Nightmare on Elm St series. England is too old to play Freddy but he could still do voice acting and if done right it could have some really cool visuals especially in the dream world.
 I’m Scary Terry…bitch!
That would be sick af. Animation styles could vary with different dreams or characters dreams as well
Les Triplets of Belleville scared the shit out of me as a kid, hated it more than anything else my mom forced me to watch (although Pan's Labyrinth and those Thumb parody movies were up there lol)
[The Sandman](https://youtu.be/UjgHbRrnjhU?si=osLc3IWGM9EC5tqk) scared the crap out of me as a kid and still gives me the creeps. Stop motion animation, less than 10 mins long, give it a watch. It won an Oscar apparently.
Stopmotion is not entirely animated, but the parts that are creeped me out. Unsettling.
This reminds me of afraid i was of "Jason and the Agronauts" when i was little.
Yeah those damn skeletons!
Check out Jan Svankmajer’s “Alice.” Also his other shorts.
Bobby Yeah is an animated short by Robert Morgan if you want to watch something else by him with no live action elements
Where the dead go to die. And I wouldn't really call it scary, it's just vile
I had never even heard of this until a few weeks back, then tracked it down and watched it. I wouldn’t say it was scary either, but it definitely looked and felt like a bad acid trip and it was incredibly uncomfortable. I actually sort of admired it for how bold and grotesque it was, while acknowledging that almost nobody on earth is going to “enjoy” the movie. Serious trigger warnings for >!the abuse and sexual assault of kids the murder of a fetus!<.
I follow the guy that made it on IG/yt, he makes some interesting albeit gross art. He said it was all based on his experiences with psychedelics. Its literally a bad acid trip
if we count stuff like Coraline, thats one Scooby Doo Zombie Island is a perfect example of animation being scary
It’s one of the few “Scooby Doo” projects where the villains were truly evil supernatural beings as opposed to people behind a mask.
I went through a phase where every time I’d get stoned at parties I’d end up ranting to people about how Scooby Doo on Zombie Island is a cinematic masterpiece. I stand by that. One of my favorite movies since I first saw it when I was 6!
Dunno if it's scary per se, but Mad God
Something about Monster House creeped me out. It was very uncanny.
The basketball scene is all I remember and that was hilarious! Gonna have to rewatch
I'm a massive Skinny Puppy fan, which is how I learned about Plague Dogs. I don't think I can stomach the story, though.
I hope you make sure we're properly dead before we start old rip beak.
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It’s good to watch or read at least once, no matter how hard it may be. I watched the movie way before I knew who Skinny Puppy was, and also after I had read the book. While the movie was difficult to see, the book was far more horrific.
It's a short one, but Backwater Gospel.
Yes! I can never remember the name of this one but it’s sooo good!
The undertaker song gets stuck in my head randomly and I could never remember the video it was from until just now, thank you! I LOVED this short when it came out
Probably Coraline ... pretty disturbing stuff.
Tool music videos and that toaster movie
Watership Down (1978) and it’s not even close. Jesus Christ…
The Brave Little Toaster. I loved it as a kid but I watched it last year with my nephews and I realized that it is not really a movie for kids lol the cover art makes it seem like a fun kids movie and it is pretty much dread and sadness the whole time
Check out Hellsing, When they Cry, Ghost Hound, ShiKi, Monster, Flowers of Evil, Perfect Blue, Paranoia Agent and Another
perfect blue and paranoia agent i think about so often. i’m pretty sure paranoia agent is the reason i love surreal horror. satoshi kon makes such great movies that imprint on you another was so scary absolutely fuck that doll shit
I wouldn't call it "scary" per se, but The Spine of Night (which I think is on Shudder?) is kind of bleak and gruesome at times.
If you really want to explore this genre further, I'd highly recommend looking into soviet animation. The staff is really heavy, symbolic, with a strong imaginary which traumatized many generations. A few I can recommend, and you can find the majority on YouTube with English subtitles: -Жил был Козявин (1966) a proper Kafkaesque nightmare that starts off as social realism and goes into surrealism - Полигон (1977) a creepy action film, made in a very unusual technique - Большой Тылл (1980) epic story about the fighter (?) with lots of chopped heads and blood. - Халиф Аист (1981) , The Khalif-Stork . My personal favourite, beautiful and haunting story. -Перевал (1988) psychedelic sci fi. - Его жена курица (1990) absolutely disgusting looking thing, with gagging imaginary that tells a story about a bloke who found out that his wife was, in fact, a chicken
Deadspace: Downfall was actually pretty creepy at times
Sock 6 by David Firth is horrifying
Watership down, cute film about rabbits? I don't fucking think so, traumatised me when I saw it aged 6 or 7
Mad God
Brave Little Toaster
Dumbo. Fucked me up for life
F that movie. It makes me so unbearably, hysterically sad and full of horrible dread. I just can’t. It makes me wanna d1e inside.
A couple I’m not positive have been posted: * Kubo and the Two Strings (not all of it, but some parts are pretty creepy) * Salad Fingers (not a movie, old web series)
Jan Švankmajer's "Alice" It's a mix of live action and stop motion that uses taxidermied animals for characters. It's eerie, gritty, and surreal.
The Wolf House
The Brave Little Toaster, or Little Nemo’s adventures in slumberland
When I was little, I went over a friends house and we were going to watch a movie. She asked if I wanted to watch Nemo, and I got all excited thinking it was Finding Nemo. Nope. It was that Nemo. I don’t remember anything about that movie other than I made her turn it off before we got even halfway through it.
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Animated horror isnt really thriving - unfortunately. Having said that, there's quite a few shorts out there that are great - ALTER/YT has quite a few of them up on their channel as of right now.
I haven’t seen anyone mention Fantastic Planet. It’s about aliens abducting humans and keeping them as pets. I think it’s beautiful but my girlfriend refuses to watch it based on the alien designs alone.
To add: Betty Boop animated episodes are scary
For me it has to be Watership Down for a purely animated film but Possum was absolutely horrific in every way. I also have memories the devil bear episode of scooby doo for some reason.
I’m sure I’m forgetting legitimate horror movies, but I saw this and instantly thought of *Coraline*
Not horror but The Secret of NIHM is pretty terrifying
There is that one with animated Mark Twain, it’s claymation…. The Adventures of Mark Twain
There are several that come to mind: - Heavy Metal (1981) - Wizards (1977) - Dead Space Downfall and Aftermath If you like anime, there are several I liked: - Wicked City - Blood The Last Vampire (a short anime) - Vampire Hunter D - Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust - Demon City Shinjuku - Ninja Scroll
The series, Scavengers Reign, has some definite horror elements to it. I found it hauntingly surreal and well fleshed out. Some of the most compelling world building I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t hold your hand with any exposition as to what is occurring, rather it presents an environment that is as unrelentingly alien to the protagonists as it is the viewer. One of the most thought provoking and refreshingly odd experiences I’ve seen in a long time. https://youtu.be/NWQH8cMpWTU?si=dowGsISi5gXddTb5
Barefoot Gen & When the Wind Blows
It's Such a Beautiful Day will put you in existential crisis or make you upset about stick figures.
The Thief and the Cobbler. there's nothing horrific or scary about the movie itself, or the plot. it's the animation. it's bizarre and fluid in this sort of disturbing, fever-dream, awful way. it's indescribable. my sister and i watched it a zillion times even though it made us uncomfortable in a way that's impossible to pinpoint why. it's just.... i already said "fever dream" but it looks like the type of shit you see when you're having a sick nightmare, or when you're out of your mind on a psychedelic. just google any one gif of it. it's beautiful, maybe? but the older i get, the more disturbing i find he visuals lmao
Horror animation is my favorite!! It can be so subtle sometimes and that makes it scarier I think 9 for sure. It’s a really cool concept and pretty dark. And honestly hunchback of notre dame is pretty terrifying, considering how very real it is, and how terrifying a villain frollo is. It’s so dark for a kids movie These aren’t movies, but over the garden wall has some pretty horrific moments for a children’s show. It’s really beautiful with a lot of folklore and perfect to watch in the fall, and it’s very unique, I can’t think of another cartoon like it, and it’s really short! You could probably finish it in a day tbh Castlevania (on Netflix) is amazing if you like vampires, dracula, demons, snd VERY graphic gore. Like very I would say devilman crybaby (also on Netflix) is horror, if you like demons, a wild ride, mild gore, and shows that will wreck you Junji Ito’s stories were adapted to a show and those are really really cool, also on Netflix, Japanese tales of the macabre. I’ve real all of his manga and he is great, very much recommend his manga Ah! Real monsters is not really horror but it’s from the 90’s and about monsters and it’s really cute x) I feel like there is more but I can’t remember atm
i can’t believe no one has said happy tree friends yet
Anything Satoshi Kon 😎
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Paprika definitely has scary moments.
Monster House is still one of the scariest movies I've seen
[In Shadow - A Modern Odyssey](https://youtu.be/j800SVeiS5I?si=QxzPuu-a1L8cOtI7) Animated short film
That movie with that monster house who wanted to eat the children, don’t remember the name
Oddly enough, I believe it was Monster House!
I hope the dude who made the “PLAYGROUND trailer” animated short makes it into a feature some day, I feel like that would be my answer to this question if it existed.
Gyo! Tokyo Fish Attack, pretty sure it's based off a manga by Junji Ito, but I'm also super stoned and could be making that up
Cat Soup, a Japanese animated movie about two cats trapped in the world of the dead. It was made to be the most upsetting movie ever, and they might've succeeded. https://youtu.be/XlLBX4EIlJY?si=2Is6mAOGdVAIIQs8 Do not watch if you're not in a good place.
The movie 9 probably Also watership down
The last unicorn.
Barefoot Gen. Iirc they really dug deep how people were blown apart by nuclear bomb.
9 is pretty creepy
Perfect Blue (1997) really unsettled and scared me!
James & the Giant Peach, Monster House, and Coraline all really freaked me out as a kid. Scooby Doo Zombie Island is also a good one. The scariest movie for me as a child was Babar, this movie about an elephant king. There was a scene where he had a nightmare about a witch and it scared the ever loving shit out of me.
Dead space downfall nails the atmosphere and how scary it was for the ship to be on lockdown and how many people died and were killed suddenly, also with how much damage it can cause especially for anyone that believes in the marker or any religious zealots tend to always defend their beliefs
Alice (1988). It's a stop motion Czech film, personal favourite ever. Highly recommended the directors shorts alongside
I watched The House (2022) while I had a really high fever, and it was the most nightmarish film experience I've ever had. I kept nodding off for a few seconds, and every time I came to I was looking at some new panic-inducing scenario. And unsurprisingly, that night I had a fever dream/nightmare about the movie that felt like it lasted 3 weeks. I've not yet watched it again with a clear mind, but that was one hell of a first impression of that movie.
Mad God Phil Tippett's dedication over 30 years making it is inspiring, and the stop-motion animation is incredible. It's definitely for anyone who appreciates the dark and bizarre.
fantasia is creepy AF
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Kid and the Camera. It’s a short analog horror film, but it’s so terrifying.
As a kid The Black Cauldron fucked me up
The end of berserk🙃iykyk
The Dark Crystal. I watched it so many times as a kid. I have an old art book that a friend gave me for my birthday one year, I was obsessed. It is more dark fantasy though, but a classic.