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"Animation is cinema. Animation is not a genre" -Guillermo Del Toro

Nothing on every werecat scene from Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island?

When Ratigan in great mouse detective went in beast mode 😰

Number 4 on Watership down. Rabbits are lagomorphs, not rodents.

Honorable Mentions: *Felidae -This makes Don Bluth's darkest moments look like a children's birthday party. *9 -A post-apocalyptic animated feature following 9 robotic ragdolls where humanity has been wiped out by a machine uprising. *Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio -If you thought the original Disney film was dark, it is, but this one goes even darker.

Coraline has the most scariest scenes from my childhood

Wizards (1977) was pretty wild. So was Heavy Metal (1981). I'm not sure if they belong on the list, but they were pretty wild!

I think Felidae really deserved to be in the list

Surprised not to see James and the Giant Peach on here

Nice to know Mad God got a spot on the list. Phil Tippett doesn't get enough credit for his work.

“Fish puppets and muppets to stir the fears up, I squeeze screams outta chocolate syrup!” Alfred Hitchcock

Watership down... nightmare fuel in movie form

Watership Down scarred me for life

Among all the kids I've known who saw Nightmare Before Christmas, not one of them was scared. If anything they found the oolie-ghoulies delightful in a naughty way. Now Coraline and Monster House, those two had scenes that scared several kids.

Felidae...it scarred me. I was like oh a little murder mystery with cats sounds right up my alley, no, NO. I have regrets.

When you mix animation with terror, you create masterpieces

Justice League Dark Apokolips War. You don't find it scary if a huge tyrannical god can tear you in half with his laser beams, turns you into an evil cyborg, transports lava onto your planet, inserts a poison radiation in your veins, or forces you to run on a treadmill for 2 years without any food even when you have a fast metabolism?

Barefoot Gen is one good option as well. The Nuclear bomb scene is still very disturbing to watch

There was one animated one about Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher that was claymation from back in the day. That one creeped me out especially when they find Injun Joe and he comes VERY close to stabbing the kids.

Perfect Blue is awesome! One of my favorite movies of all time. So deserving of the top spot.

Coraline is the sole reason why I don't trust anything with buttons for eyes

As a proud Bunny-Dad, I'm just gonna nitpick and tell WatchMojo that rabbits are not rodents. They are lagomorphs. Please make a note of it. That said, yeah, "Watership Down" is kinda creepy, but was never intended for children (as was the book it's based on). And "The Plague Dogs" was made by the same studio. Maybe not as unsettling as "Watership Down", but it is soul-crushingly depressing. Quite possibly the most down-beat movie I've ever seen, animated or otherwise.

The "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence of "Fantasia" used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid!

i remember Secret of Nimh..."experiment" scene with the rats & i remember the death of Nicodemus. I do remember an animated movie when i was little it was a "chinese cinderella" & the fairy godmother was a magical talking goldfish, cindy's stepmom & sis captured the fish then cooked & ate it & then presented the bones to cindy ..that freaked me out

Bet you Watership down is on here

Coraline scared me so much just by the trailers when it first came out.

Can't believe you didn't have Heavy Metal at least in the honorable mention section... some of that made my skin crawl, and I was 16 then

Somehow, I remember “Night on Bald Mountain” from _Fantasia_ more than “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” but not because the former was a spine-chiller. It’s because I thought Chernabog was a hacked-off creature who only needed some sleep, hence why he showed his supposedly scary side. Now, _The Black Cauldron,_ Disney crossed the fear factor line with that one.

Should've added Disney's the Legend of Sleepy Hollow to this list.

9 was pretty unnerving

Mad god is one of my favorite films. It is such an original piece of horror, and truthfully articulates the feelings of pain and suffering through visuals. Also the commit,ent Phil Tippet put into it is fucking admirable.

Brave Little Toaster didn't terrify me.

The brave little toaster is spot on

Unicorn wars is so disturbing

Shout out to curage the corwardy dog. Even though it wasn't a movie, that man went through hell on earth in that tv shows 😂😂

I was scared by a lot as a kid - I was the kid who was afraid of his own shadow. Not anymore, but still to this day, I cannot forget the movie "9". Oooh, boy. That animation was so good, and it was so chilling. Especially nearing the end. I really wanna rewatch it just for the nostalgia. The nightmare scene from All Dog's Go To Heaven, and the ending also creeped the shit out of me as a kid Also, side note, why were animated movies from the 80s so frickin good and clean?

Spirited Away scared the absolute 💩out of me rhe first time I saw it. I know it is a throw back but a good one nonetheless!

The "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence in "Fantasia" horrified me when I was little. Would always stop the videotapr before it. Didn't have the guts to see again until I was 10. I'm 32 now and while the animation is phenomenal, it still gives me the chills.

Monster House also scary

was waiting for "as the wind blows"

Perfect Blue deserved to be on Shudder

I'm so happy The Brave Little Toaster made this list, lol as a kid they really made it frightening. Especially that junkyard scene

Honestly although some of these movies used to terrify me when I was a kid, the one movie that would chill me to the bone, was Finding Nemo.

I was thinking perfect blue the whole video and you guys nailed it 😊

The clown scene from "The Brave Little Toaster" scared me a lot when I was a little kid. Years later, when I watched the scene for the song "Worthless," it sent chills down my spine a few times as the cars sang about their misfortunes before getting smashed by the crusher. "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is my favorite Halloween movie. When I first watched it, the only parts that really scared me were when that scarecrow at the beginning of the song "This Is Halloween" first appeared, and during the opening part of the song "Jack's Obsession" when the vampires sang: "Something's up with Jack." Those words scared me because I thought something bad happened to Jack.

Kidnap Sandy Claws is my favorite Christmas song lololol

I remember seeing coraline with my dad when the movie came out. I am kind of surprised that movie didn’t scare me. It definetly is one of the best and one I always love to watch.

thank you for putting the brave little toaster on here! i knew i wasn't the only one who had an irrational fear of that junkyard scene 😭😭😭😭

The Secret of Kells should’ve been on here TBH if any of you know what that movie is.

Had a feeling Monster House was going to be on this list. When I was a kid, you have no idea how many nightmares I got from this movie. This movie scared the living shit out of me. Very sorry for my language but I have to be honest

I’ve seen “Titanic”. I’ve seen “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale.” I’ve seen “The Lion King”. I’ve seen some of “My Sister’s Keeper.” I’ve seen “The Fox and the Hound.” I’ve seen “Marley and Me.” And I have to say, “The Plague Dogs” is the number one saddest movie I have ever seen. For all the bellyaching about “Marley and Me” and “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale”, Marley lived a great life and just came to the natural end of his life where he had to be put down. Hachi also lived a great life with his man and was loved and cared for, and it is a great and inspirational movie about loyalty and love (and an Akita!) On the other hand, in “The Plague Dogs”, besides a bit of joy in the friendships and love they had for each other and Tod the fox, for practically the entire movie, the dogs knew nothing but cruelty, suffering and persecution. One of them was betrayed by his carer’s family after the man who loved and cared for him died, and both dogs were tortured in the laboratory, along with the rabbits, rodents, monkeys, other dogs and any other animals in the laboratory. However, this movie does send a great message against animal testing, and I do kindly urge animal lovers not to avoid content about animal cruelty as it is important to expose ourselves to such awful subject matter in order to educate ourselves so that we can make better choices and take action on behalf of the animals. We can and will change the world for the better!

thanks to steve reviews, i see allot of these daily

I grew up with the brave little toaster, i loved how dark it was and just loved that style of animation

I hate when people say cartoons are for kids. I'm like have you seen any cartoons at all?

The shrunken head in the Nightmare before Christmas scared the hell outta me as a little kid. I couldn’t watch that scene for the longest time.

The secret of nym traumatized me as a kid. Especially the sinking house part. Pretty sure I had to hide my face on that part.

Unicorn Wars came out only two years ago and looks adorable at first, but its one of the darkest films I've ever seen.

Believe it or not, The Secret Of Nimh was my favorite animated movie ever. I don't exaggerate when I say I've seen it a hundred times. It's funny, but I miss the days when animated kid's movies could get away with that sort of content. Nowadays every kid's movie or tv show is scrutinized under a microscope for anything offensive, and we've lost a lot of opportunities to put in some kid-unfriendly moments. It's very sad.

*No honorable mention for "Heavy Metal?" I love the segment with the WWII bomber and the zombies.*

Nice video

For everyone who was scarred by Watership Down, I cannot recommend the book enough. While there is a lot of loss and hardship, it has a really poignant ending that I still think about to this day.

I saw The Nightmare Before Christmas when I was 2. I don't think I was ever afraid because I was too young to think "spooky" and only thought "yay cartoon!" Years later it's one of my absolute favorites and I'm obsessed.

Animal Farm - 1954 - needed to be on this list; after all, they sent away one of their best animals for greedy purposes. Also, Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" should've been at least an honorable based on the villain song alone. .....and my God, how could we have all forgotten about *The Animatrix* ?! The computer A.I. segment alone sent me to therapy practically!

I’d say Watership Down or Coraline as #1. Also should have had an honorable mention to Chicken Run.

I'm very surprised and disappointed 9 did not make this list. Very underrated movie

Feel like Grave of The Fireflies should be on here

I was scared of the oil monster in Fern Gulley when I was a child but I loved the movie. Some of the imagery in All Dogs go to Heaven was pretty intense, and Rock-A-Doodle...

Good list, but I would’ve also mentioned Wicked City and Dante’s Inferno

Water Ship Down has a special place in my memory.That and Animal Farm.

James and the giant peach. Literally gave me nightmares with the pirate scene

When the Wind Blows where is this one.

I watched Brave Little Toaster in my early years. Can't count the nightmares I had after watching it. One I'd put forth is Black Magic M-66. When I was in my early teens, I had satellite TV (remember that?), and there was one channel that would often air anime movies or series that weren't fit for children. One of those was the aforementioned movie, which involves killer robots hunting down a single girl. The robots were sleek and very humanoid in design, and they weren't terrifying like the Terminator and its skeletal appearance, but they always had a cold, dead stare. They could move in inhumane ways at times too, making them appear more like haunted dolls. The male robot gets dealt with early, but it left a horrifying impression. The female robot however? The constant looming threat of that robot just menacingly walking towards the protagonist and victim just added so much tension. There was even one scene that took place in a slowly ascending elevator that was so absurdly intense that it really held me on the edge. I need to dig out my VHS and player so I can watch it again, assuming the VHS hasn't degraded.

I saw Watership Down as a kid, it scared the socks off of me. The Secret of NIMH was scary too, but nothing like Watership Down.

When I was really young I mistook the VHS tapes of The Plague Dogs for Homeward Bound when I used to stay at my grandparents' place. I still watched it because It was a animation movie with dogs. I was really scared when the little dog accidentally shot the human, even the corpse of the guy the dogs ate to survive. Even with that sad ending that makes you wonder if the dogs made it. Even now as an adult, I enjoy the movie but it's still sad to watch.

How is "Akira" not on this list? That movie is gruesome with terrifying characters. I know I'm not the only one it scarred for life.

I did hear that The Secret of NIMH is the Darkest Animated Movie of All Time

I've seen "Monster House", "The Secret of NIMH", trailers for "Coraline", and some of "The Fright Before Christmas". I forgot how scary "The Secret of NIMH" was and I want to see the full movie of "The Fright Before Christmas". I also want to see all the other movies on this list. They seem great! That dragon in "The Black Cauldron" sounded like a dinosaur when it roared. One of the streamers I watch saw that movie as a kid. That girl in the movie looks so nice! So does Coraline!

You forgot Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night.

After watching the animated Hobbit when I was little, my mom still refuses to watch the live action version. When I was mad at her, I'd imitate Gollum.

I will always count Watership Down as a horror movie. It's my favourite animated movie now, but it gave me nightmares for a straight week after first watching it as a kid. But i absolutely view it as a masterpiece now. The music to the film is stunning as well.

good video, but i would also recommend, pink floyd's the wall and waltz with bashir.

Bro, the movie ‘9’ will always be number one in scariest childhood movies

The Black Cauldron got me as a kid, ngl.

Perfect blue is an absolute masterpiece it's among my favorite movies of all time

I know it's not really animated but the dark crystal scared me as a kid

'Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre' was really good and creepy.

Mad World looks wild

The last unicorn better be on here

James and the giant peach ?!

That dead space animated movie was something else

Several movies on here aren't even remotely scary, not even a little jumpy. Seems like a lot of people are easily scared these days.

IMHO, Snow White was always underestimated or what it was. It was a horror movie, plain and simple. Yes, it had some playful and fun parts, but the slowly mounting horror is not to be denied. Even scarier, was Sleeping Beauty. That movie gave me nightmares. It was terrifying for a young child. The Rescuers was pretty scary, too. I remember when Coraline came out, I thought "a horror movie for children? That's a cool idea!". Then I realized how terrifying so many of the movies I grew up watching are. Not sure which one is scarier. They're all nightmare inducing.

So many gems you missed: Heavy Metal Fantastic Planet AKIRA Fritz the Cat Barefoot Gen Waltz With Bashir The End of Evangelion Coonskin The Animatrix Cool World

The nightmare before Christmas terrified me as a kid and I didn’t watch it all the way through until i was 19 or 20.

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War deserved a spot on this list

29 years after it came out Babe still looks terrifying with the dark themes death slaughter doom and weirdly animated farm animals staring into space.

"The Black Cauldron" is often mentioned as one of Disney's "failures", but I'd stack its production quality, story and art design against anything the studio has put out in the last 10 years or so.

9 was a dark one could do a top 100 if you really dug deep maybe more good video 👍

*mad god* i have something new to watch now