Scary movies.

This blog post/article made me think about all the movies that, as a child, scared the living daylights out of me. And I definitely have to concur with the author that, oh yes, The NeverEnding Story and The Wizard of Oz are way up there on top of the list!

Think of the Wicked Witch of the West, her Flying Monkeys, the Swamps of Sadness, the Nothing and Gmork and I doubledare any child not to end up having nightmares. As for the truly scary, disturbing stuff, I somehow must have stumbled across this 1986 cartoon at far too young an age. I guess I thought since it was a cartoon it was children's material. Oh, how wrong! For years the words "When the wind blows" gave me the creeps and the picture of that elderly couple arm in arm in their garden is still firmly imprinted on my mind...