User blog comment:TheAzumangaDaiohFan/My Childhood Trama! 10/31/2017/@comment-25458443-20171107133122/@comment-25458443-20171119014822

I'm back.

Filmcow is a youtube channel made by Jason Steele that makes animated shorts. Most of them are pretty funny, (he's the guy behind Charlie the Unicorn and Llamas With Hats) but one video in particular terrified me as a kid and its named Mr. Happy Face. Its about a boy watching tv and the cartoon character comes to life and starts killing everyone, like his dog. The animation sort of sucks and couple that with the fact that my brain was not at all expecting/prepared-for anything remotely frightening to come out of a FilmCow video, this absolutely destroyed me as a kid.

I can appreciate it for being kind of funny (in a dark way, obviously) now, but at the time I certainly didnt see anything humorous about it.

Obviously I was scared by the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books. My copy of the first one was really old on torn up, yellowed pages and the front cover was completely missing. The back cover was there but hardly readable. It made the book almost like a dusty old tome of forbidden knowledge as a kid and my parents obviously didnt want it breaking so I was seldom allowed to actually keep it in my room. I think it was my sisters book though. The story "The Wendigo" absolutely terrified the first time my dad read it to me in my parents room...although I'm not sure why. It really is a great creepy story but not in the kind of way I think I would have appreciated as a kid, so I'm not sure how I picked up on it. Alsothe picture for "The Thing" is way worse than the big spider girl face, or the dead lady.

I watched Alien on some channel as a kid, but I don't think I could tell what it was about because I wasn't very scared and didn't remember the plot after watching it. The only reason I know it was Alien is because I could remember random scenes that I confirmed being from Alien after re-watching it later.