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 I decided today to launch an elaborate meme. I know a few of you might know the nostalgia critic, some guy on the internet that likes to make videos about old cartoons and movies in an hilarious fashion. He is quite funny. Some of my favorite videos are his "Top 11" videos. So I decided to make my own nostalgic top 11, and I invite you all to do the same. In this meme, your top 11 nostalgia can be fairly recent, like remembering the 11 best moments of you favorite show after the last season passed last year. Or it can be really old, nostalgia critic style. The theme is yours to choose, but you must have images, text (and videos if you can) to show off the nostalgia.

So without further delay, here is my "TOP 11 FREAKIEST ANIMATED SEQUENCES THAT TERRIFIED ME AS A CHILD".

I can watch most of these nowadays. Kinda. 

And why Top 11? Because I like to go one step beyond too.

NUMBER 11 - The Cemetery scene with the ghost of christmas future in Mickey's Christmas Carol.



"A Christmas Carol" is a classic christmas story about Scrooge bah-humbug-ing all over the holidays until 4 ghosts come along to terrify him into goodness. A lot of versions of this movie got made, thanks to the mostly non-existent copyright stopping nobody. My favorite versions of the tale were the muppet's version, the modern movie "Scrooged" and Mickey's version. Go figure, I need animation, toys or Bill Murray to get me to learn a christmas aesop. Oh well. In it's defence, the muppet version has one of the saddest "goodbye my love" songs of all time.

But back to the Mickey version. Scrooge was obviously played by Scrooge McDuck, whom is better known to me under his french name "Picsou" (contracted name meaning "Nickel taker"). And Mickey played his poor, but extremely kind worker, who deserves a Jesus award just for standing him.



Most of the movie follows pretty closely the story of  the original book, and the ghosts's aren't especially scary. Except, of course, the last one. He isn't really scary at first, though being the representative of death, he does make you uneasy. And then that big jerk points Scrooge to his grave and for good measure, Deeath takes off his hood to reveal the face of a classic Mickey villain, but slightly scarred and zit-covered, lights a cigar and throws Scrooge into the grave before unleashing FLAMES FROM HELL that are about to swallow poor scrooge whole while he holds on to dear life on a twiggy root. Then, Scrooge falls in the flames to his... Bed? And is very thankful that he is not dead and that it's still christmas.



I put this scene low on the list because it's very short and well... More suprising then REALLY scary, and not even THAT suprising if you know the Scrooge story well. But this is probably the only version where Death actually takes off his hood, and that deserves extra scary points for that. The first time I saw it as a kid, it terrified me. But then, after watching it a few times, I found it cool.

Video HERE!

( More Nostalgia under here! )

And that's all folks!

-Isa