What disturbed you most about this film?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Dark Crystal
crazytwinks13 — 16 years ago(September 17, 2009 06:43 PM)
As an eight year old when this film came out, I adored Aughra and Kira's dog, yet many things about this film unnerved me. These things did not so much frighten me as they repulsed me.
- In the beginning of the filmthe disrobing of the Skeksis.
- The destruction of Aughra's laboratory.
- The kidnapping of the slaves and the extremely traumatic stealing of their essence. I felt so much horror and pity as I watched the slave's life force being taken. And then Kira's!
I enjoyed the film immensely. I have a copy now. But it is kind of like watching the muppets in a horror film.
And why, oh why, did I LOVE the Chamberlin?
No good deed goes unpunished
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mango63632 — 16 years ago(September 17, 2009 10:45 PM)
I saw it as a kid around that age too. The disrobing scene disturbed the hell out of me. So did the first part when the General was walking down the hall to the Emperor's room and he and the Chamberlain hiss at each other. When the Podling village was raided, and any scene to do with taking the essence. The disrobing scene disturbed me the most.
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MistyI — 16 years ago(September 18, 2009 10:51 PM)
I can't remember ever being really disturbed by anything when I saw this movie as a kid. But then I was a different sort of short person then too. I was always disturbed by the pink elephants on parade segment in Dumbo more than anything in this movie
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Koosh_King01 — 16 years ago(September 23, 2009 09:53 AM)
I have to agree about the scene of the Chamberlain's humiliation. It was the most disturbing scene for me as a child. I have no vivid recollection of the Podling-draining scene unnerving me.or anything else for that matter. I guess I just found it all kind of unusual. But the Skeksis stripping the Chamberlain naked? THAT scared me. XD
EDIT: Actually, I just remembered, as a child I hated that the Landstriders got killed. The one that falls off the cliff at least took that one Garthim with it. But I thought the part where all the Garthim gang up on the fallen one was pretty disturbing. -
crowess_spawn — 9 years ago(April 23, 2016 04:45 PM)
^^^this^^^
I didn't see the disrobing of the Chamberlain because I never made it past the death of that one Skeksis. I didn't see the whole movie until I was about 24 or 25. and that was the first time I'd seen it since I was a kid. it scared me that much. -
fctyger22 — 14 years ago(August 19, 2011 05:59 PM)
I was very easily scared by the entire dying Emperor scene and I still try to avoid being in the same room whenever it airs at that point. And I'm atleast 30 years old now. When Fizgig popped out of the hole and scared Jen into the mud, that was the next scary scene for me, then the Garthim raid on the village; esp. when one Garthim looked right into the camera lens. It made me think they were going to come after me.
And as much as I couldn't stand this scene, the Garthim attacking and killing the Landstriders makes the top of my list for disturbing. We have 2 beautiful creatures that look like rabbits and making sounds like a whimpering dog only wanting to be loved, but instead getting torn apart by monsters. Any scene that has an animal in pain or suffering by people or other animals, that makes me sad and upset. For example: a dog got shot with an arrow and died in "The Beastmaster"; there were also a ferret in quicksand in that movie. I also refer you to the dogs who got shot with arrows in "Dances With Wolves" as well as the wolf who got gunshot and killed. -
matthewmcclymont — 16 years ago(September 27, 2009 11:06 PM)
The absolute worst for me was when Chamberlain went to take the scepter and the dying Skeksis jumped at him and hissed "MINE!" Terrifying for me. He was so old and gross and looked like he smelled bad. His teeth were all caddywumpus too. I think that's why I don't like old people to this day. It was pretty bad when he crumbled away too. Grody.
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jazzmantrey — 15 years ago(March 25, 2011 04:02 AM)
The old emperor's death always creeped me out too. His hissing, hard to understand voice ("I am still emperor!") and the way he crumbled apart just frightened me as a kid. Also, just the opening credits on the Skeksis around the crystal being rejuvenated by its eerie purple light was enough to set me on edge for the rest of the film.
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TheSolarSailor — 16 years ago(September 30, 2009 11:25 PM)
It's hard for me to remember back to when I saw this in theaters, but I think the tick-like soldiers of the Skeksis would have been rather horrific to me, especially in that scene where they surround Jen in the darkness of the castle tunnelsnothing but red eyes! The things remind me of giant spiders coming after youvery creepy and scary.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
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StarroHeart — 15 years ago(October 31, 2010 12:26 AM)
Yes! The free-roaming eyeball was pretty gross! It was all wet and moist and then she pops it back into her face. I could just imagine all of the nasty hair and lint it's picked up from rolling around yuck!