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SG420123 t1_j1xlg4h wrote

The Wheelers were nightmare fuel for years for me as a child, glad Tik Tok got to beat the shit out of a few of them.

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wingthing666 t1_j1yfczf wrote

I remember between the Wheelers and the Deadly Desert and the Goddamn HOSPITAL I couldn't watch most of the 1st act as a kid!

Mombi and her swappable heads however looked awesome!

There's a great video on YouTube about how Return to Oz was basically written to trigger as many common childhood fears as possible.

https://youtu.be/dnXjqhzbY1w

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joey0live t1_j1yxxjn wrote

It was never the wheelers who did me nightmares. It was all the heads in the glass cases that scares the fcuk out of me.

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southdakotagirl t1_j1yzzw9 wrote

Me too. That scene creeped me out and no one ever seem to remember the movie. I thought I had imagined it.

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ilovemychickens OP t1_j1xlqa3 wrote

We cracked up when he started going to town on them with the lunch pail lmao Scared the hell out of me as a youngun though

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King_Buliwyf t1_j1yhyjm wrote

The wheelers stopped being scary the second they show their faces, and you see they're just regular guys in hats.

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-Ok-Perception- t1_j1zogr7 wrote

Tik Tok himself was nightmare fuel..... everything in the whole damn movie was.

That's the magic of it. It's truly the most horrific horror movie made for kids, it's far more terrifying than horror movies for adults too.

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Skeeter724 t1_j20bdn2 wrote

Yes! My mom took me to see this at the theater as a kid thinking it would be like the original. I was 4. I still remember scenes close to 40 years later. I rewatched it a year or two ago to see if my little kid mind had just blown it out of proportion. Nope! That movie is definitely not kid friendly.

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