The Watcher in the Woods (1980) was a Disney movie and it gave me nightmares for years.

This aired on the Disney Channel. The Disney Channel! I watched it when I was five years old and it scared the absolute shit out of me.

My five-year-old niece was recently watching something and I heard her whine. I went into the room and she was covering her eyes, very distressed. I asked her what was wrong and she said the show was too scary. I asked her what was scary and she said the soup the character was eating was too hot and it burned his mouth.

I’m so glad she’s getting scared by soup and not getting terrified out of her mind by stuff like this.