Traumafession:: Reader Dominick on the Giant Jumanji Plant
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By unkle lancifer
Hello,
I like your page, I found it by searching for Bunyip, I was really scared by it.
One thing that most scared and affected me was the movie "Jumanji", which is actually a good movie and I liked it, but there is that scene where this gigantic plant grows and attacks people. I am still scared by it, so everytime I see that movie I start having nightmares about big human eating plants. That said, I still have problems looking at flesh eating plants or at unusually big plants, also afraid to touch them. When I am in the bathtub, I sometimes have got day nightmares, that out of the sink there might come a big plant and eat me…
First off, I love your site. It's strangely comforting knowing a lot of images that scared me as a kid scared so many others too. The Jumanji posting about the plant made me think of Little Shop of Horrors with Rick Moranis. The full-grown plant scared the crap out of…
Hello. I was on your site, led there by a Google search as I was trying to find the name of a movie that traumatized me as a child. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the name of the movie. When I was young (in the very early 1970s),…
I don't know the name of the movie.....I've been trying to find it for years....it was on T.V. (HBO?) Early '80s and a group of people were stranded on an island (maybe a planet) where the only source of food were plants that when you ate them, you would turn…
Find and watch "Voodoo Island" sometime. There's a scene in there… (*shudder*) People over at IMDB remember it long after they've forgotten the rest of the crappy film.
FatherOfTears
12 years ago
"The Beastmaster", yes the one with Marc Singer and Tanya Roberts, had these bat like creatures whose wings resembled a Venus Flytrap:
Find and watch "Voodoo Island" sometime. There's a scene in there… (*shudder*) People over at IMDB remember it long after they've forgotten the rest of the crappy film.
"The Beastmaster", yes the one with Marc Singer and Tanya Roberts, had these bat like creatures whose wings resembled a Venus Flytrap:
I LOVE the Beastmaster. Great film (and TV show).