Re-watching the beloved films of one’s childhood later on in life, with an adult mindset, can be a crazy, sobering, and outright ridiculous experience. As grown-ups, it’s not uncommon for us to wholly enjoy movies that were made and meant for children—in fact, there were several kids’ flicks last year alone that we loved. Being an adult, however, generally comes with certain analytical and critical thinking skills that children just haven’t developed and/or cannot be bothered with.

Thus, while there are some children’s movies that terrify people young and old alike, there are also many movies that children absolutely adore that adults simultaneously watch in sheer terror. These are films that kids watch casually while sipping their juice boxes, never batting an eye, entertained all the way, while adults watching the exact same movie will alternately lose and try to turn off their minds to, because they’re simply too bothered by what they’re seeing and hearing.

Without further adieu, here’s our list of 15 Movies Kids Love That Terrify Adults:.

15. Paranorman

This is another great movie with themes and scenes that make adults way more uncomfortable than the little ones. Its subject matter is heavy, even for grown-ups, yet kids, blissfully unaware of history, are unlikely to catch on.

Paranorman has a Sixth Sense vibe; the film’s main character, Norman, is a young boy who can see and communicate with dead people. His uncle Prenderghast (voiced by the always perfect John Goodman), who can also communicate with the dead, tells Norman it will soon be his job to protect the town shortly before dying of a stroke. Uncle Prenderghast then returns in spirit form to tell his nephew to retrieve a book necessary for a ritual that will save the town. Norman does retrieve the book—from his uncle’s corpse—and begins a terrifying journey that includes running from a lynch mob formed by angry townspeople (who also hunt down zombies).

Again, this film is a quality picture, with strong anti-bullying themes and a thoughtful examination of the ways we form our identities. But when the school play highlights the town’s centuries-old lynching of an 11-year-old girl and Norman himself loves John Carpenter movies, adults tend to find the film a tad bit freakier than kids do.

14. Home Alone

This Christmas classic remains a delight for children of all ages and a nightmare for their parents, or anyone not between the ages of 5 and 13, really. Not only is nearly every element of the plot highly implausible (Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin can stop by the grocery store, but not the police station?), but you can only watch someone get hit in the head with a steam iron so many times.

Kevin does everything kids are told NOT to do by their parents, from taking a sharp razor to his face to climbing a bookshelf that ends up toppling down on him. He’s obsessed with an old black and white gangster movie that seems way too violent for an 8-year-old to be quoting verbatim, especially considering the acts of violence he commits throughout the movie. He concusses the burglars with paint cans. He shoots Daniel Stern’s character in the forehead with a BB gun, and later rigs a blowtorch to scald the top of Joe Pesci’s head. It's all a bit much, especially if you consider the real-world ramifications of such brutalities.

Home Alone remains a must-watch for many around the holidays, but while kids enjoy it, adults watch (and re-watch) with furrowed brows.

13. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

This is one of the 60’s most beloved musicals and family films. It’s also terrifying and bizarre in all the wrong ways. With musical numbers by the same folks who scored Mary Poppins, a scrappy family led by Dick Van Dyke’s wacky inventor Caractacus Potts, and a screenplay co-written by Roald Dahl, the film feels wonderfully quirky at first. But the second we hear that the name of the female lead in the film is Truly Scrumptious, we’re way more offput than we used to be (seriously—and it’s not really used ironically to good effect, it’s not an effective running joke, and it doesn’t even have a big payoff—it's nothing other than good old fashioned sexism).

The film’s title refers to a junk heap car that once had days of racing glory. When Caractacus buys the car, and takes Truly and his kids on a picnic, they end up becoming a part of a story he’s telling them about an evil Baron. When they flee men that the Baron has sent after them, they literally drive off of a cliff, and the car sprouts wings and starts to fly. Arguably the most terrifying part of this film comes in the form of the Baron’s Child Catcher, whose carriage is actually a cage used to imprison children. Kids generally don’t take him too seriously, but when he stops at a toymaker’s shop (where the jack-in-the-boxes are actual people) and talks about smelling children, our skin just about crawls off.

12. The Monster Squad

This contemporary cult classic is beloved by many adults who grew up watching it in the '80s, but they’re not exactly jockeying to show it to their children. Written by Shane Black, The Monster Squad is the only PG-13 movie on the list, and it stretches the limits of that rating. Teens and preteens find it wildly entertaining, but parents may be bothered by the ease in which children are endangered in the film.

The titular group of boys get together to discuss and celebrate their love for all things creepy, so naturally, before long, Dracula takes note, disguises himself as a teacher in their middle school (Mr. Alucard--Dracula spelled backward, of course), and calls one of the boys at home. But the film’s climactic events are what truly terrify adults. In order to send Dracula and his monstrously evil cohort packing, the boys must get their hands on a magic amulet AND get a female virgin to read an excerpt from Van Helsing’s diary, which is all fun and games until the girl chosen for the task is the five-year-old little sister of a group member. This moment alone terrifies adults way more later on than it did during their initial viewings.

11. Goosebumps

Parents have always been more scared of this franchise than their kids have been, and the cinematic version is no exception. The 2015 Goosebumps film stars Jack Black as creator and writer of the children's book series, R.L. Stein, and Mr. Stein’s primary antagonist in the film is truly terrifying. As a general rule, ventriloquist’s dummies are always freaky as hell, but Slappy the Dummy is one scary dummy. Slappy appears in the book series as well as the TV show, and in the film, he also can teleport, which makes him even scarier. He’s a dummy who unleashes a Cabin in the Woods-like myriad of monsters and boogeymen on the good guys. Oh, and he later breaks Stein’s fingers with a typewriter so he cannot write anymore. Plus, those eyes—they’re huge and beady all at once, and always full of menace and hate.

When the credits roll, kids leave delighted, while adults leave with visions of Slappy’s eyes dancing in their heads.

10. The Peanut Butter Solution

This is one of the weirdest movies of all time. The film’s young protagonist is Michael Baskin, an 11 year-old boy from an average family. One day, while playing outside with his best friend Connie, the two come across the charred remains of a mansion that had recently succumbed to a fire. While snooping around there, Michael has a run in with some pretty terrifying ghosts, and he and Connie flee. But when he wakes up the next day, he has something the film refers to as “The Fright,” which apparently just means that you wake up totally bald after you get frightened.

A suddenly bald human (much less a 12-year-old human) to kids is comedy gold, but adults are immediately freaked out. The film’s cure for baldness is further fun for the little ones, and sheer terror for grown-ups: later, the ghosts come to Michael in a dream and tell him that the cure involves rubbing peanut butter on his head. When Michael tries to make the magic hair cream, his recipe is slightly off, resulting in major hair growth he cannot control. Connie, meanwhile, decides he wants to grow extra body hair and also tries this magic peanut butter solution, so throughout much of the film, two young boys run around growing hair uncontrollably. Follicular follies such as this are fun for kids, but for adults? They’re just weird and kinda gross.

9. Cars

First off, there’s the smiling. It’s beyond unsettling to see the front end of a car, animated or not, replaced by a huge, toothy, grinning mouth. Then, there’s the windshield being replaced by huge, expressive eyes—it’s all just a wee bit difficult to get used to. There’s also reality: adults know the very real dangers of car accidents, so when they see scenes like, say, Mack falling asleep at his wheel, they both fear for Mack’s safety, and they also fear having to explain the repercussions of real-life behavior such as that to their children.

In many ways, this film was written for adults; the jokes about male cars refusing to ask for directions, for example, or the hippie Volkswagon’s banter with the crusty old Jeep, are definitely aimed at older crowds. And we won't deny that many adults certainly enjoyed this movie. But when you throw in the potential/alleged role of cars and/or machines in the Pixar universe, we simply cannot ignore the creepiness potential of this movie.

8. Space Jam

The first 10 minutes of this 1996 classic are basically an homage to Michael Jordan, complete with endless highlights, childhood photographs, and references to his short-lived baseball career, so nothing too scary occurs. And we can handle the way the evil alien toons (aka the Monstars) enter the bodies of NBA players to siphon out their talent, but when the toons’ bodies start to physically change, and they turn into dinosaur-spined creatures with evil intent, things start to get weird fast.

We then learn the central conflict of the story: Bugs Bunny and his Looney Toon gang risk being enslaved for eternity by these bulked up space aliens if they lose a basketball game to them. Bugs enlists the help of His Airness, and instead of providing protection or comfort, an uncomfortable amount of toon-on-toon violence is still inflicted upon the good guys despite Jordan’s presence. Tweety is smacked into a wall, tiny toon mice are smooshed under basketballs, and several of our heroes get knocked around repeatedly. Kids still love it, but adults may find several moments in the film quite uncomfortable, including a scene towards the end where Wayne Knight gets blown up to look like a giant hot air balloon.

We can still appreciate the metaphorical implications of this image—we’d just prefer to never see it again because it’s too disturbing. We'll settle for the honest trailer.

7. Spirited Away

This 2001 Hayao Miyazaki masterpiece is a wonderful film with amazing and refreshingly original moments that are more than a bit scarier to watch with adult eyes. The film’s main character is a 10-year old girl named Chihiro, and she is immediately more relatable than any Disney princess we’ve ever met. She’s neither bright nor starry-eyed, and she acts every bit the impatient child during a long, boring car ride with her parents. That boring car ride leads her and her parents to an abandoned amusement park, and when they enter the park when it opens the next day, they quite literally get transported into another world—one that’s definitely geared more towards Chihiro and kids than adults.

When her parents start eating ridiculous amounts of food at a shop there, they turn into pigs, and Chihiro, who's off looking around, ends up inside a giant bathhouse. She becomes trapped inside this wildly imaginative other-realm, where she’s given a job (child labor is no fun for adults to watch) and a new name (Sen). She's told that she cannot leave or save her parents until she recalls her old self, which becomes harder and harder for her to do.

It’s a beautiful film that adults enjoy; they just tend to get more freaked out by, say, characters like No-Face, and they’re more bothered by the idea and significance of polluted rivers swallowing things. That giant baby is straight-up nightmare fuel, by the way.

6. The Wizard of Oz

This classic is almost a century old, and it remains a must-see film for people of all ages. That said, there’s simply too much weirdness to overlook when re-watching this classic through older eyes. Many adults have heard horror stories about the numerous difficulties the actors went through during production, from on-set injuries to crazy makeup preparation to drug addiction.

Knowing these things can hinder the viewing experience later on, especially considering that critics and academics alike have viewed the film and noted it may have had potentially veiled references to psychedelic drugs throughout. (The infamous scene where Dorothy winds up in an entire field full of poppies that make her right out is the most famous moment ing this idea.) To kids, Dorothy is temporarily lost and on an adventure. To adults, she’s a scared and lost little girl with a dog, and they both need food and shelter. Plus, flying monkeys are much more fun to watch as a kid. As an adult, they fill us with terror.