Did "angry faces" (or pictures of) frighten you as

Post Reply New Topic

When I was a kid, I can remember being frightened of book illustrations that depicted characters that looked angry....you know, angry expressions, clenched/raised fists, downturned mouths/clenched teeth, etc. In fact, I was even scared of an illustration in Are You My Mother? of all things...the illustration showed the baby bird with what I now know was a CONFUSED/EXASPERATED expression, with his wings on his hips, after having gone from animal to animal asking the titular question. I guess I must have reasoned, "He LOOKS angry and has his wings on his hips like people do when they're angry; therefore, he must BE angry."

And it wasn't just with illustrations of people being angry; for some reason, illustrations of people looking really sad or distraught made me uneasy too.

Like, just a few minutes ago, I was watching this French animated film from 1973 called "Fantastic Planet" (I'm a big animation buff) and there was this opening scene where this woman is trying to run up a hill with this baby she's carrying in her arms, and this huge blue finger keeps pushing her down the hill, and on her second attempt, actually flicks her away into a desert area, and then we get a REALLLYY creepy closeup of the visible distress in her eyes....I realize that they're trying to really hammer it into the audience how tense the situation this is, but I saw that and was like, "GAH!" I'm not gonna watch the whole thing tonight; it might give me weird dreams.

Anyway, did anyone else react to angry/distressed facial expressions like this when they were kids? Or maybe you still do?....

I've seen some avatars that look really scary. ^not yours.

For me it doesn't really matter what the expression is. If teeth are being shown, it gives me a strong feeling of discomfort. People who smile a lot and show their teeth and all that, especially if they do so while talking, can really creep me out, even make me unable to speak.

Angry faces scare the hell out of me.