Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Perhaps the greatest accolade one can bestow upon Jim Henson and his Muppets is that most kids born after the early ’80s learned — at one point or another — something profound from his fuzzy brethren (this is the man that made Yoda, after all). In the case of Sesame Street this lesson would probably be profound and meaningful, but in the case of his more sinister works such as The Dark Crystal or Labyrinth it was way more likely to involve learning how quickly one can race from the TV to behind the sofa.
Perhaps controversially, Labyrinth gets our vote as the scarier of the two. Yeah, The Dark Crystal has slightly more disturbing characters in it, but the idea of a goblin king David Bowie stealing a baby and physically throwing it around in his weird castle, whilst Jennifer Connolly fights through his freaky maze in order to rescue it, was a little too much for kids to handle. This kid, at least.