A cartoon episode that scared me as a kid:
What’s New, Scooby-Doo? S2E4 High-Tech House of Horrors
In this episode, a scientist builds the “house of the future”, a futuristic, technologically advanced home that becomes a tourist attraction. However the house itself becomes sentient and evil and the episode is essentially a series of disturbing murder attempts by the house
- drowning a tourist to death in the opening scene
- burning Scooby and Shaggy to death in a giant microwave
- crushing Scooby and Shaggy to death in a trash compactor
- kidnapping Daphne and making evil clones of her to mock the rest of her friends
- strapping a child to a bed and cutting his dick in half with a laser
So why did the house do all of this? Attention. Because the house is that narcissistic and self-centered. And when the gang refuses to give the house attention, it self destructs and dies.
For a 5 year old, this was scary