Solvers are presented with 10 video clips from a number of animated films. Each film has a section or sections blacked out, with screaming overlaid. Each blacked out section corresponds to the appearance on screen (or the explicit verbal mention) of a particular terribly frightening thing. The movie clips in order and their corresponding blacked-out scary things are:
Movie | Scary Thing | Video |
---|---|---|
Osmosis Jones | Cartoon-logic X-ray scanner | |
Shrek the Third | Shrek’s baby projectile vomiting | |
Up | Carl’s balloons lifting the house | |
The Emperor’s New Groove | Fly being trapped in a web and eaten by a spider | |
The Princess and the Frog | The frog prince | |
Fantasia: Night on Bald Mountain | Chernabog the demon opening his wings | |
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Tornado made of pasta | |
Aladdin | Aladdin wishes for Genie’s freedom | |
Zootopia | The train Judy takes into the city | |
The Lion King | Pumbaa eating a worm |
Each of the 10 scary things corresponds to a specific phobia (clued in the flavortext via “My psychiatrist says I have problems”) which corresponds to the length below each video:
Scary thing | Phobia |
---|---|
X-ray | RADIOPHOBIA |
Vomiting | EMETOPHOBIA |
Balloons | GLOBOPHOBIA |
Spiders | ARACHNOPHOBIA |
Frogs | RANIDOPHOBIA |
Demons | DAEMONOPHOBIA |
Tornadoes (or hurricanes) | LILAPSOPHOBIA |
Freedom | ELEUTHEROPHOBIA |
Trains | SIDERODROMOPHOBIA |
Worms | SCOLECIPHOBIA |
Reading the first letter of each phobia yields the answer,
REGARDLESS
(or, alternatively,
REGARD LESS
, a potential strategy for dealing with
scary things in a movie).