10 Most Nerve-Wracking Scenes In Non-Horror Films

10. Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Large Marge

When Pee Wee's Playhouse - the brainchild of Paul Ruebens - debuted on CBS, critics and audiences didn't quite know what to make of it. It had the noise and energy of similarly designed children's programming of the late 80s, with the host getting into a hyperactive frenzy over a moral or ethical quandary, animated shorts and other things commonplace for a kid's show, but the jokes were a little dirtier, the issues more mature and buried under the wackiness there was a sincerity that somehow made it coherent.

But Ruebens had been doing the character on stage five years prior to the show, and he had quickly become a cult staple amongst those in the know. The show proved enough of a hit for Warner Bros. to throw the oddball a budget for a feature film. He set out with a then-unproven Tim Burton to make a feature film - a light remake of The Bicycle Thieves as a parody. For the most part, it stays true to the spririt of the show, light and goofy and mostly harmless.

Save for Large Marge. Early Pee Wee's cross country journey to find his missing bike, he hitches a ride with the ghost of a truck driver, who reveals monstrous self in a moment that could have only come from the mind of Burton. It's a moment that sticks with 80s kids to this day.