What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?
What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?
For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
To be fair, Event Horizon scared me as an adult.
In the vein of “kids are stupid”, the Never-Ending Story scene with the sphinxes.
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Me watching Event Horizon… wow, a cool new sci-fi movie…. Then wtf?…… Great movie though.
The Blair Witch Project. My cousin told me it was actual found footage, which was a terrifying thought for 10 year old me.
That was the whole point. They even made the actors stay out of public view for a year, handing out flyers at Sundance that they were "missing, presumed dead". There were fake police interviews on the film's website and everything. This was the first time anything like this had been done so I can imagine people were really invested in this movie and thought it was real.
They also "leaked" copies of the film for months before it came out. I saw a leaked copy in the dorms in college. Never heard of it, my friends told me it was real footage that had been found in the woods from a group that had been lost. For the first... probably half of the movie, I was convinced it was real.
Very enjoyable experience. I feel bad for all the people who saw it after the hype and were too cool to let themselves be scared by it.
Whoa TIL! I thought my cousin was just messing with me, but the chance that all this time she may have also been sold on the idea makes me feel better.
This movie felt real. I'm still scared by it...
Honestly? ET scared little me more than it probably should have! That little bastard could pop up anywhere and looked even creepier when he was sick.
Hate that guy.
100% agree, this was going to be my answer. I still occasionally have night terrors about him and I'm in my mid-30s.
You're so right about how creepy he looked when he was sick - all pale and white like a 1980s dog poo.
My brother! It didn’t help that a family member made a E.T. lamp with light up eyes, finger tip, and heart. It flickered. And my parents put it next to my bed. I remember hiding under the sheets from it.
Mom had the gall to gift it to me for a house warming present lol. Its in a box….somewhere.
Apparently it was originally supposed to be a horror movie but don't quote me, haven't checked
“Apparently it was originally supposed to be a horror movie but don’t quote me, haven’t checked” [email protected]
You can’t control me!
It seems you’re right.
Spielberg was apparently planning a horror film called Night Skies that didn’t get made but material was supposedly reused for ET.
I can't believe I just scrolled through 77 responses and nobody said "Poltergeist" yet!
Creepy clown on the chair, monster unter the bed, tree tapping at the window, coffins in the pool, whispers in the dark ("Get... out..."), little girl staring at static on the TV, etc. So much of it has become tropes now, but that's because they were so effective the first time!
That fucking tall gangly pale man with a wide smile that comes during the rainstorm.
Gremlins. My family will likely never stop making fun of me for it: "Hurr durr but it's a DISNEY movie!!1!"
Fuck you, I was traumatized.
but its PG? /s
(fun fact, Gremlins and Temple of Doom are why we have the PG-13 rating in the states)
Also, Gremlins isn't a Disney movie. It was produced by WB and Amblin.
My dad got me a poster of mogwai after watching the movie and attached it on the ceiling directly above my bed. Sure, he was the friendly one but fuck that shit! 10/10 dad humour.
Same. To this day, I never rewatched gremlins again.
The first Resident Evil movie. Not because of the zombies, it was the laser scene that got to me. I was convinced that lasers would come out of any reflective surface to get me. I didn't like how they seemed to react to the guy avoiding them, making it impossible for him to escape, like they were intelligent and trying to kill him.
That and some other horror movies i really liked, like ghost ship that had an into scene where a bunch of people got sliced up by a quick moving wire. Then there was what, cabin fever?
But yeah slice and dice was pretty gross.
Whenever is see that guy in films, I see him as the one who got cut by lasers in Resident Evil.
I didn't have nightmares, but as soon as you said it, that was the scene i thought of!
Yes! That scene is forever burned in my mind as well.
two movies came to me pretty vividly,
Spirited Away (2001), no-face is pretty scary even now, but the scene that disturbs me is at the beginning when Chihiro came back and find her parents have turned into pigs...
MirrorMask (2005), fittingly I watched this when I was sick with high fever and for so long I thought this movie was a fever dream, it haunted me for days until my fever subsides. I don't remember anything about the plot, just that the atmosphere and aesthetic are nauseating
The original aliens movie, saw it when I was far too young and was already scared of aliens haha.
I have fond memories of seeing movies with my father in the theatre. I'm often left to think... hmmm... That was not so appropriate. Alien & Animal House rise to the top of the list.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The whole movie is a trip, but specifically the Large Marge scene freaked me out for a long time growing up.
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Absolutely!
That movie didn't scare me so much as creep me the fuck out!
The Wizard of Oz. Flying monkeys, evil witch, big green head.
Ernest scared stupid... Don't ask me why, I just remember I couldn't watch it entirely, and I would hide behind my older brothers. It just freaked me out!
The wolf from the neverending story freaked me right out when I was smol. Returned it to blockbuster and then rented Mr. Bean instead, so huge win
The part where the girl checked under her bed, then she looked back up and the monster was in the bed with her... That was the part that got me.
Oh, man, Event Horizon was such a movie. "Where we're going, we won't need eyes" haunted me for a long time. And I had no idea it was gonna be a horror movie when I watched it.
Anyway, besides that one, the original Nightmare on Elm Street did me good. It was one of the first horror movies I ever watched, as my dad wanted to share it once he deemed me old enough. There's something so terrifying about having to stay awake to not be murdered, but being powerless to do so. The most terrifying scene to me was the couple, where the woman got dragged across the ceiling and then the guy got arrested for her murder.
I'm pretty old, but it was both Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
Holy shit. We'd never seen anything like that before
Time Bandits. Because of that move my childhood was plagued with nightmares about little people from out of time invading my room in the middle of the night.
Another victim to Event Horizon here, man that film fucked me up for a while.
Arachnophobia
My babysitter showed me Critters (in secret) when I was 5. Rather than be scarred, she turned me into a avid horror fan. I saw all the 80's classics when I was way too young for them thanks to HBO and Cinemax.
None phased me.
Laughably, what finally got me was so mild. In Poltergeist 2 or 3, there's a scene where the kid's reflection no longer mimics his own movements. It's not even the scare, but rather the set-up.
I started staring at mirrors when I was alone, just waiting for my reflection to break into a sinister smile. My fear was, when it did, what would I do? No adult would believe me. Mirrors are unavoidable. Something supernatural would be after me. I knew I wouldn't be able to pull off some "final girl" shit IRL.
Jurassic Park. I was young and watched it at the cinema. I was limp with terror. On my mother's lap.
I don't remember any nightmares after, but still remember the t-rex and the car scene as particularly terrifying
That's one of the only BOOKS that's has scared me. Stephen King didn't scare me as much as that book did!
Yes, this! I don't plan to let my kids watch it on a young age.
The Thing
I'm stretching the definition of "movie", but MJ's Thriller caused me to start screaming when I wandered over to MTV while watching Mr Rogers. My mother ran in and changed the channel. It was on the transformation scene. Whoo!
That video haunted my dreams for years as a child, both the werewolf and zombie scenes. Even hearing the music still gives me chills. I watched the video a few months back and it was about 50% as scary as I remembered.
I wanna add to that the MV for Pink Floyd's The Wall. Seeing all those kids with mangled faces just standing on the conveyer belt, falling one by one into the meat grinder and being turned into a mush just messed with my young brain
Watership Down. It's supposed to be a kids movie but damn is it dark.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure. (Hear me out)
This was back in the 80s, when TV screens were glass and shooting a suction cup gun at it was the pinnacle of child entertainment. On one of my retrieval trips, when I was arms length from the screen, Large Marge made "the face." I screamed and ran. I couldn't watch the movie for years afterward. I still get minor anxiety to this day.
Tell them LARGE MARGE SENT YA! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
The Witches (1990). The kids trapped in the picture frames at the beginning gave me nightmares for weeks.
Pet Cemetery.
But not, like, the zombie cat, zombie dog, or zombie kid. What scared me shitless was the short little flashback of the wife's sick sister in bed.
This! The original one.
I dreamt that the white dog/wolf jumped over me and my midsection spasmed and it jerked me awake.
Also, Arachnophobia was terrifying! I felt that it was where my fear of crawling insects came from. Because when I was younger, I was not afraid of catching spiders as large as my tiny hands.
Fire in the Sky. It's about an alien abduction and the dude has PTSD and flashbacks throughout. Ruined maple syrup for me for a long time.
Omg yes!!! That movie was so terrifying as a kid. It didn’t help I shared a name with one of the characters.
This and Communion with Christopher Walken. There was just something so bloody creepy about the greys in this movie that always freaked me out.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Totally. Seems so dumb now, but as a kid those masks were so scary. Also, clowns.
gotta agree on event horizon, I loved scary movies but that one was something else.
Poltergeist. Hated that fucking movie so much. The tall gangly pale man with the wide smile and ghastly voice, that... Thing in the spirit world. Etc
The streak slug. The guy tearing off his face. Go into the light Carol Anne!
Legend (1985). Tim Curry is a brilliant villain.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I went for the cartoon characters. The reveal for Judge Doom near the end was terrifying.
The voice really… fucking hell!
The ring.
Definitely Stephen King's IT, the 90's miniseries. Tim Curry is absolutely terrifying as Pennywise. That lip curl he does when he says "Oh yes, Georgie, they float".
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The post apocalyptic movie with Will Smith.
The eerie way the monsters looked, plus the way they stood in a circle in the dark building. It really scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Don't play The Forest anytime soon then xD
It's like I am Legend on steroids.
The ring. I had a tv in my bedroom... Dear god I did not sleep the next weeks
Yeah... The Ring. That movie did a number on me... and I thought I was well-past the age when a movie could do that. J-horror is not your friend.
Pan's Lanyrinth. The Pale Man haunted 12yo -me's nightmares for a long time.
Little shop of horrors (the musical). I was maybe 5 when I saw it. I was terrified of plants for a while afterwards, which was a problem because I lived on a farm.
When I was a child, Pet Sematary scared the living hell out of me.
When I was little, the Gremlins movies terrified me! Not sure why since they're super campy, but 🤷♂️ kids are weird.
The first one is pretty scary. The second one is super campy
I just rewatched gremlins, and beside some jumpscares it's pretty camp and tame.
But then the scene comes where the Santa Claus gets stuck in the chimney, discovered due to the smell. This is not shown, just a story that gets told pretty off handed.
I realized that that was the part that made the movie scary to me when younger. And it colored the rest of the movie darker, too.
Ernest scared stupid. That troll going around at night, sneaking into kids rooms and turning them into wooden figurines was terrifying to my kid brain.
Sound of Music. Still does. Those fucking puppets. I have to leave the room for that scene when my wife watches it.
GREMLINS scared the shit out of me
I watched The Ring and The Grudge when I was 12. I had trouble sleeping for the next year or two because I kept imagining I could see Kayako watching me from the ceiling of my closet, and slept with the TV on because it scared me less than the blank screen.
I was not a smart child.
Still remember a print ad for The Grudge "Runs circles around The Ring!".
At age 8 Critters. I couldn't go to the toilet alone for weeks after seeing once come out of the toilet. It's a PG too!
For reference I'd already watched exorcist by that age as my cousin and I snuck the copy out of my uncle's video shop. Exorcist didn't bother me anywhere near as much!
Critters or Ghoulies? Never watched the latter but the vhs tape cover had one coming out of the toilet:
I never watched Ghoulies, but I'll never forget walking through the rental store and the box was eye-level with tiny kid me. Scarred me pretty bad. After that I was terrified of flushing the toilet, so toilet lid always had to be down and as soon as I flushed I would run from the bathroom.
Took me probably twenty years to completely get over it.
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Threads, Growing up near Sheffield and watched it when I was about 12...
Quick! Let’s name a social network after it!
Threads, A gritty dire warning to mankinds folly, Also a film from 1984...
You watched Event Horizon as a child? Damn, that's rough! I watched it as a young adult on TV thinking it was just normal sci fi and was scared shitless by the end...
As a child there was a part of a movie I watched that gave me nightmares for days. It was someone rubbing a bloody chickens paw on a womans leg. That's it, that's all I saw before my parents yelled for me to go to bed but it haunted me for days.
yeah I was about 18 or 19 like you went in just expecting entertainment and couldn't sleep that night afterwards
Yeah, I think I was like 8 or 9. I was an adventurous kid, setup the VHS recorder to record it automatically from TV and then watched it when I was home alone.
You even watched it alone? OMG dude xD
I apparently had recurring T-Rex-chasing-me nightmares after my grandparents let me watch Jurassic Park when I was like 5 or 6 (they thought it was just a dinosaur movie or something)
For me the "shoot her" scene at the start was the scariest. How quickly it flips from "hehe gotcha, you thought it was a dinosaur but it was just a crate" to utter human terror as they try to save someone from an unseen monster
Tbf, it… it is just a dinosaur movie.
Nightmare on Elm Street... my sister was not a great babysitter.
The 1st one was so insanely well crafted. It's the only horror movie that has ever genuinely scared me to the core. The body bag scene is so haunting. And the mom putting the bars on the windows is one of the most well crafted twist to increase the plot tension in all of horror.
Aliens. Me and my brother sneakily was watching it when our parents were gone, and when that chest-burster came out of that woman, I was out of there like a bat out of hell. Never told my parents, of course - had to protect our VHS privileges and all that.. It's still one of my favorite movies - the original cinematic cut, not the overly long director's cut (which seems to be the only one you can find these days.]
Salem's Lot (the 1979 mini series). The window scene with the floating kid messed me up real good.
Time Bandits. The evil character at the end. It was truly the most evil character I had ever seen.
Same here, that scene terrified me as a kid. Worse for me was the movie The Day After.
The Exorcist got me pretty good
Watched when I was 7 with my cousin. Got heavily traumatized mate, anything else is just a joke in comparison
Species from 1995. Parents and their friends were watching it and told us to not come in because it was too scary.
I thought they were bullshitting young me...I was wrong. Lol. Had wonderful nightmares for a while.
The Mummy (1990s movie, not that Netflix series)
I remember when I has a kid my dad was Watching "Pink Floyd The Wall" and the scene where the kids walked on an assembly line to become sausages scared me a lot. It became kind of a misterious movie to me because the melody was kids popular and I could remember how dark that sensation was.
Many years later I started listening to Pink Floyd and watched the entire movie. I still love it.
Trilogy of Terror The little warrior doll that comes alive scared the living hell out of me
the cube and ghost ship
That opening scene to Ghost Ship is burned into my memory
You watched these movies as a child???!!!
Probably shouldn't have but in my defense the old scifi channel had some age appropriate movies followed by scary movies rather unpredictably
Who the hell let's their child watch event horizon?
Who said someone let me? You know, children sometimes do stuff adults don't approve of. And some people have shitty parents. In my case it's both.
The one that comes to mind is Geordi's eyes on Star Trek TNG. I don't know why, and I eventually got over it. But watching every new episode of TNG was sort of an tense experience wondering if the visor would come off for any reason.
Chucky 🔪
It took me years to recover from that first film. I still feel the fear when I just see a picture of his face and I'm a full grown adult.
Same here. I'm not going to lie, I'm still a little afraid when I see his face now as well. I think I'll always be afraid of Chucky.
I used to go around at night before bed and moved all the scissors and sharp object to higher ledges or closed closets. Just in case. I did this for months. Parents were always perplexed why the scissors were in the fridge or the screwdriver in the kitchen cabinets.
Fire in the sky - The scene after he was abducted and wakes up on the UFO always freaked me out as a kid. I remember renting the VHS from Blockbuster back in the day. This was also when shows like Sightings and Unsolved Mystery were popular on TV.
ET scared the crap out of me.
I couldn`t sleep for weeks after watching it as a kid. Many decades later I met my wife. It turns out she also had nightmares as a kid after watching E.T.
Thank you. I kept scrolling thinking I couldn’t be the only one.
Those long ass fingers creeped me the fuck out. Can’t believe that was supposed to be a kids movie lol.
My Girl. The ending with the kid dying from getting stung by all those bees messed with my mind as I was only like 5 or 6 when I saw it.
So that's what the movie is called. It was probably my first movie without happy ending.
Thank you for validating me. Event Horizon scares me to this day. Clawing out his eyes? Fucking no thank you.
Yeeah. Not a kids movie at all. I watched it in college not knowing what I was getting into. Yeesh.
Well that is a very fucking scary movie. To this day.
Same. That movie was legit scary.
Wrath of Kahn.
I was not ready for the ear worm scene.
Stephen King's IT.
Tim Curry is a phenomenal actor.
The aliens in Mars attacks were pretty scary.
Return of the Living Dead, not because it's any good but just because I was really scared of zombies as a kid. The Tarman zombie gave me nightmares for years.
The first scene of Willow
its actually quite a dark scene for a kids movie
The first Resident Evil movie. Not because of the zombies, it was the laser scene that got to me. I was convinced that lasers would come out of any reflective surface to get me. I didn't like how they seemed to react to the guy avoiding them, making it impossible for him to escape, like they were intelligent and trying to kill him.
How come nobody mentioned Goosebumps? That shit was catered to kids, but I only dared watch it with the sound off.
Bruh I was scared by the vampire Simpsons Halloween episode. And goosebumps.
Jack and the Beanstalk. Not really a movie, but anime/cartoon from 1974. My parents turned it on for me every time they left the house. Check it up, it's terrifying, especially for a 4-year-old.
ghost ship and the cube!
Yes! The opening scene from Ghost Ship fucked me up for a while.
Weirdly, the original Andromeda Strain scared me more than any gore. It was probably linked to my childhood fear of sirens.
Good movie.
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Dumbo, the pink elephants scene. Genuinely had fever dreams of that when i got sick over the years.
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New Alcatraz. Granted, it's monster horror that I shouldn't have been watching, but my gramps got annoyed at me because it's "obviously fake"
About the "obviously fake", I remember Power Rangers looking really realistic. Then I looked it up on YouTube for fun few years ago and it couldn't be more obvious how fake it is. To quote a wise green frog, truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
You did NOT call him a frog
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The 1990 remake of the Night of the Living Dead. I was like 10 when I saw it, and then I had to walk through a dark forest alone to get home (I was supposed to walk with older girls but they left me behind). I legitimately thought I was going to die.
The original for me. I watched that whilst smoking a j and got a true panic attack. Only movie ever I had to switch off.
Gremlins for me, was way too young for that. Now it's one of my all time favorite movies.
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Those really weird thumb creatures from Spy Kids. Could not STAND them and the movie would rerun almost every day.
Also King Rameses from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Spy Kids is creepy as fuck to this day. The writers had to be taking some kind of substance because that shit was weird.
The Exorcist and The Omen. I cannot watch either again to this day.
An American Werewolf in London. My parents were watching it when I was like 6. The opening sequence on the moors scared the hell out of me, and they decided I should go to bed. I think they had heard it was a comedy, so weren't prepared for actual horror. That scene stuck with me for like 20 years before I ever rewatched it. It's a good movie as an adult.
The Tall Man from Phantasm scared the shit out of me
I still have a nightmare once a decade about him chasing me screaming "BOY!"
Fantasia, not specifically the Night on bald mountain section, but the bits with the orchestra.
Also a TV series in the UK called Mealstrom. The paintings would come to life, which was ok but the intro was creepy AF https://youtu.be/_FwP5LAXd7U
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killer klowns from outer space. now as an adult i find out its considered a comedy!
Threads (1984). Still one of the most realistically possibje horror films ever made. The BBC banned its re-airing for 40 years due to being too disturbing.
Even in a post about movies, I can't escape the talk about Threads! /s
Everything Facebook touches really does evoke horror!
The Exorcist, specifically the part where she runs down the stairs upside down on all 4s and screams. Me and my brother cried forever that night lol
James and the giant peach was already an all around unsettling movie, but that thunderstorm rhino scared the bejeebes out of me as a kid.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. That movie sent me into a screaming terror when I was a kid. My mom still makes fun of me for it.
Maximum Overdrive. It has taken me until adulthood to get over the irrational fear that big machines like trucks will come alive and drive me over. For many, many years I always got a slightly uneasy feeling when I'm cycling and a big truck goes by (even though I live in a country with good bike infrastructure and bike on separated bike paths). Even now at 26 I occasionally get the feeling. It's silly, and I've mostly gotten over it. I guess my interest in cars and anything mechanical has helped me get over it, thankfully curiosity is sometimes strong than fear.
Funnily enough I occasionally listen to AC/DC and at some long ago point I stumbled upon their album "Who Made Who" and it became a favourite of mine. It was only a few years ago I realized that the album is the soundtrack to Maximum Overdrive!
Several years ago I actually bought a DVD copy of the movie; it's still wrapped in plastic to this day. It's not that I'm scared to see it, I just haven't gotten around to it yet, and by now I'm unsure where it even is any more.
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That was scaaary for young kids, I was afraid to watch it again 30 years after. Now it is almost funny.
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Something was on TV and I have no idea what it was nor do I care to try to find it. Someone was in the hospital and transformed into some sort of monster while the nurse was out of the room and when she came back in it reached out from under the hospital bed and ripped her fucking leg off. I'd never had thoughts about monsters under the bed before but after that I always jumped as far away from the edge of the bed as possible when I got out.
Shutter, but the original Thai version.
For years after watching it I needed to make sure I was holding the bottom of my blanket with my legs all night long. Damn..
I don't recall the name of it, it was not a big Hollywood movie or anything, and it was super low budget.
But it was some old Christian movie about what will happen to you if you don't get "saved" before the Rapture happens. I remember a song called "I wish we'd all been ready" playing. Not sure if that's the name of the song, not even positive it was actually in the movie at all, or if it was just something I heard around the same time and the memory is getting blurred.
From what I recall, it looked like it was made in the 70s.
I wish I remembered more about it. It was intended to scare the shit out of you to believe in religion. Worked on me at the time, I remember praying like a million times to make sure I did it right the night I watched it, and randomly at times for years as I remembered the scared-shitless feeling.
Religious trauma is a hell of a drug.
I kinda wanna watch it again now that I'm older.
This might be what you are referring to.
I skimmed through some of it. It looks right. I remember very little of the movie itself, just the feeling I got.
I checked the song at the end and while it wasn't the song I mentioned, it triggered the same reaction in my head.
I'll try to watch it tonight just to see how bad it actually is. Hopefully shut that part of my brain up at long last.
Thanks for the tip.
rumpelstiltskin
Jesus me too. God I haven't thought about that damn movie in a long time
The Tripods was a TV series that traumatized me!
Not a movie, but a 'feature length music video'. Michael Jackson's Thriller scared the ever living shit out of 5 or 6 year old me.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Heh, just reading the 5th book in the series!
The Grudge. The Japanese original and the US ones.
“Pokemon: Jirachi, Wish Maker” for me. It had this really creepy Groudon with tentacles.
SAW
The Strangers. I lived in a house similarly isolated with a sliding glass door just like the one in the movie where she moves the curtain and he’s right there staring in.
When I was quite a bit younger, The Mask freaked me right out. On top of the Goosebumps episode about a mask overtaking you, I straight up refused to put any on for the longest time. Still don't love them.
The start of the Goofy Movie, during Max's dream...those dark vibes hit me hard. Would wait in the bathroom until it was done.
The Ring was a big one because my "friend" called and did the whole "seven days..." thing. Before we had caller IDs. The same friend made me watch Darkness Falls, and I think I repressed it all because I remember nothing about it other than hating the whole experience.
Not much of a scary movie fan to this day. Go figure.
The Haunting (1963) b/w spook house horror Had a lot experience with Monster Films from Jack Arnold (Tarantula) and Godzillas, but this hit totally unexpected. Didnt help i was watching it in the middle of the night on TV.
Child's Play. I was, like, 5? when I watched it. A lot of my toys ended in my older sister's room because I couldn't stand them, I was afraid that they'd chase me.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The old animated one by Disney. The Witch/Evil Queen scenes would always scare the living shit out of little old me! When my sister and I would watch the movie with our grandparents, they would have to fast-forward through those bits.
I watched Halloween for the first time when I was in like 3rd grade. It was even the dumbed down version on TNT with commercials, but I ended up waking up in the middle of the night and puking over the railing of the top bunk. Poor sister was on the bottom.
I vividly remember watching everyone clean up my puke while I sat up there lol.
Anyway, I fucking love horror movies now. What an origin story.
For me it was Poltergeist 2. That really scared the shit out of 9yo me 😂
No movie really scared me when I was a kid. But my brother watched the original The Day The Earth Stood Still and screamed bloody murder when the robot or whatever came out lmao.
Them!.... old movie about giant ants. Even now when i hear the noise they make it gives me goose bumps.
After whining for a long time my mom let me see Carrie on a Wednesday afternoon, the Sissy Spacek version. After watching it pretty unscathed to the end the scene came where they show her grave and the hand rises up from the grave....My first official jump scare and since I still remember it today, it has left quite the impression.
The terminator, and Ed209 from RoboCop. Even back then I knew it was quite a possibility.
When I was 4 and watched Spirited Away I was terrified
Superman III
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I had a room in a very messy basement at the time, in the dark it looked very similar to the one in the movie.
Schindler's List. Saw plenty of scary movies before this, but that scene where the officer murders the engineering prisoner who's just trying to tell him about a problem with the building. It just sticks in my mind to this day as maybe the first time my young, sheltered self had been confronted with a realistic example of what dehumanizing could do.
I watched Dirty Harry when I was around 6 or 7 and my parents had gone out for the night. I was really freaked out and crying when they came home…
oh jeez saw Event Horizon in the theater, at night, and then had to drive home afterwards. was really jumpy for a few weeks.
I remember being scared during the Ewok movie (Caravan of courage) in particular the dog things chasing them and having them hide out inside a tree, and the giant really freaked me out as a kid
Haunting in Connecticut. I’m from Connecticut.
Jurassic Park (original) on the big screen.
Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland scared the shit out of me when I was young. Seeing mangled humans turned into cyborgs on that ship lost at sea was terrifying.
I used to watch old B-movie horror on Saturdays in the 70's.
This one, which is completely ridiculous, scared the hell out of me because of the disembodied alien hand crawling around attacking people.
I was too young to realize how stupid it was, and it just absolutely terrified me. The hand became the monster under the bed for the rest of my life.
Not a movie, but The Real Ghostbusters episode (showing that age) with the Boogeyman was downright terrifying
Gotta go with The Green Mile
The Stephen King movie Silver Bullet. I have always really liked but been freaked out by werewolf movies and something about Everett McGills performance as the priest mixed with the usual stalking of the wolf really spooked me.
Mr. Boogety
if cartoons count, the "return the slab" episode on Courage the cowerdly dog, scared the hell out of me and I couldn't be in the dark for months after.
Saw Backdraft when I wasn't supposed to. Still have to have the door closed to sleep.
Should always sleep with the bedroom door closed. Can provide just enough protection to give you time to escape out a window. Or, be rescued from the window.
Jeepers Creepers
I can still the remember the little jingle
All Freddy Kruger movies., All Chucky Movies, IT, Grudge, Saw movies
The grudge Japanese version, where the child appeared under the blanket.
It was terrifying to realize that blankets cannot protect us from ghosts anymore. And I was high-school age at that time, but still it affected me.
When I was a child Child's Play came on some channel on TV, and since I was a child I thought it was a fun movie for kids. Luckily my much older sister saw what was going on, recognized and knew the movie, and forbade me from watching it. Thanks to her I avoided some kind of phobia, I'm sure.
I can't really remember why but I never wanted to watch Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer again after seeing it once. I just googled it and it could be the Ice-Queen that's in there that I didn't like but I'm not sure.
Satan from the Passion of Christ, the hanging scene in Schindler's List
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Alive_(1974_film)
But really just the commercials on TV.
Really showing my age here.
Witness - I was about the same age as the kid in the movie. I'm still sketched out in Airport/train/bus station bathrooms.
Night of the living dead. My brother and I rented it when I was about 7 I think. Didn't make it more than 10 minutes into that movie and I was begging him to turn it off.
Body Snatchers (1993)
Threads... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/
Came here to also say third scene of Trilogy Of Terror
Shallow Ground terrified me. I've had nightmares for a while after that.
An honourable mention: The Pirates of Dark Water - The Beast and the Bell. Fuck Keroptus.
Candyman, thought of a dark bathroom still scares me.
The OG Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. I was like, 6? Spent weeks looking under the bed for pods.
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I remember fainting of the movie "Cats and dogs" 😅
It convinced me that animals (our cat) can speak. 🐈
Darby O'Gill and the Little People. (Look it up.) 😉
Highly recommend the Corridor Digital "VFX Artists React" series episodes where they talk about Darby O'Gill. It's fascinating how they did a lot of the effects.
Thanks for the heads-up! Those 3 guys are a little over-caffeinated for my tastes, but I should try and find that original making-of doc! 😏
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Here's another one: https://piped.video/47b9c94RPMM
