What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?
What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?
cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/50792
For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
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1I named my truck Artax because I'm gonna cry like a little bitch when it finally dies.
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A Watership Down. Fucking trauma for years.
8Man I was way too young to be ready for what I was seeing lol. But I did develop a love of horror so all good now!
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Fire in the Sky Just no. I couldn't even look at an image of a grey alien for years. Had to look away during the opening credits of X-files because they flashed an image of a grey. I got over it. I actually rewatched it during the pandemic lock-in. It holds up pretty well.
7Blair witch project. I really thought it was real founded footage
6This was definitely not a horror movie, but I watched it as a very young kid, so even as an adult I don’t like this fucker.
5Poltergeist. Fucked me up around static for the rest of my life.
4Same here. Not seen it since!
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Stephen King's IT. Technically a mini-series. But it messed me up for awhile, especially the blood on the shower wall scene.
3Raiders of the Lost Ark. 12 year old me had a great time with that movie until people startet to melt...
3temple of doom for me. homie getting his heart ripped out
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My cousins made me watch John Carpenter's The Thing when I was eight years old. Assholes.
The movie Saturday the 14th also messed me up for a while, what with the Creature from the Black Lagoon getting into someone's bathtub through the drain pipes. It may be silly dreck, but it was a bit much for a five year old.
3I watched that movie when I was just a little older and wouldn't go down to the basement by myself for a few months.
It's now one of my favorite movies though, lol.
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I was a real scaredy cat as a kid, so for me Terminator and Jurassic Park were the ones I remember giving me nightmares that other people would know. Outside of that weirdly the movie "the edge" with its bear terrified me, I always imagined a bear could just rip through the wall of our home and grab me. Another weird one was The 13th Warrior, there was a particular scene in.a bloody cabin that really upset me, but I dont think the movie was really scary, I was probably just way too young to watch it
3Arachnophobia. I one of the ones that claims I acquired a minor version from the film. Took me years to get over it. Of dedicated effort, after I grew up. Even today a sudden sighting can sometimes get a squeak out of me though, annoyingly.
3Oh wow, yeah Event Horizon is not a good movie to see in your youth haha. That's intense!
For me, I didn't get to see the whole movie, but I walked into the living room while my parents were watching Hostel and I saw the achilles tendon scene. That imagery still haunts me to this day. Grew up to love horror, though!
3Actually not the OP just thought that this community needed some love. That said I do have a very distinct memory of having one of those two for one DVDs with Event Horizon on one side and some fairly tame solar flare-themed PG-13 disaster movie on the other side that I watched ALL the time. Definitely would've been a shock to go from the latter to the former but I don't think I ever did.
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John Carpenter's The Thing. I wouldn't go down to the basement by myself for like three months.
Still one of my favorite movies.
3The Ring got me pretty bad. Was scared to even turn on the TV .
2Jaws. I was literally scared to take a shit for a while.
2I’m almost too embarrassed to admit it - Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
2When I was 17 I saw Halloweentown and the part with the ghosts made me shit bricks
2Mars Attacks when I was 6. My parents had the brilliant idea to take me to see it at a drive-in, so larger than life screen, and it was the second film, so I think they probably figured I’d fall asleep and they could stay and watch. Nope. Pretty sure I didn’t sleep for weeks.
2Cats Eye
2Poltergeist 2. I must have been 6 or 7 the first time I watched it. The designs and special effects were amazing. This scene in particular fucked me up big time:
2Poltergeist. Saw it when I was like 7 and was afraid of mirrors for years after that. They still feel eerie to me at night/in the darkness.
2Human Centipede and its sequel.
2I actually fainted watching it.
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The Pit and the Pendulum. I had nightmares about it for decades.
2Fright Night (the 1985 one). I was 6. The idiot daughter of the woman babysitting me thought I was asleep on the couch, so she put it on.
I was not asleep.
2House of wax (1953). Invasion of the body snatchers (1956 and 1978).
2I too was a weaker constitution child and had to leave Beetlejuice and Jurassic Park.
I also ended up scared of Leprechaun in a hotel room when I was like 6.
One that sticks out that I've never been able to place, though. I was in another hotel room with my dad and woke up to it. All I remember was a gargoyle or something was killing people and at the end they managed to trap its spirit in a chair and then burned the chair in a fire. I had nightmares about that movie for years after but have never been able to figure out what it was.
2I think that’s needful things
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow. This was a made for tv movie, but the scene where they kill the guy hiding in the scarecrow freaked me out as a 7 year old. I’ve never rewatched and had to google a synopsis to make sure this was the right movie.
1Just watched this and loved it. Very impressive for a made for tv.
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Shutter (US version). Later on in college, I watched the Thai version. Both scared the crap out of me.
1Trilogy of Terror messed me up pretty badly as a kid. I kept my feet off the floor for a week. I just kept jumping around from piece of furniture to piece of furniture.
I saw Event Horizon in my 20s. My bro-in-law and I thought it was just going to be a goofy horror movie that we could laugh at.
We were wrong.
1Independence Day. Specifically the autopsy scene. The voice they used kept me up for weeks.
170s - Black Christmas
80s - Poltergeist, The Changeling1The Shining. Watched it when I was under ten years old.
Couldn’t sleep with the lights off for months.
But I agree with OP about on the Event Horizon movie. My experience with that film was great cause I just expected a sci-fi movie. Instead I got a twisted vision of horror that still haunts me to this day.
1The shinning is the only movie to have given me nightmares to this day.
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Last movie that gave me nightmares was Mirrors (2009). I was alredy barely an adult back then.
I woke up in a panic for 2 weeks straight and put on the light to check my mirrors. I recently decided to watch it again. It's pretty underwhelming and random af to me now. Didn't scare me in the slightest (aside from a few cheap jump scares, but I hate them anyway).1El Orfanato. Watched it as part of a foreign language film club at school when I was about 12/13. Over a few weeks we watched some Ghibli, some great Italian films and then this.
Nothing could have prepared me for this film, I'd never watched a horror movie before. I had nightmares for at least a month, and I'd actually be hesitant to watch it even now because it scared me so badl!
Has to be said though, was a great film and it had me choking up at the end.
1Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (IMDb), a 1973 made-for-TV movie. I was single digits old and remember watching the living room TV hiding behind the legs of a kitchen chair.
1The damn rabbit from Monty Python
1Child's Play scarred me for life
1I remember when I was little my big brother was watching it in the living room, I was told not to come out of my room but from the doorway of my room I could see a mirror that reflected the living room TV. I saw the scene of Chucky melting and I was terrified of toys coming to life until I was about 18-19.
I had a defective Tickle Me Elmo that would randomly go off randomly in the night and would terrify me and my twin brother. I remember my first and only instance of sleep paralysis where the Tickle Me Elmo toy came to life, crawled down the shelf he sat on and touched my head just out of sight while talking to me. After that I cried and cried and begged my mom to take all my toys away.
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