A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it's only PG! It's a comedy!
Yeah that was a mistake.
A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don't know what the fuck I was thinking.
Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how "family-friendly" movies are anymore. I guess I just don't really pay attention to that.
I just that with my kid and it for some reason I laughed so hard my kid thought the whole thing was funny. It's just so absurd and terrible and wonderful. He's this nightmare murder dude in a kids movie.
It's genuiy terrifying. But I made it fun for my kid somehow.
I recently re-watched "Dot and the Kangaroo" for the first time in who knows how long. This is rather obscure Australian kid's movie that has all-animated ch...
Watership Downs is so dark. I found the book as a kid in some cabinet and figured it'd be fun to read about the little bunnies life. That was a harsh loss of innocence. Later as an adult I figured it wasn't really that bad and I watched the movie. Oh boy.
I watched the first 10 minutes of Friday the 13th then shut it off because I was too scared. The Jason in my mind was more terrifying than any of his movies.
Chucky scared the ever living shit out of me when I was a kid! I had this recurring nightmare that whenever I'd close my eyes I could see through Chucky's eyes and he'd be killing people or on his way to my house to get me. It was awful. Now he's one of my favorite horror icons.
/The Brave Little Toaster/ is a surprising dark and very good children's movie. It happens to have had a lot of the original Pixar crew working on it. This i...
The Adventures of Mark Twain from 1985 has a scene where Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher enter a sort of pocket dimension and meet a stranger who is just a robe holding a mask. The stranger claims their name is Satan. Satan creates a doll sized castle and gives the children clay to make people. After the people are made Satan gives them life and all 4 characters watch the clay people for a little while. Then Satan calls them insignificant, annoying, and worthless before he smashes some with his hand, lightning strikes other clay people, and the rest get swallowed up by a sinkhole along with the castle. While this is happening Satan's face/mask distorted and twists until it resembles a skull.
I saw this movie while spending a weekend at a family member's house as a kid, maybe somewhere between the ages of 5 and 7 (it was an old movie then). I woke up in the middle of the night and this movie was put on while I was left alone in the living room. I don't remember anything else from this movie, but it definitely fucked me up
Claymation from Will Vinton, 1985. Full movie here- https://youtu.be/qRgY56Sgub8 Based on an incomplete novel by Twain, The Chronicle of Young Satan, about...
Claymation from Will Vinton, 1985. Full movie here- https://youtu.be/qRgY56Sgub8 Based on an incomplete novel by Twain, The Chronicle of Young Satan, about...
I watched Star Trek as a kid with my grandma on our local TV station. The Borg were always so scary to me because not even the super advanced Federation could defeat them. And the assimilation they did of stripping away who and what you were was terrifying.
Then First Contact came out and I learned that they just as vulnerable as anyone else to a 45 ACP and that was alright.
The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.
I grew up with a family that liked horror movies, and it was the 80s, so I watched a ton of kid-inappropriate stuff, and I felt the same way.
I still don't watch the Murphy death scene to this day. I guess I never thought about the "why" of it, but you saying it now, that these guys were just normal people, not monsters or supernatural supernatural beings, and not in a fantasy setting, but a realistic enough place, and were taking so much realistic joy in killing this random guy in the worst way possible was more messed up than anything else I've seen.
The other stuff in the movie didn't bother me, since it was mostly people getting what they deserve, but I also never really liked them throwing their buddy out of the moving car when he was begging them not to and I don't recall him being all that injured for someone in a movie. I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn't watch it because I just couldn't think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
Funny enough Our Robocop Remake takes that idea and turns it around, so many scenes when characters are discussing Clarence Boddicker they instead show pictures of Kurtwood Smith in That 70's Show, haha. Great fan made parody movie, definitely worth a watch though it's the opposite of terrifying so a bit off-topic here.
I had never even heard of this before, but it was really fun to watch! I didn't know I needed a Robocop musical before now! 😆
The letter home to mom and dad and the ED-209 having the same Alex Murphy style flashbacks as he was killed were hilarious, and of course the alley of perpetual sexual assault.
Ugh... I grew up during the 80s with absolutely no parental oversight. I was allowed to read and watch whatever I wanted. Ton of slasher and horror movies, though 3 fuuuuuucked me up. Friday the 13th - Jason, Child's Play - Chucky, and the most impactful being Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger.
At a 6 year old sleepover, the host father rented Nightmare on elm Street for a bunch of us little dudes. Half way through the movie, i got up and dressed out of my pajamas and walked home. I had nightmares for years about Freddy, chasing me in our basement around the oil heater. Fucking traumatized.....
Saw Nightmare On Elm Street at 13yo so I was ok, I knew it was fake. After a few years when I bought it on VHS I saw that it was 18+ and I understand...
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I was too terrified to watch Killer Klowns from Outer Space on VHS growing up. Picking out a movie I would always quickly skip over it and try not to look for too long.The first time I watched it in my 20s I was laughing my ass off at both the movie and the fact that I had made it that far in life thinking it was really scary.
Same goes for the book Slaughterhouse Five. It must have had some pop culture inertia if they made at least five of them.
The lurker shark from Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy that's there to keep you from swimming out too far. Absolutely fucking terrified me, and I think it even vibrates the DualShock 2.
I never had an issue with scary movies growing up, but fuck Poltergeist 2 and the braces scene. I was already uncomfortable with the dentist and I knew I eventually needed braces. That ruined me.
Ok let me get my glasses: - Ghostbusters 2 (the painting), IT (it), Candyman (BEES), Arachnophobia (guess), Tales from the Cryptkeeper (a tale about a lake blob), Never Ending Stoooreey (G'mork, Poor poor Atreyu), Superman (being buried alive)...
Ditto Tales from the Crypt, except for me it was just The Cryptkeeper himself. I don't remember any of the specific stories; my cousin and I would watch them when we were 5-6 years old. We weren't old enough to even understand what was happening, but I definitely remember the skeleton announcer being really scary.
I didn't watch the show again until about 25 years later, and was surprised to find that the skeleton announcer was actually supposed to be funny. :D
Same! The whole family was leaving for a big hunting \ camping weekend, and we were leaving at 2am to get there at a decent time through the 10 hour drive. As my folks were packing, 8 year old me was staying up watching tv, and my mom goes, "Poltergeist is on HBO right now, you should watch it, I think you'll like it!" Well I don't remember if I stopped at the clown or the tree eating scene but I definitely saw both and was then immediately wisked away to stay in the woods for a week... Terrifying
Poltergeist, no question, slept with the lights on for 2-weeks behind that shit.
My neighbor friend's dad took me and her the day before 5th-grade started. That man levitated out his seat when that giant skull leaned out of the closet. My little brain: "oh shit oh shit oh shit the adult is scared..." To his credit, the movie was PG because PG-13 didn't exist in 1982. But still, c'mon Dave!
Didn't sleep, couldn't eat the cafeteria slop, it was 105F, heat stroked out in the hall crawling back from lunch recess. It was a very memorable day.
I'm not 100% what movie I saw as I was very young at the time. It may have been The legend of Boggy Creek. Basically a bigfoot horror. I grew up in the countryside beside a forest: It traumatised me against being outside at night.
Leatherface. Which is funny because I have never, and still have never seen one of those movies. I do have the original acquired, however, and the plan is to watch it before the month ends. Too busy watching all the Universal horror stuff from the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
I don’t remember the name of the movie, but it ended with a man walking around in the sewers and merting another man that had shining red eyes, and it was implied that the first man died.
Don't be Afraid of the Dark (1973) scared the crap out of young me... The little creatures lurking in the dark and dragging them away. My older sister reinforcing the fear with stories/teasing didn't help. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_… I'm sure it would be laughable now, but my sister really knew how to push my buttons.
I was absolutely terrified of being abducted by aliens. would have a panic attack anytime i heard a weird noise or a weird light or a low flying plane at night in by bedroom.
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I remember watching That Kiljunen Family (1981) as a kid and being shocked by one particular scene. Summary: This is a Finnish comedy film about a goofball rural family who win a contest and get to go to Helsinki. Goofball Family in Big City level hijinks ensue. The scene that terrified me was the one where the kids go joyriding trams. Probably too speedy for my kid brain.
After my father passed away, I found out that he had this film in his DVD collection, and my mother was like "sure, take all movies you want." (...doubled my DVD collection and then some.) Okay, the tram scene wasn't that bad. Obviously. (...I don't know, the humour hasn't dated the movie, it's just that a lot of the gags are only funny in theoretical sense. I did find one scene funny. One of the kids turns light switch off, it inexplicably cuts power to a whole city quarter, a foreign dignitary gets rescued from an elevator stuck between floors and shouts "down with nuclear energy!")
Was fucked up for a child to watch. My parents thought it was going to be a harmless animated movie for children. I watched it again as an adult. It is still fucked up.
Yes, this. The little girl had no mouth because she talked too much, and the little boy had divine powers. He took away her mouth to shut her up, and she hid in her room because she was afraid of him. They all were, I think.
When a similar thing happened in The Matrix, I found that unnerving, too.
Well it has been over 40yrs, but I was going for some kind of spoiler quality to my comment. XD
Still worth a watch, for the familial power-dynamic reversal, and the frozen terror and word-selection, akin to tiptoeing around an abusive/alcoholic parent.
I saw it in the theatre at too young an age, but the scene where the astronaut in a spacesuit came through the patio door in E.T. The Extraterrestrial freaked me out as a kid.
There was an ad on TV for Knorr's soup when I was a toddler, and the big vegetable scarecrow character with the black hat scared the absolute fuck outta me. Just look at this cunt:
Like what was I supposed to take away from this? That a scarecrow is alive and knows when it's being looked at, and only then will it stop coming after me? And it eats its own flesh in soup-form? The fuck? 😭
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Very scary for a child or anyone scared of that type of thing. But I think the consistency of the soup is the most frightening part. How is it that thick with only one packet?
There was a scene with adults at the door and then the head comes off and a bunch of demons come out which freaked me the fuck out when I was….I think 7 or 8?
I didn't watch Robocop when it was new, but we rented Robocop 2. My mother made me leave during the disembowling scene, and I had this inflated idea of how bad it was. It really wasn't. What they did to Murphy in the beginning of the first one was far worse.
Then there's the third one where a little girl with a laptop hacks a robot between its legs where it can't get her and Robocop himself flies. Yeah, that shit was dumb.
There was a SA scene that really got to me and I forgot what it was. Found it years later so I could never watch that film again. Showgirls. I remember it being much worse, but it was still pretty bad. Also not the worst SA scene I've seen. All I'm gonna say is, "Jena Malone's first movie." IMDb will be very helpful in advising you which film to never watch (assuming you could ever find it, and unedited, at that — I mean Lifetime airs it from time to time but they gotta cut all the bad shit out). Easily the most disturbing film I've ever seen, just because that kind of shit happens. Oh, and if you look up the author, she just threw North (or South) Carolina under the bus because South = Incest Country. She's from fucking California. So yeah, that shit does happen everywhere, and for the most part, nothing's done about it. Huge TW on that whole thing. Yeah, staying up late watching Showtime was not a good thing.
A bit later, but the American The Ring (remake of Ringu). Was it better? Eh... It had its moments. The creature design on the teen girl being scared to death was too good, though. That shit haunted me for a while. So I set it as my wallpaper on my laptop to desensitise myself. People routinely asked me what the fuck my problem was when they saw it. Still creepy AF. If you haven't seen it... they made her look "scared to death and simutaneously having had instantly having been soaked in filthy water for a week. So her face was pale, water-logged, green-ish, and her jaw was unnaturally stretched open. And her eyes were blackened. Almost like what the Scream mask was, but applied to a real face. (And yes I know Scream came first. It might have inspired that makeup design. Also, that makeup/costume designer should have won some award. Say what you will about the rest of the movie, save for Daveigh Chase, who was awesome, but don't knock the makeup job.)
Yeah, somehow I saw the transformation scene from American Werewolf... at a young age and it left a deep impression on me.
Given how long it took for films to make it to TV in those days, it's conceivable that I saw it on its UK TV premiere, whenever that was, because I sure as heck wasn't old enough to go to the cinema to see it. But what I still don't understand is how I would have been up late enough to catch it, because it would surely have been on past my bedtime.
Anyway, there were probably other scary things that I can't call to mind right now, but that stuck with me for a long time.
I saw Ghoulies at a babysitter's house when I was 6. It was the first remotely scary thing I had ever been exposed to.
It opens with a satanic occult ritual. This was peak Satanic Panic, and my Assembly of God church was teaching me that Satan was real and people who worshipped him were actually performing ritual sacrifice. So in my little-kid perception, it was basically a documentary.
I had nightmares about it until I left the church in my early 20s. As part of my deconstruction process, I watched the film and saw how ridiculous it really was.
I think it was the '70s where Starburst candy used exciting sports like hand gliding to demonstrate how yummy the candy would be. They would show somebody pop the candy in their mouth, then go hang gliding off the top of a mountain or coast down the top peak of a huge roller coaster.
I was like fuck this shit, I'm never eating Starburst. I don't want to get flung off the top of a mountain or something high up.
Watched "The Birds" on TV as a kid and it freaked me out so much that I had to look under my bed every night for a few days to make sure there were no sea gulls under there.
The skeleton who came out of a coffin, which rose up out of the pool area, and had black and white striped hair terrified me because she reminded me of my 1st grade teacher who verbally and emotionally abused one of the kids in class, even physically abused him a few times, too.
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Darkness Falls scared the crap out of me in 2003, when i was 32. I spent the next 22 years unable to go to bed without turning the light on over the stairs. Then we moved to a one-story house.
My husband said the caterpillars with the Cheshire Cat. 🤷
Not a very well-known movie, but the monster in The Funhouse (1981) - see the second clip in the videos section on that page if you want to see him. I don't recall exactly how young I was, but I think between 10 and 12. I randomly watched this on TV one night and had nightmares about it for a while.
It was interesting to see his face again after all this time. A little bit different than I remembered but I still think he's pretty freaky. It was also interesting to learn that this was directed by Tobe Hooper, of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist fame. I guess he has traumatized a lot of kids, just going by this thread.
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Anton Bartok in The Fly II being turned into a hideously deformed lump of flesh that could barely move and is forced to suffer in a cage eating slop. Yes, he was an evil bastard, but the body horror of being in that position still haunts me.
'Pipes' from Ghostwatch. I was 11. First proper Halloween. I'd watched scary films before, like Silence of the Lambs and Poltergeist both of which scared the crap out of me but Pipes was on a completely different existential plane.
I had a lot going on with my parents, too much for a child to deal with tbh. That Halloween was my first proper going out trick or treating, the first and only one which actually felt like a halloween. Then I got home and got to watch a Halloween special with Craig Charles from Red Dwarf no less. I believed it was real and I freaked out, so instead of letting me watch the end they sent me to bed and I just kept waking up screaming. I remember them being so angry at me because I couldn't settle.
For probably a year afterwards I used to lie terrified and alone for hours in the dark listening out for any noise and trying to be as quiet and as still as possible. I didn't really get over it until I was about 13. When I rewatched it as an adult I realised it would have been so much better if they had just let me watch the end.
I basically grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and I've been a night owl since I can remember. When I was in early grade school, probably second grade, I was up late and excited to find a cartoon being aired in the middle of the night. It was the animated rendition of Animal Farm.
It freaked me out, but it also planted a seed. I wanted to figure out what that story was, and it led me to explore other classic literature. I'm grateful for that.
In general I never cared much about scary movies, but there is ONE SCENE (in an otherwise crappy movie) that left a strong impression on me.
In the movie "Signs", there's a moment when the news are showing footage from an alien sighting in Brazil. Usually, whenever a US movie tries to depict another country or culture, it ends up being so poorly done it's almost like a caricature. But not this one...
The scene is from a birthday party, and every little detail is so authentic that, as a Brazilian, it's immediately obvious that it was actually recorded in Brazil, at someone's actual house.
It's shaky footage from a camcorder (remember those?). There's the party decorations, the kids' hats, the car outside, the voices (which are intelligible Brazilian Portuguese, not gibberish). Everything felt so real and familiar, I could swear I have been in that exact party at some point in my life. And then the alien shows up and HOLY SHIT did that scare me!
I watched The Sixth Sense with my family when I was 6 or 7 (hehe) late at night and the lights went out shortly after so I just had to rawdawg the rest of the night, no Cartoon Network, no Nickelodeon, just me and my thoughts. I don't think I have been that spooked since, lol.
the early ones yea. the later ones became tame because they were easily outmanuevered, the heros got used to thier tactics. but the angels also evolved by manipulating reality. the angels got freaky again when they were able to replicate by coming out of a TV, or CCTV security system from one area to another. and even telepathic replication.
I didn't know it at the time, but I saw the bit of Aliens where the pilot got merc'd and everyone was basically fucked. Years later I figured out my persistent nightmare.
Chucky. Cuz duh, my dad let me watch it when I was far too young, and I had nightmares for weeks.
Return to Oz. The Wizard of Oz sequel that featured a desolate Oz filled with nightmare creatures, and a witch that stole your fucking face.
Some random movie that my older brother and his friends were watching. I came in just in time to see a scene, depicting a female led band on an outdoor stage. A man was brutally beaten in the audience, and the crowd set him on fire. He was desperately rolling around, trying to extinguish the flames, and almost did it, but then the woman lead singer of the band took a swig from a liquor bottle, and spit it out on him. The flames engulfed him, and now he lay motionless. The fear I felt was half from the agony of someone burning alive, and half from the wretched cruelty of the crowd and the lead singer. The mob mentality where nobody helped him, and not just didn't help him, but made it worse. Fucking horrifying. My first glance into the mind of psychopathy.
Especially steeped in "religious warfare". heh. But as an adult, it is so silly. But I guess also when I saw it for the second time, enough time had passed for SFX to improve so it also feels a bit campy on top of it all :)
2 must've been not so veiled cause I watched that shit on a loop as a kid. It was taped on a VHS with an actual horror movie about a cosmetic plant misshapenning I had to fast forward through. And I was never spooked by it. I could see if I saw 1 earlier having the same sentiment though.
First Contact is the first Trek media I remember sitting down to watch on purpose. The Borg messed me up for a good while. Dying is one thing, but having your very self be subsumed into a greater whole against your will is freaky.
IT gave a whole generation of us Coulrophobia... I'm in my 40s and still get creeped out by fucking clowns and avoid anything that has clowns in it or any media that has clowns.
Maybe I'm lucky in a way because I read IT before seeing it, so it wasn't so much the clown that scared me as much as Paul Bunyan or a leper or the existential crisis of the Dead Lights.
I was still maybe only 12 when I read It, but there were far scarier things than the clowns, hahaha. Watching the mini series afterwards was more fun, imo. :D
In my youth I was constantly peeking out my window before bed to make sure there weren’t any terminators or Aliens waiting to break into my front facing bedroom window. Watching those at like 10 or younger wasn’t the best
When I was young, but not that young, there was a show called Duckman or something like that. I didn't get the channel at home, but I was sleeping over at a friend's house, and he got this channel, so it was on late at night.
In the episode the main character breaks up with a woman, and she's like stalking him for revenge or something, I don't remember the plot. But in one short scene he's taking a bath to relax after the stress she's been causing him, and she pokes her head up out of the bath water with crazy eyes and then pulls him under.
There was something about that I very much didn't like. That was the only episode of the show I ever saw, but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a burnout comedy ala Beavis and Butthead or something, and I don't even think this particular moment was meant to be scary. It was probably meant to be exaggerated and silly. But the crazy lady coming out of the water where she shouldn't be able to be? Nope.
That fucked me up, on and off, for years. I'd just be laying in bed, and then the image or even the concept would come to me, and I'd feel uneasy. Despite not being in a bath at the time! Ugh.
the magical indian homeless guy that, that forces his way into the body cavity of people who disrespects him when they dont give him money, and then controls them and burst out of thier body cavity. he follows them and the victims hear this squeaking sound. also capable of shapeshifting to look like another person. i believe he uses magic to do this, also unkillable when he was shot, as the last scene have him back at the airport in india?
hes probably the strongest villian in the show, he couldnt be killed because somehow he use magic to ressurect himself, or made "justsu clone" of himself, hence his appearance in a random airport in india. i think you search clips of it on youtube.
and i dont remember what happened , with the boy he was STALKING mysteriously why shapeshifted into a janitor/his mom, also the ability to teleport.
less of a horror, but close, horror-scifi possibility. the cancer guy, he was made almost entirely of cancer cells, and can regenerate a whole body by forming a new one, and eats tumors from medical waste to survive, and can detect cancer in other people using his ability to emit x-rays, cat scan/pet scans(he was able to detect sullys tumor after they removed the alien tracking chip from her.) sorta like resurrection that cylon uses, his conscioness is transferred to the new body. the premise was he was stalking and people who had tumors(they may not be aware of ) and killing them and cutting out the tumors.
I was absolut 9, at a holiday in an hotel. Usually my sister and I shared a room, but something scared her. So my mother slept in her room and I with my father. He was still planning for some attractions to visit and did not pay any attention. I just turned on the TV and all by myself watched Per Cemetery... The last scene with the kiss stayed with me for a long time...
Blair Witch catches a lot of flak, but I consider it one of the better horror movies ever made. It was awesome seeing it in theaters back in the day and they made a website to make it look like it was all real and the found footage was real. It's a masterclass in tension. And made on a tiny budget.
The guerilla marketing around the film was absolutely genius. I knew it wasn't real, but I was already immersed in the world for weeks before the release.
I was genuinely terrified at the end of the movie. We went home and I made my fiancé (now husband) watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with me so I could get to sleep. I had nightmares for weeks.
When I was 10 I had nightmares from the episode "Detour" from X-Files. I previously moved to my mother and she and my stepfather had to work at night. We also had a dog, that barked a lot. So the setting was perfect.. took me months to get over it :D
In the movie "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" there's a scene where a robot kid's face starts drooping, like sliding off the frame or something, and that really got me.
One of my earliest memories of fear was being at a neighbor's house when I was maybe 3 years old. I didn't understand TV well, and whatever she was watching ended, followed by this intense low music and sound going high and the 80s Viacom V logo getting bigger. With "A Viacom presentation" text. I genuinely thought the V was coming to get me and I hid behind her chair.
The original Salem's Lot 🤣 the scene where vamp is standing outside the obvious 2nd story window out of nowhere, it gave me nightmares for months, I still hate looking out windows at night. I should try and give it a rewatch, I'm a horror glutton nowadays
"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". When that mannequin head fell out of the box and rolled down the stairs I had nightmares for weeks. I was about 6-10 years old when I saw it.
Tales from the Darkside, specifically the Cat from Hell sketch. It's where a black cat slashes a guy pretty badly before literally diving into him. I left the room after that.
I didn't revisit that scene until I was an adult, and let's just say that kid me had good instincts, since the scene afterwards showed the cat literally burrowing through the guy before popping out of his mouth.
I watched it during a Saturday morning creature feature on TV.
It has a disembodied alien hand that crawls around attacking people. The hand has needle-like nails on the fingers that it uses to inject victims with poison. It terrified me. I spent years jumping to my bed from the door in case there was a hand hiding under the bed.
FYI, if I remember correctly, the "poison" it injects is just alcohol. If it attacked you, you just ended up drunk.
I used to have nightmares about E.T. standing at the foot of my bed, reaching out to touch me with his glowing finger. He was essentially my sleep paralysis demon.
The Stuff scared the fucking shit out of me as a child, I definitely watched it way too young. My mom told me that after watching the movie, she was helping me in the bathroom and she had to leave because the phone was ringing (I was young enough I still needed help to go to the bathroom). When she came back I was standing on top of the toilet lid crying and screaming that the stuff was going to come up out of the toilet and get me.
I haven’t been able to watch it again. I understand it’s a comedy and I would probably enjoy it, but I’m way too fucking traumatized to even try.
Those laser beam statues scares me. Also when the giant turtle emerges and you get that shot of it la head slowly approaching the camera. Somehow that was super distressing to me.
I think it was from one of the Creep Show movies, Tales from the Crypt, or a similar collection, but a short about teens on a raft on a lake being picked off by some kind of black slime/algae thing. Never been comfortable swimming in lakes since
That story is The Raft by Stephen King. It was included in the book Skeleton Crew, which was a collection of his short stories. The movie version was in Creepshow 2.
Both supposedly based on true stories. I was watching them around 5 years old. After The Entity I started at the ceiling all night and at times could have sworn I saw electricity arcing. I was dumbfounded by Sybil and how someone could do that to their child had some weird nightmares from that for sure.
It's a movie about the tooth fairy but the tooth fairy is actually an old woman who used to collect the teeth of the children in her village until the townspeople burnt her alive and then she became a spirit who was essentially the tooth fairy but if you ever saw her she'd kill you.
It's cheesy as hell but it was terrifying when I was younger
for some reason, i was terrified by the 1989 batman vhs sleeve as a kid. not the movie itself, just the sleeve the tape was in. i don't think i'd even seen the movie at that point. looking at it now, i cannot figure out what i found so scary about it.
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Oddly enough, I had nightmares about turning into a dog and not being able to get back to normal after watching Shaggy D.A. Also remember my dad, brother and I watching a rented Betamax copy of American Werewolf in London in our little unfinished basement TV area and being very spooked about being alone in the dark that night. Those subway access tunnels!
I enjoy the rest of the movie but this is one of the greatest horror sequences ever. A remake that truly surpasses the original.
EDIT: I have to give a shoutout to the movie that had the most real world effect on me. That would be Arachnophobia. I couldn't function normally for months. Sitting on the toilet. Putting my shoes on. Sticking my hand in a bag of chips. I was a wreck.
A terrified passenger spots a sinister creature on the plane's wing, but his desperate warnings go unheard in this high-altitude horrorABOUT TWILIGHT ZONE Yo...
When I was 9 I saw Jurassic Park III for a friend's birthday. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for months. But the most distressing part was when the corpse in the parachute falls out of the tree. I still have the image of it seared into my brain.
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!
This fucked me up more than any monsters... This thing just has one mission and it's relentless
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I don't remember my age, but Spirited Away absolutely fucked me up for a little while. I felt like I was in that world and was terrified of No-Face eating me up. Legitimately had nightmares... It doesn't seem that bad rewatching it but it was not good for my younger mind.
It wasn’t a movie per se. I thought it was when I was a kid, though. It’s an episode of “Friday the 13th: The Series” called “The Executioner”.
I was like maybe 6 or 7 at the time.
It starts with this guy in prison you see them take him to the electric chair and attempt to execute him. They botch it and the warden or whoever pretty much goes “oops, well by law we did technically carry out your sentence so you’re a free man now”
He then goes on to become a dentist and uses a “cursed electric chair” as his dentist chair to take revenge on the world.
This gave me a real fear of going to the dentist on top of just being a kid and being scared to go. Still hate going to the dentist (who doesn’t I guess)
I used to play Myst at the time and that even made me feel uncomfortable in the Time Machine room with the dentist chair at the first island.
edit: I watched it again as an adult and it was corny as hell
ET. I’d have nightmares so bad that my dad had to sleep in my room because I was so terrified of him (I’d dream he was walking on my bed). He still freaks me out!
Can't remember what name of this movie, but it had in the end a train flying over a destroyed bridge and into a river at the bottom of a ravine. That and corpses and debris floating left it seared in my head for a couple years.
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At the height of the cold war, 87 or 88 iirc, a movie came on HBO called Dreamscape. It's WW3 imagery really blew my mind, I recall having dreams about it for ages. I'd turned it on because a few weeks before I'd really enjoyed Innerspace with the same lead actor, but this was a bit different lol
re: What movie terrified you as a child? Or what character?
@Suck_on_my_Presence Jaws did, I lived near a lake. Took me a while to realize the lake was really much too small for sharks, but the movie gave me vivid dreams.
Alien terrified me, as the house I lived in had long dark hallways where those beasts or eggs could hide. Saw the film when video2000 and Betamax were still competing. I never found xenomorphs in my house and terror faded, but the franchise stayed with me including Disneyfication.
What actually scared me more was Poltergeist. What a terrifying world, house, family, setting, glow from behind closed doors and the TV sucked you in to the other side.
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in reply to ndupont • • •A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it's only PG! It's a comedy!
Yeah that was a mistake.
A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don't know what the fuck I was thinking.
Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how "family-friendly" movies are anymore. I guess I just don't really pay attention to that.
For some reason they haven't kept in touch...
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •The Omen. An absolute classic.
Also Nightbreed.
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in reply to mrbeano • • •Very much so. When I was a kid my folks tried multiple times to get me to watch this movie and I could never get past the tunnel.
As an adult I still can't watch it and I love me some Gene Wilder otherwise.
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in reply to DeathbringerThoctar • • •I just that with my kid and it for some reason I laughed so hard my kid thought the whole thing was funny. It's just so absurd and terrible and wonderful. He's this nightmare murder dude in a kids movie.
It's genuiy terrifying. But I made it fun for my kid somehow.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Watership Down and Gremlins.
Also, the Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. youtube.com/watch?v=GXikpns1bo…
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in reply to BigGovernment • • •Later as an adult I figured it wasn't really that bad and I watched the movie. Oh boy.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •The Adventures of Mark Twain from 1985 has a scene where Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher enter a sort of pocket dimension and meet a stranger who is just a robe holding a mask. The stranger claims their name is Satan. Satan creates a doll sized castle and gives the children clay to make people. After the people are made Satan gives them life and all 4 characters watch the clay people for a little while. Then Satan calls them insignificant, annoying, and worthless before he smashes some with his hand, lightning strikes other clay people, and the rest get swallowed up by a sinkhole along with the castle. While this is happening Satan's face/mask distorted and twists until it resembles a skull.
I saw this movie while spending a weekend at a family member's house as a kid, maybe somewhere between the ages of 5 and 7 (it was an old movie then). I woke up in the middle of the night and this movie was put on while I was left alone in the living room. I don't remember anything else from this movie, but it definitely fucked me up
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in reply to Console_Modder • • •Creepiest scene from any kid's movie - Adventures of Mark Twain
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This one?
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •The Borg.
I watched Star Trek as a kid with my grandma on our local TV station. The Borg were always so scary to me because not even the super advanced Federation could defeat them. And the assimilation they did of stripping away who and what you were was terrifying.
Then First Contact came out and I learned that they just as vulnerable as anyone else to a 45 ACP and that was alright.
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yesman
in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I saw Robocop too early.
The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.
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in reply to yesman • • •That, and the acid scene.
Bitches leave.
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in reply to yesman • • •I grew up with a family that liked horror movies, and it was the 80s, so I watched a ton of kid-inappropriate stuff, and I felt the same way.
I still don't watch the Murphy death scene to this day. I guess I never thought about the "why" of it, but you saying it now, that these guys were just normal people, not monsters or supernatural supernatural beings, and not in a fantasy setting, but a realistic enough place, and were taking so much realistic joy in killing this random guy in the worst way possible was more messed up than anything else I've seen.
The other stuff in the movie didn't bother me, since it was mostly people getting what they deserve, but I also never really liked them throwing their buddy out of the moving car when he was begging them not to and I don't recall him being all that injured for someone in a movie. I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn't watch it because I just couldn't think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
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in reply to anon6789 • • •Funny enough Our Robocop Remake takes that idea and turns it around, so many scenes when characters are discussing Clarence Boddicker they instead show pictures of Kurtwood Smith in That 70's Show, haha. Great fan made parody movie, definitely worth a watch though it's the opposite of terrifying so a bit off-topic here.
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in reply to Otherbarry • • •I had never even heard of this before, but it was really fun to watch! I didn't know I needed a Robocop musical before now! 😆
The letter home to mom and dad and the ED-209 having the same Alex Murphy style flashbacks as he was killed were hilarious, and of course the alley of perpetual sexual assault.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Ugh... I grew up during the 80s with absolutely no parental oversight. I was allowed to read and watch whatever I wanted. Ton of slasher and horror movies, though 3 fuuuuuucked me up. Friday the 13th - Jason, Child's Play - Chucky, and the most impactful being Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger.
At a 6 year old sleepover, the host father rented Nightmare on elm Street for a bunch of us little dudes. Half way through the movie, i got up and dressed out of my pajamas and walked home. I had nightmares for years about Freddy, chasing me in our basement around the oil heater. Fucking traumatized.....
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I was too young to watch that. I couldn’t look at eggplants afterwards because they reminded of the things the aliens hatched out of.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •That motherfucking dog in the intro of Goosebumps. Give me a grenade launcher. Please?
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in reply to printf("%s", name); • • •I never thought I had buried traumatic memories but I guess if I did they wouldn’t be called buried.
Anyway, time to drink myself to sleep.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I was too terrified to watch Killer Klowns from Outer Space on VHS growing up. Picking out a movie I would always quickly skip over it and try not to look for too long.The first time I watched it in my 20s I was laughing my ass off at both the movie and the fact that I had made it that far in life thinking it was really scary.
Same goes for the book Slaughterhouse Five. It must have had some pop culture inertia if they made at least five of them.
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HumanOnEarth
in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Don't laugh guys.
Howard the Duck.
Edit: Relooking at it, totally justified
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Ok let me get my glasses:
- Ghostbusters 2 (the painting), IT (it), Candyman (BEES), Arachnophobia (guess), Tales from the Cryptkeeper (a tale about a lake blob), Never Ending Stoooreey (G'mork, Poor poor Atreyu), Superman (being buried alive)...
...And many more.
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in reply to massive_bereavement • • •Ditto Tales from the Crypt, except for me it was just The Cryptkeeper himself. I don't remember any of the specific stories; my cousin and I would watch them when we were 5-6 years old. We weren't old enough to even understand what was happening, but I definitely remember the skeleton announcer being really scary.
I didn't watch the show again until about 25 years later, and was surprised to find that the skeleton announcer was actually supposed to be funny. :D
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It triggered my first ever nightmare and I suffered from them for a few years after.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •My parents thought it was a good idea to let me (9) and my 12 year old brother watch Poltergeist while they were out at some social event.
That movie damaged me. I love it now though.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Wizard of Oz.
To my credit, I was afraid of the tornado and tornados are fucking real and scary.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Poltergeist, no question, slept with the lights on for 2-weeks behind that shit.
My neighbor friend's dad took me and her the day before 5th-grade started. That man levitated out his seat when that giant skull leaned out of the closet. My little brain: "oh shit oh shit oh shit the adult is scared..." To his credit, the movie was PG because PG-13 didn't exist in 1982. But still, c'mon Dave!
Didn't sleep, couldn't eat the cafeteria slop, it was 105F, heat stroked out in the hall crawling back from lunch recess. It was a very memorable day.
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in reply to shalafi • • •Oh yeah my answer is poltergeist too. Too early, sucked. Bad sleep for weeks.
Also return to Oz. Those heads...
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •My older sister reinforcing the fear with stories/teasing didn't help.
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I'm sure it would be laughable now, but my sister really knew how to push my buttons.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 film) - Wikipedia
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Not a movie, but Unsolved Mysteries.
I was absolutely terrified of being abducted by aliens. would have a panic attack anytime i heard a weird noise or a weird light or a low flying plane at night in by bedroom.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •This fucking guy haunted my nightmares for quite a long time. Haven't seen the movie since then though, maybe it's not that bad
ace_garp
in reply to Courant d'air 🍃 • • •I've seen the Public Domain, Ustinov version - The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird.
And yes, that king is cold.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I remember watching That Kiljunen Family (1981) as a kid and being shocked by one particular scene. Summary: This is a Finnish comedy film about a goofball rural family who win a contest and get to go to Helsinki. Goofball Family in Big City level hijinks ensue. The scene that terrified me was the one where the kids go joyriding trams. Probably too speedy for my kid brain.
After my father passed away, I found out that he had this film in his DVD collection, and my mother was like "sure, take all movies you want." (...doubled my DVD collection and then some.) Okay, the tram scene wasn't that bad. Obviously. (...I don't know, the humour hasn't dated the movie, it's just that a lot of the gags are only funny in theoretical sense. I did find one scene funny. One of the kids turns light switch off, it inexplicably cuts power to a whole city quarter, a foreign dignitary gets rescued from an elevator stuck between floors and shouts "down with nuclear energy!")
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Watership Down
Was fucked up for a child to watch. My parents thought it was going to be a harmless animated movie for children. I watched it again as an adult. It is still fucked up.
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in reply to cRazi_man • • •The 80s rollercoaster of terrifying animation.
Secret of NIMH, was up there too.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •The opening credits of Tales from the Darkside. The music scared me so bad that I’d cover my ears until the show had started.
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Still gives me a wiggins.
Tales from the Darkside Intro 80's
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in reply to JoeTheSane • • •I came here to post this exact thing!
I watched all kinds of scary stuff (thanks dad!) but that music creeped me the fuck out and still does!
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Twilight Zone movie.
The kid that the whole family is shit scared of.
One scene about being quiet.
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in reply to ace_garp • • •Yes, this. The little girl had no mouth because she talked too much, and the little boy had divine powers. He took away her mouth to shut her up, and she hid in her room because she was afraid of him. They all were, I think.
When a similar thing happened in The Matrix, I found that unnerving, too.
Body horror is a thing.
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in reply to CerebralHawks • • •Well it has been over 40yrs, but I was going for some kind of spoiler quality to my comment. XD
Still worth a watch, for the familial power-dynamic reversal, and the frozen terror and word-selection, akin to tiptoeing around an abusive/alcoholic parent.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •There was an ad on TV for Knorr's soup when I was a toddler, and the big vegetable scarecrow character with the black hat scared the absolute fuck outta me. Just look at this cunt:
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Like what was I supposed to take away from this? That a scarecrow is alive and knows when it's being looked at, and only then will it stop coming after me? And it eats its own flesh in soup-form? The fuck? 😭
Knorr Soup Advert 1985 Creepy (OLD Adverts)
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There was a scene with adults at the door and then the head comes off and a bunch of demons come out which freaked me the fuck out when I was….I think 7 or 8?
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I didn't watch Robocop when it was new, but we rented Robocop 2. My mother made me leave during the disembowling scene, and I had this inflated idea of how bad it was. It really wasn't. What they did to Murphy in the beginning of the first one was far worse.
Then there's the third one where a little girl with a laptop hacks a robot between its legs where it can't get her and Robocop himself flies. Yeah, that shit was dumb.
There was a SA scene that really got to me and I forgot what it was. Found it years later so I could never watch that film again. Showgirls. I remember it being much worse, but it was still pretty bad. Also not the worst SA scene I've seen. All I'm gonna say is, "Jena Malone's first movie." IMDb will be very helpful in advising you which film to never watch (assuming you could ever find it, and unedited, at that — I mean Lifetime airs it from time to time but they gotta cut all the bad shit out). Easily the most disturbing film I've ever seen, just because that kind of shit happens. Oh, and if you look up the author, she just threw North (or South) Carolina under the bus because South = Incest Country. She's from fucking California. So yeah, that shit does happen everywhere, and for the most part, nothing's done about it. Huge TW on that whole thing. Yeah, staying up late watching Showtime was not a good thing.
A bit later, but the American The Ring (remake of Ringu). Was it better? Eh... It had its moments. The creature design on the teen girl being scared to death was too good, though. That shit haunted me for a while. So I set it as my wallpaper on my laptop to desensitise myself. People routinely asked me what the fuck my problem was when they saw it. Still creepy AF. If you haven't seen it... they made her look "scared to death and simutaneously having had instantly having been soaked in filthy water for a week. So her face was pale, water-logged, green-ish, and her jaw was unnaturally stretched open. And her eyes were blackened. Almost like what the Scream mask was, but applied to a real face. (And yes I know Scream came first. It might have inspired that makeup design. Also, that makeup/costume designer should have won some award. Say what you will about the rest of the movie, save for Daveigh Chase, who was awesome, but don't knock the makeup job.)
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in reply to Pratai • • •Yeah, somehow I saw the transformation scene from American Werewolf... at a young age and it left a deep impression on me.
Given how long it took for films to make it to TV in those days, it's conceivable that I saw it on its UK TV premiere, whenever that was, because I sure as heck wasn't old enough to go to the cinema to see it. But what I still don't understand is how I would have been up late enough to catch it, because it would surely have been on past my bedtime.
Anyway, there were probably other scary things that I can't call to mind right now, but that stuck with me for a long time.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •My parents LOVED scary movies. We went to ALL of them we could. There was a drive in and they figured I would sleep through it.
Jaws
Hills have eyes
Body snatchers
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Sasquatch
Halloween
Friday the 13th
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I saw Ghoulies at a babysitter's house when I was 6. It was the first remotely scary thing I had ever been exposed to.
It opens with a satanic occult ritual. This was peak Satanic Panic, and my Assembly of God church was teaching me that Satan was real and people who worshipped him were actually performing ritual sacrifice. So in my little-kid perception, it was basically a documentary.
I had nightmares about it until I left the church in my early 20s. As part of my deconstruction process, I watched the film and saw how ridiculous it really was.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I think it was the '70s where Starburst candy used exciting sports like hand gliding to demonstrate how yummy the candy would be. They would show somebody pop the candy in their mouth, then go hang gliding off the top of a mountain or coast down the top peak of a huge roller coaster.
I was like fuck this shit, I'm never eating Starburst. I don't want to get flung off the top of a mountain or something high up.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •That horrid clown doll that sat at the foot of the bed in the boys room scared the heck outta me. I had one of those shitty things!
So Poltergeist.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Darkness Falls scared the crap out of me in 2003, when i was 32. I spent the next 22 years unable to go to bed without turning the light on over the stairs. Then we moved to a one-story house.
My husband said the caterpillars with the Cheshire Cat. 🤷
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Not a very well-known movie, but the monster in The Funhouse (1981) - see the second clip in the videos section on that page if you want to see him. I don't recall exactly how young I was, but I think between 10 and 12. I randomly watched this on TV one night and had nightmares about it for a while.
It was interesting to see his face again after all this time. A little bit different than I remembered but I still think he's pretty freaky. It was also interesting to learn that this was directed by Tobe Hooper, of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist fame. I guess he has traumatized a lot of kids, just going by this thread.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Anton Bartok in The Fly II being turned into a hideously deformed lump of flesh that could barely move and is forced to suffer in a cage eating slop. Yes, he was an evil bastard, but the body horror of being in that position still haunts me.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •'Pipes' from Ghostwatch. I was 11. First proper Halloween. I'd watched scary films before, like Silence of the Lambs and Poltergeist both of which scared the crap out of me but Pipes was on a completely different existential plane.
I had a lot going on with my parents, too much for a child to deal with tbh. That Halloween was my first proper going out trick or treating, the first and only one which actually felt like a halloween. Then I got home and got to watch a Halloween special with Craig Charles from Red Dwarf no less. I believed it was real and I freaked out, so instead of letting me watch the end they sent me to bed and I just kept waking up screaming. I remember them being so angry at me because I couldn't settle.
For probably a year afterwards I used to lie terrified and alone for hours in the dark listening out for any noise and trying to be as quiet and as still as possible. I didn't really get over it until I was about 13. When I rewatched it as an adult I realised it would have been so much better if they had just let me watch the end.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I basically grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and I've been a night owl since I can remember. When I was in early grade school, probably second grade, I was up late and excited to find a cartoon being aired in the middle of the night. It was the animated rendition of Animal Farm.
It freaked me out, but it also planted a seed. I wanted to figure out what that story was, and it led me to explore other classic literature. I'm grateful for that.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •In general I never cared much about scary movies, but there is ONE SCENE (in an otherwise crappy movie) that left a strong impression on me.
In the movie "Signs", there's a moment when the news are showing footage from an alien sighting in Brazil.
Usually, whenever a US movie tries to depict another country or culture, it ends up being so poorly done it's almost like a caricature. But not this one...
The scene is from a birthday party, and every little detail is so authentic that, as a Brazilian, it's immediately obvious that it was actually recorded in Brazil, at someone's actual house.
It's shaky footage from a camcorder (remember those?). There's the party decorations, the kids' hats, the car outside, the voices (which are intelligible Brazilian Portuguese, not gibberish). Everything felt so real and familiar, I could swear I have been in that exact party at some point in my life.
And then the alien shows up and HOLY SHIT did that scare me!
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Watership Down
What an awful movie for a kid to see.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •As a fundamentalist Southern Baptist, Ghostbusters terrified me.
I saw it again in my early 20s and was like - this scared me???? WTF?
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in reply to 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 • • •It's a comedy stretched over the bones of a horror movie.
Makes sense a kid might get spooked.
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in reply to SupraMario • • •Maybe I'm lucky in a way because I read IT before seeing it, so it wasn't so much the clown that scared me as much as Paul Bunyan or a leper or the existential crisis of the Dead Lights.
I was still maybe only 12 when I read It, but there were far scarier things than the clowns, hahaha. Watching the mini series afterwards was more fun, imo. :D
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •When I was young, but not that young, there was a show called Duckman or something like that. I didn't get the channel at home, but I was sleeping over at a friend's house, and he got this channel, so it was on late at night.
In the episode the main character breaks up with a woman, and she's like stalking him for revenge or something, I don't remember the plot. But in one short scene he's taking a bath to relax after the stress she's been causing him, and she pokes her head up out of the bath water with crazy eyes and then pulls him under.
There was something about that I very much didn't like. That was the only episode of the show I ever saw, but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a burnout comedy ala Beavis and Butthead or something, and I don't even think this particular moment was meant to be scary. It was probably meant to be exaggerated and silly. But the crazy lady coming out of the water where she shouldn't be able to be? Nope.
That fucked me up, on and off, for years. I'd just be laying in bed, and then the image or even the concept would come to me, and I'd feel uneasy. Despite not being in a bath at the time! Ugh.
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in reply to Defectus • • •hes probably the strongest villian in the show, he couldnt be killed because somehow he use magic to ressurect himself, or made "justsu clone" of himself, hence his appearance in a random airport in india. i think you search clips of it on youtube.
and i dont remember what happened , with the boy he was STALKING mysteriously why shapeshifted into a janitor/his mom, also the ability to teleport.
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in reply to aksdb • • •That is still the scariest movie I've ever seen.
The guerilla marketing around the film was absolutely genius. I knew it wasn't real, but I was already immersed in the world for weeks before the release.
I was genuinely terrified at the end of the movie. We went home and I made my fiancé (now husband) watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with me so I could get to sleep. I had nightmares for weeks.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I saw bits and pieces of Event Horizon on the old satellite dish when I was probably 6 or 7.
Sure wish I didn't have eyes there either, lady.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Unfun fact, the creators of Return to Oz researched the top psychological fears of children and carefully built their movie around them.
Saw it on TV in the basement alone on a Saturday, and it is one of the most unsettling things I've seen to this day.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •One of my earliest memories of fear was being at a neighbor's house when I was maybe 3 years old. I didn't understand TV well, and whatever she was watching ended, followed by this intense low music and sound going high and the 80s Viacom V logo getting bigger. With "A Viacom presentation" text. I genuinely thought the V was coming to get me and I hid behind her chair.
Yeah, this fucker. Literally called "The V of Doom" youtube.com/watch?v=ON6VeY99tl…
Then it didn't get me, and it was fine, but that damn Viacom logo scared the shit outta me.
[Widescreen] Viacom V of Doom (1980s) 1080p
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Specifically a Halloween episode about a doll
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •The Day After 1983
I was around 10-11 years old. the whole fuckin movie terrified me.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Tales from the Darkside, specifically the Cat from Hell sketch. It's where a black cat slashes a guy pretty badly before literally diving into him. I left the room after that.
I didn't revisit that scene until I was an adult, and let's just say that kid me had good instincts, since the scene afterwards showed the cat literally burrowing through the guy before popping out of his mouth.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •This is embarrassing, but I was really, really young.
Invasion of the Saucer Men
I watched it during a Saturday morning creature feature on TV.
It has a disembodied alien hand that crawls around attacking people. The hand has needle-like nails on the fingers that it uses to inject victims with poison. It terrified me. I spent years jumping to my bed from the door in case there was a hand hiding under the bed.
FYI, if I remember correctly, the "poison" it injects is just alcohol. If it attacked you, you just ended up drunk.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •The Stuff scared the fucking shit out of me as a child, I definitely watched it way too young. My mom told me that after watching the movie, she was helping me in the bathroom and she had to leave because the phone was ringing (I was young enough I still needed help to go to the bathroom). When she came back I was standing on top of the toilet lid crying and screaming that the stuff was going to come up out of the toilet and get me.
I haven’t been able to watch it again. I understand it’s a comedy and I would probably enjoy it, but I’m way too fucking traumatized to even try.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Kinda late but Neverending Story.
Those laser beam statues scares me. Also when the giant turtle emerges and you get that shot of it la head slowly approaching the camera. Somehow that was super distressing to me.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Invaders from Mars (1953)
Don't know how old I was (like 8 or so), but it aired in the afternoon and my parents left the TV on... Didn't sleep for months.
In the 70s apparently showing a horror movie during daytime was okay 🫣
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Sybil 1976 imdb.com/title/tt0075296/
The Entity 1982 imdb.com/title/tt0082334
Both supposedly based on true stories. I was watching them around 5 years old. After The Entity I started at the ceiling all night and at times could have sworn I saw electricity arcing. I was dumbfounded by Sybil and how someone could do that to their child had some weird nightmares from that for sure.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Darkness falls.
It's a movie about the tooth fairy but the tooth fairy is actually an old woman who used to collect the teeth of the children in her village until the townspeople burnt her alive and then she became a spirit who was essentially the tooth fairy but if you ever saw her she'd kill you.
It's cheesy as hell but it was terrifying when I was younger
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in reply to ThatWeirdGuy1001 • • •That movie is responsible for one of my favorite movie quotes that no one recognizes:
"We're safe in the car, right!?"
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Return to Oz
Childhood trauma all over the place...
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in reply to anewfox • • •I was afraid of Dr. Seuss’s “The foot book” because the cover scared me so I understand
Dr. Seuss’s style in general still freaks me out and makes me physically uncomfortable so do some animation styles that remind me of it like SuperJail
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Volcano (1997) terrified young me. How could anyone sleep peacefully when lava could just appear out of nowhere?
Needless to say I never lived even remotely close to any kind of geologically active area, let alone a volcano.
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in reply to AAA • • •Related, Dante's Peak was terrifying to me as a child.
::: spoiler spoiler
When the grandma is screaming in pain from pushing their boat? Still gives me real life terror
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Pee-wee's Big Adventure (8/10) Movie CLIP - Large Marge (1985) HD
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Also remember my dad, brother and I watching a rented Betamax copy of American Werewolf in London in our little unfinished basement TV area and being very spooked about being alone in the dark that night. Those subway access tunnels!
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •To be clear, it still terrifies me.
I enjoy the rest of the movie but this is one of the greatest horror sequences ever. A remake that truly surpasses the original.
EDIT: I have to give a shoutout to the movie that had the most real world effect on me. That would be Arachnophobia. I couldn't function normally for months. Sitting on the toilet. Putting my shoes on. Sticking my hand in a bag of chips. I was a wreck.
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in reply to bitjunkie • • •Twilight Zone: The Movie | Terror at 20,000 Feet | ClipZone: Horrorscapes
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •When I was 6 or 8 ish, my family watched Stepmonster on TV.
The monster scared the absolute pants off of me. I had nightmares for months. In hindsight, not that scary, but at the time? At my age? Terrifying.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Terminator 1
This fucked me up more than any monsters... This thing just has one mission and it's relentless
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •I don't remember my age, but Spirited Away absolutely fucked me up for a little while. I felt like I was in that world and was terrified of No-Face eating me up. Legitimately had nightmares... It doesn't seem that bad rewatching it but it was not good for my younger mind.
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in reply to IronKrill • • •Haha as an adult my reaction was "ommmmmggg this is the fuckin shiiiit"
Not to dismiss your reaction. Kids can have very intense reactions to stimuli like that. The movie Alien terrified me.
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •It wasn’t a movie per se. I thought it was when I was a kid, though. It’s an episode of “Friday the 13th: The Series” called “The Executioner”.
I was like maybe 6 or 7 at the time.
It starts with this guy in prison you see them take him to the electric chair and attempt to execute him. They botch it and the warden or whoever pretty much goes “oops, well by law we did technically carry out your sentence so you’re a free man now”
He then goes on to become a dentist and uses a “cursed electric chair” as his dentist chair to take revenge on the world.
This gave me a real fear of going to the dentist on top of just being a kid and being scared to go. Still hate going to the dentist (who doesn’t I guess)
I used to play Myst at the time and that even made me feel uncomfortable in the Time Machine room with the dentist chair at the first island.
edit: I watched it again as an adult and it was corny as hell
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Still scary!
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •Can't remember what name of this movie, but it had in the end a train flying over a destroyed bridge and into a river at the bottom of a ravine. That and corpses and debris floating left it seared in my head for a couple years.
edit: might be this. imdb.com/title/tt0074292/
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • • •At the height of the cold war, 87 or 88 iirc, a movie came on HBO called Dreamscape. It's WW3 imagery really blew my mind, I recall having dreams about it for ages. I'd turned it on because a few weeks before I'd really enjoyed Innerspace with the same lead actor, but this was a bit different lol
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in reply to Suck_on_my_Presence • •@Suck_on_my_Presence Jaws did, I lived near a lake. Took me a while to realize the lake was really much too small for sharks, but the movie gave me vivid dreams.
Alien terrified me, as the house I lived in had long dark hallways where those beasts or eggs could hide. Saw the film when video2000 and Betamax were still competing. I never found xenomorphs in my house and terror faded, but the franchise stayed with me including Disneyfication.
What actually scared me more was Poltergeist. What a terrifying world, house, family, setting, glow from behind closed doors and the TV sucked you in to the other side.
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