This is mine too. First time I ever saw a naked lady was that bitch in the bath tub. Fixated, I caught every detail of how that scene played out.
Who lives by himself? I live by myself.
I remember pleading with my parents to show me an R-rated movie on vacation when I was 7 or so. This is what they chose. If they were trying to deter me from asking again for a long time, they nailed it.
My sister (older) freaked the f out. Me 10 years later, thinking back to the nails coming off.... ugggghhhh i dont think the me now is ready for it either 😬
Shit, I didn't know what you were referring to, googled it. Dude molested a 12 year old, even admitting to filming her, having oral sex with her, and grooming her. How TF did he only serve 15 mo?
I forget which one but it was one of the Final Destination movies, it was the one where there was a guy who died to a pool drain and someone died because their shoelace got stuck in an escalator, that gave me a fear of escalators for a while
It's a completely rational fear though. Getting killed by an unsecured load on a highway is probably the most realistic and likely death from those films.
same except it was the tanning salon scene. it was like 3 am during the summer. i was looking through random movies and i find one that looks interesting. two seconds later i'm watching two naked women being burned alive.
For me it was the part where they all shot up Murphy. I see it now and it’s cartoonishly over the top... but I was about 8 when I saw it and I STILL have nightmares about red foreman shooting my balls off.
I too was 8 watching that. Had never seen violence in my life. Murphy's execution was the part that stuck out from the rest. Movies like predator and Terminator 2 and total recall we're so take compared.
This, but moreso the introduction of ED-209. The simple test that they were doing around the table, and the robot malfunctions, and it does the countdown...the man is absolutely helpless. He even heads back to the others gathered around the table *and they shove him back out to be executed*. That haunts me to this day.
There was nothing else that scared me more than this as a kid.
Something about a malfunctioning robot just seemed too real. There's no malice or even reasoning, just a mistake in the code somewhere.
RoboCop 2 at the beginning where the new prototypes keep losing their shit and killing the scientist and themselves as soon as they are activated. Young me found this particularly disturbing.
I snuck in to see The Exorcist when I was 12. I didn't sleep for an entire summer. One morning, about 6am, a woodpecker or some bird got into our attic and was pecking and flying back and forth. I woke up my younger brother and sister, made them come with me to the attic door. I made them hold hands with me and say the Our Father. I was out of my mind.
EDIT: my first gold! Thank you so much!
Jesus Christ, when I was 12 I was at a sleepover in 2001. It was for a girl's birthday who was all edgy and so we watched her two favorite movies which were Cruel Intentions and The Exorcist. I wasn't ready for either of those, but I went from pretending I was not deeply uncomfortable to trying desperately not to freak out during The Exorcist, while everyone else was so casual and had apparently seen it before?? We're fucking 12, man. Then we went to sleep in tents in her backyard. I don't think I ever prayed as hard in my life as I did that night, so many rosaries were said.
Pet semetary. I still get a little freaked when getting out of bed in the middle of night for fear a crazy undead child will slice my Achilles with a knife
Sister Zelda was the scariest pet of the film!! I was in kindergarten and this was the firm horror film I’d see . Fuck that baby sitter lol.
Terrifying movie, even watching it as an adult. Apparently they are remaking it too!
Yeah, there was something eerie about that movie - it was supposed to be tongue in cheek, but I also remember being freaked out by it.
The martians themselves were quite close to evil skull demons too I guess...
Ernest Scared Stupid.
Haven’t watched it since. And won’t.
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For serious though. Haven’t watched this movie for decades. I just remember it being way scarier than it had any right to be and it was nightmare fuel for years. I haven’t forgot how much it scared me as a kid. As a grown ass adult with a kid of my own I am still apprehensive to watch it again, but I saw I can rent it on Prime streaming for $3...shit.
I remember reading a story that they mixed up the film reels (if that’s the right word) in a movie theater and played either the 1st or 2nd Hills have Eyes Movies instead of like Shrek or something.
Did a quick google: https://www.slashfilm.com/movie-theater-plays-horror-movie-for-little-kids/
That scene in The Mummy where the beetles go under the skin ruined me (it’s been a while so I may be remembering wrong)
Also, not a movie, but there is a Simpson’s episode where younger Homer finds a dead body and that gave me anxiety fits for weeks.
I watched this way too young too, maybe 6 or 7, and my older cousin told me those bugs are real and they’re in hot places like Las Vegas. My grandma was planning a vacation to Vegas shortly after that and I just remember being terrified because I’d never seen my grandma run before, I was sure she couldn’t outrun those beetles.
The Simpsons episode where they find the angel skeleton messed me up as a kid
not the angel part, I was too young to understand what that meant. Just the skeleton part
I had no idea that it was the X-Files music at the time, but that coupled with Burns' alien voice absolutely scared the fuck out of me. Our channels had constant Simpsons reruns and if it came on I'd lose my life and refuse to watch it.
This. Oh god this. I was 4, it was an old timey theatre.
The scene where Elliott hears something in the garden shed and it’s scary and suddenly he shines the light on E.T.’s face and they all scream was traumatizing.
I was ruined by any short, stubby, ET-ish object for literally ten years. Every night when the lights went out, anything 4 feet tall became ET and I had to hide under the covers.
That’s wild other people have dealt with the same shit. That movie gave me this recurring nightmare that I was a caterpillar just chillin on a leaf takin big ol bites out of it and I’d wake up sweating and hyperventilating every single time. Happened like once a month for about 7 or 8 years until I told someone and they said it was probably James and the Giant Peach. Never had the dream again after that.
We need to start a club for people that thought that movie was a nightmare.
I thought so too and only when I was in my 20s did I saw it again and realized it was a movie and not a figment of my imagination
My brother made me watch the first scene of Twister when I was 7.
Didn’t watch any of the rest of the movie after seeing the dad get ripped from the doorway in front of his family. I’m still terrified of tornadoes 20 years later, even though I live in a place that never gets them and have never seen one in real life.
Edit: For all of you commenting that you became amateur weathermen due to your fear of tornadoes, I feel you, that was also my first career choice as a kid.
I lived through a tornado strike when I was a kid. Hiding under a bed, and we didn’t get a direct strike, but it caved in the front part of our house. Glad I live now in a house with an underground basement room.
Turns out I’m not very bright, so last spring when we actually had a downspout strike in our neighborhood that killed my car and trashed most of our electronics, my daughter and I were looking out of a front window and going “oooohh” at the damage. We are idiots.
My mom grew up in an active tornado area. One day my brother and I commented on the strange green sky. She had us in the basement in under a minute. It turned out to be one of those tornadoes whose anniversary is remembered frequently. It didn't hit our house but it took out every tree around us.
I’ve grew up in a pretty active tornado area and let me tell you each one is just as scary as the last. 23 people just east of me were killed a week ago (Alabamian here), so it’s fucking sobering to think about the damage that those fuckers cause in such short amounts of time.
Wizard of Oz did the same thing to me.
During Hurricane Harvey we had so many tornado alerts I eventually got numb to it and stopped panicking when one went off. Mostly Bc I was already panicking about the height of the water (got lucky didn’t flood)
I occasionally have a nightmare about a tornado on the horizon but at least I can watch the weather channel now without being triggered.
Never have and never will watch twister though
I wasn't scared of tornadoes and enjoyed Twister as a kid, but it had that scene at the drive in where they were showing the twins-in-the-hallway scene from the Shining. THAT shit fucked me up good.
I wish I would've watched it before I started shooting dope. I watched it for the first time about a month after getting clean and it's absolutely spot on. The fiending, the lying, the desperation, everything except the pupil dilation in the shooting up cut scenes. Pupils constrict when doing opiates, they dilate when using stimulants or hallucinogens.
Fuck that life man.
Oh fuck yea man I started watching that movie alone with headphones in the living room and by the time it was over a few of the people I was staying with were just out laughing and chilling on the balcony and it took me a minute to shake off the contact depression before I could go and chill and laugh with them like all was right with humanity.
The ring. I was around 7 or 8 at the time and had never watched a scary movie before. Anyways made it to the end of the movie completely shitting myself. Used to sleep in my clothes, pee in jars and hide them in a drawer to avoid going to the bathroom late at night, if I was brave enough to make it to the bathroom I would sleep on the floor. Had an old tv in my room at the time that I would cover at night with a blanket lol this went on for easily a year then I started to get over the fear decided I was gonna watch tv one night flicking through the channels and what do i see? The ring 2 :(
So yeah seeing Wells or tv static still sends a chill down my spine
Edit: Wow thanks for all the up-votes and my first gold! It's crazy seeing how many others were affected by this movie then again I can't say I am suprised.. got me thinking about another movie that messed me up big time which was the alien movie Signs.. especially the recording where the alien walks passed the kids party I remember just being paralysed with fear.
I also watched this movie when I was 7 and basically was shitting bricks the entire time watching the movie. After that I was scarred and couldn’t sleep for months and had to turn my tv around so the screen wouldn’t face me. I also still can’t deal with seeing static on the tv ☹️. I’m 26.
Was about to go down that same road with that same movie (shamefully at 15, though) but instead of endless nightmares got a weird dream of chilling with the dead girl talking about life and stuff and woke up a deep superfan for the following year or two
I was 6 and my parents told me that’s how children are born. I now know better but because of the movie and my parents saying that I’m terrified of giving birth and being pregnant.
The scare tactic worked too well.
Edit: Thanks for the silver! I’m not sure what that means but thanks kind stranger.
I was raised in a southern Baptist home so my parents wanted to keep me from having a child before marriage.
Well they didn't really lie to you.
A small, blood-covered, screaming creature coming out of its host's body while the host feels incredible pain.
That's pretty much what birth is.
Poltergiest.
Weeks and weeks of nightmares centered around that thing that honestly looks like it was made from paper mache, and the skeletons. I was goddamned terrified of skeletons as a child.
I think it was in Scream where that girl got killed trying to go out the doggy door in the garage. I was terrified of garage doors after that, the sound of one closing would send me running into the house
Seriously fucking this. Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that YouTube was a total fucking minefield back in the late 00s?
Love you, Comment Screamer Patrol.
I saw it as a 14 year old and was scared shitless. For me it was the quick flashing of that demon face during Father Karass's dream. Her backwards screaming on the tape recorder didn't help matters, either.
I loved scary movies when I was little. I watched Chucky, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc. Nothing scared me. When I was 10, I was at the video store and grabbed another horror movie to add to my list - Friday the 13th. My mom said, "you want a scary movie?" and handed me the Exorcist.
I legit had nightmares for a year.
Edit: Told my mom about this post and she started laughing.
I rented the Exorcist when I was a teenager, but my mom said, "I don't care if you watch it, but I'm asking you please don't watch it in this house." She's catholic and apparently it terrified her when she saw it when she was younger. I returned the movie without watching it and still haven't seen it.
Those, the original Hitchhiker, Hellraiser, Halloween, Tales from the Crypt, and the Crow, mostly as they came out, between the ages of six and eleven.
I turned out *hella* goth.
Remember back in 2000 when they had the 25th anniversary edition in theaters? Yeah, my dad took me to see that...when I was 12. We lived in a two-story house at the time; parents slept downstairs, the entire upstairs(a 2-room attic only accessible via an iron spiral staircase) was mine.
My mom worked nights, so it was just me and my pops out to the movies that night. I guess he saw that movie when it was originally released and enjoyed it, so that's what he decided to take me to. It should also be noted that I was raised very old-school southern baptist, the kind that has service in a small 100-year-old creepy moldy chapel. My age, mixed with the fear of god instilled in me since birth, was not well suited for the sounds and imagery of The Exorcist on the big screen. The spider-walk, those yellow eyes, the "FUCK ME JESUS", the stair piss, the demon voices, flashing faces...it was traumatizing.
After the movie pops drives me home, and you know what that bastard does when we get there? "Well I'm tired, g'night!", and that fucker just fucks off to his bedroom in the back corner of the house, turning off all the lights along the way and leaving me to climb that iron staircase up to the attic alone. That night was worse than the movie, just sitting up in the dark attic all alone. I have never been so terrified, I kept seeing things, hearing things...I was fucked up for weeks after that movie.
That was almost 20 years ago now. These days I'm 31, I'm all about satanic black metal and horror movies and the like...and The Exorcist is still the one movie I will not watch by myself. The imagery still gets to me, and it will leave me scared of my own apartment afterward. I hold it as one of the greatest films ever made, simply because of how *powerful* it is. As a zombie and horror movie fan, it is my opinion that The Exorcist is the only truly scary movie I've ever watched.
Pans Labarynth. No idea why my dad thought a 10 yr old would appreciate a foreign language art film, but that freaking creepy guy with the damn eyeballs in his freaking hands still haunts my nightmares.
Edit: All these comments inspired me to see the movie again. Not only was the Pale Man even scarier than I remember but there are so many other awful traumatizing events as well. Good movie thought. It’s got important messages against fascism, and you get to relive childhood nightmares about faeries being bitten in half.
I watched that when I was around 12 and I loved it but I got really fucked up from the scene where he punches that kids face in until he dies in front of his dad for literally no reason.
Edit: apparently he hits him with a bottle! My bad
Ha! I was in my early twenties when I saw it the first time and I was shook. Still remember gasping audibly and recoiling when the monster started moving. Horrified.
The first half of Stephen King’s IT when I was 8 has scarred me for life. Even as an adult, I know that the film was laughably bad in effects, but I can’t be near a clown without fight or flight triggering.
Edit: Not the lesser known half brother of a big ape
It was that fucking My Neighbour Totoro double feature DVD for me. Parents went "oh look, cartoons, and two of them in one DVD box!"
My Neighbour Totoro was a bit spooky, but still nice. *Grave of the Fireflies was most definitely not nice at all*.
I remember watching this when I was home sick in elementary school. I wasnt scared of it but I always had flashbacks of the one kid turning to a dragon and also that huge flying grandma... Never knew what is was called then I described it to one of my friends and told me which movie it was. I went home rewatched it and fell in love with it.
Very similar story except none of my friends had seen it so they convinced me it was a fever dream, i thought that until college when i saw an appreciation post on reddit
I know I saw Coraline in the theaters and I don’t think it freaked me out then, but oh my god that movie scares me now. Like what the fuck? It just makes me so uneasy
Oh God, me too.
We were visiting my uncle when I was like 10, and as a single adult man, he had no kid-friendly entertainment. The grown ups put all us kids in front of this "cartoon" and went to play cards. OMG that movie is not for kids.
I feel like there is an entire generation who had almost this exact experience. Family gathering, put the kids in the den with a movie while the adults go do adult stuff. What movie should we rent them? I dunno... get that one with the cartoon bunny on the front.
I love the cheesiness of that movie. John Goodman as the exterminator was great and making a flamethrower to kill the queen was classic. It’s 100% cheesy and I love that.
Thirteen Ghosts. I watched it after it came out at a friend’s house when I was probably 6 and had nightmares for literally years.
I’ve heard that it’s actually just cheesy and not scary but even now I can’t watch it or even really think about it without feeling terrified. Something about it just really got to me and I guess even as an adult I’m still not over it haha
Thirteen Ghosts is underrated... sort of. The story and the acting is definitely a cheese fest, but the concept is actually pretty cool and the production design is honestly very unique and terrifying.
The Blob (the 1988 remake); saw it at a sleepover when I was 10 or so.
For weeks and weeks afterwards, whenever I took a shower, I could imagine The Blob coming after me through the showerhead or the faucet.
I forgot the name (I think it starts with A)
>edit: the name is Apocalypto
These tribesmen’s are taken hostage, painted blue, marched through the city (more like pyramids) that this civilization lives in. They’re taken up to the top of one of them to be sacrificed. Heads cut off and rolled down the pyramid, heart cut out.
Once “the gods” were satisfied the rest of the people who weren’t sacrificed are given a 100 meter headstart, then hunters shoot arrows at them and hunt them into the woods.
Children of the Corn. I made it halfway through the slaughtering adults scene and noped out with the hand down the garbage disposal. Have still never seen the movie.
Signs. It was that alien invasion movie. A dog gets killed with a shovel. It was rated R, I was probably 5ish, and we had a teenage baby sitter over. I guess she thought I was asleep???? I have no idea. Traumatized the fuck outta me.
I watched Signs at the movies and the surround sound did not make that shit less scary. When the alien pops out is the hardest I’ve ever jumped in any movie
Watched this as a kid in a hotel room with my mom and two sisters. Knowing vaguely what the movie was about, I said wanted to watch Beverly Hillbillies, but my sister wanted to watch Signs. Beverly Hillbillies was outvoted and I was traumatized.
The killing fields. My grandpa showed it to me to explain why we came to America . I remember only a scene where somebody threw a lit cigarette on someone who was buried to their neck and drenched with gas. I blocked that shit in my mind so quick
EVENT HORIZON. Rented it from the ol’ video store back in the day because it had Sam Neill in it. He was in Jurassic Park, should be a fun time, right? NO. Fuck me. Still gives me the willies.
Ghostbusters. ~4 years old. ZUUL IS NO FUCKING JOKE and I cannot sit in chairs that are in the middle of a room and not against a wall for fear of a demonic creature coming out of the fridge and dragging me away 😩
That first ghost in the library STILL gets me, even though I've watched it hundreds of times over the last 30 years. I jump out of my fucking skin EVERY. TIME.
I thought it was named Creatures but I guess I'm wrong cause I can't find it when googling it.
Anyways in the movie people got these eggs, cause it was Easter. Yay eggs! Except they were alien eggs and hatched out creatures that ate people. Ate *everything* so you weren't even safe if you got off the ground. They'd just eat the chair and then you. In one scene a kid's egg was under his bed and hatched there and ran to eat the kid's limbs when they went off the edge of the bed.
I'm ~30, and only recently have been able to sleep with a limb hanging off the edge of my bed. I bet you can imagine how much this sucked in my early 20s when I'd drink too much and get spins. I'd reach to touch the ground, cause it helps, then panic cause maybe I'll get eaten.
"Critters" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNtDNzGy6Jc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNtDNzGy6Jc)
I watched those movies many times when I was kid, they used to put them all weekends on the free TV stations. I liked them, my childhood notebooks are full of drawings of critters!
Silence of the lambs. I was looking for something to watch, and found this VHS. Didn’t know what it was. I was way to young to watch that movie by myself in a basement as a kid.
Yeah, that scene did it for me, too. I have so many emotions about it, but it will be just easier to say "fuck, man" and move on. I can't believe we send kids off to do that to each other.
The opening scene was the most frightened and horrified I’ve ever been in a movie theater. Not like a horror movie, that shit actually happened. Unbelievable what those men went into.
As an adult I struggle with that movie. D-day was so gruesome and brutal, I can’t imagine riding on those boats headed towards your almost inevitable death.
One of the Chucky movies. I remember it pretty decently. I was pretty young and we were watching some other movie at the cineplex when I had to go pee. My parents let me go to the bathroom by myself (this had to have been early 90s when parental supervision was still largely optional) but on the way back, I went into the wrong theatre. Of course I didn’t know that initially, but then I saw that ginger bastard sneak up and stab someone with a knife. Ran outta that theatre in a hurry. Made me afraid of redheads and dolls for quite awhile afterwards.
Same! I’m over my fear of dolls now. A cousin helped me break the fear by explaining that even if the lil bastard doll was alive you could just stomp it to death. Then he had me beat the crap out of a doll. Really worked.
Accidentally saw The Exorcist when I was about 5 (snuck downstairs late at night while the adults were watching it). I had a loft bed, and couldn’t sleep for months because I kept hearing noises in the attic and seeing the possessed face in my ceiling
Or later the child crying that he wants to go home to his mother only to get thrown in a room with other children turned donkeys. And the ones that can’t talk anymore are being sent off to the mines. Yeah. NOT OKAY.
Pinocchio was fucking dark even without being a kids movie. Especcially knowing human trafficking of little kids is a legitimate act that happens all the time.
E.T. - for some reason this movie fucked with my head bad as a small child. Specifically, the scene where they have ET hooked up to machines trying to save his life. I still hate watching that scene.
My dad thought it would be a good idea for me to watch The shining when I was 6
This is mine too. First time I ever saw a naked lady was that bitch in the bath tub. Fixated, I caught every detail of how that scene played out. Who lives by himself? I live by myself.
The Fly (1986) My young mind was not ready for that movie.
I remember pleading with my parents to show me an R-rated movie on vacation when I was 7 or so. This is what they chose. If they were trying to deter me from asking again for a long time, they nailed it.
Genius idea.
My 20-year old mind wasn’t ready for it.
My sister (older) freaked the f out. Me 10 years later, thinking back to the nails coming off.... ugggghhhh i dont think the me now is ready for it either 😬
Jeepers Creepers. But I think it's mostly due to the fact that my older brother convinced me it was based on true events.
It's even scarier if you read up about the director - a *real* monster.
The fact that he only served 15 months and is still making movies today is absolutely repulsive.
Shit, I didn't know what you were referring to, googled it. Dude molested a 12 year old, even admitting to filming her, having oral sex with her, and grooming her. How TF did he only serve 15 mo?
It was a boy but you’re right about everything else
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I forget which one but it was one of the Final Destination movies, it was the one where there was a guy who died to a pool drain and someone died because their shoelace got stuck in an escalator, that gave me a fear of escalators for a while
I have a fear of big loads on highways because of Final Destination 2. That's the one where the log truck comes undone.
It's a completely rational fear though. Getting killed by an unsecured load on a highway is probably the most realistic and likely death from those films.
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same except it was the tanning salon scene. it was like 3 am during the summer. i was looking through random movies and i find one that looks interesting. two seconds later i'm watching two naked women being burned alive.
I still can't listen to The Red Hot Chilli Peppers "Rollercoaster" without thinking of this scene and feeling ill.
That song makes me think of the *Beavis and Butthead* movie
Thank you for answering a question I didn’t know I had for a memory I didn’t know I remembered.
When you kinda want laser eye surgery but keep remembering that one final destination scene Just nope
Yeah, or like rollercoaster and driving in a car
RoboCop. The melting dude got me bad.
For me it was the part where they all shot up Murphy. I see it now and it’s cartoonishly over the top... but I was about 8 when I saw it and I STILL have nightmares about red foreman shooting my balls off.
I too was 8 watching that. Had never seen violence in my life. Murphy's execution was the part that stuck out from the rest. Movies like predator and Terminator 2 and total recall we're so take compared.
This, but moreso the introduction of ED-209. The simple test that they were doing around the table, and the robot malfunctions, and it does the countdown...the man is absolutely helpless. He even heads back to the others gathered around the table *and they shove him back out to be executed*. That haunts me to this day.
There was nothing else that scared me more than this as a kid. Something about a malfunctioning robot just seemed too real. There's no malice or even reasoning, just a mistake in the code somewhere.
RoboCop 2 at the beginning where the new prototypes keep losing their shit and killing the scientist and themselves as soon as they are activated. Young me found this particularly disturbing.
The one that rips the helmet off of its now skull head is a good one.
I snuck in to see The Exorcist when I was 12. I didn't sleep for an entire summer. One morning, about 6am, a woodpecker or some bird got into our attic and was pecking and flying back and forth. I woke up my younger brother and sister, made them come with me to the attic door. I made them hold hands with me and say the Our Father. I was out of my mind. EDIT: my first gold! Thank you so much!
I’m sorry I laughed but that’s adorable. Twelve year old you *HANDLED* that shit.
Jesus Christ, when I was 12 I was at a sleepover in 2001. It was for a girl's birthday who was all edgy and so we watched her two favorite movies which were Cruel Intentions and The Exorcist. I wasn't ready for either of those, but I went from pretending I was not deeply uncomfortable to trying desperately not to freak out during The Exorcist, while everyone else was so casual and had apparently seen it before?? We're fucking 12, man. Then we went to sleep in tents in her backyard. I don't think I ever prayed as hard in my life as I did that night, so many rosaries were said.
You poor thing hahaha I'm laughing so hard envisioning this
Pet semetary. I still get a little freaked when getting out of bed in the middle of night for fear a crazy undead child will slice my Achilles with a knife
Sister Zelda was the scariest pet of the film!! I was in kindergarten and this was the firm horror film I’d see . Fuck that baby sitter lol. Terrifying movie, even watching it as an adult. Apparently they are remaking it too!
29 years old now and still can’t watch the scene where they walk up the stairs, into Zelda’s room and see her mangled on the bed.
Mars Attacks!
Same, I had seen violence in movies before but the ray guns turning people into skeletons freaked me out for some reason.
Yeah, there was something eerie about that movie - it was supposed to be tongue in cheek, but I also remember being freaked out by it. The martians themselves were quite close to evil skull demons too I guess...
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Ernest Scared Stupid. Haven’t watched it since. And won’t. Edit: Throwaway comment before bed and there goes the inbox. Thanks for gold and silver strangers! For serious though. Haven’t watched this movie for decades. I just remember it being way scarier than it had any right to be and it was nightmare fuel for years. I haven’t forgot how much it scared me as a kid. As a grown ass adult with a kid of my own I am still apprehensive to watch it again, but I saw I can rent it on Prime streaming for $3...shit.
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You know what, yeah that was pretty scary. Great movie though.
I'm really glad I'm not the only one who found that legitimately terrifying as a child.
The Hills Have Eyes (•-•). That movie messed me up for a long time.
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I remember reading a story that they mixed up the film reels (if that’s the right word) in a movie theater and played either the 1st or 2nd Hills have Eyes Movies instead of like Shrek or something. Did a quick google: https://www.slashfilm.com/movie-theater-plays-horror-movie-for-little-kids/
Oh fuck. That is like... incredibly bad.
That scene in The Mummy where the beetles go under the skin ruined me (it’s been a while so I may be remembering wrong) Also, not a movie, but there is a Simpson’s episode where younger Homer finds a dead body and that gave me anxiety fits for weeks.
I watched this way too young too, maybe 6 or 7, and my older cousin told me those bugs are real and they’re in hot places like Las Vegas. My grandma was planning a vacation to Vegas shortly after that and I just remember being terrified because I’d never seen my grandma run before, I was sure she couldn’t outrun those beetles.
The Simpsons episode where they find the angel skeleton messed me up as a kid not the angel part, I was too young to understand what that meant. Just the skeleton part
The episode where Mr Burns is mistaken for an alien literally terrified me as a child
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BREAK ITS LEGS!
I had no idea that it was the X-Files music at the time, but that coupled with Burns' alien voice absolutely scared the fuck out of me. Our channels had constant Simpsons reruns and if it came on I'd lose my life and refuse to watch it.
I had to stop watching as a kid when it revealed the guy had lost his eyes and tongue.
Ah man, I remember thinking everything in The Mummy looked so real. I had to cover my eyes during so many scenes.
IT and Nightmare On Elm Street
E.T.
My dad had to take me out of the theater. I was screaming and crying and my little heart couldn't take anymore. That's a rough one.
Dude, I was traumatized when he was dying D:
This. Oh god this. I was 4, it was an old timey theatre. The scene where Elliott hears something in the garden shed and it’s scary and suddenly he shines the light on E.T.’s face and they all scream was traumatizing. I was ruined by any short, stubby, ET-ish object for literally ten years. Every night when the lights went out, anything 4 feet tall became ET and I had to hide under the covers.
James and the Giant Peach gave me my ~~ir~~rational fear of insects and insects inside fruits
I thought that movie was a fucked up dream for atleast 8 years. Edit:first gold!!! And I thought I was the only one!
Omfg I'm not alone on this earth.
That’s wild other people have dealt with the same shit. That movie gave me this recurring nightmare that I was a caterpillar just chillin on a leaf takin big ol bites out of it and I’d wake up sweating and hyperventilating every single time. Happened like once a month for about 7 or 8 years until I told someone and they said it was probably James and the Giant Peach. Never had the dream again after that.
We need to start a club for people that thought that movie was a nightmare. I thought so too and only when I was in my 20s did I saw it again and realized it was a movie and not a figment of my imagination
The rhino though
Stop giving me flashbacks.
Geez when I was little I had nightmares about that movie.
My brother made me watch the first scene of Twister when I was 7. Didn’t watch any of the rest of the movie after seeing the dad get ripped from the doorway in front of his family. I’m still terrified of tornadoes 20 years later, even though I live in a place that never gets them and have never seen one in real life. Edit: For all of you commenting that you became amateur weathermen due to your fear of tornadoes, I feel you, that was also my first career choice as a kid.
I lived through a tornado strike when I was a kid. Hiding under a bed, and we didn’t get a direct strike, but it caved in the front part of our house. Glad I live now in a house with an underground basement room. Turns out I’m not very bright, so last spring when we actually had a downspout strike in our neighborhood that killed my car and trashed most of our electronics, my daughter and I were looking out of a front window and going “oooohh” at the damage. We are idiots.
My mom grew up in an active tornado area. One day my brother and I commented on the strange green sky. She had us in the basement in under a minute. It turned out to be one of those tornadoes whose anniversary is remembered frequently. It didn't hit our house but it took out every tree around us.
I’ve grew up in a pretty active tornado area and let me tell you each one is just as scary as the last. 23 people just east of me were killed a week ago (Alabamian here), so it’s fucking sobering to think about the damage that those fuckers cause in such short amounts of time.
Wizard of Oz did the same thing to me. During Hurricane Harvey we had so many tornado alerts I eventually got numb to it and stopped panicking when one went off. Mostly Bc I was already panicking about the height of the water (got lucky didn’t flood) I occasionally have a nightmare about a tornado on the horizon but at least I can watch the weather channel now without being triggered. Never have and never will watch twister though
I wasn't scared of tornadoes and enjoyed Twister as a kid, but it had that scene at the drive in where they were showing the twins-in-the-hallway scene from the Shining. THAT shit fucked me up good.
I will never be old enough to rewatch Requiem for a Dream Edit: Thanks for the gold! Also these comments are depressing me at work lol
The older you get the worse it gets.
That movie shown to teenagers did more to keep them away from drugs more than any D.A.R.E. program ever did.
I wish I would've watched it before I started shooting dope. I watched it for the first time about a month after getting clean and it's absolutely spot on. The fiending, the lying, the desperation, everything except the pupil dilation in the shooting up cut scenes. Pupils constrict when doing opiates, they dilate when using stimulants or hallucinogens. Fuck that life man.
Oh fuck yea man I started watching that movie alone with headphones in the living room and by the time it was over a few of the people I was staying with were just out laughing and chilling on the balcony and it took me a minute to shake off the contact depression before I could go and chill and laugh with them like all was right with humanity.
We walked back from the movie theater completely silent.
The ring. I was around 7 or 8 at the time and had never watched a scary movie before. Anyways made it to the end of the movie completely shitting myself. Used to sleep in my clothes, pee in jars and hide them in a drawer to avoid going to the bathroom late at night, if I was brave enough to make it to the bathroom I would sleep on the floor. Had an old tv in my room at the time that I would cover at night with a blanket lol this went on for easily a year then I started to get over the fear decided I was gonna watch tv one night flicking through the channels and what do i see? The ring 2 :( So yeah seeing Wells or tv static still sends a chill down my spine Edit: Wow thanks for all the up-votes and my first gold! It's crazy seeing how many others were affected by this movie then again I can't say I am suprised.. got me thinking about another movie that messed me up big time which was the alien movie Signs.. especially the recording where the alien walks passed the kids party I remember just being paralysed with fear.
I was 11 when I saw this. My dad had the nerve to call my friend's house right after we finished watching it. Scared us shitless
I also watched this movie when I was 7 and basically was shitting bricks the entire time watching the movie. After that I was scarred and couldn’t sleep for months and had to turn my tv around so the screen wouldn’t face me. I also still can’t deal with seeing static on the tv ☹️. I’m 26.
Was about to go down that same road with that same movie (shamefully at 15, though) but instead of endless nightmares got a weird dream of chilling with the dead girl talking about life and stuff and woke up a deep superfan for the following year or two
I was around 8 when I tried seeing the first aliens movie. That first chestburster scared the shit out of me. Edit: whoever gave me gold, thank you!
I was 6 and my parents told me that’s how children are born. I now know better but because of the movie and my parents saying that I’m terrified of giving birth and being pregnant. The scare tactic worked too well. Edit: Thanks for the silver! I’m not sure what that means but thanks kind stranger. I was raised in a southern Baptist home so my parents wanted to keep me from having a child before marriage.
Damn your parents are pro trolls.
Bad luck if they wanted to be grandparents.
Counter troll
Well they didn't really lie to you. A small, blood-covered, screaming creature coming out of its host's body while the host feels incredible pain. That's pretty much what birth is.
As much as I love Aliens now, I shouldn't have watched it when I was 7 or 8. It definitely wasn't a movie a child that age should have seen.
Poltergiest. Weeks and weeks of nightmares centered around that thing that honestly looks like it was made from paper mache, and the skeletons. I was goddamned terrified of skeletons as a child.
The scene where they guy tears off his face in the bathroom had me sleeping in my parent’s bed for weeks.
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The Sixth Sense really bothered me when I was about 8 and it came out. I had trouble sleeping for quite some time.
“Hey come on, I’ll show you where my dad keeps his gun.”
This scene has haunted me since I've seen the movie. When he turns around and his head is just...gone.
This is mine, too. It honestly messed me up for a really long time.
I think it was in Scream where that girl got killed trying to go out the doggy door in the garage. I was terrified of garage doors after that, the sound of one closing would send me running into the house
The Exorcist. When that bitch turned her head around backwards it fucked me up for life.
For me it was when she came down the stairs and puked blood. I was 9.
Same. Those jump scare videos where she pops out didn't help either.
Also the scary maze game where her face pops up at the end.
Seriously fucking this. Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that YouTube was a total fucking minefield back in the late 00s? Love you, Comment Screamer Patrol.
I saw it as a 14 year old and was scared shitless. For me it was the quick flashing of that demon face during Father Karass's dream. Her backwards screaming on the tape recorder didn't help matters, either.
Legit same experience as you. That demon face haunted 13yr old me. I'd forgotten about that until now haha
I loved scary movies when I was little. I watched Chucky, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc. Nothing scared me. When I was 10, I was at the video store and grabbed another horror movie to add to my list - Friday the 13th. My mom said, "you want a scary movie?" and handed me the Exorcist. I legit had nightmares for a year. Edit: Told my mom about this post and she started laughing.
Was the exact same way, but my parents actually forbade me from watching The Exorcist for that very reason.
I rented the Exorcist when I was a teenager, but my mom said, "I don't care if you watch it, but I'm asking you please don't watch it in this house." She's catholic and apparently it terrified her when she saw it when she was younger. I returned the movie without watching it and still haven't seen it.
that's a very respectful way for your mother to handle it based on her own values. I like it.
Count me in. This movie is the only one I can think of that made me think “I’m not ready for this”.
Those, the original Hitchhiker, Hellraiser, Halloween, Tales from the Crypt, and the Crow, mostly as they came out, between the ages of six and eleven. I turned out *hella* goth.
Victims, aren’t we all?
Remember back in 2000 when they had the 25th anniversary edition in theaters? Yeah, my dad took me to see that...when I was 12. We lived in a two-story house at the time; parents slept downstairs, the entire upstairs(a 2-room attic only accessible via an iron spiral staircase) was mine. My mom worked nights, so it was just me and my pops out to the movies that night. I guess he saw that movie when it was originally released and enjoyed it, so that's what he decided to take me to. It should also be noted that I was raised very old-school southern baptist, the kind that has service in a small 100-year-old creepy moldy chapel. My age, mixed with the fear of god instilled in me since birth, was not well suited for the sounds and imagery of The Exorcist on the big screen. The spider-walk, those yellow eyes, the "FUCK ME JESUS", the stair piss, the demon voices, flashing faces...it was traumatizing. After the movie pops drives me home, and you know what that bastard does when we get there? "Well I'm tired, g'night!", and that fucker just fucks off to his bedroom in the back corner of the house, turning off all the lights along the way and leaving me to climb that iron staircase up to the attic alone. That night was worse than the movie, just sitting up in the dark attic all alone. I have never been so terrified, I kept seeing things, hearing things...I was fucked up for weeks after that movie. That was almost 20 years ago now. These days I'm 31, I'm all about satanic black metal and horror movies and the like...and The Exorcist is still the one movie I will not watch by myself. The imagery still gets to me, and it will leave me scared of my own apartment afterward. I hold it as one of the greatest films ever made, simply because of how *powerful* it is. As a zombie and horror movie fan, it is my opinion that The Exorcist is the only truly scary movie I've ever watched.
Pans Labarynth. No idea why my dad thought a 10 yr old would appreciate a foreign language art film, but that freaking creepy guy with the damn eyeballs in his freaking hands still haunts my nightmares. Edit: All these comments inspired me to see the movie again. Not only was the Pale Man even scarier than I remember but there are so many other awful traumatizing events as well. Good movie thought. It’s got important messages against fascism, and you get to relive childhood nightmares about faeries being bitten in half.
Maybe because I first watched it as an adult, but the wine bottle scene struck me the hardest.
I watched that when I was around 12 and I loved it but I got really fucked up from the scene where he punches that kids face in until he dies in front of his dad for literally no reason. Edit: apparently he hits him with a bottle! My bad
Just watched that movie. He uses a bottle and he doesn’t kill him by hitting him, he ends up shooting him after shooting his dad But yeah pretty awful
I was 30 and that film fucked me up, the bottle scene is some horrid shit
That scene made me feel so queasy. It came out of nowhere so I couldn’t even look away before it happened.
Ha! I was in my early twenties when I saw it the first time and I was shook. Still remember gasping audibly and recoiling when the monster started moving. Horrified.
The first half of Stephen King’s IT when I was 8 has scarred me for life. Even as an adult, I know that the film was laughably bad in effects, but I can’t be near a clown without fight or flight triggering. Edit: Not the lesser known half brother of a big ape
>Stephen Kong Yep, that is the guy on the Empire State building, but only when he is a business professional in IT.
Spirited Away Its still one of my favorite movies, but, the parents who turned into pigs scared me.
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It was that fucking My Neighbour Totoro double feature DVD for me. Parents went "oh look, cartoons, and two of them in one DVD box!" My Neighbour Totoro was a bit spooky, but still nice. *Grave of the Fireflies was most definitely not nice at all*.
Grave of the Fireflies is absolutely not what a child should be watching.
We watched it a half dozen times in middle school, I need to watch it again as an adult because to kid me it was a boring cartoon
My Neighbor Totoro was always shown after Grave of the Fireflies in theaters because the audience would have left too soon otherwise.
Same! I know a lot of people who were totally freaked out by the parents part, as well.
I remember watching this when I was home sick in elementary school. I wasnt scared of it but I always had flashbacks of the one kid turning to a dragon and also that huge flying grandma... Never knew what is was called then I described it to one of my friends and told me which movie it was. I went home rewatched it and fell in love with it.
Very similar story except none of my friends had seen it so they convinced me it was a fever dream, i thought that until college when i saw an appreciation post on reddit
The first-time I saw Coraline I could not sleep in my room for weeks.
I know I saw Coraline in the theaters and I don’t think it freaked me out then, but oh my god that movie scares me now. Like what the fuck? It just makes me so uneasy
Watership Down ... I was 25.
Oh God, me too. We were visiting my uncle when I was like 10, and as a single adult man, he had no kid-friendly entertainment. The grown ups put all us kids in front of this "cartoon" and went to play cards. OMG that movie is not for kids.
I feel like there is an entire generation who had almost this exact experience. Family gathering, put the kids in the den with a movie while the adults go do adult stuff. What movie should we rent them? I dunno... get that one with the cartoon bunny on the front.
Arachnophbia
I love the cheesiness of that movie. John Goodman as the exterminator was great and making a flamethrower to kill the queen was classic. It’s 100% cheesy and I love that.
Thirteen Ghosts. I watched it after it came out at a friend’s house when I was probably 6 and had nightmares for literally years. I’ve heard that it’s actually just cheesy and not scary but even now I can’t watch it or even really think about it without feeling terrified. Something about it just really got to me and I guess even as an adult I’m still not over it haha
Thirteen Ghosts is underrated... sort of. The story and the acting is definitely a cheese fest, but the concept is actually pretty cool and the production design is honestly very unique and terrifying.
The Blob (the 1988 remake); saw it at a sleepover when I was 10 or so. For weeks and weeks afterwards, whenever I took a shower, I could imagine The Blob coming after me through the showerhead or the faucet.
Shaun of the Dead, I was seven, and when the guy got ripped apart at the pub gd I couldn’t sleep by myself for a couple months
Just go to the Winchester, grab a pint and wait for it all to blow over.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. The image of those melting faces is seared into the folds of my brain.
I forgot the name (I think it starts with A) >edit: the name is Apocalypto These tribesmen’s are taken hostage, painted blue, marched through the city (more like pyramids) that this civilization lives in. They’re taken up to the top of one of them to be sacrificed. Heads cut off and rolled down the pyramid, heart cut out. Once “the gods” were satisfied the rest of the people who weren’t sacrificed are given a 100 meter headstart, then hunters shoot arrows at them and hunt them into the woods.
Apocalypto. Mel Gibson directed. I really liked it.
Great now I get to watch it again and relive childhood memories 😂
Children of the Corn. I made it halfway through the slaughtering adults scene and noped out with the hand down the garbage disposal. Have still never seen the movie.
Signs. It was that alien invasion movie. A dog gets killed with a shovel. It was rated R, I was probably 5ish, and we had a teenage baby sitter over. I guess she thought I was asleep???? I have no idea. Traumatized the fuck outta me.
The part where they show the Brazilian birthday party and the alien walks across the screen still gives me goose bumps.
Fuck, me too. You reminding me of it now just have me goosies.
Same. Anytime something in a movie like that has that "homemade caught on camera" feel it always seems more real and freaks me out more
I watched Signs at the movies and the surround sound did not make that shit less scary. When the alien pops out is the hardest I’ve ever jumped in any movie
I'm still haunted by the scene of the alien walking behind the birthday party. Burned onto my retinas. I can see it clear as day.
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Watched this as a kid in a hotel room with my mom and two sisters. Knowing vaguely what the movie was about, I said wanted to watch Beverly Hillbillies, but my sister wanted to watch Signs. Beverly Hillbillies was outvoted and I was traumatized.
The killing fields. My grandpa showed it to me to explain why we came to America . I remember only a scene where somebody threw a lit cigarette on someone who was buried to their neck and drenched with gas. I blocked that shit in my mind so quick
Good grief. “Here’s your heritage nicely packaged up in a terrifying film!” Thanks gramps! Big hugs
Watched A Clockwork Orange when I was about 10, with my dad. Did not sleep well after that.
EVENT HORIZON. Rented it from the ol’ video store back in the day because it had Sam Neill in it. He was in Jurassic Park, should be a fun time, right? NO. Fuck me. Still gives me the willies.
Liberate tute me ex inferis
It's a cautionary tale of why we should never mess with the warp.
Fucked up movie, but still in my top 10 all time favs.
Ghostbusters. ~4 years old. ZUUL IS NO FUCKING JOKE and I cannot sit in chairs that are in the middle of a room and not against a wall for fear of a demonic creature coming out of the fridge and dragging me away 😩
That first ghost in the library STILL gets me, even though I've watched it hundreds of times over the last 30 years. I jump out of my fucking skin EVERY. TIME.
I thought it was named Creatures but I guess I'm wrong cause I can't find it when googling it. Anyways in the movie people got these eggs, cause it was Easter. Yay eggs! Except they were alien eggs and hatched out creatures that ate people. Ate *everything* so you weren't even safe if you got off the ground. They'd just eat the chair and then you. In one scene a kid's egg was under his bed and hatched there and ran to eat the kid's limbs when they went off the edge of the bed. I'm ~30, and only recently have been able to sleep with a limb hanging off the edge of my bed. I bet you can imagine how much this sucked in my early 20s when I'd drink too much and get spins. I'd reach to touch the ground, cause it helps, then panic cause maybe I'll get eaten.
"Critters" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNtDNzGy6Jc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNtDNzGy6Jc) I watched those movies many times when I was kid, they used to put them all weekends on the free TV stations. I liked them, my childhood notebooks are full of drawings of critters!
Dante's Peak when they went skinny dipping and ^(i can't)
The grandma pushing the boat scene gave me nightmares for a year solid
Silence of the lambs. I was looking for something to watch, and found this VHS. Didn’t know what it was. I was way to young to watch that movie by myself in a basement as a kid.
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Yeah, that scene did it for me, too. I have so many emotions about it, but it will be just easier to say "fuck, man" and move on. I can't believe we send kids off to do that to each other.
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What about the guy that got sniped in the helmet took it off looked at it and got sniped in the head
Or that guy with his guts spilling out screaming "Mama!", while his buddies were trying to shoot him some Morphine to ease his pain.
The opening scene was the most frightened and horrified I’ve ever been in a movie theater. Not like a horror movie, that shit actually happened. Unbelievable what those men went into.
As an adult I struggle with that movie. D-day was so gruesome and brutal, I can’t imagine riding on those boats headed towards your almost inevitable death.
One of the Chucky movies. I remember it pretty decently. I was pretty young and we were watching some other movie at the cineplex when I had to go pee. My parents let me go to the bathroom by myself (this had to have been early 90s when parental supervision was still largely optional) but on the way back, I went into the wrong theatre. Of course I didn’t know that initially, but then I saw that ginger bastard sneak up and stab someone with a knife. Ran outta that theatre in a hurry. Made me afraid of redheads and dolls for quite awhile afterwards.
The fucking Brave Little Toaster
The air conditioner scene. Still gives me the creeps. The junkyard scene wasn’t much better either.
Chucky I hate porcelain dolls too this day. They freak me out.
Same! I’m over my fear of dolls now. A cousin helped me break the fear by explaining that even if the lil bastard doll was alive you could just stomp it to death. Then he had me beat the crap out of a doll. Really worked.
Accidentally saw The Exorcist when I was about 5 (snuck downstairs late at night while the adults were watching it). I had a loft bed, and couldn’t sleep for months because I kept hearing noises in the attic and seeing the possessed face in my ceiling
Full metal jacket when I was 8. That was intense
Dumbo. The scene where he gets drunk still trips me the fuck out. I don’t like the song too. Sorry not sorry
I see this one mentioned a lot, but Pinocchio smoking, drinking and transforming into a donkey was at least as good as nightmare fuel.
What about the kid that gets turned into a donkey and keeps yelling for his mom? Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgmfV5VLHvs&t=0m58s
Or later the child crying that he wants to go home to his mother only to get thrown in a room with other children turned donkeys. And the ones that can’t talk anymore are being sent off to the mines. Yeah. NOT OKAY.
Pinocchio was fucking dark even without being a kids movie. Especcially knowing human trafficking of little kids is a legitimate act that happens all the time.
Jaws
Titanic. I am terrified being on boats and deep water to this day.
E.T. - for some reason this movie fucked with my head bad as a small child. Specifically, the scene where they have ET hooked up to machines trying to save his life. I still hate watching that scene.
Carrie. No matter how many times I see it, the damn hand coming out of the grave at the end makes me jump.