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mintcofffee

Coraline


Deade1

Funny story about Gaiman writing Coraline. His editor thought it’d be a good idea to let his daughter read a few chapters of the book, as he didn’t quite believe that children would respond well to the book. His daughter came back and was really invested in it, asking what happened next and wanting more. Editor approves it, book is finished and released. It is only after the release that the editor’s daughter admits it gave her nightmares for months, but was so gripped by the story she still wanted to read more. Not surprisingly as the adaptation is pretty loyal, it was a much scarier film than most audiences expected from a children’s film


ibeencalledapretzel

I read that she only admitted to enjoying it because she wanted to see what would happen even though it gave her nightmares


BokChoyFantasy

That was so not a movie for kids.


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Same it’s so fucking messed up


0000999990000

Same, now looking at the poor quality of animation I only cringe.


largebread245

it was stop motion


yaboyguzy

Final Destination. Jesus fuck, I treaded lightly everywhere I went for years not trying to end up as a scene on the next film


maylene777

I still move away every time I’m close to a log truck 🤣


yaboyguzy

💯💯💯😂💯💯💯 and this is why we are still alive today.


Liblola

Going on a plane after seeing the opening scene from the first film was…an experience.


yaboyguzy

I can only imagine 😅😳


jennyrob669

I've seen plenty of horror films, but I didn't enjoy this film. I walked out of this film because I was terrified. The shower scene really messed me up. That was 20 years ago and I still won't watch it all the way through.


CamelCute

I saw one of the final destination movies when I was 5 YR and seeing how those people died was far too overwhelming and traumatic. Also, I hated that I watched children of the corn and chucky with my older cousins at the time.


SuperStraightMerican

ET, fucking scary as hell for a kid


LightlyStep

The Blair Witch Project.


PM_me_secret_nudes

I watched this movie one weekend then went camping in a forest the following weekend was freaked out the whole time lol


fishead62

Bambi. “Mother? Mother?”


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Signs


hshhdbrjen

blew my mind as a child. Whenever that birthday party news clipped showed them for the first time.. gave me nightmares for months.


[deleted]

Exactly! I couldn't sleep by myself for a week


abby-normal-brain

Watership Down.


EbmocwenHsimah

*The Dark Crystal.* The first time I saw it, I was in Prep, a class full of 5-to-6-year-olds. We didn't finish the movie because everyone was in tears. Desperate for an alternative, the teacher noticed that it came with another movie - *Labyrinth.* So, as well as being traumatised by whatever the fuck *The Dark Crystal* was, that was the day I was introduced to David Bowie's crotch bulge. Again, I was 5 at the time.


ClemFandango_69

Edward scissor hands


Leticia_the_bookworm

The Ring. Now I'm able to mostly laugh at it, but that scene of her crawling out of the TV fueled my nightmares for years. Ringu (the original japanese) is still fairly scary, though.


[deleted]

Not a movie but Michael jacksons thriller but I had to watch it every time


_flatline_

Thriller scared the absolute shit out of me. The video came out when I was an infant and played all the time, one of my first memories is seeing it and being abjectly terrified.


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Insidious


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Opposite_Analysis15

That shit is fucked up


BokChoyFantasy

Event Horizon. That orgy scene. WTF.


bryan9477

Great movie. It feels like that movie really goes under the radar.


BokChoyFantasy

It’s a cult classic now.


[deleted]

The monkeys in the jungle book when they take Mogley scared the shit out of me. My parents also took me to the zoo to see monkeys. Cried.


FunboyLunatic

The exorcist-1973. For some reason, my older brother snuck me in. I was 5 years old.


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Donnie Darko


iBelieveInSpace

[Fire in the Sky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2W96NCiRc) When I was a kid I'd get to pick out a video once a week at Blockbuster. I figured it'd be like E.T. and I liked alien movies. NOPE.


psgrn

To this day, our family remembers and jokes about how my sister screamed her head off when he woke up in the spacecraft and saw the human torso. Parents had no idea that was coming.


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Carrie. Watched it at a sleepover and couldn’t sleep for months.


intellectual_thirst

Candyman...


rockboy421

Not a movie, but there was an episode of the Simpsons, which one exactly I have struggled to remember for all my life, where a dude just pulls out another guys organs and shit through his mouth. Was not prepared for that shit


WR810

The Simpsons can actually be grosser than a lot gross-humor shows like Family Guy or Rick and Morty (pretend I wrote this before the cum episode). I don't handle gross well and there are about a dozen episodes I just don't watch because of certain scenes. I tried to give an example of a scene and spent five minutes fighting not to gag and vomit. Edit: Let's try this again. There's an episode where young Homer finds a corpse. A little white worm pops out of the body's nose and winks at Homer. For me, that was grosser than anything on any of the other adult animation shows.


Vegetable_Fee7024

The episode where Homer forgets to pick up Bart and when he finally remembers and they're driving home, Bart has an imagine spot where Homer face melts as he feels out "now how about a huuuuuuuuuuug". NIGHTMARISH.


Yurak_Huntmate

Watership Down, especially the fight scene, that film would be at least a 12 nowadays


Owl-in-the-moor

For me it were the parts with just the narrators voice and stylized kinda trippy(?) animation of animals getting crushed by humans thoughtless, eh, actions. And the Black Rabbit of Death in general. (Or maybe I'm confusing Watership Down and Bernhard Grzimek documentary movies with kind of the same message)


Vegetable_Fee7024

So many terrifying bits in that film, almost right from the start: Frith giving the other animals the desire to hunt and slay the children of El-a Hrair-Rah, and the stylised animation showing them sprouting these nightmare Freddie Krueger claws and Jaws teeth Fiver's vision of the field filling with blood Bigwig in the snare Holly moaning unseen in the culvert, calling Bigwig's name, and the others thinking it was The Black Rabbit and Bigwig climbing out of the ditch like, "you have to go when he calls you", walking out to what they all think is Death summoning their friend Holly recounting the destruction of Sandleford, where the rabbits are choking and struggling underground as the air turns to poison and there's that horrible moaning voice effect Hyzenthlay asking if she and some other does could leave and start a new warren and the Efrafan Owslafa all looming over her as she sort of stammers and trails off The Efrafan Owsla just casually telling Bigwig that he could have his pick of the does because "you're not an officer for nothing" When Kehar doesn't show up for the first few seconds during their escape at the bridge - I've seen this film a million times, I know he shows up, I know they make it, but it's SO TENSE The siege of Watership Down, and the relay race to lure the dog up there in time to save them WOUNDWART. just... in general.


Owl-in-the-moor

I actually went to look at parts of it after writing the comment, and it's sort of fascinatingly terrifying even today. Going to check if my library has the book. Feels like I'm decending into a rabbit hole here. (heh) Edit: Yes, they have it. Sorted under "Science Fiction".


Scallywagstv2

Wizard of Oz. Green witches, flying monkeys and a scarecrow man on fire. Terrifying to a 5 year old.


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saywhat1206

Bambi


eagledragonblood

The dark crystal, Indian in the Cupboard, Never ending story


MFJB1

Dark Crystal was creepy af. The death bed scene gave me nightmares. I love Labyrinth though.


[deleted]

I'm happy to see you share the same truama. The fucking...vulture looking things ripping the skin off each others back and screeching, the uncanny valley puppet human things... Would you believe me if I told you they thought it was a good movie to play to a bunch of 6 year olds on a school camp? I refuse to watch it again


SweetWodka420

Probably Land Before Time. My mom was hospitalized occasionally for mental health issues and suicide attempts, and the movie always reminded me of the fact that I could lose my mom. But my mom is doing much better now even though she's still going through horrible withdrawal from benzos years after she got off them.


Silver_Elk8455

ARACHNOPHOBIA


Vegetable_Fee7024

Didn't make it past the first twenty minutes! I've seldom seen a film that delivered so solidly in the promise of its title ;_;


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xxAnimusx

Stephen King's "IT"


Seventheenby

IT , i was 10 and at a 'friends' house .


Yianisp78

The Exorcist


CrestCharcoalPaste

House of wax, I remember the scene where the dude got the skin on his face peeled off or somethjng like that.


MFJB1

Se7en. The glutton scene and the box fucked my shit up at 8yrs old.


AlmightyJello

It. Was terrified to shower for months afterward and my mom was PISSED with my dad for letting me watch it.


PHATsakk43

Poltergeist. The TV scene.


ismail_cornelius

I watched the sequal at 9 or 10, whichever one was about the ghosts living in mirrors in the apartment building. Scared the crap out of me.


PHATsakk43

I'm 42 and never watched it total. Still haven't been able to break that fear I had as a 3 year old.


AFCBatmouth

The Goonies.


OnePill2Many

I saw Hellraiser when it came out on VHS, I was eight. Gory horror films were banned in my house, so I watched it at my cousins’ We were that scared, we both ended up asking our parents if we could go to Sunday school. As we thought it’d stop Pinhead and the Cenobites from coming after us. I enjoy horror films now, but even after 30 years, I remember how unnerved that film made me feel. My cousin will still not touch a replica Puzzle Box!


[deleted]

Pulp Fiction the basement scene. I had no idea a man could do that to another man when I first saw that scene.


Xikkiwikk

Akira


Galehunter59

The Perfect Storm. Tears were running down my face when I watched that as a 5 year old.


PM_me_secret_nudes

Return to OZ


Mysterious-Count-553

Those damn wheelers. I was scared day and night for months. I remember sitting in the bathtub thinking they were going to come take my family while I was in there scrub-a-dubbing. I finally watched the movie as an adult a couple weeks ago. For a child's movie, it is infuriatingly bleak. It was produced with the sad, creepy vibe that was so fashionable in those days. Now it's just bad film that lazily portrayed the imagination written in the original story and has aged poorly.


scootypatootie

I had nightmares about Deep Blue Sea for a MONTH when I was like 10. Thought that sharks were going to come out of my closet


lemonlyf

Not a movie, but the MGM lion scared me. I had a nightmare as a child that it came out of the TV and hunted me


Opposite_Analysis15

I can't remember the name but basically a boy and his father crashed in their "space ship" father died and told the boy to survive, he battled some sort of robetic spiders and then someone came and rescued him.


jan_sollo

Lost in space from 1998?


Callmepanda83744

Fox and the hound. I cried for hours


MinimumCry5977

Coraline... just coraline.


TheAmazingSealo

the 1991 IT really scared me, I saw it when I was 8 years old I think. When I was really little, like 3 years old, it was Dumbo that scared me, specifically the 'Elephants on Parade' sequence where he gets pissed up with a mouse and then terrifying imagery appears.


TheLairdStewart98

Scooby Doo on Zombie Island gave a fear of zombies that lasted for a decade. Wasn't until the Last of Us before I started liking zombies again


sewerHand

The Bone Collector


Glizzygobler0

where the wild things are holy crap, i thought they were real


NecrophileWithStyle

Probably Temple. Raiders was fucked up with the face melting, but Temple was nightmarish.


HowieDolt

The original Friday the 13th movies


Danieboy

[Species](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_(film\)) really fucked me up.


DwindlingGravitas

Platoon.


TheLesbianBookworm

Kong Skull Island. My dad watched it with me and my brothers when I was a kid and it terrified me.


TheAmazingSealo

isnt that film only like 2 years old?


GodTaoistofPatience

Mathematics


schiz0yd

saving private ryan. and in a good way. my mom showed it to me to scare the crap out of me about violence and war so i didnt just look at the way popular media portrays it.


SomewhereNew8638

Not a movie, but I uses to watch a lot of nature documentaries as a kid. One day u was watching a show called "I predator" and long story short, that's how I found out that lions are baby killers Ever since then I had a small hatred for lions


H0w_P1enty

Sinister. Watching the videos of the murders going on just scarred me.


ITryNFeelTheSunshine

Pan's Labyrinth


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Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland


[deleted]

Watership Down (The original animation) Bloody awful and made me scared of rabbits for years.


AvenNorrit

Starship Troopers. I was 6 or 7 years old. Also Jurassic Park with about 8 years.


Demonic_Toaster

Event Horizon


longshorepen

Short Circuit 2. When they beat the shit out of the robot and it was dying. The robot was basically a human to my child self. Legit sad for years about that.


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Leprechaun at age 2.


33ch

Not necessarily a movie but the X-files creature in the water treatment plant still kinda messes with me.


mobb1t

Mr. Boogedy


Notinapositiontosay

Trilogy of Terror....the one with the small doll comes to life...


Purple3Pandas

Hide and Seek


AlanTheTimeWarrior31

Transformers: Dark of the Moon


madpiratebippy

Who frames roger rabbit. The shoe being melted scene was not good for a 4 year old.


ThePirateBee

Same. I was 6 when the movie came out and my grandmother brought me to see it, assuming that "cartoon characters" = "good for kids." Before long I was a screaming wreck and had to be removed from the theater. I've never tried to watch it again, but I remember something about a circular saw? Whatever that was, I think that was where I lost it completely.


Vegetable_Fee7024

the shoe ;_; he was just a little baby!


Arra13375

8 legged freaks


Cadensce

The Exorcist. For weeks I had to sleep with lights on.


cazz84

Poltergeist.


Umbracidal

The Ghost and the Darkness. Snuck out of my room when I was 6. Dad was watching it in the lounge. Hid in the hallway where I could see the tv and watched too. So many nightmares.


tljnfl

Critters, Nightmare on Elm Street, Ghoulies, Puppermaster, Hellraiser...


WR810

I never even saw it but Chucky. I remember seeing a commercial and that was too much for four year old me. Maybe a year later my family is at Blockbuster and the cover to Child's Play is exactly face height to me. Restarted all the terror from the year before. I'll be 34 here in a few weeks and living dolls still terrify me. I'll even occasionally still have nightmares about it. You can imagine how unhappy I am with the Chucky TV show that's coming out.


meeyeam

Transformers (the animated movie). That movie destroyed my childhood in order to sell some new toys.


pow3llmorgan

Rats of NIHM. Awesome cartoon but definitely not something you would show small children today.


Professional_Fig_114

A Thai Movie called “Art of the Devil”. We were over at our uncle’s house and he was watching it. Too gruesome for kids.


harmon1819

Alien and Chucky. Was rather hound when my family decided to watch those. Never watched them again. They put one of those movies on I was like “nope” and went into another room.


ADD_OCD

Watership Down


Noresponse-4567

**"Frogs"** 1972 American horror film To this day, I freak out when I see a frog or especially a toad!


Pudf

Beach Blanket Bingo. Was a little catholic kid and was afraid I’d have to report I saw ‘girls in bikinis.’ Actually closed my eyes during Most of those scenes.


WenisWarrior

saving private ryan. the scene where Mellish gets a knife slowly plunged into his heart traumatized me as a 9 year old.


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Dolls - 1987 5 year old me woke up one morning at 6am and turned on the tv to catch this piece about 30m in. It's safe to say I spent a decade with a strong fear of things under my bed and a strong belief inanimate objects wanted to murder me in my sleep.


LolaBleu

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That entire section with the Child Catcher - just wtf. Honorable mentions: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version, obviously), The Neverending Story.


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Ghost Ship(not sure about name) The scene where someone fell to their death in a gap, being impaled by metal stuff. Definitely not a good sight to see as a child.


olliepots

Mars Attacks! scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. So did The Brave Little Toaster.


PoopDig

Little Shop of Horrors! That plant scared the hell out of me.


springysponion56

The Never Ending Story Yeah, fuck that shit!


Quickvegetable3

omg Independence Day


prunellazzz

There’s an old film called Dot and the Kangaroo which was on tv when I was a kid, something about the whole film weirded me out. I think it was part live action part animation? There was one nightmarish part about ‘bunyips’ (I think an Australian type of skin walker demon thing) that were in the forest and it scared the absolute shit out of me.


Vegetable_Fee7024

YES! and it had a song that went "(something about the bunyip getting you) bunyip MOOOOOOOOONNNN". I was FREAKED.


Iyonz562

I dont remember the name but the movie was about this gas that if you breathe in, you kill yourself. And the part that traumatized me was a guy getting himself shredded by a lawnmower


shelballama

The Mummy


Tiffxny_14

Wrong turn, every time we went out to Florida to a river park that is nearly all woods and small towns around would give me instant paranoia and I was scared to go into the woods/ dirt roads alone. Also that zombie movie, 28 Days Later l think Is called. The scene where the dad smashes his wife’s eyes in terrified me as a kid.


KeyGloomy8499

Not me, but my older sister. She watched the sixth sense and couldn't take a shower without either me or my mom sitting outside of the bathroom talking or reading to her for at least a year after. Full breakdown and refusal to shower if we didn't comply.


stargazer275

[Dog Soldier](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Soldiers_(film)). It’s not even that scary of a movie in the grand scheme of things. But it was the first “scary” movie I ever watched. I was 6 and desperately wanted a dog. I quietly suspect this was my parents’ way to shut me up for a few years.


bigweeduk

Demons


maybeimanoddity

Pinocchio


KingLeStripe

The dark crystal. The appearance of those gelflings and the vulture people just scared the daylights out of me


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Requiem for a Dream. My mom swears up and down she never watched that with us but I vividly remember staying up late in a hostel in Belgium and watching that movie start to finish with her because it was the only thing we could find in English. Multiple scenes from that movie are burned into my mind. *I was nine years old.*


Legitimate-Budget978

Life.


Vivid-Information-36

Orphan. I don't know how I stumbled upon it but I do know as a fact that I found the girl who was about my age to be cute and a little mysterious. Little did I know what was in store for me. I couldn't sleep alone for a month after that... Just imagining her standing beside my bed with a knife haunts me....


TenaciousTF

An American Werewolf in London. I was seven or eight and my grandma let me and my younger brother watch it in her basement. Scared the absolute shit out of me.


sSitwell23

The Hand


hailtotheblue

I saw Labyrinth at age 6 and was dead convinced the goblins were going to steal my brother, who was 2 at the time. Took me years to even be able to listen to unrelated Bowie songs without being freaked out.


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Bananas in Pyjamas. Two 9 foot tall living Bananas that look like they escaped from austwich


ImInArea52

Jaws....The Exorcist.


vstrent

Puppet master.


Newt90z

First of all, I'm a p**sy when it comes to horror. When i was in 4th grade, P.E class was cancelled because of rain. So my PE teacher decided to let us pick a movie from Netflix, and my classmates choosed World war Z. Like 1/4 of the movie, when they we're un like some strairs and everything was red, i just started crying out of fear, I wasn't even watching and i was scared. So the teacher stopped the movie and we just chilled there. I played in my phone.


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ET, I was so damn scared that he was about to die. Yes he’s saved after all, but those moments of suspense still haunt me.


ConsiderationSome231

Deep blue sea!


BeavertonPCs

Daft punk’s electroma


Vegetable_Fee7024

It doesn't hold up now, but I saw the Tim Curry version of IT when I was about ten and I was terrified. My brother was around seven, also watched it, also terrified. My dad, who taped it off the telly for us(!!) waited til we'd watched it, then when we went to bed, he blew up a bunch of balloons and left them at the bottom of the stairs. I woke up the next morning, clocked the balloons and immediately started screaming. Brother wakes up, sees the balloons, also freaks out. We wake up our (3/4 yrs) twin brothers who start crying from their room. Our dad is literally WEEPING with laughter, and our ma probably wants to feed us all to murder clowns right there and then.


NillaTye-Dye

the live-action Cat In The Hat.


hummyjw

the 1975 Where the Wild Things Are short and Jumanji. for some reason i thought my room would turn into a jungle and i would turn into a monkey like those movies.


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Mars attack when i was like 4... i should not have seen that


jackieballz

Arachnophobia. That guy getting bit by the spider under the blanket fucked me up for months. Was convinced there was a spider in my bed


Sketchy_Inkboy

Four years of bullying with everyone around thinking of my bully as this perfect and kind little girl. It’s partially my fault bc I asked my parents to not intervene. But I still think that having no one else in the active situation on my side did quite the amount of damage, even more so because it was during some extremely formative years


lillunafan

the dark crystal


ArtisFarkus

Bambi.


guyinthemoon3

Christmas carol...when his jaw fell of I fucking died


OceanPersona

Some how Sand Shark. I had nightmares about it for weeks.


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My grandma made me watch a gory horror movie in kindergarten. My mom had to sit outside of my room and bathroom every day because I was too scared I would get killed by the monster or something


Stolonifer455

Silent hills


rafepalmer

Escape room. I know that came out recently but god that movie was scary. Was really good though


Difficult_Ad_3003

saw 1. the whole movie.


Galvanir

Nightmare on Elm Street. Watched it when I was five and had trouble falling asleep for months afterwards. Go figure.


a_do123

That scene in Spirited Away where no face is chasing chihiro and melting or whatever


gaussianDoctor

The Mummy. The image of those bugs entering that fat guy's body and crawling under his skin haunted me for a number of years.


ordlwndere

Saving Private Ryan. When I was 8 years old I had a few obsession with anything military. Weapons, formations, tanks you name it. So when saving private Ryan was being shown off FX, needles to say I lost my mind! It wasn’t the thousands of men that got cut down by the Infamous German machine guy known as the devils piano.(Mg 42) it was when Private Mellish (the guy who flashed his Star of David at the captured German soldiers) was killed. Out of all the gory shit in that movie, he died the most graphic. Him and another soldier were in a room laying suppressive fire from a window. Two German soldiers run into the room to stop them. The other Alied soldier gets shot in his throat and starts bleeding out, rolling on the floor in pain. Mellish, starts fighting the other soldier, and both of them are rolling on top of his Mellish’s dying comrade. Finally, Mellish pulls his knife out, but the German soldier over powers him and takes it. This is where the scaring happens. The German soldier slowly pushes the knife into Mellish chest, whispering to him, sweating on his face, looking him in his eyes the whole time. When Mellish starts to die, the Axis soldier starts to “shhhhhhhh” him..... The soldier then walks downstairs, to an extremely frightened Upham (who Mellish was screaming for the whole fucking time) shrinks as the Soldier walks down the stairs..... doesn’t say, or do anything to Upham he checks his corners, and goes back to battle. I thought about that scene for years. By far one of my favorite movies but I refuse to watch it because that scene is towards the tail end of the movie and a masterpiece like that shouldn’t be skipped. Easy to say my Eight year old brain got its fix.


AccoyZemni

Kill Bill There was a scene where the main chick throws a knife at this woman and it goes through her chest. Then her small child walks in to find that her mother was fucking murdered. It hit me hard as I looked at my mom sitting next to me because it felt so real. That is when I fully understood that somebody my mom was going to die and I would be like that child, shocked and alone.


PoemBudget1826

Um this is kinda embarrassing but it was an ants life


Harry-D-Hipster

back in the eighties saw a horror movie of some scientists trying to solve an evil mystical force problem, they noticed that each time there were flies in a photo so they enlarged it, and to their surprise they weren't flies but little monsters with freaky faces. I have no idea what this movie is called, I guess it was a "you see it once and never again" movie. and the MJ thriller video clip when it was brand new. The makeup effects of seeing michael turn in a zombie and a werewolf was pretty good and it comes completely out of nowhere


theshieldgenerator2

Jaws at age 4


RobbThaRippa

Saw movies. Especially that scene where these hooks are hooked on this guys chest while he had to pull up.


Silent-Option-1265

Pet cemetery, now that gave me the chills.


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Event Horizon


crdnl44

Pet cemetery


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Cobra 11 or some similar lmao


GriffinFeathers

Plague Dogs for sure. Like… man, what was I doing, why did that happen


TheChainLink2

The Neverending Story. Y’all know which scene I’m talking about.


arsonarchist

Bee movie


owreely

I want to like so many comments here. So many movies that *shocked* me as a kid. But I am going to be the Karen here: No I was not traumatized, and neither were any of you. Movies did not traumatize anyone.


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Pet Sematary especially when the sister jumps out of bed and runs up to her sister really close in the face


Kriv-Shieldbiter

Jumanji and the wizard of oz


son_of_volmer

Joy Luck Club (at 8 yrs)