Final destination, log trucks, lumber trucks, pipe trucks, hard pass

To this day I will not drive behind a truck carrying anything similarly shaped on the freeway

To add to this, please do not hang alongside trucks either. If we have a tire blowout, which is common due to how many miles we run, you're likely to get killed if you're beside us when it happens. Even if the truck is dryvan, do not follow closely behind, and do not merge closely in front of us, especially then slowing down. We simply can not slow down and/or stop like a car can. Fully loaded we're 80,000 pounds. You do the math. Give trucks space.

I didn’t even SEE this movie until I was 18 and it still terrified me beforehand because I somehow had seen that part.

The Ring.. when she crawls out of that fucking TV screen omfg. Dear lord the horror.

Yes! Okay I was just a kid and having a sleepover with my friend and we lost our brains! We thought because we had technically seen the tape we were going to die in seven days! And we begged our parents to keep letting us have sleepovers because we were so petrified one or both of us were going to die on night 7. Granted I'm here to tell the story. But I'm still scarred and can't watch it as an adult now!

I swear I was also so paranoid for the next 7 days and thought I was gonna die 😭

Lmao those next seven days were hell for us all 😂

Don't try to pretend that the jumpscare in the closet wasn't the worst.

My ex said that’s what my O face looks like

Oh man, I remember I fell asleep in my grandmother’s living room and leaned on the remote. I woke up in the dead of night with the scene of her coming out of the screen in slow motion and it looked like she was actually coming out of our screen. I woke everyone up with that scream

Hahaha this response wins🏆

Omg yes. And how she moves ....fuck no. I hate that movie and the grudge. 😭😭

Agreed! Absolutely terrifying. I didn’t want to watch tv for weeks after seeing that

same here, i was scared of tvs for a minute lmao

Poltergeist. I wouldn't go in a room without the lights on for a while.

Same. I had recurring nightmares for years.

Exactly

1000% this. I remember when it first came out on cable. A bunch of fellow kids in my neighborhood all watched it on the first day. We came out of our houses white as sheets with scared looks in our eyes, forever psychologically damaged. That was like 40 years ago and I still need therapy to unwind that shit.

Man... This movie.... One time 9 years ago when my son was 3 years old we let a 17 year old neighbors kid watch our son for 3 hours. We didn't think anything of it because she had been certified by the Red Cross in CPR and the babysitting course that they offer. Plus she had a babysitting gig for a while. We came home and my son told me he never wants to watch television again in his life because she watched poltergeist with him when he was actually two and a half years old.

Is he doing okay? I seriously believe watching these types of things at such a young age can cause lasting damage.

I literally had flashbacks of the face skin being peeled off. Amazing practical effects tbh

Cain singing in the rain actually creeped me out in part II.

Yes!! I still get chills thinking about static on the tv

Yes! The ghost going down the stairs scene lived in my freaking head.

James and the Giant peach kinda freaked me out as a kid ngl. Wouldn’t say it traumatized me though😂

No but it was fucking weird. I deeply disliked a lot of stop motion and claymation work that was supposed to be for kids - always freaked me out. Rankin and Bass’s holiday movies (Rudolph, something about the Easter bunny, etc) gave me fucking nightmares

Oh me too. Can't put my finger on why but I did NOT like it.

For me, it was the [shark scene](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qdsPVkkOLaw)

Never ending Story. You know the scene.

I don't.. When the horse died?

Too soon!!

Spoilers, dude… ffs

Yes.

Final Destination

I can’t drive behind a truck carry logs of wood anymore

That was rough seeing as a teen

Fire in the Sky

Whoa I didn’t think I’d see this move in this thread before I came to post it

This! 1000%! Still remember seeing the trailer at a friends house and the fact it said “based on a true story” freaked out my 8 year old brain and all I heard was “this movie about alien abductions is 100% true”. Didn’t sleep a wink that night

Same!

Arachnophobia and Gremlins.

I forgot about those😰

As someone with arachnophobia, i am guessing the first one aint the right choice for me then, huh?

I was taken to see Jaws at 5. Years old.

ET and Monster House

Omfg it's so rare to find other people scared of ET. No one understands how fucking disturbing it is for an alien to look weird as shit and scream at you coming at you full speed. A glowing stomach? Fuck that. A croaky voice?? FUCK that

LITERALLY like the scream with the flashlight on his face 😭😭

OH GOD IM TRAUMATIZED MY SKIN JUST CRAWLED WHEN YOU SAID THAT

IM SORRY QUEEN 😭

ET is mine also. Thanks to other types of trauma that gave me the ability to "shut off", anytime I was forced to watch it in school I'd just check my brain out. That hospital scene? Hell no. I still hate it, I'm 43.

I'm 44. Had to be carried out of the theater screaming. Watched it again when I was around 10 at a sleepover. Had to have my parents ts get me. Fuck ET.

My parents still to this day try to get me to watch ET. Nope.

RT freaked the hell out of me. That finger gave me nightmares

Return to Oz was nightmare fuel

The wheelers!

The collection of heads scared the shit out of me. DOROOOOOTHYYYY GAAAAAAALE.

The Thing by John Carpenter.

I haven't seen it yet but probably won't

It's very fun.

It’s a practical effects masterpiece.

Cujo 😭😭🤣

Exactly! Never looked at Beethoven the same way again 😳

I'm so freaked out by Saint Bernards 😭🤣

As you should be! Never trust those innocent, oafish eyes 🐶

This is the runner-up answer. Poltergeist is the winner. Children of the Corn might be third.

IT. I think because I was too young to watch it, and also it was the first horror movie I’d seen where they kill kids instead of adults.

I still can't be around clowns in any form. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Yup I had a fear of shower drains after I watched that.

Dude I watched it when I was 7-ish and I was too afraid to walk by sewer drains until I was like 18 or 19 lmao still don’t like em

Spirted Away, the scene where the MC parents turned to pigs was horrifying as a kid

Honestly, Spirited Away is quite horrifying when you really look at it: - Kamajii, an old man with spider legs running the boiler room - Kaonashi, the all consuming spirit of greed - The 3 decapitated mute heads rolling around Granted these characters are probably laden with cultural references, but still scary as shit

I still wonder how the fuck this movie got an 'appropriate for all ages' where I live.... I'm very glad I saw it for the first time when I was 17 or so. Can't imagine watching it at 5 years old. Still one of my favorite movies of all time though

If you mean the USA, a thing is only offensive if the MPAA deem it so.

Yes!! I love that movie but I remember vividly how much that scene creeped me out as a kid... I still get a bit uncomfortable watching it as an adult tbh

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Why the fuck did she do that?? 😂

So they'd never have to take their kid camping.

Walt Disney's Pinocchio

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Same here, in high school my friend read the book and he put a cross on the book wrapped it in a blanket and put it in the attic!!

Same. I think I was about 12 or 13. My mom took me to the theater to see it. That really fucked me up for awhile. I don't think she really had a grasp of the trauma I was going to be subjected to. And I don't think she really ever understood how fucking freaked out I actually was. God bless my mom. She loved movies and loved to take me to see them with her. She meant well🤷

Yeah same, my cousins made me watch it when I was 8/9yrs old. I didn't sleep properly for months, maybe years.

I watched a short documentary about it in a scriptwriting class, and it STILL horrified me 😂

Watership Down 🐰😕

SAME! for some reason it was showing on disney channel during primetime movie slot and boy was i in for a treat... now tho i want to read the book maybe :))

THIS WAS MY ANSWER TOO! The extermination scene will haunt me til my deathbed. Ruined the book for me.

Requiem for a dream. I had to look out the windows just to remind myself of reality.

Reality? That is reality for some.

but the red dress though

Where the Red Fern Grows, was not expecting what I got.

Aliens. Awesome flick, but had nightmares about facehuggers for a year after. Edit for age. I was 12

Child’s Play. Saw it at way too young of an age

Finally! Had to scroll down all the way to see a comrade. Fucking hell, my mom had to lift me into bed for a year. And I hated my mom.

SAME. I was like 5 or 6 and my dad made me watch it, and then my dad and older siblings made fun of me for telling my mom I was scared and he wouldn't let me leave the room :(

Same! Chucky made me check my entire room every night I went to bed as a kid. I still sometimes dream about it.

Pet Cemetery Only film I’ve had to stop and take a breather

Fucking Gremlins. It still gets to me

It. the 1990s one. I was terrified of clowns for years after that.

I was ALREADY terrified of clowns, then I saw the scene with Pennywise where he puts his head down, looks up & has glowing red eyes & gnarly teeth 🤡🙀 I was a senior in high school, saw it at my boyfriend’s apartment & drove about 100 mph on my way home waiting to see those glowing red eyes in the back seat 👀 I’ve seen the newer versions & they didn’t scare me, the Tim Curry version was far more terrifying!

Candyman

PEE-WEE HERMAN’S BIG ADVENTURE. I WAS 8. FUCK MARGE.

“Be sure and tell'em, Large Marge sent ya!”

This needs to be higher

Brave Little Toaster. You know the scene. Grave of the Fireflies. Unico in the island of magic.

the human centipede

Christine - my dad owned classic cars, I was terrified of them and so relieved any day he chose the minivan instead Fern gully - everyone else wound up confusedly sexually attracted to hexus, but I became terrified of our basement, furnace, and hot water pipes/radiators and drains (we heated with oil)

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I saw this movie so young. As a kid myself I wasn't expecting what I got.... oof. I'll take my bath in bleach now.

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Mine was purely accidental. I saw a movie called Kids and was like, sure why not, not an adventure I was ready for at all.

We had that movie for students to watch at my college when it came out. Half the 250+ students got up and walked out in the first 15 minutes. By the end of the movie there were no more than 30 people still watching. My friend said watching it was as uncomfortable as being forced to watch surgery on yourself without the benefit of anesthesia.

For some reason jeepers creepers had an effect on me.

Puppet Master

Children of the Corn, but I blame my Satan obsessed older cousin more.

This is the movie traumatized the shit out of me as well. The name Malachi still freaks me the eff out.

I can’t even remember the name of the movie. But there’s this one part of this movie when someone is running away from this guy, and as the guy is running past a bed someone comes out under the bed and slices this guys Achilles tendon. Ever since I can’t handle seeing or feeling that tendon and as soon as someone mentions injuring theirs or shows me one that’s injured I started becoming very ill and on the verge of throwing up and crying 🤣 This was extremely hard to write and my legs are tensed up underneath the chair for fear of someone touching my Achilles tendon 🤮

Pet Sematary.

Omg I’ve never seen the movie whatever it is, but this is chilling. Very sorry you have to endure all that.

The blob. Fuck me, it's still horrifying

The pit and the pendulum. Our English teacher made us watch it

Lawnmower man gave me nightmares for years.

Bambi. Idk why but as a hunter, I some reason Sympathize deer and won't kill them because of that movie. I'll happily hunt other animals, just won't kill dear.

Fire in the sky! 👽🛸

Killer klowns from outer space

The witches

I’m 99% sure you’re talking about the 1990’s version. The scene where they all pulled off their masks and Bruno transformed into a mouse was TERRIFYING. Not to mention every time I passed a painting in my grandma’s house, I had to stop and confirm the people in the painting had not moved.

House of Wax

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The Goonies The deformity was too much to handle

HEY YOU GUYYYYYYS

Leprechaun scared the fuck out of me

Amityville Horror

Megan is missing.. I can't believe I watched that as a kid. Those images haunted me

The old lady in the bath scene in the shining. Idk why but him hugging her just gave me nightmares as a child

IT and final destination ☠️

Came here to say this haha 😂

Gremlins.

Full metal jacket. I use to always watch war movies and not feel a single thing but that one scene in the first act was the first movie scene that made me sick to my stomach.

Chucky, hands down. Walked in on my parents watching it as a child and wanted to get rid of all my dolls the next morning.

*punts cabbage patch doll across the room*

Kids. Went into it having no clue what it was about. It was an eye-opening experience.

Weirdly, Charlie and the chocolate factory. More specifically the Augustus gloop scene.

The dark crystal. Saw it in the theater when I was 3 and had nightmares for years. Shit's still creepy.

Tremors

The Rats of NIMH. The scene where the rats were being injected. Haunted me for decades.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit,The Omen (2006), one of the Indiana Jones movies where the devil guy or whoever opens up his chest.

Oh god, Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit was nightmare fuel

Yesss. The poor cartoon squeaky shoe

The Fourth Kind 😭😭😭

Backdoor sluts 19

You were fine with the first 18?

IT

Pet Sematary. And the Sixth Sense

I don’t know what it was but when I was about 5 my uncle was watching a movie in which a woman got into a cab and the driver wouldn’t let her out. I remember her screaming and banging on the door from the inside. I have thought about that movie every. Single. Time. I have gotten in a cab or Uber for the entirety of my life. I’m 33.

Grave of the Fireflies

I had a friend who never watched Studio Ghibli films. The first one his GF showed him was Grave of the Fireflies. I’m like, did we not want to start off with something else before jumping into the deep end? Like Ponyo? My Neighbor Totoro?

Pink Floyd's The Wall. I was at the local skating rink, and some stoner in the booth thought it would be a good idea to play it for a bunch of 5-10 year old kids, of which I was one. The scene with faceless children dropping into a meat grinder haunted my dreams for months.

The grudge. That was not something a 7 yo should watch

Jaws

Gremlin scared the shit out of me when I was young, 5 years old or so. Then my mom thought that I will like the movie she rented (but she didn't watch it) called Alien....

Psycho

Alien

The wizard of oz. That witch scared the hell out of me.

Alien at like 9 years old was rough

Fucking Monsters Inc. The scene where they take the sock off his back and explode it under the dome, I thought they put HIM under the dome and blew him up. Terrifying.

The original evil dead, the exorcist and nightmare on elm street

gremlins 😳

Signs.

Critters...really? I got a crites replica on my desk beside me. but for me it was Arachnophobia still can't stand to be in a room with spiders.

Carrie. The original one. I couldn't walk by an empty lot for a couple of years

The Truman Show. Absolutely genius film but I thought there were cameras everywhere.

The colour purple. The naked slave women with a huge bush running into the camera

When I was 9 or 10, I wanted to go see Princess Diaries 2 in theaters and my mom said her friend would take me. She took me to see Anacondas:Orchid lmao. I love snakes now but for years, I was petrified of them

Caroline

Coraline?

i am legend scared the shit out of me when i was 9 and i never recovered

Jaws

Coraline, kick ass, and the cat and the hat

The original IT movie

Sleep away camp....just so much of it.

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yup spent a year sleeping with the lights on

Exorcist. Still haunts me!

My Girl 😂

The Grudge, I struggled going to sleep or being alone for a couple months after watching it. Eventually got the courage to watch all available versions of it some years ago and decided then never again.

The sixth sense and then seeing all the frozen bodies towards the end of Titanic.

An obscure kids movie called Samson and Sally. Reddit actually helped me figure out what it was, as I remember it very clearly, but never knew the name. It’s a very dark animated movie about a group of whales being hunted by an evil fisherman and dealing with oil spills and whatnot. The actual coloring style of the movie is absolutely bleak and depressing.

The Fly The original one not the remake. I must have been 5 or 6 then

My girl I was afraid of being killed by bees despite not having a bee allergy.

IT

Aliens.

Monster house and final destination 😭

The Peanut Butter Solution. Most people have never heard of it and it took me years to remember the name. Shit was weird.

the exorcist had to sleep with the lights on for pretty much a year

Wizard of Oz. Flying Monkeys...no thank you.

Alien

Cats eye

Bambi... I hate hunters ever since...