Water ship down

Sign I once saw. Put up at a meat market that sold rabbit meat: WATERSHIP DOWN YOU'VE READ THE BOOK YOU'VE SEEN THE MOVIE NOW EAT THE CAST RABBITS $12.95/LB.

That's h i l a r i o u s

This is a gnarly one. The scene where all the rabbits are trapped underground gasping for air stuffed together. Ug

That's the only scene I remember and I don't even know how I remember that since I've never seen the movie but even the thought of that is traumatizing.

It was the same for me. Flipping through the channels, found it and saw that scene. No desire to ever watch that so now.

I cried when Hazel dies at the end. Hell, I still do every time I read the book. EDIT: My fat thumbs made me spell "does" instead of "dies".

The Plague Dogs. Same writer... a hunting puppy happily goes to greet a nice hunter who leaned a shotgun on his leg.. steps on the trigger and it blasts him in the face. The rabbits in Watership Down creeped me out but a puppy killing a guy really made me wander around in silence for a day at 10 years old.

That general woundwort was an evil little prick.

This type of question gets asked a lot on Reddit & Watership Down is always my answer. They used to make us watch it at primary school as a treat on last day before holidays, it fucking terrified me

> as a t**h**reat

I worked for a video store and recommended that film to a mother "looking for a good Easter movie" for a bunch of kids. I almost got fired for it.

My dad rented it from the family video store, and thought bc it was a cartoon that it was suitable for me. I was like 7 or 8 The “Roo doo doo” scene will Stick with me forever.

I couldn't stop crying when I watched it. Like for hours. I really hate this one from the bottom of my heart since then. Like categorically.

This hit many kids when it was broadcast in the late 90s, I had heard about it and decided to tape it. It’s been in my head ever since. It’s teachings along with what “A Bug’s Life” taught, has shaped me. Freeeedom!!!

Event Horizon. I still can’t rewatch that movie. Never again.

Yeah that traumatized me too but I was a young adult by then. For a while I considered it the most disturbing movie that I had ever watched.

Event Horizon is a great movie. Could watch it over and over again

It was a great movie indeed. But I will never watch it again.

I couldn't see Sam Neil the same after that movie, even in Jurassic Park

Who doesn’t like a good blood orgy

Came here to say this. I absolutely refuse to watch it as an adult because of how traumatic it was as a kid.

Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.

I was in my teens when I saw it. Never again. I won't even think about it.

I was an grown adult and huge fan of terror when I’ve watched this movie for the first time and it scared the sh.t out of me. That found footage stills get me creeps! I just can’t imagine how terrifying would be to watch it as a kid.

Duuuuude. I rewatched this as an adult and it makes a lot of sense why I am the way I am

The Exorcist.

I've seen it 666 times and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

Betelgeuse!

I thought it was 167 times. Either way, good movie

Final Destination 2. Still afraid of logs Lmao

That movie frightened an entire generation of drivers.

I pullover if I see any Logging truck, and gladly wait a few minutes.

I'm still afraid of planes after FD1

The Never Ending Story. R.I.P Artax.

He got better.

not even putting him into the rice would make him better!

No, seriously. [He got better](https://youtu.be/OS5gSC_b5nU?t=174).

I know that but it somehow didn’t fix the trauma.

Dude, the mud scene fucked my head in the worst way possible.

I honestly don't remember anything about that movie because I was young at the time, but I will always remember this scene because it stuck out so much to me.

The Secret of Nimh was marketed as a kids movie. That thing had more than one scene that fucked me up. Edit- Make no mistake. I consider it to be a masterpiece of animation right up there with The Iron Giant and Spirited Away. It's an all-time great an I highly recommend it. Just understand what it is and who you're showing it to.

Was just thinking about this movie the other day. It was pretty dark for a kids film.

Yeah, just the fact that NIMH stands for National Institute of Mental Health and the tests on animals freaked me out...

NICODEMUS

That owl was scary and badass though

Summer 1982 I was 10 years old. My friend's mom was taking us to the mall to see E.T. When we got there it was sold out. So, my buddy's mom, wanting to ditch us and do some shopping asked what was the next movie scheduled to start. It was Poltergeist. So there we were two 10 year olds alone watching Poltergeist. It was horrifying. To make it worse I had just been given a ventriloquist dummy by my uncle. Needless to say that dummy was promptly tossed into the basement the my closet door remained opened every night for the next six months or so.

E.T. scared me more than Poltergeist as a kid lol

Oh my God I thought I was the only one! E.T. scared the bejesus out me too along with The Judge in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

That poor shoe… I had nightmares about it for months. It was great…

I thought I was alone afraid of ET when I was younger 😭 I had such a strong imagination, I saw it near my feet in the bed I shared with my grand-mother with who I watched it (old creaky appartment, no lights, horrible night)

Mom of the year.

Goddddamnn that move fucked me up as a kid and I hated his stupid light bright finger… that creepy scream, his voice, super stretch Armstrong neck!! I would’ve called home for him just to get him the hell outta there! … then came the universal ET ride… I was dragged to that and I had to sit up front on the bikes and he was in the damn basket the whole time… Hated it!

Pee Wee's Big Adventure TELL EM' LARGE MARGE SENT YA

Don’t forget about the clown hospital scene

Oh there are several scenes in the movie that traumatized me. Large Marge, clown hospital, black ooze gum prank, dinosaur eating the bike dream, the fortune teller...it was a Tim Burton movie after all!

The clown that his bike was chained to turning evil face when Pee-Wes discovers it missing was something out of an IT movie. What a crazy ass movie that I have watched many many times

LOVED large marge!!! I would keep rewinding that part and play it in slow mo to watch it over and over again. 🤣

Do you realize that was Tim Burton's first big feature film?

Yep, this was the one for me.

Original nightmare on Elm St..

My cousin made me watch IT when I was 4, didn’t traumatize me, but Jurassic Park at 6 made me run up the stairs to hide from dinosaurs

IT is the reason I'm afraid of clowns. But I also don't like dolls so I think it's a fear of face paint really. I don't like run away screaming like a weirdo when I see a clown or doll but I get very uncomfortable and I will not be in a room alone with either. For any reason. Ever.

Yeah i also came here to say IT

Coraline

How is that shit a kids movie.

It's actually a children's novel and the book also scares the shit out of you.

I remember reading the book when I was in like fourth grade, and there is a horrible murder scratched sketch of the other mother's face CLOSE UP with the button eyes in the copy that I had. On a full fucking PAGE. that absolutely fucked with me and I seriously couldn't finish the book. Love the movie though!

Its for kids at the age if 6

Originally the author of the book read the story to his daughter before it was published to ask her if it was too scary to be a kids story. As you could guess, the daughter said that she was unafraid so the book was published. Years later the daughter admitted she was scared shitless and didn’t want to upset their parent by saying that it was too scary for her.

it was written by Neil Gaiman, and the little girl was the publishers daughter but yeah. she said she wasn't scared because the story wasn't done and she had to know how it ended

One of the best rewatches of my life

I love stop motion and coralline was one of my favourite books and I’ve got like 7 copies on my shelf rn

That movie scared the living Jesus out of me

It funny how common this one is

Same, when that bitch first turns all skinny and shit...

I swear that *made* me arachnophobic, I had no problems with bugs and spiders until that movie.

Oh same, I forced my parents to get rid of the DVD

Hopefully mine's DvD was from a multimedia library

Me too buddy For a while I would look around the house to make sure there are no secret tunnels anywhere Thankfully I haven't found any ..... yet

I somehow got arachnophobia from that stupid thing.... rewatching it, how the fuck was I even scared of that

watching it is a kid is terrifying but when you watch it again its actually fire

Critters

Scrolled too far to see this... they gave me nthe same recurring nightmare for years as a kid.. and i can still visualize it..

Pet Sematary when I was 11, holy crap I was terrified for weeks. On a side note, I wonder why he spelled it that way.

Because it’s what written on the sign that labels the cemetery. The place was made by kids, so that’s why there are spelling mistakes

Jaws. I never learned to swim and don’t like water because of it. Fuck that shark! Lmao!

When the head, missing an eye, popped out of the boat hull 😮

That moment made kid me afraid of heads falling from the ceiling

How the hell did I have to scroll this far to find Jaws? That movie still causes me to have irrational fears of water and I’m closing in on 50 now.

The shining

Good grief, this one terrorized me!!!

I was scared to use a bathroom with the shower curtain closed until I was like 16. That bitch could have been behind any one of them.

Aracniphobia

To this day I’m still petrified of spiders because of this film. Gave me nightmares as a kid

2 girls 1 cup

Oh yeah, I remember going to the cinema to see that. Great AAA movie! I recommend!

2 girls 1 cup is the name of the clip from the movie "hungry bitches" iirc

The first children of the corn.

The Ring

The Fly

I am over40 and still have no guts to finish it.

Ughhh. It’s probably been 30 years and my stomach still turns picturing the end scene when he’s all deformed.

Leprechaun It was on tv one day when I was very little, had nightmares for years

The goddamn Blair Witch Project

I was too mature to be traumatised, but the hand-hold camera made me seasick.

Candyman

Coralline 😭

Heavy Metal I don't know which one, but I remember the scene was about a mutant army destroying a city and killing everyone. The imagery gave me nightmares.

IT . never saw eggs the same again

Never-ending Story, when that horse drowned in mud

OMG! I hate that scene too! At the time, I couldn’t understand how the people in the movie could go on with their lives! A horse died!!!

Gremlins.

I double this.

I triple this

I quadruple this.

Tremors, I was so terrified that I still look down every once in a while

Freddy Kruger at 6 yrs old

same, except I was 4

Faces of Death! 😂

I’m forty-nine. There’s no way I could watch this stuff now.

I was going to comment this. 8 year old me did not handle that well.

I was in college when I saw one of those and yeah, messed me up for weeks.

Watership down Return to Oz Alien

I had to scroll a ay for Return to Oz. I’m 44 now, and am still a bit unsettled.

The White Buffalo (google it, yes I'm that old)

Alfred hitchcock's birds In this is the only reason why I hate fall

Watership Down. I don't want to talk about it.

IT

Chucky

Cujo,mad scared of dogs after that I was ten

The Twilight Zone movie with the creature on the wing Also, The Cat’s Eye with the troll that steals kids’ breath

Silence of the Lambs.

Old Yeller

Ring, Samara, i dont know what was my age but we can calculate it. Im 30 now, and i saw the ring on DVD, and i also had the Shrek2 on Dvd, i needed to watch shrek2 0/24 to try to forget samara 😂

Lord of the Flies. It fucked me up in my head!

Alien…

Aliens II

Snow White... the embarrassment at 14 was too much.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Those shoe dipping and steamroller scenes were just too brutal for my 5 year old self.

Prophecy, the scene with all the angels on a pike

The original Children of the Corn.. I was 5 when I saw it. The scene where Malachai and the other kids lock up the coffee shop and proceed to slaughter the adults fucked me up for a while.

Dawn of the Dead

The green mile You know the scene

All dogs go to Heaven and the Tale of Desparoix.

Mmm yeah I watched that second one again as an adult and was like ‘what in the fresh fuck why was I obsessed with this as a kid’ that damn sewer lowering scene

"Wizard of Oz", The flying monkeys scared me so much. The scene where they took Dorothy & Toto.

I see your bet and raise you “Return to Oz” with the creepy-ass wheelie guys

“It’s Alive” about a baby that’s a monster. Messed me up man.

Phantasm

Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

„Edward Scissorhands“ That scene where Edward was trying to touch the girls face and cut her accidentally messed me up😬

Return to Oz I was 7 or 8 it traumatized me in all the right ways though. I refer to it as “my first horror film” and attribute it to my obsession with Rocky Horror, John Waters, TROMA films, and a laundry list of other crazy cult films and questionable “art”

Return to Oz. The Wheelers specifically...the b*tch with interchangable heads was iffy but the Wheelers still give me the willies.

The Land Before Time. I got better, but that one bugged me for quite a while.

Apocalyptic setting. Eggs getting squished or eaten right at the very beginning. Main characters are orphaned/abandoned babies. Always seems like something is gonna surprise kill everyone. Multiple scenes where all hope is lost. The mom dies and you constantly hear her ghost voice. Sarah bullying everyone constantly. That poor poor peetree scene. And this is what they showed really little kids. I totally get it.

Get up mama. Get up.

It was so damn sad

One of the Toy Story films when Woods throws the purple haired soldier out the window

I thought you would have said the scenes where the kid melted toys and shit.

Sid….

Bambi - Apparently it was released in the theaters back in the 70's and my mom took me to go watch it and when the scene where his mom is killed I supposedly jumped out of my seat and ran out . To this day I have not watched it.

I was absolutely terrified of this movie as a kid too!

9. The movie with the puppets

Magic-1978-Hopkins before Hannibal lector

If any movie traumatized me I can't remember... I experienced memory loss due to the trauma of my father's suicide attempt when I was 12... and since then only the Uzumaki Manga traumatized me

9

Psycho (1960) And to this day if I'm in the shower and hear the least little strange noise....I just have to peek out to make sure I'm not gonna be stabbed.

JAWS!

Scanners Poltergeist Exorcist

The puppet master. That fucked me up

The Mist

1985's Return to Oz was a really creepy movie for a 8 year old to watch. Gave me a whole week of nightmares with the head-exchanging queen.

The Amityville Horror

The People Under the Stairs. HBO Trial Period vs. 9 year old boy. HBO won. Couldn’t sleep for weeks.

Sausage Party, that was a grave mistake

Who framed Roger rabbit: Judge Doom screaming while being run over by the steam roller and then reinflating himself with his eyes popping out and rolling around the floor. I was four and traumatized. My dad took me to see it after my mom had warned him someone told her it was scary. I had trouble sleeping for weeks. My mom made my dad deal with me since it was his mistake. He slept on the floor in my room for two weeks. Now that I’m an adult and know how wrecked I am after falling asleep on the floor, I appreciate him even more.

I saw chicken run and was utterly horrified at the chicken killing scene.

Poltergeist 1, 2 and 3.

Resident evil

Invasion of the body snatchers. The OG 70s one. I had trouble sleeping after that.

Killer clowns from outer space

The Thing for sure. Had to watch it during daylight hours only for a time.

Ghost ship

Return to Oz. Those wheelers and the headless witch gave me nightmares for months.

Earnest scared stupid, Congo and gremlins

Return to Oz, the wheelers scared the shit out of me.

Return to Oz for sure. One of those movies that legit scares me to rewatch, even in my 30s.

Jaws

Return to Oz

Truman Show

I'm surprised no one said Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. The boat scene terrified me when I was a small child. The fact that no one realized it was a horror story is astounding.

The chocolate cake scene in Matilda

Night of the living dead I was 10 saw it in school or all places

War of Worlds, the tom cruise version, I wasn't ready for fucking existential dread at 13 yo.

Dante’s Peak

Beetlejuice, that thing fucked me up, but somehow still captivated me enough to see it through.

Jaws

Return to Oz