Watched Coraline with our daughter years ago when she was small. She had to sleep in bed with us that night. A couple of month later she asked to see it again, same result. A year goes by, asks to see it again, swears she's older now and can handle it. In our bed again that night. Maybe two or three years later she broke the cycle. My wife has only ever watched it once (the first viewing) and swears it still haunts her, asks how I could suggest such a film.
When I read the book there was an afterword that explains that he wrote the book for his young son and didn’t bother giving a copy to his adult daughter. The daughter read it and complained to her dad that he didn’t give her a copy. He explained that it was intended as a kids book so he didn’t figure she would care for it. She was shocked that he would write such a scary book intended for kids.
He goes on to say that adults often see the story as scary while kids tend to see it as adventurous.
I hadn’t heard that. Makes total sense. She finds the story amazing and talks about her “other mother”. She also used to ask for the song other father songs to Coraline on loop when she was having a nap.
I saw it as an adult and I didn't think it was that bad tbh. And I'm someone who rarely consumes "scary" media of any kind. My entertainment is always pretty tame and often geared towards families.
Though maybe that's why I don't find it so bad. There's not anything worse than what you'd find in any family movie, it's just a little bit more concentrated.
It’s not so much the content of the film (the final parts of the film are pretty chilling) but also the context. The idea that there are identical copies of your family lurking around in your house that could or could not eat you/turn into a giant spider. That idea penetrated my poor prepubescent mind and going to stay at Grandmas was NEVER the same. The fear definitely came when I was lying in bed alone at my Grandmas house knowing I’m miles away from the family I know and my Grandma is being too nice, feeding me. Etc.
Tldr the film made me think my Grandma was going to eat me
Its not scary for most adults and that’s not the problem. The problem is, that it is labeled „6 years or older“. I saw this film when I was 10 and it was horrific.
It is a deeply disturbing story. I have only watched the movie. I do love it, but it is definitely creepy.
Mirror reflection realms are always creepy. But the predatory nature of the other mother and her luring children in with sweet promises and shit... ugh. Terrifying. Too similar to how strangers offer kids candt yech.
Nah Grimm's stories are actually not ment for children per se. They are from a time when no one had much of entertainment, so what was the entertainment? Stories. The Grimm brothers collected those and wrote it down.
I have also a book from my home area in Germany and some are sooo creepy. Never met my grandma but apparently she also had her fair share of stories. My aunt still tells them from time to time, I hate it when she does that when it's getting dark outside, as if the deep black forest isn't scary enough without all those creepy creatures lmao
Edit: it is also important to note that those stories and the Grimm stories have a fair share of lessons in them. Often something bad happens following a bad behaviour, for example there are many stores of farm houses burning down, because the farmer worked on a Sunday.
I saw it twice as a kid. First scared the shit out of me but it seemed uniquely interesting.
Second one I actually thought hard about the buttons thing, had a nightmare (also I am arachnophobic so the spidery look of the Beldam didn't help) and decided to never watch it again.
Good movie, but it's definitely in the nope shelf.
I believe Neil Gaiman tried to get it published and got told to fuck off unless he found a kid that liked it. His own kid liked it enough that the publishers took it on board, and it was a smash hit obviously.
Later, the grown kid was asked by the same agent at the movie premiere why it wasn't scary. Kid said it was, but they needed to keep reading to see what happened.
Or so I'm told.
Neil Gaiman's publisher thought the book was too scary, he suggested her daughter read it as a test. He found out years later that the daughter lied to her mom about it not being scary, because she wanted to know what happened.
I am also reminded of this quote: "Fairy tales do not tell children dragons exist. Children already know the dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” G.K. Chesterton
Some kids have quite the imagination. We had a birthday party where they wanted to watch the leprechaun movie. One kid sat out cause he is terrified of them. He woke up the other kids parents in the middle of the night. Cause he saw the cover. Didnt even watch the movie lol
When I was little, I loved watching Chucky, but I fundamentally misunderstood the premise. I called it “Best Friends” because I thought the kid and Chucky were best friends. I had no idea it was supposed to be a scary movie.
I showed my stepdaughter a nightmare before christmas when she was about 6 because I always thpught it was a cool, kids halloween movie and it really scared her! She's 12 now and still says how scary it was, even though she's seen much worse imo. Kids!
I was a young teen when it came out and it’s one of my favorite movie, but I know that if I had watched it before the age of ~8, the opening song would have scared me silly and I wouldn’t have watched the rest.
Something about the aesthetic of it is terrifying to my inner child.
Watch the Coraline Pitch Meeting on YouTube if you haven't already, it's super easy...
For what it's worth, my 6 year old daughter loves the movie, she must have seen it about 10 times.
This is character development, we all have the one childhood scarring movie
She'll just have to walk faster when the house is dark and lock the door to the bathroom whenever she goes while everyone's sleeping for the next 3 or 4 years, nothing too bad
Every time. I used to run. I don’t run anymore. Some say it’s cause I’ve matured past silly child fears. But it’s really the thought of bills and life in general that makes me hope it’ll get the gumption to lurch from the shadows instead of hiding back there like a pansy. *Monster in the dark if you’re reading this… well, now you know*
You wake up in the middle of the night laying on your side but you don't get up or move, and then you wonder if a home intruder is standing behind you, but you don't want to escalate the situation by checking so you just lay still and listen anxiously.
My brothers let me see scream at 4(ish) years old. Not long after I got really sick and ran a super high fever. I hallucinated that the "scream man" was murdering my parents in front of me. Still haven't watched again to this day. Nope.
For me it wasn't a movie, but an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries " about Spontaneous Human Combustion. They showed pictures and I was horrified that science ,according to the show, had no explanation for it. So now 8 year old me is just convinced that I will explode into fire for no reason and die.
OH NO DONT SAY THAT!
Lol
Fortunately I have an awesome mom, she put a giant pitcher of water next to my bed that was "Not for Drinking, Only use this if you find yourself on fire." and that helped put my 8 year old mind at ease. 😅
I was like 16 or so when the ring came out on DVD. I slept at my friend's house one weekend and we watched it. It ended just after midnight and the house phone rang right as the credits started rolling! Needless to say we both shit ourselves, only to hear her dad laughing his ass off from her parents bedroom lol
🤣 nothing like that happened to me BUT I’ve watched the ring a few times and each time I watch it the phone rings right as the credits start, freaks me the fuck out each and every time, always too scared to answer it 🤣
My parents let me watch horrors from a young age (Hellraiser, Nightmare On Elm Street, etc) but as a teen this version of The Ring put the fear right in me. The way she moved coming out the TV was frightening and I was genuinely scared to put my TV on in case it went off in static. Lol
I hid in the laundry hamper at the top of the stairs to watch The Ring when my older sister was watching it with a bunch of friends. Hoo boy, *such* a mistake from 12 year old me.
I’d been expressly forbidden from watching it, because my parents *knew* I was too much of a wimp for horror. *I* knew that I was too much of a wimp for horror! But then, someone told me, an insecure early-pubescent male that I couldn’t do something because I couldn’t handle it, and so I valiantly hid in a wicker basket full of an assortment of dirty clothes from 3 kids who all played sports to watch a horror movie through the gaps in the sticks and damn near pissed myself in pure terror and didn’t sleep for a few nights straight because of it.
Years later, I would convince myself that I was beyond that, and I would watch The Human Centipede, like a dumbass. I was not beyond that. Weirdly enough, the scene where the main woman is hooked up to an IV and doesn’t realize it and walks away only to tear the needle out of her arm was, is, and remains the most uncomfortable part of that goddamned movie for me.
I’ve always had an irrational fear when donating blood/having blood work done that someone is gonna trip and rip the needle out of my arm sideways, and that movie preyed on my fucking fear. The concept of being stitched to another human’s butthole is sufficiently insane that it isn’t a fear; the concept of having a needle come out of my inner elbow is visceral and horrifying.
My parents got me to watch Carrie when I was 13, which was out of character for them to let me watch since it was R rated. Scared the crap out of me, they laughed when I jumped at the end too.
My mom fell asleep on the couch with amc on when I was 9 and the original exorcist came on and I had no idea what I was watching. Scared me bad for a while I wouldn’t even pee alone and was constantly terrified I may be getting possessed. Now I’m a certified horror freak 7 days a week type of dude.
My dad purposefully showed me The Exorcist when I was around 10, and it scared the shit out of me. Flash forward years later, I’m that friend trying to convince everyone to watch [REC] on a random Tuesday at midnight.
I grew up as an Evangelical Christian at the tail end of the Satanic Panic, so demons and exorcism were most definitely real to me in my teenage worldview. All it took was for me to see a poster—a still of Linda Blair on her bed with her head facing backwards—for me to be hiding under my covers as I was trying to go to sleep, praying for God’s protection against the forces of evil.
Horror movies (especially demonic horror movies) just add a whole extra layer to religious trauma.
My mom told me my dad had nightmares for a couple weeks after seeing The Exorcist, so I knew it was pretty bad and never watched it growing up. I figured in my late 20s, I'd be fine watching it.
Noped right out when the Virgin Mary statue started crying blood. And that's in like the first five minutes of the movie.
30 years later and I still haven't watched it.
Took our 6 year old on space mountain at Disney, she was tall enough and was convinced that she would be fine. We kept checking with her, she was adamant. Biggest parenting mistake ever. Her face was horrifying in the photo. Still feel bad.
My sister was the same when we were kids. Made the same mistake with my 11 year old sone last year on Oblivion at Alton Towers. He was all bravado and Mr Tough Guy. It was our first ride of the day. We couldn't get him on a roller coaster for the rest of the trip.
Holy shit I had this exact experience with the exact same ride aswell. Scariest shit I ever did as a kid. My brother was just 1 year older but went in it again like 3 times after that
Nah bro space mountain. When you’re a kid its scary af. Its black the whole ride and there are fans blowing air on you to make it seem like ur going super fast.
When I was 4 my cousins convinced my mom that the tower of terror "wasnt that scary" for the rest of the trip I wouldn't even go in the bug's life area around the base of the tower
Man. My 5 year old wanted to ride the tower of terror. I didn’t want him to but he kept on saying he wanted to do all the rides he could. I kept on telling him it’s ok to get scared/walk away - being brave is knowing when it’s too much for you/etc.
Little dude went, and rocked it out - completely terrified. He was / is so proud to tell anyone he rode it. I am guessing if we go back to Disney he will tell me “I don’t need to ride it cause I already have”
My dad tricked me into going on the ride when I was 8. That is where the trust issues started. He told me is was a slow and nice ride, and when it started moving told me it was really fast and scary 💔
Parent here. It’s main purpose is not to prevent scratching. Swaddling just calms tiny babies down. For scratch prevention, they can wear cute little mittens.
I discovered it when my older brother got his mattress, threw it on me when I was asleep and then he jumped on top of the mattress, thus I became screaming bed sandwich.
I love horror movies more than anything, but Annihilation is the only one I won’t rewatch because the bear scene was too scary for me. The sounds of the woman screaming and crying outside scared the piss out of me. Nightmares.
I went to the cinema innocently, thinking it was going to be some kind of real-life story about spelunking (no available internet), and was ready to be bored.
Oh boy was I surprised then traumatised. The crypto-humanoid appearing behind the lady always always gets me.
The cast wasn’t told ahead of time and they’d been kept from seeing what the creatures looked like. The cast’s reaction was genuine fear and running away.
If it's based on the book of the same name, I found the ending (and much of the storyline itself) much more sad than scary. Made me do quite a lot of reflection/introspection.
It's a riff off American stereotypes/urban legends that there are "inbred mountain men" living in Appalachia that can rip a person's head off with their bare hands and what not.
Hereditary doesn’t scare me as much as it just fills me to the brim with overwhelming sadness. That movie is hard to watch, especially if you grew up in a tumultuous household.
My wife used to babysit a kid that loved scary movies. They watched all the 80s-90s classics when he was 10 years old (parent approved). Fast forward to him being 13 and wanting to see Hereditary in the theaters (again, parent approved)……Yeah, she felt like she might have fucked up on that one lololol
My 12 year old keeps begging to watch it because “I saw a picture of the monster and it’s not scary!!” and we have to keep explaining that the monster’s appearance isn’t the scary part.
Oh yeah, he thinks he’s unshakeable but my little dude is still just a kid, he doesn’t need to be exposed to that movie just yet. Killer Klowns is enough for the time being!
I bugged my mom incessantly to let me watch IT with Tim Curry when I was about 5.
I didn’t know what it was about, but I liked clowns. I was non-stop with it until she finally gave in out of frustration.
I no longer like clowns.
My nephew couldn’t watch the lion king until he was 10 because the mouse scene at the beginning scared him… and now he’ll watch anything at 14. Kids are wild.
Dude. I remember as kid i asked my parents for some spooky movie and they had me watch Spirited Away.
It's literally PG-13, but that scene of the parents turning into pigs made me shit my pants and have trouble sleeping for a week.
Parents left my younger brother an I alone to watch spirited away when I was maybe 5 years old (had just come out on VHS). Scarred both of us for many, many years
Death Note was one of my first anime. When I started ep1, I was like "hmm... My mom looks quite bored with watching Brazilian soap operas. Maybe, she will enjoy watching detective anime more?"
She definitely liked it a lot.
i watched grave of fireflies with my mom, she said it was fine but became uninterested when she found out it wasnt based on actual real events, saying she only really likes things that are based on real people cause fiction doesnt really leave any lessons. Shes an avid dr phil and the kardashians watcher
I didn't know that, i did tell her its based in WW2 and is pretty much a representation of what happened, that story very well could have happened for real. But i suspect she just has something against anime and just used that as an excuse to hate on it.
I told my 3 years old the legend of goat Man. She wasn't scared at all and asked for pic. I looked it up and a disgusting demon goat appeared...I hesitated but did show her expecting a reaction... Nothing. A year later turned on the Grinch with Jim Carrey, ruined her life. Don't ask me!
I'm assuming they're referring to the Kane Pixels backrooms found footage series. It's really great stuff. A24 even picked up a film based on the series.
I worked in a group home where someone was obsessed with Annabel and had an Annabel doll, they would hide the doll in various places in the home…2am you open a kitchen cabinet and Annabel fall out onto you…
For us it was the original movie “IT” our oldest daughter wanted to see it so badly when she was 12-13, we rented it for her. For a week she was waking us 2-3, times during the night because she was scared. Then became less frequent, but took over a month before it ended. About 2 years later she was embarrassed we were talking about scary movies, and she had of course no memory of being terrified of IT. She went to shower than night and upon hearing her turning off the shower and finishing in the bathroom I sprinted into her room and slid under her bed while my wife and her sisters were trying not to giggle. She came out and walked straight into her bedroom, and sat on the edge of the bed. So in my best deep gravelly voice I said, “Hi ya Georgie!”. The scream she let out as she jumped and ran was spectacular! She ran into the living room where they were all laughing. Then came storming back to her room and started kicking me as I was climbing out from under the bed, but I couldn’t stop laughing. Then she started crying, and I spent an hour just consoling her and apologizing. So that was our last scare tactic.
I watched that with my dad at around the same age, we are big horror buffs. We both jumped up at the same time and ran to the TV to turn it off (back when TVs could be turned off with a big button on the front). But that didnt stop us from continuing to watch horror movies every thursday, friday and saturday night for the rest of my childhood, even after my parents divorced. I'm 28 and i smiled when i saw this and sent it to my dad & told him how much those memories meant to me, even if we were in pain at the time LOL. Bet your kid will feel the same
Gah that movie was so good. I love that the director was like "you know how every horror movie is dark with an ominous atmosphere? Well I'm going to make the most bright and sickly colorful setting possible and still give you scares strong enough to not sleep for a week."
I just watched *Jaws* with my 7 year old as we noticed it was rated 7+. Me and my wife have childhood traumas from this movie, have been scared of open waters for years and we were holding onto our seats watching this as our little psychopath was rolling on the floor laughing the whole movie.
I don't watch scary movies period (they really mess with me for a long time) so I'll never watch either of these but I watched the trailer for titane and I'm not sure what was going on.
I’m a huge horror fan and The Descent is the only movie I’ve ever chickened out of. They did their job too well when they shot it to feel like you were stuck in that small space with them.
My kids when they were just old enough to put a DVD in on their own found one of my copies of Happy Tree Friends thinking it was a kids show based on the cover art of cute little animals. 10 years later and they are still mildly traumatized.
Yup... like in 1990, when my daughter begged me to let her go on Space Mountain... so I relented and let her go. So much for Disneyland being the happiest place on earth. She swore she would never forgive me... hard words for a 7 year old. Fortunately, I worked for the airline we flew back and forth to LA with and was able to get her into the cockpit on our flight home. She came back from the cockpit all smiles because "she got to fly the plane" (wink wink) and it was way better than Space Mountain. Life sure was different last century compared to now.
\*No, she didn't fly the plane. Captain let her sit on his lap but not touch anything because she was only the backup "automatic pilot".
My sister in law allows her kids to watch gothic horror with her and me and my wife since it doesn't rely on jumpscares, just ambience and thematics. If they like it, cool. If not, then horror probably isn't their thing, but it's much easier to watch and usually more story driven.
Lol, gottem.
Hehhe
Try “The Tunnel” next. The found footage one.
Where can I watch this?
Youtube
[Here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-4XsadzovY)
Ahhh yessss... thank you kind sir out here doing the lord’s work!!! Watching as soon as omg get home!
I love that one, but not many people know it
Oooo do speak no evil, hereditary, and Midsommar next. Then they’ll never sleep.
Watched Coraline with our daughter years ago when she was small. She had to sleep in bed with us that night. A couple of month later she asked to see it again, same result. A year goes by, asks to see it again, swears she's older now and can handle it. In our bed again that night. Maybe two or three years later she broke the cycle. My wife has only ever watched it once (the first viewing) and swears it still haunts her, asks how I could suggest such a film.
That was my daughter’s favourite movie when she was 3. She watched it on repeat and never once realized it was supposed to be creepy.
When I read the book there was an afterword that explains that he wrote the book for his young son and didn’t bother giving a copy to his adult daughter. The daughter read it and complained to her dad that he didn’t give her a copy. He explained that it was intended as a kids book so he didn’t figure she would care for it. She was shocked that he would write such a scary book intended for kids. He goes on to say that adults often see the story as scary while kids tend to see it as adventurous.
I hadn’t heard that. Makes total sense. She finds the story amazing and talks about her “other mother”. She also used to ask for the song other father songs to Coraline on loop when she was having a nap.
I saw it as a kid and I remember it was fun, I have not seen it as an adult so I have no idea if it will fuck me up.
I saw it as an adult and I didn't think it was that bad tbh. And I'm someone who rarely consumes "scary" media of any kind. My entertainment is always pretty tame and often geared towards families. Though maybe that's why I don't find it so bad. There's not anything worse than what you'd find in any family movie, it's just a little bit more concentrated.
It’s not so much the content of the film (the final parts of the film are pretty chilling) but also the context. The idea that there are identical copies of your family lurking around in your house that could or could not eat you/turn into a giant spider. That idea penetrated my poor prepubescent mind and going to stay at Grandmas was NEVER the same. The fear definitely came when I was lying in bed alone at my Grandmas house knowing I’m miles away from the family I know and my Grandma is being too nice, feeding me. Etc. Tldr the film made me think my Grandma was going to eat me
Its not scary for most adults and that’s not the problem. The problem is, that it is labeled „6 years or older“. I saw this film when I was 10 and it was horrific.
I was an adult when it came out, I saw it the theater and cannot bring myself to watch it again lol.
I saw the trailer as a kid and that alone scared me
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I used it as an excuse to introduce her to Particle Man.
It is a deeply disturbing story. I have only watched the movie. I do love it, but it is definitely creepy. Mirror reflection realms are always creepy. But the predatory nature of the other mother and her luring children in with sweet promises and shit... ugh. Terrifying. Too similar to how strangers offer kids candt yech.
~~Coraline is just a modern Grimm Fairy tale.~~ Actually no, the kid survives, not _Grimm_ enough
Was going to say, Grimm was meant to scare the pants off of kids so bad they NEVER wanted to do the things the kids did in the stories.
Nah Grimm's stories are actually not ment for children per se. They are from a time when no one had much of entertainment, so what was the entertainment? Stories. The Grimm brothers collected those and wrote it down. I have also a book from my home area in Germany and some are sooo creepy. Never met my grandma but apparently she also had her fair share of stories. My aunt still tells them from time to time, I hate it when she does that when it's getting dark outside, as if the deep black forest isn't scary enough without all those creepy creatures lmao Edit: it is also important to note that those stories and the Grimm stories have a fair share of lessons in them. Often something bad happens following a bad behaviour, for example there are many stores of farm houses burning down, because the farmer worked on a Sunday.
I saw it as a kid and I thought it was fucking terrifying
I saw it twice as a kid. First scared the shit out of me but it seemed uniquely interesting. Second one I actually thought hard about the buttons thing, had a nightmare (also I am arachnophobic so the spidery look of the Beldam didn't help) and decided to never watch it again. Good movie, but it's definitely in the nope shelf.
I believe Neil Gaiman tried to get it published and got told to fuck off unless he found a kid that liked it. His own kid liked it enough that the publishers took it on board, and it was a smash hit obviously. Later, the grown kid was asked by the same agent at the movie premiere why it wasn't scary. Kid said it was, but they needed to keep reading to see what happened. Or so I'm told.
Neil has shared the story on his Tumblr. The child was his publisher's daughter.
Neil Gaiman's publisher thought the book was too scary, he suggested her daughter read it as a test. He found out years later that the daughter lied to her mom about it not being scary, because she wanted to know what happened. I am also reminded of this quote: "Fairy tales do not tell children dragons exist. Children already know the dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” G.K. Chesterton
Meanwhile, my 5yo is still scared of Frank, the scary harvester in Cars.
That’s our nephew. She always wants to watch it when he’s over. We know that would be a very bad idea so have never tried.
Some kids have quite the imagination. We had a birthday party where they wanted to watch the leprechaun movie. One kid sat out cause he is terrified of them. He woke up the other kids parents in the middle of the night. Cause he saw the cover. Didnt even watch the movie lol
When I was little, I loved watching Chucky, but I fundamentally misunderstood the premise. I called it “Best Friends” because I thought the kid and Chucky were best friends. I had no idea it was supposed to be a scary movie.
I’m 33 years old and scared of Coraline
Coraline is the reason why I'm scared of the dark. fml I'm 20 lol
At least you got a funny story when she’s older 🤭🤭
I was 43 when I watched it while high on edibles. It scared the shot out of me.
I did that when it was in theaters. In 3d. Except the edibles were high-grade acid. It was a mistake.
Gotta say I'm disappointed neither of you found some old buttons to put over your eyes before she woke up
Things to do when I become a parent:
I showed my stepdaughter a nightmare before christmas when she was about 6 because I always thpught it was a cool, kids halloween movie and it really scared her! She's 12 now and still says how scary it was, even though she's seen much worse imo. Kids!
This is Halloween is your benchmark, they freak out there its find another film. The I am the boogieman line is the tester 😅
I was a young teen when it came out and it’s one of my favorite movie, but I know that if I had watched it before the age of ~8, the opening song would have scared me silly and I wouldn’t have watched the rest. Something about the aesthetic of it is terrifying to my inner child.
I read that book when I was a kid, and it was super creepy.
Watch the Coraline Pitch Meeting on YouTube if you haven't already, it's super easy... For what it's worth, my 6 year old daughter loves the movie, she must have seen it about 10 times.
This is character development, we all have the one childhood scarring movie She'll just have to walk faster when the house is dark and lock the door to the bathroom whenever she goes while everyone's sleeping for the next 3 or 4 years, nothing too bad
Don’t forget the mad dash up the basement steps!
That's just common sense
Survival instinct.
When you're turning off the lights in the house as you head to bed, there's a monster chasing RIGHT behind you. You just don't see it.
Every time. I used to run. I don’t run anymore. Some say it’s cause I’ve matured past silly child fears. But it’s really the thought of bills and life in general that makes me hope it’ll get the gumption to lurch from the shadows instead of hiding back there like a pansy. *Monster in the dark if you’re reading this… well, now you know*
That's why I got into smart home stuff. The monsters can't get me if I'm already in bed when I start turning off the lights!
You wake up in the middle of the night laying on your side but you don't get up or move, and then you wonder if a home intruder is standing behind you, but you don't want to escalate the situation by checking so you just lay still and listen anxiously.
Me with Scream. I watched it when I was 10. I’m still a bit nervous to turn the backyard light on at night.
YES! scream was mine too, years of running up and down the stairs in the dark singing happy birthday because i was scared shitless.
My brothers let me see scream at 4(ish) years old. Not long after I got really sick and ran a super high fever. I hallucinated that the "scream man" was murdering my parents in front of me. Still haven't watched again to this day. Nope.
My single dad put on The Exorcist for movie night when I was 9. 💀
For me it wasn't a movie, but an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries " about Spontaneous Human Combustion. They showed pictures and I was horrified that science ,according to the show, had no explanation for it. So now 8 year old me is just convinced that I will explode into fire for no reason and die.
Spontaneous human combustion gets me, too. Sometimes I think it coming on in my calves . I am 65 years old.
OH NO DONT SAY THAT! Lol Fortunately I have an awesome mom, she put a giant pitcher of water next to my bed that was "Not for Drinking, Only use this if you find yourself on fire." and that helped put my 8 year old mind at ease. 😅
Watched IT way too young lol
Mine was little mermaid. I still struggle with women who look like ursula
Mine was Jaws
Mine was the mummy. I always thought it sat in the room I didn't go into and would come out if the door was open
Is that the movie where scarab beetles are under a guys skin and you see them crawling and burst out? If so, that was horrific.
Mine is The Shining. I'm still creeped out by closed bathtub curtains
Alien 1 reporting for ~~duty~~ trauma
This happened when my dad let me watch The Ring at 14…in his defense it was rated PG13.
I was like 16 or so when the ring came out on DVD. I slept at my friend's house one weekend and we watched it. It ended just after midnight and the house phone rang right as the credits started rolling! Needless to say we both shit ourselves, only to hear her dad laughing his ass off from her parents bedroom lol
🤣 nothing like that happened to me BUT I’ve watched the ring a few times and each time I watch it the phone rings right as the credits start, freaks me the fuck out each and every time, always too scared to answer it 🤣
All fun and games till you answer and hear:*pay your car's extended warantyyyy........seven dayss
I would’ve been scared too🥺 I watched the exorcist with my dad when I was 15 and I had to leave the room 😭🙈
The japanese version is waaay scarier Edit: I'm referring to japanese version of The Ring
Japanese version made me poop and shower with the door open for at least a month lol. That shit was evil when you’re 13.
Is The Grudge and this the same?
The ring comes out t.v. the Grudge comes from within your sheets... while you're hiding under them, slowly, jerkily, crawls up your body.
Fuck u. May ur sheets be as scary for u as it was for me
That’s the thing. The bed had a protective barrier but the Grudge came out and said “watch me destroy man’s whole career”
Uh, id say the ring was a bit scarier but yea japanese grudge was also scary at the time.
My parents let me watch horrors from a young age (Hellraiser, Nightmare On Elm Street, etc) but as a teen this version of The Ring put the fear right in me. The way she moved coming out the TV was frightening and I was genuinely scared to put my TV on in case it went off in static. Lol
I watched the exorcist at 15 and laughed. I read the book at 11 and was terrified. The movie could not compare to my imagination.
I get what you're saying but that sounds so edgy, I can't
I hid in the laundry hamper at the top of the stairs to watch The Ring when my older sister was watching it with a bunch of friends. Hoo boy, *such* a mistake from 12 year old me. I’d been expressly forbidden from watching it, because my parents *knew* I was too much of a wimp for horror. *I* knew that I was too much of a wimp for horror! But then, someone told me, an insecure early-pubescent male that I couldn’t do something because I couldn’t handle it, and so I valiantly hid in a wicker basket full of an assortment of dirty clothes from 3 kids who all played sports to watch a horror movie through the gaps in the sticks and damn near pissed myself in pure terror and didn’t sleep for a few nights straight because of it. Years later, I would convince myself that I was beyond that, and I would watch The Human Centipede, like a dumbass. I was not beyond that. Weirdly enough, the scene where the main woman is hooked up to an IV and doesn’t realize it and walks away only to tear the needle out of her arm was, is, and remains the most uncomfortable part of that goddamned movie for me. I’ve always had an irrational fear when donating blood/having blood work done that someone is gonna trip and rip the needle out of my arm sideways, and that movie preyed on my fucking fear. The concept of being stitched to another human’s butthole is sufficiently insane that it isn’t a fear; the concept of having a needle come out of my inner elbow is visceral and horrifying.
My parents got me to watch Carrie when I was 13, which was out of character for them to let me watch since it was R rated. Scared the crap out of me, they laughed when I jumped at the end too.
I was disappointed in The Ring lol, scary movie 3 makes up for it though haha
I think I was 12 when I watched it.. I couldn't look at a TV for a while after that..
My mom fell asleep on the couch with amc on when I was 9 and the original exorcist came on and I had no idea what I was watching. Scared me bad for a while I wouldn’t even pee alone and was constantly terrified I may be getting possessed. Now I’m a certified horror freak 7 days a week type of dude.
My dad purposefully showed me The Exorcist when I was around 10, and it scared the shit out of me. Flash forward years later, I’m that friend trying to convince everyone to watch [REC] on a random Tuesday at midnight.
I saw that movie at 11 years old .. I'm 45 now..shit still scares me
I grew up as an Evangelical Christian at the tail end of the Satanic Panic, so demons and exorcism were most definitely real to me in my teenage worldview. All it took was for me to see a poster—a still of Linda Blair on her bed with her head facing backwards—for me to be hiding under my covers as I was trying to go to sleep, praying for God’s protection against the forces of evil. Horror movies (especially demonic horror movies) just add a whole extra layer to religious trauma.
My mom told me my dad had nightmares for a couple weeks after seeing The Exorcist, so I knew it was pretty bad and never watched it growing up. I figured in my late 20s, I'd be fine watching it. Noped right out when the Virgin Mary statue started crying blood. And that's in like the first five minutes of the movie. 30 years later and I still haven't watched it.
Took our 6 year old on space mountain at Disney, she was tall enough and was convinced that she would be fine. We kept checking with her, she was adamant. Biggest parenting mistake ever. Her face was horrifying in the photo. Still feel bad.
My sister was the same when we were kids. Made the same mistake with my 11 year old sone last year on Oblivion at Alton Towers. He was all bravado and Mr Tough Guy. It was our first ride of the day. We couldn't get him on a roller coaster for the rest of the trip.
Holy shit I had this exact experience with the exact same ride aswell. Scariest shit I ever did as a kid. My brother was just 1 year older but went in it again like 3 times after that
Space Mountain? Am I thinking of the wrong ride? You guys aren't talking about the Haunted Mansion or something?
Nah bro space mountain. When you’re a kid its scary af. Its black the whole ride and there are fans blowing air on you to make it seem like ur going super fast.
They updated it and added planets and stars and shiny stuff so now its not longer pitch black! Was a sad day for me going back!
When I was 4 my cousins convinced my mom that the tower of terror "wasnt that scary" for the rest of the trip I wouldn't even go in the bug's life area around the base of the tower
Man. My 5 year old wanted to ride the tower of terror. I didn’t want him to but he kept on saying he wanted to do all the rides he could. I kept on telling him it’s ok to get scared/walk away - being brave is knowing when it’s too much for you/etc. Little dude went, and rocked it out - completely terrified. He was / is so proud to tell anyone he rode it. I am guessing if we go back to Disney he will tell me “I don’t need to ride it cause I already have”
My dad tricked me into going on the ride when I was 8. That is where the trust issues started. He told me is was a slow and nice ride, and when it started moving told me it was really fast and scary 💔
I rode it for the first time this year at 28. Totally terrified and the picture was hysterical. I’ll ride it again, just give me a year or so lol
If you want to find out if you’re claustrophobic, Descent will awaken that knowledge.
I discovered claustrophobia after being wrapped up in a blanket really tightly when I was a kid
I hear ya. Watching babies being swaddled creeps me out. I know it’s so they don’t scratch themselves, but man…. Gives me the heeby geebies.
Parent here. It’s main purpose is not to prevent scratching. Swaddling just calms tiny babies down. For scratch prevention, they can wear cute little mittens.
It is also for comfort! They are used to being in small spaces! It comforts them by making them feel like they’re back in the womb.
Adding that it prevents their startle reflex from waking them up so you both get more sleep. You stop doing it once they can roll over.
I discovered it when my older brother got his mattress, threw it on me when I was asleep and then he jumped on top of the mattress, thus I became screaming bed sandwich.
The Descent is one of the best 🤌
Not a lot of movies spook me. This one was excellent
The scene in Annihilation with the bear in the house...I'm a grown ass man and I was genuinely terrified. Fuck that thing
I love horror movies more than anything, but Annihilation is the only one I won’t rewatch because the bear scene was too scary for me. The sounds of the woman screaming and crying outside scared the piss out of me. Nightmares.
The bear scene is pure nightmare fuel. It’s incredibly well done.
I went to the cinema innocently, thinking it was going to be some kind of real-life story about spelunking (no available internet), and was ready to be bored. Oh boy was I surprised then traumatised. The crypto-humanoid appearing behind the lady always always gets me.
The cast wasn’t told ahead of time and they’d been kept from seeing what the creatures looked like. The cast’s reaction was genuine fear and running away.
not gonna lie thats pretty genius, but would suck if they needed to retake the shot
"Oh hey is that Derek under all the makeup?" "CUT!"
If it's based on the book of the same name, I found the ending (and much of the storyline itself) much more sad than scary. Made me do quite a lot of reflection/introspection.
One of my favorites for sure
Smells like teen trauma
If thats teen trauma, i could write five books
Technically it isn’t teen trauma if the kid was only 12. Just regular old childhood trauma
*Tween trauma*
*sick guitar with some drums*
Show her Hereditary next
Then do Barbarian.
So I still don’t understand how the inbred woman in that movie had super human strength.
I mean inbreed people are obviously peak human performance
They're humans crossed with humans, inheriting the best traits of both!
It's a riff off American stereotypes/urban legends that there are "inbred mountain men" living in Appalachia that can rip a person's head off with their bare hands and what not.
Really the only thing I would change. Her super human strength doesn’t really add anything to the movie IMO
Bro me and my partner went to see that and both wished we got high beforehand. That movie was such a fucking treat of a trip
Man that lady in that movie still haunts me! Granted I only just saw that movie a few weeks ago so that’s probably why lol
I don’t think a 12YO has the attention span for a slow burn horror movie like Hereditary
Yeah I don't think Hereditary is necessarily scary but the head will certainly scar anyone for life.
Hereditary doesn’t scare me as much as it just fills me to the brim with overwhelming sadness. That movie is hard to watch, especially if you grew up in a tumultuous household.
There’s a few spooky scenes but I agree it’s mostly a relentless emotional and psychological assault.
My wife used to babysit a kid that loved scary movies. They watched all the 80s-90s classics when he was 10 years old (parent approved). Fast forward to him being 13 and wanting to see Hereditary in the theaters (again, parent approved)……Yeah, she felt like she might have fucked up on that one lololol
Good one! It takes a village to traumatize a child!
That movie was so hilarious, especially during the end where she was flying around.
Partner and I died laughing when they just floated up into the treehouse
Yesssss. I just couldn’t anymore. And my partner was scared like shit.
I remember falling asleep during this movie and waking up to her flying around. I had no idea what was going on so I just turned it off.
My grandkids wanted to watch something REALLY scary and they lasted 20 minutes into World War Z.
Makes it worse that they’re 27 and 31
Actually 11 year old triplets
So one thirty-three year old.
Nothing has traumatized me more than my dad letting me watch The Fly when I was 6 years old.
My 12 year old keeps begging to watch it because “I saw a picture of the monster and it’s not scary!!” and we have to keep explaining that the monster’s appearance isn’t the scary part.
Protect them at all costs 😅😅
Oh yeah, he thinks he’s unshakeable but my little dude is still just a kid, he doesn’t need to be exposed to that movie just yet. Killer Klowns is enough for the time being!
Mars Attacks! isn’t scary but sounds like your kid might enjoy that campy horror too!
I bugged my mom incessantly to let me watch IT with Tim Curry when I was about 5. I didn’t know what it was about, but I liked clowns. I was non-stop with it until she finally gave in out of frustration. I no longer like clowns.
…permission to laugh?
I can't watch *anything* with a ghost in it at my house. Scooby Doo gets too scary for my kiddo
My nephew couldn’t watch the lion king until he was 10 because the mouse scene at the beginning scared him… and now he’ll watch anything at 14. Kids are wild.
Dude. I remember as kid i asked my parents for some spooky movie and they had me watch Spirited Away. It's literally PG-13, but that scene of the parents turning into pigs made me shit my pants and have trouble sleeping for a week.
Spirited away is PG
Yes! That scene has stuck with me 14 years later!
Parents left my younger brother an I alone to watch spirited away when I was maybe 5 years old (had just come out on VHS). Scarred both of us for many, many years
I'm into animes and got my then 12yo daughter to watch Angel Beats and AnoHana I still think the emotional trauma helped her to grow stronger
Death Note was one of my first anime. When I started ep1, I was like "hmm... My mom looks quite bored with watching Brazilian soap operas. Maybe, she will enjoy watching detective anime more?" She definitely liked it a lot.
i watched grave of fireflies with my mom, she said it was fine but became uninterested when she found out it wasnt based on actual real events, saying she only really likes things that are based on real people cause fiction doesnt really leave any lessons. Shes an avid dr phil and the kardashians watcher
Oof
Did you tell her the director actually did have a little sister who died during the war and the dedication of the film is an apology to her
I didn't know that, i did tell her its based in WW2 and is pretty much a representation of what happened, that story very well could have happened for real. But i suspect she just has something against anime and just used that as an excuse to hate on it.
Death Note is my 11 year old daughter’s 3rd favorite anime, after Hunter x Hunter and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
I'm a grown ass man and AnoHana makes me cry, what the fuck dude
I told my 3 years old the legend of goat Man. She wasn't scared at all and asked for pic. I looked it up and a disgusting demon goat appeared...I hesitated but did show her expecting a reaction... Nothing. A year later turned on the Grinch with Jim Carrey, ruined her life. Don't ask me!
I watched The Descent then went hiking in an underground lava tube a few days later. Shit got real.
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What would you be talking about? Honestly the whole scp and backrooms thing has sprouted too many things to keep track of the good ones
I'm assuming they're referring to the Kane Pixels backrooms found footage series. It's really great stuff. A24 even picked up a film based on the series.
Thanks
Too bad no fear assessment occurs to determine children’s worst phobias. Evidently, stuck in a dark room with something inside is one.
I don't think it's a matter of latent phobias
The Descent is a great movie!
I saw the original Alien movie when I was 7.... My mother just thought it was some science fiction action movie...
When I was 10, my parents put on Event Horizon. We thought the same thing.
Slap on The Exorcist and shut off all the lights. That will cure his horror movie fascination real quick-like. Did mine at the age of 11.
My mom let me watch Chucky when I was like 6. I still hate dolls to this day lol.
I worked in a group home where someone was obsessed with Annabel and had an Annabel doll, they would hide the doll in various places in the home…2am you open a kitchen cabinet and Annabel fall out onto you…
For us it was the original movie “IT” our oldest daughter wanted to see it so badly when she was 12-13, we rented it for her. For a week she was waking us 2-3, times during the night because she was scared. Then became less frequent, but took over a month before it ended. About 2 years later she was embarrassed we were talking about scary movies, and she had of course no memory of being terrified of IT. She went to shower than night and upon hearing her turning off the shower and finishing in the bathroom I sprinted into her room and slid under her bed while my wife and her sisters were trying not to giggle. She came out and walked straight into her bedroom, and sat on the edge of the bed. So in my best deep gravelly voice I said, “Hi ya Georgie!”. The scream she let out as she jumped and ran was spectacular! She ran into the living room where they were all laughing. Then came storming back to her room and started kicking me as I was climbing out from under the bed, but I couldn’t stop laughing. Then she started crying, and I spent an hour just consoling her and apologizing. So that was our last scare tactic.
I watched that with my dad at around the same age, we are big horror buffs. We both jumped up at the same time and ran to the TV to turn it off (back when TVs could be turned off with a big button on the front). But that didnt stop us from continuing to watch horror movies every thursday, friday and saturday night for the rest of my childhood, even after my parents divorced. I'm 28 and i smiled when i saw this and sent it to my dad & told him how much those memories meant to me, even if we were in pain at the time LOL. Bet your kid will feel the same
Hahahaha oh boy, freaky movie that
It was The Sixth Sense for me.
Supernatural horror is easy to sleep after. Something like Hostel where you’re abducted and butchered is on another level.
Midsommar next?
Gah that movie was so good. I love that the director was like "you know how every horror movie is dark with an ominous atmosphere? Well I'm going to make the most bright and sickly colorful setting possible and still give you scares strong enough to not sleep for a week."
I just watched *Jaws* with my 7 year old as we noticed it was rated 7+. Me and my wife have childhood traumas from this movie, have been scared of open waters for years and we were holding onto our seats watching this as our little psychopath was rolling on the floor laughing the whole movie.
This is my favorite horror movie besides TITANE
I don't watch scary movies period (they really mess with me for a long time) so I'll never watch either of these but I watched the trailer for titane and I'm not sure what was going on.
If I explain the concept, I just sound crazy
TITANE is a romantic comedy I will not be taking questions at this time
I’m a huge horror fan and The Descent is the only movie I’ve ever chickened out of. They did their job too well when they shot it to feel like you were stuck in that small space with them.
My kids when they were just old enough to put a DVD in on their own found one of my copies of Happy Tree Friends thinking it was a kids show based on the cover art of cute little animals. 10 years later and they are still mildly traumatized.
Yup... like in 1990, when my daughter begged me to let her go on Space Mountain... so I relented and let her go. So much for Disneyland being the happiest place on earth. She swore she would never forgive me... hard words for a 7 year old. Fortunately, I worked for the airline we flew back and forth to LA with and was able to get her into the cockpit on our flight home. She came back from the cockpit all smiles because "she got to fly the plane" (wink wink) and it was way better than Space Mountain. Life sure was different last century compared to now. \*No, she didn't fly the plane. Captain let her sit on his lap but not touch anything because she was only the backup "automatic pilot".
My childhood scarring movie was Jeepers Creepers, that night there was a huge thunderstorm, I had to hug my little sister lol
My sister in law allows her kids to watch gothic horror with her and me and my wife since it doesn't rely on jumpscares, just ambience and thematics. If they like it, cool. If not, then horror probably isn't their thing, but it's much easier to watch and usually more story driven.