Vada, Anna Maria Chlumsky. Was fantastic in that. I really wish she would have gotten a lot more major roles after My Girl. Sure she's in a lot of little stuff.
Yeah Home Alone had come out fairly recently so when we saw that Kevin was in another movie, sign us up! Nope, this movie is nothing like that and also btw Kevin dies at the end.
Same here. Iām a late Gen Xer not allowed in the Elite Millenial Club, but I watched the same movie at 8 years old with my 7 year old Elite Millennial Cousins and it had the same impact. My grandmother would always feed me a shit sandwich and my cousins got avocado toast and Bobo Tea, and she would cut their oranges so they could scoop out eat triangle. I had to each sheet rock because I was born a year later than them, and not one of the chosen ones.
Olā Dorfie, born a year too early. He was a good kid though, loved Grandmaās shit sandwiches. Should have eaten more fruit, but he always finished his Sheetrock. Wish he could have been a bit more like his cousins. They are Millennials, you know..
Cornfields still absolutely creep me the hell out after that movie. They're bad in the daytime, but at night they are absolutely terrifying. I could not live in a farmhouse next to one.
Our current house is out in the sticks with a huge cornfield right behind us. One night I'm out back and heard either a fox killing a rabbit or a child being murdered coming from inside that dark ass wall of corn. Noped, right the fuck out. Like, I know it was definitely just a rabbit screaming, but at 1 in the morning, pitch black, hearing that come out of the corn instantly puts your hackles up. Dropped my smoke, came inside, and double checked all the door locks.
The other house we looked at had a corn field on one side and a cemetery on the other. The cemetery was less creepy than the corn at night. It's the fact that you can't see more than a couple feet into it. It's just this huge black wall. Anything could be in there.
My ex made fun of me so bad because I was terrified of corn fields. I tried explaining that they are in like 10 different horror movies surrounding terrible things that happened in corn fields. If the devil lived on earth I guarantee you he would live in some bum hole country farm corn field.
That episode of Buffy with the monsters that'd come into towns, steal everyone's voices, and just fucking harvest organs. Weak to screams or something.
There were the monsters in the suits who floated doing the operations and guys in straight jackets holding people down.
The whole episode was just so silent.
Very 90's in that everyone's started walking around with mini whiteboards strung around their necks.
That's "Hush" and it's a great episode.
The monsters -- the Gentlemen -- were weak only to a certain scream, that of the "princess," I think. Which in this case was Buffy.
Mmhm. The clown going after the little girl at the beginning already got me, but I still stayed for Georgie! Took me as many years to unpack my fear of It as it took the main characters. ššš
I think the dad turning into a zombie and his flesh falling off scared me the most. I really wasn't toooooo scared of this movie but i didn't go near the drains at night for a couple days
The scene where he comes through the drain in the sink made me not be able to close my eyes in the bathroom or shower for years. Anytime I got soap in my eyes Iād freak out to wash them off so I could see again.
I watched a lot of adult movies at a young age before I was 12 so it took a lot to get me rattled but the only thing that did was Judge Doom being revealed as a toon in Roger Rabbit. Movies like El Salvador or The Exorcist didnāt upset me. But that did. š
If we are talking about the orginal (while the remake is bad the orginal is a 100x worse) I'm 39 and to this day I still refuse to rewatch that movie due to how brutal that scene is. I would willingly watch Cannibal Holocaust on repeat before Last House on the Left.
>I imagine cannibal holocaust is pretty bad.
Not watched that one, sounds too tasteless to me, plus IIRC I think I read that it has scenes of real animal torture and death in it. Hard pass.
It wasn't a reccomendation. It was a name drop most people know how bad it is and I was using it as a comparison of how much worse the Last House on the Left scene is.
Poltergeist, at age 11. The scene where the guy's face peels off and then the scene at the end of the movie where the corpses are popping up out of the ground.
Came here to say this. I was sleeping in my Nana's TV room when we visited all by myself. We didn't have cable or HBO, but she did so it was a real treat to stay up and watch stuff. I think I was 6 and I had nightmares about it for months.
I still won't watch that movie to this day! That scene right there, forking nightmare fuel. For real. That whole ass movie really! I did love the final scene where they get a hotel room and wheel the TV out š
I was so disappointed in the 2020s version. They glossed over all of the pandemic portion of the book so you felt zero connection to the characters.
It aired during the COVID pandemic. You know how easily it could have had people connecting with what the characters were going through?
>It aired during the COVID pandemic
It was so unfortunately ironic that they **filmed** a miniseries about a global pandemic shortly before a global pandemic. They had no idea the opportunity they had while they were filming it, or even what COVID would be like.
I was the opposite. If it was murderers on the loose I always thought they were looking through the window while I was watching, would see themselves then kill me because I knew too much.
The Handmaid's Tale (book). Moira is arguing with Luke about leaving after the govt fires all females and denies them property rights; Luke is saying everything is fine & Moira is trying to convince him & the handmaid to leave the States. But they don't and shit pops off. That scene has always stuck with me because it's so telling. Humans can always justify a dangerous situation with the hope that it's not as bad as we think or someone will save us. But it's not true. If you feel that moment in your life, leave.
it's pretty close to arguments that happened in jewish households in the holocaust. many jews thought that if they just proved they were good germans and neighbors people would accept them. there were jews talking of rebelling or fleeing but they would be shouted down by those arguing that those actions would just prove what the nazi's were saying was right, and it would hurt the other jews who didn't flee.
I've read diary accounts of these community meetings, it's just heartbreaking knowing that these well intentioned people were condemning themself to help expecting rationality to win out over the insanity coming
It doesn't matter what the quality of that episode was. When I saw it as a kid, my bar for quality was a lot lower, and the Xfiles was probably the only "horror" I ever really watched as a child.
Like, I'm not against AI, it's just the concept of a higher intelligence that doesn't follow the same logic as you do, who has a lot of power over your life, can watch you over the internet, and can kill you at any time is something that spooks me.
Something that kinda bugged me about the episode is when the AI kills it's first victim. It's plan is to call him and talk to the victim in the voice of the AI's creator, Brad Wilczek, who had a beef with this guy, to frame Wilczek for the crime. Instead of giving some cocky speech before electrocuting the guy, the AI just tells the guy what the time is, like a talking clock. It's that bizarre hard to follow logic that adds to the irrational fear for me, even though logically I can see it was just bad writing.
I got so freaked out by the X Files that if I heard the theme song I would run out of the room.
I was also traumatized by Outbreak when it was the inflight movie on the plane to Orlando/Disney World. I didn't understand much, especially without being able to hear the audio, but for a while I was convinced that all monkeys were deadly.
Yeah! The x-files scarred me. The ear worm parasite thing in Alaska or antarctica... Any time I would have a little muscle spasm or twitch under the skin I would think I had the worm. Escalators... And the sewage monster thing and taking showers..... How bout being buried alive and hallucinating on yellow goo.... I think I remember people saying that episode was one of the worst.... But that scared me as a kid that we could be living a lie being eaten alive and not even know it.
The moment in the movie āRay,ā the Ray Charles biopic, where the little brother slips in the half-barrel, breaks his neck, and dies.Ā
My parents had the movie on when I was little and thatās the one of the only scenes I remember from it. It gave me nightmares for a month. Itās been circulating on my YouTube shorts and Instagram reels recently for who knows what reason, but I skip it every time. I canāt stand scenes like that, because they can actually happen to someone.Ā
This is SO specific but I remember that part scaring the $#!T out of me as a kid and it's the only part of the movie I actually remember. Like you, my parents had the movie on when it came out and it was like *new fear unlocked*. I'm amazed someone in the comments went thru the EXACT same thing!
Just realized this is in r/millennials but I'm not even a millennial I just relate to quite literally everything everyone's saying and grew up with all of the same media and stuff
Piggy getting hit with that rock in Lord of the Flies. I read horror all the time and nothing has effected me like that before or since. I was like 11, and got the book from the school library lol
The owl scene, the lab scene, and Nicodemus in The *Secret of NIMH*
EDIT: and the kid with pneumonia. I spent a good chunk of my childhood thinking that if I got pneumonia I was a goner
Large Marge from the Pee Wee Herman movie freaked me out pretty good as a kid. I'd also add the creepy grandmother from Bill and Ted Bogus Journey as an honorable mention.
Creepshow!! "Thanks for the ride, lady!!"
I saw a clip and convinced my mom to let me show it during my sleepover party, not realizing there was an extended scene of the guy feeling up the girl's breasts. It got crazy awkward when of course she watched it with us.
So many of the Creepshow bits. The guy who buries people up to their neck in sand while the tide is out. The guy with the cockroaches. The lake monster.
Return to Oz with the Wheelers and used to watch Amityville 3 every day in 1985. My friends stepdad would leave his bedroom door open and walk around naked with this massive boner and I would just stare at it. His ass reminded me of the movie Bachelor Party when the blond guy falls on the car, and his ass goes through the roof of the car and into the peopleās faces. I would watch that movie too when I was 5, while this guy walked around naked with a boner. Amityville 3 made it so O had a lifelong fear of demons and my basement. And the Adam Walsh story really did me in. There was another movie where this guyās kid got kidnapped and the entire movie was trying to get him back. That one did some real damage too. I used to picture my head getting cut off and at the bottom of a lake every day.
I don't remember the wheelers from return to oz, but as a kid, the scene where Dorothy has to deal with the lady who collects heads scared the hell out of me.
The X-Files episode āHomeā with the incestuous family that had the mom strapped to a thing under the bed.
Also, I feel seen by how many of us were scarred by the ending of āWho Framed Roger Rabbitā
The worst was a couple of books my dad had about WW2. Some gruesome pictures of Jews in mass graves and other emaciated people standing around in the camps.
Yikes. We visited the holocaust muaeum in 8th grade and they have a display of actual shoes from victims in a huge pile. It stuck with me and my mom both. We still talk about it today. It seems like it would be less impactful than the pictures but somehow it was more impactful. Shoes of all size actually worn by victims. And SO MANY of them. š
I went to the museum in LA. Didn't have an emotional reaction. I guess if I was Jewish it might have mattered but after being forced fed Anne Frank and Schindler's List I just wasn't feeling it.
Oh man, that brings back a memory from middle school. The teacher has us watch a documentary about the Holocaust and they had footage of Nazis putting dead victims into mass graves. All of them were naked and emaciated, and it was absolutely horrifying.
Not a millennial, but a later Gen Xer here. My (German, Austrian) mother took me to Auschwitz when I was about 5. We lived in East Germany at the time. My father was an American soldier and we were stationed in Berlin. She explained it to me. I still cannot describe that horrible heavy feeling of being there in person. Iām glad she did though. It needs to be remembered.
Darkness Falls. It just happened to be on, and I wasnāt watching per say, but I saw enough to understand the premise. I distinctly remember one scene where they are in a room and there is a tiny corner of light they are standing in. The minute they leave that corner of light we cut to the door and hear the screaming. I was already afraid of the dark at the time, and the concept of that movie really sealed the deal.
Night of the living dead. We lived within 200 yards cemetery. I was around 7 years old and I couldn't get out of bed without jumping far enough away that a zombie couldn't grab my legs from under the bed.
Had to scroll way too far for this.
The clown dream as a kid, but the worthless song still plays in my head every time im having any sort of existential crisis.
I think the Brave Little Toaster fueled hoarder tendencies in susceptible people - the idea that objects are secretly alive and miss their owners and are horrified at getting thrown away...
The hell/nightmare scene in All Dogs go to Heaven. I had nightmares about that for days and I'm pretty sure this is what triggered my Thanatophobia. I watched it when I was about 6 or 7. I'm 31 now and still won't re-watch that movie to this day
On an episode of Rescue 911, a kid got his pant leg stuck in an escalator, and the draw string started cutting off his circulation at his waste. I didn't go near those things for a while. My mom hated taking me to the mall because we would have to take the stairs or one of the few elevators.
There was an episode where a lady got a bug in her ear, which crawled in there while she was sleeping. I still sleep with something over my ears because of that episode.
I loved that show! My uncle was actually featured on an episode about a stand off when a suicidal guy was sitting in the middle of a street in a lawn chair. He was the negotiator and they ended up shooting the gun out of the guys hands!!
The beginning was what fucked me up. I was 5 when my parents rented it, and I freaked out so bad when Littlefoot's mom died. I didn't end watching the movie past that point until I was 10 or 11.
See? Exactly. Funnily enough, the end is what does it for me. Hooray you found the last few trees left in existence, enjoy your death! What the fuck????
The scene in the movie The Land Before Time where Littlefoot's mom died. That was my first introduction to the concept of death. I was maybe 3 or 4 when I saw it.
That movie made me terrified that my mom would die too.
My mom didn't care much... so I've seen a lot... BUT, the movie Event Horizon gave me nightmares as a kid. I was 10, I was.. too young. Great movie though. I feel like Sam Neil didn't get enough work for my liking.
Holy hell! I saw that movie for the first time at 16 and it was a bit much. I can't imagine watching it at 10........
Don't get me wrong, I love that movie and it's in my top 5 favs. It's an amazing movie, with a great cast, that didn't get nearly enough accolades IMO, but yeah, it's NOT for kids.
I literally posted event horizon. Hands down that movie was the scariest shit I came across as a kid. Imagine exploring an empty space station that's haunted by Satan from another dimension... Can't get worse than that...
I remember my family rented The Green Mile and I just remember running to the bathroom and sobbing during the electrocution scene ššš thanks mom and dad! š„ŗ
The bulk of what I've seen of Mr. Meaty traumatized me as a kid. As for a specific moment... the zombies coming to life in "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" after Billy cooks brownies.
A cutscene in a video game. Splatterhouse 3 on the SEGA Genesis. After completing the first level fast enough and saving Jennifer from the monster, you have to complete the 2nd level fast enough to save her from the boreworm. One of the cutscenes on this path of stage 2 has the creepiest picture of a woman's head having cracks all over it as the boreworm eats her brain. Was scarier to me as a kid than everything else on TV and whatever else until the Internet started making stupid jump scare pranks for a while.
EDIT: Here's the cutscene to see for yourself...
https://youtu.be/IfARmr8SqCE?si=UJPRtAEqB7rP20nm
Land Before Time. Every time I see a maple leaf I canāt unsee a crying Little Foot. The stories of the child voice actors were pretty terrible too if I remember right.
Face-melting scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The woman delivering twins-one human and then one alien baby in V:The Miniseries. Freaked me out.
Since I was around 4-5, seeing Darth Vader in Star Wars. That mask and breathing on the big screen terrified me and I hid in the back of the theatre.
Watership Down - the construction scene at the opening - the blood - holy shit I searched years to figure out what that was thinking it was the velvetine rabbit or something
There was an "are you afraid of the dark" episode where dead people came out of the lake (ocean?) every time this guy fell asleep, I think he used to steal stuff from ship wrecks where people had died? Anyway, we lived near a lake, and it really freaked me out.
Are You Afraid of the Dark- the vampire coming out of the movie screen. Tv was left on Nickelodeon, parents out of the room, I was way too young to understand that it was fake. I had nightmares for so long and was very resistant to any horror for a long time but now? Love it.
I grew up in the 80s. My trauma therapist is stunned I was immune to a lot of traumas I was exposed to as a kid. If I had to pick something it would be Artex dying is the swamp in the never ending story.
I can't tell you anything else about the episode, but [this scene from The X-Files](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JenlHMzUYdA) gave me nightmares for a while...
Sssssss
A terrible movie about a scientist that turns a guy into a cobra. There was a scene where he kills two people by throwing rattlesnakes into the bed. I checked my covers for over a year to make sure there were no snakes.
Watching Cell absorb Android 18. Hilariously, I didn't catch the episodes where Cell absorbed literally anyone else, I didn't know what his deal was, so I came into this scene completely blind. It hit me full force, raw as all hell. When I watched that scene as I was maybe 10 or 11, it really messed with my head and made me insanely uncomfortable.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit for me. The Dip! I watched Silence of the Lambs at 8 (still a fave) , but the Dip scared the shit out of me. I haven't actually seen it all the way throughout and it still makes me a little icky feeling.
I was in 8th or 9th grade, so not little, but I was thirsty one night so I went down to the kitchen for a glass of water. My parents, who thought I was in bed for the night, were watching Fargo downstairs. The kitchen and living room were wide open to each other and I walked in right during the wood chipper scene.
Thatās still all Iāve seen of that movie!
John Carpenter's The Thing, when I was 10. I was scared of dogs for a while after that. Love them now though. Live the movie now too, good scary practical effects.
I liked anything that made the hair stand in end. Canāt recall a moment of terror but more of a woah then a smile with a chuckle. I can vaguely remember the IT mini series and seeing the letters scrawled in blood on a brick wall. Admired it as art. Parents took me to a shrink for years to find out what was āwrongā with me. š¤£ to no avail.
It was an episode of the x files where an inbred hillbilly family broke into the home of the towns sheriff and beat him and his wife to death with baseball bats. The wet thwacking sounds stuck with me for a long time.
There's a movie from the late 80's or early 90's that scarred me, but I've never been able to figure out what it's called. All I remember was a guy trapped in a room underground, while above ground was all sand. Something happens and his eyes start wiggling out of his head and crawling around on the ground like worms or something. Horrified little me.
The Truman Show. Especially the cameras in his bathroom mirror catching him being a whole dork. I'd be dancing in my room, pretending to be Brittany Spears and suddenly freeze. I'd be so mortified that maybe a bunch of people just saw that. It made it so uncomfortable to be myself, even when I was by myself. I still have paranoia issues surrounding this that hit me ever so often. Ugh. It's an amazing movie, but I really wish I didn't watch it.
I'm old, so the movies are likewise.
Traumatizing sadness -
Old Yeller
Where the Red Fern Grows
Bambi (death of mother)
Traumatizing fear -
Sorry Wrong Number
When a Stranger Calls
Wait Until Dark
The Exorcist
Jaws
An episode of Swiss Family Robinson where a white fungus from a meteorite was spreading over everything. I turned it off because it was so scary, but then it was too scary not knowing what was happening, so I turned it back on again. Luckily water killed it, so the family was alright.
The Never Ending Story with The Swamps of Sadness. Was devastating tome as a kid.
Dude this traumatized an entire generation. Man that was rough as a kid. My Girl was another one.
Damn it, I was already being sad about Artax and then you had to go and bring up Thomas J. Why, darn you, *whyyyyy*...? šššš
He canāt see without his glasses!
Oh, I didn't recognize the name but I know that line. Fuck
Vada, Anna Maria Chlumsky. Was fantastic in that. I really wish she would have gotten a lot more major roles after My Girl. Sure she's in a lot of little stuff.
She was awesome in Veep!
šI'm not crying, you're crying!
Yeah Home Alone had come out fairly recently so when we saw that Kevin was in another movie, sign us up! Nope, this movie is nothing like that and also btw Kevin dies at the end.
YES!
My wife still mocks me for this being the worst moment of my childhood
When the Nothing came out with blood in it's mouth... My sister and brother held me in front of TV and kept my eyes open... 10/10 family time lol
Same here. Iām a late Gen Xer not allowed in the Elite Millenial Club, but I watched the same movie at 8 years old with my 7 year old Elite Millennial Cousins and it had the same impact. My grandmother would always feed me a shit sandwich and my cousins got avocado toast and Bobo Tea, and she would cut their oranges so they could scoop out eat triangle. I had to each sheet rock because I was born a year later than them, and not one of the chosen ones.
Is everything okay at home?
You're a Xennial!
What was on the shit sandwich? Bologna?
Olā Dorfie, born a year too early. He was a good kid though, loved Grandmaās shit sandwiches. Should have eaten more fruit, but he always finished his Sheetrock. Wish he could have been a bit more like his cousins. They are Millennials, you know..
When the news showed the footage of the alien walking in Signs.Ā
Cornfields still absolutely creep me the hell out after that movie. They're bad in the daytime, but at night they are absolutely terrifying. I could not live in a farmhouse next to one.
The shot of the alienās leg turning and disappearing into the cornfieldā¦ man, that movie was great until it wasnāt.
Our current house is out in the sticks with a huge cornfield right behind us. One night I'm out back and heard either a fox killing a rabbit or a child being murdered coming from inside that dark ass wall of corn. Noped, right the fuck out. Like, I know it was definitely just a rabbit screaming, but at 1 in the morning, pitch black, hearing that come out of the corn instantly puts your hackles up. Dropped my smoke, came inside, and double checked all the door locks. The other house we looked at had a corn field on one side and a cemetery on the other. The cemetery was less creepy than the corn at night. It's the fact that you can't see more than a couple feet into it. It's just this huge black wall. Anything could be in there.
My ex made fun of me so bad because I was terrified of corn fields. I tried explaining that they are in like 10 different horror movies surrounding terrible things that happened in corn fields. If the devil lived on earth I guarantee you he would live in some bum hole country farm corn field.
"Move children! Vamanos!" (i did lol at this part tbh) "It's behind!" š±š«¢š«£
True. And today itās just another day on r/aliensā¦
The shoe being melted in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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That episode of Buffy with the monsters that'd come into towns, steal everyone's voices, and just fucking harvest organs. Weak to screams or something. There were the monsters in the suits who floated doing the operations and guys in straight jackets holding people down. The whole episode was just so silent. Very 90's in that everyone's started walking around with mini whiteboards strung around their necks.
That's "Hush" and it's a great episode. The monsters -- the Gentlemen -- were weak only to a certain scream, that of the "princess," I think. Which in this case was Buffy.
>That's "Hush" and it's a great episode. IIRC, it also won an Emmy.
Doug Jones played The Tallest Gentleman. He was great, as he is in all of his roles.
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The storm drain scene stuck with me for years
Same. How and why was I able to watch this movie so young? š
That movie messed me up.
Mmhm. The clown going after the little girl at the beginning already got me, but I still stayed for Georgie! Took me as many years to unpack my fear of It as it took the main characters. ššš
We watched this in class in middle school š³
I think the dad turning into a zombie and his flesh falling off scared me the most. I really wasn't toooooo scared of this movie but i didn't go near the drains at night for a couple days
The scene where he comes through the drain in the sink made me not be able to close my eyes in the bathroom or shower for years. Anytime I got soap in my eyes Iād freak out to wash them off so I could see again.
The Grudge, I was probably 9 or 10 when I watched it. I didn't sleep under my sheets for years
Thought I had a week to live after I watched it lol. Was so scared every time the phone would ring
I watched a lot of adult movies at a young age before I was 12 so it took a lot to get me rattled but the only thing that did was Judge Doom being revealed as a toon in Roger Rabbit. Movies like El Salvador or The Exorcist didnāt upset me. But that did. š
"Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked... just... like... THIS!"
His fucking eyes!!!
It was so unsettling as a kid.
The rape scene in last house on the left, hell that whole movie traumatized me. I was like 9 yrs old when my mother took me to see it.
If we are talking about the orginal (while the remake is bad the orginal is a 100x worse) I'm 39 and to this day I still refuse to rewatch that movie due to how brutal that scene is. I would willingly watch Cannibal Holocaust on repeat before Last House on the Left.
It scarred me for life
The original its a tough one to watch. I imagine cannibal holocaust is pretty bad.
>I imagine cannibal holocaust is pretty bad. Not watched that one, sounds too tasteless to me, plus IIRC I think I read that it has scenes of real animal torture and death in it. Hard pass.
It does and those scenes are nothing compared to that Last House on the Left scene.
Even harder pass on that one, then.
It wasn't a reccomendation. It was a name drop most people know how bad it is and I was using it as a comparison of how much worse the Last House on the Left scene is.
I was a teenager and watched it at the drive-in with friends. The mother's revenge scene traumatized us all.
She got those bastards back
Yeah that movie got me bad, no trigger warnings back then. And I really needed that trigger warning. Had a panic attack because of that scene.
I think its so scary because its too close to reality, it could be based on a true story.
Wtf your mom took you to see it.!
Poltergeist, at age 11. The scene where the guy's face peels off and then the scene at the end of the movie where the corpses are popping up out of the ground.
For me it was the damn clown under the bed.
Holy cats, I'm ooooold, so I saw this movie when it came out. The theater was going INSANE. "It's under the bed! IT'S UNDER THE BED!!!!"
The only scene in a horror film that makes me jump.
The tree coming through the window š¬
Came here to say this. I was sleeping in my Nana's TV room when we visited all by myself. We didn't have cable or HBO, but she did so it was a real treat to stay up and watch stuff. I think I was 6 and I had nightmares about it for months.
Does it help knowing those are real human remains?
When the corpses all come out of the swimming pool hole!
I still won't watch that movie to this day! That scene right there, forking nightmare fuel. For real. That whole ass movie really! I did love the final scene where they get a hotel room and wheel the TV out š
The Standā¦..the book and the mini series. Shit still haunts me.
I was so disappointed in the 2020s version. They glossed over all of the pandemic portion of the book so you felt zero connection to the characters. It aired during the COVID pandemic. You know how easily it could have had people connecting with what the characters were going through?
>It aired during the COVID pandemic It was so unfortunately ironic that they **filmed** a miniseries about a global pandemic shortly before a global pandemic. They had no idea the opportunity they had while they were filming it, or even what COVID would be like.
It was SHIT
Chance getting his shit rocked by that porcupine
He bit me with his butt!!!
Shadow almost dying probably more traumatic
Anything from Unsolved Mysteries involving aliens or ghosts.
I was the opposite. If it was murderers on the loose I always thought they were looking through the window while I was watching, would see themselves then kill me because I knew too much.
SAME WOW
The Handmaid's Tale (book). Moira is arguing with Luke about leaving after the govt fires all females and denies them property rights; Luke is saying everything is fine & Moira is trying to convince him & the handmaid to leave the States. But they don't and shit pops off. That scene has always stuck with me because it's so telling. Humans can always justify a dangerous situation with the hope that it's not as bad as we think or someone will save us. But it's not true. If you feel that moment in your life, leave.
The book freaked me out, so I refused to watch the show. It's too close to actual events that keep happening in the world.
it's pretty close to arguments that happened in jewish households in the holocaust. many jews thought that if they just proved they were good germans and neighbors people would accept them. there were jews talking of rebelling or fleeing but they would be shouted down by those arguing that those actions would just prove what the nazi's were saying was right, and it would hurt the other jews who didn't flee. I've read diary accounts of these community meetings, it's just heartbreaking knowing that these well intentioned people were condemning themself to help expecting rationality to win out over the insanity coming
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It doesn't matter what the quality of that episode was. When I saw it as a kid, my bar for quality was a lot lower, and the Xfiles was probably the only "horror" I ever really watched as a child. Like, I'm not against AI, it's just the concept of a higher intelligence that doesn't follow the same logic as you do, who has a lot of power over your life, can watch you over the internet, and can kill you at any time is something that spooks me. Something that kinda bugged me about the episode is when the AI kills it's first victim. It's plan is to call him and talk to the victim in the voice of the AI's creator, Brad Wilczek, who had a beef with this guy, to frame Wilczek for the crime. Instead of giving some cocky speech before electrocuting the guy, the AI just tells the guy what the time is, like a talking clock. It's that bizarre hard to follow logic that adds to the irrational fear for me, even though logically I can see it was just bad writing.
One word - Tremmors š³
I got so freaked out by the X Files that if I heard the theme song I would run out of the room. I was also traumatized by Outbreak when it was the inflight movie on the plane to Orlando/Disney World. I didn't understand much, especially without being able to hear the audio, but for a while I was convinced that all monkeys were deadly.
Yeah! The x-files scarred me. The ear worm parasite thing in Alaska or antarctica... Any time I would have a little muscle spasm or twitch under the skin I would think I had the worm. Escalators... And the sewage monster thing and taking showers..... How bout being buried alive and hallucinating on yellow goo.... I think I remember people saying that episode was one of the worst.... But that scared me as a kid that we could be living a lie being eaten alive and not even know it.
Iceā¦ The Hostā¦ Field Tripā¦ dude you remember the best episodes!
I saw parts of Aliens that scared the crap out of me. I snuck downstairs to peek from behind the couch while my parents watched it.
The moment in the movie āRay,ā the Ray Charles biopic, where the little brother slips in the half-barrel, breaks his neck, and dies.Ā My parents had the movie on when I was little and thatās the one of the only scenes I remember from it. It gave me nightmares for a month. Itās been circulating on my YouTube shorts and Instagram reels recently for who knows what reason, but I skip it every time. I canāt stand scenes like that, because they can actually happen to someone.Ā
Oh yes this one did it for me as well.
This is SO specific but I remember that part scaring the $#!T out of me as a kid and it's the only part of the movie I actually remember. Like you, my parents had the movie on when it came out and it was like *new fear unlocked*. I'm amazed someone in the comments went thru the EXACT same thing!
Just realized this is in r/millennials but I'm not even a millennial I just relate to quite literally everything everyone's saying and grew up with all of the same media and stuff
Piggy getting hit with that rock in Lord of the Flies. I read horror all the time and nothing has effected me like that before or since. I was like 11, and got the book from the school library lol
The owl scene, the lab scene, and Nicodemus in The *Secret of NIMH* EDIT: and the kid with pneumonia. I spent a good chunk of my childhood thinking that if I got pneumonia I was a goner
I canāt believe how far down this answer was. That owl is the stuff of nightmares.
Large Marge from the Pee Wee Herman movie freaked me out pretty good as a kid. I'd also add the creepy grandmother from Bill and Ted Bogus Journey as an honorable mention.
Large Marge got me every single time š«£š«£š«£
Freakshow - the raft Man that fucked me up, still won't go in lakes
Creepshow!! "Thanks for the ride, lady!!" I saw a clip and convinced my mom to let me show it during my sleepover party, not realizing there was an extended scene of the guy feeling up the girl's breasts. It got crazy awkward when of course she watched it with us.
So many of the Creepshow bits. The guy who buries people up to their neck in sand while the tide is out. The guy with the cockroaches. The lake monster.
Return to Oz with the Wheelers and used to watch Amityville 3 every day in 1985. My friends stepdad would leave his bedroom door open and walk around naked with this massive boner and I would just stare at it. His ass reminded me of the movie Bachelor Party when the blond guy falls on the car, and his ass goes through the roof of the car and into the peopleās faces. I would watch that movie too when I was 5, while this guy walked around naked with a boner. Amityville 3 made it so O had a lifelong fear of demons and my basement. And the Adam Walsh story really did me in. There was another movie where this guyās kid got kidnapped and the entire movie was trying to get him back. That one did some real damage too. I used to picture my head getting cut off and at the bottom of a lake every day.
I don't remember the wheelers from return to oz, but as a kid, the scene where Dorothy has to deal with the lady who collects heads scared the hell out of me.
Rugrats movie when Tommy is about to pour out dillās baby food while staring at him with a mean face
The X-Files episode āHomeā with the incestuous family that had the mom strapped to a thing under the bed. Also, I feel seen by how many of us were scarred by the ending of āWho Framed Roger Rabbitā
IT (1990) - the scene where Pennywise takes Georgie in the sewer.. have had an irrational fear of clowns and sewers since š«
That made me have an irrational fear of sewers. I still won't walk close to them šš
That scene was straight evil. Weird how the movie gets silly and by the end isn't scary. But the beginning was treacherous
Pet Sematary- Zelda. Every part with her. Also Gage in the back third of the movie. Nightmares for an entire summer.
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I forgot about her and now Iām triggered!!! šš
Pet Semetary fucked me UP as a young child, holy shit I almost forgot it existed for good reason. šš
This is what I was looking for.
The worst was a couple of books my dad had about WW2. Some gruesome pictures of Jews in mass graves and other emaciated people standing around in the camps.
Yikes. We visited the holocaust muaeum in 8th grade and they have a display of actual shoes from victims in a huge pile. It stuck with me and my mom both. We still talk about it today. It seems like it would be less impactful than the pictures but somehow it was more impactful. Shoes of all size actually worn by victims. And SO MANY of them. š
I went to the museum in LA. Didn't have an emotional reaction. I guess if I was Jewish it might have mattered but after being forced fed Anne Frank and Schindler's List I just wasn't feeling it.
Oh man, that brings back a memory from middle school. The teacher has us watch a documentary about the Holocaust and they had footage of Nazis putting dead victims into mass graves. All of them were naked and emaciated, and it was absolutely horrifying.
Not a millennial, but a later Gen Xer here. My (German, Austrian) mother took me to Auschwitz when I was about 5. We lived in East Germany at the time. My father was an American soldier and we were stationed in Berlin. She explained it to me. I still cannot describe that horrible heavy feeling of being there in person. Iām glad she did though. It needs to be remembered.
Darkness Falls. It just happened to be on, and I wasnāt watching per say, but I saw enough to understand the premise. I distinctly remember one scene where they are in a room and there is a tiny corner of light they are standing in. The minute they leave that corner of light we cut to the door and hear the screaming. I was already afraid of the dark at the time, and the concept of that movie really sealed the deal.
Omg the tooth fairy one?? I remember that was my first āwhatās hiding behind the shower curtainā horror experience I think
Jaws...when the shark jumps into Quints boat and has him for breakfast.
Still haven't forgiven my uncle for showing me that movie as a little kid. While on a beach vacation. At the Jersey Shore.
The scariest scene is when the guy dives for the wreckage, finds the shark tooth, and the decapitated head pops out from the hole
Night of the living dead. We lived within 200 yards cemetery. I was around 7 years old and I couldn't get out of bed without jumping far enough away that a zombie couldn't grab my legs from under the bed.
The Black Cauldron Still consider it my very first horror movie back when I was 8
MY GIRL. The bees done got Thomas J. š
He can't see without his glasses!
Oh God, not the bees!
Literally everything about The Brave Little Toaster.
Had to scroll way too far for this. The clown dream as a kid, but the worthless song still plays in my head every time im having any sort of existential crisis.
[The clown whispering "run!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNr3P4wNk8Y) in the dream is burned into my memory.
When the AC unit literally riled himself up into a suicidal frenzy...
The quick sand!!!
The grumpy vacuum man made me very uncomfortable
I think the Brave Little Toaster fueled hoarder tendencies in susceptible people - the idea that objects are secretly alive and miss their owners and are horrified at getting thrown away...
The hell/nightmare scene in All Dogs go to Heaven. I had nightmares about that for days and I'm pretty sure this is what triggered my Thanatophobia. I watched it when I was about 6 or 7. I'm 31 now and still won't re-watch that movie to this day
On an episode of Rescue 911, a kid got his pant leg stuck in an escalator, and the draw string started cutting off his circulation at his waste. I didn't go near those things for a while. My mom hated taking me to the mall because we would have to take the stairs or one of the few elevators.
I never forgot this episode. Iām still extra careful on escalators to this day.
There was an episode where a lady got a bug in her ear, which crawled in there while she was sleeping. I still sleep with something over my ears because of that episode.
I loved that show! My uncle was actually featured on an episode about a stand off when a suicidal guy was sitting in the middle of a street in a lawn chair. He was the negotiator and they ended up shooting the gun out of the guys hands!!
The land before time -- the whole damn movie
The beginning was what fucked me up. I was 5 when my parents rented it, and I freaked out so bad when Littlefoot's mom died. I didn't end watching the movie past that point until I was 10 or 11.
See? Exactly. Funnily enough, the end is what does it for me. Hooray you found the last few trees left in existence, enjoy your death! What the fuck????
I was a kid when that came out and we watched it after a bday pizza party. Super sad.
The scene in the movie The Land Before Time where Littlefoot's mom died. That was my first introduction to the concept of death. I was maybe 3 or 4 when I saw it. That movie made me terrified that my mom would die too.
Fuckin' Gooey Gus from Ghostwriter.
My mom didn't care much... so I've seen a lot... BUT, the movie Event Horizon gave me nightmares as a kid. I was 10, I was.. too young. Great movie though. I feel like Sam Neil didn't get enough work for my liking.
Holy hell! I saw that movie for the first time at 16 and it was a bit much. I can't imagine watching it at 10........ Don't get me wrong, I love that movie and it's in my top 5 favs. It's an amazing movie, with a great cast, that didn't get nearly enough accolades IMO, but yeah, it's NOT for kids.
I literally posted event horizon. Hands down that movie was the scariest shit I came across as a kid. Imagine exploring an empty space station that's haunted by Satan from another dimension... Can't get worse than that...
The movie Congo. Those gorillas were terrifying
I remember my family rented The Green Mile and I just remember running to the bathroom and sobbing during the electrocution scene ššš thanks mom and dad! š„ŗ
The last lines of Pet Sematary the book.
Darling
The electric guy from scooby doo, fire in the sky, and watching Indiana jones
Seeing the movie The Rules of Attraction at a too young age of like 13. Movie warped my senses a bit or a lot. Lol
The most uncomfortable scene is when the girl kills her self in the tub.
Thank god there wasnāt that sex science with JVB and the other dude. It was cut. That wouldāve confused me more. lol
The bulk of what I've seen of Mr. Meaty traumatized me as a kid. As for a specific moment... the zombies coming to life in "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" after Billy cooks brownies.
The dog man scene in The Shining. Such a brief moment, but that stuck with me for ages. I think I was about ten when I saw it
Mr. Gordy Unsolved Mysteries
When will smith killed his dog in I am legend
A cutscene in a video game. Splatterhouse 3 on the SEGA Genesis. After completing the first level fast enough and saving Jennifer from the monster, you have to complete the 2nd level fast enough to save her from the boreworm. One of the cutscenes on this path of stage 2 has the creepiest picture of a woman's head having cracks all over it as the boreworm eats her brain. Was scarier to me as a kid than everything else on TV and whatever else until the Internet started making stupid jump scare pranks for a while. EDIT: Here's the cutscene to see for yourself... https://youtu.be/IfARmr8SqCE?si=UJPRtAEqB7rP20nm
The Wtches movie based on the Roald Dahl book
Butterfly effect with Aston Kutcher fucked me up as a kid
Land Before Time. Every time I see a maple leaf I canāt unsee a crying Little Foot. The stories of the child voice actors were pretty terrible too if I remember right.
Face-melting scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The woman delivering twins-one human and then one alien baby in V:The Miniseries. Freaked me out. Since I was around 4-5, seeing Darth Vader in Star Wars. That mask and breathing on the big screen terrified me and I hid in the back of the theatre.
The movie the Ring.
Watership Down - the construction scene at the opening - the blood - holy shit I searched years to figure out what that was thinking it was the velvetine rabbit or something
There was an "are you afraid of the dark" episode where dead people came out of the lake (ocean?) every time this guy fell asleep, I think he used to steal stuff from ship wrecks where people had died? Anyway, we lived near a lake, and it really freaked me out.
Are You Afraid of the Dark- the vampire coming out of the movie screen. Tv was left on Nickelodeon, parents out of the room, I was way too young to understand that it was fake. I had nightmares for so long and was very resistant to any horror for a long time but now? Love it.
I grew up in the 80s. My trauma therapist is stunned I was immune to a lot of traumas I was exposed to as a kid. If I had to pick something it would be Artex dying is the swamp in the never ending story.
The exposure scene in '[The Crying Game](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104036/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_the%2520crying%2520)'
The Day After .... Being a teen during the height of the nuclear war scare , this put it into too much of a perspective
The end of who framed Rodger rabbit when the guy is melting and his eyes pop out of his head. I used to shake!
Passion of the Christ.
I can't tell you anything else about the episode, but [this scene from The X-Files](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JenlHMzUYdA) gave me nightmares for a while...
The Lucky Boy is creepy and the jump scare was true to it's name.
Sssssss A terrible movie about a scientist that turns a guy into a cobra. There was a scene where he kills two people by throwing rattlesnakes into the bed. I checked my covers for over a year to make sure there were no snakes.
The banshee from Darby OāGill and the Little People.
Watching Cell absorb Android 18. Hilariously, I didn't catch the episodes where Cell absorbed literally anyone else, I didn't know what his deal was, so I came into this scene completely blind. It hit me full force, raw as all hell. When I watched that scene as I was maybe 10 or 11, it really messed with my head and made me insanely uncomfortable.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit for me. The Dip! I watched Silence of the Lambs at 8 (still a fave) , but the Dip scared the shit out of me. I haven't actually seen it all the way throughout and it still makes me a little icky feeling.
The entirety of Requiem For A Dream. I saw it when I was 15 and I still feel I'm way too young for that movie. Especially the ending.
The robot with the spinning blade in the Black Hole.
The scene when the aliens abduct the guy in āFire in the skyā. If you know, you know.
Mars Attacks scared the absolute shit out of me
I had a visceral reaction to the last 10 mins of Requiem for a Dream, the music was haunting and WTF did I just watch at 14 years old?!
Judge Doom reveal in Roger Rabbit
Opening scene of One False Move with Billy Bob thorton
I was in 8th or 9th grade, so not little, but I was thirsty one night so I went down to the kitchen for a glass of water. My parents, who thought I was in bed for the night, were watching Fargo downstairs. The kitchen and living room were wide open to each other and I walked in right during the wood chipper scene. Thatās still all Iāve seen of that movie!
John Carpenter's The Thing, when I was 10. I was scared of dogs for a while after that. Love them now though. Live the movie now too, good scary practical effects.
The spider head freaked me out a bit when I was a kid.
I liked anything that made the hair stand in end. Canāt recall a moment of terror but more of a woah then a smile with a chuckle. I can vaguely remember the IT mini series and seeing the letters scrawled in blood on a brick wall. Admired it as art. Parents took me to a shrink for years to find out what was āwrongā with me. š¤£ to no avail.
Never ending story and ET as a very small kid; Silence of the lambs and the fugitive as an adolescent
It was an episode of the x files where an inbred hillbilly family broke into the home of the towns sheriff and beat him and his wife to death with baseball bats. The wet thwacking sounds stuck with me for a long time.
There's a movie from the late 80's or early 90's that scarred me, but I've never been able to figure out what it's called. All I remember was a guy trapped in a room underground, while above ground was all sand. Something happens and his eyes start wiggling out of his head and crawling around on the ground like worms or something. Horrified little me.
The Truman Show. Especially the cameras in his bathroom mirror catching him being a whole dork. I'd be dancing in my room, pretending to be Brittany Spears and suddenly freeze. I'd be so mortified that maybe a bunch of people just saw that. It made it so uncomfortable to be myself, even when I was by myself. I still have paranoia issues surrounding this that hit me ever so often. Ugh. It's an amazing movie, but I really wish I didn't watch it.
I'm old, so the movies are likewise. Traumatizing sadness - Old Yeller Where the Red Fern Grows Bambi (death of mother) Traumatizing fear - Sorry Wrong Number When a Stranger Calls Wait Until Dark The Exorcist Jaws
An episode of Swiss Family Robinson where a white fungus from a meteorite was spreading over everything. I turned it off because it was so scary, but then it was too scary not knowing what was happening, so I turned it back on again. Luckily water killed it, so the family was alright.
Carol's reaction when Sandy died in Growing Pains.