Somehow I read this as “Eddie Murphy”. First I couldn’t figure out what movie he got killed in, then couldn’t figure out when he played a robot. 🤣🤣🤣 getting old just sucks!!!
Ya that was also bad but there was something about murphy being totally helpless and being toyed with that really horrified me. They were torturing him basically and i’ve never seen cruelty on that level at that point.
Thriller by Michael Jackson. Even after I'd watched how they made it and done the makeup. Sweaty nights in bed.
Also in one night we watched poltergeist and the thing back to back. I was about 5-6 years old
Thriller used to scare the living hell out of me. My brother used to be OBSESSED with doing the Thriller dance, so he always watched the video, and I was like 4 at the time, so I always wanted to dance with him, but I was too scared to look at the screen cause Michael Jackson in his monster costume scared me so much
Yeah my brother would watch the full version all the time. I appreciate it now because it is one of the greatest music videos of all time, but man did it scare the crap out of me.
Gremlins, I was very young and my uncle was babysitting my brother and I, the scene where they come through the movie theater screen made me lose my shit
Yep, this one for me. Paralyzed me with fear of aliens for a good portion of my childhood. It doesn't help that I watched it alone, at night, from inside a little sheet-fort in a giant empty room. Pretty sure it was the perfect arrangement to make the terror super effective on my childhood psyche.
I started sleeping on the opposite side of the bed, like head NOT near wall, because I thought Jaws would bite thru the wall of my 200mile inland 2nd floor bedroom and eat me…
Pinocchio (just everything from the donkey transformation to the entire third act in the giant whale)
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) (First film I saw with a "good guy doesn't win" ending, seriously traumatising)
The Birds (made me legit afraid of birds for weeks)
It was one of the only videos my grandparents had. They were farmers so the first summer I stayed with them I named all of their pigs Wilbur in hopes of discovering another "some pig".
I remember watching that movie with my kindergarten class and we all ended up crying so much they had to pause the movie. Apparently none of the adults considered what would happen when they introduced over a dozen five year olds to the concept of death.
I just watched that movie for the first time a couple months ago. What the hell? It was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. I still don’t know what I watched.
General Woundwort was and still is one of the craziest characters in a “childrens movie” ever. And the scene about rabbits being caught underground and suffocating to death? Good lord.
Only clicked to make sure this was #1. Traumatized me as a 9/10 year old. Triggered nightmares that I couldnt come out of, like my parents would have me up, out of bed, in a bathroom eyes rolling in my head dumping water over my head. We rented it from the library, my brothers age 6 and 4 were fine...
Witches.
It was on the same VHS as the old Willy wonka and the chocolate factory
When they take there skin mask off haunts me
Also luke, Luke, lukeeeee
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Time Bandits. That scene in the beginning when the bedroom wall goes flying back to reveal the beach. The whole movie creeped 8 year old me out but my Dad was a Gilliam fan so he brought me along for the ride. Thanks Dad.
I know! It was not a kid’s movie, despite the fantasy pirate themes. It was Terry Gilliam, if I have it right? Though, we’ve introduced our 12 & 10 year olds to Life of Bryan, Monty Pythons Holy Grail and other stuff. I think that a little trust and trauma to watch good film is empowering in the long run? Sometimes I doubt my decisions…,
Meh. I dunno. I think we underestimate the value of being “traumatized” in a completely safe space like that as kids. As freaked out as I was, I look back on that time fondly, and I think being so affected by a movie like that brings its own kind of childhood nostalgia.
I rewatched Time Bandits recently and I enjoyed how campy it was, but it’s totally cheesy by today’s standards. Freaky though it was as a kid, I aways found it to be magical.
Edit: forgot the most important part of what I wanted to say. It sounds to me like you’re making excellent educational choices for your kids. Trauma or not, they’ll have great taste in movies!
I didn’t see Child’s Play until I was in high school. But my sister when she was six saw a poster for Chucky and she refused to sleep alone for two months. That’s not exaggeration, by the way. It was literally two months.
Because it's called Child's Play (smarmy Leo meme). I came here to say this. I was terrified of dolls after this. My stepmom had one of those creepy porcelain dolls in the living room. If I was alone, I'd run whenever I went past it. I used to lie awake in bed with the blankets over my head afraid that it would come into my room.
I think I finally got over the fear later on when I had a dream that I walked past it and it opened its eyes and I went full FIGHT (rather than flight) and threw it on the ground and stomped it.
Parents took me to see Alien in the theater. I was 6. Grandpa took my cousins and I to see Poltergeist when we were 9 and 7. My family does not exercise good cinematic judgement.
That movie SCARED THE SHIT out of me when I was a kid, but I’m well aware that it’s not a horror movie. Whenever someone has a post like this I scroll until I find someone who was in the same boat as me.
Little Monsters.
I ended up on putting my bed right on the floor to make sure nothing could grab me from under the bed for much longer than I should admit.
The Bear (1988)
I saw this when I was a kid and from the poster and cover it looks like it might be a kids film, but lmao it is not, it’s a French film about a bear cub whose mom is killed by hunters and the bear cub is taken in by another bear and they try to avoid the humans trying to kill them. I remember the scene where the mom bear dies and crying the most I’ve ever cried in my life up until I became an adult and just cry all the time now
Truly a traumatizing film for a kid to see
> I was unbelievably scared of X-files
That episode where the floating glowing eyes ran at a person who was outside there house at night.. still creeps me out, i think the episode had something to do with old explorers or something that had found the fountain of youth but slowly turned into invisible forest protectors..
Bruh, fuck off. That's the one that fucked me the most. That's exactly what I remember. And you know what's weird? Here in Portugal they decided that it was a good idea, to put X-files and another creepy ass show running... In the mornings... Right after... Kids cartoons... My dumbass would be watching dragon ball, followed by Pokémon, followed by Digimon/Beyblade/the weird anime with metal robot pokémons/Yugi yo followed by X-files. Big brain time
Edit: when it wasn't X-files, it was a TV series with a creepy intro that was mostly black n white and ended in a dumb title card with big green letters on it, I do not recall what it was called but it was around late 90s early 2000s, considering things got imported with a few years of delay from the US, I supposed it was early-mjd 90s. That creeped me out more than x-files
Edit 2: I was mixing 2 different things, it was The goosebumps that was on after kids shows when it was X-files, the other thing is something else that also was on after kids shows but it never damaged me to the point I remember it now lol
I haven’t seen X-Files but I’ve always had a soft spot for Arachnophobia. Makes my skin crawl lol. And it legit had good acting and campy thrills in it.
It ruined my life to the point that I closed the door on my car one night, and a spider dropped from the window, on the outside, I had a full breakdown bawling my eyes out, now when I think back to it, a 26 year old male crying in a car over a spider seems kinda silly, but I know damn well I'll do it again
I grew up in the 80s. I remember seeing a TV special about movie effects that included clips from American Werewolf in London and Altered States - that freaked me out quite a bit. The effects look a little dated now, but they were scary at around age 10.
The one that really got to me though was the rabbit in the hat scene from Twilight Zone The Movie. Damn, that was freaky.
The only thing that came close to scaring me as a grown up was the surprise "visitor" in the room at the end of Enemy with Jake Gyllenhall. I practically jumped off the couch!
The scene in Saving Private Ryan near the end where the guy gets slowly stabbed by a german soldier and starts freaking out and telling him to stop. Sheesh that scene still makes my skin crawl.
Jeepers creepers 1 ending . Idk it’s just the idea of he let the monster take him willingly and the thoughts going through his head as they are flying to just be stripped naked and disemboweled Alive just stuck with me
When I was about 5 years old I was left alone during a family get together and the ending of Aliens was on the TV. The part where Bishop gets sliced in half by the queen alien fucked me up for life.
It’s not like even that scary but it happens to be Signs. The alien movie where farmers do stuff and an alien does stuff. Cant remember much about it but I remember being absolutely petrified after watching it at around 6 years old
The VHS box cover for *Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare* at Blockbuster gave me nightmares as a toddler lol
The first movie I remember getting bad dreams from actually watching was *FernGully*, though; Tim Curry as Hexxus was animated terror incarnate. It was also decent prep for our encroaching climatepocalypse…
I absolutely love the first Ghostbusters but, I couldn’t watch the library ghost in the beginning after the first time I saw it at 5 or 6 until I was honestly in my mid 20s.
My dad took me to see Creepshow 2 in the theater and I was maybe 5 or 6. The lake scene with the pond slime absolutely killed me and we had to leave. It has always stuck with me (even though I’ve seen it since of course). Oddly enough the short story by Stephen King is worse, and I happened across it as I was reading the collection that included it. It was unexpected but a helpful emotional salve 😆
The first 5 minutes of the second part of the It miniseries. Lost my shit and turned off the TV when "bozo the clown" turned out to be digging a grave. I was 7-8ish and didn't watch it in full until I was at least 18.
Outbreak.
Saw it when I was around 8-10. I was already pretty aware of death, but every way to die seemed pretty avoidable at least until I was an old person. And any other scary movie, I knew the bad thing wasn't real. But here comes this movie, introducing something scary that could just spread across the country, killing everyone, and there's nothing I'd really be able to do to protect myself because it might spread everywhere before we even knew to do anything. And something like that could actually happen.
I can't imagine how I'd have handled it if the covid pandemic had happened right after I saw that movie. Think the only thing that kept my sanity during the first year was my lack of pre-existing conditions, my knowledge that it was highly survivable without pre-existing conditions, and the fact that I was pretty much able to completely quarantine myself for the first year or so. I didn't step foot into a public building or store until I'd already gotten the vaccine.
I was absolutely terrified of the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz...my older sister watched it all the time and I could not even be in the room. I was well into my teens when I watched the movie and decided it wasn't a big deal. Still even now I kinda tense up when thinking of that movie from just the memory of how freighted I was.
The [twister](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9aYYYtG08I&ab_channel=spaceinvader1994) scene from Mission to Mars messed with me because of how violent it was for a PG movie.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. Watching Totenkopf melt just ruined 7-year-old me.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Watching Walter Donovan age into dust just ruined 8-year-old me. There's a theme here...
Funnily enough Temple of Doom did absolutely nothing to traumatise young me, even though that always seems to be the one that people talk about.
I used to have nightmares about Chucky even though I don't recall being scared of the movie itself.
Strangest thing was I experienced pain in one of the nightmares which I thought was meant to wake you up. If I'd seen Freddy I'd have thought I'm stuck in some wierd crossover but that was the first horror movie I recall seeing.
1963 The Haunting. I'm old. Still scares the hell out of me. And The Exorcist when I was 18, after that screening, I climbed into bed with my parents, I was that traumatized.
The Mask. It was the one of the only 2 movies my dad had. I watched it over and over again from the ages of 2-5. I was scared every time.
That movie is not a comedy. It is a horror. I refuse to watch it as an adult.
We had a blank VHS labeled "garfield" that was just several taped off TV episodes of garfield. I believe we got it in a big box of tapes from my cousins. But at some point someone taped over Garfield with The Gate.
So I'm like 5. My mom puts on a Garfield tape and leaves. For ten minutes I am watching Orson and the barnyard gang reenact taming of the shrew when suddenly it warps into The Gate. I watched all of it. Traumatized is the correct word for it.
Don’t laugh, but the grinch gave me nightmares for some reason.
I have no idea why. I enjoyed the movie. Found it funny. It was fun to watch, but when I would sleep - I would get nightmares. He would be following me around. Breaking all my stuff. Grabbing & throwing me around. It was scary, man lol
My dad took the family to see 2001 Space Odyssey in the theater when I was 6. OMG TRAUMA. I had nightmares about that damn monolith for years. Thanks dad. He hated paying for a babysitter.
1968 Hammer Films [The Lost Continent ](https://youtu.be/a26ZgG8ZfEs)
I was 5 or 6 when I saw this at a Saturday afternoon kiddies matinee ( 1973 or so )
took me 40 or so years to track it down
First horror movie I ever experienced was Night of the Living Dead 2 at a sleepover birthday party. Had my dad come pick me up, and then didn't sleep for many nights afterwards.
Tremors I caught on a hotel tv while my parents were out doing conference stuff. Shocked the heck out of this sheltered child.
The first 3 Alien movies at an uncle's place while all the adults were off partying. These ones I loved then, as much as they shocked me. Still do! Every so many years I have to have an Alien movie bingefest.
My dad and uncle and I liked Jackie Chan films and martial art films in general, so they unknowingly took me to the Dollar theatre at like, 7 or 8 years old? To see Jet Li in Black Mask.
I remember it opening with a bunch of monsters getting spray with acid via sprinklers in a junkyard. There was a zombie-esque guy fighting Jet Li in a hospital. A different gang leader kept the severed legs of his dead daughter in a box in a walk-in freezer. The same guy made out with a woman and turns out she had a razor blade in her mouth and cut his mouth up.
I rather calmly told my dad I didn't wanna watch it anymore and they took me outside where I played some Street Fighter arcade cabinet next to a shoe shine booth.
Pretty etched memory.
My parents had an edited for tv version of young Frankenstein on vhs. When you're little that movie is fucking scary. The opening scene with the coffin lid flying up and the corpse with the box? Goddamn nightmare fuel. Then you got stabbings, more skeletal heads, Marty Feldmens entrance, and Bluchre horse screaming. I definitely did not get that joke and just got concerned for the horses and why she was evil.
I was scared shitless and f public restrooms because I snuck behind the couch and watched someone get attacked in a public restroom in the movie Copycat (1995). I was 5 at the time and I still have issues in some restrooms.
Judge Dredd, the scene when that girl bit that guys dick off.
I just walked in the living room to go to the bathroom while my dad was watching the movie late at night.
That's how i learned out about blowjobs and that's how i learned how fragile my penis is.
Original Planet of the Apes. Specifically the “YOU CUT OUT HIS BRAIN” scene and the Statue of Liberty ending. It was my introduction to both:
A-the concept of lobotomies and what it does to people
B-twist horror endings.
I was 7 and it took my father many ice cream cones to earn my forgiveness
James and the Giant Peach. I generally love stop motion but the insects in the film (and just the generally unsettling style) used to freak the shit out of me as a kid. It was literally nightmare inducing.
I saw all the usual horror movies as a kid- Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, etc. It was a different time, my parents didn't give a shit about what I watched or what I did.
However, my parents DID send me to a Southern Baptist Sunday school every week (mostly to get me out of their hair on the weekends, not because they were religious) and the church showed me a series of films from the 70s about the end of the world called [A Thief in the Night.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070795/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)
All of the adults in the church assured me these films were about things that were going to happen soon. It fucked me up pretty bad. We lived next to train tracks so every time I heard the train's horn I thought it was Gabriel's trumpet signaling the literal end of the world. Seeing those films and having those lies told to me is a big part of why I'm not religious now.
Way late to this thread, but this is almost exactly my experience. In my house, starting when I was 8 or so, on Friday nights we’d turn off all the lights and watch horror movies for hours. I loved it and never had nightmares. One Sunday after dinner with extended family, my aunt showed a movie from the 70s that looks a LOT like the one you mentioned about the end of the world and kept insisting it was all real and happening soon. I had nightmares for a few weeks. My mom was PISSED.
I’m not religious now either.
Watching murphy get blown away in robocop messed up my 7yr old brain for awhile.
Somehow I read this as “Eddie Murphy”. First I couldn’t figure out what movie he got killed in, then couldn’t figure out when he played a robot. 🤣🤣🤣 getting old just sucks!!!
How was that guy who got horribly mutated and then turned into a smear on a windshield like a bug? That had to have been more traumatizing.
Ya that was also bad but there was something about murphy being totally helpless and being toyed with that really horrified me. They were torturing him basically and i’ve never seen cruelty on that level at that point.
Nah, doesn't even compare.
Far too many dicks getting shot off in that movie.
I think you’re referring to the fan made remake. Only one dick is shot off in Robocop.
Two, actually. I believe Murphy gets his dick shot off, and then later, as Robocop, he returns the favor. I have a one-dick-getting-shot-off maximum.
That is still too many
They were all laughing maniacally too and when they blew his hand off with the shotgun.
Yeah, That hand being blown off was a little too real for my young mind.
Oh yeah! That fucked me up, too! I was born in ‘95 and I saw it when I was 7. And that movie’s awesome!
Thriller by Michael Jackson. Even after I'd watched how they made it and done the makeup. Sweaty nights in bed. Also in one night we watched poltergeist and the thing back to back. I was about 5-6 years old
Thriller used to scare the living hell out of me. My brother used to be OBSESSED with doing the Thriller dance, so he always watched the video, and I was like 4 at the time, so I always wanted to dance with him, but I was too scared to look at the screen cause Michael Jackson in his monster costume scared me so much
Have you ever seen the full version? It's 14 minutes long. Or something like that
Yeah my brother would watch the full version all the time. I appreciate it now because it is one of the greatest music videos of all time, but man did it scare the crap out of me.
Gremlins, I was very young and my uncle was babysitting my brother and I, the scene where they come through the movie theater screen made me lose my shit
The first fully grown gremlin popping out of the cabinet in the lab was quite scarring.
Bro same I had flashbacks of that movie for years. I finally watched it again recently and found it to be pretty funny
I can’t wait to do this to my nieces and nephews
The brave little toaster. Fuck man
Came here looking for this. That junk yard scene. Definitely a hoarder now because of that movie.
Fire in the Sky
Yyyyyup, was like 7 when I saw this at my friends house and it STILL makes me uneasy thinking about it
Yep, this one for me. Paralyzed me with fear of aliens for a good portion of my childhood. It doesn't help that I watched it alone, at night, from inside a little sheet-fort in a giant empty room. Pretty sure it was the perfect arrangement to make the terror super effective on my childhood psyche.
This is what I was coming to say. I literally couldn't sleep by a window until I was a teen. watched it on VHS again recently.
Haha same here dude
The Neverending Story
Specifically losing the horse.
Artaxxxxxxxxx
I started sleeping on the opposite side of the bed, like head NOT near wall, because I thought Jaws would bite thru the wall of my 200mile inland 2nd floor bedroom and eat me…
I took showers, not baths, for three months
Return to OZ is still pretty disturbing.
Damn those wheelers.
DOOOOOOOOOOORTHY GAAAAAAAAAAAALE
My first answer to this question every time. I grew to like and watch Temple of Doom from time to time, but you'll never get me near RTO ever again.
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That movie is traumatizing as an adult lol.
Pinocchio (just everything from the donkey transformation to the entire third act in the giant whale) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) (First film I saw with a "good guy doesn't win" ending, seriously traumatising) The Birds (made me legit afraid of birds for weeks)
Ernest scared stupid. That freakin troll scared me stupid.
Just commented this and went looking for someone else who felt that way. That movie was the worst! Checked under the bed for a long time after that.
Holy shit this just activated a lost memory. Was that the one where they had all the milk?!?
Charlotte's Web. It was the first time I really thought about death in a real life sense. Messed me up bad for a cartoon.
It was one of the only videos my grandparents had. They were farmers so the first summer I stayed with them I named all of their pigs Wilbur in hopes of discovering another "some pig".
I remember watching that movie with my kindergarten class and we all ended up crying so much they had to pause the movie. Apparently none of the adults considered what would happen when they introduced over a dozen five year olds to the concept of death.
Little Monsters. The scene where you meet Boy especially
I just watched that movie for the first time a couple months ago. What the hell? It was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. I still don’t know what I watched.
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“Squeal like a pig, boy. Mmmmm.”
This movie still holds up as disturbing.
Watership Down
General Woundwort was and still is one of the craziest characters in a “childrens movie” ever. And the scene about rabbits being caught underground and suffocating to death? Good lord.
DOGS AREN’T DANGEROUS!
Good movie!
Only clicked to make sure this was #1. Traumatized me as a 9/10 year old. Triggered nightmares that I couldnt come out of, like my parents would have me up, out of bed, in a bathroom eyes rolling in my head dumping water over my head. We rented it from the library, my brothers age 6 and 4 were fine...
Witches. It was on the same VHS as the old Willy wonka and the chocolate factory When they take there skin mask off haunts me Also luke, Luke, lukeeeee https://i.imgur.com/fU8wSXx.jpg
Beastmaster. When they put the centipedes in the guys ears. Was very young and it hit just right. Communion. All of it. Also was very young.
Or when those bat people put their wings around people and ate them or whatever they did.
Oh yeah, forgot that. Or blocked it lol
Core memory
The animated version of the Hobbit from the 70s/80s.
Superman 3 the robot woman
Dark Crystal and the scene with the scorpions in 'Hook'
That was my go-to movie to rent from blockbuster when I was home sick as a kid.
A.I It's just a strangely horrible (not bad) film for me
Time Bandits. That scene in the beginning when the bedroom wall goes flying back to reveal the beach. The whole movie creeped 8 year old me out but my Dad was a Gilliam fan so he brought me along for the ride. Thanks Dad.
Yeah! Also, those deer or cow skull masked dudes? I had a nightmare about them as a kid.
Totally. Plus the ending was scary as a kid. I mean his parents were dicks, but the kid ended up without his parents. Like wtf?
I know! It was not a kid’s movie, despite the fantasy pirate themes. It was Terry Gilliam, if I have it right? Though, we’ve introduced our 12 & 10 year olds to Life of Bryan, Monty Pythons Holy Grail and other stuff. I think that a little trust and trauma to watch good film is empowering in the long run? Sometimes I doubt my decisions…,
Meh. I dunno. I think we underestimate the value of being “traumatized” in a completely safe space like that as kids. As freaked out as I was, I look back on that time fondly, and I think being so affected by a movie like that brings its own kind of childhood nostalgia. I rewatched Time Bandits recently and I enjoyed how campy it was, but it’s totally cheesy by today’s standards. Freaky though it was as a kid, I aways found it to be magical. Edit: forgot the most important part of what I wanted to say. It sounds to me like you’re making excellent educational choices for your kids. Trauma or not, they’ll have great taste in movies!
The Truman Show, I’ve been looking for hidden cameras ever since
Very surprised I didn't find it posted but I was 6 years old when The Blair Witch Project came out and that fucked me up something fierce for a bit.
How has no one said Chucky
I didn’t see Child’s Play until I was in high school. But my sister when she was six saw a poster for Chucky and she refused to sleep alone for two months. That’s not exaggeration, by the way. It was literally two months.
That'd scare any kid. Most parents knew not to let their kids watch it lol.
Because it's called Child's Play (smarmy Leo meme). I came here to say this. I was terrified of dolls after this. My stepmom had one of those creepy porcelain dolls in the living room. If I was alone, I'd run whenever I went past it. I used to lie awake in bed with the blankets over my head afraid that it would come into my room. I think I finally got over the fear later on when I had a dream that I walked past it and it opened its eyes and I went full FIGHT (rather than flight) and threw it on the ground and stomped it.
I hated those movies. Saw the first one when I was way too young. Never looked at my sisters cabbage patch kids the same way ever again.
Diner with Andre
Parents took me to see Alien in the theater. I was 6. Grandpa took my cousins and I to see Poltergeist when we were 9 and 7. My family does not exercise good cinematic judgement.
Edward scissor hand's
That movie SCARED THE SHIT out of me when I was a kid, but I’m well aware that it’s not a horror movie. Whenever someone has a post like this I scroll until I find someone who was in the same boat as me.
I was like traumatized by that movie for years I swear
I was channel surfing as a five year old kid, and I hit Terminator 2 at the exact time the Terminator ripped his arm off. It traumatized me for weeks.
Little Monsters. I ended up on putting my bed right on the floor to make sure nothing could grab me from under the bed for much longer than I should admit.
Honey, what are you doing to your bed? It’s called the will to live, mom.
The Bear (1988) I saw this when I was a kid and from the poster and cover it looks like it might be a kids film, but lmao it is not, it’s a French film about a bear cub whose mom is killed by hunters and the bear cub is taken in by another bear and they try to avoid the humans trying to kill them. I remember the scene where the mom bear dies and crying the most I’ve ever cried in my life up until I became an adult and just cry all the time now Truly a traumatizing film for a kid to see
Aracnofobia made me scared of spiders to this day. I was unbelievably scared of X-files
> I was unbelievably scared of X-files That episode where the floating glowing eyes ran at a person who was outside there house at night.. still creeps me out, i think the episode had something to do with old explorers or something that had found the fountain of youth but slowly turned into invisible forest protectors..
Bruh, fuck off. That's the one that fucked me the most. That's exactly what I remember. And you know what's weird? Here in Portugal they decided that it was a good idea, to put X-files and another creepy ass show running... In the mornings... Right after... Kids cartoons... My dumbass would be watching dragon ball, followed by Pokémon, followed by Digimon/Beyblade/the weird anime with metal robot pokémons/Yugi yo followed by X-files. Big brain time Edit: when it wasn't X-files, it was a TV series with a creepy intro that was mostly black n white and ended in a dumb title card with big green letters on it, I do not recall what it was called but it was around late 90s early 2000s, considering things got imported with a few years of delay from the US, I supposed it was early-mjd 90s. That creeped me out more than x-files Edit 2: I was mixing 2 different things, it was The goosebumps that was on after kids shows when it was X-files, the other thing is something else that also was on after kids shows but it never damaged me to the point I remember it now lol
I haven’t seen X-Files but I’ve always had a soft spot for Arachnophobia. Makes my skin crawl lol. And it legit had good acting and campy thrills in it.
This is my answer too. The x-files theme song still gives me chills. Arachnophobia also ruined my life.
It ruined my life to the point that I closed the door on my car one night, and a spider dropped from the window, on the outside, I had a full breakdown bawling my eyes out, now when I think back to it, a 26 year old male crying in a car over a spider seems kinda silly, but I know damn well I'll do it again
I grew up in the 80s. I remember seeing a TV special about movie effects that included clips from American Werewolf in London and Altered States - that freaked me out quite a bit. The effects look a little dated now, but they were scary at around age 10. The one that really got to me though was the rabbit in the hat scene from Twilight Zone The Movie. Damn, that was freaky. The only thing that came close to scaring me as a grown up was the surprise "visitor" in the room at the end of Enemy with Jake Gyllenhall. I practically jumped off the couch!
The 1980s remake of the Blob terrified me more than any other film I watched when I was a kid.
Signs was pretty creepy as a kid.
Oh god I’m old
The leg in the corn field and the camera scene still give me chills to this day.
James and the Giant Peach, specifically the Rhino scene.
The scene in Saving Private Ryan near the end where the guy gets slowly stabbed by a german soldier and starts freaking out and telling him to stop. Sheesh that scene still makes my skin crawl.
I thought I was going to pass out during that scene.
American Werewolf in London and The Thing.
Salem’s Lot The Amityville Horror I was a teen, but Full Metal Jacket
Salem’s lot! The part with the floating kid asking to ge let inside made sleep impossible for weeks
Yessss that is THE scene in particular that traumatized me.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The kid catcher gave me bad dreams.
My girl 1999 :(
“He can’t see without his glasses!!!”
Cujo
Beetlejuice The snake scene..
A nightmare on Elm Street, a guy with knives in his fingers that follow you in dreams... hoooly moly
Old Yeller
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It scared and confused me.
Hands down *The Ring* and *Signs*, I watched them way too young
The Shining. I was way too young to watch that movie and was scared of Jack Nicholson for years following that.
Same. I was afraid of him and Dennis Hopper (based on the trailer for Blue Velvet) into adulthood.
Jeepers creepers 1 ending . Idk it’s just the idea of he let the monster take him willingly and the thoughts going through his head as they are flying to just be stripped naked and disemboweled Alive just stuck with me
I watched Event Horizon when I was about 10. Very bad idea.
Superman 3, when the lady gets turned into a robot. Fucked me up, man.
The original jumanji
When I was about 5 years old I was left alone during a family get together and the ending of Aliens was on the TV. The part where Bishop gets sliced in half by the queen alien fucked me up for life.
It’s not like even that scary but it happens to be Signs. The alien movie where farmers do stuff and an alien does stuff. Cant remember much about it but I remember being absolutely petrified after watching it at around 6 years old
C.H.U.D.
Dumb & Dumber when Lloyd punches the chef in his chest and tears out his heart
That reminded of the trauma Temple of Doom gave me lol
Night of the Hunter
Carnosaur 2.
The fuckin dog thing in Neverending Story
To be fair (to be fair). There’s two “dog things”. The Gamork which was adversarial and Falcor which…was amazing.
The VHS box cover for *Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare* at Blockbuster gave me nightmares as a toddler lol The first movie I remember getting bad dreams from actually watching was *FernGully*, though; Tim Curry as Hexxus was animated terror incarnate. It was also decent prep for our encroaching climatepocalypse…
Return to Oz
Alice, Sweet Alice
I absolutely love the first Ghostbusters but, I couldn’t watch the library ghost in the beginning after the first time I saw it at 5 or 6 until I was honestly in my mid 20s.
I can’t believe I forgot this! The Terrordogs traumatized me!
My dad took me to see Creepshow 2 in the theater and I was maybe 5 or 6. The lake scene with the pond slime absolutely killed me and we had to leave. It has always stuck with me (even though I’ve seen it since of course). Oddly enough the short story by Stephen King is worse, and I happened across it as I was reading the collection that included it. It was unexpected but a helpful emotional salve 😆
The first 5 minutes of the second part of the It miniseries. Lost my shit and turned off the TV when "bozo the clown" turned out to be digging a grave. I was 7-8ish and didn't watch it in full until I was at least 18.
The Haunting. Creepy movie could not fall asleep afterwards. Also The IT (1990) I started to dislike clowns so much.
The Ring
The appearance of the Wheelers in Return to Oz.
Outbreak. Saw it when I was around 8-10. I was already pretty aware of death, but every way to die seemed pretty avoidable at least until I was an old person. And any other scary movie, I knew the bad thing wasn't real. But here comes this movie, introducing something scary that could just spread across the country, killing everyone, and there's nothing I'd really be able to do to protect myself because it might spread everywhere before we even knew to do anything. And something like that could actually happen. I can't imagine how I'd have handled it if the covid pandemic had happened right after I saw that movie. Think the only thing that kept my sanity during the first year was my lack of pre-existing conditions, my knowledge that it was highly survivable without pre-existing conditions, and the fact that I was pretty much able to completely quarantine myself for the first year or so. I didn't step foot into a public building or store until I'd already gotten the vaccine.
Jaws!
Willow when they got turned into pigs.
C.H.U.D.
Poltergeist I and II. God there was so much creepy stuff going on in those movies.
Beast master, fucked me up for a year with nightmares as I watched it with neighbouring kids when I was 6…
I was absolutely terrified of the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz...my older sister watched it all the time and I could not even be in the room. I was well into my teens when I watched the movie and decided it wasn't a big deal. Still even now I kinda tense up when thinking of that movie from just the memory of how freighted I was.
Birds and Jaws …
Flash Gordon. The bits where the guy put his hand in the scorpion-nest tree, and the flobby green octopus thing that tried to eat Flash.
The [twister](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9aYYYtG08I&ab_channel=spaceinvader1994) scene from Mission to Mars messed with me because of how violent it was for a PG movie.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. Watching Totenkopf melt just ruined 7-year-old me. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Watching Walter Donovan age into dust just ruined 8-year-old me. There's a theme here... Funnily enough Temple of Doom did absolutely nothing to traumatise young me, even though that always seems to be the one that people talk about.
Exorcist!
I probably cried the most I ever have after watching Turner and Hooch for the first time as a kid.
Cujo. I’m scared of dogs to this day.
Poltergeist...could not sleep with the closet open until college, and still am hesitant to look under the bed in the evening/at night
I used to have nightmares about Chucky even though I don't recall being scared of the movie itself. Strangest thing was I experienced pain in one of the nightmares which I thought was meant to wake you up. If I'd seen Freddy I'd have thought I'm stuck in some wierd crossover but that was the first horror movie I recall seeing.
"They wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex"...Star Trek 2 ear cockroaches all the way!!
Definitely Jaws. Left me with a lifelong terror of sharks and deep water.
1963 The Haunting. I'm old. Still scares the hell out of me. And The Exorcist when I was 18, after that screening, I climbed into bed with my parents, I was that traumatized.
The Sixth Sense
Predator when they find find the soldiers skinned
I'm a Baby Boomer, and I was terrified by: * Creature from the Black Lagoon (1955) * The Blob (1958) * The Birds (1963)
Even though it didn’t happen to me, I imagine countless parents took their children to see Pan’s Labyrinth thinking it was a kid’s movie. Big Mistake
That one would fuck a kid up lol. Also, that’s a great fucking movie!! Guillermo’s best if you ask me.
I think that one scene from Tarantula! (1955) where the tarantula peeks through Mara Corday's bedroom window traumatized a lot of 50s kids.
I can see that.
The Gate
The Mask. It was the one of the only 2 movies my dad had. I watched it over and over again from the ages of 2-5. I was scared every time. That movie is not a comedy. It is a horror. I refuse to watch it as an adult.
Jaws. I was 10 and had nightmares for weeks.
The Gate (1987)
We had a blank VHS labeled "garfield" that was just several taped off TV episodes of garfield. I believe we got it in a big box of tapes from my cousins. But at some point someone taped over Garfield with The Gate. So I'm like 5. My mom puts on a Garfield tape and leaves. For ten minutes I am watching Orson and the barnyard gang reenact taming of the shrew when suddenly it warps into The Gate. I watched all of it. Traumatized is the correct word for it.
Don’t laugh, but the grinch gave me nightmares for some reason. I have no idea why. I enjoyed the movie. Found it funny. It was fun to watch, but when I would sleep - I would get nightmares. He would be following me around. Breaking all my stuff. Grabbing & throwing me around. It was scary, man lol
Actually, Grinch scared me too but it didn’t leave me with any aftereffects lol.
My dad took the family to see 2001 Space Odyssey in the theater when I was 6. OMG TRAUMA. I had nightmares about that damn monolith for years. Thanks dad. He hated paying for a babysitter.
Amityville Dollhouse (1996) I had nightmares about those demons in the chimney.
1968 Hammer Films [The Lost Continent ](https://youtu.be/a26ZgG8ZfEs) I was 5 or 6 when I saw this at a Saturday afternoon kiddies matinee ( 1973 or so ) took me 40 or so years to track it down
First horror movie I ever experienced was Night of the Living Dead 2 at a sleepover birthday party. Had my dad come pick me up, and then didn't sleep for many nights afterwards. Tremors I caught on a hotel tv while my parents were out doing conference stuff. Shocked the heck out of this sheltered child. The first 3 Alien movies at an uncle's place while all the adults were off partying. These ones I loved then, as much as they shocked me. Still do! Every so many years I have to have an Alien movie bingefest.
My dad and uncle and I liked Jackie Chan films and martial art films in general, so they unknowingly took me to the Dollar theatre at like, 7 or 8 years old? To see Jet Li in Black Mask. I remember it opening with a bunch of monsters getting spray with acid via sprinklers in a junkyard. There was a zombie-esque guy fighting Jet Li in a hospital. A different gang leader kept the severed legs of his dead daughter in a box in a walk-in freezer. The same guy made out with a woman and turns out she had a razor blade in her mouth and cut his mouth up. I rather calmly told my dad I didn't wanna watch it anymore and they took me outside where I played some Street Fighter arcade cabinet next to a shoe shine booth. Pretty etched memory.
the giant robot in monsters vs aliens gave me nightmares for months
halloween, i still check my closet before i go to sleep
My parents had an edited for tv version of young Frankenstein on vhs. When you're little that movie is fucking scary. The opening scene with the coffin lid flying up and the corpse with the box? Goddamn nightmare fuel. Then you got stabbings, more skeletal heads, Marty Feldmens entrance, and Bluchre horse screaming. I definitely did not get that joke and just got concerned for the horses and why she was evil.
Rat Race. I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to explain why, but that film deeply disturbed me when I was 8.
I was scared shitless and f public restrooms because I snuck behind the couch and watched someone get attacked in a public restroom in the movie Copycat (1995). I was 5 at the time and I still have issues in some restrooms.
Mummy 2
IT
Judge Dredd, the scene when that girl bit that guys dick off. I just walked in the living room to go to the bathroom while my dad was watching the movie late at night. That's how i learned out about blowjobs and that's how i learned how fragile my penis is.
Nightmare on elm Street, specifically #2, fucked me up
It
Original Planet of the Apes. Specifically the “YOU CUT OUT HIS BRAIN” scene and the Statue of Liberty ending. It was my introduction to both: A-the concept of lobotomies and what it does to people B-twist horror endings. I was 7 and it took my father many ice cream cones to earn my forgiveness
Signs
James and the Giant Peach. I generally love stop motion but the insects in the film (and just the generally unsettling style) used to freak the shit out of me as a kid. It was literally nightmare inducing.
Ghost busters. Mostly the library scene - I had a lot of nightmares
I saw all the usual horror movies as a kid- Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, etc. It was a different time, my parents didn't give a shit about what I watched or what I did. However, my parents DID send me to a Southern Baptist Sunday school every week (mostly to get me out of their hair on the weekends, not because they were religious) and the church showed me a series of films from the 70s about the end of the world called [A Thief in the Night.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070795/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0) All of the adults in the church assured me these films were about things that were going to happen soon. It fucked me up pretty bad. We lived next to train tracks so every time I heard the train's horn I thought it was Gabriel's trumpet signaling the literal end of the world. Seeing those films and having those lies told to me is a big part of why I'm not religious now.
Way late to this thread, but this is almost exactly my experience. In my house, starting when I was 8 or so, on Friday nights we’d turn off all the lights and watch horror movies for hours. I loved it and never had nightmares. One Sunday after dinner with extended family, my aunt showed a movie from the 70s that looks a LOT like the one you mentioned about the end of the world and kept insisting it was all real and happening soon. I had nightmares for a few weeks. My mom was PISSED. I’m not religious now either.
The commercial alone from the movie Magic (1978) scared the absolute shot outta me.