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[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

My parents had the Killer Klowns from Outer Space VHS and I was too scared to watch it as a kid. It wasn't until my mid 20s I actually got to watch it and realize its very much a comedy and not scary at all.

[-] iguessimlemming@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Birds.. 30+ years later I'm still always a bit creeped out by them, especially sea gulls.

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[-] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 22 points 1 day ago

The Brave Little Toaster.

Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.

[-] generator@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago
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[-] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

Underworld

I was like 8. Scared the shit out of me

Also, girls in leather

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[-] littlelordfauntleroy@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

Watership Down as a really young kid.

Schindler's List as a young teen.

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[-] funkajunk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

My dad was flicking through the movie channels and saw that "Pulp Fiction" was on, decided to watch it because he "heard it was pretty good".

It was already well underway, and I had the joy of watching the entire basement scene (iykyk) at 12 years old, beside my dad. Not sure why he didn't turn it off sooner 🤷🏻

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[-] SinisterSloth@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Doctor Who.

are you my mummy?

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago
[-] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

I watched this one, pretty haunting, there is only one in my opinion (only counting movjes that I have watched) that comes close and thats Come and See, a soviet film set in Belarus during german ocupation

[-] ape_arms@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Come and See is so brutal.

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[-] iguessimlemming@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Oh and The Shining at the time (11 y/o home alone) really messed me up as well.

[-] lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Jaws.

Titanic.

I now fear most bodies of water.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jaws was scary because of shark.

Titanic was scary because of iceberg.

Water did nothing wrong.

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[-] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 day ago

The Shining

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 1 day ago

Just seeing pictures of Freddy Krueger in the TV timetable magazine (whatever do you call those?) scarred me for life and had me imagining him under my bed.

[-] trinsec@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

As a too young kid I saw the scene of him grabbing the boy and pulling him inside the bed and then blood sprayed out of the bed. And uh.. 40 years later it still affects me. Yeah, don't show that stuff to kids, people! It does affect them even though they'll never talk about it!

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[-] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I was like 6 when i saw some of The Ring. It fucked me up for a long time.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
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I think I was ten when a friend and I asked his big sister if we could watch with her. We could, but I still think A Nightmare on Elm Street was a bit too much for me back then.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 14 points 1 day ago
[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

The Deer Hunter

[-] sxan@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago

Salem's Lot.

It was forbidden, but on TV, so I'd flip channels to watch it in 30 second clips. It was far more terrifying that way, as I found out later in life; watched all the way through, it was a fairly mediocre film.

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[-] aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Cats Eye

The Shining

Pet Sematary

Pumpkinhead

Poltergeist

my parents didn't make an effort to shield me. I was too young for school when I first saw any of these movies

My parent’s sex tape that I watched last year.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

I too was traumatized by watching SatansMaggotyCumFart's parent's sex tape.

I have no idea why I bought it, and even less idea why SatansMaggotyCumFart would release it.

I think the third time I watched was the worse viewing.

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[-] forty2@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Saw Robocop when I was six. Murphy getting his arm blown to bits haunted me for years.... Until I saw Red Foreman years later, then I was ok

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[-] WagnasT@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Idk the movie but it was late 80s or early 90s, there was a guy with his head in a TV screen, which was on and had the image of a woman's mouth eating the head. Fucked me up for years as a kid because I had no context.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Eraserhead vibes.

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[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Total Recall freaked me out pretty good and I saw it when I was like 32

[-] Kurt@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

Poltergeist

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