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[-] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago

Terminator 2. I saw it when I was 6 or 7 when it came out on vhs. I didn’t want to watch kids movies ever again after that. It was fucking awesome. As far as scarring me, none, people in my elementary school were watching Faces of Death.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago

Saturday Night Fever. At the theater. With both my parents. Not even in middle school, by a few years.

[-] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Bad taste. My brother got a copy but didn't let me watch, so I waited until he was out before I put it on.

I can still remember the guy putting his brains back in his head and carrying on.

Then I heard the director was making some fantasy movies and lost respect for him.

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah those fantasy movies definitely tanked his career

[-] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's a shitty horror flick called The Hand from the early eighties. Michael Caine is in it, hamming it for the paycheck I suppose but still kinda cool even if the movie is pretty bad. Anyway, there's a terrible effects shot of the titular crawling hand pushing its way through the plumbing in a shower, and I still sometimes have nightmares of that scene decades later. 5 year old me was not ready.

[-] darkmogool@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago
[-] ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago
[-] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Sleepers. I was raised watching horror and other movies which I probably should not have (early favorites included A Nightmare on Elm Street and Robocop), but the only one which was too much was seeing Sleepers when I was ten or eleven. Too realistic, I guess.

[-] migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Arachnophobia

[-] kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Kingdom of the Spiders

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

The tanning booth scene from Final Destination really messed me up for a while.

[-] SinisterSloth@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago
[-] fixmycode@feddit.cl 3 points 4 months ago

Edward Scissorhands.

Don't know why. And I didn't even see it for that long, but something about the makeup, music, general ambiance, the scene when he's offered normal hands, it affected my child self profoundly. To this day, I can't watch the movie without feeling very anxious. My partner has tried to watch it with me a couple of times and I just can't.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

So...yeah, I was watching Tales from the Crypt when I was like 9.

[-] hobata@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it's 5 years to late for a sane person.

[-] ThoGot@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

The Green Mile

I think I was like 10

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