I watched Dirty Harry when I was around 6 or 7 and my parents had gone out for the night. I was really freaked out and crying when they came home…
the cube and ghost ship
That opening scene to Ghost Ship is burned into my memory
For me it was Poltergeist 2. That really scared the shit out of 9yo me 😂
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I had a room in a very messy basement at the time, in the dark it looked very similar to the one in the movie.
Thank you for validating me. Event Horizon scares me to this day. Clawing out his eyes? Fucking no thank you.
Yeeah. Not a kids movie at all. I watched it in college not knowing what I was getting into. Yeesh.
Same. That movie was legit scary.
Them!.... old movie about giant ants. Even now when i hear the noise they make it gives me goose bumps.
Chucky 🔪
I used to go around at night before bed and moved all the scissors and sharp object to higher ledges or closed closets. Just in case. I did this for months. Parents were always perplexed why the scissors were in the fridge or the screwdriver in the kitchen cabinets.
Shutter, but the original Thai version.
For years after watching it I needed to make sure I was holding the bottom of my blanket with my legs all night long. Damn..
I don't recall the name of it, it was not a big Hollywood movie or anything, and it was super low budget.
But it was some old Christian movie about what will happen to you if you don't get "saved" before the Rapture happens. I remember a song called "I wish we'd all been ready" playing. Not sure if that's the name of the song, not even positive it was actually in the movie at all, or if it was just something I heard around the same time and the memory is getting blurred.
From what I recall, it looked like it was made in the 70s.
I wish I remembered more about it. It was intended to scare the shit out of you to believe in religion. Worked on me at the time, I remember praying like a million times to make sure I did it right the night I watched it, and randomly at times for years as I remembered the scared-shitless feeling.
Religious trauma is a hell of a drug.
I kinda wanna watch it again now that I'm older.
Ernest scared stupid... Don't ask me why, I just remember I couldn't watch it entirely, and I would hide behind my older brothers. It just freaked me out!
The part where the girl checked under her bed, then she looked back up and the monster was in the bed with her... That was the part that got me.
The original aliens movie, saw it when I was far too young and was already scared of aliens haha.
The Wizard of Oz. Flying monkeys, evil witch, big green head.
The Witches (1990). The kids trapped in the picture frames at the beginning gave me nightmares for weeks.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The whole movie is a trip, but specifically the Large Marge scene freaked me out for a long time growing up.
The aliens in Mars attacks were pretty scary.
Schindler's List. Saw plenty of scary movies before this, but that scene where the officer murders the engineering prisoner who's just trying to tell him about a problem with the building. It just sticks in my mind to this day as maybe the first time my young, sheltered self had been confronted with a realistic example of what dehumanizing could do.
The Tripods was a TV series that traumatized me!
Jurassic Park. I was young and watched it at the cinema. I was limp with terror. On my mother's lap.
I don't remember any nightmares after, but still remember the t-rex and the car scene as particularly terrifying
I'm pretty old, but it was both Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
Holy shit. We'd never seen anything like that before
Not a movie, but a 'feature length music video'. Michael Jackson's Thriller scared the ever living shit out of 5 or 6 year old me.
You watched Event Horizon as a child? Damn, that's rough! I watched it as a young adult on TV thinking it was just normal sci fi and was scared shitless by the end...
As a child there was a part of a movie I watched that gave me nightmares for days. It was someone rubbing a bloody chickens paw on a womans leg. That's it, that's all I saw before my parents yelled for me to go to bed but it haunted me for days.
Shallow Ground terrified me. I've had nightmares for a while after that.
An honourable mention: The Pirates of Dark Water - The Beast and the Bell. Fuck Keroptus.
When I was 4 and watched Spirited Away I was terrified
Superman III
Body Snatchers (1993)
Night of the living dead. My brother and I rented it when I was about 7 I think. Didn't make it more than 10 minutes into that movie and I was begging him to turn it off.
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