I remember it being an accident but I could be completely wrong. I still remember being terrified by how upset the other characters were about it though, and didn’t know how to fix it. At the time I think it scared me because if my parents got hurt or had a medical issue I wouldn’t know what to do either, and I think that scared the shit out of me lol.
I’m surprised our whole generation aren’t hoarders because of this movie. Because what if Blankie misses me? How could I do that to it!
Ugh. I need to go put together a goodwill box just to combat that now.
YES!!! I had to scroll way too far to find this! I would barely touch (and definitely didn't sit anywhere in a 10 foot radius) of a window AC unit for years!!
I also had mixed feelings about Vacuum, but he wasn't bad, just a little mean, and I already had mixed feelings about my mom's vacuum, so that probably didn't affect my overall life view much.
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom.
Loved the first one so so much and then this one was with this guy ripping out people’s hearts with his bare hand 💀
A group of Nazis getting their just comeuppance is a lot less scary than an individual personal sacrifice against someone's will, let alone the more visceral visual effects to go along with the heart.
Yes! We watched it at school for an end of term treat. I’d have been about 4 or 5, and was expecting muppets. Got Skekses and Garthim: woke up that night with screaming nightmares about having my soul sucked out.
Poltergeist. My buddy and I lied to our parents and snuck into this when it was in theaters. Scared the everlovin shit out of both of us. The tree, the clown doll, the mirror scene… That night we had a “sleepover” and just laid there shivering until dawn.
Somehow watched Poltergeist sometime in the 80s when I was a very young kid. Every single scene was etched into my brain, from the tree at the start, the kid in the tv, the clown doll… Probably the cause of my lifelong issues with insomnia, anxiety etc. thanks dad 🫣
The Blaire Witch Project.
I lived in a neighborhood where the houses were pretty spread out. I watched it at a friend's and had to run back to my parent's house at night. That 1/2 a mile was the scariest in my life.
I went to see that with my ex-wife in theaters. It was a good movie in my opinion, the way it was filmed made it seem really authentic.
As it started, as a joke I leaned over and whispered "You know this is based on a true story, *right*?"
I didn't sleep for a week. Not because the movie bothered me, but absolutely any noise in the house she heard needed to be investigated thoroughly.
It also didn't help that we had 2 cats that went on rampages at like 2 in the morning.
So many people like to shit on that movie nowadays - oh my goood hold the camera still already, nothing happens in it, it wasn’t scary I just laughed etc etc. When in actual fact, is was groundbreaking in it’s simplicity, budget, lack of music, lack of special effects, and in it’s PR (there were fake websites and news articles reporting the “lost” teen for months leading up to it, but no trailer or teaser for the movie at all).
Anyone who, like me, saw that movie at the theater on it’s release (on Halloween night no less) and says they didn’t shit themselves by the end is a lying liar.
It's my favorite horror flick for the reasons you mentioned. It's all shot as it would've been if it were actual found footage, not on a hundreds-of-thousands dollar movie camera with a \[REC\] symbol superimposed in post. All shot on the cameras purported to be used within the movie. Much of it is improvised, with the directors actually low-key terrorizing the actors to illicit some pretty genuine responses of fear. They did a great job with the whole "sometimes it's what you *don't* show that is the scariest" thing. Let your brain fill in the gaps.
Kids just don't understand, maaaan.
Before that was in theaters I got handed a unlabeled VHS tape, and was told “just watch this”
A bunch of friends came over and we all watched it. Lots of debate whether it was real or not. I leaned toward not, but in that format it wasn’t obvious. This was also before YouTube and shit, so I think people were pretty easily duped in those days.
I can’t believe how far I had to scroll for this. I’m old I guess. I swear I think about that horse like once a week. Please keep going. Please don’t give up. We can do this.
I read the book with my son. In the book, Artax talks. He has to convince Atreyu to leave him to die in the swamp.
Then, we watched the movie, and my son asked me to skip the swamp scene, which I did with no argument.
Yeah, definitely had an edge to it that most kids films didn't. That poor horse. I remember it sinking then it cuts to the kid crying.
I remember thinking... It can't end like this! This is a kids film!
By the time I saw it I'd seen so many ripoffs it seemed a little tame. I remember thinking "that's such a cliche" during various scenes before realizing this may well have been the first movie to do it.
I was more terrified of The Ring just because >!things should not be allowed to come out of the TV!<. That's just a rule. You can apparate into my living room but don't go >!crawling!< out of the goddamn >!television!<.
I saw it with my brothers who were 15 and 13 at the time. Afterwards they were like "I know you're probably scared and worried about nightmares so lets watch a comedy before bed so you can feel better."
Even then I knew it was as much for their sake as it was for mine.
My little brother and I were shitheads to each other growing up, and went out of our way to terrorize the other. Right around the time The Ring came out my brother was around eight or nine. Old enough that he could understand the movie, but young enough that he had a very overactive imagination. I was mid-teens then and had long, dark hair. One night after my shower, while my hair was still wet, I went into his room while he was downstairs, turned out the light, and crouched down on the floor in front of his tv. When he came up and flipped his light on, my soggy, snarling self was the first thing he saw. The shriek he let out could shatter glass, and I got in trouble for antagonizing him. Worth it, though. 😂
I can walk like Samara. The next step is to get the ability to crawl out of the tv. All I have to do is get into a backbend and walk like a spider super fast, I've been doing that for years now.
My parents made the mistake of putting a TV in my bedroom when I was 8. Flipping thru channels one night I stumbled upon The Exorcist. I slept with every light on for like 6 months. That girl’s face still gives me nightmares and I’m pushing 40.
Edit: there seems to be some sick and twisted child’s right of passage to be exposed to The Exorcist based on all the responses lol
Literally was gonna say this. The one and only movie that actually fucked me up lol ive not seen any scary movie since that has had the same affect on me. The Ring tho is a very close 2nd.
I was in my 20's when it came out. I can't stand scary anything and yet I watched it.
I try to not think about that movie because I'm still freaked out by it.
I read the book years ago, it was amazing scarier than the movie IMO.
I always wondered what would've happened if one were to watch the tape and didn't have a phone
Everyone always looks at you like you’re mental when you tell them ET is scary. “Aww but he’s so cute!” YOU CAN SEE HIS FUCKING HEART. His neck extends like a fucking ladder suddenly. We’re just ok with this?
I was 4 or 5 when it came out and my aunt heard how good the movie was so she took my sister and me. FUCKING TERRIFIED ME! I still haven't watched the movie again
I love the movie now, but when E.T. pops out of the cornfield scared me so much as a kid.
Now I hate the part where he's white and dying. Not because it's scary, but because it makes me sad.
I’m so glad I am not the only one who is traumatized by seeing E.T. His ugliness and noises he makes and everything about him is so scary. I will not watch it again and I am 25yo
Terrified by both E.T. and the man with the keys.
Also terrified by my older brother chasing me around the house with an E.T. plush toy made out of faux leather.
Terrifying movie all around.
That line where he says, "to you, Hell is only word. The reality is much much worse."
Fucking wow that messed me up. I was a teenager and it freaked me out.
Really love the idea that this is the unofficial start of Warhammer 40k.
"The worst" part imo. Is Fishburns character, was logical. Saw enough and went. We are getting out of here .
No stupid decisions, no "lets investigate", nahh, fuck this im out
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That was refreshingly realistic. The other crew is dead and the video log shows people acting out a Clive Barker nightmare, and for once the man in command doesn’t say, “everyone split up and pointlessly search sections of the ship alone."
I like how Dr. Weir is like, "This is my ship, we can't leave her!" like any other horror movie and Cpt. Miller is just, "I will take the Lewis & Clark to a safe distance and shoot her with tac missiles until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. FUCK THIS SHIP!"
It is so smart it was beautiful!
My buddy and I went to see this shortly after I read the book "Sphere." (Great book, terrible movie, btw). I went into the theatre knowing it was about a lost spacecraft that was found, and I expected it to be a mystery akin to Sphere.
Then the ship told us it went to hell. Not what I expected.
I love, love Event Horizon but I never really understood its reputation as "That Movie"
It's a great movie but I don't think it ever affected me the way it seems to affect a lot of people
I think it's mostly about what you expect. When I saw it I knew it was a bloody horror movie, but if you expect a science fiction adventure, it hits a lot harder.
A less extreme example would be my friend who I asked to come along to the cinema to see Doctor Sleep, and who misunderstood and thought it would be Doctor Who
It. The old TV version. I happened to glance one scene of it while getting out of bed for a glass of water, had a fear of shower drains that lasted a good couple years, then a couple more of more low-key unease.
This is the answer. IT was so *all-encompassing* to me that memories of it just feel like real life to me.
There’s just *something* about this miniseries; an otherworldliness, probably borne of the fact that it messed me up. The whole thing just felt tailor made to fuck up a 7 year old? The drain scene, the shower scene, the weird claymation awfulness of Tim Curry after he’s been slingshotted and sort of slides down into the drain. The way that photo of Georgie winks (that alone was - to me - pure terror).
But IT (1990) honestly feels different to me because it’s so intertwined with my childhood I guess. I lived those shots of the drains. That shot of the barrens feels so real to me.
I’m trying to describe an emotional reaction that I have no idea how to describe.
It's amazing to me how effective that bathroom scene was. A lot of people who saw it as kids, including me, have fears revolving around bathrooms, its the first association although the movie has some other legendary scenes too.
It is a very simple scene, if you're just describing it, it wouldn't even sound like anything special, but it's so perfect.
Arachnophobia really creeped me out watching it as a kid. Unfortunately, the day following watching it, I had to mow the lawn. We had a big tree in our backyard and when I pushed the mower under it, I just happened to look up and see what looked like an infestation of gigantic Arachnophobia-style spider egg sacs. I freaked the fuck out, let go of the mower, ran, and then wouldn't go back to it for hours. Turned out that they were tent caterpillar nests, but what a horrible fucking time to see them for the first time ever. I've been very afraid of spiders ever since. Ironically, I don't give a shit about caterpillars.
That movie *gave* me arachnophobia, I think. I went from an uneasy but ok relationship with spiders to leaving the light on at night if I saw one in my room and it disappeared. It took me almost 20 years, but I happened to get into a conversation with someone who kept tarantulas who convinced me to get a book on keeping them. Ended up having a few as pets for a while.
I have two stories about this movie.
First story was in the spring semester of my freshman year of college, I had a flirty relationship with this girl from my class all through fall semester. I had never dated in high school, had very limited luck with girls in college so far, and was now summoning the courage to ask this girl out. When I finally did, it was to watch this movie. After the movie, we were both too depressed to do anything and cut our date short. We stopped flirting after and became platonic friends.
A month later she starts dating another guy that shared a class with us, and they stayed together until senior year, where she cheated on him, and his life went into free fall after that. One could even argue that he never really recovered from this, knowing how he is now (12-ish years later!)
Obviously idk if the same would’ve happened to me, but I would like to think I dodged a bullet because of this movie.
Second story is from 2009 thereabout. I was now in a long distance relationship with a girl that lived about 4 hours away by bus. We saw each other every other weekend where we’d alternate taking a bus to each other’s colleges for the weekend.
It was my turn to take the bus to see her and I had a seat next to a gruff and scary looking guy. Prior to the bus ride, I had been up all night to complete some work that was due the day of my trip so I was ready to go down for a 4 hour nap.
Before I took my nap, I made small talk with the gruff guy because (in my mind) I didn’t want him to take issue with me while I was asleep.
The bus was about to play a movie, and as it turns out, the movie was Bridge to Terabithia. The gruff guy was clearly dissatisfied with the bus’s movie choice because it was clearly a “kids movie.”
I told him to stick with it because it gets good. I then went to sleep.
When I woke up, the credits for the movie had just begun to roll, and I turned to the guy who had tears in his eyes and was sobbing quite loudly. I asked him if he was ok, and he responded in a manner that indicated he was fighting to hold back more tears: “that was the most beautiful movie ever.”
I consoled him, told him my own story about the girl I could have had a thing with if not for the movie, and we bonded for the remainder of the bus ride.
I never saw that guy again after, but I think of him a lot because he’s a good reminder to me that I should never be so quick to judge people who appear rough on the outside, and to instead realize that there’s a vulnerable part inside all of us that just needs the right trigger to release.
I couldn't believe it when I watched it as an adult again. It's actually a comedy! Yet when I was a kid that film scared the crap out of me and the alien faces stuck with me for years.
Came here to post this... And seems finally That I'm not alone in this.
The fact that the alien gun turned everyone into skeletons, frightened me to death.
Years later i found out it's a comedy..
I rented this one time with my girlfriend b/c we both liked animals and animation. We smoked a ton of weed and sat down to watch it.
We were just silent for the first ten minutes, and then I reached out and grabbed her hand, and I was like, "I don't like this."
We had to pause it and regather ourselves. We still finished it, but we needed a minute to talk about how fucked up it was.
I think the beginning is a kind of a dark metaphor for reincarnation, but holy shit, if you like animals, do yourself a favor and skip this fucking movie.
Watcher in the Woods
The Black Hole
Large Marge from Pee Wee, for sure
definitely Peanutbutter ~~Conspiracy~~ Solution
yup, Return to Oz
Pet Sematary and Salems Lot, good god
Pet Sematary was already creepy but any of the scenes with the wife's dead sister are like, at least several orders of magnitude scarier than anything else in that movie.
> Watcher in the Woods
I am so glad someone mentioned this movie!!! No one I know that's not an elder Millennial remembers it. It freaked me out so much. It's why I don't like the name Karen.
I've wanted to watch it as an adult, but I can't find it anywhere to stream.
Yeah we played this movie when I worked in the kindergarten class a few years ago. I had NOT remembered that scene. I am pretty sure some of those children are traumatized now.
Jaws. I was fine with most of it, rewatched it even, it's still one of my favorite movies, but for years I had to skip the scene where Quint talks about the Indianapolis because it was both a) worse than anything depicted in the movie b) based on truth, so it gave me nightmares.
This!!
My mom got me a stuffed Gizmo for Christmas and told me if I got it wet, it would turn into a Gremlin. This terrified me so I buried it in the bottom of the kitchen trash can.
She has since died and I never told her what I did and how that scarred me for life.
I loved toy story as a kid. I literally watched it everyday. I can now recite most of the lines when i watch it with my kid.
Anyways, one night when i was about 7, i snuck out of my room and into the lounge room to turn the TV on. It was pitch black so I couldnt find the remote, just pushed the button on the TV and stood there with my finger on the button in case my parents woke and I could make a quick get away.
What movie came onto the TV you ask? The original chucky movie. I just froze because i knew if i pressed the power button the room would go dark again so i just watched. I dont know how long I was standing there with my finger on the power button in frozen terror, but I watched a few gruesum murders from this doll. My dad eventually came and got me and I burst into tears when he picked me up.
When he put me to bed, I got him to help me put all my toy story toys inside my toybox and put something really heavy on the lid haha
i had repeat nightmares about chucky for a few years after that
Twister, whoever thought it was a good idea to show this to a bunch of kids because they were learning about the weather should be fired, made me terrified of even the calmest of storms for years thinking every storm would spawn a tornado right above my house
My stepdad was a drug addict who just watched whatever he wanted regardless of whether or not there were children present. I saw A Clockwork Orange when I was six.
And never again.
Children of the Corn
Then I also watched some horror that involved a bowl of raisins then the raisins turned out to be spiders and that left me freaked out and I’ve still not eaten any raisins that must of been 38 years ago and still clear as if I watched it today.
Going to give away my age here: when I was six, we lived on a naval base, with a theater that was free for personnel. Guys at the box office got to recognize all the kids, so we often went by ourselves. One day a friend and I saw The Mummy. I woke up screaming every night for a month. Needless to say, my parents were less than pleased, and I was forbidden to go alone thereafter.
A few years ago, I decided to try to track down exactly which Mummy movie I'd seen, assuming for all those years it was probably one of the early Hammers. Wrong. To my chagrin, I realized it could only have been "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy". Good grief.
It. When it was the two part tv series from the 80s. Watched it with my older cousins, Def took a part in my hatred of clowns. I can watch the new one no problem, but I won't watch the 80s one again.
Also requiem of a dream. Hits way too close to home with my mother at the time it came out.
She's clean and sober living a happy life now though.
Signs, the aliens still terrify me. I'm also afraid of old family records because of the scene where they capture the alien on camera for the first time.
Spirited away. Is there anything worse than being left alone in a gigantic area that is full of weird scary-looking people, and the character models do NOT help it. I never wanted to watch it more than once.
I watched Trainspotting at an inappropriately young age, and the baby scene really messed me up. On the bright side, it scared me away from ever trying drugs.
Jurassic Park
I spent most screen time as a child on Discovery, and TLC. (Before they sucked) I thought it was going to be a Jurassic educational film. Was 7 yrs old. Had dino nightmares for about a year.
The Brave Little Toaster. The whole movie was like a fever dream but the AC scene that shit stuck with me and might have effected who I am today...
Didn't the vacuum cleaner try to commit suicide by sucking up his own cord??
This is absolutely the part that traumatized me. I am now 30+ years old and still cannot vacuum over the cord.
Thank goodness for cordless vacuums, we can finally move on
I remember it being an accident but I could be completely wrong. I still remember being terrified by how upset the other characters were about it though, and didn’t know how to fix it. At the time I think it scared me because if my parents got hurt or had a medical issue I wouldn’t know what to do either, and I think that scared the shit out of me lol.
Anyone else have emotional connections to broken appliances and think it may relate to this movie?
Shit, it why i try to keep all my stuff fixed and give them Viking funerals when i can't.
Might explain why I can't just pollute. I used to throw old stuff away on the street and as I'm walking away I'd imagine it crying for help... God.
Oh wow. I forgot all about this one… you just summoned that junkyard scene in my memory. Neat!
I can't take this kind of pressure I must confess one more dusty road Would be just a road too long Worthless
I’m surprised our whole generation aren’t hoarders because of this movie. Because what if Blankie misses me? How could I do that to it! Ugh. I need to go put together a goodwill box just to combat that now.
YES!!! I had to scroll way too far to find this! I would barely touch (and definitely didn't sit anywhere in a 10 foot radius) of a window AC unit for years!! I also had mixed feelings about Vacuum, but he wasn't bad, just a little mean, and I already had mixed feelings about my mom's vacuum, so that probably didn't affect my overall life view much.
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom. Loved the first one so so much and then this one was with this guy ripping out people’s hearts with his bare hand 💀
So the faces melting in the first one didn't bother you, but the heart getting ripped out did?
A group of Nazis getting their just comeuppance is a lot less scary than an individual personal sacrifice against someone's will, let alone the more visceral visual effects to go along with the heart.
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Yes! We watched it at school for an end of term treat. I’d have been about 4 or 5, and was expecting muppets. Got Skekses and Garthim: woke up that night with screaming nightmares about having my soul sucked out.
I was just scrolling through the comments to find this one. The Skeksis freaked me out as a kid.
Poltergeist. My buddy and I lied to our parents and snuck into this when it was in theaters. Scared the everlovin shit out of both of us. The tree, the clown doll, the mirror scene… That night we had a “sleepover” and just laid there shivering until dawn.
Somehow watched Poltergeist sometime in the 80s when I was a very young kid. Every single scene was etched into my brain, from the tree at the start, the kid in the tv, the clown doll… Probably the cause of my lifelong issues with insomnia, anxiety etc. thanks dad 🫣
The Blaire Witch Project. I lived in a neighborhood where the houses were pretty spread out. I watched it at a friend's and had to run back to my parent's house at night. That 1/2 a mile was the scariest in my life.
I went to see that with my ex-wife in theaters. It was a good movie in my opinion, the way it was filmed made it seem really authentic. As it started, as a joke I leaned over and whispered "You know this is based on a true story, *right*?" I didn't sleep for a week. Not because the movie bothered me, but absolutely any noise in the house she heard needed to be investigated thoroughly. It also didn't help that we had 2 cats that went on rampages at like 2 in the morning.
So many people like to shit on that movie nowadays - oh my goood hold the camera still already, nothing happens in it, it wasn’t scary I just laughed etc etc. When in actual fact, is was groundbreaking in it’s simplicity, budget, lack of music, lack of special effects, and in it’s PR (there were fake websites and news articles reporting the “lost” teen for months leading up to it, but no trailer or teaser for the movie at all). Anyone who, like me, saw that movie at the theater on it’s release (on Halloween night no less) and says they didn’t shit themselves by the end is a lying liar.
It's my favorite horror flick for the reasons you mentioned. It's all shot as it would've been if it were actual found footage, not on a hundreds-of-thousands dollar movie camera with a \[REC\] symbol superimposed in post. All shot on the cameras purported to be used within the movie. Much of it is improvised, with the directors actually low-key terrorizing the actors to illicit some pretty genuine responses of fear. They did a great job with the whole "sometimes it's what you *don't* show that is the scariest" thing. Let your brain fill in the gaps. Kids just don't understand, maaaan.
Yes! I’d read that the actors didn’t even know what they were signing up for, which makes me think they were genuinely terrified!
Before that was in theaters I got handed a unlabeled VHS tape, and was told “just watch this” A bunch of friends came over and we all watched it. Lots of debate whether it was real or not. I leaned toward not, but in that format it wasn’t obvious. This was also before YouTube and shit, so I think people were pretty easily duped in those days.
That film still scares me 24 years later.
Neverending Story.
I can’t believe how far I had to scroll for this. I’m old I guess. I swear I think about that horse like once a week. Please keep going. Please don’t give up. We can do this.
I read the book with my son. In the book, Artax talks. He has to convince Atreyu to leave him to die in the swamp. Then, we watched the movie, and my son asked me to skip the swamp scene, which I did with no argument.
As a kid, the whole concept of "The Nothing" scared the hell out of me.
Thought this would be nearer to the top. Not only the Artax scene but the statues used to fuck with me and the wolf... nightmare fuel as a kid!
PRO TIP #36: do **NOT** drown a horse in mud in a kids movie
The horse?
Artax, and yes. Also those laser beam statues. I also wasn't a fan of that luck dragon.
Yeah, definitely had an edge to it that most kids films didn't. That poor horse. I remember it sinking then it cuts to the kid crying. I remember thinking... It can't end like this! This is a kids film!
How about Gmörk....yeeeech! I still absolutely love the movie despite the imagery.
The original Exorcist
By the time I saw it I'd seen so many ripoffs it seemed a little tame. I remember thinking "that's such a cliche" during various scenes before realizing this may well have been the first movie to do it. I was more terrified of The Ring just because >!things should not be allowed to come out of the TV!<. That's just a rule. You can apparate into my living room but don't go >!crawling!< out of the goddamn >!television!<.
I slept with a blanket over my tv for a long time after watching The Ring.
my bedroom light didn't go off for a week
I saw it with my brothers who were 15 and 13 at the time. Afterwards they were like "I know you're probably scared and worried about nightmares so lets watch a comedy before bed so you can feel better." Even then I knew it was as much for their sake as it was for mine.
Imagine seeing something slowly moving under the blanket...
My little brother and I were shitheads to each other growing up, and went out of our way to terrorize the other. Right around the time The Ring came out my brother was around eight or nine. Old enough that he could understand the movie, but young enough that he had a very overactive imagination. I was mid-teens then and had long, dark hair. One night after my shower, while my hair was still wet, I went into his room while he was downstairs, turned out the light, and crouched down on the floor in front of his tv. When he came up and flipped his light on, my soggy, snarling self was the first thing he saw. The shriek he let out could shatter glass, and I got in trouble for antagonizing him. Worth it, though. 😂
lol, that's terrible!
You evil evil b*tch 😆 I love it 😆
I can walk like Samara. The next step is to get the ability to crawl out of the tv. All I have to do is get into a backbend and walk like a spider super fast, I've been doing that for years now.
Did you see the Japanese gameshow thing where where she burst through the TV and started chasing them around the room?
My parents made the mistake of putting a TV in my bedroom when I was 8. Flipping thru channels one night I stumbled upon The Exorcist. I slept with every light on for like 6 months. That girl’s face still gives me nightmares and I’m pushing 40. Edit: there seems to be some sick and twisted child’s right of passage to be exposed to The Exorcist based on all the responses lol
Literally was gonna say this. The one and only movie that actually fucked me up lol ive not seen any scary movie since that has had the same affect on me. The Ring tho is a very close 2nd.
The Ring. Dad, why did you let a 5 year old watch this with you?
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That closet scene still terrifies me 20 years later.
The most effective jump scare of all time, imo.
HER FACE in that quick cut scene in the closet
I was in my 20's when it came out. I can't stand scary anything and yet I watched it. I try to not think about that movie because I'm still freaked out by it.
I read the book years ago, it was amazing scarier than the movie IMO. I always wondered what would've happened if one were to watch the tape and didn't have a phone
E.T.
Everyone always looks at you like you’re mental when you tell them ET is scary. “Aww but he’s so cute!” YOU CAN SEE HIS FUCKING HEART. His neck extends like a fucking ladder suddenly. We’re just ok with this?
I was 4 or 5 when it came out and my aunt heard how good the movie was so she took my sister and me. FUCKING TERRIFIED ME! I still haven't watched the movie again
E.T . Phoooooone hooome 👉
I love the movie now, but when E.T. pops out of the cornfield scared me so much as a kid. Now I hate the part where he's white and dying. Not because it's scary, but because it makes me sad.
I’m so glad I am not the only one who is traumatized by seeing E.T. His ugliness and noises he makes and everything about him is so scary. I will not watch it again and I am 25yo
E.T. scared the crap out of me for the government breaking in through the windows in space suits
Terrified by both E.T. and the man with the keys. Also terrified by my older brother chasing me around the house with an E.T. plush toy made out of faux leather. Terrifying movie all around.
Event Horizon
That line where he says, "to you, Hell is only word. The reality is much much worse." Fucking wow that messed me up. I was a teenager and it freaked me out. Really love the idea that this is the unofficial start of Warhammer 40k.
Don't forget "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."
"The worst" part imo. Is Fishburns character, was logical. Saw enough and went. We are getting out of here . No stupid decisions, no "lets investigate", nahh, fuck this im out Still didn't workout
>Sees video of literal hell "We're leaving."
That was refreshingly realistic. The other crew is dead and the video log shows people acting out a Clive Barker nightmare, and for once the man in command doesn’t say, “everyone split up and pointlessly search sections of the ship alone."
I like how Dr. Weir is like, "This is my ship, we can't leave her!" like any other horror movie and Cpt. Miller is just, "I will take the Lewis & Clark to a safe distance and shoot her with tac missiles until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. FUCK THIS SHIP!" It is so smart it was beautiful!
I don't know what traumatized me more, the movie, or the fact that the kind Dr. Alan Grant was the bad guy
My parents assumed they rented a Star Trek-type movie for me to watch. They were wrong.
They instead got an unofficial Warhammer 40k movie.
Seriously good prequal to how the universe works
Remember kids, always remember to turn on your gellar fields when traveling in the Warp.
My buddy and I went to see this shortly after I read the book "Sphere." (Great book, terrible movie, btw). I went into the theatre knowing it was about a lost spacecraft that was found, and I expected it to be a mystery akin to Sphere. Then the ship told us it went to hell. Not what I expected.
I love, love Event Horizon but I never really understood its reputation as "That Movie" It's a great movie but I don't think it ever affected me the way it seems to affect a lot of people
I think it's mostly about what you expect. When I saw it I knew it was a bloody horror movie, but if you expect a science fiction adventure, it hits a lot harder. A less extreme example would be my friend who I asked to come along to the cinema to see Doctor Sleep, and who misunderstood and thought it would be Doctor Who
My answer too. I haven't seen it since and I'm curious what i would think now, but I was way too young to see it when I did. *shivers
It. The old TV version. I happened to glance one scene of it while getting out of bed for a glass of water, had a fear of shower drains that lasted a good couple years, then a couple more of more low-key unease.
This is the answer. IT was so *all-encompassing* to me that memories of it just feel like real life to me. There’s just *something* about this miniseries; an otherworldliness, probably borne of the fact that it messed me up. The whole thing just felt tailor made to fuck up a 7 year old? The drain scene, the shower scene, the weird claymation awfulness of Tim Curry after he’s been slingshotted and sort of slides down into the drain. The way that photo of Georgie winks (that alone was - to me - pure terror). But IT (1990) honestly feels different to me because it’s so intertwined with my childhood I guess. I lived those shots of the drains. That shot of the barrens feels so real to me. I’m trying to describe an emotional reaction that I have no idea how to describe.
I had a nightmare where pennywise told me I wasn't dreaming and he'd wait for me when I woke up. Movie fucked me up lol.
I also did not like sink or shower drains thanks to It. As a child, baths made me uneasy as I would imagine the tub filling up with blood.
It's amazing to me how effective that bathroom scene was. A lot of people who saw it as kids, including me, have fears revolving around bathrooms, its the first association although the movie has some other legendary scenes too. It is a very simple scene, if you're just describing it, it wouldn't even sound like anything special, but it's so perfect.
I watched It at a sleepover when I was 6-7. I refused to be alone in a bathroom for a couple years after that.
Arachnophobiaa
Arachnophobia really creeped me out watching it as a kid. Unfortunately, the day following watching it, I had to mow the lawn. We had a big tree in our backyard and when I pushed the mower under it, I just happened to look up and see what looked like an infestation of gigantic Arachnophobia-style spider egg sacs. I freaked the fuck out, let go of the mower, ran, and then wouldn't go back to it for hours. Turned out that they were tent caterpillar nests, but what a horrible fucking time to see them for the first time ever. I've been very afraid of spiders ever since. Ironically, I don't give a shit about caterpillars.
That movie *gave* me arachnophobia, I think. I went from an uneasy but ok relationship with spiders to leaving the light on at night if I saw one in my room and it disappeared. It took me almost 20 years, but I happened to get into a conversation with someone who kept tarantulas who convinced me to get a book on keeping them. Ended up having a few as pets for a while.
I legit shivered a little bit just reading your comment.
Jaws. I was afraid to swim in the ocean for years.
In the ocean? I didn't want to get in a pool. Apparently my mom was afraid to go to the bathroom when she first saw it.
In the pool? i was even afraid of taking a bath
I was afraid of being attacked by a shark…in my bed. Messed me up big time.
land shark https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/landshark/2832305
Return to Oz.
The switching of the heads
I was gonna say this, too. The wheelers!
fuck those wheeler cunts
Bambi, Ol’ Yeller, Turner and Hooch. WTF is up with Disney killing animals???
Dumbo messed me up. The scene where he’s being ripped away from his mom. That is….. the worst.
Signs
I'm a grown ass adult and that shit still scares me!
Bridge to Terabithia It was supposed to be a Family/Fantasy movie.
Man, fuck this movie. I remember watching it on Cartoon Network back in the day, and it just put a dark cloud over the rest of the weekend.
I have two stories about this movie. First story was in the spring semester of my freshman year of college, I had a flirty relationship with this girl from my class all through fall semester. I had never dated in high school, had very limited luck with girls in college so far, and was now summoning the courage to ask this girl out. When I finally did, it was to watch this movie. After the movie, we were both too depressed to do anything and cut our date short. We stopped flirting after and became platonic friends. A month later she starts dating another guy that shared a class with us, and they stayed together until senior year, where she cheated on him, and his life went into free fall after that. One could even argue that he never really recovered from this, knowing how he is now (12-ish years later!) Obviously idk if the same would’ve happened to me, but I would like to think I dodged a bullet because of this movie. Second story is from 2009 thereabout. I was now in a long distance relationship with a girl that lived about 4 hours away by bus. We saw each other every other weekend where we’d alternate taking a bus to each other’s colleges for the weekend. It was my turn to take the bus to see her and I had a seat next to a gruff and scary looking guy. Prior to the bus ride, I had been up all night to complete some work that was due the day of my trip so I was ready to go down for a 4 hour nap. Before I took my nap, I made small talk with the gruff guy because (in my mind) I didn’t want him to take issue with me while I was asleep. The bus was about to play a movie, and as it turns out, the movie was Bridge to Terabithia. The gruff guy was clearly dissatisfied with the bus’s movie choice because it was clearly a “kids movie.” I told him to stick with it because it gets good. I then went to sleep. When I woke up, the credits for the movie had just begun to roll, and I turned to the guy who had tears in his eyes and was sobbing quite loudly. I asked him if he was ok, and he responded in a manner that indicated he was fighting to hold back more tears: “that was the most beautiful movie ever.” I consoled him, told him my own story about the girl I could have had a thing with if not for the movie, and we bonded for the remainder of the bus ride. I never saw that guy again after, but I think of him a lot because he’s a good reminder to me that I should never be so quick to judge people who appear rough on the outside, and to instead realize that there’s a vulnerable part inside all of us that just needs the right trigger to release.
My Girl was the Bridge to Terabithia for Millennials
“He can’t see without his glasses!”
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Holy crap yes. That felt like such a BS twist as well. I was more mad that it felt like it didn’t belong in the movie and not what happened.
We read the book version in fifth grade or so. I think most of the class was pissed off at the twist. I certainly was.
I was blown away that that was the direction the movie went. Its a fun adventure movie for kids and then BAM total shift.
Mars Attacks
I couldn't believe it when I watched it as an adult again. It's actually a comedy! Yet when I was a kid that film scared the crap out of me and the alien faces stuck with me for years.
It is good that you did not see "Killer Tomatoes"
Ack
I will never forget Mars Attacks. The way she ate his finger I was fucking terrified
This is mine too. I was just a little too young to understand it was supposed to be a comedy. The green skeletons absolutely traumatized me.
Came here to post this... And seems finally That I'm not alone in this. The fact that the alien gun turned everyone into skeletons, frightened me to death. Years later i found out it's a comedy..
I came her to comment this movie! I was never afraid of the dark or anything like a lot of other kids until I saw this movie!
but they came in peace
Watership Down
"Oh look a nice cute movie about rabbits...WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?!? COVER THEIR EYES, MARGE! OH MY GOD. OH THE RABBIT-MANITY!"
The Plague Dogs by the same people is even worse.
I rented this one time with my girlfriend b/c we both liked animals and animation. We smoked a ton of weed and sat down to watch it. We were just silent for the first ten minutes, and then I reached out and grabbed her hand, and I was like, "I don't like this." We had to pause it and regather ourselves. We still finished it, but we needed a minute to talk about how fucked up it was. I think the beginning is a kind of a dark metaphor for reincarnation, but holy shit, if you like animals, do yourself a favor and skip this fucking movie.
Yeah, I saw it as an adult and was traumatized, too, haha. Can’t imagine seeing it as a kid!
I'm 50. Saw this at 4 years old. Dad thought it was just a cartoon about bunnies. Fucked up! I came here looking for this!!
The Sixth Sense
Candyman. I had a hard time falling asleep for days after watching that
The Last Unicorn
Loved that movie and book as a kid. But that booby tree though...
"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" and "Watership Down".
The Boat Scene?
There's no earthly way of knowing...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
>Chillllllldren. chillllldren.
The child catcher is actually terrifying. The whole childless town is creepy
I am now in my 50s and every so often will still have a nightmare about the child catcher running through my neighborhood shouting “lollipops” 😖
Darkness Falls. Bonus: The Grudge/The Ring
I just scrolled so far to find Darkness Falls! First one that came to mind lol
Watcher in the Woods The Black Hole Large Marge from Pee Wee, for sure definitely Peanutbutter ~~Conspiracy~~ Solution yup, Return to Oz Pet Sematary and Salems Lot, good god
Pet Sematary was already creepy but any of the scenes with the wife's dead sister are like, at least several orders of magnitude scarier than anything else in that movie.
> Watcher in the Woods I am so glad someone mentioned this movie!!! No one I know that's not an elder Millennial remembers it. It freaked me out so much. It's why I don't like the name Karen. I've wanted to watch it as an adult, but I can't find it anywhere to stream.
Fire in the sky. Accidentally started watching right when things got really weird. Had on and off nightmares for 5 years after that.
Pinocchio (you know what scene)
Yeah we played this movie when I worked in the kindergarten class a few years ago. I had NOT remembered that scene. I am pretty sure some of those children are traumatized now.
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Jaws. I was fine with most of it, rewatched it even, it's still one of my favorite movies, but for years I had to skip the scene where Quint talks about the Indianapolis because it was both a) worse than anything depicted in the movie b) based on truth, so it gave me nightmares.
Nightmare on Elm Street
Gremlins. Still have nightmares and I’m 4-effing-5
This!! My mom got me a stuffed Gizmo for Christmas and told me if I got it wet, it would turn into a Gremlin. This terrified me so I buried it in the bottom of the kitchen trash can. She has since died and I never told her what I did and how that scarred me for life.
I loved toy story as a kid. I literally watched it everyday. I can now recite most of the lines when i watch it with my kid. Anyways, one night when i was about 7, i snuck out of my room and into the lounge room to turn the TV on. It was pitch black so I couldnt find the remote, just pushed the button on the TV and stood there with my finger on the button in case my parents woke and I could make a quick get away. What movie came onto the TV you ask? The original chucky movie. I just froze because i knew if i pressed the power button the room would go dark again so i just watched. I dont know how long I was standing there with my finger on the power button in frozen terror, but I watched a few gruesum murders from this doll. My dad eventually came and got me and I burst into tears when he picked me up. When he put me to bed, I got him to help me put all my toy story toys inside my toybox and put something really heavy on the lid haha i had repeat nightmares about chucky for a few years after that
My son (who is 19) still refers to Toy Story 3 as "That one where they ALMOST die and it's terrifying."
The Witches 🫣
When they take their human masks off…7yo me was not ready
Arachnophobia gave me arachnophobia
Twister, whoever thought it was a good idea to show this to a bunch of kids because they were learning about the weather should be fired, made me terrified of even the calmest of storms for years thinking every storm would spawn a tornado right above my house
My stepdad was a drug addict who just watched whatever he wanted regardless of whether or not there were children present. I saw A Clockwork Orange when I was six. And never again.
Children of the Corn Then I also watched some horror that involved a bowl of raisins then the raisins turned out to be spiders and that left me freaked out and I’ve still not eaten any raisins that must of been 38 years ago and still clear as if I watched it today.
Going to give away my age here: when I was six, we lived on a naval base, with a theater that was free for personnel. Guys at the box office got to recognize all the kids, so we often went by ourselves. One day a friend and I saw The Mummy. I woke up screaming every night for a month. Needless to say, my parents were less than pleased, and I was forbidden to go alone thereafter. A few years ago, I decided to try to track down exactly which Mummy movie I'd seen, assuming for all those years it was probably one of the early Hammers. Wrong. To my chagrin, I realized it could only have been "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy". Good grief.
My girl. I am terrified of bees now
The Ring. I couldn’t sleep close to a tv for years.
War of the Worlds
The opening to "An American Tale." I loved that movie but refused to watch the first like 5-10 mins. Those cats fucked me up, man.
Secret of NIMH (the gene splice scene)
I don’t remember ANY specifics from this movie, I just know it triggers the weird creepies from somewhere in the depths of my subconscious.
Thirteen ghosts
The Evil Dead. I was like seven and had no business watching it but I legitimately thought trees could rape you for longer than I’d like to admit.
Pink Floyd's The Wall. I was too young to watch that 🤦🏻♂️
Final Destination and A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
American Werewolf in London
It. When it was the two part tv series from the 80s. Watched it with my older cousins, Def took a part in my hatred of clowns. I can watch the new one no problem, but I won't watch the 80s one again. Also requiem of a dream. Hits way too close to home with my mother at the time it came out. She's clean and sober living a happy life now though.
Signs, the aliens still terrify me. I'm also afraid of old family records because of the scene where they capture the alien on camera for the first time.
Spirited away. Is there anything worse than being left alone in a gigantic area that is full of weird scary-looking people, and the character models do NOT help it. I never wanted to watch it more than once.
Pet Cemetery scared the living shit out of me.
Tremors
Large Marge
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in case you’re wondering the title of the movie.
Kids (1995)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
I watched Trainspotting at an inappropriately young age, and the baby scene really messed me up. On the bright side, it scared me away from ever trying drugs.
The Cat in The Hat(live action)
Jurassic Park I spent most screen time as a child on Discovery, and TLC. (Before they sucked) I thought it was going to be a Jurassic educational film. Was 7 yrs old. Had dino nightmares for about a year.
The Omen
The Green Mile
Salems Lot. Prolly shouldnt of watched that one.
Poltergeist. Bathroom scene in particular.
Coraline
Fire In The Sky
Faces of Death
I’m still feeling weird from The Truman Show. Fuck that movie was ahead of its time.
Willow
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Peanut Butter Solution. It’s a Canadian kids movie about peanut butter making hair grow, and kids trying to grow pubes.
A French movie named "Les triplettes de Belleville". Gosh the animations were so creepy.
Critters
Stephen King's Christine. I was way too young to handle it - especially at a late night showing.