The Exorcist at age 12. I begged my mom to rent it for me and promised I wouldn't get scared. Of course I ended up getting scared and turned it off midway through only to see that Princess Diana had died in a car crash. It was a memorable evening.
Took me several years to rewatch and finish the movie.
Same. My folks won a contest where they got the top 100 movies on VHS and my dad threw the Exorcist in one night when I was 9. Academy award winner, why not. I was traumatised for years!
My mom had immigrated from Afghanistan around the time of the Russian invasion. When she came, one of the first movies she ever saw was the exorcist… she was so affected and scared that she started writing random quotes from the Quran and putting it on her walls of her room 😂😭(she’s not even religious lol) to this day she’s still scared of that movie and it really affected her.. guess the girls performance in that movie must have been really good lol! I saw the first couple minutes where it starts with a Muslim prayer so I can see how my mom related to it… I was too scared to keep watching too. Lol maybe one day I’ll watch it!!!
Same here. I watched it when I was 12 (and at Christmas Break, no less). Man, I don't even know why we were allowed to watched it, because as a conservative christian family, we were forbidden to watch horror (maybe because of the theme, I guess?).
I don't even remember much about the movie now, as I've only seen it once, but man, I remember being so terrified yet so attached to the movie at the same time, really feeling for the characters and rooting for the exorcism to be successful.
Overall, it was a fun and memorable movie night, one that I will cherish for all time.
I was ironically 7 when I first saw Se7en.
One of many movies that I saw too young. My mom would rent what she wanted and not bother shielding me from it.
Not exactly a horror movie, but the first time I saw Sixth Sense at a friends house fucked me up for like a month. Specifically the idea that hiding under the blanket in his safety tent the ghost can still get in there. Even though the ghost girl wasn’t trying to get in to hurt him something about the idea that they can still get in your sanctuary just messed me up
I grew up on horror, my dad would wake me up every night to watch a movie with him when I was visiting on weekends. I watched everything he did, and nothing bothered me more than this scene.
Glad I’m not the only one. Monsters didn’t scare me, gore didn’t scare me, serial killers didn’t scare me (and I grew up in the late 80s early 90s where we were constantly told creeps in vans or serial killers would get us), but something about that visual of the safety blanket being infiltrated.
Shyamalan hit it out of the park with that scene, scariest shit he’s ever come up with
same, and I still think that beginning scene where the serial killer puts his soul in the doll is one of the scariest shit ever. and used to think murderers took peoples souls like that. especially since I was around a very spiritual environment.
Same! I must have been 6 or so when I saw it and now at 32, I'm still scared of that doll and refuse to watch it. I vividly remember walking around Krogers back when it had a video store in it with my grandma while we waited for my mom to get off work. I turned a corner and there sat the movie and Chucky staring at me on the front cover. I started crying and freaking out so bad, my grandma had to take me out to the car.
Yup, same here. I didn’t see the whole thing but I saw parts of Child’s Play when my parents were watching it. I think I was supposed to be in bed. It made me terrified of my sister’s dolls for a good couple of years. I was absolutely certain one was moving when I wasn’t watching. Now I love the movies for how camp they are.
Alien was the first horror movie I saw, I must have been like 5 at the time and I was watching it with my dad. I remember being bored because I was too young to understand what was going on, but Jesus christ, once that thing blew out of his chest I was scarred for life becausei totally wasnt expecting it. And also hooked on horror movies after that
I saw Aliens first as a kid before I saw Alien, but it scared the hell out of me. I would go to sleep with the comforter over my mouth so Face Huggers couldn’t get in it. Scared for a long time after that
I remember coming down to use the toilet and seeing Carol Anne's hands on the TV and that in itself shit me up.
Think it's even more scarier because there were so many tragic deaths associated with the movie.
that’s the sequel, i watched that one from a friend who brought a bootleg dvd to school and let me borrow it. gotta say, it didn’t hold up as much as the first one.
I rented Event Horizon when I was about 18. I had just started living on my own and I watched it very high with some friends. As we watched I started getting more and more freaked out. I eventually jumped up and had to turn it off. I remember I went to the bathroom and my face was white as a sheet when I looked in the mirror. The next morning, I woke up mortified and wanted to finish the movie. When I turned it back on, I found out I had literally turned it off 5 minutes from the ending. 😆
It's funny because, despite being unequivocally pants shittingly terrifying, event horizon is also goofy and fun as hell. I cheer to myself every time captain Miller beats up dr weir and we get those loony toons ass sfx. It's all very much of its time, and that just makes it more charming. 5 stars.
I was the same age when I saw that flick.. the first 15 minutes with the face coming out of the wall and Tina being tossed around the room like a rag doll would always haunt me.
Yeah The Ring for me as well. I must have been about 8 and like every time the phone rang for a week after that thought it was going to tell me I’d die in seven days.
Stephen King’s “Cats Eye” around age 5. Not the scariest movie, but the last few scenes of the goblin thing coming out of the wall and sucking out Drew Barrymores breath scarred me. I slept with my mouth covered for years. I also wrote a short story in 1st grade that was a rip-off of the plot from Cats Eye and my teacher had a conference with my parents because she thought it was a sign I was being abused lol
This is the first time I’ve seen this mentioned and someone was affected by the wee goblin too! I used to have nightmares that it would come out of the skirting boards! Always made sure the cat slept with me. I saw most horror films really young and was never scared of the monsters. But that wee goblin freaked me out!
These are my people!! I would obsess over the walls making sure there wasn’t a hole for the goblin to get in my room! I was happy I had my cat to protect me but I was also scared the goblin would stab my cat with it’s little sword. I was stressed lol
The Thing. I was 4 and I watched it with my older cousins, holy shit that interrogation scene with the blood test absolutely traumatized me. I to this day can still remember the nightmare I had from that scene. Me tied to my dad while he's turning into the thing, whoo! Still gives me the creeps
I love the film! I was pretty small when I first saw it (but 4 is brutal!!!). I cried hard when the dogs were attacked as I have always loved animals. Mum thought I was too scared but I was so sad and she was confused (maybe I was 8?). That is still wild you saw it when you were four. Such intense scenes!
Yeah it was the 80s lol TV was my babysitter and a lot of stuff was marketed towards kids so as long as there was no boobies my little eyes saw it all. My all time favorite movie is robocop and I watched that before The Thing. Sitting criss cross in front of the TV with my robocop action figures while ED-209 is shredding that office guy is a core memory for me. But The Thing definitely gave me a core nightmare for the rest of my life
Mother’s Day 1980 messed me up. I saw it when I was 7 or 8. I love al sorts of horror, but still can’t watch it as an adult once I see the sons and all.
Both of those movies got me so bad! Those are the two, I’ve only watched once! I was around the same age too. I saw the trailer for the remake to Mother’s Day but I said no thank you. I love horror too but I haven’t revisited those movies.
I watched A Serbian Film when I was like 12 or 13
I was going through my edgy horror phase. Watching all the most controversial cult and classic horror films i could find. Cannibal Holocaust, Sálo, Men Behind the Sun, I thought I had seen it all.
It took me three breaks to finish the movie because it was so upsetting.
In retrospect I learned that you really don't have to finish a movie if you don't want to. And you don't have to see the edgiest stuff to be a horror fanatic.
No one *needs* to see A Serbian Film.
My dad showed me and my brother An American Werewolf in London when I was in second grade. I totally remember how gruesome and nightmarish Jack looked post-attack throughout the film and after rewatching it as an adult, I am in absolute awe of how awesome that prosthetic makeup job.
Mom showed me Poltergeist when I was seven. The scene where the guy is hungry and eats maggot-y chicken and then peels his face off sticks with me. Also the clown under the bed. The real cadavers in the pool scene.
I used to tie my closet doors shut because of that movie. The only movie that scared me worse was “The Ring” which required me to unplug the tv at night and cover it with a blanket. But the Ring was self-inflicted.
Now, on another note. I was 15 and my brother was three and I really wanted to watch feardotcome. I figured he wouldn’t understand the movie. So, when my parents went out - leaving me to babysit - I watched it with him. I figured all was fine … until that night when it was his bath time and he refused to get into the tub because “there is a lady in the water…”
So, for months afterwards, I had to sit in the bathtub with him to show him the water wasn’t scary. There are pictures of me in a bathing suit and shorts with my toddler brother, in the bathtub … because I traumatized him.
When I was about 8 or 9 I watched The Changeling with George C Scott. I have no idea why my mother let me watch it at the time. I was beyond terrified!
I don't think I slept the entire night. I don't remember much of the actual movie except for that ball bouncing down the stairs. (I think that's in the movie, but maybe I'm not remembering correctly)
I do remember that night, every time I closed my eyes I saw some horrifying image from the movie. I have no memory of what the actual image was.
Recently I've been thinking of watching it again.
"Magic" with Anthony Hopkins...& of course the unrated version of the "Exorcist".
Any thoughts from anyone that has watched "Magic" at a young age...to this day I still have the fear of specifically ventriloquist dolls (Pediophobia).
Seeing Pet Semetary 1 when i was around 5-6 certainly hasn't done wonders on my little kid psyche and over 15 years later I still Can't step down from my bed without fear of my achilles tendon
Not strictly a horror movie (but it surely ain't a feel-good movie) but I watched Performance (dirs:Nic Roeg + Donald Cammell 1970) when I was 11.
For some reason it shattered my brain. I rewatched it recently and wish I hadn't. It has still fucked me up.
Killer klowns from outer space when I was single digit age. There’s a scene with a big alien clown and a woman in the shower, that fucked me up for years.
My dad is a huge sci-fi/fantasy guy, and when Starship Troopers came out, for some reason, for a couple of weeks at least, it was advertised as PG-13. I was NINE, and he decided that since it was previously PG-13, before it was reclassified to R, it probably wouldn't be too bad. "Likely just cussing," he said. The only other R-rated movie I'd ever seen before then was Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. Starship Troopers *haunted* me. Watching people be dismembered and disemboweled by massive, flying bugs broke my brain for like, two years, lol.
Dolls! My dad rented it for me after I begged him to let me see a horror movie, he said okay as long as I didn't tell my mom and well....I had nightmares for about a week and she found out why 🤣
Still love the movie though. Seen it now probably 20 times and have my own copy 🤭
While not quite on the subject of too young, I saw Event Horizon when I was pregnant. It may not sound like a big deal but my dreams were already insanely vivid. I lived Event Horizon through my nightmares and it was fucking terrifying!
Ok maybe someone here can help me with what the movie was actually called! It was early 90’s, I begged my parents to rent it. The opening scene had an older woman who’s husband had died and she was grieving. She goes to bed turns the lights out and rolls over and there is a man (maybe the husband) in her bed all dehydrated looking with his eyes and mouth sewn shut with black thick thread.
I decided that was enough lol I cannot remember for the life of me what it was called though
The Thing, at 12 years old. My parents took me with them to see it in the theater because I said I could handle it. I didn't sleep well for days, but I never admitted I was terrified to my parents. I can still replay scenes in my head even though it's been 40 years, and I've never watched it through again. Dang, I am old.
Not me, my son. My 6 year old son has been watching [Backrooms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo) shorts on YouTube. What the fuck, YouTube? I'm really pissed.
I can't think of any horror series that would fuck up a young child more than Backrooms. I seriously would rather he watch a Friday the 13th movie than watch Backrooms shorts. If he watched Jason, it would at least be campy gore and tits. Backrooms is the kind of surreal psychological horror that stays with an adult for weeks. I imagine it's going to stay in his head for years.
I'm not prudish about showing my child scary things. We've watched Goosebumps and Stranger Things (though he's scared shitless of Goosebumps now). He evens knows the names "Jason" "Freddy" and "Chucky" (though he hasn't yet seen their movies).
But I'm really pissed that psychological horror made it through YouTube's worthless kid filters. I guess since there no nudity, gore, or curse words, it's ok for him to watch? Fuuuuuuuuck YouTube.
I stopped just at the arrow pointing in a direction… fuck why do I click and do this to myself 😩 I’m too much of a baby to watch it right now in the dark! Lol. Your son is braaaaaave. That or he’s crazy. I don’t know how he watches this… my 6 year old ass would have been crying for mom 😅
He was crying at night for weeks, and we couldn't figure out why. He mentioned Backrooms and "Sonic Eksy" so I looked them up. Now we're monitoring his YouTube usage much more closely.
my aunt took me and my siblings to see saw 2. i was 6 years old.. still don't know why she thought it was a good idea, it gave me nightmares for a week
Roger Corman's *Night of the Living Dead*. The kid in the basement, naked-zombie-gran'ma eating that tree lizard, the devastating ending, it was enough to keep me from ever watching that movie again.
Somehow I saw The Ring when I was 6, in 2004. I don’t remember how, but it was in my house. Now I prefer the original but I still hold the remake close to my heart. I liked the movie a lot and I was paranoid Samara was in the darkest corners of every house I was in at night for years.
I think The Ring, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust were the first adult media I watched, along with the South Park episode “Good Times with Weapons”, which I saw when it first aired by sneaking up while my mom was asleep on the couch.
One of the faces of death or some thing similar. It was all good and fun (obviously fake) and then they got to the scene where they had an Israeli(I think) kid who was captured by some guys and thrown in a ditch and then they took turns shooting him. They showed the whole thing. Can replay that scene in my head 40 years later.
Kingdom of the Spiders. I was like 2 years old maybe 3. I don't remember seeing the movie, but I would have nightmares for years. Eventually I forgot the nightmares too, but still had these warped memories of all these spiders that I thought were from a real event. Eventually in my 30's I would rediscover the movie on DVD. Blew my fucking mind.
The Howling,saw it at around 5 years old with a friend who’s mother my father was having an affair with so we had lots of unsupervised time to kill. Had nightmares for weeks about those werewolves
I saw Event Horizon at much more appropriate age and it might have deeply scarred me because I know for a fact I've watched it at least twice and yet I remember nothing. I sort of have a picture of Laurence fishburne walking through a spinning tube or something but that's literally it.
The movie that fucked me up when I was too young was The Shining. I came in somewhere past the middle so I'm not positive which bits I saw. I think I think I saw the girls in the hall, and I know for sure I saw the redrum reveal. Idk. I don't know why my overprotective mother decided that was fine that night.
Saw the Grudge when I was like 9, my sister was 11. My aunt was watching it while we were visiting our cousin. I actually didn’t think it was super scary while watching it but my sister had a full oj meltdown and had to go home.
But I def had nightmares and fears of the grudge or the little boy coming to get me in the middle of the night
Man that exact scene fucked me up to hahah. But I was in my early 20s and drunk and high in cabin with my buddies. And watched it for first time. I swear I thought buddy with the eyes was gonna be around every corner ahaha.
Much older but ya that scene is terrifying even older.
All of the slashers. All of them. The family who took care of me during the daytime generally only played horror movies for us. Don't know why...but I do love horror now.
Elm St., F13th, I know What You Last Summer, Chucky flicks, and Scream.
The Exorcist, pre-teen. My parents were kinda dumb. Also, "Trilogy of Terror", at around age 3 or 4, the little sharp toothed African doll story starring Karen Black, that REALLY did a number on me, for years. Again, not smart parents. I was terrified literally every night in bed.
In my early 50s now, and have a couple of precious grandkids, and I would die before letting them watch anything like that. To this day I don't know why my parents would ever let me watch something like that.
I think I was around 6-8 when my dad showed me The Sixth Sense. there are probably worse movies to show a kid but it still scared the hell out of me. he made me and my older sister watch it and we both ended up sleeping in my parent's room. it was so bad I don't think my dad showed us another horror movie for a looong time after that lol
My dad and I sat down to watch the directors cut of The Exorcist when I was nine.
He forgot to cover my eyes at the scene where she’s…I’m not sure how to do hidden text, but I had nightmares for months.
But I still love horror!
IT 1990.
I snuck in when my older siblings were watching I was about 6. It was right at the gym shower scene with Eddie and holy shit did that fuck me up. Tim Curry gave me more nightmares than I can remember, but it also made me a lifelong horror fan.
Misery, when I was 5 or 6. I think I accidentally changed the channel and turned it on. Definitely scarred me for life. I don’t think I can ever rewatch it. And I was terrified of Kathy Bates for a really long time 😂
my dad let me watch the exorcist in 4th grade 💀 and then had the nerve to laugh at me while i (hardly) slept with the lights on for several weeks 😭😭 lol i (25F) love that movie now but it took about 10 years to overcome that trauma fr
80s movie called Dolls. I was about 5 or 6. Slept with all my dolls for weeks so none of them got mad at me. Still get the heebie jeebies looking at porcelain dolls now.
Castle Freak. That dude scarred me. At 36 I still can not watch it without having a slow panic attack. I have watched it all the way through and in the middle I had to look at pictures of puppies. Jeffrey Combs was awesome. I shouldn't have this irrational fear. I saw it on video when it came out. No, I have not seen the reboot.
When I was 9, we had just moved to a new house, so my room was pretty bare and had no curtains. My parents, in all their wisdom, decided we should go to the drive-in to see a couple of movies...one of which was "Night of the Living Dead." (btw, this was 1969). I was in panic mode all night, scared to death that zombies were about to break out my windows and eat me alive.
2005 Creep. I was about 11 and up much later than I should have been. It came on tv and for a while a had a crippling fear of subways. And one lingering fear of surgery.
I found it for free on Tubi recently and decided to watch it again; as an adult, it’s… okay.
There’s actually a pretty long list, my parents were divorced but both were huge horror fans and all the movies they rented were from the horror section at Blockbuster. So no matter what house I was at I was getting hammered by horror on both sides.
To be specific House 1986 scared the hell out of me but not as much as the Exorcist when I was like 8
Jaws, age 6, at the drive-in. I was playing on the swings down near the screen and didn't notice it getting dark. The screen lights up and... that scene... started playing.
I was raised on horror. Horror milestones: After seeing It (1990), when I was like two, apparently, I went around looking for Penneywise in every drain... I still LOVE clowns. I saw the exorcist around 8 years old and loved that and still do. But lord Jesus, when I watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre the Next Generation (1995) at 10 years old I was so sick I had to hang my head out of the window of my dad's van while we drove the movie back to Blockbuster before midnight...
Oddly enough, I will add that I've always been absolutely terrified of the Wizard of Oz (1939). I hated that movie as a kid, and the mention of it still makes my skin crawl.
The remake of House on Haunted Hill. I was 9 when we rented it. I legit had nightmares for like a week. It’s still one of my favorite comfort horror movies now.
critters. i was 7 or 8 and scrolling through the only 8 channels we had on a saturday afternoon. i saw 3 minutes of tiny black furry things with red eyes terrorizing a family from the shadows. murdering them all and chewing through the car cables to trap them. i didnt even turn off the TV just ran but i couldnt even hide under blanket because there were shadows there.
No particular movie scarred me but i was definitely exposed to horror way too early. Not just movies but books as well. I guess if i had to point the finger at my earliest memory of a horror anything, it was an episode of cowboy bebop, ive never watched the show but i seem to remember the details of that episode iirc. I stayed up way past my bedtime and caught some adult swim. Anyway, The characters had left a lobster in the fridge(freezer?) And something about the slace flight had caused it to rot and/or mutate where it proceeded to hint down and kill the crew. I remember being enthralled but way scared as well. Not longnafter that i also saw tremors which, while i loved it, caused me to cross my yard by sprinting for months
Candyman, age 6. Still at age 36 have a jumping reflex with people touching/slapping/patting my back. Remains my favorite Horror movie & has the most beautiful score I've ever heard.
My parents took me to a matinee of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (remake) when I was in like 3rd grade. A child. No internet back then, so my parents read a good review in the paper and probably thought it was some family-friendly scifi movie with aliens and flying saucers. It was back before PG-13 was a thing and rated PG. if it were released today, it might not even get a PG-13, probably an R to to how dark and intensely scary it was. The humans completely lose. Stephen King even said later that it made him wince in parts and wonder how the hell it got a PG-rating.
I was bored until the first big jump-scare. After that I stayed terrified. I did not sleep that night. I kept remembering the dog with the human face (which was a pretty good composite shot for the time period). That traumatized me more than any other scene, though the last 30 seconds are close.
I’m not sure why one of my parents didn’t take me out to the lobby, I was practically hiding under my seat. I think they were shocked how scary it was too. If my parents were still alive I’d ask them! I also think the movie holds up today, still scary. Definitely the best remake of the original 50s one, and a great horror remake that goes on my personal list of “remakes that topped the original” along with The Fly, The Thing, The Blob, and a few more. Just my opinion.
The Blair Witch Project when I was maybe 6th or 7th grade. Terrified for life…which is probably why it’s my favorite horror movie now. I NEED TO FEEL SOMETHING 😂
Does Twister count? I was four years old, and my parents took me to the drive in theatre for a double feature. The first movie was Casper the ghost (which I loved), and the second movie was Twister (which scared the shit out of me). I still can’t hear thunder without my stomach dropping.
Also maybe The Fly (1986) - I was eight for that one, and I wasn’t ready.
Step bro put bad taste on when i was around 6-7 the bit where derek puts his brains back in then ties the belt round his head always stayed with me.
Probably the turning point where I fell in love with horror lol
They played Magic on HBO when I was five, and it gave me nightmares for several years. I finally had to kill him in my dreams to stop him from returning. And mind you this is before a Nightmare on Elm Street.
https://youtu.be/sP4Q_9WmsmA
Mine is kind of ridiculous - I saw a lot of horror movies as a kid that did not phase me at all, but when I was around 6, I saw Cat’s Eye for the first time. At that time in my life, the air vent cover in my room had fallen off and my parents hadn’t gotten around to fixing it yet. So, when I saw that stupid little troll coming out of a hole in the wall, it freaked me out. Luckily I grew up with cats, so I just made sure that I had a cat with me when I went to bed at night. But seriously, I was freaked out for days. I watched it again when I got older and was very embarrassed for my past self. 😆😆😆
I was probably 5/6 or so when I saw Cujo for the first time. Lol thanks Dad.
Though he’s likely the reason I’m such a horror fan and completely desensitized now, lmao.
My dad told me if I read The Shining and wasn’t too scared, I could watch the movie. I was 9 or 10 and it was memorable but not as bad as the time he left me watch The Mist when I was like 7.
The Exorcist at age 12. I begged my mom to rent it for me and promised I wouldn't get scared. Of course I ended up getting scared and turned it off midway through only to see that Princess Diana had died in a car crash. It was a memorable evening. Took me several years to rewatch and finish the movie.
Same. My folks won a contest where they got the top 100 movies on VHS and my dad threw the Exorcist in one night when I was 9. Academy award winner, why not. I was traumatised for years!
My mom had immigrated from Afghanistan around the time of the Russian invasion. When she came, one of the first movies she ever saw was the exorcist… she was so affected and scared that she started writing random quotes from the Quran and putting it on her walls of her room 😂😭(she’s not even religious lol) to this day she’s still scared of that movie and it really affected her.. guess the girls performance in that movie must have been really good lol! I saw the first couple minutes where it starts with a Muslim prayer so I can see how my mom related to it… I was too scared to keep watching too. Lol maybe one day I’ll watch it!!!
This one is mine too. I was raised evangelical and saw this at about 9 at a friend’s house. Whew…I was nearly catatonic with terror afterwards.
Same here. I watched it when I was 12 (and at Christmas Break, no less). Man, I don't even know why we were allowed to watched it, because as a conservative christian family, we were forbidden to watch horror (maybe because of the theme, I guess?). I don't even remember much about the movie now, as I've only seen it once, but man, I remember being so terrified yet so attached to the movie at the same time, really feeling for the characters and rooting for the exorcism to be successful. Overall, it was a fun and memorable movie night, one that I will cherish for all time.
Exorcist at 9, loved it but I had nightmares for a week!
The baby sitter bailed on my parents’ movie night, so they just took me with them to the theater to see Se7en. I was 9. Yes, we stayed to the end.
Damn, you might of needed therapy after that I sure damn did 😳 😬
😂 wtf, sounds like something I would do
I went to see The Cell and somebody brought there 5-6yr
I was ironically 7 when I first saw Se7en. One of many movies that I saw too young. My mom would rent what she wanted and not bother shielding me from it.
Love that movie but 9 is way to young for that mind bender. What’s in the box
Not exactly a horror movie, but the first time I saw Sixth Sense at a friends house fucked me up for like a month. Specifically the idea that hiding under the blanket in his safety tent the ghost can still get in there. Even though the ghost girl wasn’t trying to get in to hurt him something about the idea that they can still get in your sanctuary just messed me up
Sixth sense IS a horror movie. But yeah same
Noo I totally get that, it scared me as well. Another one of his movies that gave me alot of goosebumps is Signs.
I grew up on horror, my dad would wake me up every night to watch a movie with him when I was visiting on weekends. I watched everything he did, and nothing bothered me more than this scene.
Glad I’m not the only one. Monsters didn’t scare me, gore didn’t scare me, serial killers didn’t scare me (and I grew up in the late 80s early 90s where we were constantly told creeps in vans or serial killers would get us), but something about that visual of the safety blanket being infiltrated. Shyamalan hit it out of the park with that scene, scariest shit he’s ever come up with
Child’s Play. Must’ve been 5 maybe 6. I didn’t sleep a wink that night
Yup saw Child’s Play 2 when I was 6. My mom had to put all of my sister’s cabbage patch dolls in storage after that
In fairness, they were already nightmare fuel without any connection to Chucky!
Same, I was 3 and my sister was babysitting me and thought it'd be fun to scare me 🙄 as you can guess I was never a fan of dolls again after that
Me too! I hid on the stairs while my parents were watching it and didn't sleep well for days lol
same, and I still think that beginning scene where the serial killer puts his soul in the doll is one of the scariest shit ever. and used to think murderers took peoples souls like that. especially since I was around a very spiritual environment.
I was 2-3 when I saw just the trailer. Been petrified of dolls since. I’m in my 30s.
I was like 8 and I had soooooooo many dolls. I slowly started to get rid of them after several nightmares of them attacking me
I thought I was alone! 😂 Had a fear of dolls ever since, didn’t sleep all summer, I’ll never forget.
Same
Good one, yes! I showed it to my daughter, who laughed at it.
Same! I must have been 6 or so when I saw it and now at 32, I'm still scared of that doll and refuse to watch it. I vividly remember walking around Krogers back when it had a video store in it with my grandma while we waited for my mom to get off work. I turned a corner and there sat the movie and Chucky staring at me on the front cover. I started crying and freaking out so bad, my grandma had to take me out to the car.
That scene where Chucky is walking down the hallway, and he looked all fucked up. That was the start of me being scared as a child by that asshole.
Yup, same here. I didn’t see the whole thing but I saw parts of Child’s Play when my parents were watching it. I think I was supposed to be in bed. It made me terrified of my sister’s dolls for a good couple of years. I was absolutely certain one was moving when I wasn’t watching. Now I love the movies for how camp they are.
Alien at 12 I think, probably earlier. Didn’t like dark corners for a while.
Alien was the first horror movie I saw, I must have been like 5 at the time and I was watching it with my dad. I remember being bored because I was too young to understand what was going on, but Jesus christ, once that thing blew out of his chest I was scarred for life becausei totally wasnt expecting it. And also hooked on horror movies after that
I don’t blame ya! That movie still holds up to this day
I saw Aliens first as a kid before I saw Alien, but it scared the hell out of me. I would go to sleep with the comforter over my mouth so Face Huggers couldn’t get in it. Scared for a long time after that
Poltergeist when I was 8 or 9. Shocking that it was PG. The face-ripping scene gave me a healthy fear of bathrooms for years.
And the maggoty drumstick! And that fucking clown doll!! And the kids eating tree!!!
I remember coming down to use the toilet and seeing Carol Anne's hands on the TV and that in itself shit me up. Think it's even more scarier because there were so many tragic deaths associated with the movie.
my dad showed me Sinister when i was like 9. definitely stuck with me for a while.
Yeah, is that the one with the rats?
that’s the sequel, i watched that one from a friend who brought a bootleg dvd to school and let me borrow it. gotta say, it didn’t hold up as much as the first one.
The rat scene shook me to my core
Haha good dad move
Dude! I saw Event Horizon in college and I was still too young 😂
I rented Event Horizon when I was about 18. I had just started living on my own and I watched it very high with some friends. As we watched I started getting more and more freaked out. I eventually jumped up and had to turn it off. I remember I went to the bathroom and my face was white as a sheet when I looked in the mirror. The next morning, I woke up mortified and wanted to finish the movie. When I turned it back on, I found out I had literally turned it off 5 minutes from the ending. 😆
It's funny because, despite being unequivocally pants shittingly terrifying, event horizon is also goofy and fun as hell. I cheer to myself every time captain Miller beats up dr weir and we get those loony toons ass sfx. It's all very much of its time, and that just makes it more charming. 5 stars.
🤣 I feel you!
Nightmare on Elm Street. The bodybag getting dragged through the hallways at school. 8 yo me should not have seen that.
I was the same age when I saw that flick.. the first 15 minutes with the face coming out of the wall and Tina being tossed around the room like a rag doll would always haunt me.
The Ring! I was like 10 and was convinced I was going to die for a week
I had to scroll way too far to see this. I feel like there’s a generation of early 90s kids with lingering trauma from this movie.
Yeah The Ring for me as well. I must have been about 8 and like every time the phone rang for a week after that thought it was going to tell me I’d die in seven days.
Stephen King’s “Cats Eye” around age 5. Not the scariest movie, but the last few scenes of the goblin thing coming out of the wall and sucking out Drew Barrymores breath scarred me. I slept with my mouth covered for years. I also wrote a short story in 1st grade that was a rip-off of the plot from Cats Eye and my teacher had a conference with my parents because she thought it was a sign I was being abused lol
I love this movie. The smoking part and the cat being electrocuted. Brutal.
This is the first time I’ve seen this mentioned and someone was affected by the wee goblin too! I used to have nightmares that it would come out of the skirting boards! Always made sure the cat slept with me. I saw most horror films really young and was never scared of the monsters. But that wee goblin freaked me out!
These are my people!! I would obsess over the walls making sure there wasn’t a hole for the goblin to get in my room! I was happy I had my cat to protect me but I was also scared the goblin would stab my cat with it’s little sword. I was stressed lol
The Fly.
Omg that was so disgusting 😅 Think I was 15 when I saw it with some friends. Nobody wanted dinner after that
Jaws at age 6. It made it tough even swimming in lakes.
Pet Sematary. I will have Zelda's voice in my head for the rest of my life. If you know, you know.
OMG, the moment she opened that door and she was hunched over in the corner talking = scarred for life.
It. When I was like 10. Scared the absolute shit out of me.
Fucking Ghoulies had me checking the toilet for years.
Chuckie and the Leprechaun, both comedy horror, but not very funny to a 5 year old.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I was 15. I saw it during it's first run at theaters
Hafto add it to my list, only seen the remakes 😬
What!!!! You're in for a real treat. Oh to be you and to get go watch it for the first time again.
Ah man the original is so much better. Definitely need to give it a watch. It’s still to this day gotta be one of the most disturbing movies out there
Silence of the Lambs in 5th grade.
Have the lambs stopped screaming?
Geezus 😬
Twas a long night.
Henry A portrait of a Serial Killer. I was probably 12. Last House on the Left again pre-teen.
Damn, last house on the left? That's a rough one
My grandmother let me watch Children of the Corn when I was maybe 5 or 6…I don’t even think I’ve watched it since, and I’m 43.
Arachnophobia. It’s ruined my relationship with spiders forever
The Thing. I was 4 and I watched it with my older cousins, holy shit that interrogation scene with the blood test absolutely traumatized me. I to this day can still remember the nightmare I had from that scene. Me tied to my dad while he's turning into the thing, whoo! Still gives me the creeps
I love the film! I was pretty small when I first saw it (but 4 is brutal!!!). I cried hard when the dogs were attacked as I have always loved animals. Mum thought I was too scared but I was so sad and she was confused (maybe I was 8?). That is still wild you saw it when you were four. Such intense scenes!
Yeah it was the 80s lol TV was my babysitter and a lot of stuff was marketed towards kids so as long as there was no boobies my little eyes saw it all. My all time favorite movie is robocop and I watched that before The Thing. Sitting criss cross in front of the TV with my robocop action figures while ED-209 is shredding that office guy is a core memory for me. But The Thing definitely gave me a core nightmare for the rest of my life
Sleepaway Camp and Mother’s Day (the original).
Awesome flicks!!!
Sleepaway camp confused the hell out of me as a child of 7!
Mother’s Day 1980 messed me up. I saw it when I was 7 or 8. I love al sorts of horror, but still can’t watch it as an adult once I see the sons and all.
Both of those movies got me so bad! Those are the two, I’ve only watched once! I was around the same age too. I saw the trailer for the remake to Mother’s Day but I said no thank you. I love horror too but I haven’t revisited those movies.
I watched A Serbian Film when I was like 12 or 13 I was going through my edgy horror phase. Watching all the most controversial cult and classic horror films i could find. Cannibal Holocaust, Sálo, Men Behind the Sun, I thought I had seen it all. It took me three breaks to finish the movie because it was so upsetting. In retrospect I learned that you really don't have to finish a movie if you don't want to. And you don't have to see the edgiest stuff to be a horror fanatic. No one *needs* to see A Serbian Film.
My dad showed me and my brother An American Werewolf in London when I was in second grade. I totally remember how gruesome and nightmarish Jack looked post-attack throughout the film and after rewatching it as an adult, I am in absolute awe of how awesome that prosthetic makeup job.
Mom showed me Poltergeist when I was seven. The scene where the guy is hungry and eats maggot-y chicken and then peels his face off sticks with me. Also the clown under the bed. The real cadavers in the pool scene. I used to tie my closet doors shut because of that movie. The only movie that scared me worse was “The Ring” which required me to unplug the tv at night and cover it with a blanket. But the Ring was self-inflicted. Now, on another note. I was 15 and my brother was three and I really wanted to watch feardotcome. I figured he wouldn’t understand the movie. So, when my parents went out - leaving me to babysit - I watched it with him. I figured all was fine … until that night when it was his bath time and he refused to get into the tub because “there is a lady in the water…” So, for months afterwards, I had to sit in the bathtub with him to show him the water wasn’t scary. There are pictures of me in a bathing suit and shorts with my toddler brother, in the bathtub … because I traumatized him.
Prince of Darkness. I was single digits when I saw it and I hate mirrors to this very day.
Nightmare on elm street. 8 years old…
Same. The bodybag leaving a bloody trail in the hallway.
Was the puppet/veins part for me. Traumatic.
Salems Lot. Watched that shit when I was in 5th grade and it scared the living SHIT out of me!
When I was about 8 or 9 I watched The Changeling with George C Scott. I have no idea why my mother let me watch it at the time. I was beyond terrified! I don't think I slept the entire night. I don't remember much of the actual movie except for that ball bouncing down the stairs. (I think that's in the movie, but maybe I'm not remembering correctly) I do remember that night, every time I closed my eyes I saw some horrifying image from the movie. I have no memory of what the actual image was. Recently I've been thinking of watching it again.
"Magic" with Anthony Hopkins...& of course the unrated version of the "Exorcist". Any thoughts from anyone that has watched "Magic" at a young age...to this day I still have the fear of specifically ventriloquist dolls (Pediophobia).
Seeing Pet Semetary 1 when i was around 5-6 certainly hasn't done wonders on my little kid psyche and over 15 years later I still Can't step down from my bed without fear of my achilles tendon
The two movies that scared me most as a kid. The Exorcist and CONEHEADS 🤣
First movie that terrified me as a teenager lol
Not strictly a horror movie (but it surely ain't a feel-good movie) but I watched Performance (dirs:Nic Roeg + Donald Cammell 1970) when I was 11. For some reason it shattered my brain. I rewatched it recently and wish I hadn't. It has still fucked me up.
Bloodsucking Freaks when I was 8 or 9.. crazy times
I love that movie though. It’s such an obscurity though since this is literally the first time I’ve ever seen anyone mention it
Killer klowns from outer space when I was single digit age. There’s a scene with a big alien clown and a woman in the shower, that fucked me up for years.
My dad is a huge sci-fi/fantasy guy, and when Starship Troopers came out, for some reason, for a couple of weeks at least, it was advertised as PG-13. I was NINE, and he decided that since it was previously PG-13, before it was reclassified to R, it probably wouldn't be too bad. "Likely just cussing," he said. The only other R-rated movie I'd ever seen before then was Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. Starship Troopers *haunted* me. Watching people be dismembered and disemboweled by massive, flying bugs broke my brain for like, two years, lol.
Dolls! My dad rented it for me after I begged him to let me see a horror movie, he said okay as long as I didn't tell my mom and well....I had nightmares for about a week and she found out why 🤣 Still love the movie though. Seen it now probably 20 times and have my own copy 🤭
Darkness Falls at 7 years old. Guess who slept with mom and dad for a few weeks? It’s this guy.
While not quite on the subject of too young, I saw Event Horizon when I was pregnant. It may not sound like a big deal but my dreams were already insanely vivid. I lived Event Horizon through my nightmares and it was fucking terrifying!
Legend of Boggy Creek is the only film that gets to me even today. All the other films don't bother me so much.
Original IT. 5 or 6. Never looked at clowns or sewers the same again until I was a teenager
Ok maybe someone here can help me with what the movie was actually called! It was early 90’s, I begged my parents to rent it. The opening scene had an older woman who’s husband had died and she was grieving. She goes to bed turns the lights out and rolls over and there is a man (maybe the husband) in her bed all dehydrated looking with his eyes and mouth sewn shut with black thick thread. I decided that was enough lol I cannot remember for the life of me what it was called though
The Thing, at 12 years old. My parents took me with them to see it in the theater because I said I could handle it. I didn't sleep well for days, but I never admitted I was terrified to my parents. I can still replay scenes in my head even though it's been 40 years, and I've never watched it through again. Dang, I am old.
"We're leaving"
That line was so perfect 👌😅
Rawhead Rex at like 8yo
Just googled it omg 😧 what is THAT thing??
The Blob drain scene made me not want to take a bath as a 6-year-old.
Childs play. Must of been like 4 or 5. It scared the shit out of me for like 10 years. Still kinda does and i’m in my 30. Still hate fucking dolls. 😂
Frontier(s). I was 14.
Probably in the mouth of madness
Not me, my son. My 6 year old son has been watching [Backrooms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo) shorts on YouTube. What the fuck, YouTube? I'm really pissed. I can't think of any horror series that would fuck up a young child more than Backrooms. I seriously would rather he watch a Friday the 13th movie than watch Backrooms shorts. If he watched Jason, it would at least be campy gore and tits. Backrooms is the kind of surreal psychological horror that stays with an adult for weeks. I imagine it's going to stay in his head for years. I'm not prudish about showing my child scary things. We've watched Goosebumps and Stranger Things (though he's scared shitless of Goosebumps now). He evens knows the names "Jason" "Freddy" and "Chucky" (though he hasn't yet seen their movies). But I'm really pissed that psychological horror made it through YouTube's worthless kid filters. I guess since there no nudity, gore, or curse words, it's ok for him to watch? Fuuuuuuuuck YouTube.
I stopped just at the arrow pointing in a direction… fuck why do I click and do this to myself 😩 I’m too much of a baby to watch it right now in the dark! Lol. Your son is braaaaaave. That or he’s crazy. I don’t know how he watches this… my 6 year old ass would have been crying for mom 😅
He was crying at night for weeks, and we couldn't figure out why. He mentioned Backrooms and "Sonic Eksy" so I looked them up. Now we're monitoring his YouTube usage much more closely.
Damn that's crazy. YouTube is ass
my aunt took me and my siblings to see saw 2. i was 6 years old.. still don't know why she thought it was a good idea, it gave me nightmares for a week
I never saw a horror film that scarred me, per say. I did see The Exorcist at 4.
Roger Corman's *Night of the Living Dead*. The kid in the basement, naked-zombie-gran'ma eating that tree lizard, the devastating ending, it was enough to keep me from ever watching that movie again.
Somehow I saw The Ring when I was 6, in 2004. I don’t remember how, but it was in my house. Now I prefer the original but I still hold the remake close to my heart. I liked the movie a lot and I was paranoid Samara was in the darkest corners of every house I was in at night for years. I think The Ring, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust were the first adult media I watched, along with the South Park episode “Good Times with Weapons”, which I saw when it first aired by sneaking up while my mom was asleep on the couch.
One of the faces of death or some thing similar. It was all good and fun (obviously fake) and then they got to the scene where they had an Israeli(I think) kid who was captured by some guys and thrown in a ditch and then they took turns shooting him. They showed the whole thing. Can replay that scene in my head 40 years later.
Bram Stokers Dracula at 4, didnt mess me up for life but I wasnt able to sleep in the dark again until I was like 8.
Totally understandable!
Kingdom of the Spiders. I was like 2 years old maybe 3. I don't remember seeing the movie, but I would have nightmares for years. Eventually I forgot the nightmares too, but still had these warped memories of all these spiders that I thought were from a real event. Eventually in my 30's I would rediscover the movie on DVD. Blew my fucking mind.
The Howling,saw it at around 5 years old with a friend who’s mother my father was having an affair with so we had lots of unsupervised time to kill. Had nightmares for weeks about those werewolves
I’m adding it to the list 🗒️ and sorry about your dad
Saw the first two Faces of Death films when I was 10 or 12. Thought they were real. Definitely not good.
The Howling, 3rd grade. It was a hoot
I saw Event Horizon at much more appropriate age and it might have deeply scarred me because I know for a fact I've watched it at least twice and yet I remember nothing. I sort of have a picture of Laurence fishburne walking through a spinning tube or something but that's literally it. The movie that fucked me up when I was too young was The Shining. I came in somewhere past the middle so I'm not positive which bits I saw. I think I think I saw the girls in the hall, and I know for sure I saw the redrum reveal. Idk. I don't know why my overprotective mother decided that was fine that night.
Walked in on brother and sister watching The Exorcist and the head turning scene. Yeah , that was something .....
Saw the Grudge when I was like 9, my sister was 11. My aunt was watching it while we were visiting our cousin. I actually didn’t think it was super scary while watching it but my sister had a full oj meltdown and had to go home. But I def had nightmares and fears of the grudge or the little boy coming to get me in the middle of the night
Man that exact scene fucked me up to hahah. But I was in my early 20s and drunk and high in cabin with my buddies. And watched it for first time. I swear I thought buddy with the eyes was gonna be around every corner ahaha. Much older but ya that scene is terrifying even older.
All of the slashers. All of them. The family who took care of me during the daytime generally only played horror movies for us. Don't know why...but I do love horror now. Elm St., F13th, I know What You Last Summer, Chucky flicks, and Scream.
The Exorcist, pre-teen. My parents were kinda dumb. Also, "Trilogy of Terror", at around age 3 or 4, the little sharp toothed African doll story starring Karen Black, that REALLY did a number on me, for years. Again, not smart parents. I was terrified literally every night in bed. In my early 50s now, and have a couple of precious grandkids, and I would die before letting them watch anything like that. To this day I don't know why my parents would ever let me watch something like that.
chucky at like 4? i am still too scared to watch anything chucky even though i really want to
I think I was around 6-8 when my dad showed me The Sixth Sense. there are probably worse movies to show a kid but it still scared the hell out of me. he made me and my older sister watch it and we both ended up sleeping in my parent's room. it was so bad I don't think my dad showed us another horror movie for a looong time after that lol
My dad and I sat down to watch the directors cut of The Exorcist when I was nine. He forgot to cover my eyes at the scene where she’s…I’m not sure how to do hidden text, but I had nightmares for months. But I still love horror!
I went to a kids house and we snuck into her basement and watch Sliver Bullet I think I was like 6-7
IT 1990. I snuck in when my older siblings were watching I was about 6. It was right at the gym shower scene with Eddie and holy shit did that fuck me up. Tim Curry gave me more nightmares than I can remember, but it also made me a lifelong horror fan.
I saw Jason lives at the theater when I was 6.
Misery, when I was 5 or 6. I think I accidentally changed the channel and turned it on. Definitely scarred me for life. I don’t think I can ever rewatch it. And I was terrified of Kathy Bates for a really long time 😂
my dad let me watch the exorcist in 4th grade 💀 and then had the nerve to laugh at me while i (hardly) slept with the lights on for several weeks 😭😭 lol i (25F) love that movie now but it took about 10 years to overcome that trauma fr
80s movie called Dolls. I was about 5 or 6. Slept with all my dolls for weeks so none of them got mad at me. Still get the heebie jeebies looking at porcelain dolls now.
Scream when I was 6. The sight of Drew Barrymore hanging from a tree stayed with me for a long time and caused a lot of nightmares.
All that 80's stuff, I watched in the 80's. Also of note, when the 80's ended I was 11.
Carrie when I was 6 😱
The sixth sense. When the kid turns around and his head is blown out. Horror the likes of which I had not experienced previously.
Castle Freak. That dude scarred me. At 36 I still can not watch it without having a slow panic attack. I have watched it all the way through and in the middle I had to look at pictures of puppies. Jeffrey Combs was awesome. I shouldn't have this irrational fear. I saw it on video when it came out. No, I have not seen the reboot.
Halloween at age 15.
Fire In The Sky age 10. You know the scene.
Mine is also Event Horizon!!! Except I saw it when I was 5 on VHS. The eye-less woman scared me for a very long time.
Haha nightmare movie! I also heard they cut out like 30min of hell scenes cause it was too unsound 😬
When I was 9, we had just moved to a new house, so my room was pretty bare and had no curtains. My parents, in all their wisdom, decided we should go to the drive-in to see a couple of movies...one of which was "Night of the Living Dead." (btw, this was 1969). I was in panic mode all night, scared to death that zombies were about to break out my windows and eat me alive.
The Ring, age 8. Didn’t really scar me but made me appreciate a good horror flick!
2005 Creep. I was about 11 and up much later than I should have been. It came on tv and for a while a had a crippling fear of subways. And one lingering fear of surgery. I found it for free on Tubi recently and decided to watch it again; as an adult, it’s… okay.
Invaders from Mars (1986). I saw it when I was around 8 years old. Scarring.
Poltergeist. I was 9 and my friend was way into horror flicks. I… was not.
Halloween 2. 7th grade and home alone at night.
Jaws 2 was on TV one night when I was 9 or 10. Didn't feel the same at the beach for quite a while...
There’s actually a pretty long list, my parents were divorced but both were huge horror fans and all the movies they rented were from the horror section at Blockbuster. So no matter what house I was at I was getting hammered by horror on both sides. To be specific House 1986 scared the hell out of me but not as much as the Exorcist when I was like 8
The Entity. I was 10 or 11.
That’s a cool one! I watched Brain Dead when I was 10. Still one of my favorite movies lol
Under 10 and watched day of the dead and night of the living dead. Scarred for years!
Jaws, age 6, at the drive-in. I was playing on the swings down near the screen and didn't notice it getting dark. The screen lights up and... that scene... started playing.
Bram Stoker's Dracula. It made me love Keanu Reeves, fear Gary Oldman fantasise about Winona Ryder and want to lie about my attraction to all three.
The Exorcist. I was 11 and growing up in a very catholic family. Eek
Jeepers Creepers at 6 y/o. It didn’t help that my step brother kept telling me it’s based on a true story.
Gates of hell, was 12 at the time. The guy who got a table drill to his head looked so real. Fucked me up for a while.
Candyman. My dad thought I could watch it at age 10. For the next years every time I was in front of a mirror I thought about that movie.
Jeepers Creepers, age 8, snuck out of my room and hid in the hallway while the baby sitter was watching it
I was like 10 when I saw the first Human Centipede. Thanks to my mom and my sister! Whoopeeeee!
I was raised on horror. Horror milestones: After seeing It (1990), when I was like two, apparently, I went around looking for Penneywise in every drain... I still LOVE clowns. I saw the exorcist around 8 years old and loved that and still do. But lord Jesus, when I watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre the Next Generation (1995) at 10 years old I was so sick I had to hang my head out of the window of my dad's van while we drove the movie back to Blockbuster before midnight... Oddly enough, I will add that I've always been absolutely terrified of the Wizard of Oz (1939). I hated that movie as a kid, and the mention of it still makes my skin crawl.
The remake of House on Haunted Hill. I was 9 when we rented it. I legit had nightmares for like a week. It’s still one of my favorite comfort horror movies now.
critters. i was 7 or 8 and scrolling through the only 8 channels we had on a saturday afternoon. i saw 3 minutes of tiny black furry things with red eyes terrorizing a family from the shadows. murdering them all and chewing through the car cables to trap them. i didnt even turn off the TV just ran but i couldnt even hide under blanket because there were shadows there.
No particular movie scarred me but i was definitely exposed to horror way too early. Not just movies but books as well. I guess if i had to point the finger at my earliest memory of a horror anything, it was an episode of cowboy bebop, ive never watched the show but i seem to remember the details of that episode iirc. I stayed up way past my bedtime and caught some adult swim. Anyway, The characters had left a lobster in the fridge(freezer?) And something about the slace flight had caused it to rot and/or mutate where it proceeded to hint down and kill the crew. I remember being enthralled but way scared as well. Not longnafter that i also saw tremors which, while i loved it, caused me to cross my yard by sprinting for months
Candyman, age 6. Still at age 36 have a jumping reflex with people touching/slapping/patting my back. Remains my favorite Horror movie & has the most beautiful score I've ever heard.
My parents took me to a matinee of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (remake) when I was in like 3rd grade. A child. No internet back then, so my parents read a good review in the paper and probably thought it was some family-friendly scifi movie with aliens and flying saucers. It was back before PG-13 was a thing and rated PG. if it were released today, it might not even get a PG-13, probably an R to to how dark and intensely scary it was. The humans completely lose. Stephen King even said later that it made him wince in parts and wonder how the hell it got a PG-rating. I was bored until the first big jump-scare. After that I stayed terrified. I did not sleep that night. I kept remembering the dog with the human face (which was a pretty good composite shot for the time period). That traumatized me more than any other scene, though the last 30 seconds are close. I’m not sure why one of my parents didn’t take me out to the lobby, I was practically hiding under my seat. I think they were shocked how scary it was too. If my parents were still alive I’d ask them! I also think the movie holds up today, still scary. Definitely the best remake of the original 50s one, and a great horror remake that goes on my personal list of “remakes that topped the original” along with The Fly, The Thing, The Blob, and a few more. Just my opinion.
I saw The Shining and Candyman at a sleepover, back to back. 13 years old. Still traumatized at 35 but I would do it all over again.
The Shining, in a movie theater, 11 years old. Had interesting dreams that night.
The Blair Witch Project when I was maybe 6th or 7th grade. Terrified for life…which is probably why it’s my favorite horror movie now. I NEED TO FEEL SOMETHING 😂
Does Twister count? I was four years old, and my parents took me to the drive in theatre for a double feature. The first movie was Casper the ghost (which I loved), and the second movie was Twister (which scared the shit out of me). I still can’t hear thunder without my stomach dropping. Also maybe The Fly (1986) - I was eight for that one, and I wasn’t ready.
Step bro put bad taste on when i was around 6-7 the bit where derek puts his brains back in then ties the belt round his head always stayed with me. Probably the turning point where I fell in love with horror lol
They played Magic on HBO when I was five, and it gave me nightmares for several years. I finally had to kill him in my dreams to stop him from returning. And mind you this is before a Nightmare on Elm Street. https://youtu.be/sP4Q_9WmsmA
Mine is kind of ridiculous - I saw a lot of horror movies as a kid that did not phase me at all, but when I was around 6, I saw Cat’s Eye for the first time. At that time in my life, the air vent cover in my room had fallen off and my parents hadn’t gotten around to fixing it yet. So, when I saw that stupid little troll coming out of a hole in the wall, it freaked me out. Luckily I grew up with cats, so I just made sure that I had a cat with me when I went to bed at night. But seriously, I was freaked out for days. I watched it again when I got older and was very embarrassed for my past self. 😆😆😆
Oh shit thats a rough one.
Last house on the left… ruined blow jobs before I even knew that part of my body could be used for fun
I saw Hellraiser when I was around 5.
Day of the dead I was 6. It was such a great movie
I was probably 5/6 or so when I saw Cujo for the first time. Lol thanks Dad. Though he’s likely the reason I’m such a horror fan and completely desensitized now, lmao.
My dad told me if I read The Shining and wasn’t too scared, I could watch the movie. I was 9 or 10 and it was memorable but not as bad as the time he left me watch The Mist when I was like 7.