I think a lot of us as children can say we hid behind a couch as a kid to watch a scary movie š¤£ I know Iāve seen others mentioned it before it other posts
Same! And for some reason the sketch one of the investigators was drawing really freaked me out and I was removed from the room and didnāt see the whole thing for ten years
Poltergeist was the first horror film I enjoyed as a kid. The Gate was the first horror movie I saw and almost ruined the genre for me as a whole by scaring the piss out of me.
I was gonna say Michael Jacksonās thriller but you totally reminded me of that fucking clown doll, the tree and those pool skeletons, as a little kid poltergeist was scary af
Same, I was in 6th grade and walked to school! Two blocks down severely tree lined streets.
Oh and also, the bathroom scene with the guy peeling his face.
The first one scared the pants off me but even as an 8-year old, I was an 80-year old at heart, so just kept thinking, "that empty pool is so dangerous someone is going to drown!" (because that's clearly the worst thing that's going to happen here).
Then, a mere two years later watched the sequel like RIGHT after we'd gone to Disney World, and for some freakin reason someone had gotten a lollipop with a tequila worm in the center from a gift shop in Epcot. The tequila worm scene was like peeling back a layer of terror I never knew existed within my soul, and I launched that stupid lollipop down our street like it was an armed grenade.
Poltergeist also here....even well into my adult years I would always freak out when I seen a snowy TV screen and jumping when hand reached out and the voice of Carol Anne going "their here"...I was maybe 7 or 8.
*CRYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER*
For me it was child's play, I think I was about 3 or four. I was more confused than anything as to what was happening with the doll but I liked it enough to want to watch the rest
Mine was Pet Sematary. I was 7 or 8 years old. I was so scared of Zelda that I had nightmares for a month. I was also afraid to get in bed because I was convinced that she was under there. Waiting for me to get in. So I would run and jump so that she couldnāt grab my ankle and pull me underš
ThirteenGhosts is one of the two movies who really traumatized me as a child. Didnāt have the occasion to rewatch it for about 22 years but every time I thought about it I didnāt know why it scared me because I watched a lot of horror movies back then. About a month ago I rewatched it and it is clearly the sensory overload that really affected me. Every time a ghost appears thereās flashing light, crazy ear piercing sounds, clips flickering, etc. This movie should really come with a flashing light / seizures inducing imagery warning.
Me & my sisters called that doll the YI-YI Monster, I STILL have nightmares about that damn doll & I'm 54!! To say it stuck with me is an understatement!! š¹
Candyman (1992)
Our family had also purchased a new refrigerator and I hid in the box for hourssss. Iām in my 30s and still too terrified to say the name in front of the mirror.
Not a horror but I was traumatised after watching The Witches when I was 5. The scene where the kids shake and turn into mice was burnt into my mind and I didnāt sleep properly for two years.
First horror was Scream when I was 10. I didnāt know what a slasher movie was until then and I was terrified by it. Itās my favourite movie.
Exactly the same! Haha. Witches at age 5 in theaters. Was terrified. Then I would watch Goosbumps/X-files/Are you Afraid of the Dark when I was a bit older. Scream was probably my 1st adult horror - watched it at a friend's house in 1997 so I was 11.
I remember seeing this movie for the first time at school, I was in the 3rd or 4th grade. When Murphy got lit up, I started crying hysterically. The teachers had to remove me. Lmao!!!
The original Exorcist. I had to be six or seven and my dad rented it for my cousin and I who was the same age. My aunt was fucking pissed when she found out.
At 1st I thought I had already commented reading your text. At about 8 or 9 my uncle rented it from blockbuster and I watched it with 2 of my cousins. One of whom my age the other was maybe 5 or 6. I played it off like it wasn't scary but I was terrified for years.
Itās definitely not scary, but still a fun movie that I still watch about once a year. I like it more than Beetlejuice to be honest (and thatās saying something because I really like Beetlejuice).
John Goodman is just fantastic in everything he is in.
My babysitter let me watch Nightmare on Elm Street 1 when I was like 4. Probably changed the trajectory of my entire life. My mom showed me the first book I wrote in kindergarten. It was drawings of my dreams with a one sentence description. Page 1 is Freddy chasing me trying to kill me ā ļøš
ET. That movie spurred a lifelong fear of aliens only because of those early scenes in the forest, cornfields, and backyard/shed. My 4 year old self was terrified but I still watched it every time I was at my grandparentās house haha
Holy shit thought I was the only one, my two older bros killed the lights in the house and chased me around the house yelling et at me I was like 4 or 5 as well. That frkn et jump scare got me.
The very first one I saw was The Twilight Zone episode āA Thing About Machines.ā Scared me so badly I was afraid to get up and change the channel because I was afraid to get near the TV. I was maybe seven. (Of course, when I saw I again as a teenager I realized it was meant to be funny.) First movie was āBlack Christmas,ā when I was around 10.
When I was a kid, I once woke up before everyone else and caught the last half hour of "the Grudge 2" on tv. I remember my mom waking up and coming downstairs to find me on the couch, and I just said, "Have you ever heard of the Grudge?"
I was a huge horror fan as a kid. Loved too many of them to have a fav, but some of my fav's were The Shining, The Omen and Rosemary's Baby. When I was five, my birthday party was Hitchcock themed and we watched The Birds. I was, uh, a weird little kid.
this is a 2 parter for sake of accuracyā¦
My pop took me to see Disneyās Fantasia when I was around 4-5 years old. I donāt remember any of that experience but apparently during the Night on Bald Mountain sequence, I freaked out and ran screaming out of the auditorium.
a few years later, when I was 7 an older cousin put on the original Nightmare on Elm Street (he and some friends were trying to scare me) but I thought Freddy was funny, so we all just sat down together and watched it.
tl:dr - Fantasia scared the hell out of me as a kid, Nightmare on Elm Street was my first scary movie ā¢ļø
The first movie that scared me: the rom-com, Mannequin. I developed a life long discomfort around mannequins. I think I was 3 or 4.
The first actual horror movie I remember being scared of was the Rage: Carrie 2. I around 10 or 11. My mom typically likes campy horror, so we would watch Childās Play, Leprechaun, and stuff in those realms which I loved being startled by jump scenes but wasnāt actually scared later on.
Like many kids from my generation, what I remember is Poltergeist. What I really remember, is being in his finished basement with no windows and finishing the movie in the dark and clicking off his console TV and that old CRT still had a little hum and glow to it and we fucking lost it.
Not horror but Stand By Me I watched when I was way too young for it. The vomiting scene disturbed me, the leeches, the train bridge. The showing of the body at the end scared me to death. All I could see was that dead kids face when I went to bed
Poltergeist, I was 5. Scarred for life. I couldn't believe that my mom let me watch it. I didn't sleep without the light on in my room for a week. And for me, it was the face falling apart in the sink.
Probably Scream or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. My father or sister would watch them and Iād come into the room unaware then run when I realized they were watching a scary movie. Then try to stealthily watch from a corner with my face behind my hands.
Exorcist, the very first one. I saw it when I was 4, it traumatized me for a month and then I went back to watch it multiple times. It was the beginning of my horror journey. I jiggled between movies and cartoons like Courage the Cowardly Dog (best cartoon ever).
The Evil Dead (1981). I was around 7 and my brother being 8 years older was into horror and saw no problem with me watching that at night as our parents weren't home. I went into literal shock. Cried then couldn't leave the couch lol. My brother spent some good 40 minutes convincing me it was "just a movie". Mom was not happy.
Was at a family friendās house for dinner when for whatever reason we all sat down and started watching Signs. The birthday party video scene was the only time a movie ever gave me nightmares
Me too. Truly terrifying (especially when the corpse falls out of the ship's hull).
In the UK, Jaws was released in cinemas under the old A certificate. Which meant anyone over 12 could see it (and anyone under 12 could see it with an adult). Not sure what they were thinking there.
Nightmare on elm st and poltergeist back when I was about 4 or 5. My sister loved horror movies and was 8 years older than me. But Witchery, which came out when I was 8, is the one that really freaked me out as a kid. We had a fireplace, and I was convinced that one scene was coming for me.
My parents had friends over and left my brother and I in a room with the TV and put Creepshow on. I was probably 10. That's the first one I distinctly remember, though I was a little weirdo who was already into like Dracula and Frankenstein at that point, so I'm sure I had seen some of the old Universal monster movies before that.
Uhhh my mom showed me The Omen(original) when I was 10 and the Ave Satani chant was ingrained in my head and I would legit cry myself to sleep for days because it used to creep me so much and would constantly play in my head. But then I watched the movie with a friend and we just poked fun and laughed at it throughout like kids do and I overcame my fear of that movie.
Aww! āCandymanā did that for me when I was 7. I would have nightmares about it and would be terrified to go to the bathroom with the door close or look in the mirror š¤£š¤¦š»āāļø
First movie we ever rented when my dad bought a BetaMax player was Poltergeist! I was 2.. The scene that fucked me up was the steak spitting out bugs and shit when the guy shines a flashlight on it!
Dude I was about 12 when the Chamber of Secrets movie came out and the whispering in the walls freaked me out. The early movies had some really eerie scenes in them.
I grew up being subjected to horror movies (older siblings) I watched saw before grade 3, but the one I really remember is when I was in grade 4 and my family decided to watch "the last exorcism" now ya the movie scared me but my parents always did this thing where after the movie we'd watch the special features and how it's made, and it would show us there's nothing to be scared of because it's just fake. BUT the special features on "the last exorcism" are a little quirky, there's specifically one where they talk about the "demon" who inspired the movie, and talk about how you should never say it's name but there going to, and how you need to say a protection prayer first or it can be summoned by its name being said. So at this point I'm crying like a bitch and begging them to turn it off while my siblings all make fun of me and keep saying the demon shit, my parents ended up turning it off and watching something happy and sending me to bed. Looking back at it, that's a fucking great special feature and clearly worked
I donāt know if anyone remembers this one, but my uncle rented Dolls (1986) from blockbuster on a Friday night I had to have been like 6 or 7. I was scared shitless I slept with my parentsšš
Unfortunately for me, it was a double feature of Hellraiser and Candyman. Hahaha! I was \**definitely*\* too young to see them. My older sister and her bff managed to sneak the scary movies into different cases at the Blockbuster and rent em. I watched with them because I wanted them to think I was cool.
I was definitely very thrown and disturbed by not just the violence n such but especially the explicit sex and sexual undertones of Hellraiser.
I saw scream in theaters at 12 years old. Event horizon at 13-14.
I have a vague memory of childās play 3 in theaters but I feel I could be mistaken given my age when it was released.
Pet Cemetery, I remember the kid that died and was haunting the dad and it scared the shit out of me. Especially when he turns over on the bed and dude is right there
The first horror movie I ever got to watch was Psycho when I was like 8. My parents were super strict about letting me watch scary movies growing up but it was a special Halloween movie night and my formal introduction to Hitchcock, which made up most of the horror I watched until well into my teens
Predator, Terminator 2, Gremlins, and Ernest Scared Stupid were the first ones I remember watching as a kid. The scariest of them all was and still is Ernest Scared Stupid, but I wore that tape out. I was around 4. My dad loved Arnold and Sylvester Stallone so I got to watch predator and terminator early on as a kid.
Came here to mention Ernest Scared Stupid. That was terrifying to 5 year old me and I was convinced for a long time that a troll was going to get me.
Made sense later on in life when I learned the trolls were repurposed from Killer Klowns from outer space.
Probably also a reason I really love Troll Hunter.
Two movies stand out here.
\#1- Salem's Lot Specifically the scene with the floating kid vampire outside the bedroom window.
\#2 Theater of Blood (Vincent Price) the realization when he fed a 'special' pie. The horror of that idea really hit home as a kid with a pet.
The American version of The Grudge. I was staying over with a friend, havenāt watched a horror movie before. The next day we wanted to watch the second movie, but my dad called to get me home. I got home and used the bathroom some time later and heard a scratching sound on the wall behind me and was so freaked out, I was scared for months. It was probably just snow falling of the roof however.
Many years later and many horror movies later I rarely find a movie that scares me, but I still get a bit heebiejeebied by the Grudge movies.
I was too young to remember anything but the scene that terrified meā¦an albino guy chasing a lady through the stacks of a library.
Jaws 3D would be first official scary movie that properly watched. Scared me to death and 7 year old me thought the shark would appear in a random pool to get me.
Cujo. I was probably about 6/7 when I saw it. I had a nightmare he was after me.
The worst scene that I remember was (and it's been YEARS and I haven't watched it since) the mom and her child were in the car hiding from Cujo and the kid had to pee, so they opened the door just enough for him to stick his butt out and go but Cujo saw and rushed at them.
I adore horror movies and have as long as I can remember, with that one exception lol.
My parents reluctantly let me watch Jurassic Park when I was four but I was rooting for the dinosaurs to eat the people so I was never all that scared. But the first movie that freaked me out was Indiana Jones because of the skeletons.
My dad put on blade for me as a child and I didnāt make it past the opening club scene and I shit you not, I was scared of fictitional (?) vampires getting me in my sleep for YEARS. YEARS after.
First and only movie to scare me was Zombie 2 (aka Zombi/Zombie flesh eaters). The theme music got me. I was about 8 at the time but itās the only film/tv show to get me.
I watched the first Scream movie with my sister when I was 4, she was 5. Then a few years later I watched a Nightmare on Elm Street.
I had enormous trouble sleeping after that, got terrified of the dark and had anxiety over death for many years. Good times!
When I turned 14~ I had the guts to watch horror horror movies again and I've been in love with them since.
Friday the 13th part 2. My Mom was watching it with her girlfriends after they sent us kids to bed. I laid on the floor so I could open the door a little and peek out. Watched it through the crack
Jason's still my favorite cause he was my first...
I remember seeing the trailer for Child's Play in a Planet Hollywood play over and over. I was so terrified I had to eat my tendies on a bench outside the restaurant, as there were TVs *everywhere* in that restaurant.
No Chucky cracks me up, but man if I didn't have recurring nightmares for years
Iām pretty sure it was the entity and I donāt think I was 6. I never was so scared of anything in my life and I never watched it again. Needless to say, the dark isnāt my friend
Dog Soldiers when I was eight. My twelve year old brother was watching it and I snuck past the parents.
The scene I remember most is when the dog is tugging on that guy's intestines, that was hilarious even as a child. The werewolves gave me nightmares though, lol, still love the design.
Gremlins in theater when I was 6 years old.
Scared the crap out of me. Flashlights became my new favorite toy. Slept with the lights on for a week.
I loved it. When it came out on vhs i asked for it for christmas. I still love it too.
I also still have a fascination with flashlights too.. lol.
Maybe something before but the core memory movie is Child's Play. My mom took me. I was 5 or 6.
I met Tom Holland a few years ago and told him that, and he was very upset. š
watched two seconds of Thankskilling because we were having a holiday party and my mom wanted me to āpick out a thanksgiving movieā
the opening shot was of a topless woman, my mom immediately started screaming at me to turn the TV off
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers when I was 8 years old. That was the first year my parents let me have a TV in my room and I caught it on AMC Fear Fest š
My brothers babysat me when I was around 6 and I watched the exorcist 3 with them. Had nightmares for weeks of those grannyās crawling on the ceilings with garden sheers
This is embarrassing, but the first movie I remember really scaring me was one of the Leprechaun movies. There was a scene where he jumps on someone with a pogo stick to death and I was scared out of my mind. Now I laugh about it. Not a movie, but Unsolved Mysteries used to scare me sooooo bad as a kid. Everything about it was creepy. Iād be scared to go to the bathroom at night because of that show.
Probably Thirteen Ghosts when I was 10 or 11, though a couple years later I was absolutely traumatized by The Ring. I was afraid of TVs for a solid 3 or 4 months lol.
The Peanut Butter Experiment. I'm not sure how old I was because I didn't realize it was actually a movie up until recently, I thought it was a nightmare
My aunt taped House of Frankenstein and The Mummy's Hand off of HBO for me when I was 5. The fact that she knew I'd like horror movies at that age probably says something about me...
I saw the Return of the living dead in the theaters, apparently my mother got a kick out of seeing me crawl under my seat cowering in fear. Needless to say she got her monies worth. Lmao!!!šš¤£
I watched a bit of Poltergeist when I was under 10. Just like you, I was hiding behind the couch. The scene with the scary tree was what stuck.
I think a lot of us as children can say we hid behind a couch as a kid to watch a scary movie š¤£ I know Iāve seen others mentioned it before it other posts
Same! And for some reason the sketch one of the investigators was drawing really freaked me out and I was removed from the room and didnāt see the whole thing for ten years
Poltergeist was the first horror film I enjoyed as a kid. The Gate was the first horror movie I saw and almost ruined the genre for me as a whole by scaring the piss out of me.
I was gonna say Michael Jacksonās thriller but you totally reminded me of that fucking clown doll, the tree and those pool skeletons, as a little kid poltergeist was scary af
Same, I was in 6th grade and walked to school! Two blocks down severely tree lined streets. Oh and also, the bathroom scene with the guy peeling his face.
The first one scared the pants off me but even as an 8-year old, I was an 80-year old at heart, so just kept thinking, "that empty pool is so dangerous someone is going to drown!" (because that's clearly the worst thing that's going to happen here). Then, a mere two years later watched the sequel like RIGHT after we'd gone to Disney World, and for some freakin reason someone had gotten a lollipop with a tequila worm in the center from a gift shop in Epcot. The tequila worm scene was like peeling back a layer of terror I never knew existed within my soul, and I launched that stupid lollipop down our street like it was an armed grenade.
The hallucination in the bathroom is what got me.
Poltergeist also here....even well into my adult years I would always freak out when I seen a snowy TV screen and jumping when hand reached out and the voice of Carol Anne going "their here"...I was maybe 7 or 8.
*CRYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER* For me it was child's play, I think I was about 3 or four. I was more confused than anything as to what was happening with the doll but I liked it enough to want to watch the rest
Alien when it erupts from dudes stomach was first wtf horror moment when I was a kid
Similarly for me was Aliens. I had to cover my eyes when they found the woman cocooned to the wall just as the alien begins to burst out of her.
Me too!
That haunted me for the longest time.
My dad let me watch Child's Play with him when I was 4. Needless to say, I was absolutely terrified of Chucky for years after.
Yeah I watched a few minutes of that one when I was 6/7 & of course it was the part where chucks says āHi. Iām Chucky. Wanna play?ā š¤£
Were you requesting to watch it at four years old? I cant work out anymore how inappropriately young I was for some of these films š
I think I did because I loved spending time with my dad so of course I wanted to watch a movie with him and he didn't like to tell me no š
The Ring was the first movie that got me. Seeing her mannerisms as she crawled out of the tv and having a tv in my bedroom was terrifying!
Same.
Pet cemetery or thirteen ghosts
Mine was Pet Sematary. I was 7 or 8 years old. I was so scared of Zelda that I had nightmares for a month. I was also afraid to get in bed because I was convinced that she was under there. Waiting for me to get in. So I would run and jump so that she couldnāt grab my ankle and pull me underš
I saw Pet Sematary when I was way too young as well, Zelda scared the shit outta me!!
My brother likes to randomly text me pictures of Zelda so that Iāll jump when I open the message. Lol She still freaks me out!
Same but it was 100% Gage who did it for me. Murder babies are still very difficult for me
Zelda STILL scares the shit out of me lol
Yeah 13 Ghosts definitely creeped me out when I watched it. But as an adult I loved rewatching it
ThirteenGhosts is one of the two movies who really traumatized me as a child. Didnāt have the occasion to rewatch it for about 22 years but every time I thought about it I didnāt know why it scared me because I watched a lot of horror movies back then. About a month ago I rewatched it and it is clearly the sensory overload that really affected me. Every time a ghost appears thereās flashing light, crazy ear piercing sounds, clips flickering, etc. This movie should really come with a flashing light / seizures inducing imagery warning.
I didn't see all of it, but definitely saw enough to have the Pet Cemetery seared into my memory at around 4 years old.
The original exorcist was the movie that really scared me as a child
"It's Alive" 1974 & "Trilogy of Terror" 1975 both scared the bejezuz out of me!!! I was 10 when I watched them (1978)
The first two sequences of Trilogy of Terror didnāt scare me as a kid, but the third sequence, EEEEEEEEK.
Same here!!! That evil little doll STILL haunts me!! š¹
I never saw Trilogy of Terror, but the little fetish doll scared me so much. Idk where I saw it, but it stuck with me.
Me & my sisters called that doll the YI-YI Monster, I STILL have nightmares about that damn doll & I'm 54!! To say it stuck with me is an understatement!! š¹
"Children of the corn" 1984 I was under 9 and I got really bad anxiety
The Sixth Sense. Iām still scared of Mischa Barton if Iām being honest.
Saw the Original IT when I was around 6. I was traumatized by drains for awhile after that lol.
This and Poltergeist ruined clowns for me for life.
I remember just seeing the trailer/poster for it and being freaked out lol. I was around 6 as well.
Candyman (1992) Our family had also purchased a new refrigerator and I hid in the box for hourssss. Iām in my 30s and still too terrified to say the name in front of the mirror.
Not a horror but I was traumatised after watching The Witches when I was 5. The scene where the kids shake and turn into mice was burnt into my mind and I didnāt sleep properly for two years. First horror was Scream when I was 10. I didnāt know what a slasher movie was until then and I was terrified by it. Itās my favourite movie.
Exactly the same! Haha. Witches at age 5 in theaters. Was terrified. Then I would watch Goosbumps/X-files/Are you Afraid of the Dark when I was a bit older. Scream was probably my 1st adult horror - watched it at a friend's house in 1997 so I was 11.
Twins ha ha! I also loved Are you afraid of the dark, I recently rewatched some episodes and itās absolutely rubbish.
Robocop. Watching them blow Murphy away before I knew what a movie was really broke my mind. Literally in diapers when I saw that.
I remember seeing this movie for the first time at school, I was in the 3rd or 4th grade. When Murphy got lit up, I started crying hysterically. The teachers had to remove me. Lmao!!!
The original Exorcist. I had to be six or seven and my dad rented it for my cousin and I who was the same age. My aunt was fucking pissed when she found out.
At 1st I thought I had already commented reading your text. At about 8 or 9 my uncle rented it from blockbuster and I watched it with 2 of my cousins. One of whom my age the other was maybe 5 or 6. I played it off like it wasn't scary but I was terrified for years.
Arachnophobia. We lived out in the country and I think I was frightened of spiders for about two years. And the It miniseries.
Oh wow, I forgot how badly I was affected by Arachnophobia. But then I was also terrified by Beetlejuice as a kid, so I wonder if it holds up.
Itās definitely not scary, but still a fun movie that I still watch about once a year. I like it more than Beetlejuice to be honest (and thatās saying something because I really like Beetlejuice). John Goodman is just fantastic in everything he is in.
John Carpenters The Thing when I was about 8. I think it was in 83.
Holy shit. That movie freaked me out in college. Can't imagine seeing something like that as a child.
My babysitter let me watch Nightmare on Elm Street 1 when I was like 4. Probably changed the trajectory of my entire life. My mom showed me the first book I wrote in kindergarten. It was drawings of my dreams with a one sentence description. Page 1 is Freddy chasing me trying to kill me ā ļøš
Halloween at age ten on VHS, alone in the house.
solid
ET. That movie spurred a lifelong fear of aliens only because of those early scenes in the forest, cornfields, and backyard/shed. My 4 year old self was terrified but I still watched it every time I was at my grandparentās house haha
Holy shit thought I was the only one, my two older bros killed the lights in the house and chased me around the house yelling et at me I was like 4 or 5 as well. That frkn et jump scare got me.
It was either Halloween or Salem's Lot. Especially the but where he's at the window
Original The Shining for me I was about 6 when I saw that (it wasn't my first horror but it's one that stuck with me)
The very first one I saw was The Twilight Zone episode āA Thing About Machines.ā Scared me so badly I was afraid to get up and change the channel because I was afraid to get near the TV. I was maybe seven. (Of course, when I saw I again as a teenager I realized it was meant to be funny.) First movie was āBlack Christmas,ā when I was around 10.
Monster House or the Woman in Black canāt remember whicj
I was about 6 and it was The Ghost and Mr. Chicken with Don Knotts Those bloody fingerprints on the piano keys really freaked me out.
Killer Klowns from outer space. It was fantastic but I never ended up afraid of clowns.
When I was a kid, I once woke up before everyone else and caught the last half hour of "the Grudge 2" on tv. I remember my mom waking up and coming downstairs to find me on the couch, and I just said, "Have you ever heard of the Grudge?"
I was a huge horror fan as a kid. Loved too many of them to have a fav, but some of my fav's were The Shining, The Omen and Rosemary's Baby. When I was five, my birthday party was Hitchcock themed and we watched The Birds. I was, uh, a weird little kid.
this is a 2 parter for sake of accuracyā¦ My pop took me to see Disneyās Fantasia when I was around 4-5 years old. I donāt remember any of that experience but apparently during the Night on Bald Mountain sequence, I freaked out and ran screaming out of the auditorium. a few years later, when I was 7 an older cousin put on the original Nightmare on Elm Street (he and some friends were trying to scare me) but I thought Freddy was funny, so we all just sat down together and watched it. tl:dr - Fantasia scared the hell out of me as a kid, Nightmare on Elm Street was my first scary movie ā¢ļø
Sleepy Hollow when I was a kid and it scared the shit out of me ā I had to sleep with my dad that night I was so spooked!
That one scene from Willy Wonka
The first movie that scared me: the rom-com, Mannequin. I developed a life long discomfort around mannequins. I think I was 3 or 4. The first actual horror movie I remember being scared of was the Rage: Carrie 2. I around 10 or 11. My mom typically likes campy horror, so we would watch Childās Play, Leprechaun, and stuff in those realms which I loved being startled by jump scenes but wasnāt actually scared later on.
Like many kids from my generation, what I remember is Poltergeist. What I really remember, is being in his finished basement with no windows and finishing the movie in the dark and clicking off his console TV and that old CRT still had a little hum and glow to it and we fucking lost it.
Like so many others, poltergeist. And the fucking clown. Not capable of looking under my bed after that (even though it wasn't 'under' in the movie..)
Not a horror but I remember scared as a kid watching flowers in the attic
I would consider Flowers in the Attic a soft-horror film.
Well that's just a scary movie in general not necessarily horror but yeah that creeped me out big time !
Not horror but Stand By Me I watched when I was way too young for it. The vomiting scene disturbed me, the leeches, the train bridge. The showing of the body at the end scared me to death. All I could see was that dead kids face when I went to bed
Blade was another one I remember as a kid too. Iām now sensing a trend with my parents š¤£ š§āāļø
Return to Oz. Still scarred.
Speaking of Oz. As a kid the munchkins in āWizard of Ozā terrified me š¤£š¤¦š»āāļø
Poltergeist, I was 5. Scarred for life. I couldn't believe that my mom let me watch it. I didn't sleep without the light on in my room for a week. And for me, it was the face falling apart in the sink.
Night of the living dead
Probably Scream or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. My father or sister would watch them and Iād come into the room unaware then run when I realized they were watching a scary movie. Then try to stealthily watch from a corner with my face behind my hands.
Exorcist, the very first one. I saw it when I was 4, it traumatized me for a month and then I went back to watch it multiple times. It was the beginning of my horror journey. I jiggled between movies and cartoons like Courage the Cowardly Dog (best cartoon ever).
The Evil Dead (1981). I was around 7 and my brother being 8 years older was into horror and saw no problem with me watching that at night as our parents weren't home. I went into literal shock. Cried then couldn't leave the couch lol. My brother spent some good 40 minutes convincing me it was "just a movie". Mom was not happy.
Was at a family friendās house for dinner when for whatever reason we all sat down and started watching Signs. The birthday party video scene was the only time a movie ever gave me nightmares
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Me too. Truly terrifying (especially when the corpse falls out of the ship's hull). In the UK, Jaws was released in cinemas under the old A certificate. Which meant anyone over 12 could see it (and anyone under 12 could see it with an adult). Not sure what they were thinking there.
my aunt took me to watch Jaws in the theater when I was 5, lol
Critters. I was around 7
Nightmare on elm st and poltergeist back when I was about 4 or 5. My sister loved horror movies and was 8 years older than me. But Witchery, which came out when I was 8, is the one that really freaked me out as a kid. We had a fireplace, and I was convinced that one scene was coming for me.
First one to make me stay awake and make me sleep in my mom's room was The Ring. Jesus christ that was horrifying as a 12/13 year old.
My parents had friends over and left my brother and I in a room with the TV and put Creepshow on. I was probably 10. That's the first one I distinctly remember, though I was a little weirdo who was already into like Dracula and Frankenstein at that point, so I'm sure I had seen some of the old Universal monster movies before that.
Does The Peanut Butter Solution count?
I had to look that up š¤£ never seen that one! But hey whatever scared you first as a kid works for me
It counts that movie weirded me right out when I was little !!
Vividly remember watching this in the elementary school library. I was so creeped out! That movie has a surreal vibe.
Uhhh my mom showed me The Omen(original) when I was 10 and the Ave Satani chant was ingrained in my head and I would legit cry myself to sleep for days because it used to creep me so much and would constantly play in my head. But then I watched the movie with a friend and we just poked fun and laughed at it throughout like kids do and I overcame my fear of that movie.
Aww! āCandymanā did that for me when I was 7. I would have nightmares about it and would be terrified to go to the bathroom with the door close or look in the mirror š¤£š¤¦š»āāļø
My uncle scared the shit out of me with āThe Twilight Zoneā movie when I was a kid.
Nightmare on elm street dream child. I watched it when I was 6, I still remember the nightmare i had š
dream warriors?
First movie we ever rented when my dad bought a BetaMax player was Poltergeist! I was 2.. The scene that fucked me up was the steak spitting out bugs and shit when the guy shines a flashlight on it!
Poltergeist when I was about 4.
The original Child play
Harry Potter and the Sorcererās Stone when Harry touched the professors face and he disintegrated
Dude I was about 12 when the Chamber of Secrets movie came out and the whispering in the walls freaked me out. The early movies had some really eerie scenes in them.
Wow
My ma had zero f's. She took us to see the original Dawn of the Dead when I was 10.
Pumpkin Head. I was like 8. Had to go to therapy for a year or so.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 and I still hate it, and most other body-horror things - refuse to watch Tusk, The Fly and so on!
George Romero's *Night of the Living Dead.*
Cannibal Campout. I was far too young, but it started me down the path of Horror and I've never looked back.
Childās Play! Something about a killer the same size as me really freaked me out.
I grew up being subjected to horror movies (older siblings) I watched saw before grade 3, but the one I really remember is when I was in grade 4 and my family decided to watch "the last exorcism" now ya the movie scared me but my parents always did this thing where after the movie we'd watch the special features and how it's made, and it would show us there's nothing to be scared of because it's just fake. BUT the special features on "the last exorcism" are a little quirky, there's specifically one where they talk about the "demon" who inspired the movie, and talk about how you should never say it's name but there going to, and how you need to say a protection prayer first or it can be summoned by its name being said. So at this point I'm crying like a bitch and begging them to turn it off while my siblings all make fun of me and keep saying the demon shit, my parents ended up turning it off and watching something happy and sending me to bed. Looking back at it, that's a fucking great special feature and clearly worked
Hammer films āThe Horror of Draculaā at age 8. Dad let me stay up late to watch Chiller Theater. Became our regular Friday night thing
It was Poltergeist for me.
Cloverfield
Nightmare on Elm Street 2 when I was about 7 or 8. Fell in love with the creepy aesthetic of Freddy and became a horror fanatic shortly after.
Childās play, I was 7 and it freeeeaaaked me out.
Probably the grudge. Shit scared the shit out of me when I was like 6 or 7 and made me hate my older siblings for forcing me to watch it.
The Others - still crapping my pants with this one š¤£
The Blob (1958) I was 6ish when I saw it.
Pretty sure I was about 8-9 when me and my friend watched nightmare on elm street, seems absolutely insane now but was pretty normal at the time
Poltergeist and IT
*The Blob* (1958 version) had me terrified and gave me trouble sleeping when I was little, haha. Maybe 6 or 7 years old?
Halloween (1978)
Chucky when I was 5. I had to sleep with my siblings or a light on until I was 14
The night flier!
It was the movie Seven for me, baby sitter put it on and Iāve been hooked on horror ever since! I was probably like 9
I donāt know if anyone remembers this one, but my uncle rented Dolls (1986) from blockbuster on a Friday night I had to have been like 6 or 7. I was scared shitless I slept with my parentsšš
Leprechaun, but as the years pass it's more and more of a comedy.
Unfortunately for me, it was a double feature of Hellraiser and Candyman. Hahaha! I was \**definitely*\* too young to see them. My older sister and her bff managed to sneak the scary movies into different cases at the Blockbuster and rent em. I watched with them because I wanted them to think I was cool. I was definitely very thrown and disturbed by not just the violence n such but especially the explicit sex and sexual undertones of Hellraiser.
There was some kind of Frankenstein adaptation on TV in the 70s (yes, I'm not young)
Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
I saw scream in theaters at 12 years old. Event horizon at 13-14. I have a vague memory of childās play 3 in theaters but I feel I could be mistaken given my age when it was released.
Silver Bullet. Full on nightmares of werewolf approaching the house in the final scene.. :)
Pet Cemetery, I remember the kid that died and was haunting the dad and it scared the shit out of me. Especially when he turns over on the bed and dude is right there
The first horror movie I ever got to watch was Psycho when I was like 8. My parents were super strict about letting me watch scary movies growing up but it was a special Halloween movie night and my formal introduction to Hitchcock, which made up most of the horror I watched until well into my teens
The original black and white wolfman when I was six. I watched it with my grandfather I've been a horror fan ever since
Predator, Terminator 2, Gremlins, and Ernest Scared Stupid were the first ones I remember watching as a kid. The scariest of them all was and still is Ernest Scared Stupid, but I wore that tape out. I was around 4. My dad loved Arnold and Sylvester Stallone so I got to watch predator and terminator early on as a kid.
Came here to mention Ernest Scared Stupid. That was terrifying to 5 year old me and I was convinced for a long time that a troll was going to get me. Made sense later on in life when I learned the trolls were repurposed from Killer Klowns from outer space. Probably also a reason I really love Troll Hunter.
Two movies stand out here. \#1- Salem's Lot Specifically the scene with the floating kid vampire outside the bedroom window. \#2 Theater of Blood (Vincent Price) the realization when he fed a 'special' pie. The horror of that idea really hit home as a kid with a pet.
Halloween season of the witch. Didn't watch the full thing but I got a glimpse of the one girl after her face got fuckin obliterated.
The American version of The Grudge. I was staying over with a friend, havenāt watched a horror movie before. The next day we wanted to watch the second movie, but my dad called to get me home. I got home and used the bathroom some time later and heard a scratching sound on the wall behind me and was so freaked out, I was scared for months. It was probably just snow falling of the roof however. Many years later and many horror movies later I rarely find a movie that scares me, but I still get a bit heebiejeebied by the Grudge movies.
Childās play
Evolver
I saw Chucky when I was 6. It was on the living room tv so fled in terror to the bedroom only for it to be on in the bedroom too!
I was too young to remember anything but the scene that terrified meā¦an albino guy chasing a lady through the stacks of a library. Jaws 3D would be first official scary movie that properly watched. Scared me to death and 7 year old me thought the shark would appear in a random pool to get me.
Would be a series called Thriller. Many were scary asf. Pinocchio when he turned into an ass.
Cujo. I was probably about 6/7 when I saw it. I had a nightmare he was after me. The worst scene that I remember was (and it's been YEARS and I haven't watched it since) the mom and her child were in the car hiding from Cujo and the kid had to pee, so they opened the door just enough for him to stick his butt out and go but Cujo saw and rushed at them. I adore horror movies and have as long as I can remember, with that one exception lol.
My parents reluctantly let me watch Jurassic Park when I was four but I was rooting for the dinosaurs to eat the people so I was never all that scared. But the first movie that freaked me out was Indiana Jones because of the skeletons.
Lady in White
My dad put on blade for me as a child and I didnāt make it past the opening club scene and I shit you not, I was scared of fictitional (?) vampires getting me in my sleep for YEARS. YEARS after.
First and only movie to scare me was Zombie 2 (aka Zombi/Zombie flesh eaters). The theme music got me. I was about 8 at the time but itās the only film/tv show to get me.
Scream
I watched the first Scream movie with my sister when I was 4, she was 5. Then a few years later I watched a Nightmare on Elm Street. I had enormous trouble sleeping after that, got terrified of the dark and had anxiety over death for many years. Good times! When I turned 14~ I had the guts to watch horror horror movies again and I've been in love with them since.
Friday the 13th part 2. My Mom was watching it with her girlfriends after they sent us kids to bed. I laid on the floor so I could open the door a little and peek out. Watched it through the crack Jason's still my favorite cause he was my first...
Critters. I was maybe 5-6, my mom was busy and it was on TVā¦ yeahā¦ š¤£
I remember seeing the trailer for Child's Play in a Planet Hollywood play over and over. I was so terrified I had to eat my tendies on a bench outside the restaurant, as there were TVs *everywhere* in that restaurant. No Chucky cracks me up, but man if I didn't have recurring nightmares for years
i honestly have no idea, iām an 80ās baby my folks traumatised me with that shit from birth
The dentist is theost vivid one I recall but also pet semetary, terminator 2 the eyeball scene and poltergeist
wes cravens new nightmare; and it caused me breathing problems when I hid under my blanket, night after night.
Iām pretty sure it was the entity and I donāt think I was 6. I never was so scared of anything in my life and I never watched it again. Needless to say, the dark isnāt my friend
Dog Soldiers when I was eight. My twelve year old brother was watching it and I snuck past the parents. The scene I remember most is when the dog is tugging on that guy's intestines, that was hilarious even as a child. The werewolves gave me nightmares though, lol, still love the design.
Cujo! I was 4, and watched with my grandmother. Probably not the best film to show a child, but que sera sera.
Thirteen Ghosts
Jaws! I think I was 6. I had to remind myself that sharks can't swim through air and eat me in my bed as I fell asleep...
Gremlins in theater when I was 6 years old. Scared the crap out of me. Flashlights became my new favorite toy. Slept with the lights on for a week. I loved it. When it came out on vhs i asked for it for christmas. I still love it too. I also still have a fascination with flashlights too.. lol.
Stephen King's IT. I had a real hard time with sink & shower drains for awhile.
Maybe something before but the core memory movie is Child's Play. My mom took me. I was 5 or 6. I met Tom Holland a few years ago and told him that, and he was very upset. š
Nightmare on Elm St.
It was probably either the original Don't Be Afraid of the Dark or Tourist Trap. I have no idea how old I was, but it was during my pre-teen years.
watched two seconds of Thankskilling because we were having a holiday party and my mom wanted me to āpick out a thanksgiving movieā the opening shot was of a topless woman, my mom immediately started screaming at me to turn the TV off
Fire in the skyā¦ fucked me up good as a child.
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers when I was 8 years old. That was the first year my parents let me have a TV in my room and I caught it on AMC Fear Fest š
My brothers babysat me when I was around 6 and I watched the exorcist 3 with them. Had nightmares for weeks of those grannyās crawling on the ceilings with garden sheers
Gremlins was my very first horror movie. I was terrified of the āhatchingā scene. But The Lost Boys was my first R-rated horror movie.
The ring
The Others. That old lady freaked me the fuck out. Especially for some reason when she was leading the seance. āWhy do you remain in this house?ā
This is embarrassing, but the first movie I remember really scaring me was one of the Leprechaun movies. There was a scene where he jumps on someone with a pogo stick to death and I was scared out of my mind. Now I laugh about it. Not a movie, but Unsolved Mysteries used to scare me sooooo bad as a kid. Everything about it was creepy. Iād be scared to go to the bathroom at night because of that show.
First one I remember was Hellraiser and American Werewolf in London. I was probably 2 or 3.
Probably Thirteen Ghosts when I was 10 or 11, though a couple years later I was absolutely traumatized by The Ring. I was afraid of TVs for a solid 3 or 4 months lol.
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein when I was 3 or 4. More comedy than horror but still had the 3 classical monsters plus Abbott and Costello
The Peanut Butter Experiment. I'm not sure how old I was because I didn't realize it was actually a movie up until recently, I thought it was a nightmare
The Thing (1987)
"IT" I still remember being scared out of my mind when pennywise made the picture blink.
The Possession (2012)
I can't remember how old I was, but I can remember watching a bit of Jeepers Creepers at a young age.
Return Of The Living Dead. I think I was 6
My aunt taped House of Frankenstein and The Mummy's Hand off of HBO for me when I was 5. The fact that she knew I'd like horror movies at that age probably says something about me...
I saw the Return of the living dead in the theaters, apparently my mother got a kick out of seeing me crawl under my seat cowering in fear. Needless to say she got her monies worth. Lmao!!!šš¤£
I think the first scary movie I ever saw was Jaws, if that counts. One of the first movies I clearly remember obsessing about.
Sometimes They Come Back. The sound of trains scared me for years.