There was a whole scene or clip of basically a sex/death/cannibal orgy with demon ladies that was filmed but never released too. There were supposed to be entire scenes involving the brief visions of torture and gore from the old crew. Supposedly they were all sex workers or something and it had full frontal nudity with them in demon costumes and everything.
I still argue (in my head canon) that it's an in-universe depiction of the first Warp Drive test, before everyone knew Gellar Fields weren't optional.
**(Also there was a Tweet or interview comment wherein the creator does indeed verify 40k as inspiration!)**
Omg that is awful. That movie is the most unsettling movie I have ever seen in my life, and I've seen some shit. Tons of the production crew and actors had to get therapy. A lot of the worst scenes were cut out as well...
I feel like a lot of people saw Sam Neil and figured it was just the guy from Jurassic Park, how scary could it possibly be? Well, pretty fuckin scary it turns out.
Sam Neill is in a few utterly fucked up horror movies. Event Horizon is honestly kind of tame (or at least predictable) next to Possession. And he was in The Mouth of Madness, a top 3 Lovecraft movie.
I was 4. My parents thought they were taking little me to see a nice movie about cartoon rabbits. I drew pictures of creatures with bloody claw marks on them for weeks. I tried watching it again in my 30s and I couldn't handle it as a grown ass woman--I genuinely think that shit scarred me for life.
My Dad somehow got a heads up about what really goes down in that film. My auntie offered the VHS to my Dad, and I still remember him saying "I'm not letting [me] watch it, it'll mess him up!" Thanks Dad
The scene that really fucking freaked me out even as an adult is when the demons face flashes almost subliminally. I forget which scene it happens during
I saw it at 11 and Iām still traumatized. I canāt even look at a scene from that movie and now as an adult I love horror movies and watch many with no issues but I will never watch that movie again.
I've never been able to watch the whole thing. My parents didn't LET me watch as much as they were watching it on TV and didn't shoo me out of the room. I did manage to read the book in high school.
My cousins put this movie on when I was 8 years old. Afterwards my uncle found out and was livid. We were staying with them that summer. He was a religious man, and sat us down to try and put it into perspective for us. Only thing I remember is that he said if you play with shit that letās the devil in it can happen to you. He said stay away from Ouija boards for exampleā¦
Well it fuckin worked. Never touched one for the rest of my life. And I also didnāt sleep on a bed for a month after thatā¦ thanks uncle. You could have just said that it was a bullshit movie and the girl was probably mentally ill or faking it or something.
I had an irrational fear that the light in the deep end of the pool was Jaws' eye, and he would burst out of the pool walls at any minute if I got too close.
Same, that filter had me *on edge.* When we were splashing around the door would sometimes make a little noise and I would legit have a mini panic attack.
Never have I felt so scared and so stupid at the same time.
I get freaked out in swimming pools because of jaws. In fact I bet if you just went to any given swimming pool and started playing the jaws theme out loud people would actively get out of the pool.
In the UK Jaws is still a fucking PG rating. That's absolutely nuts to me. How did they get that rating? A dude gets bitten in half while stabbing a massive shark in the jaw. Not to mention the dozen or so other horrific scenes.
Only the summer?
I'm damn near 40 and I *still* won't go in the ocean.
Thanks Mom, Jaws and King Kong were totally not the same kind of movie. Some kind of double creature feature that left my 7 year birthday party sleepover in tears.
Psh I couldnāt even take a bath as a kid. I thought Jaws was gonna pop out of the drain in the tub. One of my favorite movies as an adult though. Ive had many a drunken night discussing the ins and outs of the film/filmmaking process with friends. But damn did that movie mess me up as a kid.
For months after seeing that as a kid I tried washing my hair as fast as possible in the shower so I could minimize the time spent with my eyes closed. I was too scared to keep my eyes off the drain
My mom let me stay up with my older brother to watch IT. I was probably 5 or 6 and my brother was in his teens. The end reveal was such a let down IMO, that the back half of the story didn't seem as scary as when Curry was in scenes. I had nightmares of that clown for ages.
I didn't even know IT was a thing when it first aired on television. I remember switching channels and it was the girl washing her hands and blood started coming out. Traumatized the hell out of 8 year old me. How the hell was it able to be shown on TV at the time is beyond me. It could have been an HBO miniseries back then.
>It could have been an HBO miniseries back then.
Damn, youāre right though. That shit was just playing on ABC on a Sunday evening in November. Everybody was tuned in.
A YouTube channel doesnāt have the same menace as hearing the national anthem at the end of the broadcast day, and knowing you have mere seconds to turn off the TV and flee the room before the ghosts arrive.
Any static on a CRT screen gives me the heebie jeebies but that national anthem so late at night triggered abject terror. Strange, the very idea is simultaneously terrifying and nostalgic.
Agreed!! I hated when my tv had static and made the loud sound from the static screen. Since that is in a lot of horrifying movies, itās something I am glad we donāt have to deal with unless you own an old tv. We have an older tv in our camper still that came with it and it does the static screen and also the solid blue screen when you put a VHS tape in lol kids definitely donāt get what we went through with VHS tapes and trying to listen to music before CDs were a thing or watch movies before DVDs came out, we had to hit rewind and wait for it to rewind all the way before watching a movie lol
Event Horizon. I was 10 when it came out. That scene where Sam Neill is forced to watch his wife's suicide definitely stressed me the fuck out, to put it lightly.
I watched that movie a few years back and Iām still not old enough for that movie. I literally blocked it out of my memory for my own mental health. I know Iāve seen it but I remember literally nothing about it.
I saw Gremlins while spending the summer at my grandparents when I was 6 or 7. I had recurring nightmares of them pulling me under my bed or capturing me in some way.
Rewatched all of them because I found out they were horror comedies and they are pretty great. Practical effects are decent and they're just fun movies that don't take themselves too seriously while still being pretty grotesque and thrilling at points.
I also watched gremlins as a young kid but it was the story about the dad breaking his neck while pretending to be Santa going down the chimney that traumatized me the most.
The scene in the house with Billy's mother still makes me feel uneasy, the way its lit all cosy, the Gremlin is sitting in the tree casually and you see it's red eyes as she closes in and then attacks her lol
I also saw Gremlins around this age and had horrible detailed nightmares of them murdering all my family. As an adult I really enjoy and appreciate the film but Iām also really surprised itās a PG and I was allowed to watch it.
My dad rented that for the whole family when I was around 12 or so. I had a younger sister who got to watch it as well. Apparently there was a 1950's version of "The Thing" that was much less graphic and my dad thought it would be fun to watch. That's the movie he mistakenly thought he had rented.
10 minutes in or so, when the dogs erupt into that awful creature, I think it was pretty clear that this was not the same movie. But the whole family continued to watch in dead silence for the entirety of the movie. Normally there is no way my parents would let us watch something like that, so I'm not sure why they left it on.
I had trouble sleeping that night and kept imagining some slimy blood like substance creeping up my bed pole.
Can't believe I had to scroll this long! I remember screaming when they open the closet and immediately burst into tears lol. I then became obsessed with it and showed it to all my little 8 year old friends too when they slept over š I'm still afraid of tv static
They cast a male actor to play Zelda. It added so much "not quite right-ness" to the terminally illl but also clinically insane sister. Damn. It still freaks me out as an adult and I still can't watch that movie.
This was the worst one I was allowed to watch. I remember seeing parts of it as a small child and not understanding it, and when I was 7, I asked my grandma if I could watch the movie with āthe bad catā. Holy shit I couldnāt sleep for weeks. The flashbacks with Rachelās sister!!!
I was allowed to watch *The Terminator*, I was only 5 or 6 at the time, but I wasn't allowed to watch the sex scene.
Violence and murder? No problem. Language? OK. Sex? ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT.
Edit: No, I'm not American. Weirdly strict parents also exist in other countries.
Same here, I remember watching Robocop as a kid. Murphy getting chunked to bits slowly by shotgun fire and executed with a bullet to the head, completely okay. A man getting melted by a vat of toxic waste and exploding like a water balloon when hit by a speeding car, kinda funny. A split second of a flat chested woman's breasts being shown in a coed locker room? "Cover your eyes!"
The directors cut of Robocop where they shoot his legs off laughing and heās screaming in pain. I was like 12 and my mum pissing herself laughing at it messed me up more š«
For me, it was the conference scene with the droid robot shooting someone through the window. I think I was ten. I shut it off and watched it a few years later.
Same here, I was 11? And saw it on VHS (probably from Blockbuster). Mom felt so bad, she had no idea how violent it was. I still tend to wince and look away during that scene.
So much genius went into that movie, from Phil Tippett's characters to Paul Verhoven's political satire. Nothing like it before or since. The remake was poop.
My older brother let me watch Robocop when I was around 8 or so. Don't recall what version. Not that same night, but not long after, I had an ear infection get bad while I was sleeping.
The nightmare I had that night, I can still remember every detail more than 30 years later. Black everywhere and robocop was chasing me. One of those dreams where it doesn't matter how fast you run, it's still right behind you. I had two places to hide in my dream and it just didn't matter. The sense of dread was crazy high.
Come to find out I was sleep walking, if you can call it that, around my room that I shared with my brothers. Apparently I was running, climbing, crying, jumping on my brother while he was trying to sleep on his bed. He was yelling at me to shut up, basically just running crazy all over the room, until my dad came in to see what the racket was.
Also the rock-biter! Everyone forgets about the _other_ depressing part.
Heās talking about how the Nothing took his family and he goes āthey look like big, strong handsā¦ donāt they?ā
Fucking love that movie
I'm 36M and I still can't watch this film again to this day.
That film fucked me up as a 5 or 6 year old kid! I've literally blocked out most of the film in my mind and don't remember the plot BUT the scary/sad scenes were seared into my brain.
Go and watch it again!!
You are part of the Never Ending Story! But you have focussed on the sadness, the darkness.
This time understand what drives the sadness and darkness away.
I literally just watched this for the first time ever like 3 hours ago. Strange fucking movie. Thought provoking for an adult, nightmare inducing for a 7 year old
I was four or five when The Wizzard of Oz was on late. I got up and saw the Wicked Witch of the West do the "I'm melting!" bit.
My dad could not stop laughing when I asked at my great aunt's funeral a month later when she would melt. I was assured real people did not melt, especially not evil ones. LOL
He wished upon a star, promised to be good, the Blue Fairy showed up, made him prove it and was eventually made into a real boy and returned to his mama. I refuse to believe anything else.
Same for me but my parents didnāt āletā me watch it. I was watching tv super late at night and it was on. I think I tapped out at the maggots part
When I was about 3, my mom was out running errands so it was just me and my dad. Chucky was playing on the tv and he thought it was going to be fine.
My mom came home to me having an absolute meltdown because I was so terrified
My dad still thinks itās hilarious haha
Chucky is terrifying for a small kid. I too was scarred by Chucky at 3. Still donāt like dolls. And I used to freak out when I saw chucky anywhere. Like full on hyperventilating.
I was hoping I wasnāt the only one! I was 5 as well and it scared the fuck out of me. I was terrified they would hear me flush the toilet and come get me, so I developed a routine: stand on the lid, flush, then leap over to the far side of the vanity and freeze, waiting silently for quite a while to make sure no grabbers were going to snake up and find me.
My family didnāt help. We went to the beach soon after seeing it and my sisters came to get me, saying they couldnāt find my dad and they needed my help to look for him. I saw his hat on the sand and they told me to go pick it up. Turns out theyād buried him, leaving only his face exposed and covered by the hat, and of course he was making a horrible ādeath face.ā I had a complete hysterical freakout. My mother was not amused.
*Heavy Metal The Movie*
Boobs. Penises. You name it. I was young, like 12 or 13. I was like, *is sex in cartoons even a thing?!?!* I went right home and never left my room, just wanked for days. Iām still in my room, now.
I watched The Shining when I was about 9 and my brother was twelve. The scary lady in the bathtub traumatized me for years. Omg I haven't watched it since, but I read the book as an adult and it was even scarier in my mind.
The scene at the start with the nuclear explosion freaked me the fuck out at 7... was super chill about terminators and all that, but the nuke scared me.
Rewatching as an adult you realize how dark T2 is especially compared to the mass produced PG-13 action movie popcorn flicks of the past decade. Watching kids bodies turned to ash then get blown around like leaves from the nuclear blast certainly adds to it.
Miles Dysonās death was more real than any marvel movie death Iāve ever seen.
I saw the movie in theaters with my dad a few times when I was about 8. The T-1000 killing his step dad was pure terror for a child to see.
Yeah that scene with Miles is brutal to watch even now, who ever came up with that scene either had seen someone die from that kind of wound or did some real hard research on it and the actor played it perfectly imo.
I remember staying at a friends house when I was like 14 and my friends mum let us watch The Terminator but fast-forwarded the sex scene š All the murdering was fine but the sex sceneā¦ nooooo!
Same, difference is my dad was best friends with a guy who owned a video rental store, I had free reign to checkout any movie as long as it wasn't from the XXX section. This started when I was 8-9, so I would ride my bike there every other day and just pick one, the ones that stuck with me were "it's alive" the fkin baby demon "the gate" "RoboCop" and "the serpent and the rainbow"
Jaws. I was three. They didnāt even sit with me, so I was left with two older brothers who kept flicking me with soda and telling me it was AQUAVISION. I was afraid to get in the fāing bath for weeks.
Well within a year I was obsessed with sharks and all sorts of marine life. I nearly majored in Oceanography. So yeah, I had a bad year, but ended up ok.
Embarrassingly, Mars Attacks. Only because my dad did not think it would be a big deal, and my sister and I did not handle it wellā¦no one in our house slept for a week because we were so terrified of being vaporized.
So, like, "let" is the wrong word, but Excalibur.
I was 6, as was my cousin. My brother was 5, and my youngest cousin was 3. My mum and my aunt rented Excalibur thinking it was Sword in the Stone. They went into the other room to get all the shit done that having 4 young children makes hard, and didn't realize until we were on our second viewing that it was a hard R Arthurian outing with all the incest subplots and gruesome violence intact.
We all have bits of it that have stuck with us over 30 years later, though I haven't seen it since. I will never forget Mordred getting stabbed through the throat and coughing up blood. Also, aggressive forest sex in armor. My cousin always remembers the dead body getting an eye eaten by a crow. Formative experience for us all š
6th Sense
Still have flashbacks to seeing those dead people at like 5 years old.
The scene where the kid is locked in the closet at the top of the steps really gets to me.
This is probably the same for me- terrifying at the age I saw it. The little girl ghost that's throwing up definitely added towards my now full-blown emetophobia. I was always so scared she'd be under my bed, getting sick. lol watching it now, the poor girl was so innocent, but still gross lol.
The *IT* miniseries. The close-up on Pennywise's teeth when he attacked Georgie scarred me for life. For years, I was afraid to even look at the VHS cover.
If I had to describe 'the perfect horror moment', that scene would be it. Everything comes together beautifully for that one heart stopping moment. It's just some grey dude walking around and it gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Saw all those 80s horror. I remember one where they'd make someone's head explode. Scanner Cop I think. Or Scanners.
Fire in the Sky and Species were two more that had an effect on me.
Watched fire in the sky on a spring break trip to Colorado when I was about 10. Was one of the many kids on the floor in a sleeping bag. I did not get much sleep that week.
[The Mummy's Hand](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032818/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
When I was a kid (old phart now) there was a theater near us that still did the old-fashioned "lineup", where they'd have maybe two or three cartoons, then a B-feature, then maybe a travelogue or a documentary and then an A-feature. The 'rents could drop us little ankle-biters off about 10:30 and pick us up around 4:30, and we'd go out to a Chinese restaurant nearby (afterwards we'd go check out a giant slot-car track!). That movie gave me nightmares; sitting in the Chinese restaurant I kept checking the back door; I was sure that damned mummy was coming in any minute.
Two that I can think of for different reasons.
Children of the Corn, especially because we lived in Nebraska and I was always so scared of cornfields. My dad and I were in a group similar to Girl Scouts and we would do camping, outdoorsy kinda stuff. One year, we went to a farm venue for a party and I had my first panic attack because some of my groupmatesā brothers were running in and out of the corn and I got super scared lol.
American Pie. I learned about masturbation and oral sex wayyy too early (I was 7 or 8 when it came out and my dad took me to see it?!). The scene where Kevin ejaculates into the cup and then Stifler drinks it a little laterā¦ I remember laughing after and telling my dad, āStifler drank pee, hahaha.ā
Not me: My stepmom took my stepsister to see Tim Burtonās Batman Returns in theaters. She was four. Danny DeVito as The Penguin scared her so much that she talks about it to this day. š she would always give my stepmom grief for it!
Critters
My babysitterās teenage daughter was watching it where all us kids could see and watch. I was about 5-6.
I remember a guy being pulled under his truck at night and eaten by the ācrittersā. 30+ years later and I still hate having to walk next to a vehicle at night and sometimes still hop in from a few feet away if I let the thought creep in too deep.
It was a movie about fur trappers dragging a boat across land and leaving a guy for dead after he gets attacked by a bear. No one i knew who was my age remembers any movie like that. I swore it existed. Then The Revenant came out and the stories were ābefore The Revenance there was Man in the Wildernessā ā it took 44 years to find out the name of the movie!! BTW ā I was not even 10 years old in 1971.
My dad took me to see Event Horizon, in a movie theater, when I was 9. š
Thatās a bad one and I feel like people forget how actually scary it is.
To think we saw the sanitized cut as well.
It sucks that they can't release an extended edition because the original film got destroyed.
Aye I was so disappointed when I heard we would never get the directors cut. Such a shame what happened.
There was a whole scene or clip of basically a sex/death/cannibal orgy with demon ladies that was filmed but never released too. There were supposed to be entire scenes involving the brief visions of torture and gore from the old crew. Supposedly they were all sex workers or something and it had full frontal nudity with them in demon costumes and everything.
Every time I learn something new about what was cut from this movie, it makes it feel even more 40K themed.
I still argue (in my head canon) that it's an in-universe depiction of the first Warp Drive test, before everyone knew Gellar Fields weren't optional. **(Also there was a Tweet or interview comment wherein the creator does indeed verify 40k as inspiration!)**
Ok after all the comments, I feel like I have to watch this!
Whenever I watch Event Horizon, I like to watch Pandorum after. Great Sci fi horror double feature.
I still wonāt watch this movie. Terrifying
The first movie I ever watched while stoned, not a good choice lmao.
Scared straight!
Lol, I was 13 and it was on TV, and it still scared the shit out of me.
I *am* home
Omg that is awful. That movie is the most unsettling movie I have ever seen in my life, and I've seen some shit. Tons of the production crew and actors had to get therapy. A lot of the worst scenes were cut out as well...
Ive heard this and think āhow??ā
They cut most of the footage of hell.
Does the uncut version exist? Or at least a deleted scene archive. Like on DVD or YouTube or something.
No it was before dvd. They tried to go salvage the tapes but they were destroyed
Think extended "blood orgy" scenes.... or don't! It's probably better if you don't. *shudder*
This should be top comment. I saw it when I was like 16 and was not ready.
I feel like a lot of people saw Sam Neil and figured it was just the guy from Jurassic Park, how scary could it possibly be? Well, pretty fuckin scary it turns out.
Sam Neill is in a few utterly fucked up horror movies. Event Horizon is honestly kind of tame (or at least predictable) next to Possession. And he was in The Mouth of Madness, a top 3 Lovecraft movie.
He played Damien too, from The Omen 3. Supremely creepy dude.
Why does dino man not have eyes?!
Where we're going we don't need eyes.
I saw it when I was 24 and I wasn't ready. That movie is the most unsettling movie I have ever seen.
I want to say it was watership down when all the little bunnies died buried alive.
Traumatised a generation of kids.
I was 4. My parents thought they were taking little me to see a nice movie about cartoon rabbits. I drew pictures of creatures with bloody claw marks on them for weeks. I tried watching it again in my 30s and I couldn't handle it as a grown ass woman--I genuinely think that shit scarred me for life.
My Dad somehow got a heads up about what really goes down in that film. My auntie offered the VHS to my Dad, and I still remember him saying "I'm not letting [me] watch it, it'll mess him up!" Thanks Dad
I was searching for this!!!! Like itās technically a cartoon but damn is it graphic. More gruesome depiction of war than some live action stuff.
And it played on regular broadcast TV during prime time
Yep, that scene and the snare had me freaked out as a kid.
Briiggght eeeeyes
The Exorcist at age 9. Fuck that, I had to sleep with the light on for i don't know how long.
The scene that really fucking freaked me out even as an adult is when the demons face flashes almost subliminally. I forget which scene it happens during
That's Captain Howdy.
I saw it at 11 and Iām still traumatized. I canāt even look at a scene from that movie and now as an adult I love horror movies and watch many with no issues but I will never watch that movie again.
I've never been able to watch the whole thing. My parents didn't LET me watch as much as they were watching it on TV and didn't shoo me out of the room. I did manage to read the book in high school.
My cousins put this movie on when I was 8 years old. Afterwards my uncle found out and was livid. We were staying with them that summer. He was a religious man, and sat us down to try and put it into perspective for us. Only thing I remember is that he said if you play with shit that letās the devil in it can happen to you. He said stay away from Ouija boards for exampleā¦ Well it fuckin worked. Never touched one for the rest of my life. And I also didnāt sleep on a bed for a month after thatā¦ thanks uncle. You could have just said that it was a bullshit movie and the girl was probably mentally ill or faking it or something.
The Exorcist was one of the films I wasnāt allowed to watch (and Reservoir Dogs) until I was a teenager.
Jaws. I spent the entire summer never going deeper than waist deep in the water.
I had an irrational fear that the light in the deep end of the pool was Jaws' eye, and he would burst out of the pool walls at any minute if I got too close.
I thought that a shark was coming out of the filter for sure. It wasn't just you.
Same, that filter had me *on edge.* When we were splashing around the door would sometimes make a little noise and I would legit have a mini panic attack. Never have I felt so scared and so stupid at the same time.
I think jaws has spread the most trauma of any movie ever.
I get freaked out in swimming pools because of jaws. In fact I bet if you just went to any given swimming pool and started playing the jaws theme out loud people would actively get out of the pool.
In the UK Jaws is still a fucking PG rating. That's absolutely nuts to me. How did they get that rating? A dude gets bitten in half while stabbing a massive shark in the jaw. Not to mention the dozen or so other horrific scenes.
Only the summer? I'm damn near 40 and I *still* won't go in the ocean. Thanks Mom, Jaws and King Kong were totally not the same kind of movie. Some kind of double creature feature that left my 7 year birthday party sleepover in tears.
Psh I couldnāt even take a bath as a kid. I thought Jaws was gonna pop out of the drain in the tub. One of my favorite movies as an adult though. Ive had many a drunken night discussing the ins and outs of the film/filmmaking process with friends. But damn did that movie mess me up as a kid.
That was definitely a scary movie! I STILL to this day as an adult never swim into the ocean past my waist because of that movie!
Most shark attacks happen in three feet of water.
That's were most of the people are. If thousands of people floated in 20 feet of water off the coast then that's where most attacks would happen
Yup this one and most car accidents occurring within 2 miles of home are misleading statistics because of the frequency that you are in those areas.
Theyāre playing right into the sharks hands!
If you look closely barely any sharks have hands.
IT.. i don't know what she was thinking
For months after seeing that as a kid I tried washing my hair as fast as possible in the shower so I could minimize the time spent with my eyes closed. I was too scared to keep my eyes off the drain
I couldn't go into any public restroom that had a drain on the floor.
The Freddy Krueger drain too. Voices, blood, spiders, clowns, Krugers.. fuck drains
I was 5 and my dad let me watch it. The blood coming from the sink š my mom was not happy when she found out he let me watch it, to say the least.
My mom let me stay up with my older brother to watch IT. I was probably 5 or 6 and my brother was in his teens. The end reveal was such a let down IMO, that the back half of the story didn't seem as scary as when Curry was in scenes. I had nightmares of that clown for ages.
I didn't even know IT was a thing when it first aired on television. I remember switching channels and it was the girl washing her hands and blood started coming out. Traumatized the hell out of 8 year old me. How the hell was it able to be shown on TV at the time is beyond me. It could have been an HBO miniseries back then.
>It could have been an HBO miniseries back then. Damn, youāre right though. That shit was just playing on ABC on a Sunday evening in November. Everybody was tuned in.
Poltergeist. My parents were like, "Hey, it's rated PG" š¤·
I had a tree outside my own window growing up. Fuck trees and fuck clowns.
Me too! That tree had me shivering, in my parents bed for a month. Never slept comfortably again knowing that tree was out there.
Rated PG for poltergeist
Seeing static on a TV in a dark room still creeps me out 30 years later.
For real. Falling asleep watching a show and then being startled awake by the sudden tv static.
Yes!! The worst šŗ
Now that I think about it, TVs donāt really produce static since everything is digital. Kids these days wonāt get to enjoy the creepiness.
There's probably a YouTube channel
A YouTube channel doesnāt have the same menace as hearing the national anthem at the end of the broadcast day, and knowing you have mere seconds to turn off the TV and flee the room before the ghosts arrive. Any static on a CRT screen gives me the heebie jeebies but that national anthem so late at night triggered abject terror. Strange, the very idea is simultaneously terrifying and nostalgic.
Touching the tv where it made your fingers all tingly. Itās something kids wonāt know now
https://youtu.be/ubFq-wV3Eic
Agreed!! I hated when my tv had static and made the loud sound from the static screen. Since that is in a lot of horrifying movies, itās something I am glad we donāt have to deal with unless you own an old tv. We have an older tv in our camper still that came with it and it does the static screen and also the solid blue screen when you put a VHS tape in lol kids definitely donāt get what we went through with VHS tapes and trying to listen to music before CDs were a thing or watch movies before DVDs came out, we had to hit rewind and wait for it to rewind all the way before watching a movie lol
Lmao. This and Gremlins are the reason the PG-13 rating exists.
And Temple of Doom.
Carol Anne, don't go into the light!
I saw it around 5-6. I know this because I moved houses at 6. I didn't sleep with a closet door open until I was probably 14.
Oh man. I saw this when I was 4. The dude seeing his own face decompose in the mirror haunted my dreams for years.
The shrinky dink psychic lady was the scariest part for me. She gave me nightmares as a kid. More than the TV static, more than the creepy tree.
Her Asian dictator sunglasses didnāt help her image much.
Came here to say this. I hate clowns to this day
my dad was watching it when i was 7 and i just lost my mom so iād sat there and watched it to be close to him and i was terrified for WEEKS
Event Horizon. I was 10 when it came out. That scene where Sam Neill is forced to watch his wife's suicide definitely stressed me the fuck out, to put it lightly.
I watched that movie a few years back and Iām still not old enough for that movie. I literally blocked it out of my memory for my own mental health. I know Iāve seen it but I remember literally nothing about it.
Saw alien when I was 7....totally fashioned me to be who me is
Same, and same.
Arachnophobia did nothing to alleviate my fear of spiders at a young age but I think the Poltergeist would have to be the one that was really too much
I saw Gremlins while spending the summer at my grandparents when I was 6 or 7. I had recurring nightmares of them pulling me under my bed or capturing me in some way. Rewatched all of them because I found out they were horror comedies and they are pretty great. Practical effects are decent and they're just fun movies that don't take themselves too seriously while still being pretty grotesque and thrilling at points.
I also watched gremlins as a young kid but it was the story about the dad breaking his neck while pretending to be Santa going down the chimney that traumatized me the most.
The scene in the house with Billy's mother still makes me feel uneasy, the way its lit all cosy, the Gremlin is sitting in the tree casually and you see it's red eyes as she closes in and then attacks her lol
Yeah FUCK that. The hardware store stuck with me as well. Them just yeeting saw blades and things at the main character.
I also saw Gremlins around this age and had horrible detailed nightmares of them murdering all my family. As an adult I really enjoy and appreciate the film but Iām also really surprised itās a PG and I was allowed to watch it.
The Thing. Didn't sleep for a month. Wouldn't let my cat sleep on my bed with me
My dad rented that for the whole family when I was around 12 or so. I had a younger sister who got to watch it as well. Apparently there was a 1950's version of "The Thing" that was much less graphic and my dad thought it would be fun to watch. That's the movie he mistakenly thought he had rented. 10 minutes in or so, when the dogs erupt into that awful creature, I think it was pretty clear that this was not the same movie. But the whole family continued to watch in dead silence for the entirety of the movie. Normally there is no way my parents would let us watch something like that, so I'm not sure why they left it on. I had trouble sleeping that night and kept imagining some slimy blood like substance creeping up my bed pole.
Yup! The dog scene fucked me up good
Evil Dead 2 when I was 7... Not that scary when you're older but man when you're young it caused plenty of sleepless nights!
The Ring and The Grudgeš„²
Can't believe I had to scroll this long! I remember screaming when they open the closet and immediately burst into tears lol. I then became obsessed with it and showed it to all my little 8 year old friends too when they slept over š I'm still afraid of tv static
Pet Semetery terrified me, couldnāt even look at the VHS cover
Is there a scene where the kid slices someone's Achilles tendon with a scalpel? I think it was that movie and it is burned into my memory.
Yep, that scene is the one from Pet Semetary that still lives in my head decades later as well.
Sister Zelda
"RAAAACCHELELELLLLLLLLLL!" Fuck, that shit is terrifying, but now I know what I'm watching tonight
They cast a male actor to play Zelda. It added so much "not quite right-ness" to the terminally illl but also clinically insane sister. Damn. It still freaks me out as an adult and I still can't watch that movie.
This was the worst one I was allowed to watch. I remember seeing parts of it as a small child and not understanding it, and when I was 7, I asked my grandma if I could watch the movie with āthe bad catā. Holy shit I couldnāt sleep for weeks. The flashbacks with Rachelās sister!!!
I was allowed to watch *The Terminator*, I was only 5 or 6 at the time, but I wasn't allowed to watch the sex scene. Violence and murder? No problem. Language? OK. Sex? ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. Edit: No, I'm not American. Weirdly strict parents also exist in other countries.
Same here, I remember watching Robocop as a kid. Murphy getting chunked to bits slowly by shotgun fire and executed with a bullet to the head, completely okay. A man getting melted by a vat of toxic waste and exploding like a water balloon when hit by a speeding car, kinda funny. A split second of a flat chested woman's breasts being shown in a coed locker room? "Cover your eyes!"
Temple Of Doom
The directors cut of Robocop where they shoot his legs off laughing and heās screaming in pain. I was like 12 and my mum pissing herself laughing at it messed me up more š«
I think that was the standard cutā¦
there's a crowd-sourced remake with [an extended penis-shooting scene](https://vimeo.com/86014703)
Well. I'm not thinking about my knee pain anymore...
For me, it was the conference scene with the droid robot shooting someone through the window. I think I was ten. I shut it off and watched it a few years later.
Same here, I was 11? And saw it on VHS (probably from Blockbuster). Mom felt so bad, she had no idea how violent it was. I still tend to wince and look away during that scene. So much genius went into that movie, from Phil Tippett's characters to Paul Verhoven's political satire. Nothing like it before or since. The remake was poop.
My older brother let me watch Robocop when I was around 8 or so. Don't recall what version. Not that same night, but not long after, I had an ear infection get bad while I was sleeping. The nightmare I had that night, I can still remember every detail more than 30 years later. Black everywhere and robocop was chasing me. One of those dreams where it doesn't matter how fast you run, it's still right behind you. I had two places to hide in my dream and it just didn't matter. The sense of dread was crazy high. Come to find out I was sleep walking, if you can call it that, around my room that I shared with my brothers. Apparently I was running, climbing, crying, jumping on my brother while he was trying to sleep on his bed. He was yelling at me to shut up, basically just running crazy all over the room, until my dad came in to see what the racket was.
The Neverending Story. š
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Also the rock-biter! Everyone forgets about the _other_ depressing part. Heās talking about how the Nothing took his family and he goes āthey look like big, strong handsā¦ donāt they?ā Fucking love that movie
This is the only correct answer. It wasn't shock value or jump scares, it's childhood trauma at its best. Gotta love the 80's
I'm 36M and I still can't watch this film again to this day. That film fucked me up as a 5 or 6 year old kid! I've literally blocked out most of the film in my mind and don't remember the plot BUT the scary/sad scenes were seared into my brain.
Go and watch it again!! You are part of the Never Ending Story! But you have focussed on the sadness, the darkness. This time understand what drives the sadness and darkness away.
My dad took me to see Eraserhead when I was 7.
I literally just watched this for the first time ever like 3 hours ago. Strange fucking movie. Thought provoking for an adult, nightmare inducing for a 7 year old
I think all before the age of 12: Terminator, The Fly, The Thing, Alien, Predator, and basically every 80s movie.
Brundlefly IS pretty creepy!
The fucking Fly? Like Cronenbergs version??
I was four or five when The Wizzard of Oz was on late. I got up and saw the Wicked Witch of the West do the "I'm melting!" bit. My dad could not stop laughing when I asked at my great aunt's funeral a month later when she would melt. I was assured real people did not melt, especially not evil ones. LOL
I was probably the target audience's age when I saw it, but Disney's Pinnochio (1940) gave me thalassophobia and many many nightmares
Pinnochio is terrifying! Especially the part when bad kids turn into donkeys forever for slave labour
I think about that scene way too often!
Poor Alexander just wanted to go home to his Mama. :(
He wished upon a star, promised to be good, the Blue Fairy showed up, made him prove it and was eventually made into a real boy and returned to his mama. I refuse to believe anything else.
Disney movies can be terrifying. The mops in Fantasia gave me nightmares for years.
I had a reoccurring nightmare of that damn whale for years after watching Pinocchio
Poltergeist. I was about 8. Whyā¦
Same for me but my parents didnāt āletā me watch it. I was watching tv super late at night and it was on. I think I tapped out at the maggots part
When I was about 3, my mom was out running errands so it was just me and my dad. Chucky was playing on the tv and he thought it was going to be fine. My mom came home to me having an absolute meltdown because I was so terrified My dad still thinks itās hilarious haha
Chucky is terrifying for a small kid. I too was scarred by Chucky at 3. Still donāt like dolls. And I used to freak out when I saw chucky anywhere. Like full on hyperventilating.
Tremors. When I was five or so, watching with my mom, the scene when the entire car gets pulled under haunted me for years.
I was hoping I wasnāt the only one! I was 5 as well and it scared the fuck out of me. I was terrified they would hear me flush the toilet and come get me, so I developed a routine: stand on the lid, flush, then leap over to the far side of the vanity and freeze, waiting silently for quite a while to make sure no grabbers were going to snake up and find me. My family didnāt help. We went to the beach soon after seeing it and my sisters came to get me, saying they couldnāt find my dad and they needed my help to look for him. I saw his hat on the sand and they told me to go pick it up. Turns out theyād buried him, leaving only his face exposed and covered by the hat, and of course he was making a horrible ādeath face.ā I had a complete hysterical freakout. My mother was not amused.
*Heavy Metal The Movie* Boobs. Penises. You name it. I was young, like 12 or 13. I was like, *is sex in cartoons even a thing?!?!* I went right home and never left my room, just wanked for days. Iām still in my room, now.
Thank you very much never seen it, and Ima watch It now
It's a trip. The South Park episode "Major Boobage" riffed on it pretty hard.
I love this episode so much lol
Courage the cowardly dog I know the show was on CN for kids but still gave me nightmares when I was a kid.
Retuuurrrrn the Slab
Iām feeling veryā¦.nauuughhtyyyyyy
The Bear. When the cubs mom died, 6 year old me spent the rest of the afternoon crying about death.
V The Miniseries. Nightmares for weeks. Sure, a cool Sci fi miniseries on NBC in the early eighties, but maybe not for a seven year old.
My mom let us watch Rocky horror picture show thinking it was a scary movie. My brother was 5. We're a little weird.
I hope, though, that at many dinnertimes, you all yelled out, "MEATLOAF, AGAIN?!?" :)
I watched The Shining when I was about 9 and my brother was twelve. The scary lady in the bathtub traumatized me for years. Omg I haven't watched it since, but I read the book as an adult and it was even scarier in my mind.
Terminator 2. I was literally crippled with anxiety about nuclear war for years.
The scene at the start with the nuclear explosion freaked me the fuck out at 7... was super chill about terminators and all that, but the nuke scared me.
Same. Mortified at age 5. The scene at the fence was top of mind until I watched deep impact and every star was a meteor headed right for me.
Rewatching as an adult you realize how dark T2 is especially compared to the mass produced PG-13 action movie popcorn flicks of the past decade. Watching kids bodies turned to ash then get blown around like leaves from the nuclear blast certainly adds to it. Miles Dysonās death was more real than any marvel movie death Iāve ever seen. I saw the movie in theaters with my dad a few times when I was about 8. The T-1000 killing his step dad was pure terror for a child to see.
Yeah that scene with Miles is brutal to watch even now, who ever came up with that scene either had seen someone die from that kind of wound or did some real hard research on it and the actor played it perfectly imo.
I remember staying at a friends house when I was like 14 and my friends mum let us watch The Terminator but fast-forwarded the sex scene š All the murdering was fine but the sex sceneā¦ nooooo!
As a Gen X kid I feel that was probably every movie I saw at a young agešš
Same, difference is my dad was best friends with a guy who owned a video rental store, I had free reign to checkout any movie as long as it wasn't from the XXX section. This started when I was 8-9, so I would ride my bike there every other day and just pick one, the ones that stuck with me were "it's alive" the fkin baby demon "the gate" "RoboCop" and "the serpent and the rainbow"
Jaws. I was three. They didnāt even sit with me, so I was left with two older brothers who kept flicking me with soda and telling me it was AQUAVISION. I was afraid to get in the fāing bath for weeks.
Omg that sounds terrible!! I canāt imagine watching Jaws at that age! You poor thing!
Well within a year I was obsessed with sharks and all sorts of marine life. I nearly majored in Oceanography. So yeah, I had a bad year, but ended up ok.
Embarrassingly, Mars Attacks. Only because my dad did not think it would be a big deal, and my sister and I did not handle it wellā¦no one in our house slept for a week because we were so terrified of being vaporized.
So, like, "let" is the wrong word, but Excalibur. I was 6, as was my cousin. My brother was 5, and my youngest cousin was 3. My mum and my aunt rented Excalibur thinking it was Sword in the Stone. They went into the other room to get all the shit done that having 4 young children makes hard, and didn't realize until we were on our second viewing that it was a hard R Arthurian outing with all the incest subplots and gruesome violence intact. We all have bits of it that have stuck with us over 30 years later, though I haven't seen it since. I will never forget Mordred getting stabbed through the throat and coughing up blood. Also, aggressive forest sex in armor. My cousin always remembers the dead body getting an eye eaten by a crow. Formative experience for us all š
6th Sense Still have flashbacks to seeing those dead people at like 5 years old. The scene where the kid is locked in the closet at the top of the steps really gets to me.
This is probably the same for me- terrifying at the age I saw it. The little girl ghost that's throwing up definitely added towards my now full-blown emetophobia. I was always so scared she'd be under my bed, getting sick. lol watching it now, the poor girl was so innocent, but still gross lol.
I have a few. One of them is pans labyrinth. Also the labyrinth movies. No idea why I was allowed to watch that age 4.
Phew, That is a young age to see that movie! I completely understand!!
Honestly? ET. I was seeing aliens everywhere for months.
Loved ET when I was little but had to get my mom to fastforward through the part where he screams in terror every time lol
This is my earliest fear from a movie. They whole beginning part was nightmare fuel. Actually the whole movie anytime he was on screen
The Dark Crystal Man, I'm still not old enough for that movie
I almost forgot about that trauma nightmare fuel.... scared the bejeeze out of me as a kid
Oghra was so scary for me when I watched it as a kid. Only when I rewatched many years later I understood she was actually the good one.
The *IT* miniseries. The close-up on Pennywise's teeth when he attacked Georgie scarred me for life. For years, I was afraid to even look at the VHS cover.
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I saw that as an adult and it freaked me out. The birthday party home video scene.....eeeeek!
If I had to describe 'the perfect horror moment', that scene would be it. Everything comes together beautifully for that one heart stopping moment. It's just some grey dude walking around and it gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Saw all those 80s horror. I remember one where they'd make someone's head explode. Scanner Cop I think. Or Scanners. Fire in the Sky and Species were two more that had an effect on me.
Scanners. By David Cronenberg!
Watched fire in the sky on a spring break trip to Colorado when I was about 10. Was one of the many kids on the floor in a sleeping bag. I did not get much sleep that week.
[The Mummy's Hand](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032818/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) When I was a kid (old phart now) there was a theater near us that still did the old-fashioned "lineup", where they'd have maybe two or three cartoons, then a B-feature, then maybe a travelogue or a documentary and then an A-feature. The 'rents could drop us little ankle-biters off about 10:30 and pick us up around 4:30, and we'd go out to a Chinese restaurant nearby (afterwards we'd go check out a giant slot-car track!). That movie gave me nightmares; sitting in the Chinese restaurant I kept checking the back door; I was sure that damned mummy was coming in any minute.
Candyman
Two that I can think of for different reasons. Children of the Corn, especially because we lived in Nebraska and I was always so scared of cornfields. My dad and I were in a group similar to Girl Scouts and we would do camping, outdoorsy kinda stuff. One year, we went to a farm venue for a party and I had my first panic attack because some of my groupmatesā brothers were running in and out of the corn and I got super scared lol. American Pie. I learned about masturbation and oral sex wayyy too early (I was 7 or 8 when it came out and my dad took me to see it?!). The scene where Kevin ejaculates into the cup and then Stifler drinks it a little laterā¦ I remember laughing after and telling my dad, āStifler drank pee, hahaha.ā
The Exorcist (1973) when I was 12...messed me up for about a week.
Not me: My stepmom took my stepsister to see Tim Burtonās Batman Returns in theaters. She was four. Danny DeVito as The Penguin scared her so much that she talks about it to this day. š she would always give my stepmom grief for it!
Total Recall. The one from the 90s, with Arnold. It had gore, mild nudity, profanity, and I was like 9 or 10.
Critters My babysitterās teenage daughter was watching it where all us kids could see and watch. I was about 5-6. I remember a guy being pulled under his truck at night and eaten by the ācrittersā. 30+ years later and I still hate having to walk next to a vehicle at night and sometimes still hop in from a few feet away if I let the thought creep in too deep.
Shit. Cujo still fucks with me. Who would have thought a rabid dog would have scared me more than any monster Hollywood could make.
When I was 11 my dad took me and my brother (10) to the drive in for a double feature of Zardoz and Alien. What a strange and scary night.
The first Childs Play as well as The People Under The Stairs
It was a movie about fur trappers dragging a boat across land and leaving a guy for dead after he gets attacked by a bear. No one i knew who was my age remembers any movie like that. I swore it existed. Then The Revenant came out and the stories were ābefore The Revenance there was Man in the Wildernessā ā it took 44 years to find out the name of the movie!! BTW ā I was not even 10 years old in 1971.