For me it was The Amytiville Horror (1979). I still can't look out of a window at night and not think of seeing eyes. I didn't see the film until I was about 11, so mid 80s.
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The first Ghost busters movie
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The ring, when I was 11. I was scared for years
In scrolled so far to find this and fuck yeah that messed me up, was way too young and my sister terrorized me with it
I saw it around the same age and can still remember seeing that dead girl's swirly face in the closet. Overall I didn't think it was too scary overall but that scene has always stuck with me. I was exposed to a lot of this type of stuff as a kid with siblings 8-10 years older than me and can remember watching Tales from the Crypt several years before this, so horror has never really frightened me apart from the first 85% of Hereditary.
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Arachnophobiaβ
It doesn't actually still haunt me (I'm the family spider hunter) but I did get nightmares for a while from that one.
I had the same experience with that movie! By the way, please try not to kill spiders...
Event Horizon when I was 10. I think that recalibrated what the entire concept of fear was in my mind.
Same for me, maybe I was a bit older but it scared the bejesus out of me and got me into reading scifi
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American News
They showed us 4 Rooms at summer camp when it had just come out on VHS. I was 13 but pretty sheltered and that movie was kind of nuts.
I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 12. That one took a while to get over.
I saw that around that age too. The scene with the sniper still haunts me.
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Moontrap
Fire in the sky. Alien abduction still freak me out
My Girl. I have a fear of bees because of that movie.
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Yeah, that one
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That guy spoke Latin before he went to Hell. You can hear him using it to make a pronouncement on the log just before things went bad.
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The world premiere of the Michael Jacksonβs Thriller video scared the fucking shit out of me. I ran out of the room screaming when MJ turned to his date and had yellow demon cat eyes. Man fuck that.
This is what I was going to say too!
I'm not sure if it was the premiere, but I do remember being called to come and see it - so it must have been some sort of event, or else they wouldn't have called me in specially.
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