Star Trek: First Contact scared me shitless as a kid. They made a fucking Star Trek horror film. As an adult, I'd say 8/10 movie.
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Well I wasn't too young, but Requiem For A Dream still haunts me as one of the most depressing movies ever made, it's just...really sad and disturbing. I think I saw it when I was 18.
Even Grave Of The Fireflies was more uplifting than that.
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Aliens. Must have been 12 or so. A boring sunday and my friend's mom drove us to the cinema. (In Germany the movie was rated 16) but we didn't bounce off at the desk. I was not exactly horrified, but so ... thrilled. After that I dived a bit too deep into the H.R.Giger universe, I guess.
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Saw Bone Tomahawk in my late 30s. Wasn't old enough to handle that yet, apparently
One of my friends recommended this, and I had to turn it off a few minutes in. That movie is insane.
I have no clue what the movie was. All I know is that my grandmother was watching it while I was in the same room. I remember being too bored to pay attention at 4 years old or so. Except when I looked over at the screen and saw a man put a gun to his head he pull the trigger. The music went silent after and we got an areal shot of the blood spreading. It left such an impression itβs one of my earliest memories.
"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". In my defense, I was about 6 years old when I saw it.
Contributing a DVD rip of that got me power user status on a private tracker once upon a time.
Haven't been there in a long time, but good memories.πΏ
Great movie too.
I slept over at a friend's house, and we watched The Shining when I was 12. Still haunts me to this day, and I've never re-watched it since.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg. Not sure if I was too young, but the emotions still haunt me to this day.
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The Brave Little Toaster.
Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.
I was 4 and my grandma was visiting and was supposed to look after me while my parents went out. They gave her the VHS of the first Terminator. I snuck into the living room and watched a bunch of it without her noticing. Afterwards, all the toy robots had to be taken out of my room because βthe man with the red eye took his eye outβ. My parents were then able to put one and one together.
Nowadays one of my favorite movies, tbh.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Underworld
I was like 8. Scared the shit out of me
Also, girls in leather
Sometimes I wonder if seeing the Masked Magician as a child was a stepping stone to my interest in women. I've rewatched clips of it as an adult. Why was it so horny? As a kid I remember cool magic tricks. But like... Why the industrial BDSM looking sets and constant comments about the women's bodies? I guess that was just more "normal" then. But then again maybe it wasn't, I remember hearing that Penn has a problem with that guy because he's a creep? Who fucking knows.
My dad was flicking through the movie channels and saw that "Pulp Fiction" was on, decided to watch it because he "heard it was pretty good".
It was already well underway, and I had the joy of watching the entire basement scene (iykyk) at 12 years old, beside my dad. Not sure why he didn't turn it off sooner π€·π»
I bet you were pretty fucking far from OK eh?
My parents had the Killer Klowns from Outer Space VHS and I was too scared to watch it as a kid. It wasn't until my mid 20s I actually got to watch it and realize its very much a comedy and not scary at all.
Birds.. 30+ years later I'm still always a bit creeped out by them, especially sea gulls.
Mate?
Watership Down as a really young kid.
Schindler's List as a young teen.
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Grave of the fireflies
I watched this one, pretty haunting, there is only one in my opinion (only counting movjes that I have watched) that comes close and thats Come and See, a soviet film set in Belarus during german ocupation
Come and See is so brutal.
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I was like 6 when i saw some of The Ring. It fucked me up for a long time.
Jaws.
Titanic.
I now fear most bodies of water.
Jaws was scary because of shark.
Titanic was scary because of iceberg.
Water did nothing wrong.
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Just seeing pictures of Freddy Krueger in the TV timetable magazine (whatever do you call those?) scarred me for life and had me imagining him under my bed.
Tv Guide
As a too young kid I saw the scene of him grabbing the boy and pulling him inside the bed and then blood sprayed out of the bed. And uh.. 40 years later it still affects me. Yeah, don't show that stuff to kids, people! It does affect them even though they'll never talk about it!
The Shining