Cats Eye
The Shining
Pet Sematary
Pumpkinhead
Poltergeist
my parents didn't make an effort to shield me. I was too young for school when I first saw any of these movies
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I think I was ten when a friend and I asked his big sister if we could watch with her. We could, but I still think A Nightmare on Elm Street was a bit too much for me back then.
Saw Robocop when I was six. Murphy getting his arm blown to bits haunted me for years.... Until I saw Red Foreman years later, then I was ok
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Oh and The Shining at the time (11 y/o home alone) really messed me up as well.
Watership Down.
Same. I must have watched it when I was in early primary school. Still hold the image of bloodied rabbits tearing and clawing at each other. WTF was that about?
The Deer Hunter
Poltergeist
The Day After
I ain't been nuked yet, but you never know...
Life of Brian
Gremlins
I recently showed this movie to someone and I didnβt remember it being that scary/gory! This is some crazy PG movie lol
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come and see, i think that main actor might also have got haunted by it
Idk what it was called but there was a movie where a group of people got trapped in a flooded underpass that I watched at 7 or so that gave me recurring nightmares for years.
Also I saw Munich in theaters when I was 13 because my mom thought it would be an informative historical film and we ended up having to sneak out (Iβve only left a movie once since then! Some terrible christmas comedy).
That sounds like Daylight with Sly. Always forget that one exists.
The last unicorn. That red bull gave me the creeps for months
Same, but I kept watching the movie again anyway.
Total Recall freaked me out pretty good and I saw it when I was like 32
Fire in the Sky. Still havenβt rewatched it decades later.
Idk the movie but it was late 80s or early 90s, there was a guy with his head in a TV screen, which was on and had the image of a woman's mouth eating the head. Fucked me up for years as a kid because I had no context.
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Reptilicus
I don't know the name and it was only one scene I saw passing by, something about giant spiders, and one dude was getting into the car to escape and a spider was inside waiting. It probably was in the second half of the 90s and it was on TV, so probably released in late 80s or early 90s. And I don't think it's arachnophobia, at least I haven't seen any scene that reminds me of my memory.
I've had phobia to spiders ever since.
If we consider watching the full movie, it did haunt me for so long and I still remember it with dread, critters. Fucking hate those puppets they used.
The Giant Spider Invasion, maybe? It was on MST3K, but I think it was pretty successful on initial release too.
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Poltergeist, I was like 6