Ernest scared stupid. That troll going around at night, sneaking into kids rooms and turning them into wooden figurines was terrifying to my kid brain.
I watched The Ring and The Grudge when I was 12. I had trouble sleeping for the next year or two because I kept imagining I could see Kayako watching me from the ceiling of my closet, and slept with the TV on because it scared me less than the blank screen.
I was not a smart child.
Threads, Growing up near Sheffield and watched it when I was about 12...
Aliens. Me and my brother sneakily was watching it when our parents were gone, and when that chest-burster came out of that woman, I was out of there like a bat out of hell. Never told my parents, of course - had to protect our VHS privileges and all that.. It's still one of my favorite movies - the original cinematic cut, not the overly long director's cut (which seems to be the only one you can find these days.]
Salem's Lot (the 1979 mini series). The window scene with the floating kid messed me up real good.
When I was little, the Gremlins movies terrified me! Not sure why since they're super campy, but 🤷♂️ kids are weird.
The one that comes to mind is Geordi's eyes on Star Trek TNG. I don't know why, and I eventually got over it. But watching every new episode of TNG was sort of an tense experience wondering if the visor would come off for any reason.
Time Bandits. The evil character at the end. It was truly the most evil character I had ever seen.
You watched Event Horizon as a child? Damn, that's rough! I watched it as a young adult on TV thinking it was just normal sci fi and was scared shitless by the end...
As a child there was a part of a movie I watched that gave me nightmares for days. It was someone rubbing a bloody chickens paw on a womans leg. That's it, that's all I saw before my parents yelled for me to go to bed but it haunted me for days.
The Mummy (1990s movie, not that Netflix series)
Trilogy of Terror The little warrior doll that comes alive scared the living hell out of me
James and the giant peach was already an all around unsettling movie, but that thunderstorm rhino scared the bejeebes out of me as a kid.
Fire in the sky - The scene after he was abducted and wakes up on the UFO always freaked me out as a kid. I remember renting the VHS from Blockbuster back in the day. This was also when shows like Sightings and Unsolved Mystery were popular on TV.
Species from 1995. Parents and their friends were watching it and told us to not come in because it was too scary.
I thought they were bullshitting young me...I was wrong. Lol. Had wonderful nightmares for a while.
I remember when I has a kid my dad was Watching "Pink Floyd The Wall" and the scene where the kids walked on an assembly line to become sausages scared me a lot. It became kind of a misterious movie to me because the melody was kids popular and I could remember how dark that sensation was.
Many years later I started listening to Pink Floyd and watched the entire movie. I still love it.
Who the hell let's their child watch event horizon?
Who said someone let me? You know, children sometimes do stuff adults don't approve of. And some people have shitty parents. In my case it's both.
The aliens in Mars attacks were pretty scary.
Dumbo, the pink elephants scene. Genuinely had fever dreams of that when i got sick over the years.
New Alcatraz. Granted, it's monster horror that I shouldn't have been watching, but my gramps got annoyed at me because it's "obviously fake"
How come nobody mentioned Goosebumps? That shit was catered to kids, but I only dared watch it with the sound off.
Bruh I was scared by the vampire Simpsons Halloween episode. And goosebumps.
Jack and the Beanstalk. Not really a movie, but anime/cartoon from 1974. My parents turned it on for me every time they left the house. Check it up, it's terrifying, especially for a 4-year-old.
Weirdly, the original Andromeda Strain scared me more than any gore. It was probably linked to my childhood fear of sirens.
My Girl. The ending with the kid dying from getting stung by all those bees messed with my mind as I was only like 5 or 6 when I saw it.
So that's what the movie is called. It was probably my first movie without happy ending.
The Exorcist and The Omen. I cannot watch either again to this day.
Thank you for validating me. Event Horizon scares me to this day. Clawing out his eyes? Fucking no thank you.
As an adult i was super scared by that movie where the tooth fairy gets you if you're in the dark. I still turn my stairway light on when i walk to bed.
Return of the Living Dead, not because it's any good but just because I was really scared of zombies as a kid. The Tarman zombie gave me nightmares for years.
Gremlins for me, was way too young for that. Now it's one of my all time favorite movies.
The 1990 remake of the Night of the Living Dead. I was like 10 when I saw it, and then I had to walk through a dark forest alone to get home (I was supposed to walk with older girls but they left me behind). I legitimately thought I was going to die.
An American Werewolf in London. My parents were watching it when I was like 6. The opening sequence on the moors scared the hell out of me, and they decided I should go to bed. I think they had heard it was a comedy, so weren't prepared for actual horror. That scene stuck with me for like 20 years before I ever rewatched it. It's a good movie as an adult.
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