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My first "too scary" movie was the 1999 cinematic masterpiece The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser. For those unfamiliar: not very scary at all, but I was probably eight when I saw it.
My siblings and I would fight over who got to sleep with the cat - in the movie the mummy is scared away by cats. Anybody who owns a cat knows this is a pointless argument, and the cat sleeps with who it wants.
Jesus those scarab beetles going under the skin.
Fuck those scarabs, gave me a lifelong fear of anything under skin
Sounds like they really got under your skin...
The cat probably sleeps with whomever doesn't want the cat to sleep with them.
The scary movie that got me was No Man's Land. A serial killer kills himself to avoid being taken to prison and his ghost traps the whole town while he goes on a killing spree.
I watched it again years later and it wasn't nearly as scary as I remembered. I was like 12 and it was 2 in the morning, so it chilled my sleep deprived self to the bone.
Oddly enough, this movie wasn't what gavee the worst nightmare I ever had. That honor belongs to the kids show Chalk Zone. The episode with the pink, hair eating frogs scared me in my dreams so bad I still get goosebumps just remembering it.
You know what, I could see it. I wouldn't want to run into one of these frogs in a dark alley.
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Pet Semetary for me lol
I was terrified by Critters when I was a kid. It's not even remotely scary as an adult, but for sheltered little me it was traumatizing.
The mummy, then, The Ring. The Ring doesn't really hold up, but goddamn that movie was the pinnacle for its timem
The ring definitely fucked me up as a kid too haha. Couldn't be in the same room as a TV by myself for a bit