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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.
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.
Definitely Stephen King's IT, the 90's miniseries. Tim Curry is absolutely terrifying as Pennywise. That lip curl he does when he says "Oh yes, Georgie, they float".
Sound of Music. Still does. Those fucking puppets. I have to leave the room for that scene when my wife watches it.
When I was a child, Pet Sematary scared the living hell out of me.
Threads, Growing up near Sheffield and watched it when I was about 12...
Salem's Lot (the 1979 mini series). The window scene with the floating kid messed me up real good.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Mummy (1990s movie, not that Netflix series)
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.
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.
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.
The Exorcist and The Omen. I cannot watch either again to this day.
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.
Thank you for validating me. Event Horizon scares me to this day. Clawing out his eyes? Fucking no thank you.
The aliens in Mars attacks were pretty scary.
Time Bandits. The evil character at the end. It was truly the most evil character I had ever seen.
Trilogy of Terror The little warrior doll that comes alive scared the living hell out of me
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.
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.
Weirdly, the original Andromeda Strain scared me more than any gore. It was probably linked to my childhood fear of sirens.
Gremlins for me, was way too young for that. Now it's one of my all time favorite movies.
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.
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"
Fantasia, not specifically the Night on bald mountain section, but the bits with the orchestra.
Also a TV series in the UK called Mealstrom. The paintings would come to life, which was ok but the intro was creepy AF https://youtu.be/_FwP5LAXd7U
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