Movies that scared the living shit out of you -

[Mrs Paul]

I recently ran across Pet Sematary on TV, which is probably the only movie that kept me up all night. I first saw it (well, part of it) when I was eleven, over a friend's house, and holy shit. I only saw up until the part with the sister, Zelda, and then I had to leave and go to church with my folks, but I didn't get any sleep.

Years later, I think when I was fourteen or fifteen,I and had a slumber party with my two best friends and we rented it. My sister, who was about seven at the time, insisted on watching it with us. So here we are, the four of us, huddled on the loveseat, and probaby hiding in each other's shoulders'.

(I love horror movies, but that one -- even though I can sort of watch it now, it still gives me nightmares. I think even Stephen King himself said it was the one story he wrote that made his family seriously disturbed.)

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

When I was a kid, I was terrified of Judge Doom at the end of Roger Rabbit when he got the toon voice and eyes. I'd always cover my eyes during that entire scene. Took me forever to actually watch it in full, and that's only because it happen to be on tv when I was older.

 

[R.A.E.L.]

I absolutely refuse to watch The Blob. Years ago I stumbled across the sink scene on Youtube, and ever since then it's disturbed the hell out of me. Nowadays it takes a lot to actually scare me, but this movie… Eugh. I just can't.

 

[Golly]

The Ring. I saw it when I was 10 and it just stuck with me. I loved the franchise (don't worry, this includes the Ringu side of things), but it freaked me out pretty badly. It was a good kind of mental scarring, but to this day anything Ring related will creep me out. This may or may not include varvarstvo's GIF avatars.

 

[meatslab]

Lobster Man From Mars scared the shit out of me when I was 5 because of one particular scene where this thing comes out of a dude's stomach after eating a sandwich and I was eating a sandwich while watching it at the time.

Also my parents took me and my brother to see Mars Attacks that same year in theaters. The aliens made me cry through the whole thing because they were terrifying and I had this huge fear of skeletons at the time and their faces were very skeleton-y. I tried my best to hold it in so I didn't bother anyone else and I completely lost it after the credits started rolling.

That and the aliens vaporized a dog and wee Meaty was even more upset about that. My parents felt really bad for traumatizing their very sensitive child.

 

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[AnOminous]

The Exorcist.

 

[Quijibo69]

This one:

 

[GV 998]

Pinocchio scared me as a kid. My dad is a huge Disney fan (and now I am as well) so he showed me all the classics at a young age. Pinocchio was scary to me though. Everything from the abusive puppeteer Stromboli, the Coachman who sells children into forced labor, and Monstro just made for a terrifying movie.

And the donkey transformation scene....holy shit that was nightmare inducing for a little boy

 

[Panty Shroom]

I saw Critters when I was about 8 and they terrified me.

 

[Handsome Pete]

There were a lot of movies that scared me as a kid, that I can now watch with no problem.

The one exception: Large Marge. Large Marge will never not terrify me.

 

[Cosmos]

Nowadays I'm very hard to scare, but I do remember movies from when I was younger that terrified me.

I recently ran across Pet Sematary on TV, which is probably the only movie that kept me up all night. I first saw it (well, part of it) when I was eleven, over a friend's house, and holy shit. I only saw up until the part with the sister, Zelda, and then I had to leave and go to church with my folks, but I didn't get any sleep.

Ughhh, fuck. Zelda. When I was like 14 I started watching Pet Sematary online; it was around 1 AM or so, so it was pitch black outside and I was the only person awake in the house. When I got to the Zelda scene I noped the fuck out of that movie and hid under the covers. I eventually finished the movie but skipped over the Zelda part. That bitch be scary.

Speaking of Stephen King, It scared the shit out of me when I was younger. Pennywise is one of the most terrifying things ever conceived.

However, the movie that traumatized me the most in my childhood was Jaws. It fucked me up for years; I had a completely irrational fear that the shark would come out through the faucet when I was bathing or showering (don't ask me how I thought a fucking 30 foot long great white shark would squeeze through some tiny pipes to kill me, in fresh water no less) so I would ask my mom or sister to stay nearby in case I needed to be rescued. I grew out of it by the time I was 10, and ironically Jaws is now one of my all-time favorite movies, but I'll never forget how much that movie haunted me as a child.

 

[AnOminous]

The Hills Have Eyes. The original.

Viewed out in the middle of nowhere in an actual farm house.

 

[VLAD]

Baby Vlad: The Birds.

Yung Vlad: The Ring.

Modern Vlad: The Witch.

 

[Shadow Fox]

I absolutely refuse to watch The Blob. Years ago I stumbled across the sink scene on Youtube, and ever since then it's disturbed the hell out of me. Nowadays it takes a lot to actually scare me, but this movie… Eugh. I just can't.

I saw part of the sink scene on Siskel & Ebert or something when I was a little kid and it terrified me. I was apprehensive of sink drains for like a week afterward.

 

[Mrs Paul]

I wasn't scared of It, but clowns are fucking creepy.

Fire in the Sky. My friend and I watched that with her family the once. The part during the examination, with the needle just...AAAAH! Anytime now when I see someone with stitches on their face it freaks me out a bit.

Then later on that evening we went up to a football game. Well, we were walking home (it was me, my friend, and her sister), and we heard something in the bushes, probably an animal or something, and we freaked out and ran all the way back up to the school. We ended up calling her dad to come and pick us up.

 

[Cosmos]

Fire in the Sky. My friend and I watched that with her family the once. The part during the examination, with the needle just...AAAAH! Anytime now when I see someone with stitches on their face it freaks me out a bit.

I wasn't aware of Fire in the Sky until just a few months ago so I don't have any traumatic childhood memories, but holy fuck, that scene detailing the abduction is so fucking creepy. To me, the worst part about it is that the aliens are acting like it's the most mundane, routine thing ever when to any human it's a living nightmare.

In general, things detailing alien abductions freak me the hell out. I'm not sure whether I believe it's a legitimate phenomenon (I do believe 100% that aliens are out there, I'm just not sure if they've been abducting and anally raping people for decades) but it's something that awakens a primal fear in me. I've loved Unsolved Mysteries ever since I was a kid, and one segment that gave me actual nightmares was the one detailing the Allagash Abductions. Unfortunately I can't share it because it's literally impossible to find Unsolved Mysteries online nowadays thanks to bullshit copyright policing, but I actually do have it saved away on an external hard drive. I'm still scared to watch it again.

 

[Some JERK]

The Donald Sutherland "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" messed my little-kid brain up for a while.

Spoiler: So did this bullshit

 

[XYZpdq]

The Ring. I saw it when I was 10 and it just stuck with me. I loved the franchise (don't worry, this includes the Ringu side of things), but it freaked me out pretty badly. It was a good kind of mental scarring, but to this day anything Ring related will creep me out. This may or may not include varvarstvo's GIF avatars.

When the dvd of The Ring came out I picked it up, and was playing with it at work. Of course there was a hidden easter egg of the video if you poked around the menus.
As soon as it finished playing the phone at work rang irl.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I recall Brave Little Toaster being fucking nightmarish but I don't remember why.
Although Eraserhead didn't scare me per se, I will probably never eat a Cornish game hen after seeing this