Remember me, Eddie?!
@Suck_on_my_Presence Jaws did, I lived near a lake. Took me a while to realize the lake was really much too small for sharks, but the movie gave me vivid dreams.
Alien terrified me, as the house I lived in had long dark hallways where those beasts or eggs could hide. Saw the film when video2000 and Betamax were still competing. I never found xenomorphs in my house and terror faded, but the franchise stayed with me including Disneyfication.
What actually scared me more was Poltergeist. What a terrifying world, house, family, setting, glow from behind closed doors and the TV sucked you in to the other side.
Return to Oz
Childhood trauma all over the place…
Watched this as an adult. Movie is messed up.
ET. I’d have nightmares so bad that my dad had to sleep in my room because I was so terrified of him (I’d dream he was walking on my bed). He still freaks me out!
TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!
That shit made me laugh. I loved PeeWee Herman growing up.
Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they’re certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing
I just that with my kid and it for some reason I laughed so hard my kid thought the whole thing was funny. It’s just so absurd and terrible and wonderful. He’s this nightmare murder dude in a kids movie.
It’s genuiy terrifying. But I made it fun for my kid somehow.
I change my mind. I most certainly do not want a boat just like this.
It IS a freakout!
Very much so. When I was a kid my folks tried multiple times to get me to watch this movie and I could never get past the tunnel.
As an adult I still can’t watch it and I love me some Gene Wilder otherwise.
Gremlins, when they transformed
A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it’s only PG! It’s a comedy!
Yeah that was a mistake.
A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don’t know what the fuck I was thinking.
Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how “family-friendly” movies are anymore. I guess I just don’t really pay attention to that.
For some reason they haven’t kept in touch…
Fun fact: Gremlins was one of the movies which led to the creation of the PG-13 rating.
Lol I do the goddamn same thing. Some form of brain damage i think
That movie fucked me up as a kid. I had recurring nightmares for a decade.
In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.
The toxic waste scene fucked me up for a while.
To be clear, it still terrifies me.
I enjoy the rest of the movie but this is one of the greatest horror sequences ever. A remake that truly surpasses the original.
EDIT: I have to give a shoutout to the movie that had the most real world effect on me. That would be Arachnophobia. I couldn’t function normally for months. Sitting on the toilet. Putting my shoes on. Sticking my hand in a bag of chips. I was a wreck.
What are these from?
Seems to be this one Twilight Zone: The Movie | Terror at 20,000 Feet
No idea how I never heard about this. Loved the og twilight zone version
Who framed Roger rabbit, the scene with the judge guy putting a shoe cartoon into the acid barrel.
Volcano (1997) terrified young me. How could anyone sleep peacefully when lava could just appear out of nowhere?
Needless to say I never lived even remotely close to any kind of geologically active area, let alone a volcano.
Related, Dante’s Peak was terrifying to me as a child.
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When the grandma is screaming in pain from pushing their boat? Still gives me real life terror
I remember seeing a trailer for that movie at the theater and it scared me so bad I had to cover my eyes
Darkness falls.
It’s a movie about the tooth fairy but the tooth fairy is actually an old woman who used to collect the teeth of the children in her village until the townspeople burnt her alive and then she became a spirit who was essentially the tooth fairy but if you ever saw her she’d kill you.
It’s cheesy as hell but it was terrifying when I was younger
That movie is responsible for one of my favorite movie quotes that no one recognizes:
“We’re safe in the car, right!?”
And you’re in fact NOT safe in the car
- Signs - the aliens terrified me and I was scared walking to school for a long time
- The scarabs from The Mummy - I thought they would come out from under the sink and the closets to eat me alive
That one fucking news clip from Signs where the alien just walks past the alley feels so fucking real. Gives me the jeebies every time.
Oh my gosh, yes, the scarabs! They were so scary for a young kid!
Ugh… I grew up during the 80s with absolutely no parental oversight. I was allowed to read and watch whatever I wanted. Ton of slasher and horror movies, though 3 fuuuuuucked me up. Friday the 13th - Jason, Child’s Play - Chucky, and the most impactful being Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger.
At a 6 year old sleepover, the host father rented Nightmare on elm Street for a bunch of us little dudes. Half way through the movie, i got up and dressed out of my pajamas and walked home. I had nightmares for years about Freddy, chasing me in our basement around the oil heater. Fucking traumatized…
Saw Nightmare On Elm Street at 13yo so I was ok, I knew it was fake. After a few years when I bought it on VHS I saw that it was 18+ and I understand…
I lived on elm street when that movie came out. Did not appreciate that very much.
Terminator 1
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead!
This fucked me up more than any monsters… This thing just has one mission and it’s relentless
The Adventures of Mark Twain from 1985 has a scene where Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher enter a sort of pocket dimension and meet a stranger who is just a robe holding a mask. The stranger claims their name is Satan. Satan creates a doll sized castle and gives the children clay to make people. After the people are made Satan gives them life and all 4 characters watch the clay people for a little while. Then Satan calls them insignificant, annoying, and worthless before he smashes some with his hand, lightning strikes other clay people, and the rest get swallowed up by a sinkhole along with the castle. While this is happening Satan’s face/mask distorted and twists until it resembles a skull.
I saw this movie while spending a weekend at a family member’s house as a kid, maybe somewhere between the ages of 5 and 7 (it was an old movie then). I woke up in the middle of the night and this movie was put on while I was left alone in the living room. I don’t remember anything else from this movie, but it definitely fucked me up
Yep, that’s it
Yep, that’s the scene
I very distinctively remember this, but I didn’t know that’s what it was from! Woah.
