What movie scared you when you were a kid?

PrincessCricket · Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:22 pm

Let me see....

1.Who Framed Roger Rabbit? : Judge Doom, especially when he puts that toon shoe into the Dip.
2.Disney's Pinocchio: I still get nightmares from this movie, mainly from the Coachman. "They never come back as...boys!" :twisted:

My god that was scary. But I was never scared of the whole boys getting turned into donkeys scene.
3.Return to Oz: Really awesome film, but the Gnome King and Mombi scared me.
4.Nightmare Before Christmas: Mainly because Jack has no eyes. He doesn't really scare me anymore.

Can't think of anything else.

Krysondra · Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:58 pm

The movie that absolutely terrified me when I was a kid was Gremlins. I was so scared that I would hide my mom's collectible memorability in the top of her closet so it couldn't get me. That was the movie that made me scared of things that go bump in the night and monsters under the bed. Of course, I saw it when I was like six, so.... Possibly poor parental judgement.

John Bayley · Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:52 pm

i don't remember any films that scared me when i was younger, that's not to say there weren't any though. However, i do remember being terrified by several of my old cassettes. i used to be fascinated by them, i'd listen to them all the time, yet they scared me a lot, especially my tape of ghost stories.

hludwig2010 · Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:33 pm

I was scared of the Wizard of Oz.

Shalimar · Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:22 am

Chucky!

Guess I wasn't supposed to see it at that age. I still have nightmares and I am almost 28. :lol:

tbarron · Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:40 am

An American Werewolf in London. And actually, I was in college when I saw it, but after that I refused to watch any horror movie for years and years. Only in the last couple of years I've been able to watch and enjoy a few light horror shows -- Van Helsing, the Underworld sequence, things of that ilk.

oblivion · Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:28 am

I was terrified of the Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins and Brigadoon with Gene Kelley. I still can't watch The Wizard of Oz.

geo · Mon Jan 18, 2010 11:13 am


	Krysondra wrote: The movie that absolutely terrified me when I was a kid was Gremlins. I was so scared that I would hide my mom's collectible memorability in the top of her closet so it couldn't get me. That was the movie that made me scared of things that go bump in the night and monsters under the bed. Of course, I saw it when I was like six, so.... Possibly poor parental judgement.

I didn't see Gremlins until I was older, but my wife says that movie scared the bejeezus out of her. But maybe your parents aren't so bad. I think Gremlins was actually marketed towards kids via McDonalds and Burger King in the happy meals and such. Such cute furry little critters . . . until you give them water (was it?)

Basically a trio of movies directed by Steven Spielberg very nearly traumatized me in the days of my impressionable youth. Jaws, Poltergeist and to some extent Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Especially Jaws. And that scene in Poltergeist where the guy rips off his face. I think I almost died.

A few years later it was Ridley Scott's Alien that almost did me in. :lol:

Nullifidian · Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:21 pm

The scariest movie I saw when I was a kid was Psycho. The shower scene didn't scare me nearly as much as the reveal of Mother. When Lila Crane went into that basement and swung that chair around and saw the dessicated corpse, I just freaked.

A few years later, I went to San Antonio with my family. We visited the Alamo and right across the street was a Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum and a wax museum right next door, Tussaud's Plaza Wax Works. They had a scary section of the museum, featuring characters from classic horror stories (the Wolf Man, the Phantom of the Opera, etc.) as well as real life killers. I only got twenty feet into this room before becoming rooted to the spot by Mother. They had set this wax figure on a turntable to precisely mimic the reveal in the movie, and unluckily for me it was just starting to turn slowly to the right. I ran right out of there and never looked back. :lol:

Other than that, the only scary film I can remember making as great an impression on me was The Omen. I still remember Keith Jennings (David Warner's character) being decapitated by the pane of glass and the head bouncing in the frame. Yikes!

The Exorcist didn't scare me at all, nor did its re-release, with all the 'shocking' language intact, do any more for its reputation. I'm sorry, but any little girl, demon-possessed or not, shouting out "your mother sucks c----s in hell!" is instantly risible.

The only other movie I can say was seriously traumatizing to me was The Great Santini. It's not a horror film at all, but I grew up in an abusive family situation not at all dissimilar to the one in that movie, so it really bothered me. I never did finish watching it and I still haven't tried to see it again.

ChrisRippel · Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:57 pm

Humans fighting the stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts, 1963, really creeped me out because the skeletons were almost impossible to kill with swords.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYeZMx1Y7U
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poohza · Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:30 pm

I have to agree about the Wizard of Oz. The flying monkeys...ugh. When I was a little older (teen?) I watched The Shining and it really scared me. Actually, it still scares me.

lottebeertje · Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:01 pm

Not so much a movie, but Twin Peaks is pretty terrifying. Sarah Palmer and Laura Palmer for that matter screaming still give me nightmares. And I really did not like Saw nor any of the three sequels that were shoved down my throat at parties. Bloody awful.

ktsetsi · Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:30 pm

Robocop scared me because of all the blood. It was the most blood I'd seen in a movie, at the time.

Suspense-wise, it was The Hitchhiker.

The Ritzy · Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:04 am

Interview With A Vampire made me scared that someone would bite my neck at night. For quite a few years, I slept with my blankets up to my neck. Does that count?

N3M0 · Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:56 am

Like Shalimar, I also watched Chucky when I wasn't old enough for that... I think I was about 10 or 11 and spent the night at a friend's house. Unfortunately, this friend had a big brother who lent us some movies and of course, we decided to watch the most gruesome one. Afterwards, we spent the rest of the night sitting together on the sofa, being afraid to move. The following nights weren't much better...
The second worst film I saw was It. I watched it with my elder sister when I was 12 and since that night I really, really, really detest clowns! Some years later I took care of a babysitter-child and nearly got a heart-attack because she really loved clowns and her room was full of them. ;-)

Somewhen I got used to them, but I think I will never ever again really enjoy watching clowns.

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