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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Terminator 2, when he took off his skin from his arm, I NOPED out of there. I did finish it the next day though. It's also now in my top ten movies of all time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I saw Chucky as like an 8 year old and gave me a ton of nightmares

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Lots of the answers here make me feel old

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Saw Dawn Dawn of the Dead (1978) in the theater when I was 12. Didn't scar me for life, but it did have a big impact.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Robocop. I was around 9 at the time and saw it at a schoolmate's place (his parents sucked). The scene where Red shoots Murphy's hand off shocked me. I had nightmares about losing my arm.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi gave me nightmares as a young child, for years. Still, remembering how much I loved it, downloaded it to show my young kids, gave it a watch while they were out. Hell. No.

Let's just say Orson Wells had no business narrating a children's cartoon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ghost where the demons drag the bad guy to hell. I must have been 6 or 7.

Pet Sematary. The scene with the diseased old lady was the worst.

Braindead/splatter. Guy kills his zombie mother with a lawnmower I think.

Pumpkinhead. Actually kinda sad but still fucked up.

I had an 5 yrs older brother who would force me to watch scary movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That scene in Ghost messed me up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think its mostly the sound, for me. The sound of the fast climbing things in Half Life 2 equally terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Threads 13 y.o me was not prepared for this, especially as it was set just the next city away from where I used to live.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Aliens. It wasn't the movie itself, it was the TV adverts for it. A two-second shot of a door buckling as something pounded against it from the other side. I was exactly the right age to be shocked by the thought that you can't shut the monsters out with just a closed door.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not technically a movie, but the 1990 It mini series has always gotten me. I can watch the newer movies and it won't bother me at all, but that show was masterful in terrifying me as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The original 70s Texas Chainsaw Massacre makes me uncomfortable still as an adult.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was like 6 when my grandmom suggested we rent The Amityville Horror. I slept with the lights on for a week.

I don't think it would bother me now if I rewatched it but I've also never wanted to rewatch it.. I guess take that for what's it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My dad used to watch horror movies when he was supposed to be watching me, then fall asleep the couch with the movies still going. I don't watch horror movies at all as an adult, I can't handle them, but here's a list of the ones I can remember that I got exposed to while dad was sleeping:

Scanners

Cat's Eye

The Thing

Any old Twighlight Zone episode

The Lost Boys

Gremlins

Whatever show that was with Elvira

There was some show with a talking skeleton at the beginning all the time, I forget what it's called

Needless to say, ANY horror movie scares me, and i avoid them all, even the "funny" ones

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Killer Clowns from Outer Space

To this day I still get a weird thrill eating cotton candy, knowing it might be a person

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Grudge. I saw it when I was maybe 7 or 8? I was at an Aunts house with some older brothers that had it on. Honestly I barely remember actually watching it, but good lord it scarred me until I was at least 18 or so. I could never get the image of hair growing out of random places, turning into something terrifying out of my head whenever I was showering and stuff. I still haven’t rewatched it :D I’m quite a scaredy cat when it comes to horror movies already and I could totally see it giving me nightmares again if it’s anything like I remember as a kid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There was some movie on TV that I caught a glimpse of when I should’ve been in bed. I was probably about 3 yo. It was some blobby monster which in my memory was a bit like a skinny Michelin Man, emerging from a pond or river. Scared the shit outta me and the memory stuck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Day After.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

C.H.U.D.

Early 80s b-grade movie. Absolutely laughable from a modern cinematic perspective, but I haven’t touched it in over a third of a century due to how it scared the fark out of young-teenaged me. I have also taken a disliking to horror movies (in general) for that same reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tommy. So much horror for a musical.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Duel at Diablo. That guy roasting over the fire...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So when it was a little too young, I slept in the same room with my grandmother during the summer and she would like to watch TV very late at night, even while she slept. Because of that, i would sometimes happen to come across some of the more mature movies that they would be airing. This is a little too specific, but one night they were airing Superhero Movie 2008. I don't remember if I was paying attention or not, but when my grandmother put the channel with this movie on, it was around the funeral scene.

Yeahhhh my young ass was traumatized. Necrophilia is a no no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm old, but "The Mephisto Waltz," a1971 horror film about a dying pianist (and Satanist) taking over a young piano players body. Lots of murder, lots of screaming, and decanters of blue liquid. My parents took me in a drive in to see it, and I guess thought I'd be okay with it at age five, sleeping in the back of the car.

Nope.

Blue liquid still freaks me out.

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