The Brave Little Toaster.
Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.
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Arachnophobiaβ
It doesn't actually still haunt me (I'm the family spider hunter) but I did get nightmares for a while from that one.
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Saving private Ryan at ten years old.
Saw Bone Tomahawk in my late 30s. Wasn't old enough to handle that yet, apparently
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Not exactly a movie, but my older sisters had me watch the original IT mini-series when I was very young and I had clown nightmares for years after.
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The first Ghost busters movie
I saw scenes of it at six years old and some of them were really scary if you are too young. For weeks I had nightmares about chairs grabbing me with demon arms or demon dogs trying to eat me.
Jurassic Park 3 when I was 9 for a friend's birthday. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for weeks. I'm not really haunted by it any more but the scene where the skeleton in the parachute swings out of the tree is seared into my brain.
Underworld
I was like 8. Scared the shit out of me
Also, girls in leather
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Jurassic Park, I was 8. Saw it at the cinema and was hiding behind the seats. It still hits a bit hard.
I have no clue what the movie was. All I know is that my grandmother was watching it while I was in the same room. I remember being too bored to pay attention at 4 years old or so. Except when I looked over at the screen and saw a man put a gun to his head he pull the trigger. The music went silent after and we got an areal shot of the blood spreading. It left such an impression itβs one of my earliest memories.
I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 12. That one took a while to get over.
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The Naked Lunch. I was probably 10 years old? I didn't understand any of the plot, I was weirded the fuck out and the giant bugs made me sick to my stomach.
2 Movies really.
- Bette Davis in the Nanny. I haven't liked the bath since.
- Death Wish. Wasn't suitable for an adolescent. I'm still traumatized by the home invasion / rape scene. Hey, that was Hope Lange from the Ghost & Mrs Muir!
Creep Show, the segment with the Antarctic wolf creature scared the shit outta me. It still creeps me out to this day for some reason.
My dad was flicking through the movie channels and saw that "Pulp Fiction" was on, decided to watch it because he "heard it was pretty good".
It was already well underway, and I had the joy of watching the entire basement scene (iykyk) at 12 years old, beside my dad. Not sure why he didn't turn it off sooner π€·π»
I bet you were pretty fucking far from OK eh?
That Tom Hanks movie where he's stranded on an island after a plane crash when I was 6.
I saw it a day before taking my first plane ride and going over sea.
Wilson!
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They showed us 4 Rooms at summer camp when it had just come out on VHS. I was 13 but pretty sheltered and that movie was kind of nuts.
For me it was The Amytiville Horror (1979). I still can't look out of a window at night and not think of seeing eyes. I didn't see the film until I was about 11, so mid 80s.
Star Trek: First Contact scared me shitless as a kid. They made a fucking Star Trek horror film. As an adult, I'd say 8/10 movie.
Im not even sure how many times I've watched First Contact. One of my favorite episodes is the one where Worf devolves into an actual werewolf.
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I was like 6 when i saw some of The Ring. It fucked me up for a long time.
Jaws.
Titanic.
I now fear most bodies of water.
Jaws was scary because of shark.
Titanic was scary because of iceberg.
Water did nothing wrong.
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Sleepers. I was raised watching horror and other movies which I probably should not have (early favorites included A Nightmare on Elm Street and Robocop), but the only one which was too much was seeing Sleepers when I was ten or eleven. Too realistic, I guess.
Aliens. Must have been 12 or so. A boring sunday and my friend's mom drove us to the cinema. (In Germany the movie was rated 16) but we didn't bounce off at the desk. I was not exactly horrified, but so ... thrilled. After that I dived a bit too deep into the H.R.Giger universe, I guess.
Aliens is the James Cameron sequel which is a bit more action than horror. Did you mean Alien or Aliens?
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg. Not sure if I was too young, but the emotions still haunt me to this day.
Mini correction, that was a Stanley Kubrick film, Spielberg finished it when Kubrick died... The last 15 minutes are all Spielberg, really ruined the movie, had 3 spots where the movie said have ended but Spielberg does happy endings, Kubrick would have ended it much differently
Yeah, Spielberg is a genius, but that wasn't his best work.
True, but he did have a lot of involvement, his wife told him kubric isn't allowed in the bedroom anymore because spielberg apparently had a fax machine in the bedroom and Stanley being Stanley would non stop message with new ideas, directions for the project.
That was when Spielberg stopped being involved with the project until years later
Just seeing pictures of Freddy Krueger in the TV timetable magazine (whatever do you call those?) scarred me for life and had me imagining him under my bed.
As a too young kid I saw the scene of him grabbing the boy and pulling him inside the bed and then blood sprayed out of the bed. And uh.. 40 years later it still affects me. Yeah, don't show that stuff to kids, people! It does affect them even though they'll never talk about it!
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silence of the lambs at like 8. still one if my all time faves but I definitely could've waited a few more years to get into it lol
The Shining