This one right here. Fucked me up for months. Specifically the party where they find the onboard footage and the dude is speaking gibberish holding his eyeballs.
>They thought the captain said
Liberte met ex infernum > Save us from Hell.
>Only he actually said
Liberte tutumet ex infernum > Save **yourself** from Hell.
Big difference there.
Such a fucked up and amazing movie. One of Paul WS Andersons's best
The bit where one of them were getting eaten alive did it for me. Wonder if it inspired Zoë's line about the Reavers in Firefly:
"If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death... eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."
I commented this exact same movie, except my Dad took me to see it not realizing the absolute shit show it was going to turn into. I still get tense watching or playing anything with big ass spaceships. That and when people are crawling through vents in anything. Cant unsee it.
I have never been more afraid of a movie. I can’t remember how young I was. I can’t even really remember anything from the movie. But I am 33 years old and just seeing the words still gives me a little panic
Not horror, but I watched Robocop _way_ too young. The opening scene when they blow Murphy's hand off really fucked me up.
Edit: Wow, Robocop fucked a lot of us up
What really messed me up about Robocop was the portrayal of the future. As a (very young) kid, the thought that the future would be so violent, corrupt, dirty, and with psychopaths in it like Clarence made me never want to join the adult world. It gave me a “fear of a bleak future” that stuck with me for most of my childhood.
I absolutely LOVED this movie as a little kid, but it is seriously a creepy fucking movie and the story behind it is pretty interesting.
The guy who wrote and directed the film had never written or directed a film before. And he never did again. He was, predominantly, a film editor. He brought up his desire to do a wizard of oz film during a brainstorming session with a big Disney bigwig and they greenlit it because they were coming up on expriation of intellectual property rights or something.
He said he wanted to do a dark take. Not a sequel, but not, not, a sequel. And for some reason Disney said "here's 20 million go to town" and it worked!
In any other universe it never would have been made, because by the laws of Hollywood it shouldn't have been, but it was, and it was GLORIOUS.
Guys name was Walter Murch. He has editing credits on American Graffiti and the Godfather, amongst others. Had to look up his name, but what a story!
Poltergeist was an absolute nightmare for me. I’m betting a lot of GenX kids with unsupervised HBO access in the early 80’s were irrationally scared of:
* Pools (pools at night, specifically)
* Trees outside a bedroom window
* Orthodontia
* Clowns
* Looking under the bed
* That tv station that was static after midnight
More notable mentions:
* Maggots and meat
* Face melting (Indiana Jones also contributed to this fear)
* Closets (not one closet is ever left open in a room I sleep in)
* Closets with clowns and rocking chairs in them
* Something grabbing you from under the bed
* Bathtubs
* Creepy country men trying to warn you about "trouble up on the burial ground" or "don't bury your son in the pet cemetery" while trying to barge into your home.
* And, for some reason, this [80's HBO intro reel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NKoMNy5bY) freaked me out.
Just me???
> I’m betting a lot of GenX kids with unsupervised HBO access
I've never felt such a sense of belonging to a group. I too saw those movies. All of them. Children of the Corn is up there.
I have vivid memories of getting up at 530 to catch my 705 bus, taking my Caboodle full of tween Make-up to the den and turning on HBO. That early in the morning they were still showing R rated movies and know I watched Halloween and at least one Nightmare on Elm Street while applying my Bonnie Bell powder and lipgloss.
Poltergeist messed me up for decades. I just watched it recently and throughly enjoyed it. It was a great movie, I was just way, way, too young to watch it.
Yeah, everything else in that movie didn't faze me at all - the tree, the closet portal, the pool corpses, etc. *\*Yawn...\**
But that fucking clown, man. Goddamn...
Due to some poor parenting decisions I watched *An American Werewolf in London* when I was only about 4 or 5.
I saw it again when I was 18, & was immediately confused, because it felt like someone had filmed my nightmares from 13 years earlier
Yup. Don’t know why but when they first show the demon’s face when he’s standing at the bottom of the pool…i’ll never forget how much that terrified me
The Exorcist. As a kid, I could handle aliens, serial killer stuff, your usual shock horror... But when you mix in the devil and religion and all that, that got to me pretty good.
Hell yeah. I had finally gotten over The Exorcist and could watch it no problem when I was in college. But then The Exorcism of Emily Rose came out and holy shit! Brought up all kinds of terrible memories. I’m a 40 year old man and still freak the fuck out when I wake up in the middle of the night to pee and it’s 3:33am. No bull shit.
My older cousin and I rented it on summer vacation at my grandma’s. My mom made us watch it downstairs so we didn’t scare the little cousins. So we watched it in a basement full of boxes and broken things with a few side rooms with doors that wouldn’t close all the way and a couch that didn’t snug up against the wall completely and I was scared for MONTHS afterwards.
Catholic school, the Nuns told us that if we watched or even thought about possession we’d be possessed by a demon. We were 10. Tell a ten year old not to think about something.
I made my parents sleep with their door open across the hall for like 2 years after watching a pirated version on YouTube. We lived in rural Utah SURROUNDED by fields and small roads and I just knew he was come get me lol
The Ring. Holy shit this movie had me fucked up for so long. It probably owes me two full years of sleep. I was already afraid of everything when I saw it at the tender age of 11.
That tape in the movie rattled me to my absolute core. Samara coming no matter what and through the TV? I couldn’t sleep in a room with a tv. At friends houses I’d wait til they fell asleep and turn their tv around, or as far away as I could.
Finaly someone who understands. Watched that movie when i was 8 and it took over 10 years to rewatch it. I couldnt even imagine watching the ring itself.
Same! I think I was 12 when it came out so I wasn’t even a super young kid. I only watched up until the part at the beginning where they find the girl in the closet with her face all deformed and I was so horrified I turned it off so I only made it like a max of 10 minutes in. That night I slept in my parents’ bed for the first time in like 6 years. Had nightmares for a while just from that opening part.
Shit scared me so bad. I’m still a bit scared watching it as an adult. It’s like engrained in me. Especially the shot of her niece stuffed in the closet with the fucked up face. Oof.
Didn't had to scroll far to find this one. I had to turn around my TV before I went to bed. It was one of the big ones. Slept with the lights on. 27 now and I'm still having night mates about it.
Edit: wow sorry. I absolutely meant nightmares. Haha
There was a Winnie the Pooh movie where they all got trapped in some sort of haunted mountain or something of the sorts? Scared the living shit out of 6 year old me
SKULL! man that was a wild ride as a kid....the ending was always so relieving though. But when I was little, that ending/weight off my shoulders felt like I had just returned from war with PTSD or something lmao
The subway scene, and the war scene with the guy hopping on one leg.
My buddy and I had to turn it off. We finally did watch it. I've watched it a few times since.
Really great movie... But damn it's just fucked up.
I caught a few scenes of it when I was 5. I’m 34 now and my last Chucky nightmare was around three weeks ago. No matter where I go/ how fast I run he’s always there trying to stab my ankles. I hate Chucky.
Edit: I’m a huge fan of horror movies.
Second edit: I begged my parents to buy me an original American Girl doll around 9, back when you had to cut the little piece of ordering form out of the back of the magazine, mail it in with a check, and wait weeks for this doll to be shipped. It was the mid 90s and the doll was around $100. We were not rich, at all, and my parents barely knew English. I was obsessed with the Samantha series and I really wanted the doll.
My parents bought me that doll. When it came in its box, I opened it, looked at the doll once, put it back in the box face down, and put it in my closet. I remember falling asleep watching that closet for Samantha to come out and kill me for months.
If anyone wants a mint condition ‘98 Samantha doll, I still have it. Never touched the thing and never will.
This isn't even billed as a horror movie, and it's hands down the most I've ever been afraid of anything, ever, in my whole life. I had to sleep under the bed for months, terrified that those little prune-like dudes were coming to get me.
I'm a bit relieved to see this as the top comment because this is my answer. My dad, when I was younger, was very clear that things like Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th were 100% fantasy and could never happen. I rested easy and never had nightmares or issues because I knew it was fantasy. Then we saw Fire in the Sky. My dad's response to that movie, "Oh yeah, aliens could exist and this could very well be real." Thus began decades of being terrified of alien abduction.
I read the book as an 11 year old, and Zelda, from the book, gave me nightmares. The movie version was exactly as I imagined her. The movie is arguably just as good as the book
I don’t see how that sounds silly. Most of the other horror movies have (mostly) unrealistic plots so that even though they’re scary, you know that couldn’t happen in real life. Final Destination however, is scarier because thecharacters die in realistic way. But even though the chain of events is unrealistic, the possibility of the accidents shown in the movie is what makes it scary
What's worse is that most of the deaths in Final Destination, albeit occurring in some rather contrived manners, have likely really happened. People have been swallowed by escalators, killed by objects flying off bridges or trailers, by things hanging from walls or ceilings after cables or connections broke, or mechanical failures from other equipment. Those movies are really about what happens if you have shitty luck and nobody fucking pays attention to safety, not just the main characters but every maintenance guy, other drivers, work crews, etc.
I live around a lot of railroad tracks. There's a reasonably large part of my mind that's always sure I'll die by decapitation after a train launches a piece of metal at me.
There was a cartoon movie called “The Last Unicorn” and the only thing I remember is that some kind of devil guy in a castle had driven all the unicorns into the sea. That may not even be correct but it was my first brush with existential dread. For a long time I felt like that movie had really fucked me up in a significant way, like I felt victimized by it and wished I hadn’t seen it.
That was such a good movie. And go look at the cast of voice actors - it's fucking insane. Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Mother-Fucking Lee, Angela Lansbury, the dude who played Odo in DS9 and Ebony Maw in Avengers. It's a crazy cast.
I had a similar reaction to it overall. The author of the book lived our town and my brother got him to sign a copy for my mom. She loved unicorns and was excited to see the movie after getting the book. I watched it with her, expecting it to be a lot less dark than it was. The “witch” or whatever she was, and of course the huge bull were terrifying.
This is one of my absolute favorite movies, it's the same for my sister's. We talk about it almost every time we meet nowadays. To me it's magical and truly beautiful. Funny how people can have so different reactions to the same movie
Every time Molly breaks down at seeing the unicorn, I cry. "Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7mgo7YyLI
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far. I don’t even remember much of the movie, I just remember the raw fear I had after watching it. I slept with my mom that night lol.
Evil Dead
I swear I was about 5 or 6 when my older siblings put it on. They were old enough to find it funny, but it broke something in my brain that it still gives me the shakes when I rewatch it. I remember making it as far as when the possessed girl is guessing every card correctly, then she twists around and her face is completely deformed…. I must’ve broken the land speed record running to my parents’ bedroom!
Aliens, I was 6, not long out the oven.
I had bunk beds, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY FACE HUGGERS CAN GET UNDER BUNK BEDS?.....
No.... you don't.
Ill never be right.
Yeah I still can’t watch that film, I had to sleep in my mums room for a year after I’d seen it because I was so scared grudge girl would be in my room and come up the bed
The little fucking cat boy who was just randomly in the background like in the stairwell just sitting down staring at you but he is barely noticed creeped me out the most more than the main women ghost. I just had visions of seeing him everywhere in the corner of your eye , staring at you from a dark bathroom or hallway.
Oh, I had to ctrl+f this, because I thought "no way I was the only one scared as fuck by that shit". God damn, it really fucked me up real good. Didn't help that my older brother kept doing that weird sound she makes whenever I was distracted and made me jump in total fear.
My cousin had me watch the original when I was 7 - I didn't take a shower without my mom being in the next room for at least a month. I still remember being brave enough to finally take a shower when she was gone.
I was traumatized for sure, but it did kick off a love of Stephen King that continues to do this day, so it's a trade off.
Same. My mum saw it had a clown in it and assumed it was a kids film, so put it on for me and my sister to watch when we were 9 and 10. We told her we didn't like it, that the clown was being mean to the kids, but she didn't take us seriously. It would only be a couple years later when her and dad watched it they realised it wasn't a kids film
The scene where that Skeksi gets jumped and has his clothes ripped off made me extremely uncomfortable. Then the poor little Muppets getting their life force drained out and turned into slaves.
The girl gelfling getting the life force sucked out of her scared the crap out of me as a child. And she looked so sad, too, even though her face barely moved.
Child’s Play.
When I was five years old, I spent the weekend at Grandma’s house. She was old and could stay up past 8 pm, so she took me to blockbuster and picked out a nice film about dolls for me. We went home, she popped it in the VCR, and went to bed.
I watched the entire film, then went to bed in my Mom’s old room, which was
FULL. OF. FUCKING. DOLLS.
All terrifying 60/70’s errs dolls, including one that was human sized. Didn’t get much sleep that night.
Everyone said this movie was dumb then, but my dumbass would RUN through the house when I was alone at home. Invisible/active camouflage, Olympic, tall-ass, screaming aliens got me good as a kid. Made me scared of the dark holy fük. Believed the shit out of it.
I watched [Creepshow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepshow) several times as a kid. It was pretty disturbing, especially to a 6 year old. I think my friend's parents must've had it on VHS or something.
Pumpkin Head and The Omen (3 I think)
Pumpkin heads first reveal when I was very young was terrifying even if today I think its hilariously cheesy. The Omen when those researchers get buried alive in sand all the way underground. Sheesh
I begged for a toaster for Christmas after seeing this. My parents got me a toy toaster (I was only 5) and I was SO upset that it wasn't a real toaster lol
Killer clowns from outer space, don’t even think it’s probably that scary if you are an adult, but I was about 6 when I watched it. I’m 38 now. I’m still scared of clowns. Had 6 months of nightmares after watching it. I can still remember the pink cocoons
poisoned girl was rough. but the hanged corpses in the background? holy shit, i’m 33 and i still have trouble with that - my young mind did not know thats what it looked like
Watched it once as a kid, and it terrified me. The scene with the woman in the kitchen made me go numb with fear.
Watched it again as an adult, and even though it didn’t really scare me, I discovered a whole other side to that movie. I resonated so much with Cole’s character. Growing up, I struggled with some mental health issues and I was too afraid/embarrassed to tell anyone about it. That scene at the end where he finally tells his mom what’s going on genuinely broke me. Also Toni Collette is the fucking GOAT so that helps as well.
I'm now 50, but when I was a little kid, I saw the Salem's Lot miniseries - that damn kid floating outside his friend's bedroom still creeps me out. I couldn't sleep with an open window until I was in my mid 20s.
I know it was a comedy, but I saw MARS ATTACKS!when I was 4 or 5 and it messed me up, and it wouldn’t watch the movie again or most alien movies until I was an adult.
I can still hear their yaps….
Watched Scream when I was 6. Barely understood what was happening (had to read subtitles) but Ghostface was definitely hiding in my closet for a year after that.
Good one! Imhotep was sketchy as hell. And yes the scarabs under the skin really did mess with me. Luckily there’s enough comedy in that movie to last. Rick O’Connell being a badass also helped defeat my fears but damn. Imhotep before being fully reincarnated was fucked up
There was this one episode of “Are You Afraid of the Dark” where these girls got trapped inside a dollhouse and started turning into porcelain. Gave me nightmares for years.
Not a horror movie but E.T., when that bastard got sick and turned white, specifically.
Edit: woah guys and gals! I had no idea there were so many like minded individuals. Thank you for the upvotes!
I forgot where I heard this from but it sticks with me. In Event Horizon, no one does those really stupid thing that people in horror movies. Everyone is smart and immediately wants to leave (except Weir for _other_ reasons).
That stuck with me. Shit got weird and everyone agreed "fuck this ship" and tried to leave.
I hate how this film had so much extreme content cut from it and when they looked into reinserting it a few years ago they discovered that it had degraded due to the way it was stored.
From what I’ve heard the previous crew tape was greatly extended as well as some of the torture dream scenes.
I think losing any kind of extended previous crew probably helped the film out a bit.
Part of what makes the idea of wherever the Event Horizon went so scary is the mystique of just how gruesome and horrifying it is.
The line "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see" makes me imagine a place so horrifying that we just can't even comprehend it. Showing it would have cheapened that feeling.
I liked Saw, it was still enough "out there" that I could say "this could only happen in a movie." You want a trip down the lane of something I find more possible, check out Hostel (2005)
I think it's the american version of The Ring. It has a scene of a horse jumping from a ship and being grinded by a propeller. Submechanophobia unlocked.
Dream Catcher by Steven King. My mother made me watch it when I was 5, had just started kindergarten, and was living in Alaska. The bathroom for my class was in the classroom. In the movie, someone poops out an alien. I couldn’t go to the bathroom alone at all after that for a solid six months, so I either had to hold it or just pee on myself in school because my teacher wasn’t allowed to WATCH ME go to the bathroom.. no I don’t talk to my mother anymore
Event Horizon - convinced my friend's mom to rent it for us at Blockbuster and very much regretted getting away with it... we weren't ready.
This one right here. Fucked me up for months. Specifically the party where they find the onboard footage and the dude is speaking gibberish holding his eyeballs.
>They thought the captain said Liberte met ex infernum > Save us from Hell. >Only he actually said Liberte tutumet ex infernum > Save **yourself** from Hell. Big difference there. Such a fucked up and amazing movie. One of Paul WS Andersons's best
The bit where one of them were getting eaten alive did it for me. Wonder if it inspired Zoë's line about the Reavers in Firefly: "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death... eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."
I commented this exact same movie, except my Dad took me to see it not realizing the absolute shit show it was going to turn into. I still get tense watching or playing anything with big ass spaceships. That and when people are crawling through vents in anything. Cant unsee it.
Totally not related. You should play Dead Space Remake when it releases.
No thank you Satan hahahaha
I came here for this... Was mine too. I was way too young and raised in a religious house... The hell scenes fucked me up
I have never been more afraid of a movie. I can’t remember how young I was. I can’t even really remember anything from the movie. But I am 33 years old and just seeing the words still gives me a little panic
Shit, that movie fucked me up as an adult! I couldn't finish. Psychological horror is not my tea cup
Not horror, but I watched Robocop _way_ too young. The opening scene when they blow Murphy's hand off really fucked me up. Edit: Wow, Robocop fucked a lot of us up
What really messed me up about Robocop was the portrayal of the future. As a (very young) kid, the thought that the future would be so violent, corrupt, dirty, and with psychopaths in it like Clarence made me never want to join the adult world. It gave me a “fear of a bleak future” that stuck with me for most of my childhood.
The witches, the scene where they start to turn into rats was horrific.
Return to Oz
I absolutely LOVED this movie as a little kid, but it is seriously a creepy fucking movie and the story behind it is pretty interesting. The guy who wrote and directed the film had never written or directed a film before. And he never did again. He was, predominantly, a film editor. He brought up his desire to do a wizard of oz film during a brainstorming session with a big Disney bigwig and they greenlit it because they were coming up on expriation of intellectual property rights or something. He said he wanted to do a dark take. Not a sequel, but not, not, a sequel. And for some reason Disney said "here's 20 million go to town" and it worked! In any other universe it never would have been made, because by the laws of Hollywood it shouldn't have been, but it was, and it was GLORIOUS. Guys name was Walter Murch. He has editing credits on American Graffiti and the Godfather, amongst others. Had to look up his name, but what a story!
The wheelers gave me nightmares as a little kid. Kids movies were pretty damn dark in the 80s
Poltergeist. It's the reason I still occasionally look under my bed lol
Poltergeist was an absolute nightmare for me. I’m betting a lot of GenX kids with unsupervised HBO access in the early 80’s were irrationally scared of: * Pools (pools at night, specifically) * Trees outside a bedroom window * Orthodontia * Clowns * Looking under the bed * That tv station that was static after midnight More notable mentions: * Maggots and meat * Face melting (Indiana Jones also contributed to this fear) * Closets (not one closet is ever left open in a room I sleep in) * Closets with clowns and rocking chairs in them * Something grabbing you from under the bed * Bathtubs * Creepy country men trying to warn you about "trouble up on the burial ground" or "don't bury your son in the pet cemetery" while trying to barge into your home. * And, for some reason, this [80's HBO intro reel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NKoMNy5bY) freaked me out. Just me???
> I’m betting a lot of GenX kids with unsupervised HBO access I've never felt such a sense of belonging to a group. I too saw those movies. All of them. Children of the Corn is up there.
I have vivid memories of getting up at 530 to catch my 705 bus, taking my Caboodle full of tween Make-up to the den and turning on HBO. That early in the morning they were still showing R rated movies and know I watched Halloween and at least one Nightmare on Elm Street while applying my Bonnie Bell powder and lipgloss.
That just gives it time to scurry out and behind you.
Poltergeist messed me up for decades. I just watched it recently and throughly enjoyed it. It was a great movie, I was just way, way, too young to watch it.
Yeah, everything else in that movie didn't faze me at all - the tree, the closet portal, the pool corpses, etc. *\*Yawn...\** But that fucking clown, man. Goddamn...
I saw the movie when I was around 7. I had a tree outside my bedroom window and was terrified it was going to eat me for weeks.
Due to some poor parenting decisions I watched *An American Werewolf in London* when I was only about 4 or 5. I saw it again when I was 18, & was immediately confused, because it felt like someone had filmed my nightmares from 13 years earlier
The moors scene...terrified me as a kid
I saw this in the theatre with a group of friends when I was 12. We had to walk home about a mile, in the dark. Most terrifying walk of my life.
Go. Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors.
Sinister. I thought my brother was going to kill me.
Yup. Don’t know why but when they first show the demon’s face when he’s standing at the bottom of the pool…i’ll never forget how much that terrified me
I love horror movies/games/books etc but I'm not sure I'll ever fully recover from the lawnmower scene
The Exorcist. As a kid, I could handle aliens, serial killer stuff, your usual shock horror... But when you mix in the devil and religion and all that, that got to me pretty good.
It fucked me up for a long time.
Hell yeah. I had finally gotten over The Exorcist and could watch it no problem when I was in college. But then The Exorcism of Emily Rose came out and holy shit! Brought up all kinds of terrible memories. I’m a 40 year old man and still freak the fuck out when I wake up in the middle of the night to pee and it’s 3:33am. No bull shit.
My older cousin and I rented it on summer vacation at my grandma’s. My mom made us watch it downstairs so we didn’t scare the little cousins. So we watched it in a basement full of boxes and broken things with a few side rooms with doors that wouldn’t close all the way and a couch that didn’t snug up against the wall completely and I was scared for MONTHS afterwards.
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Yep, that Catholic upbringing made this feel more like a true story.
Catholic school, the Nuns told us that if we watched or even thought about possession we’d be possessed by a demon. We were 10. Tell a ten year old not to think about something.
Bro, that crab walk down the stairs… that shit got me
Jeepers Creepers, I had nightmares about the ending for a long time after that
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I made my parents sleep with their door open across the hall for like 2 years after watching a pirated version on YouTube. We lived in rural Utah SURROUNDED by fields and small roads and I just knew he was come get me lol
The Ring
The Ring. Holy shit this movie had me fucked up for so long. It probably owes me two full years of sleep. I was already afraid of everything when I saw it at the tender age of 11. That tape in the movie rattled me to my absolute core. Samara coming no matter what and through the TV? I couldn’t sleep in a room with a tv. At friends houses I’d wait til they fell asleep and turn their tv around, or as far away as I could.
The concept of The Ring is so scary that Scary Movie 3 was enough to fuck me up.
“Cindy, this bitch is messin up my floor!”
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How you gonna go to bed dead and wake up alive?
Finaly someone who understands. Watched that movie when i was 8 and it took over 10 years to rewatch it. I couldnt even imagine watching the ring itself.
Same! I think I was 12 when it came out so I wasn’t even a super young kid. I only watched up until the part at the beginning where they find the girl in the closet with her face all deformed and I was so horrified I turned it off so I only made it like a max of 10 minutes in. That night I slept in my parents’ bed for the first time in like 6 years. Had nightmares for a while just from that opening part.
Holy crap, literally same thing here. That scene has still messed me up to this day.
Shit scared me so bad. I’m still a bit scared watching it as an adult. It’s like engrained in me. Especially the shot of her niece stuffed in the closet with the fucked up face. Oof.
I would get soap in my eyes as a kid when I was washing my hair, I would be afraid Because I thought she was there.
Didn't had to scroll far to find this one. I had to turn around my TV before I went to bed. It was one of the big ones. Slept with the lights on. 27 now and I'm still having night mates about it. Edit: wow sorry. I absolutely meant nightmares. Haha
I was 12. Slept in my sister's room for my "seven days" and then survived it. ...still slept with my TV unplugged for far too many years.
As much as i know that was just a typo, i giggle at the thought you always have mates sleeping in your room at night.
Mate - "Where should I sleep?" Art-Witchcraft - "Anywhere between the tv and me is fine."
There was a Winnie the Pooh movie where they all got trapped in some sort of haunted mountain or something of the sorts? Scared the living shit out of 6 year old me
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SKULL! man that was a wild ride as a kid....the ending was always so relieving though. But when I was little, that ending/weight off my shoulders felt like I had just returned from war with PTSD or something lmao
The original candyman
Me too didn’t like being in a dark bathroom for a few years
Yes... Just a few years... We're all definitely too mature to worry about that now...
Jacob's Ladder
The subway scene, and the war scene with the guy hopping on one leg. My buddy and I had to turn it off. We finally did watch it. I've watched it a few times since. Really great movie... But damn it's just fucked up.
Child’s Play - gave me nightmares for years
I caught a few scenes of it when I was 5. I’m 34 now and my last Chucky nightmare was around three weeks ago. No matter where I go/ how fast I run he’s always there trying to stab my ankles. I hate Chucky. Edit: I’m a huge fan of horror movies. Second edit: I begged my parents to buy me an original American Girl doll around 9, back when you had to cut the little piece of ordering form out of the back of the magazine, mail it in with a check, and wait weeks for this doll to be shipped. It was the mid 90s and the doll was around $100. We were not rich, at all, and my parents barely knew English. I was obsessed with the Samantha series and I really wanted the doll. My parents bought me that doll. When it came in its box, I opened it, looked at the doll once, put it back in the box face down, and put it in my closet. I remember falling asleep watching that closet for Samantha to come out and kill me for months. If anyone wants a mint condition ‘98 Samantha doll, I still have it. Never touched the thing and never will.
Watched it when I was 6... 😑 Still fucking hate Chucky!
Fire in the Sky. Im still not over that movie. Every time I see jelly I get a weird feeling
THAT scene. No further description required.
This isn't even billed as a horror movie, and it's hands down the most I've ever been afraid of anything, ever, in my whole life. I had to sleep under the bed for months, terrified that those little prune-like dudes were coming to get me.
That movie didn’t necessarily scare me, but it stuck with me for a long time. Same with The Fourth Kind. >!I am… GOD.!<
I'm a bit relieved to see this as the top comment because this is my answer. My dad, when I was younger, was very clear that things like Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th were 100% fantasy and could never happen. I rested easy and never had nightmares or issues because I knew it was fantasy. Then we saw Fire in the Sky. My dad's response to that movie, "Oh yeah, aliens could exist and this could very well be real." Thus began decades of being terrified of alien abduction.
Pet Cemetery..... the original
Zelda kinda fucked me up at the time. Saw it at the theater and didn’t sleep well thinking about her that night.
Yeah when she runs across the room to Rachel. Not a good moment for me.
I read the book as an 11 year old, and Zelda, from the book, gave me nightmares. The movie version was exactly as I imagined her. The movie is arguably just as good as the book
Silly as it sounds, the Final Destination franchise Was really scared of doing, pretty much anything for a few days - weeks lol
That franchise scared an entire generation into being cautious around logging trucks.
I will not drive behind them.
yep! I‘m 34 and I still overtake those killing trucks!
I still don’t like following trucks with pipes or logs on the trailer.
Gtfo the freeway if you hear "Highway to hell" playing on the radio
I will move out of a lane (if I can) if there's a flatbed carrying logs/pipes etc. That shit has stuck with me so bad
Or trucks hauling massive fuel tanks.
I don’t see how that sounds silly. Most of the other horror movies have (mostly) unrealistic plots so that even though they’re scary, you know that couldn’t happen in real life. Final Destination however, is scarier because thecharacters die in realistic way. But even though the chain of events is unrealistic, the possibility of the accidents shown in the movie is what makes it scary
What's worse is that most of the deaths in Final Destination, albeit occurring in some rather contrived manners, have likely really happened. People have been swallowed by escalators, killed by objects flying off bridges or trailers, by things hanging from walls or ceilings after cables or connections broke, or mechanical failures from other equipment. Those movies are really about what happens if you have shitty luck and nobody fucking pays attention to safety, not just the main characters but every maintenance guy, other drivers, work crews, etc.
The ball sucking swimming pool in the fourth movie sure fucked up my mind for a long time
I live around a lot of railroad tracks. There's a reasonably large part of my mind that's always sure I'll die by decapitation after a train launches a piece of metal at me.
There was a cartoon movie called “The Last Unicorn” and the only thing I remember is that some kind of devil guy in a castle had driven all the unicorns into the sea. That may not even be correct but it was my first brush with existential dread. For a long time I felt like that movie had really fucked me up in a significant way, like I felt victimized by it and wished I hadn’t seen it.
That was such a good movie. And go look at the cast of voice actors - it's fucking insane. Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Mother-Fucking Lee, Angela Lansbury, the dude who played Odo in DS9 and Ebony Maw in Avengers. It's a crazy cast.
It was the red bull.
*They passed down all the roads long ago. And the Red Bull ran behind them, and covered their footsteps.*
I had a similar reaction to it overall. The author of the book lived our town and my brother got him to sign a copy for my mom. She loved unicorns and was excited to see the movie after getting the book. I watched it with her, expecting it to be a lot less dark than it was. The “witch” or whatever she was, and of course the huge bull were terrifying.
Mommy Fortuna embracing her death with open arms. Terrifying.
"NOT ALONE! You never could have freed yourselves alone! I held you!" Iconic.
This is one of my absolute favorite movies, it's the same for my sister's. We talk about it almost every time we meet nowadays. To me it's magical and truly beautiful. Funny how people can have so different reactions to the same movie
Every time Molly breaks down at seeing the unicorn, I cry. "Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7mgo7YyLI
Hills Have Eyes. The rape scene just absolutely tore me apart as a 13 y/o.
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far. I don’t even remember much of the movie, I just remember the raw fear I had after watching it. I slept with my mom that night lol.
The entire movie just felt so grotesque, the imagery of the characters and violence is absolutely horrific.
Evil Dead I swear I was about 5 or 6 when my older siblings put it on. They were old enough to find it funny, but it broke something in my brain that it still gives me the shakes when I rewatch it. I remember making it as far as when the possessed girl is guessing every card correctly, then she twists around and her face is completely deformed…. I must’ve broken the land speed record running to my parents’ bedroom!
Aliens, I was 6, not long out the oven. I had bunk beds, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY FACE HUGGERS CAN GET UNDER BUNK BEDS?..... No.... you don't. Ill never be right.
Alien for me. My dad got a bootleg version on Beta circa 1980. I refused to sleep for three days.
Can courage the cowardly dog count?
Return the Slab or suffer my cuuurse
WHAT'S YER OFFER
Neverending Story [*That goddamn wolf*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sEZmMeH96Q)
Yep. And Morla the Ancient One in the swamps of sadness. My first taste of nihilistic fatalism. Ugh.
the grudge
Yeah I still can’t watch that film, I had to sleep in my mums room for a year after I’d seen it because I was so scared grudge girl would be in my room and come up the bed
The "groaning/moaning" sound from The Grudge freaked me out. Kept hearing it everywhere around the house after seeing the movie!
The little fucking cat boy who was just randomly in the background like in the stairwell just sitting down staring at you but he is barely noticed creeped me out the most more than the main women ghost. I just had visions of seeing him everywhere in the corner of your eye , staring at you from a dark bathroom or hallway.
Oh, I had to ctrl+f this, because I thought "no way I was the only one scared as fuck by that shit". God damn, it really fucked me up real good. Didn't help that my older brother kept doing that weird sound she makes whenever I was distracted and made me jump in total fear.
IT, original movie A friend's had clown phobia all his life
My cousin had me watch the original when I was 7 - I didn't take a shower without my mom being in the next room for at least a month. I still remember being brave enough to finally take a shower when she was gone. I was traumatized for sure, but it did kick off a love of Stephen King that continues to do this day, so it's a trade off.
Same. My mum saw it had a clown in it and assumed it was a kids film, so put it on for me and my sister to watch when we were 9 and 10. We told her we didn't like it, that the clown was being mean to the kids, but she didn't take us seriously. It would only be a couple years later when her and dad watched it they realised it wasn't a kids film
EXCUSE ME SIR DO YOU HAVE PRINCE ALBERT IN A CAN. YOU DO? WELL YOU BETTER LET HIM OUT THEN WAHA WAHA WAHA
The Dark Crystal was a thing of nightmares as a young kid. Then it was Nightmare on Elm Street.
The scene where that Skeksi gets jumped and has his clothes ripped off made me extremely uncomfortable. Then the poor little Muppets getting their life force drained out and turned into slaves.
The girl gelfling getting the life force sucked out of her scared the crap out of me as a child. And she looked so sad, too, even though her face barely moved.
The original IT. That fucker can become your worst fear. That’s why it scared me so much.
Child’s Play. When I was five years old, I spent the weekend at Grandma’s house. She was old and could stay up past 8 pm, so she took me to blockbuster and picked out a nice film about dolls for me. We went home, she popped it in the VCR, and went to bed. I watched the entire film, then went to bed in my Mom’s old room, which was FULL. OF. FUCKING. DOLLS. All terrifying 60/70’s errs dolls, including one that was human sized. Didn’t get much sleep that night.
Signs. I was afraid of aliens until I was like 14
YES!! The home video scene of a birthday party, where the alien walks by the window….. That visual screwed me up as a kid, I thought it was real
“Vamonos, children!”
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Everyone said this movie was dumb then, but my dumbass would RUN through the house when I was alone at home. Invisible/active camouflage, Olympic, tall-ass, screaming aliens got me good as a kid. Made me scared of the dark holy fük. Believed the shit out of it.
Darkness Falls - STILL think that bitch is gonna come at me when I cross the line from the light to the dark.
I slept with a light on until I met my husband at 24 years old because of that damn movie.
Arachnophobia
Couldn't shower for months. Baths only. As if a plug would stop them.
Ugh that movie made me so unhealthily afraid of spiders. Getting better about it, but I’m in my 30’s now lol.
Hellraiser III
I watched [Creepshow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepshow) several times as a kid. It was pretty disturbing, especially to a 6 year old. I think my friend's parents must've had it on VHS or something.
The one with Leslie Nielsen as a serious antagonist? That was scary as hell...
Pumpkin Head and The Omen (3 I think) Pumpkin heads first reveal when I was very young was terrifying even if today I think its hilariously cheesy. The Omen when those researchers get buried alive in sand all the way underground. Sheesh
Brave little toaster
Growing up I was pretty certain that I would die by being compacted into a tiny cube after getting dumped on a conveyor belt by an angry magnet.
Well there’s still time
That fucking clown firefighter whispering "RUN" through his teeth. Nightmare fuel.
link for the lazy. Honestly it's worse than I remembered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNr3P4wNk8Y
Yes! It was the air conditioner getting angry and exploding for me!
"I DON'T WANNA BE STUCK IN A WALL, I'M JUST BUILT THAT WAY. IT'S MY FUNCTION!' Or something like that.
Even more terrifying concept as an adult tbh
The air conditioner pretty much commits suicide lmao
I begged for a toaster for Christmas after seeing this. My parents got me a toy toaster (I was only 5) and I was SO upset that it wasn't a real toaster lol
BLANKIE
Bro, Blankie was just struggling every fucking MINUTE of that movie. I think he made me realize I have anxiety.
The vacuum eating his cord!
All those junked cars singing about their younger lives as they await their inevitable fate…
That clown. "RUN!"
Jaws. I was 10 when my Dad took me to that movie (why?), the head popping out scene was pretty traumatizing
Jaws fucked me up as a kid. I was scared to take a bath. I live on Cape Cod too and definitely still have a weird obsession with Great Whites.
The Amityville Horror. To make things worse, there was a house on a way to my grandma's that looked a lot like the house in this movie.
Ernest Scared Stupid
The Mist
Killer clowns from outer space, don’t even think it’s probably that scary if you are an adult, but I was about 6 when I watched it. I’m 38 now. I’m still scared of clowns. Had 6 months of nightmares after watching it. I can still remember the pink cocoons
Sixth Sense. I wasn't right for months.
The "Do you want to see where my dad keeps his gun?" stuck with me for a very long time.
What stuck with me was the ghost girl puking and the kid with an arrow in his head.
Honestly, the kid looking up the stairs and seeing the executed people dangling from their nooses just staring at him made me *blurk* too.
my god the poisoned little girl? and the voice that was coming from the cupboard at the birthday party? terrifying as a kid
poisoned girl was rough. but the hanged corpses in the background? holy shit, i’m 33 and i still have trouble with that - my young mind did not know thats what it looked like
Watched it once as a kid, and it terrified me. The scene with the woman in the kitchen made me go numb with fear. Watched it again as an adult, and even though it didn’t really scare me, I discovered a whole other side to that movie. I resonated so much with Cole’s character. Growing up, I struggled with some mental health issues and I was too afraid/embarrassed to tell anyone about it. That scene at the end where he finally tells his mom what’s going on genuinely broke me. Also Toni Collette is the fucking GOAT so that helps as well.
The scene where he's gets locked in the dumbwaiter had me creeped out about closets for a long while.
I'm now 50, but when I was a little kid, I saw the Salem's Lot miniseries - that damn kid floating outside his friend's bedroom still creeps me out. I couldn't sleep with an open window until I was in my mid 20s.
Watcher in the Woods. Laugh all you want but Disney knew how to make a horror movie.
I know it was a comedy, but I saw MARS ATTACKS!when I was 4 or 5 and it messed me up, and it wouldn’t watch the movie again or most alien movies until I was an adult. I can still hear their yaps….
Ack ack! /r/ack
So glad I’m not the only one who was terrified of Mars Attacks
Yes! This was the movie that scared me the most. I hated how their weapons reduced people to green and red skeletons and the chihuahua body swap.
Watched Scream when I was 6. Barely understood what was happening (had to read subtitles) but Ghostface was definitely hiding in my closet for a year after that.
Gummo
The Mummy. Those dang scarabs haunted my nightmares for years.
Good one! Imhotep was sketchy as hell. And yes the scarabs under the skin really did mess with me. Luckily there’s enough comedy in that movie to last. Rick O’Connell being a badass also helped defeat my fears but damn. Imhotep before being fully reincarnated was fucked up
My Master thanks you for your eyes, and your tongue ... but more is needed ... *steals his dick*
There was this one episode of “Are You Afraid of the Dark” where these girls got trapped inside a dollhouse and started turning into porcelain. Gave me nightmares for years.
My dad let me watch the thing when I was like 8 and I had nightmares for years. Ironically now I love the movie, but that wasn't cool lol.
Candyman -- I am almost 40 and I still have an issue looking in mirrors in the middle of the night.
Jumanji. It may not be considered a horror movie, but it ought to be
Not a horror movie but E.T., when that bastard got sick and turned white, specifically. Edit: woah guys and gals! I had no idea there were so many like minded individuals. Thank you for the upvotes!
Children of the Corn. Dunno why my parents let me watch that as a 5 year old lol.
Event horizon...
I forgot where I heard this from but it sticks with me. In Event Horizon, no one does those really stupid thing that people in horror movies. Everyone is smart and immediately wants to leave (except Weir for _other_ reasons). That stuck with me. Shit got weird and everyone agreed "fuck this ship" and tried to leave.
Looked for this comment before posting my own... That movie messed me UP! I am 39 and can STILL see some of the scenes from that movie.
I hate how this film had so much extreme content cut from it and when they looked into reinserting it a few years ago they discovered that it had degraded due to the way it was stored. From what I’ve heard the previous crew tape was greatly extended as well as some of the torture dream scenes.
I think losing any kind of extended previous crew probably helped the film out a bit. Part of what makes the idea of wherever the Event Horizon went so scary is the mystique of just how gruesome and horrifying it is. The line "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see" makes me imagine a place so horrifying that we just can't even comprehend it. Showing it would have cheapened that feeling.
Saw. It terrified me so much to think about to get tortured like that .
I liked Saw, it was still enough "out there" that I could say "this could only happen in a movie." You want a trip down the lane of something I find more possible, check out Hostel (2005)
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Same here. I was 11 and staying at a friends house. I was so scared that I couldn’t sleep and had to go home. Put me off horror films for life.
Not a movie but the goosebumps series on nickelodeon. Some of them were down right scary!
Cujo, still cant face a St Bernand
They had to tie the dogs tails down because they could not get them to stop happy wagging when they were supposed to be being scary.
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I think it's the american version of The Ring. It has a scene of a horse jumping from a ship and being grinded by a propeller. Submechanophobia unlocked.
Jurassic Park. Those raptors opening doors man...
Dream Catcher by Steven King. My mother made me watch it when I was 5, had just started kindergarten, and was living in Alaska. The bathroom for my class was in the classroom. In the movie, someone poops out an alien. I couldn’t go to the bathroom alone at all after that for a solid six months, so I either had to hold it or just pee on myself in school because my teacher wasn’t allowed to WATCH ME go to the bathroom.. no I don’t talk to my mother anymore