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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] MikeyU 5 points 1 day ago

2 Movies really.

  1. Bette Davis in the Nanny. I haven't liked the bath since.
  2. 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!

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.

[–] BabyVi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The ring, when I was 11. I was scared for years

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

That movie scared the hell out of me when I was in High School. I crashed someone else's date to see it.

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

In scrolled so far to find this and fuck yeah that messed me up, was way too young and my sister terrorized me with it

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I saw it around the same age and can still remember seeing that dead girl's swirly face in the closet. Overall I didn't think it was too scary overall but that scene has always stuck with me. I was exposed to a lot of this type of stuff as a kid with siblings 8-10 years older than me and can remember watching Tales from the Crypt several years before this, so horror has never really frightened me apart from the first 85% of Hereditary.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Arachnophobia​

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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[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Event Horizon when I was 10. I think that recalibrated what the entire concept of fear was in my mind.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Same for me, maybe I was a bit older but it scared the bejesus out of me and got me into reading scifi

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[–] Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Terminator 2. I saw it when I was 6 or 7 when it came out on vhs. I didn’t want to watch kids movies ever again after that. It was fucking awesome. As far as scarring me, none, people in my elementary school were watching Faces of Death.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The scarab scene in The Mummy

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[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Event Horizon

i can still vividly picture moments from that movie decades later

[–] druid74@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One of my dad's favorite movies. We would run through the den on the way to kitchen whenever he had it on. Definitely gave me nightmares at age 10 and for years afterwards.

[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Hell yeah brother

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Great film, other than the weird trope of "they speak Latin in hell for some unexplained reason", which always bugs me

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] greatwhitepapertiger@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 12. That one took a while to get over.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 days ago

The Truman show

So much existential dread

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The world premiere of the Michael Jackson’s Thriller video scared the fucking shit out of me. I ran out of the room screaming when MJ turned to his date and had yellow demon cat eyes. Man fuck that.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

This is what I was going to say too!

I'm not sure if it was the premiere, but I do remember being called to come and see it - so it must have been some sort of event, or else they wouldn't have called me in specially.

Anyway, yeah, those eyes at the end. The rest didn't bother me at all, but those eyes haunted me for years.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The Never Ending Story. I was 28. Still shaken a couple decades later.

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[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Damn you, Large Marge!

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[–] christov@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Jurassic Park, I was 8. Saw it at the cinema and was hiding behind the seats. It still hits a bit hard.

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

[–] cannon_annon88 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] smashing3606@feddit.online 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oddly, I think this series is why i have arachnaphobia. Clowns I'm good with though for some reason.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well I wasn't too young, but Requiem For A Dream still haunts me as one of the most depressing movies ever made, it's just...really sad and disturbing. I think I saw it when I was 18.

Even Grave Of The Fireflies was more uplifting than that.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

This is the first title that I thought of when reading the thread

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[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Fire in the sky. Alien abduction still freak me out

[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] blurec@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago
[–] MrEC@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Green Inferno. I’m a huge horror fan and am not bothered by gore, but man that cannibalism was so graphic I can’t shake the images.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Saw Bone Tomahawk in my late 30s. Wasn't old enough to handle that yet, apparently

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

Sorry, but you're wrong. That movie is in fact a solid 10/10.

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