A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg. Not sure if I was too young, but the emotions still haunt me to this day.
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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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Watership Down as a really young kid.
Schindler's List as a young teen.
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The Shining
The Thing
Green Inferno. Iβm a huge horror fan and am not bothered by gore, but man that cannibalism was so graphic I canβt shake the images.
Moontrap
Salem's Lot.
It was forbidden, but on TV, so I'd flip channels to watch it in 30 second clips. It was far more terrifying that way, as I found out later in life; watched all the way through, it was a fairly mediocre film.
"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". In my defense, I was about 6 years old when I saw it.
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I was 4 and my grandma was visiting and was supposed to look after me while my parents went out. They gave her the VHS of the first Terminator. I snuck into the living room and watched a bunch of it without her noticing. Afterwards, all the toy robots had to be taken out of my room because βthe man with the red eye took his eye outβ. My parents were then able to put one and one together.
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My Girl. I have a fear of bees because of that movie.
My parents had the Killer Klowns from Outer Space VHS and I was too scared to watch it as a kid. It wasn't until my mid 20s I actually got to watch it and realize its very much a comedy and not scary at all.
Birds.. 30+ years later I'm still always a bit creeped out by them, especially sea gulls.
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Cats Eye
The Shining
Pet Sematary
Pumpkinhead
Poltergeist
my parents didn't make an effort to shield me. I was too young for school when I first saw any of these movies
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My parentβs sex tape that I watched last year.
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I have no idea why I bought it, and even less idea why SatansMaggotyCumFart would release it.
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The Deer Hunter
The Day After
I ain't been nuked yet, but you never know...