For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
Ernest scared stupid… Don’t ask me why, I just remember I couldn’t watch it entirely, and I would hide behind my older brothers. It just freaked me out!
The wolf from the neverending story freaked me right out when I was smol. Returned it to blockbuster and then rented Mr. Bean instead, so huge win
The part where the girl checked under her bed, then she looked back up and the monster was in the bed with her… That was the part that got me.
James and the giant peach was already an all around unsettling movie, but that thunderstorm rhino scared the bejeebes out of me as a kid.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. That movie sent me into a screaming terror when I was a kid. My mom still makes fun of me for it.
Honestly? ET scared little me more than it probably should have! That little bastard could pop up anywhere and looked even creepier when he was sick.
Hate that guy.
Apparently it was originally supposed to be a horror movie but don’t quote me, haven’t checked
“Apparently it was originally supposed to be a horror movie but don’t quote me, haven’t checked” -Chadsalot@lemmy.world
You can’t control me!
It seems you’re right.
Spielberg was apparently planning a horror film called Night Skies that didn’t get made but material was supposedly reused for ET.
100% agree, this was going to be my answer. I still occasionally have night terrors about him and I’m in my mid-30s.
You’re so right about how creepy he looked when he was sick - all pale and white like a 1980s dog poo.
My brother! It didn’t help that a family member made a E.T. lamp with light up eyes, finger tip, and heart. It flickered. And my parents put it next to my bed. I remember hiding under the sheets from it.
Mom had the gall to gift it to me for a house warming present lol. Its in a box….somewhere.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Heh, just reading the 5th book in the series!
I remember when I has a kid my dad was Watching “Pink Floyd The Wall” and the scene where the kids walked on an assembly line to become sausages scared me a lot. It became kind of a misterious movie to me because the melody was kids popular and I could remember how dark that sensation was.
Many years later I started listening to Pink Floyd and watched the entire movie. I still love it.
Jack and the Beanstalk. Not really a movie, but anime/cartoon from 1974. My parents turned it on for me every time they left the house. Check it up, it’s terrifying, especially for a 4-year-old.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The old animated one by Disney. The Witch/Evil Queen scenes would always scare the living shit out of little old me! When my sister and I would watch the movie with our grandparents, they would have to fast-forward through those bits.
Maximum Overdrive. It has taken me until adulthood to get over the irrational fear that big machines like trucks will come alive and drive me over. For many, many years I always got a slightly uneasy feeling when I’m cycling and a big truck goes by (even though I live in a country with good bike infrastructure and bike on separated bike paths). Even now at 26 I occasionally get the feeling. It’s silly, and I’ve mostly gotten over it. I guess my interest in cars and anything mechanical has helped me get over it, thankfully curiosity is sometimes strong than fear.
Funnily enough I occasionally listen to AC/DC and at some long ago point I stumbled upon their album “Who Made Who” and it became a favourite of mine. It was only a few years ago I realized that the album is the soundtrack to Maximum Overdrive!
Several years ago I actually bought a DVD copy of the movie; it’s still wrapped in plastic to this day. It’s not that I’m scared to see it, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet, and by now I’m unsure where it even is any more.
Stephen King’s IT.
Tim Curry is a phenomenal actor.
I can’t really remember why but I never wanted to watch Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer again after seeing it once. I just googled it and it could be the Ice-Queen that’s in there that I didn’t like but I’m not sure.
Those really weird thumb creatures from Spy Kids. Could not STAND them and the movie would rerun almost every day.
Also King Rameses from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Spy Kids is creepy as fuck to this day. The writers had to be taking some kind of substance because that shit was weird.
ET scared the crap out of me.
Thank you. I kept scrolling thinking I couldn’t be the only one.
Those long ass fingers creeped me the fuck out. Can’t believe that was supposed to be a kids movie lol.
I couldn`t sleep for weeks after watching it as a kid. Many decades later I met my wife. It turns out she also had nightmares as a kid after watching E.T.
Them!… old movie about giant ants. Even now when i hear the noise they make it gives me goose bumps.
Witness - I was about the same age as the kid in the movie. I’m still sketched put in Airport/train/bus station bathrooms.
Oh, man, Event Horizon was such a movie. “Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes” haunted me for a long time. And I had no idea it was gonna be a horror movie when I watched it.
Anyway, besides that one, the original Nightmare on Elm Street did me good. It was one of the first horror movies I ever watched, as my dad wanted to share it once he deemed me old enough. There’s something so terrifying about having to stay awake to not be murdered, but being powerless to do so. The most terrifying scene to me was the couple, where the woman got dragged across the ceiling and then the guy got arrested for her murder.
