For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
Superman III
When I was 4 and watched Spirited Away I was terrified
Pet Cemetery.
But not, like, the zombie cat, zombie dog, or zombie kid. What scared me shitless was the short little flashback of the wife’s sick sister in bed.
This! The original one.
I dreamt that the white dog/wolf jumped over me and my midsection spasmed and it jerked me awake.
Also, Arachnophobia was terrifying! I felt that it was where my fear of crawling insects came from. Because when I was younger, I was not afraid of catching spiders as large as my tiny hands.
the original
Oh yeah, there’s a remake now, huh? I, too, mean the original lol
Arachnophobia I saw when I was a little older, and thought it would scare me (since I hate spiders) but it was actually kind of funny.
yeah, looking back, I’m surprised that it affected me that much. You never really know what could trigger a lifelong change in your state of mind. Specially wen you think about it. I have actual first hand experience of catching a spider, yet a movie with made up scenarios made me not trust my experience and drove me to be afraid of spiders for probably the rest of my life.
All Freddy Kruger movies., All Chucky Movies, IT, Grudge, Saw movies
When I was a child Child’s Play came on some channel on TV, and since I was a child I thought it was a fun movie for kids. Luckily my much older sister saw what was going on, recognized and knew the movie, and forbade me from watching it. Thanks to her I avoided some kind of phobia, I’m sure.
The grudge Japanese version, where the child appeared under the blanket.
It was terrifying to realize that blankets cannot protect us from ghosts anymore. And I was high-school age at that time, but still it affected me.
Saw Backdraft when I wasn’t supposed to. Still have to have the door closed to sleep.
Should always sleep with the bedroom door closed. Can provide just enough protection to give you time to escape out a window. Or, be rescued from the window.
ghost ship and the cube!
Yes! The opening scene from Ghost Ship fucked me up for a while.
the cube and ghost ship
That opening scene to Ghost Ship is burned into my memory
Watership Down. It’s supposed to be a kids movie but damn is it dark.
Thank you for validating me. Event Horizon scares me to this day. Clawing out his eyes? Fucking no thank you.
Well that is a very fucking scary movie. To this day.
Yeeah. Not a kids movie at all. I watched it in college not knowing what I was getting into. Yeesh.
Same. That movie was legit scary.
if cartoons count, the “return the slab” episode on Courage the cowerdly dog, scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t be in the dark for months after.
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The OG Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. I was like, 6? Spent weeks looking under the bed for pods.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I went for the cartoon characters. The reveal for Judge Doom near the end was terrifying.
The voice really… fucking hell!
Shutter, but the original Thai version.
For years after watching it I needed to make sure I was holding the bottom of my blanket with my legs all night long. Damn…
At age 8 Critters. I couldn’t go to the toilet alone for weeks after seeing once come out of the toilet. It’s a PG too!
For reference I’d already watched exorcist by that age as my cousin and I snuck the copy out of my uncle’s video shop. Exorcist didn’t bother me anywhere near as much!
Critters or Ghoulies? Never watched the latter but the vhs tape cover had one coming out of the toilet:
I never watched Ghoulies, but I’ll never forget walking through the rental store and the box was eye-level with tiny kid me. Scarred me pretty bad. After that I was terrified of flushing the toilet, so toilet lid always had to be down and as soon as I flushed I would run from the bathroom.
Took me probably twenty years to completely get over it.
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