Movies What film scared you the most as a kid?

[mjmj]

This still pops in my head occasionally when I’m outside at night.

 

[Beechwood]

I don't know the name of the film but it was shown to us young kids on a rainy lunch period. I was in school in California and it was to wet to go outside and play. So our tuba playing principle decided to show us a movie. It was about a pioneer family, and the mom was attacked and killed by some wild dog, probably a wolf. My family had just recently moved out in country side and at night we could hear coyotes hollowing which scared me. So the mom being killed by a wild dog in the film scared the heck out of me. I don't think I slept well for weeks after that movie.

 

[sleepwalk]

When I saw The Shining and Sleepaway Camp, I was way too young; to the point that I was confused as to what was going on and that took some of the scare out of it.

But this 1/2 star pile of shit got 9-year-old sleepwalk shook for days:


First movie I can remember seeing with a defeatist ending.

 

[I Am Legion]

I loved spooky stuff/horror from a very early age. My Dad eased me into it, but I def watched some things too young lol. Things that stick in my head:
1. Poltergeist--Clown scene, spooky voice from TV.
2. The Shining--Some truly disturbing scenes. Old lady in bathtub. Bear, Twins etc.

But what sticks with me is just the creepy opening of Tales From The Dark Side. 80s peeps know this. Came on late on Saturday night and I had trouble sleeping after it.

 

[I Am Legion]

The Gremlins messed me up for several years when I was a kid.

As a young kid, my son didn't like Barney and Sesame Street. He liked King Kong and Godzilla movies. We let him watch Gremlins on a TV broadcast and it became his favorite movie. To this day NO movie or show can scare him.

 

[I Am Legion]

For me it was a movie called The Entity. I was sleeping over my buddies house and unexpectedly his older brother put this movie on. It's about a woman who gets haunted by a poltergeist, but it like rapes her and shit



I'd probably think it's lame now, but that was like my first proper horror movie and I was like 6 or 7 maybe. So at the time I was terrified

Yup. One of the first on screen titties I saw....and it was getting squeezed by an invisible entity!

 

[Doomer]

The Unnamable (1988), the scariest movie... when i found it 25 years later and was happy to see this movie again and was rolling on the floor, the second part was probably even funnier.

The White Monster (1988) ⭐ 4.8 | Horror

1h 27m | R

www.imdb.com

 

[I Am Legion]

This asshole

LMAO...True story. We always go visit my Mother in Law for St Patrick's Day weekend. Her town does it up right. All the cousins come and when they were kids, would all sleep in sleeping bags in the living room. Every year there would be a Leprechaun marathon on TV. The kids would stay up and watch. One year I get up to grab some water and I saw they went to sleep with all the cabinets open. I asked why and they said "So the Leprechaun can't hide and jump out at us!". Fucking classic.

 

[Cid]

Back to the Future is one of my favorite movies now, but Doc Brown scared the bejesus out of me when I was 5.

If I told you this man had the defiled corpses of a dozen missing children in his garage instead of a time machine I think you'd believe me.

Count yourself thankful it wasn't Who Framed Roger Rabbit because if Doc Brown scared you Judge Doom would have taken your soul.

 

[ROKKO]

I had a vivid imagination, so I was scared of a lot, including just concepts of horror movies I had never seen. One that got me as a little kid was The Gate, as it felt like something that could happen in my own yard/house.

You are the only one to mention the gate. I was born in the 80s. Two movies for me.
Nightmare on Elm Street. My dad rented it from the video store, we watched it at night with all the lights off. My brother, sister and I were so scared we turned it off.

The other movie was the Gate. We were at our cousin's house watching the movie, again at night, in the dark and we had to turn it off.

We saw lots of horror movies but those two did it for us.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[djacobox372]

When I was 5yo: Time Bandits ending... basically the two biggest fears I had at 5 were my house burning down and my parents dying--they did both in the same scene. The firefighters acting all jolly and not consoling the kid made it extra creepy.

 

[Berserker13]

I watched most of the classic horror movies very early.

mostly for the boobs I think

 

[TheNinja]

Killer rabbits...sounds like 'night of the lepus'

lol - yes!! That's it. I remember watching it as a kid and it scared the crap out of me. I must have been in 6th grade or something and they were showing it on TV.

 

[Fury]

When the troll was under the bed In Ernesto Scared Stupid

And Burnt Offerings

 

[Sobek]

I'm still traumatized by the music during the rape scenes.

Found the scene...listen close

 

[Excelsior]

Found the scene...listen close

That's fucking horrible. Not the movie, but my reaction to that music.

 

[Jesus X]

 

[kimocomplex]

 

[west42]

Fire in the sky