The Evil Queen disguised as an old lady in Snow White

At the height of the cold war, 87 or 88 iirc, a movie came on HBO called Dreamscape. It's WW3 imagery really blew my mind, I recall having dreams about it for ages. I'd turned it on because a few weeks before I'd really enjoyed Innerspace with the same lead actor, but this was a bit different lol

ET. I’d have nightmares so bad that my dad had to sleep in my room because I was so terrified of him (I’d dream he was walking on my bed). He still freaks me out!

Return to Oz

Childhood trauma all over the place...

Can't remember what name of this movie, but it had in the end a train flying over a destroyed bridge and into a river at the bottom of a ravine. That and corpses and debris floating left it seared in my head for a couple years.

edit: might be this. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074292/

It's a tie between the wicked witch and her monkeys in the Wizzard of Oz and the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

It wasn’t a movie per se. I thought it was when I was a kid, though. It’s an episode of “Friday the 13th: The Series” called “The Executioner”.

I was like maybe 6 or 7 at the time.

It starts with this guy in prison you see them take him to the electric chair and attempt to execute him. They botch it and the warden or whoever pretty much goes “oops, well by law we did technically carry out your sentence so you’re a free man now”

He then goes on to become a dentist and uses a “cursed electric chair” as his dentist chair to take revenge on the world.

This gave me a real fear of going to the dentist on top of just being a kid and being scared to go. Still hate going to the dentist (who doesn’t I guess)

I used to play Myst at the time and that even made me feel uncomfortable in the Time Machine room with the dentist chair at the first island.

edit: I watched it again as an adult and it was corny as hell

Still scary!

Terminator 1

Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!

This fucked me up more than any monsters... This thing just has one mission and it's relentless

Fire in the Sky. Hoo boy I still get the willies decades later.

I don't remember my age, but Spirited Away absolutely fucked me up for a little while. I felt like I was in that world and was terrified of No-Face eating me up. Legitimately had nightmares... It doesn't seem that bad rewatching it but it was not good for my younger mind.

::: spoiler :::

To be clear, it still terrifies me.

I enjoy the rest of the movie but this is one of the greatest horror sequences ever. A remake that truly surpasses the original.

EDIT: I have to give a shoutout to the movie that had the most real world effect on me. That would be Arachnophobia. I couldn't function normally for months. Sitting on the toilet. Putting my shoes on. Sticking my hand in a bag of chips. I was a wreck.

Volcano (1997) terrified young me. How could anyone sleep peacefully when lava could just appear out of nowhere?

Needless to say I never lived even remotely close to any kind of geologically active area, let alone a volcano.

Darkness falls.

It's a movie about the tooth fairy but the tooth fairy is actually an old woman who used to collect the teeth of the children in her village until the townspeople burnt her alive and then she became a spirit who was essentially the tooth fairy but if you ever saw her she'd kill you.

It's cheesy as hell but it was terrifying when I was younger

Oddly enough, I had nightmares about turning into a dog and not being able to get back to normal after watching Shaggy D.A. Also remember my dad, brother and I watching a rented Betamax copy of American Werewolf in London in our little unfinished basement TV area and being very spooked about being alone in the dark that night. Those subway access tunnels!

I think it was from one of the Creep Show movies, Tales from the Crypt, or a similar collection, but a short about teens on a raft on a lake being picked off by some kind of black slime/algae thing. Never been comfortable swimming in lakes since

for some reason, i was terrified by the 1989 batman vhs sleeve as a kid. not the movie itself, just the sleeve the tape was in. i don't think i'd even seen the movie at that point. looking at it now, i cannot figure out what i found so scary about it.

Sybil 1976 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075296/ The Entity 1982 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082334

Both supposedly based on true stories. I was watching them around 5 years old. After The Entity I started at the ceiling all night and at times could have sworn I saw electricity arcing. I was dumbfounded by Sybil and how someone could do that to their child had some weird nightmares from that for sure.

Kinda late but Neverending Story.

Those laser beam statues scares me. Also when the giant turtle emerges and you get that shot of it la head slowly approaching the camera. Somehow that was super distressing to me.

Who framed Roger rabbit, the scene with the judge guy putting a shoe cartoon into the acid barrel.

Large Marge.

TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!

1. Signs - the aliens terrified me and I was scared walking to school for a long time
2. The scarabs from The Mummy - I thought they would come out from under the sink and the closets to eat me alive

Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing

I used to have nightmares about E.T. standing at the foot of my bed, reaching out to touch me with his glowing finger. He was essentially my sleep paralysis demon.

In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.

When I killed your brother, I talked...JUST. LIKE. THIIIIIISSSSS!

The Day After 1983

I was around 10-11 years old. the whole fuckin movie terrified me.

Gremlins, when they transformed

The air conditioner in The Brave Little Toaster

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The spider scene

Tales from the Darkside, specifically the Cat from Hell sketch. It's where a black cat slashes a guy pretty badly before literally diving into him. I left the room after that.

I didn't revisit that scene until I was an adult, and let's just say that kid me had good instincts, since the scene afterwards showed the cat literally burrowing through the guy before popping out of his mouth.

Unfun fact, the creators of Return to Oz researched the top psychological fears of children and carefully built their movie around them.

Saw it on TV in the basement alone on a Saturday, and it is one of the most unsettling things I've seen to this day.

Ugh... I grew up during the 80s with absolutely no parental oversight. I was allowed to read and watch whatever I wanted. Ton of slasher and horror movies, though 3 fuuuuuucked me up. Friday the 13th - Jason, Child's Play - Chucky, and the most impactful being Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger.

At a 6 year old sleepover, the host father rented Nightmare on elm Street for a bunch of us little dudes. Half way through the movie, i got up and dressed out of my pajamas and walked home. I had nightmares for years about Freddy, chasing me in our basement around the oil heater. Fucking traumatized.....

In general I never cared much about scary movies, but there is ONE SCENE (in an otherwise crappy movie) that left a strong impression on me.

In the movie "Signs", there's a moment when the news are showing footage from an alien sighting in Brazil. Usually, whenever a US movie tries to depict another country or culture, it ends up being so poorly done it's almost like a caricature. But not this one...

The scene is from a birthday party, and every little detail is so authentic that, as a Brazilian, it's immediately obvious that it was actually recorded in Brazil, at someone's actual house.

It's shaky footage from a camcorder (remember those?). There's the party decorations, the kids' hats, the car outside, the voices (which are intelligible Brazilian Portuguese, not gibberish). Everything felt so real and familiar, I could swear I have been in that exact party at some point in my life. And then the alien shows up and HOLY SHIT did that scare me!

I saw bits and pieces of Event Horizon on the old satellite dish when I was probably 6 or 7.

Sure wish I didn't have eyes there either, lady.

The Air Conditioner in The Brave Little Toaster.

This is embarrassing, but I was really, really young.

Invasion of the Saucer Men

I watched it during a Saturday morning creature feature on TV.

It has a disembodied alien hand that crawls around attacking people. The hand has needle-like nails on the fingers that it uses to inject victims with poison. It terrified me. I spent years jumping to my bed from the door in case there was a hand hiding under the bed.

FYI, if I remember correctly, the "poison" it injects is just alcohol. If it attacked you, you just ended up drunk.

When I was 9 I saw Jurassic Park III for a friend's birthday. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for months. But the most distressing part was when the corpse in the parachute falls out of the tree. I still have the image of it seared into my brain.

When I was young, but not that young, there was a show called Duckman or something like that. I didn't get the channel at home, but I was sleeping over at a friend's house, and he got this channel, so it was on late at night.

In the episode the main character breaks up with a woman, and she's like stalking him for revenge or something, I don't remember the plot. But in one short scene he's taking a bath to relax after the stress she's been causing him, and she pokes her head up out of the bath water with crazy eyes and then pulls him under.

There was something about that I very much didn't like. That was the only episode of the show I ever saw, but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a burnout comedy ala Beavis and Butthead or something, and I don't even think this particular moment was meant to be scary. It was probably meant to be exaggerated and silly. But the crazy lady coming out of the water where she shouldn't be able to be? Nope.

That fucked me up, on and off, for years. I'd just be laying in bed, and then the image or even the concept would come to me, and I'd feel uneasy. Despite not being in a bath at the time! Ugh.

The Adventures of Mark Twain from 1985 has a scene where Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher enter a sort of pocket dimension and meet a stranger who is just a robe holding a mask. The stranger claims their name is Satan. Satan creates a doll sized castle and gives the children clay to make people. After the people are made Satan gives them life and all 4 characters watch the clay people for a little while. Then Satan calls them insignificant, annoying, and worthless before he smashes some with his hand, lightning strikes other clay people, and the rest get swallowed up by a sinkhole along with the castle. While this is happening Satan's face/mask distorted and twists until it resembles a skull.

I saw this movie while spending a weekend at a family member's house as a kid, maybe somewhere between the ages of 5 and 7 (it was an old movie then). I woke up in the middle of the night and this movie was put on while I was left alone in the living room. I don't remember anything else from this movie, but it definitely fucked me up

The Dark Crystal. Creepy fucking muppets.

Eh, showing my age.

Watership Down

What an awful movie for a kid to see.

Watership Down

Was fucked up for a child to watch. My parents thought it was going to be a harmless animated movie for children. I watched it again as an adult. It is still fucked up.

When I was 6 or 8 ish, my family watched Stepmonster on TV.

The monster scared the absolute pants off of me. I had nightmares for months. In hindsight, not that scary, but at the time? At my age? Terrifying.

I've pretty much loved horror since the Cookie Monster, but The Blair Witch Project scared the shit out me in theaters.

My parents thought it was a good idea to let me (9) and my 12 year old brother watch Poltergeist while they were out at some social event.

That movie damaged me. I love it now though.

The Stuff scared the fucking shit out of me as a child, I definitely watched it way too young. My mom told me that after watching the movie, she was helping me in the bathroom and she had to leave because the phone was ringing (I was young enough I still needed help to go to the bathroom). When she came back I was standing on top of the toilet lid crying and screaming that the stuff was going to come up out of the toilet and get me.

I haven’t been able to watch it again. I understand it’s a comedy and I would probably enjoy it, but I’m way too fucking traumatized to even try.

I saw Robocop too early.

The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.

That fucking computer from Superman III, jesus christ my parents should not have let me watch that when I was, like, seven or eight.

When I killed your brother, I talked just. Like. THIS.

I saw The Thing (1982) when I was 10 and it terrified me for years. Its my favorite horror movie now.

As a fundamentalist Southern Baptist, Ghostbusters terrified me.

I saw it again in my early 20s and was like - this scared me???? WTF?

Watership Down and Gremlins.

Also, the Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXikpns1bog

Don't laugh guys.

Howard the Duck.

Edit: Relooking at it, totally justified

There was an ad on TV for Knorr's soup when I was a toddler, and the big vegetable scarecrow character with the black hat scared the absolute fuck outta me. Just look at this cunt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzia7sJtVM

Like what was I supposed to take away from this? That a scarecrow is alive and knows when it's being looked at, and only then will it stop coming after me? And it eats its own flesh in soup-form? The fuck? 😭

The Borg.

I watched Star Trek as a kid with my grandma on our local TV station. The Borg were always so scary to me because not even the super advanced Federation could defeat them. And the assimilation they did of stripping away who and what you were was terrifying.

Then First Contact came out and I learned that they just as vulnerable as anyone else to a 45 ACP and that was alright.

5 year old me was not prepared for Mr Toilet Man in Look Who's Talking.

The lift. I was eight or nine. I didn't dare enter any lift for years.

Friday the 13th. My parents didn't really regulate what I watched in terms of violence.

Hannah Montana

Specifically a Halloween episode about a doll

That horrid clown doll that sat at the foot of the bed in the boys room scared the heck outta me. I had one of those shitty things!

So Poltergeist.

The Brave Little Toaster dream scene for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdZh8a4ZvE

Wizard of Oz.

To my credit, I was afraid of the tornado and tornados are fucking real and scary.

When I was 10 I had nightmares from the episode "Detour" from X-Files. I previously moved to my mother and she and my stepfather had to work at night. We also had a dog, that barked a lot. So the setting was perfect.. took me months to get over it :D

Invaders from Mars (1953)

Don't know how old I was (like 8 or so), but it aired in the afternoon and my parents left the TV on... Didn't sleep for months.

In the 70s apparently showing a horror movie during daytime was okay 🫣

Ok let me get my glasses:

• Ghostbusters 2 (the painting), IT (it), Candyman (BEES), Arachnophobia (guess), Tales from the Cryptkeeper (a tale about a lake blob), Never Ending Stoooreey (G'mork, Poor poor Atreyu), Superman (being buried alive)...

...And many more.

Jaws. Was scared of the beach for years and couldn't sleep with my arm hanging outside/over the bed for like, 10 years haha.

Twilight Zone movie.

The kid that the whole family is shit scared of. One scene about being quiet.

I basically grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and I've been a night owl since I can remember. When I was in early grade school, probably second grade, I was up late and excited to find a cartoon being aired in the middle of the night. It was the animated rendition of Animal Farm.

It freaked me out, but it also planted a seed. I wanted to figure out what that story was, and it led me to explore other classic literature. I'm grateful for that.

Anton Bartok in The Fly II being turned into a hideously deformed lump of flesh that could barely move and is forced to suffer in a cage eating slop. Yes, he was an evil bastard, but the body horror of being in that position still haunts me.

That motherfucking dog in the intro of Goosebumps. Give me a grenade launcher. Please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PkFLTfID_o

Quite a few Doctor Who episodes. But as an adult, the Weeping Angels: https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-weeping-angels-statues-episodes-every/

A clown, a clown firefighter, and a shark

Watched "The Birds" on TV as a kid and it freaked me out so much that I had to look under my bed every night for a few days to make sure there were no sea gulls under there.

I think I can say Dumbo's satanic ritual scenes, since I still remember those.

The original Salem's Lot 🤣 the scene where vamp is standing outside the obvious 2nd story window out of nowhere, it gave me nightmares for months, I still hate looking out windows at night. I should try and give it a rewatch, I'm a horror glutton nowadays

'Pipes' from Ghostwatch. I was 11. First proper Halloween. I'd watched scary films before, like Silence of the Lambs and Poltergeist both of which scared the crap out of me but Pipes was on a completely different existential plane.

I had a lot going on with my parents, too much for a child to deal with tbh. That Halloween was my first proper going out trick or treating, the first and only one which actually felt like a halloween. Then I got home and got to watch a Halloween special with Craig Charles from Red Dwarf no less. I believed it was real and I freaked out, so instead of letting me watch the end they sent me to bed and I just kept waking up screaming. I remember them being so angry at me because I couldn't settle.

For probably a year afterwards I used to lie terrified and alone for hours in the dark listening out for any noise and trying to be as quiet and as still as possible. I didn't really get over it until I was about 13. When I rewatched it as an adult I realised it would have been so much better if they had just let me watch the end.

I was about 9, on holiday in an hotel. Usually my sister and I shared a room, but something scared her. So my mother slept in her room and I with my father. He was still planning for some attractions to visit and did not pay any attention. I just turned on the TV and all by myself watched Per Cemetery... The last scene with the kiss stayed with me for a long time...

I was a bit too young to see Arachnophobia when I did.

One of my earliest memories of fear was being at a neighbor's house when I was maybe 3 years old. I didn't understand TV well, and whatever she was watching ended, followed by this intense low music and sound going high and the 80s Viacom V logo getting bigger. With "A Viacom presentation" text. I genuinely thought the V was coming to get me and I hid behind her chair.

Yeah, this fucker. Literally called "The V of Doom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON6VeY99tl8

Then it didn't get me, and it was fine, but that damn Viacom logo scared the shit outta me.

The stretchy yellow guy in x-files

One two Freddy's coming for you...

Fire in the Sky. Way too young for the honey scene.

In the movie "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" there's a scene where a robot kid's face starts drooping, like sliding off the frame or something, and that really got me.

The scene in Tremors when the car is getting pulled underground really got me. I was way too young to be watching that movie. Love it now though.

Earnest Halloween scared me more than anything else.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

I was too young to watch that. I couldn’t look at eggplants afterwards because they reminded of the things the aliens hatched out of.

The opening credits of Tales from the Darkside. The music scared me so bad that I’d cover my ears until the show had started.

https://youtu.be/Mioevxb2CfA?is=Twx4G2dzqwpzIdSZ

Still gives me a wiggins.

Return to Oz

I watched the first 10 minutes of Friday the 13th then shut it off because I was too scared. The Jason in my mind was more terrifying than any of his movies.

The Omen. An absolute classic.

Also Nightbreed.

First Contact is the first Trek media I remember sitting down to watch on purpose. The Borg messed me up for a good while. Dying is one thing, but having your very self be subsumed into a greater whole against your will is freaky.

Poltergeist, no question, slept with the lights on for 2-weeks behind that shit.

My neighbor friend's dad took me and her the day before 5th-grade started. That man levitated out his seat when that giant skull leaned out of the closet. My little brain: "oh shit oh shit oh shit the adult is scared..." To his credit, the movie was PG because PG-13 didn't exist in 1982. But still, c'mon Dave!

Didn't sleep, couldn't eat the cafeteria slop, it was 105F, heat stroked out in the hall crawling back from lunch recess. It was a very memorable day.

"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". When that mannequin head fell out of the box and rolled down the stairs I had nightmares for weeks. I was about 6-10 years old when I saw it.

The Fog. I couldn't sleep for weeks after watching that movie.

A Christmas Carol (1984) really fucked with me when I was younger; I think I've rewatched it since and it wasn't that bad

Communion with Chris Walken. Slept with the lights on that night.

Darkness Falls scared the crap out of me in 2003, when i was 32. I spent the next 22 years unable to go to bed without turning the light on over the stairs. Then we moved to a one-story house.

My husband said the caterpillars with the Cheshire Cat. 🤷

Catweazle! I was 4 years old... he looked scary

I saw Ghoulies at a babysitter's house when I was 6. It was the first remotely scary thing I had ever been exposed to.

It opens with a satanic occult ritual. This was peak Satanic Panic, and my Assembly of God church was teaching me that Satan was real and people who worshipped him were actually performing ritual sacrifice. So in my little-kid perception, it was basically a documentary.

I had nightmares about it until I left the church in my early 20s. As part of my deconstruction process, I watched the film and saw how ridiculous it really was.

War of the worlds. I was probably much too young to be watching it but that gave me a fear of aliens for several years.

I didn't watch Robocop when it was new, but we rented Robocop 2. My mother made me leave during the disembowling scene, and I had this inflated idea of how bad it was. It really wasn't. What they did to Murphy in the beginning of the first one was far worse.

Then there's the third one where a little girl with a laptop hacks a robot between its legs where it can't get her and Robocop himself flies. Yeah, that shit was dumb.

There was a SA scene that really got to me and I forgot what it was. Found it years later so I could never watch that film again. Showgirls. I remember it being much worse, but it was still pretty bad. Also not the worst SA scene I've seen. All I'm gonna say is, "Jena Malone's first movie." IMDb will be very helpful in advising you which film to never watch (assuming you could ever find it, and unedited, at that — I mean Lifetime airs it from time to time but they gotta cut all the bad shit out). Easily the most disturbing film I've ever seen, just because that kind of shit happens. Oh, and if you look up the author, she just threw North (or South) Carolina under the bus because South = Incest Country. She's from fucking California. So yeah, that shit does happen everywhere, and for the most part, nothing's done about it. Huge TW on that whole thing. Yeah, staying up late watching Showtime was not a good thing.

A bit later, but the American The Ring (remake of Ringu). Was it better? Eh... It had its moments. The creature design on the teen girl being scared to death was too good, though. That shit haunted me for a while. So I set it as my wallpaper on my laptop to desensitise myself. People routinely asked me what the fuck my problem was when they saw it. Still creepy AF. If you haven't seen it... they made her look "scared to death and simutaneously having had instantly having been soaked in filthy water for a week. So her face was pale, water-logged, green-ish, and her jaw was unnaturally stretched open. And her eyes were blackened. Almost like what the Scream mask was, but applied to a real face. (And yes I know Scream came first. It might have inspired that makeup design. Also, that makeup/costume designer should have won some award. Say what you will about the rest of the movie, save for Daveigh Chase, who was awesome, but don't knock the makeup job.)

I was too terrified to watch Killer Klowns from Outer Space on VHS growing up. Picking out a movie I would always quickly skip over it and try not to look for too long.The first time I watched it in my 20s I was laughing my ass off at both the movie and the fact that I had made it that far in life thinking it was really scary.

Same goes for the book Slaughterhouse Five. It must have had some pop culture inertia if they made at least five of them.

Sully (Monster Inc) and Shrek

Jurassic Park scared me real bad. Probably too intense for a toddler.

Cruella De Vil, both Glenn Close's rendition and the animated version. Funny now, but man did she scare me when I was little.

The Crate, from Creepshow.

Not a very well-known movie, but the monster in The Funhouse (1981) - see the second clip in the videos section on that page if you want to see him. I don't recall exactly how young I was, but I think between 10 and 12. I randomly watched this on TV one night and had nightmares about it for a while.

It was interesting to see his face again after all this time. A little bit different than I remembered but I still think he's pretty freaky. It was also interesting to learn that this was directed by Tobe Hooper, of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist fame. I guess he has traumatized a lot of kids, just going by this thread.

In my youth I was constantly peeking out my window before bed to make sure there weren’t any terminators or Aliens waiting to break into my front facing bedroom window. Watching those at like 10 or younger wasn’t the best

There's three of them that did it for me.

1. Chucky. Cuz duh, my dad let me watch it when I was far too young, and I had nightmares for weeks.

2. Return to Oz. The Wizard of Oz sequel that featured a desolate Oz filled with nightmare creatures, and a witch that stole your fucking face.

3. Some random movie that my older brother and his friends were watching. I came in just in time to see a scene, depicting a female led band on an outdoor stage. A man was brutally beaten in the audience, and the crowd set him on fire. He was desperately rolling around, trying to extinguish the flames, and almost did it, but then the woman lead singer of the band took a swig from a liquor bottle, and spit it out on him. The flames engulfed him, and now he lay motionless. The fear I felt was half from the agony of someone burning alive, and half from the wretched cruelty of the crowd and the lead singer. The mob mentality where nobody helped him, and not just didn't help him, but made it worse. Fucking horrifying. My first glance into the mind of psychopathy.

I saw Mars Attacks way too young. The aliens absolutely terrified me.

I never had an issue with scary movies growing up, but fuck Poltergeist 2 and the braces scene. I was already uncomfortable with the dentist and I knew I eventually needed braces. That ruined me.

The lurker shark from Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy that's there to keep you from swimming out too far. Absolutely fucking terrified me, and I think it even vibrates the DualShock 2.

Robocop 2. Cain. I was terrified.

Your example took me a minute to remember what it was from, but yes, Judge Doom definitely deserves a spot on the list.

An American Wearwolf In London, and Jaws.

Do you know which episode it is?

I didn't know it at the time, but I saw the bit of Aliens where the pilot got merc'd and everyone was basically fucked. Years later I figured out my persistent nightmare.

This fucking guy haunted my nightmares for quite a long time. Haven't seen the movie since then though, maybe it's not that bad

Not a movie, but Unsolved Mysteries.

I was absolutely terrified of being abducted by aliens. would have a panic attack anytime i heard a weird noise or a weird light or a low flying plane at night in by bedroom.

Leatherface. Which is funny because I have never, and still have never seen one of those movies. I do have the original acquired, however, and the plan is to watch it before the month ends. Too busy watching all the Universal horror stuff from the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

Poltergeist, Critters, and honestly Earnest Scared Stoopid got me good as a kid. Oh also The Willies! Fuck that movie!

I'm not 100% what movie I saw as I was very young at the time. It may have been The legend of Boggy Creek. Basically a bigfoot horror. I grew up in the countryside beside a forest: It traumatised me against being outside at night.

Bingo

Wizard of oz, mainly the wicked witch.

The Hitcher

Chucky scared the ever living shit out of me when I was a kid! I had this recurring nightmare that whenever I'd close my eyes I could see through Chucky's eyes and he'd be killing people or on his way to my house to get me. It was awful. Now he's one of my favorite horror icons.

The Blair Witch Project gave me quite a lot of fear of dark forests, or lost places for that matter.

The Gate

There was a scene with adults at the door and then the head comes off and a bunch of demons come out which freaked me the fuck out when I was….I think 7 or 8?

I remember watching That Kiljunen Family (1981) as a kid and being shocked by one particular scene. Summary: This is a Finnish comedy film about a goofball rural family who win a contest and get to go to Helsinki. Goofball Family in Big City level hijinks ensue. The scene that terrified me was the one where the kids go joyriding trams. Probably too speedy for my kid brain.

After my father passed away, I found out that he had this film in his DVD collection, and my mother was like "sure, take all movies you want." (...doubled my DVD collection and then some.) Okay, the tram scene wasn't that bad. Obviously. (...I don't know, the humour hasn't dated the movie, it's just that a lot of the gags are only funny in theoretical sense. I did find one scene funny. One of the kids turns light switch off, it inexplicably cuts power to a whole city quarter, a foreign dignitary gets rescued from an elevator stuck between floors and shouts "down with nuclear energy!")

Don't be Afraid of the Dark (1973) scared the crap out of young me... The little creatures lurking in the dark and dragging them away. My older sister reinforcing the fear with stories/teasing didn't help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_(1973_film) I'm sure it would be laughable now, but my sister really knew how to push my buttons.

I don’t remember the name of the movie, but it ended with a man walking around in the sewers and merting another man that had shining red eyes, and it was implied that the first man died.

Carry On Screaming

It triggered my first ever nightmare and I suffered from them for a few years after.

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I watched The Sixth Sense with my family when I was 6 or 7 (hehe) late at night and the lights went out shortly after so I just had to rawdawg the rest of the night, no Cartoon Network, no Nickelodeon, just me and my thoughts. I don't think I have been that spooked since, lol.

Dance.

I think it was the '70s where Starburst candy used exciting sports like hand gliding to demonstrate how yummy the candy would be. They would show somebody pop the candy in their mouth, then go hang gliding off the top of a mountain or coast down the top peak of a huge roller coaster.

I was like fuck this shit, I'm never eating Starburst. I don't want to get flung off the top of a mountain or something high up.

My parents LOVED scary movies. We went to ALL of them we could. There was a drive in and they figured I would sleep through it.

Jaws Hills have eyes Body snatchers Incredible melting man Sasquatch Halloween Friday the 13th

List goes on

Night Gallery: The Caterpillar.

I saw it in the theatre at too young an age, but the scene where the astronaut in a spacesuit came through the patio door in E.T. The Extraterrestrial freaked me out as a kid.