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E. T.
I don't care that it was rated P. G., they killed my friend and I was just as sad as Elliot. The tubes and the quarantine were absolutely terrifying to me as a child and even seeing clips nowadays gives sends a shiver down my spine. Just sadness and fear.
I think I was ten when a friend and I asked his big sister if we could watch with her. We could, but I still think A Nightmare on Elm Street was a bit too much for me back then.
The Day After
I ain't been nuked yet, but you never know...
Idk what it was called but there was a movie where a group of people got trapped in a flooded underpass that I watched at 7 or so that gave me recurring nightmares for years.
Also I saw Munich in theaters when I was 13 because my mom thought it would be an informative historical film and we ended up having to sneak out (Iβve only left a movie once since then! Some terrible christmas comedy).
Gremlins
I recently showed this movie to someone and I didnβt remember it being that scary/gory! This is some crazy PG movie lol
A Nightmare on Elm Street.
I was 8, my Mom said I wasn't allowed to watch it. I watched it at a friend's house.
I was so sure that night that Freddy was going to grab me through the bed like he did to Johnny Depp that I went to my Mom in her room and admitted to her that I watched it then promptly vomited on her due to the accumulated fear.
Arachnophobiaβ
It doesn't actually still haunt me (I'm the family spider hunter) but I did get nightmares for a while from that one.
Not exactly a movie, but a cartoon series.
It was that episode of Power Puff Girls where they went to a dystopic future and everything was a hellscape dominated by Him. That episode made me think about my mortality and future regrets.
That Tom Hanks movie where he's stranded on an island after a plane crash when I was 6.
I saw it a day before taking my first plane ride and going over sea.
Star Trek: First Contact scared me shitless as a kid. They made a fucking Star Trek horror film. As an adult, I'd say 8/10 movie.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg. Not sure if I was too young, but the emotions still haunt me to this day.
Mini correction, that was a Stanley Kubrick film, Spielberg finished it when Kubrick died... The last 15 minutes are all Spielberg, really ruined the movie, had 3 spots where the movie said have ended but Spielberg does happy endings, Kubrick would have ended it much differently
Fire in the Sky. Still havenβt rewatched it decades later.
Birds.. 30+ years later I'm still always a bit creeped out by them, especially sea gulls.
The Deer Hunter
I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 12. That one took a while to get over.
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.
come and see, i think that main actor might also have got haunted by it
Aliens. Must have been 12 or so. A boring sunday and my friend's mom drove us to the cinema. (In Germany the movie was rated 16) but we didn't bounce off at the desk. I was not exactly horrified, but so ... thrilled. After that I dived a bit too deep into the H.R.Giger universe, I guess.
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.
Nowadays one of my favorite movies, tbh.
The first Ghost busters movie
I saw scenes of it at six years old and some of them were really scary if you are too young. For weeks I had nightmares about chairs grabbing me with demon arms or demon dogs trying to eat me.
Idk the movie but it was late 80s or early 90s, there was a guy with his head in a TV screen, which was on and had the image of a woman's mouth eating the head. Fucked me up for years as a kid because I had no context.
They showed us 4 Rooms at summer camp when it had just come out on VHS. I was 13 but pretty sheltered and that movie was kind of nuts.
I don't know the name and it was only one scene I saw passing by, something about giant spiders, and one dude was getting into the car to escape and a spider was inside waiting. It probably was in the second half of the 90s and it was on TV, so probably released in late 80s or early 90s. And I don't think it's arachnophobia, at least I haven't seen any scene that reminds me of my memory.
I've had phobia to spiders ever since.
If we consider watching the full movie, it did haunt me for so long and I still remember it with dread, critters. Fucking hate those puppets they used.
"Akira" when I was 10-ish. Wanted to check what this anime thing was about, was not prepared for nuclear blasts, and people becoming giant body-horror amoebas. Still, it was a good intro into anime, along with Dominion Tank Police (another hilariously not-for-10-year-olds number). And set the bar way too high for most other ones I watched later.
Oh and The Shining at the time (11 y/o home alone) really messed me up as well.
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