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.
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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.
"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.
Fire in the sky. Alien abduction still freak me out
This is gunna sound stupid, but "Tales from the Hood." At the end of that movie, where you learned all the guys are already dead, in hell and the guy telling the stories is satan just scared the absolute shit outta me.
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Poltergeist, I was like 6
Tons of horror movies.
Oh and The Shining at the time (11 y/o home alone) really messed me up as well.
Nothing But Trouble
The Mangler. It's a B horror movie and some of the graphics, which I won't spoil, were more than my 7 year old brain could reconcile.
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silence of the lambs at like 8. still one if my all time faves but I definitely could've waited a few more years to get into it lol
"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". In my defense, I was about 6 years old when I saw it.
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Green Inferno. Iβm a huge horror fan and am not bothered by gore, but man that cannibalism was so graphic I canβt shake the images.
A hokey 80s movie called "The Guardian". Its not scary at all but there was a tree with a face on it, and it hit me at the right age and scared the bejesus out of me for some reason. I don't think I understood the plot at the time, just scary tree face.
Total Recall freaked me out pretty good and I saw it when I was like 32
Creep Show, the segment with the Antarctic wolf creature scared the shit outta me. It still creeps me out to this day for some reason.
The Exorcist
Hellraiser and the original Dune. Claymation looks so fake now, but it didnβt back then.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Saving private Ryan at ten years old.
Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal.
Jurassic Park 3 when I was 9 for a friend's birthday. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for weeks. I'm not really haunted by it any more but the scene where the skeleton in the parachute swings out of the tree is seared into my brain.
The Naked Lunch. I was probably 10 years old? I didn't understand any of the plot, I was weirded the fuck out and the giant bugs made me sick to my stomach.
The Thin Red Line
I slept over at a friend's house, and we watched The Shining when I was 12. Still haunts me to this day, and I've never re-watched it since.
Kids, the movie from the mid 90s where a New York teen is trying to bang virgins and spreading HIV. Freaked me out.
Poltergeist 2 - specifically the braces scene, I was terrified of getting them. Oddly enough, I was fine with the first one.
That super creepy Alice in Wonderland version from around the same time that I always forget the name of.
I got taken to see The Sixth Sense when I was like 10 lol
Moontrap
My Girl. I have a fear of bees because of that movie.
Grizzly. Couldn't sleep the night I saw that one
For me it was The Amytiville Horror (1979). I still can't look out of a window at night and not think of seeing eyes. I didn't see the film until I was about 11, so mid 80s.