Movies that scared you when you were a kid?

What movie scared you when you were a kid?

For me, there were four:

1) Jurassic Park 1: When the little kid is on the electric gate. I can't watch that scene anymore.
2) My Girl: When the bees attack Macauly's character. Can't watch that scene either.
3) Wizard of Oz: The Flying monkeys
4) City Slickers 2: (no I am not joking) the beginning dream sequence where Curly comes out of the grave.

What scared you?

"I Was a Teenage Werewolf" starring Michael Landon

Yes, I know I am old! :rolleyes:

Legend -- The Devil guy scared to poopie outta me! :rotfl:

The one that comes to mind is this little kids' movie called Babes in Toyland. The bad guy lived a bowling ball that was like a dungeon and the kids had to escape through the holes or something. I had a bad feeling about bowling for a long time after that. :lol:

Poltergiest. I was afraid to go near my closet.

:lol: good thread.

Wizard of Oz scared me, not because of the flying monkeys, but because of the munchkins! I hated them & to this day I still can't watch the film because of them! Same goes for the Oompa Loompa's in Charlie & The Chocolate factory!

Jurassic Park 1 scared me so much that for months I was convinced that dinosaurs were alive and were going to get me at night - the only thing that consoled me was that my sister slept nearer the window so they'd get her first so I might have time to escape! :lol: I've never told her about that!

The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory terrified me in some places. That whole bridge thingiemabobber when they were in the boat was kind of creepy, with that Sluggy guy watching them. :lol: I don't know when I grew out of that stage, but for a while it absolutely terrified me!

The H.R. Puf 'n' Stuf Movie.

Allegedly I ran screaming from the theatre.

The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory terrified me in some places. That whole bridge thingiemabobber when they were in the boat was kind of creepy, with that Sluggy guy watching them. :lol: I don't know when I grew out of that stage, but for a while it absolutely terrified me!

Yea that movie did the same to me as well. Especially when Charlie was in Wonka's office. The whole everything is cut in half thing kinda scared me... :whistle: Along with how Wonka was acting -- not that he didn't have the right to not act that way... The kids were just a bunch of spoiled rotten brats :p. So he had the right to act the way that he did. But since I was so young when I first saw it, it kind of made me jump.

It the movie, you know, that one about the clown

It the movie, you know, that one about the clown

Ah, I've never seen the movie myself... but I've read the book and I can see how it would scare someone :eeep:.

The Goonies scared the heck out of me! Oh my gosh I just don't know why. I haven't seen it since then, in fact I think I'll watch it once I get my little tv with the VCR player out of the garage. I think what really scared me what the guy who likes the butterfinger bars and the guy in the freezer.

The Shining (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film))

It the movie, you know, that one about the clown
Ahhhh!!! My grandma let me watch that when I was like 8 :upset:. The name is, "IT". Clowns have scared me ever since.

Pinocchio also scared me, I cried at the part with the whale :(.

The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory terrified me in some places.
You know I wasn't scared of it when I was little, but as an adult I think there are some really creepy parts. :scared:

I also had a friend that is still scared of Ooompa Loompas :lol:

City Slickers 2: (no I am not joking) the beginning dream sequence where Curly comes out of the grave.
:rotfl: I had a friend start crying at that part when we saw it in theaters. It took like 15 minutes to calm down! An older lady next to us gave her a hug and everything. we almost had to leave until she started laughing through her tears at the funny parts...the poor dear.

I was scared of Snow White. The witch scared me to death! I haven't watched it ever since. I was also scared of the Wizard of Oz because there's a witch. I have no problem watching it now, obviously. And the adaptation of Roald Dahl's book, The Witches, scared me too.

I just spotted a theme in movies that scared me as a child. :lol: And to think that I would grow up to love Harry Potter, a series about witches and wizards!

The Little Mermaid - I couldn't get past the shark in the opening. I forget how old I was when I finally managed to watch the whole thing.

Beauty and the Beast - Couldn't watch past the scene where the wolves attack Belle's father because it scared me so much.

:p

This wasn't me but...

when my family went on holiday to the UK, we were staying at my Great- Uncle's house in Dudley (West Midlands). We were watching Poltergeist, and it was the typical English weather that night - stormy, with thunder. Anyways, I was sleeping on the couch that night, and the movie freaked out my little brother SO much (he was about 10/11.). When I woke up the next morning, I was plastered against the couch back, my little brother holding on for dear life next to me!

Um, but movies that scared me? I don't know really. The first time that I watched the Ring was scary, but I was thirteen then. Oh, and IT scared me. Clowns urgh.

IT, the movie, scared me SO much. I didn't even watch the full movie, but I just knew it was creepy.
My cousins love that movie, and when I was a little younger, they always tried to put a picture of IT under my pillow. Those were not good times... :lol:

The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory terrified me in some places. That whole bridge thingiemabobber when they were in the boat was kind of creepy, with that Sluggy guy watching them. :lol: I don't know when I grew out of that stage, but for a while it absolutely terrified me!
What! Oh my gosh! Oh well you were a kid. Are you still creeped out by it though?

I thought Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was awsome when Iwas little and now! Gene Wilder was an awsome actor! He was pretty funny in it too. Too bad my DVD is broken.

To tell you the truth I was and still am freaked out by Johnny Depp's portral of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was the most creepy thing I have ever scene, but of course Johnny Depp is good at roles like that. Tim Burton is also good at making movies like that.

The Little Mermaid - I couldn't get past the shark in the opening. I forget how old I was when I finally managed to watch the whole thing. Little Mermaid was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre and I was climbing my mom's lap trying to get away from Ursula :lol: absolutely terrified!

Jurassic Park 1 scared me so much that for months I was convinced that dinosaurs were alive and were going to get me at night - the only thing that consoled me was that my sister slept nearer the window so they'd get her first so I might have time to escape! :lol: I've never told her about that!
I used to be sooooo scared of my garage because of the scene with the velosaraptors. Even though I knew they were extinct, I couldn't get over the feeling one was going to jump out from under a car or something. :lol:

The movie that scared me the most was Twister. I only saw the very beginning and the very end-- basically the two scariest scenes in the movie (when the girl's father dies and when they get sucked into an F5 tornado). I live in Indiana, which is known for its great natural weather (:rolleyes:), and became even more deathly afraid of tornadoes. I still don't like to watch that movie. We had to watch it in my high school composition class, and I sat there petrified throughout the entire thing.

E.T truly scared me. He was just so freaky and weird! I love him now - he's actually quite cute :D. And the bit with the men in the huge white suits and big masks coming to get him...that scared the hell out of me!

Also, The Witches (an adaptation of Roald Dahl's book). I'm not sure if many people will have seen this, but eeeew! That scene when they all take of their wigs and show their stumpy feet and the main witch reveals her disgusting face...it still gives me the shivers.

Ahhhh!!! My grandma let me watch that when I was like 8 :upset:. The name is, "IT". Clowns have scared me ever since.

At a stretch I can see how It may have freaked out a kid, but when I saw it the most frightening aspect was just how bad it was.

It was one of the worst adaptations of a work by an author whose books have been turned into some truly appalling movies/mini-series.

And I never liked clowns anyway.

Home Alone Two: There was something scary about two inept crooks in a big empty house
The Little Mermaid: I know I know! I am a girl, I was supposed to love that sort of stuff. But URSULA WAS SCARY!
The Wizard of Oz: the flying monkeys! AH!
Jurassic Park (1? 2?): the part when the guy who looked like colonel sanders arm was like severed? Did that even happen? Am I dreaming?
Drop Dead Fred: It was scary ok! The dream sequence when the girl is alone in the house was just weird.
The Money Pit: I don't like derelict houses. They really bother me for some reason.
Reboot: I know, this is a TV show. But it was still scary.

OK, so I go back a LONG way - and the movie that really freaked me out as a kid was the original Fantasia - so Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice was fine, dancing hippos and elegant ostriches with their ballet routines - no problem, of course - but then there was the Night on the Bare Mountain - music by Mussorsky (sorry, not spelled right) - music was brilliant - but the images really got to me. The ghosts or spirits or whatever they were rising up from their graves, being called to the mountain top by the devil - oooohhh - it still has an influence on me - even now when I hear the music, which I love.

And that's what it's all about, isn't it. The way we first see things - later we have a different perspective - particularly (I think) when music is concerned - it has influence on you as a child, but you can re-visit it when older. But the visuals - ooooh er - still scary ...

OK, so I go back a LONG way - and the movie that really freaked me out as a kid was the original Fantasia - so Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice was fine, dancing hippos and elegant ostriches with their ballet routines - no problem, of course - but then there was the Night on the Bare Mountain - music by Mussorsky (sorry, not spelled right) - music was brilliant - but the images really got to me. The ghosts or spirits or whatever they were rising up from their graves, being called to the mountain top by the devil - oooohhh - it still has an influence on me - even now when I hear the music, which I love.

And that's what it's all about, isn't it. The way we first see things - later we have a different perspective - particularly (I think) when music is concerned - it has influence on you as a child, but you can re-visit it when older. But the visuals - ooooh er - still scary ...

That one scared me too, but I like it now.

Other one was Edward Scissor Hands, even seeing him scared me a bit now.

And The Rescuers, but maybe just because I watched it in hospital

I used to be sooooo scared of my garage because of the scene with the velosaraptors. Even though I knew they were extinct, I couldn't get over the feeling one was going to jump out from under a car or something. :lol:

I don't know why or where they came from but there were rumours going around at the time that they were going to try & clone dinosaurs or do something to create a real jurassic park - I think that that was what scared me most. I was convinced it really would happen & that they'd get free!

:eeep: The Sixth Sense. I couldn't sleep the whole night...

I have cousins that are significantly older than me, and they used to babysit me sometimes...I got to watch Jurassic Park I several times, and that scared the pants off me! Another one was IT...I was like five and I watched it with my cousins and I think I was afraid to go to bed...
Another one, which I saw at daycare, of all places, and was absolutely scared by was the Dark Crystal (or something like that...one of those cheesy fantasy ones).
Oh, and the scene in Hocus Pocus when the witches come back, and that green glow's coming from under the floorboards? That freaked me too...
I was kind of a wimp as a kid :/

EDIT: I just thought of another one...in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, when Violet Beauregard turns into a blueberry? Yeah, that freaked me out. No problem with the boat scene, or anything else in the movie, but that one scene...

The Witches. I really thought that there were witches like in the film :scared:

The movie that scared me the most was Twister.
I loved this movie! I saw it four times in the theatre and then had to buy it. I still enjoy watching it now and then although some parts are kind of cheesy.

Other one was Edward Scissor Hands, even seeing him scared me a bit now.
This is another one that I loved when I was little. My mom always thought it was too scary for me, but really I was much more scared of the boyfriend then of Edward. Edward is just a sweetie pie.

E.T truly scared me. He was just so freaky and weird!
:agree: The ending with all the men in space suits really scared me, I couldn't watch it.

E.T truly scared me. He was just so freaky and weird! I love him now - he's actually quite cute :D. And the bit with the men in the huge white suits and big masks coming to get him...that scared the hell out of me!

Also, The Witches (an adaptation of Roald Dahl's book). I'm not sure if many people will have seen this, but eeeew! That scene when they all take of their wigs and show their stumpy feet and the main witch reveals her disgusting face...it still gives me the shivers.

Omg, both of those movies were really scary for me when I was little, I absolutely hated watching E.T., (I never thought he was cute) and The Witches scared me as well, especially the scene where they show the little girl who got trapped in the painting :( It made me so sad because I actually believed that it had been done to her!

I can't remember the name, but there was Christmas movie with a scene about the birth of Jesus that used to scare me when I was very young. The scene was done in very primitive computer generated graphics, so the characters' movements were stiff, their faces were always expressionless, and they had tiny, black eyes and pale white skin. They also didn't speak, and everything just came together to make a very creepy movie.

The very first movie I ever saw in a cinema was Disney's black Cauldron. I was only six at that time and I was really impressed by the Horned King and his dead army.

Halloween, Mike myers the lot. I watched them when I was about 7, Big mistake.

When I was really little snow white scared me, I always remember her getting chased by a crocadile in a forest or something like that.

I was absolutely terrified of Fantasia when I saw it. The music really got to me when I was younger, and still does.
I was also afraid of Star Wars. I saw it when I was three or four and I was so scared of the music, especially the bad guy theme. But I grew out of that in a few years.
The Witches was creepy! I don't remember much but didn't their eyes flash red or something? I remember hating it.
The 'new' 101 dalmatians. That was really freaky...

For some reason I was allowed to watch Silence of the Lambs when I was just 12 and it scared me so much. Now it's one of my favourite movies :)

Ooh, my, there were so many movies that used to scare the living daylights out of me. Let's see:

1) Poltergeist - I couldn't fall asleep normally for a whole decade after watching it! The tree under my window = not friendly looking and definitely not amusing. Shall never ever watch that movie again, even if my life depends on it.

2) Gremlins - the same story as with the movie above - had traumas years and years after. However, I watched it again recently in an effort to overcome the fear - and I did. Honestly, having seen it the second time - it's ridiculous and not that scary at all. Still nasty and disgusting, though.

3) It - um... I'm pretty sure if I watched it again now I'd still be as terrified as then. So, I will not even try to see it. Nuh-uh. One trauma is enough.

4) Star Wars - believe it or not, when I was a child of only 4 or 5, Darth Vader was extremely horrifying for me. Seriously. Naturally, I watched the series again a few years later and absolutely fell in love with them, including the almighty Vader. What was I thinking?

5) Wizard of Oz - both 1 and 2. I mean, come on, which child was not afraid of those flying monkeys and/or the witch herself? On top of that, I was also scared of Oz. Yet, I loved those movies. Contradictory much?

6) Dumbo - yes, yes, the Dumbo. Disney Dumbo. Remember that song 'Elephant on Parade'? I still shiver when I think about it.

Oooh, God, I could go on and on. I'll leave it for some other time 'cause I'm really starting to get a panic attack now. ;)

I saw the Exsorsits (sp) when I was about 12... o.o Ooops...

E.T truly scared me. He was just so freaky and weird! I love him now - he's actually quite cute :D. And the bit with the men in the huge white suits and big masks coming to get him...that scared the hell out of me!


I HATED THAT PART!
It still bothers me :lol:
When I was little I remember watching that part with the men in the white suits, it always scared me, no matter how much I watched it :whistle:




Other one was Edward Scissor Hands, even seeing him scared me a bit now.


I remember certain parts of that movie scaring me too, I hated the part when he remembers his past or something and it shows that factory thingy :scared:



I also remember a part in The Secret Garden when there at a camp fire like chanting...that part scared me :lol:

The Muppet Christmas Carol, 2 parts of that movie always scared me...the part with the two dudes that were like ghost in chains talking to scrooge...and the part with the third ghost dude, that creepy hooded thingy...[kinda like what I pictured a Dementor looking like]..:D

Scream ........ :whistle:

I shouldn't have been watching it but .. I was really nosey!

It was the bit at the beginning that really freaked me out ...

I couldn't sleep for weeks ...

I was terrified of The Last Unicorn. That movie is so dark for a children's movie (typical 80s)! There's this horrible "red bull", a harpy that kills a creepy witch, a drinking skeleton, and this scary king guy. Oh yeah, and there's drowning unicorns. It gave me nightmares, but now I kind of like it.

Really, only the Freddy movies (Nightmare on Elm Street) scared me.

Witches
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Escape to Witch Mountain
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IT
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/

Willy Wonka
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Only one really comes to mind, and it's Tim Burton's Batman - well, really just Jack Nicholson's Joker. I mean, I've always been struck by the dark, brooding atmosphere of the whole film, but thanks to Nicholson, I just couldn't watch the film for so long, or see any pictures of anything associated with it. Even if I tried, the buildup to the character's entrance freaked me out, the anticipation and tension. Finally, at some point, I forget what age (I wanna say 9 or 10), my parents sat me down and made me watch it (I was a huge Batman fan overall), and I just...lost the fear. I now realize what a brilliant turn that was, and how cool it is that Nicholson's work freaked me out so much, because The Joker should have that effect.

Erm their are a few films that scared me , one was the wizard of OZ the wicked witch of the west is what scared me the most, also IT the clown also really freaked me out as i hate clowns and scream, maybe i was too young but i thought i would be alright how wrong i was, i did not want the lights off and was looking over my shoulder all the time lol

Really, only the Freddy movies (Nightmare on Elm Street) scared me.
Me too. I think I first watched some of them when I was 11 or so. I watched Halloween around the same time and it didn't bother me. In fact, I really liked it and still do.

I remember Village of the damned haunted me for weeks. Oh, those kids. So damn freaky.

The very last part of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where the guy drinks from a gold cup, then ages really quickly. I couldn't watch that bit for ages when I was very small. The weird thing was I didn't have any particular problems with the ending of the Lost Ark.

A Christmas Story. I know that sounds weird, but that kid with the yellow eyes gave me nightmares.

And the part in The Princess Bride where Westley gets tortured - I had to hide behind the couch until it was over.

Scream ........ :whistle:

I shouldn't have been watching it but .. I was really nosey!

It was the bit at the beginning that really freaked me out ...

I couldn't sleep for weeks ...

The opening sequence of Scream (with the delightful Ms Barrymore) is one of the better sequences of modern horror cinema.

I keep seeing people listing It. I must have seen a different movie/mini-series. It's horrible, but not horrific.

I was terrified of The Last Unicorn. That movie is so dark for a children's movie (typical 80s)! There's this horrible "red bull", a harpy that kills a creepy witch, a drinking skeleton, and this scary king guy. Oh yeah, and there's drowning unicorns. It gave me nightmares, but now I kind of like it.

This movie scared me so much as a child also! It was very dark and pessimistic, and I hated the red bull, and all the misfortune that the unicorn encountered. I still don't like this movie, but it doesn't scare me anymore.

I really can't think of any other movies that scared me, my parents were really strict and I didn't watch most popular horror movies. (I still haven't seen Halloween or the Freddy movies, etc.)

Chuckie. Dolls that look like that freak me out now.

And the part in The Princess Bride where Westley gets tortured - I had to hide behind the couch until it was over.

I saw that during the 4th grade and had nightmares about it for ages. I still can't believe they showed that movie to us that young! Its a great movie (now that I'm an adult) but I think it scared a lot of kids!

Ringu, the Japanese original. I saw it at my school' film society way before it was well known outside Japan, and it scared me stiff. Any time I had to go into the dark room for my photography class I would get nervous, and because I had a TV in my room, it made it hard to get to sleep, all I could think about was that scene were Sadako crawls out of the TV. Yeesh, I still have horrible memories of that scene, the close-ups on her fingers, the guy's reaction, the sound the TV made, it was just terrifying.

Ringu scared me too the first time I saw it. As did the sequels even though they weren't that good.

When I was little The Little Mermaid used to scare me :( Ursula gave me nightmares.

When I was like 4-6 the Carebear movies scared me. I am such a wimp, but seriously I would leave the room whenever the villains came on.

As a teenager not many horror movies really scared me much, until I got pregnant. Once I got pregnant I got scared of everything, mostly because I would have really disturbing nightmares. So for the past 7 years I have pretty much refused to watch scary movies :lol:

The Empire Strikes Back. The yeti, Darth Vader, frozen Han Solo and Luke's hand gave me nightmares for a week.

Next time I watched it, I became addicted to Star Wars...

I wish this thread had been created years ago, because I've spent the majority of my life thinking I was the only kid who was terrified by ET! I had literal nightmares about him that made me go looking for my mom in the middle of the night... especially that scene when he's all collapsed and sick by the river or lake or whatever? And Elliot gets him to help get him home (I think? I've only seen it once, that was enough). I remember just thinking he looked like a pile of dead meat or something, it completely freaked me out.

Another one that terrified me was the live-action version of Alice in Wonderland, with the Jabberwocky. I would run out of the room whenever a scene with him would come on, especially that bit at the end when he's in Alice's house after she thinks she's returned from Wonderland. Just utter fear.

Chuckie scared me a lot, too, though I never saw the whole thing. My mom had started me on a porcelain doll collection, and the clips I watched of Chuckie had me terrified of those dolls for years. I remember I'd even talk to them and kiss up to them so that they wouldn't hate me and come to life and kill me. O_O

Chuckie scared me a lot, too, though I never saw the whole thing. My mom had started me on a porcelain doll collection, and the clips I watched of Chuckie had me terrified of those dolls for years. I remember I'd even talk to them and kiss up to them so that they wouldn't hate me and come to life and kill me. O_O

Ironically, I was fascinated rather than scared by the Chuckie movies. I have vivid memories of watching them when I was about 3-4, and I really loved them, they didn't scare me in the least. Simpler things such as ET, and such, well those did a good job scaring me.

The Shining had me in a tizzy for a long time, and Psycho. But other than that, I never ever really liked the fear genres.. I never quite got along with them because films need a sense of realism before I can appreciate them. The warped tones of the two mentioned got to me badly- and also, Cujo was pretty nasty too. But things like The Exorcist etc, they never scared me.

But things like The Exorcist etc, they never scared me.

You're kidding! I still can't watch that film. Mind due may be it's not so much the film itself; I just know my imagination will likely work overtime once I switch the lights off to go to sleep. :lol:

:lol:! I also recall watching House of 1000 Corpses. That was really horrible.

:lol:! I also recall watching House of 1000 Corpses. That was really horrible.
I love that movie! But it didn't come out when I was a kid. :)

Jurassic Park.... I can not watch those movies....

When I went to my friends house, when I was like 5 or 6, we were getting ready for bed, and his older brother (who was like 7) put on Chuckie.... oh snap cakes that scared the poo out of me..... im getting scared just thinking about it....

The People Under The Stairs. It's not that scary I guess but some of it is creepy.

Witchboard. It's the movie with the Ouiji board.

IT. I found the first half to be pretty scary, the second half when they were adults was just okay. I was bummed when he transformed into a big spider, kind of a let down. I heard the director of this movie didn't like the ending. He likes King but thinks he doesn't know how to end a story well, at least this one.

6) Dumbo - yes, yes, the Dumbo. Disney Dumbo. Remember that song 'Elephant on Parade'? I still shiver when I think about it.



Ahhh me too! Other than that, like you Stephen King's IT, scared me, I don't think I've ever been able to make it through the whole movie.:eeep:

IT. I found the first half to be pretty scary, the second half when they were adults was just okay. I was bummed when he transformed into a big spider, kind of a let down. I heard the director of this movie didn't like the ending. He likes King but thinks he doesn't know how to end a story well, at least this one.

IT was a interdimensional beasty whose form as a spider was the closest thing the human mind could accommodate. A bit hard to put into film.

IT, the Gremlins... Sleepy Hollow disturbed me (but now I find it funny)...

Village of the Damned. The original one isn't scary, but the 1995 version scared the bejesus out of me. I used to have such bad nightmares.

I remember The Dark Crystal scaring me when I was a kid because of the skekzies or whatever they were called. I thought they were really creepy. And then when I was about 14, I went to a friend's birthday party. We watched IT (the version with Tim Curry in it) and after that, I was afraid of clowns for months.

Halloween scared the pants off of me and still does. I wasn't necessarily supposed to be watching, but my dad was watching it and I was peeking at the screen. I regreted it.

Sleeping Beauty! It was and still remains one of my favourite disney movies but just seeing the fireplace disappear and then Aurora going up the stairway to touch the needle! *Shudders* The music for that scene really didn't help either. Still can't watch it today :|

Sleepy Hollow disturbed me (but now I find it funny)...


Same here! Haha, I used to freak out completely.

Salem's Lot...really really scary! I still can't get over it!

6) Dumbo - yes, yes, the Dumbo. Disney Dumbo. Remember that song 'Elephant on Parade'? I still shiver when I think about it.



*shudders*

*Beauty & the Beast.. the Beast alone is enough to scare any 4 year old haha.
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame < Disney version.. *shivers* i still can't watch it.

dumbo...(elephant parade)...and raz (its and indian movie)

bt movies that still scare me...grudge 2 and saw...i have goosbumps by just writing theri names...

Alice In Wonderland. I've only seen it twice in my entire life; when I was 4 and 5. I can't remember it to much, but it had something in it that scared me enough to never watch it again. I imagine now it wouldn't be as scary if I watched it, but I'm still not sure if I'd want to. The bunny that was late for a party and always repated it (or something like that I can't remember), Alice not being able to get home, and everything in it I just didn't like it and it scared me.

Gremblins freaked me out. I remember I would always check inside my closet and anywhere where I thought a gremblin might be and when I slept I would pull the covers over my head and sleep in the middle of my bed. Now when I watch it, I love it. E.T. used to scare me a little bit too.

I was petrified by Jaws and Airport. (I was an easy scare).

Jumanji used to scare me. Especially when the boy cheats and turns into a monkey!

Nightmare Before Christmas.

Never got past 5 minutes into the movie, because the opening song scared me so much. (You know, the monsters dancing and being "scary")

Then, actually, in 2008, I watched Nightmare Before Christmas (because a lot of my friends love it, wanted to see if it really was "good"). And to my surprise, i loved it! :love:

It's now in my top 10 favorite movies. I'm glad I got the courage to watch it, because for 12 years, I never watched that movie, which I regret, because its sooo awesome!

I didn't really watch many scary movies when I was a kid. Though when I was like 5 or 6, Sleeping Beauty scared me, but just the part where Maleficent lures Rose up to the spinning wheel. Also, I think E.T. scared me a bit.

When I was really young the movie Disney movie Anastasia just terrified me. Its the first movie that I can remember that I was even a little bit scared while watching. I've never seen the movie since.

Another movie that scared me was Vertical Limit when I was younger. The Fellowship of the Ring also scared me a bit when I was 8. I tried watching the movie but the Black Riders and the orcs frightened me.

'The Secret of NIMH' -- that monster was the scariest thing ever.
'Pinocchio' -- mentally scarred after the thing with the pirates (memory is a tad shady here)
'The Great Mouse Detective' -- scared me a little in the opening scene.

Wow, these are all animated. I was such a wimp. :sigh:

I was petrified by Jaws and Airport. (I was an easy scare).

Jaws was one of the great horror movies of its time. People often forget that Spielberg is quite adept at horror, it's just that his monsters are rarely supernatural.

Jumanji used to scare me. Especially when the boy cheats and turns into a monkey!

*shudders*

Oh yeah, that movie scared the **** out of me! I watched it awhile ago, and it wasnt all that scary. But when I was little, I couldnt watch it alone. I had to have my mom watch it with me....

*shudders*

Oh yeah, that movie scared the **** out of me! I watched it awhile ago, and it wasnt all that scary. But when I was little, I couldnt watch it alone. I had to have my mom watch it with me....

Yes, Jumanji used to frighten me also. What really got me was that Toys R Us actually sold the Jumanji board game, and I thought it was all reality and that it could actually happen.

I was completely terrified of G'mork from The Neverending Story. His scenes always had me hiding my eyes or shuddering. :wow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjW30BiJ5gw

And yes, I'm still a little creeped out by him. But I love the movie.

There are some movies that still scare me now as an adult :lol: one that always creeps me out no matter how many times I see it, when, where etc is Silence Of The Lambs. Just so creepy *shivers*

I think I've already mentioned that The Little Mermaid scared me as a child but so did The X Files. The TV show of course. My parents used to watch it after I went to bed and one night I couldn't sleep so I snuck into the TV room and saw a particularly gruesome and disturbing part of the program. After that I used to get terrified by just hearing the theme music (which in itself is a bit creepy after all :p).

The veloceraptors in Jurassic Park used to terrify me in that scene in the kitchen with Lex and Tim.

Yes, Jumanji used to frighten me also. What really got me was that Toys R Us sold actually sold the Jumanji board game, and I thought it was all reality and that it could actually happen.

Okay, that is scary!

the only movie that ever gave me nightmares was the movie poltergiest, still to this day i have no idea why but still wont watch it its really not even that scary

Oh, I was so easily frightened when I was little. I hated ET (when he gets sick and turns white :eeep::lol:). Titanic scared the daylights out of me, and I couldn't finish Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi because I couldn't watch Han Solo and Luke Skywalker being tortured (it was a few years before I could watch the scenes with the monsters in Jabba's palace. :lol:)

i was somehow really disturbed by the *eye* in Flight of the Navigator :eeep: and while watching Masters of Time (a french animation movie almost nobody knows :err: ) i almost fainted everytime when the scene with the hornets came

'Pinocchio' -- mentally scarred after the thing with the pirates (memory is a tad shady here)Oh yes, I remember being scared of that one too. But I've only seen the movie about twice, so I had forgotten it.

A show that creeps me out even now is CSI when they show pictures of the inside of the body and how things go wrong (like blood in the lungs, etc). I remember not being able to sleep after seeing one episode of CSI. :eeep:

I was always terrified of the Chucky doll, even though I do not recall seeing it as a kid. I couldn't even look at a picture of it without getting scared. Also, the "Hyde" scene from "The Pagemaster". It always freaked me out in that one part, even though I loved the rest of the movie.

1- Ghostwatch - A BBC mockumentary. So frightening, the BBC refuse to ever air it again. I support their decision.

2- Jaws - Led to a lifelong fear of water. The main reason I prefer showers over baths. I don't even like looking at the sea.

3- The Ring - Hate TV's displaying static ever since. Had me looking nervously over my shoulder at the TV for at least a year.

for me it has to be the movie "IT" ever since i watched that movie ive been scared of clowns....:sigh:

Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. I was probably 8 when I saw them, so I guess that's reasonable. I used to think the killer was in my bedroom.

Also, Ursula in the Little Mermaid used to freak me out. But that's probably because I used to be afraid of octopi (I think they're cute now).

Congo gave me nightmares for months! O_O

Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. I was probably 8 when I saw them, so I guess that's reasonable. I used to think the killer was in my bedroom.

I saw those around the same age, but they never got to me to, say, the point of nightmares. I did go as the Ghostface Killer a couple of Halloweens.

Also, Ursula in the Little Mermaid used to freak me out. But that's probably because I used to be afraid of octopi (I think they're cute now).

There's one Ursula moment in that movie that I find genuinely creepy, and that's at the end of the "Poor Unfortunate Souls" number, when the lighting changes, and she's cast in an orange-or-red-ish glow; it's great, really atmospheric.

I was always terrified of the Chucky doll, even though I do not recall seeing it as a kid. I couldn't even look at a picture of it without getting scared.

Child's Play is like the flip side of Toy Story (or the other way around, as Toy Story came later). Toy Story's hook is, "Wow, wouldn't it be great if our toys came to life when we weren't around?" Child's Play's is, "Oh my God, wouldn't it be scary if our toys could come to life?!"

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Hmm, films that freaked me out when I was younger?

Well, I remember when I was about 11, BBC2 used to regularly show some of the classic horror films at about 11 on a Friday and Saturday night (we're talking about 1976 here)

The Haunting (original 1963 version) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/) - the fact that nothing is ever seen to happen just stretched my nerves to breaking point. Still a great exercise in creepy atomospherics

The Legend of Hell House (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070294/) - haven't seen it since but I remember it as another incredibly atmospheric film

Not a film but I remember being terrified of the Aquaphibians in Stingray.

However, the DVD that affected me the most was one I watched when I was about 36, believe it or not. That was when my ex-wife bought Ghostwatch (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200659/). I never saw it when it was originally broadcast but had heard a great deal about it. I remember watching it one night while she was at work and I was alone in the house except for my son who asleep upstairs (he was about 2 at the time). I'm not kidding, but this really freaked me out - more than anything else I've ever watched.

For me oddly enough... it wasn't so much a horror film that scared me when I was little... it was part of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.

The part in his office towards the end there... when he was angry at Charlie and his grandpa, scared the baloney out of me when I was a kid :eeep:.

Also, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney) scared me when I was little too for some reason, can't remember why though.

uhhhh actualy lord of the rings scared me. i was like 4 when it first came out and I remember sitting in the theater quivering in my combat boots. LOL really i wore combat boots when I was a kid!

For me oddly enough... it wasn't so much a horror film that scared me when I was little... it was part of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.

The part in his office towards the end there... when he was angry at Charlie and his grandpa, scared the baloney out of me when I was a kid :eeep:.

Also, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney) scared me when I was little too for some reason, can't remember why though.

The scary points in movies that aren't horror movies do stand out more than the scary points in horror movies. Even if those moments aren't scarier than ones in horror movies, they stick out more.

That made sense as a thought, did it make sense as a sentence?

IT. And I wasn't that young when I saw it.

The Exorcist. :\

And E.T. the scene in the cornfield always freaked me out (and still kind of does :\)

Poltergeist

for me it has to be the movie "IT" ever since i watched that movie ive been scared of clowns....:sigh:

IT STILL gives me the creeps. :(

THE WIZARD OF OZ.
i used to have nightmares about the witch.
and whenever it was dark out, id think she was hiding in my window or in my basement -___-

I don't think any movies scared me when I was a kid. Twilight Zone (TV series) would occasionally freak me out, but I never let on or I wouldn't have been allowed to watch it. There was one episode where another dimension opened up in the wall of a little girl's room as she slept, and she rolled into it...her parents could hear her but didn't know what was happening...I moved my bed away from the wall for weeks.....:eeep:

Jumanji. I remember watching that movie when I was five and being so scared that I had nightmares of rhinos stampeding through my house!

One word: Jumanji. I had Botanophobia ever since I was four and when I watched the film I used to have nightmares about those plants creeping on me and strangling me in bed. :eeep:. I wouldn't watch it even now!

Also I used to be so scared of Godzilla, I remember jumping out of my seat whenever it appeared on the screen, :lol:

Gremlins. Saw it when I was 7 and it scared me so much I haven't seen it since. Never will.

IT STILL gives me the creeps. :(

A source of constant amazement. One of the worst adaptions which was more laughable than scary.

Not a film, but I was scared out of my wits by Twin Peaks. The dwarf still makes me shudder. :scared:

The end of Raiders of the lost Ark, that was fairly horrific

The Black Cauldron, for certain. For those who don't know that movie, it's a Disney movie from the year 1985. The villian, The Horned King, was soooo scary. I think he's one of the most scary Disney villians ever. I still remember closing my eyes during the scenes he was in. Brrr. :shrug:

Not a film, but I was scared out of my wits by Twin Peaks. The dwarf still makes me shudder. :scared:

I just watched this show about 2 or 3 years ago, so I wasn't a kid, but it was still really freaky. I was more afraid of Bob and him hiding by the bed, although the dwarf was creepy too.

THE WIZARD OF OZ.
i used to have nightmares about the witch.
and whenever it was dark out, id think she was hiding in my window or in my basement -___-
Don't blame ya there. The Wicked Witch was rather creepy :eeep:...

The scary points in movies that aren't horror movies do stand out more than the scary points in horror movies. Even if those moments aren't scarier than ones in horror movies, they stick out more.

That made sense as a thought, did it make sense as a sentence?Yep it does :tu:. Perfectly. It seems like those kinds of moments tend to (at times) stand out more than the ones from horror films.

The two films which scared me the most were Return to Oz and The Dark Crystal. Return to Oz because of those blasted Wheelers and the desert which turns you to sand when you step on it, and The Dark Crystal for the way the vulture creatures would crumble up when they died.

"The Exorcist" scared the water out of me when I was 9.I had nightmares about LInda Blaire for months."Pet Semetary" is the only other movie to scare me half to death;at the time I wasn't a kid lol

For me oddly enough... it wasn't so much a horror film that scared me when I was little... it was part of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.

The part in his office towards the end there... when he was angry at Charlie and his grandpa, scared the baloney out of me when I was a kid :eeep:.

I don't remember that bit :shrug: The part in that film that always scared me was when they go on the boat after the boy falls in the chocolate (I can't remember his name). I think it was because Wonka goes a bit crazy there and the background goes weird, I watched that part recently though and it didn't scare me and I was kind of confused why I used to be so scared.

Everyone laughs me when I say that I was scared during the Little Mermaid. But seriously, when Ursula (I think, the evil one anyway) turns into a giant and it's thunderstorming I was just creeped out. It probably didn't help that I watched it in the cinema so it was an enormous screen :lol:

I don't remember that bit :shrug: The part in that film that always scared me was when they go on the boat after the boy falls in the chocolate (I can't remember his name). I think it was because Wonka goes a bit crazy there and the background goes weird, I watched that part recently though and it didn't scare me and I was kind of confused why I used to be so scared.

Everyone laughs me when I say that I was scared during the Little Mermaid. But seriously, when Ursula (I think, the evil one anyway) turns into a giant and it's thunderstorming I was just creeped out. It probably didn't help that I watched it in the cinema so it was an enormous screen :lol:
It was towards the end of the film... where Charlie and his uncle are in Wonka's office (that place creeped me out too... with all of the cut in half furniture)... and he was saying to them that they broke the rules and such.

As a kid (tween), our school showed the movie Psycho (the 1960 version) and that shower scene scared me so bad. In fact, it scared me so bad that once I left home and was on my own (age 18)...I ALWAYS had a see-through shower curtain. I rationalized that if someone was going to attack me when I showered...at least I'd see them coming...:lol: I had a see-though curtain until I was in my late 30's.

As a teen, the Exorcist joined that scare factor. I had read the book when I was 12. I swear that book gave me nightmares like you wouldn't believe! When I saw the movie, it got to the part where Linda Blair's voice changed to the demon...that did it! I told my boyfriend to take me home right then. He refused and told me that I was being ridiculous. I started crying and threatened to walk home. He caved and took me home, but he was so mad at me! Years later I finally got up enough courage to watch it and by that time, I too, thought it was ridiculous! I did still have a few goosebumps when her voice changed. :lol:

Im jumping on both the Wizard of Oz and the IT bandwagons. The Wicked Witches castle and guards used to freak me out and IT gave me a fear of both clowns and giant spiders. Urgh. Only peer pressure got me watching these films at sleepovers etc.

I was also freaked by The Shinning, Childs Play and the Exorcist. Even to this day I can't really stand thrillers or horror movies, basically I don't like feeling unsafe. It was a real issue at University (or College to some) as a film and theatre major, some of the films I had to watch creeped me out good and proper.

honestly? the one movie that gave me nightmares for weeks when i was younger was (and i feel embarrassed saying this) Godzilla. not the great Japanese versions, the 1998 movie with Matthew Broderick. looking back, it was a pretty bad movie, but it scared the hell out of me. :D

Im jumping on both the Wizard of Oz and the IT bandwagons. The Wicked Witches castle and guards used to freak me out and IT gave me a fear of both clowns and giant spiders. Urgh. Only peer pressure got me watching these films at sleepovers etc.

I was also freaked by The Shinning, Childs Play and the Exorcist. Even to this day I can't really stand thrillers or horror movies, basically I don't like feeling unsafe. It was a real issue at University (or College to some) as a film and theatre major, some of the films I had to watch creeped me out good and proper.
The Shinning? Don't you mean Stephen King's movie? I saw both of them... Stephen King's movie and the Simpsons take on it... and both of them were pretty scary... and the latter cracked me up somewhat :lol:. Homer, Homer, Homer :p.

The Shinning? Don't you mean the Shining?

Shh! You wanna get sued?!

Shh! You wanna get sued?!
:rotfl: Nope I don't. I forgot about that... I just figured they meant the latter. And not the former :whistle:.

Whoops! For some reason my brain always justifies the extra 'n' :yuhup:

I only saw The Shining a couple years ago, and I'm not easily scared, but yeah, that one makes an impression. The blood rushing out of the elevator is one of the great horrifying images in movie history.

However, if you want to see it in a somewhat different light for a minute or two, take a look at this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA) hilarious mock trailer.

Well I scare easiler even as an adult. But the Ring always scared me, after I watched it I was afraid to answer my phone for week, fearing a voice on the other end saying I had 7 days to live. After that I put a stop to horror movies.

Well I scare easiler even as an adult. But the Ring always scared me, after I watched it I was afraid to answer my phone for week, fearing a voice on the other end saying I had 7 days to live. After that I put a stop to horror movies.
The Ring scared me the first time I saw it too. Then I stupidly went and watched the Japanese original and that scared me even more :rolleyes: That was a few years ago now, I don't think I've seen a movie in years that's actaully frightened me. With the exception of Silence of the Lambs which freaks me out no matter how many times I see it, or how old I am

Urgh. The Ring. I think that it's the soundtrack on these movies that gets me, Im sure I would be find watching it without sound, but the soundtrack that gets my heart going and makes me hide under blankets.

^ Trust me it doesn't work without the sound either,I watched it covering my ears and it was still scary lol

The Ring scared me the first time I saw it too. Then I stupidly went and watched the Japanese original and that scared me even more :rolleyes: That was a few years ago now, I don't think I've seen a movie in years that's actaully frightened me. With the exception of Silence of the Lambs which freaks me out no matter how many times I see it, or how old I am

Haha yes the Japanese have a way of making horror movies 10 times more scary. I suggest not watching the Japanese version of the Grudge either, apparently it's more scary than the Ring lol

I can name two off easily. It and Child's Play. Those two movies scared the **** out of me when I saw them as a kid. Seriously, it took a few years for me to get over being afraid of them and I swear It is the reason I have a strong dislike/fear of clowns.

Honestly, "It" didn't scare me so much as it left me staring hard at my screen wondering if they were even attempting to properly adapt Stephen King's book. Compared to the book, which was one of the longest, most satisfying, best-written, most complex, well-developed stories I've ever read and which had an incredibly deep and rich history and symbolism behind its horror, the movie was an overly short, heavily cut, trite piece of **** utterly lacking in even the slightest details that didn't even get the general plot right (or for that matter the symbolism of the horror itself). Then again, I've come to expect that of most efforts directors have made to adapt King's best works (see: Christine, Pet Sematary, The Dark Half, Misery, The Running Man, and especially The Stand).

Talking about films that genuinely did scare me, as a kid I was terrified of a scene from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit": Remember me, Eddie... when I killed your brother... I talked... JUST... LIKE... THIS!!! *twitches* that gave me nightmares for years.

I also had a particularly vivid nightmare about the T-1000, but seeing as that happened two years before "Terminator 2" even came out and to this day I have never seen that entire movie, I doubt that counts.

To this day, there are still a few movies that scare me... with how horrifyingly bad they are. The three that come to mind immediately are "The Blair Witch Project," "Gigli," and "The Haunting of Molly Hartley." Since I haven't technically watched the entire animated movie of The Lord of the Rings I can't add that to the list, but what I saw of it was enough to induce violent spasms.

Since I haven't technically watched the entire animated movie of The Lord of the Rings I can't add that to the list, but what I saw of it was enough to induce violent spasms.

I liked that movie as a young kid but I watched it again recently and it just reduced me to tears of laughter.

Although I am a huge Disney fan I have to admit a lot of Disney scenes scared me as a child. I always had to fast forward the "Poor Unfortunate Souls" section of The Little Mermaid. Fantasia is also enough to scare anyone.

I accidentally watched the opening scenes of Stephen King's IT when I was like 6 and I am absolutely terrified of clowns even now.

Poltergeist freaked me out a little as well, I still dont like looking under the bed or in closets.

I saw Scream as a teen and it scared me to the point that when I got off the school bus I would make the boy next door walk me up the driveway and to my front door. I was convinced someone was hiding in the woods.

hey has anyone seen the movie "screamers"? man it is more freaky than anything!

Twin Peaks - there was some sort of dwarf, dancing... Horrible scene, even when I saw it when I was 20 years old, I still thought it was gross.

The Witches terrified me the first time that I saw it as a six year old. Matters weren't helped when a distant English relation, who looked worryingly like the woman in black, turned up at a family function and asked me to come and sit next to her. She also had uncomfortable looking shoes -- surely to hide her square feet.

The Ring scared me the first time I saw it too. Then I stupidly went and watched the Japanese original and that scared me even more :rolleyes: That was a few years ago now, I don't think I've seen a movie in years that's actaully frightened me. With the exception of Silence of the Lambs which freaks me out no matter how many times I see it, or how old I am

A few years ago, I stupidly watched The Ring in the middle of the night because I was wide awake and couldn't sleep. I kept on thinking that my TV in my room would turn on or something.

Ju-On is the original Grudge and that was also pretty creepy as well when I watched it.

&& Silence of the Lambs! Such a good movie. :D

I would say I was most afraid of the nightmare on elm street series. it gave me nightmares anytime I was allowed to watch them, even if for only a few minutes. I still avoid them as an adult.

I saw a scene from Jurassic Park when I was 6 and was terrified. IIRC, it was when the lawyer ran to the bathroom stall and then got eaten.

When I was six, my parents watched this movie called Coneheads, and it scared the living daylights out of me. And to this very day, I still can't watch it without freaking out.

The movies that scared me as a child is Evil Dead. It was so scary movie .

Halloween and a Nightmare on Elm Street


When I was like 10.

The movies that scared me as a child is Evil Dead. It was so scary movie .
Man that one is scary. Didn't see it when I was a kid... but it was scary none the less.

I remember being scared of Edward Scissorhands for some reason. I think I was afraid of the fact that when he was trying to help that kid when he almost gets hit by the car, he ends up cutting up his face anyways.

Before I saw the movie I had always slept with my door open, but after seeing it I started sleeping with my door closed because I remembered from the movie that he wasn't able to turn doorknobs.

What terrified me most was "De Lift". It's a Dutch movie about a lift that goes on a killing spree. It scared me so much I've seriously only been using lifts for a couple years now. Another bad one was the tv adaptation of Stephen King's "It".

I saw the movie Evil dead, it was so scary and when I watched this movie i couldn't slept for the whole night.

It's funny, as a kid, I was able watch Dracula, Saw, Nightmare, Halloween, etc. without any problems...But the one thing that scared was that Disney movie "The Black Cauldron". It's been so long that I can't even remember his name, but the antagonist was just creepy to me then. He was hooded, had a deep and throaty voice, and his fingers were bony.

Yes, you read that correctly; I could enjoy Saw, but a Disney movie frightened me.

That says a lot about who I am, eh?

The Neverending story was one of my absolute favorite movies ever when I was growing up BUT I could not watch the scenes with the Gmork! That thing terrified me to no end, especially at the end when it is talking to Atreyu and jumps out at him. I'm 27 years old and I still love that movie, but the Gmork still gives me the creeps!

Oh and I also must confess that I hated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs until I was about 12. The wicked witch as the old lady at the end when she gives Snow White the apple scared me to death. I actually had a recurring nightmare with her in it for a good year or so at my life when I was really little. Much like the Gmork, I still think she is the creepiest animated villain ever.

Poltergeist. I saw it once, in 1983, and still refuse to watch it again. I'm perfectly happy to keep the streak going, too. :)

This is going to sound stupid, but it was the Lion King! I am serious. Firstly, it was the lions and the hyenas etc. I mean, my gran keeps reminding me of how I was hiding behind the seats, to scared to look at the movie. And then I was upset when Mufasa died, and still kinda am seeing as I have lost important people in my life, it's quite easy to relate. But yeah! Other than that everything kinda scared me! xO

I remember being excited about Jack Nicholson's "Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest" if it is this the title,(It is the one in which he roleplays a man in a mental institution). When I heard of it I thought it was and adventure and comedy movie! I was really scared after watching it.

"The Ring" nearly scared me to death. It pretty much ruined a whole year in my life.. i was absolutely terrified. Scared of beeing alone. Beeing alone with a TV' freaked me out for months. I was sure i was gonna get killed seven days after watching it.

Halloween + a bunch of 11-12 years old watching "The Ring" = disaster.
My phone actually rang at the right moment too ( It was my dad, *phew*)

When I was six, my parents watched this movie called Coneheads, and it scared the living daylights out of me. And to this very day, I still can't watch it without freaking out.

What a coincedence! My dad brought that movie home one day and I freaked out! And the fact that it was late at night didn't help either. I couldn't go to sleep properly all night! Years later I found the movie in the DVD section at some store and I freaked out when I saw it! I tried hiding the DVD behind some other movies. I try to avoid it now.

I also thought that Stephen King's It was the most creepiest thing ever. I have never been scared of clowns and that was really scary. I didn't even want to finish watching the entire movie. I was so scared!

I watched The Ring when I was 10 but I actually liked that movie. Even though it did scare me, I thought that it was a good movie. I remember going to Blockbuster and asking the lady that worked there the best scary movie that they had and she told me that The Ring was the scariest and that people would die after seven days after watching it. I watched it with my friends during a sleepover and we couldn't sleep afterwards. We kept thinking we were going to die and that girl from the movie would come out of the TV (it didn't help that we were sleeping in the living room that night either).

For some reason, the movie "Sphere" scared the **** out of me.....
I remember not being able to sleep well after watching that movie.

I always got a little scared when the part in The Lion King where Simba and Scar are fighting at the end and everything is all red and firey... Of course, that was my brother's favorite part and he would watch it over and over lol.

My brother used to get scared when the girl turns into a blueberry in the original Willy Wonka haha.

cant remember the name but it had a black 63s chevy that used to start and think killed ppl. have never seen it again. my older cousin made me watch it

cant remember the name but it had a black 63s chevy that used to start and think killed ppl. have never seen it again. my older cousin made me watch it
Sounds like Stephen King's Christine

The one that comes to mind for me is Who Framed Roger Rabbit? -- the scene near the ending. You know which one. XD

As I've gotten older, though, I've come to appreciate how groundbreaking and excellent the film is. And that scene still gives me chills... but in a good way.

Stephen King's "IT" did it for me. I watched it when I was 5 (stupidly with my cousin) and still 17 years later can NOT see clowns, sleep with my closet door open, etc. I know, I am weird...but it did leave a lasting impression!

I'm thankful for this thread! made realize I'm not the only one scared of some of these movies. These are the ones that got to me...and most of them I still can't watch.

1.) Fantasia- while most people love this movie, I still can't watch to this day. Scared the hebee-jebees out of me!!! The dancing brooms/or mops..whatever they are, scared me so bad as child. I don't know why, I mean I don't have a fear of brooms/or mops or anything, but ugh I can't stand those dancing brooms/or mops. :eeep:

2.) Gremlins- Truthfully I do love Gizmo (even had a cat named after him) by all the other Gremlins I couldn't stand. Especially that green one who was cross-dressing in the end of the film. Never want to see this film again.

3.) Jurassic park- just didn't like the fact that you had to go to the island in the middle of god-knows-where, totally off the beaten path and see dinosaurs walking out in the open. Plus, that t-rex was just scary. I could probably stand to watch this film again, but I doubt I will.

4.) Twister- I lived in tornado alley, I already didn't like tornadoes but this movie gave me a major dislike of wind chimes. Just because of that women's house that had those hand-built wind chimes, then her house is destroyed and the wind chime is still turning...I now think of wind chimes as sounding to ominous, I will never own one in my life. :scared:

5.) Mars Attacks- those aliens gave me nightmares for two weeks straight. I know this movie is supposed to be funny, but to younger me it WASN'T! I will never watch this movie again for as long as I live. Every time I think of those aliens I just remember those nightmares and I get the creeps. :eeep:

6.) Tales from the Crypt- it wasn't a movie tho, but this TV series scared me! The Crypt Keeper.... :eeep: If I never see or hear his laugh again I will be perfectly happy.

When I was about 10 I saw "The Thing From Another World," the original b&w "The Thing," and I slept with a light on for weeks afterward. The "Mummy" movies always scared me, too. Something about Karloff's eyes and they mummy wrappings. Very scary to a kid.

I once saw a bit of The Exorcist when I was younger and it scared the **** outta me, and I don't think I'll watch it again.

:eeep:Runaway. This movie with Tom Selleck and robot spiders...eeeep!

Matilda :eeep:

Most of you probably won't even know most of the movies (or shows) I'll mention, they were from the 60s and 70s.

When I was really little, (7 years old) my older siblings watched the premeire episode of Ron Serling's "Night Gallery" one night... the same night both my parents were out at a friends! In "The Cemetery", there was a painting on the staircase wall that showed the old dead man coming out of his grave and walking toward the house, everytime they passed the painting he was further along, until finally there was a knock at the door... man I had nightmares over that. My mom was furious they watched that and left me no recourse but to watch it too.

One or two episodes of "Lost in Space" creeped me out too, in one ep, there was this assembly line type thing making these creepy androids; my bedroom door was right by the basement door, so when I went to sleep nights after that, when the heater kicked on downstairs, I swore it was making an army of androids to come up the stairs to get me. :whistle:

"The Paper Man" 1971; a credit card/ robotics experiment at a university gone horribly wrong. (Not the 2009 comedy!!) There was a really gruesome death by elevator scene, chilling.

"How Awful about Allan".. don't even remember the plot now, except the guy's eyesight went at the end due to a psychosomatic disorder.. he was in a mental institution. The whole thing was just creepy.

And of course, #1 scary movie of them all, "The Exorcist"... it traumatized me for a while. I'm not even religious but the concept is horrifying anyway.

By today's standards, none of these - except maybe the Exorcist- would probably be considered scary.. I'd probably laugh my head off at them now.

I don't get all the hype about The Exorcist. It's really funny at times, but otherwise worthless.

The 6th Sense. Now that's a scary film. I was only 7 at the time. I couldn't go to the bathroom alone for months after it. There is a ghost in my family home. A man who stayed there before us killed a young girl. Sometimes the family who used to live here visit and seem to think that this is still their house. They seem fairly insane. The ghost isn't so bad, but it's never nice to know that it's there. There is one really creepy thing that it does. Some nights when I come downstairs to get a drink during the night I will walk into the kitchen, and there will be an extentsion cable (thing you use for a lawnmower) plugged into the wall. It's really weird, and no one knows why it does it, but none of us dare to touch it until morning incase the ghost flips out.

When I was a kid my dad took me to see "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" with Don Knotts. Being just a little kid, I didn't get that somebody was just tricking the main character, who was spending the night in a "haunted house"! There was this blood dripping portrait and a bloodstained organ that would play by itself! I had one of those organs that you used to be able to get for kids, you could really play it, actually it was pretty cool, but I was afraid it would start playing by itself! Now it all seems so ridiculous and embarrassing!

Apparantally for my 3rd Birthday we went to see Jurassic Park and I totally FREAKED OUT, though I can't really remember that? I used to watch a fair bit of horror movies as a kid, and none of them scared me at all. Like night of the Living Dead and so on. But the movie that freaked me out and I've never seen since was Titanic, lol. I don't even know, but yeah, that freaked me out as a kid.

When I was about 4 years old I was terrified of moomins and the comet chase, there was this Muskrat in it and I was so afraid that we had to walk out of the movie theatre...
After that there have been many movies I was afraid of but that's the one that I remember best...

There is a scene in Labyrinth that really terrified me as a child. It is when Sarah is falling down a hole and there are all of these hands grabbing out at her. I thought it was horrible. Now when I watch it, I'm much more worried about the tightness of David Bowie's trousers:err:

Sticking with Jim Henson films, I also used to be petrified of the Skeksis in The Dark Crystal. In fact, they still freak me out a little bit.

The other one that sticks out, I have already seen mentioned. It. Pennywise the Clown is responsible for many a sleepless night.

I found the scene in The Pagemaster when the library ceiling starts to melt so frightening when I was little. I have no idea why. I recently re-watched it for the first time in years and when that scene came up, I was like "Why does this seem so familiar?" Because I had re-occurring nightmares about it! What a dork.

Another scene I hated watching as a kid was in Hook. The dreaded boo box. Terrifying. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCx-M8dcDhk

I don't get all the hype about The Exorcist. It's really funny at times, but otherwise worthless.

The 6th Sense. Now that's a scary film. I was only 7 at the time. I couldn't go to the bathroom alone for months after it. There is a ghost in my family home. A man who stayed there before us killed a young girl. Sometimes the family who used to live here visit and seem to think that this is still their house. They seem fairly insane. The ghost isn't so bad, but it's never nice to know that it's there. There is one really creepy thing that it does. Some nights when I come downstairs to get a drink during the night I will walk into the kitchen, and there will be an extentsion cable (thing you use for a lawnmower) plugged into the wall. It's really weird, and no one knows why it does it, but none of us dare to touch it until morning incase the ghost flips out.


You have to understand how unique The Exorcist was at it's time. I went to see it again 25 years later and there were some scenes that made me laugh. But really, at the time, it wasn't funny. It was shocking. And it went to show me how iconic The Exorcist was that now we can see those scenes and actually laugh. At the time, people were running out of the theaters terrified. That kind of graphic horror is common place now, but back then it wasn't at all.

The Sixth Sense was great. Also Signs managed to showcase some really good film making in terms of building suspense and fear and wonderment, although The Sixth Sense was better.

Personally, I think The Shining (Kubrick) version is just plain terrifying. I think because it's actually possible to imagine how horrifying it would be to have someone close to you just go insane and not be able to get away. To me more palpable than an Epic slasher.

Personally, I think The Shining (Kubrick) version is just plain terrifying. I think because it's actually possible to imagine how horrifying it would be to have someone close to you just go insane and not be able to get away. To me more palpable than an Epic slasher.


I completely agree with this. The Shining is easily the scariest film that I have ever seen. The only film that even comes close for me is The Blair Witch Project. I would think twice about watching either of them again because they scared me so much.

Since I was born in 1980 I pretty much grew up as a little kid in the early 1980s and was scared to death from these movies

Poltergeist
Creepshow
Critters
Friday the 13th Part IV
Halloween 2
Halloween 3
Hellraiser
Hellraiser 2
The Blob 1950s original

I was really disappointed by Kubrick's The Shining -- it was horribly miscast. I mean, c'mon, you expect Jack Nicholson to go nuts; he doesn't need a haunted hotel to do it. And Shelley Long was just blah. I think the one they did as a TV movie was better, with Stephen Weber. He's such a nice, normal kind of guy, it was scary when he slowly lost it. But I have yet to see a really good adaptation of a Steven King novel.

Now, the movie that can still freak me out to this very day is the 1963 version of The Haunting -- the one with Julie Harris and Clair Bloom in it. Go rent it (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/), buy it, borrow it, but see it. This movie was made back when directors (Robert Wise, in this case) knew how to tell a story without pouring 500 gallons of fake blood all over the place, or using 99% CGI.

There are two scenes that will make me scootch down in my seat to this very day -- when Eleanor hears the muttering and the pattern of the wallpaper moves, and when the ... whatever ... is prowling down the hall and banging on the walls and doors.

A recent movie that got me pretty well was The Rite, with Sir Anthony Hopkins. Another excellent movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1161864/) to rent, buy, or borrow. Creepy, creepy, creepy.

Stephen King's IT. I still hate clowns to this day.

I wish I was kidding, but I was terrorized by fear as a child after seeing this movie. I thought a clown was going to come up from under my bed and drag me to my death. For weeks, I fell asleep with my arms glued to my side and my face angled towards the ceiling so I could see anything moving in my peripheral vision. *shudder*

Stephen King's IT. I still hate clowns to this day.

This is exactly my experience. I'm still traumatised from having to watch this film at a birthday party. I cannot abide clowns. *shudders*

Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal TERRIFIED ME! The Skeksis were very scary! The other characters were just creepy and the fact that they were puppets made it even freakier!

The TV version of the Canterville Ghost with Richard Kiley was also scary for me especially when the ghost would howl and cry.

I'm not really scared at the movies but late night TV? Two old black and whites scared me. 'Night of the Demon' scared me up tl they showed the demon. The Dana Andrews walk through the woods is still very effective though. The other film I still remember is the original 'Cat People'. Both films were directed by the great Jaques Tourneur. He also directed the '7th Victim'.

Snow White always scared me as a kid. The witch, especially once turned into a evil hag, snuck her way into almost every nightmare that I had! That evil cackle... and the skeletons in her lair... *shudder*.

I used to be so scared of the sequal to Disney's Peter Pan (Return to Neverland, or something like that). I was watching it in preschool one day, and I just started screaming.

The witch in The Wizard of Oz.

"I'll get you, my little pretty. And your little dog, too!"

I loved my dog and didn't want anything to happen to her.

That tornado really scared me as well.

After this movie, I kept dreaming of a tornado barreling down towards us, and me running to grab my dog and save her.

When I was a kid, the beginning of Hunchback of Notre-Dame (the Disney film) scared me so much I couldn't watch the film itself for a long time. I was seven or eight when I could watch the whole film.

And a TV series called The Moomins... one episode scared the hell outta me when I saw it for the first time. It had Groke in it and gods she was scary.

I still have to close my eyes during many scenes in The Mummy, especially the beetles. Urg...

Apart from the fact that I now consider it as a masterpiece among animated movies, I remember being rather frightened by the scene at the beginning of "Watership Down" when the field turns to blood. "Hazel, look... the field... it's covered with blood!"

The whole movie is pretty dark and heavy on the mortality theme. Not necessarily void of violence either.

That scene in Home Alone 2 where Marv gets electrocuted... I had to leave the room

E.T. freaked me out when I was a kid, very much so in the beginning.

13 Ghosts, seriously, I was five and my babysitters had me downstairs in their basement, watching it when I was ALONE. And that was after they told me their house was haunted too.

I remember when I was like 3 years old, leaving the living room when the Cave of Wonders from Aladdin came on screen. :rotfl:

When I was very young, there was a Sesame Street on ice special that scared me. Later, there was a movie where the dad's girlfriend was some kind of monster. And then when I was a teenager, The Mothman Prophecies completely freaked me out.

I saw Lord of the Rings when it came out. Between the Elf queen telling everyone to love her and despair and Gollum...let's just say I couldn't watch the series for a few years.

This is gonna sound incredibly lame, but I found Bambi scary because of the music that played every time the hunters came and because you could never see or hear them. I used to hide under the table because I thought they'd come after me! :rotfl:

The original Star Wars films used to scare me. Two words: Darth Vader. He still creeps me out.

The scene where Voldemort drinks the unicorn's blood scared the absolute hell outta me when I saw Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the cinema. I could never watch that scene for a few years afterwards. :lol:

The Neverending Story used to scare the daylights out of me...I think it was that huge fuzzy dragon...thing...xD

The Others.
I know this sounds horrible, but the blind woman terrified me at the end.
I didn't actually realise that she was blind (i don't know how... I was at least 10), and I had no idea what on earth was going on xD

Also, the ghosts scared me aha.

Witches, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Anjelica Huston. The scene where they started taking off their wigs and gloves to reveal their "true" identity definitely stuck with me. I always thought my mom would one day turn me into a mouse.

The two that come to mine are any of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies (Freddy Kruger still gives me nightmares) and the 1970s version The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The later was one of my brother's favorite films, one night I had stayed up late watching tv, it was nearing Halloween. One of his co-workers bought him Leatherface's mask and he tore into the house that night and scared the living daylights out of me. :wow: I didn't sleep for a week. :eeep: Its funny because the movie still frightens me, yet I have my brother's poster of the movie on my wall. :whistle: :scared: