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Superman III

I don't recall the name of it, it was not a big Hollywood movie or anything, and it was super low budget.

But it was some old Christian movie about what will happen to you if you don't get "saved" before the Rapture happens. I remember a song called "I wish we'd all been ready" playing. Not sure if that's the name of the song, not even positive it was actually in the movie at all, or if it was just something I heard around the same time and the memory is getting blurred.

From what I recall, it looked like it was made in the 70s.

I wish I remembered more about it. It was intended to scare the shit out of you to believe in religion. Worked on me at the time, I remember praying like a million times to make sure I did it right the night I watched it, and randomly at times for years as I remembered the scared-shitless feeling.

Religious trauma is a hell of a drug.

I kinda wanna watch it again now that I'm older.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The old animated one by Disney. The Witch/Evil Queen scenes would always scare the living shit out of little old me! When my sister and I would watch the movie with our grandparents, they would have to fast-forward through those bits.

Child's Play. I was, like, 5? when I watched it. A lot of my toys ended in my older sister's room because I couldn't stand them, I was afraid that they'd chase me.

The Haunting (1963) b/w spook house horror Had a lot experience with Monster Films from Jack Arnold (Tarantula) and Godzillas, but this hit totally unexpected. Didnt help i was watching it in the middle of the night on TV.

When I was 4 and watched Spirited Away I was terrified

The Strangers. I lived in a house similarly isolated with a sliding glass door just like the one in the movie where she moves the curtain and he’s right there staring in.

SAW

“Pokemon: Jirachi, Wish Maker” for me. It had this really creepy Groudon with tentacles.

After whining for a long time my mom let me see Carrie on a Wednesday afternoon, the Sissy Spacek version. After watching it pretty unscathed to the end the scene came where they show her grave and the hand rises up from the grave....My first official jump scare and since I still remember it today, it has left quite the impression.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

For me it was Poltergeist 2. That really scared the shit out of 9yo me 😂

Not a movie, but a 'feature length music video'. Michael Jackson's Thriller scared the ever living shit out of 5 or 6 year old me.

Schindler's List. Saw plenty of scary movies before this, but that scene where the officer murders the engineering prisoner who's just trying to tell him about a problem with the building. It just sticks in my mind to this day as maybe the first time my young, sheltered self had been confronted with a realistic example of what dehumanizing could do.

The Tripods was a TV series that traumatized me!

rumpelstiltskin

I watched Dirty Harry when I was around 6 or 7 and my parents had gone out for the night. I was really freaked out and crying when they came home…

Jurassic Park (original) on the big screen.

Mr. Boogety

I remember fainting of the movie "Cats and dogs" 😅

if cartoons count, the "return the slab" episode on Courage the cowerdly dog, scared the hell out of me and I couldn't be in the dark for months after.

All Freddy Kruger movies., All Chucky Movies, IT, Grudge, Saw movies

Saw Backdraft when I wasn't supposed to. Still have to have the door closed to sleep.