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For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Body Snatchers (1993)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Came here to also say third scene of Trilogy Of Terror

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Night of the living dead. My brother and I rented it when I was about 7 I think. Didn't make it more than 10 minutes into that movie and I was begging him to turn it off.

[โ€“] Numpty 1 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The OG Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. I was like, 6? Spent weeks looking under the bed for pods.

https://youtu.be/kYrcyROSjl0

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not a movie, but The Real Ghostbusters episode (showing that age) with the Boogeyman was downright terrifying

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Shallow Ground terrified me. I've had nightmares for a while after that.

An honourable mention: The Pirates of Dark Water - The Beast and the Bell. Fuck Keroptus.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Satan from the Passion of Christ, the hanging scene in Schindler's List

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Candyman, thought of a dark bathroom still scares me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Stephen King movie Silver Bullet. I have always really liked but been freaked out by werewolf movies and something about Everett McGills performance as the priest mixed with the usual stalking of the wolf really spooked me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Witness - I was about the same age as the kid in the movie. I'm still sketched put in Airport/train/bus station bathrooms.

[โ€“] FarceMultiplier 1 points 2 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Alive_(1974_film)

But really just the commercials on TV.

Really showing my age here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I can't really remember why but I never wanted to watch Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer again after seeing it once. I just googled it and it could be the Ice-Queen that's in there that I didn't like but I'm not sure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Jeepers Creepers

I can still the remember the little jingle

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Haunting in Connecticut. Iโ€™m from Connecticut.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fantasia, not specifically the Night on bald mountain section, but the bits with the orchestra.

Also a TV series in the UK called Mealstrom. The paintings would come to life, which was ok but the intro was creepy AF https://youtu.be/_FwP5LAXd7U

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

When I was quite a bit younger, The Mask freaked me right out. On top of the Goosebumps episode about a mask overtaking you, I straight up refused to put any on for the longest time. Still don't love them.

The start of the Goofy Movie, during Max's dream...those dark vibes hit me hard. Would wait in the bathroom until it was done.

The Ring was a big one because my "friend" called and did the whole "seven days..." thing. Before we had caller IDs. The same friend made me watch Darkness Falls, and I think I repressed it all because I remember nothing about it other than hating the whole experience.

Not much of a scary movie fan to this day. Go figure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland scared the shit out of me when I was young. Seeing mangled humans turned into cyborgs on that ship lost at sea was terrifying.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I used to watch old B-movie horror on Saturdays in the 70's.

This one, which is completely ridiculous, scared the hell out of me because of the disembodied alien hand crawling around attacking people.

I was too young to realize how stupid it was, and it just absolutely terrified me. The hand became the monster under the bed for the rest of my life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Saucer_Men

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