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NFT: What Movie Traumatized You As A Kid?

gidiefor : Mod : 2/19/2020 10:19 am
I know mine: The Wizard Of Oz
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Serial Mom (1994)  
AJ23 : 2/19/2020 1:16 pm : link
I was 8 at the time and my Dad rented it for a family movie night. In his defense, the VHS looked like this:
Help meeee ..... Help meeeee!  
Spider in Warwick : 2/19/2020 1:17 pm : link
The original of The Fly. I was young and that was definitely traumatic for someone with a fear of spiders!
2 movies got me  
Matt M. : 2/19/2020 1:21 pm : link
One was Rosemary's Baby. I was at my friends' while all our parents were out and an older son was babysitting. They had WHT or some other early movie channel before real cable and we watched that. I was about 4. I think it was the rape scene that did me in. I didn't watch that movie for about 30 years. When I finally watched it as an adult, I was like meh.

The other was Poltergeist. I was 10. That summer my sister drew clown after clown in camp and we shared a room. I couldn't sleep all summer.
The final scene in Carrie  
Ron from Ninerland : 2/19/2020 1:22 pm : link
Nothing comes close.
Another vote for Psycho  
Russ in Queens, NYC : 2/19/2020 1:24 pm : link
Saw it when I was nine on TV. The scene with Martin Balsam and the one with the rocking chair gave me problems with staircases and basements for a long, long time.
War of the Worlds 50's version. I was 7 or 8 at the time and recall  
Giants61 : 2/19/2020 1:25 pm : link
walking home after dark and looking up at the sky almost the whole time. When I was eating dinner I kept looking out the kitchen window for an invasion. By the way, Gene Barry the star of the 50's version had a bit part in the newer Tom Cruise version.
RE: RE: Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid Scared  
bradshaw44 : 2/19/2020 1:29 pm : link
In comment 14814147 KDubbs said:
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the crap out of me too.



Great movie! I f'ing hate snakes and that scene on the train and the snakeman ughh


Truly terrifying. Stuck with me for years!
The Omen, 1976  
Tony in Berlin : 2/19/2020 1:33 pm : link
saw it when I was 8 or 9 with my teenage brother. Couldn‘t sleep for days.
The  
ArizonaBlue : 2/19/2020 1:36 pm : link
Exorcist. I still have problems watching it for some reason
I would have said JAWS but  
BIG FRED 1973 : 2/19/2020 1:37 pm : link
i think more so than JAWS was Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things i discovered it in March of 1981 during Fright night on channel 9 .My Saturday nights as a kid was going to sleep early than my dad would wake me up so i could watch WWF than fright night afterwards.Most nights i stayed up for both and i discovered this gem and it scared the living shit out of me i remember cutting out the description in TV guide the next day too .Its become one of my favorite movies and it was made by the legendary Bob Clark who did Porky's and Christmas story .
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Greg from LI : 2/19/2020 1:38 pm : link
In comment 14814090 Gordo said:
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YES! i had so many nightmares about this movie.. it got to the point that where i thought that movie was a dream. I didn't realize until i was an adult that it was an actual movie, it triggered some major PTSD.


I know exactly what you mean. For the longest time I couldn't remember the name of that thing, or even what it was actually about. All I could remember were a series of disturbing individual scenes, like the ghosts and the kid's hair falling out and the evil teacher holding kids prisoner so he could use their hair to make paintbrushes. . I would ask people about it and none of them had any idea what I was talking about - in fact, they probably thought I was a loony based on my descriptions of it. For a while, like you, I thought it might just be a figment of my imagination. One day, the name just popped in my head. I looked it up and, damn, it was real.

I remember, back in 5th grade, being baffled as to why they would have shown us this horrible movie.
RE: How many of you lost sleep cause of THIS little fucker??  
j_rud : 2/19/2020 1:39 pm : link
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Yup. Came here to mention Trilogy of Terror for just this reason. I was 7 or 8 when I stumbled upon it on tv. That was a rough couple of nights.
it wasn't a movie  
Greg from LI : 2/19/2020 1:42 pm : link
But V was pretty freaky on TV when I was a kid.
The Omen  
Sec 103 : 2/19/2020 1:51 pm : link
almost killed my sisters dog...
I have a few  
mgreenie03 : 2/19/2020 1:57 pm : link
Alien - still freaks me out to this day.
Friday the 13th Part 1 & Phantasm - both gave me nightmares for months/years.
Most picking horror or thrillers  
Davisian : 2/19/2020 2:11 pm : link
But what fucked me up for a while as a kid was "The Champ"

Cried myself to bed for a couple months because I was sure my Dad was going to die.

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Klaatu : 2/19/2020 2:11 pm : link
In comment 14814112 rnargi said:
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Off the top of my head,

The Brain that Wouldn't Die
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Dagora, the Space Monster
It Came from Outer Space
There was one about witches that nearly killed me...don't remember the name.

And of course, Jaws.


I think this is the movies you're talking about:

The City of the Dead, aka Horror Hotel.

It scared the hell out of me, too, as did Trilogy of Terror.
.  
Bill in UT : 2/19/2020 2:17 pm : link
Psycho
I watched Trilogy of Terror at a friend's house. I was 15.  
Klaatu : 2/19/2020 2:18 pm : link
Then I had to walk home...in the dark...by myself.

Fast forward seven years. Now I'm 22, in the Army, stationed in Friedberg, W. Germany, Ray Barracks. Went to see Poltergeist with three buddies at the post theater (which was at the bottom of a long, unlit hill). That scared the hell out of me, too, but at least I didn't have to walk back to the barracks by myself.
Another movie that scared me  
BIG FRED 1973 : 2/19/2020 2:21 pm : link
as a kid was The Day After .I would always ask my friends mom after that movie came on tv if the Russians were gonna bomb us lol
I was a teenage Werewolf.  
since1925 : 2/19/2020 2:25 pm : link
Starring Michael Landon. My brother had a jacket just like the one he wore in the movie.
The Exorcist was another one that traumatized me.  
Klaatu : 2/19/2020 2:32 pm : link
But not as much as Curse of the Faceless Man (1958). That one gave me nightmares for weeks, lol.
RE: The House On Haunted Hill  
Beezer : 2/19/2020 2:34 pm : link
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Starring Vincent Price . I was about 10 & remember heads flying around & people being thrown in acid


That movie was terrifying as a kid. I remember one scene where a person was floating along. No idea why but seeing people fucking floating along like it's nothing freaks me right the fuck out.

My aunt took me to see The Exorcist in the theater for my birthday. Not that a closed door can limit a demon, but since then? I cannot fucking sleep with a closet door open. Seeing Linda Blair come down those stairs inverted? Jesus H Christ.
Call me crazy but  
BIG FRED 1973 : 2/19/2020 2:37 pm : link
Exorcist 3 is scarier than the first one ,The part where the headless ghost attacks the nurse is scary as hell lol
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rnargi : 2/19/2020 2:40 pm : link
In comment 14814233 Klaatu said:
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Off the top of my head,

The Brain that Wouldn't Die
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Dagora, the Space Monster
It Came from Outer Space
There was one about witches that nearly killed me...don't remember the name.

And of course, Jaws.



I think this is the movies you're talking about:

The City of the Dead, aka Horror Hotel.

It scared the hell out of me, too, as did Trilogy of Terror.


HOLY CRAP that's IT!!! Now I'm not gonna sleep for a freakin' week!
I was equally terrified and fascinated  
Beezer : 2/19/2020 2:40 pm : link
by The Boys From Brazil. Couldn't wrap my head around a bunch of little Hitlers running around. I was maybe 14-15, and also remember my Dad telling me the Nazi hunter in the film was, in his opinion, the greatest actor who ever lived. I was like, yeah OK ... meanwhile it was Sir Laurence Olivier.
RE: it wasn't a movie  
pjcas18 : 2/19/2020 2:44 pm : link
In comment 14814208 Greg from LI said:
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But V was pretty freaky on TV when I was a kid.


the show with the alien people who looked like people but were lizard-like?

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bradshaw44 : 2/19/2020 2:46 pm : link
In comment 14814272 pjcas18 said:
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But V was pretty freaky on TV when I was a kid.



the show with the alien people who looked like people but were lizard-like?


Yes. And they made a reboot a few years ago with the chick that played the wife on Homeland the first couple seasons.
Not as a kid, but I watchd WITH my son (and continue  
Beezer : 2/19/2020 2:46 pm : link
to think their freaky): the Insidious movies. kinda creepy.
Wizard of Oz  
VTChuck : 2/19/2020 2:52 pm : link
Flying Monkeys! Darby O'Gill and the Little People... Disney film with a banshee and the trailer shown on TV... I think it was Attack of the Giant Spider... terrified of spiders
An early 70s TV show that used to scare the piss out of me...  
rnargi : 2/19/2020 2:52 pm : link
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

DAMN that headless motorcycle rider. I looked forward to and dreaded seeing that show at the same time.
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Klaatu : 2/19/2020 2:57 pm : link
In comment 14814275 bradshaw44 said:
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But V was pretty freaky on TV when I was a kid.



the show with the alien people who looked like people but were lizard-like?




Yes. And they made a reboot a few years ago with the chick that played the wife on Homeland the first couple seasons.


Two very hot ladies in the remake. Morena Baccarin (Firefly) as the Queen alien, and Laura Vandervoort (Smallville) as her daughter.

Still, my heart will always belong to Jane Badler.
RE: An early 70s TV show that used to scare the piss out of me...  
Klaatu : 2/19/2020 3:02 pm : link
In comment 14814285 rnargi said:
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker

DAMN that headless motorcycle rider. I looked forward to and dreaded seeing that show at the same time.


I believe the TV movie pilot and all of the episodes are available on YouTube. I think the second TV movie (with underground Seattle) is also available, but I'm not sure.

Bit of trivia for you: The actor that played the vampire in the pilot also played Surak, the Vulcan who began the whole logic thing, in the Star Trek: TOS episode, "The Savage Curtain."
RE: An early 70s TV show that used to scare the piss out of me...  
BIG FRED 1973 : 2/19/2020 3:02 pm : link
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker

DAMN that headless motorcycle rider. I looked forward to and dreaded seeing that show at the same time.
Love Kolchak sucks that they stopped showing them on the retro channel ,I bought the first two movies on blu ray last years .Hopefully the tv show is re released on blu ray
I saw Eraserhead like two years ago and it still traumatizes me  
Anakim : 2/19/2020 3:14 pm : link
Aside from being an extremely creepy, weird movie, it was also a total piece of shit and utter garbage.
I remember  
BigBluesman : 2/19/2020 3:33 pm : link
staying over at my buddy's house and both Sixth Sense and Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp kept me up at night on separate occasions. Funny now.
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KDubbs : 2/19/2020 3:34 pm : link
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Don't remember that scene and I loved that movie.


The robot that took Alex's place while he was in space. The thing zapped him in Centauri's car and it had to generate the skin. How can you not remember that?
An alien movie that creeped me out  
KDubbs : 2/19/2020 3:36 pm : link
Was Strange Invaders. I watched such weird movies as a kid
In Strange Invaders  
KDubbs : 2/19/2020 3:38 pm : link
The transformation scene is what really got me
Wicked Witch  
LBH15 : 2/19/2020 3:40 pm : link
in The Wizard of Oz, without question.

Hellraiser  
bradshaw44 : 2/19/2020 4:01 pm : link
really creeped me out also.
Children of the Damned  
Des51 : 2/19/2020 4:02 pm : link
The 1960 British horror film version. I remember when the commercial came on for the movie, I ran to mother, and made sure she was nearby.
Mondo cane.  
BlueLou'sBack : 2/19/2020 4:07 pm : link
A documentary, truly gory at times.

I was 7 in 1963...
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Named Later : 2/19/2020 4:10 pm : link
There was a movie came out in the early 60's called The Tingler, where buzzers were installed under a few seats in the theater -- at certain points in the movie, these buzzers would vibrate the seat. And people would jump up screaming.

"The Tingler remains most well known for a gimmick called "Percepto!", a vibrating device in some theater chairs which activated with the onscreen action."

Directed by William Castle - ( New Window )
Kolchak was-is?-on Netflix  
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 2/19/2020 4:13 pm : link
Loved that show, though I believe it only aired one season.

My favorite was the politician who makes a pact with Satan & kills his opponents as a dog.
Horror Hotel also 1963. I was 7  
BlueLou'sBack : 2/19/2020 4:14 pm : link
my big brother 5 years older than me lived to watch horror movies while he baby sat me. The dude with Asperger's.

Fooker...
The story of the 1966 Giants always did it to me  
PatersonPlank : 2/19/2020 4:17 pm : link
I'd leave the room screaming.
Loved to watch them while I was scared shitless.  
BlueLou'sBack : 2/19/2020 4:18 pm : link
Let's not exagerate. He didn't LIVE to scare me.
RE: RE: The House On Haunted Hill  
ArizonaBlue : 2/19/2020 4:20 pm : link
In comment 14814262 Beezer said:
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In comment 14814014 steviej said:
Seeing Linda Blair come down those stairs inverted? Jesus H Christ.


Yep, ugh. And my dumbass just google imaged it.
Moby Dick  
chiro56 : 2/19/2020 4:28 pm : link
1956. I was 4. My father spanked me for being scared
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