What movie scared you the most as a kid?

[I am not Davey Havok]

I saw A Clockwork Orange on t.v when I was about ten or eleven.

I haven't watched it since for whatever reason. So, its still that one movie that really scared me.

[soultaker]

John Carpenter's The Fog.

[Greg Hansen]

'Magic'

Freaky, damn little dummy...

[Ratty]

'Magic'

Freaky, damn little dummy...

No, it was the fucking commercials for that film that were scary. The movie itself isn't at all scary and is actually pretty sappy and tedious. But those T.V. ads are legendary in the annals of my nightmares.

[Myer's Son]

Pet Cemetary....
damn little kid, I dreamt he was on the foot of my bed that night.
ANd the AUnt, screaming and shit and running towards the camera.. :eek!: I went myself

[Shatner's Bassoon]

'Quatermass and the Pit"... when the guy is trying to rock the crane arm into 'shorting out the monster', and it starts moving closer and closer and closer...the sound effects increasing, the alien becoming more distinct...great thread idea, by the way!

Can we also include TV that freaked us out?
Can I nominate Star Trek (OS), first broadcast, of 'The Doomsday Machine'...The final act totally got to me, at whatever age I was at the time

Yet viewing what I first posted and now posted you can see some sort of connection...

Don't start me on 'Night Gallery'...:D

[Myer's Son]

I meant to say "wet" myself

[FarinaMystica]

My mother took my sisters and I to Amityville Horror when it first came out and that shook me to the my core. That one's tied with Salem's Lot and Burnt Offerings. Seeing those flicks at a tender age was extreme for me.

[BillJohnson]

The commercial for "Beyond the door" used to scare the crap out of me. The Night Gallery" episode about the china doll creeped me out big time.

[Shatner's Bassoon]

I TOLD YOU NOT TO MENTION 'NIGHT GALLERY'!!

[David Toy]

I watched The Exorcist on TV when I was about seven or eight. That had me cowering under the sheets for a couple of days. The scariest thing I had seen before that were the Sleestak on Land of the Lost.

[Shatner's Bassoon]

'Trip through The Robot'
Lost in Space, 1967

Christ, I was 3-4 at the time, yet this still gets my lizard brain jangling...I originally thought the 'Robinson family' had been reduced in size, yet it seems the robot was enlarged...and (as a fan website says:- "Losing power and unable to be recharged, the dying Robot wanders into a gaseous area, where the vapors turn him into a giant. Smith and Will crawl inside him to reverse his ionic process, shrink him back to size, and possibly save him."

But neglecting to talk about the Robotic version of white blood-cells.... as far as I know, I've only seen this once, ...SO HOW CAN I KNOW WHAT ROBOTIC BLOOD-CELLS ARE WHEN I WAS 3???

DID I JUST TYPE THAT?


:eek!:

[Mr.E]

Fulci's "Seven Gates" or something like that.... SCARY AS HELL.


Also:

The Pit. That movie was scary. Had a demonic teddy bear, killer troll creatures, and an evil autistic child. (I wonder if it's available online??)

Amityville Horror was memorable as well. Fave scene:
When the mother is in the daughter's room, and they both see 2 glowing eyes looking inside the room from the darkness!:eek: :eek:

[ChainsawXxX]

Originally posted by Tindalos
'Magic'

Freaky, damn little dummy...

I saw the trailer for that when I was a kid, I believe in front of Smokey & The Bandit 2. My mom had to drag me out of the theater because I was screaming at the moving eyes...those eyes...

I also had a tough time with Carpender's "The Thing," but I grew to love that movie.

Probably the only movie I cannot absolutely revisit is "Pet Semetary" for obvious reasons.

[hoggle5000]

Twillight Zone the movie. When John Lithgow opens the window shade on the airplane and sees the monster pressed up against the window looking at him.

I was seven when I saw it with my parents at the theatre. At the end when the police were taking him away, I was convinced it was real for the longest time....

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Is Anthony's 'Magic' on DVD yet?

I actually love this film more than 'Silence of the Lambs' as far as Hopkin's talents go.

Superb film!

[Werewolf Girl]

The Dark Crystal.

[Gruber]

The boat tunnel part from Willy Wonka.

[S Nabors]

Good movies that should have freaked me out didn't scare me as a child. Stuff like the Night of the Living Dead, Exorcist, Alien, The Shining, Halloween, The Thing didn't get to me at all. Let me see something stupid like Maximun Overdrive and I'd get freaked out. I had a phobia of trucks for years after seeing that. There was some horrible Candian movie about oversized killer rats that fucked me up too. I can't remember the name of it, but there's a scene where the rats get into a movie theater and start pulling people under the seat and biting off legs and crap like that. I was ruined. I sat in the middle of my bed with a baseball bat, afraid to fall asleep and have my legs dangle over the side of the bed.

[Showvillain]

The Creeping Flesh! I caught this movie on TV when I was around 8 or 9, and it scared the heck out of me. I don't evev know what it was that upset me so much because similar movies didn't bother me at all, but it haunted me for years.

[B166ER]

Candyman scared the fuck out of me at a young age and the head-peeling scene from Nightbreed kept me awake many nights. Mind you, both are personal favorites now... funny how that can happen.

Damn Clive Barker and his childhood robbing imagination!

[RegVelJohnson]

The Thing...I couldn't even watch it, but always would.

Agreed on Poltergeist.

And the only other one I remember is "The Gate." I still love that movie and it still kind of gets to me.

[Werbal_Kint]

I never got the chance to see real horror movies (tight parent control), but I was PETRIFIED of the Terror Dogs in Ghostbusters.

AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO!! (http://thereisnodana.ytmnd.com/)

[Werewolf Girl]

The Last Unicorn is a truly disturbing childrens movie. Especially when you are stoned.

[Ratty]

There was some horrible Candian movie about oversized killer rats that fucked me up too. I can't remember the name of it, but there's a scene where the rats get into a movie theater and start pulling people under the seat and biting off legs and crap like that. I was ruined. I sat in the middle of my bed with a baseball bat, afraid to fall asleep and have my legs dangle over the side of the bed.

I think that's called "Deadly Eyes", a very loose adaptation of James Herbert's excellent novel The Rats.

[The Gut]

This is a true story....
I was about nine and my father used to rent movies for us on Friday nights. Me and my younger brother would go to the wrestling tape section and my father would go off by himself. We rented a wrestling tape and he picked out what he said was a fung-fu movie. Back then I was big on those karate movies so I was excited to see his choice. We get home and he puts his movie in. This was no kung-fu movie, what he had said was called "How-Ling" was actually "The Howling". I shit you not. That movie fucked up my sleep for several months...that is until he rented "Funhouse" and I had a whole issue with sleep.

[S Nabors]

Originally posted by Werewolf Girl is the Universe
The Last Unicorn is a truly disturbing childrens movie. Especially when you are stoned.

Wait a minute....are you my wife posting on this board and not telling me? That could be a direct quote from her!

[ben3man]

Horror Express.... those zombie eyes got me. also the television show V, that scared me more than anything for the longest time. those damn lizards!!! The Reanimator i saw when i was in 4th grade also deeply disturbed me.

[flint]

Alien, the Dallas/Air Duct sequence especially. Still think seeing that as a kid is to blame for my claustrophobia. :)

[Killy McGee]

So many to mention, how should I begin...

Child's Play, sweet jesus,Child's play scared the crap out of me. The trailers, the posters, the big carboard cut-out of Chucky at the video store, I would cry with terror. My grandma got me a My buddy doll, it looked just like him. I would even close my eyes when I passed by the horror section. When Bride of Chucky came out, the tv spots brought back bad memories. I can't wait for Seed...

Seeing the T.V. movie "IT" as a child scared me as well, and all I saw was the opening sequence. I think it was on after America's funniest Videos, it came on. Those teeth, my god.

The first time I saw A Nightmare on Elm Street was on a halloween, and I didn't get any sleep, at all. I remember picking up my dog and holding her close.

Magic also gets credit, even though I have only seen the trailer.

The most resent chill I got was from the RE2 trailer, it was very well done. More trailers should be done like that. Could you picture a "Chucky" trailer that was like a Good Guy commerical? It would be brillant.

[tom de plume]

Originally posted by Ratty
No, it was the fucking commercials for that film that were scary. The movie itself isn't at all scary and is actually pretty sappy and tedious. But those T.V. ads are legendary in the annals of my nightmares. I agree. there was a similar converstion about a year ago and quite a few people mentioned that the commercial for Magic rocked their world. It gave me nightmares.

[AxeMurderer108]

Originally posted by Myer's Son
Pet Cemetary....
damn little kid, I dreamt he was on the foot of my bed that night.
ANd the AUnt, screaming and shit and running towards the camera.. :eek!: I went myself


thank god im not the only one... the only thing on earth that haunts me to this very day.... is goddamn ZELDA and her freakish reappearance near the end of the movie.. darting toward the screen like the feaken definition of hideous

i pride myself on being a horror buff and not getting scared by all these 'super scary movies' out... but god damn.. i cannot watch Pet Cemetary without covering my eyes and ears during all the Zelda scenes... i get freaked out just thinking about "it".. *shudder*

oh.. and the mother ghost in Ju-On The Grudge 2... almost for the same reasons... this bloody.. oddly crippled freakly looking woman slowly lurching and twitching and jerking.. making bizarre gutteral noises whilst approaching her victim... ugh.. i cant take it..

give me freaky dolls, demonic-possesed children.. glowing eyes in a dark room... anything but those 2 goddamn women

[Boys #22: elmie]

Originally posted by BillJohnson
The commercial for "Beyond the door" used to scare the crap out of me.

Bill, to this day, Juliette Mills "Whoooo are you" line is the single scariest thing I can think of .... My dad would always watch channel 5's 10 o'clock news, and that commerical would be on every night ..... Scarred me for life :)

[B166ER]

Just remembered, the trailer for Monkey Shines got me shaking like a leaf when I was eight or so.

[thedudeabides]

The Blob

...to this day, I can not watch it, the sequel or the remake...

It was actually "Beware! The Blob" that did me in, but now the whole Blob genre is forbidden to me...I just can't handle that, even to this day.

Ironic really, since Steve McQueen, my favorite actor is in it and I can't even handle watching it.




Honorable mentions:
Tourist Trap - all those moaning mannequins bugged me out as a tot. But I love the movie now.

[thedudeabides]

OK, time to confess something to you all:

When I was a child I was piss your pants terrified of Mummenschanz .
That freaky mime group.

If there was a commercial on (if I remember correctly, their act was coming around the area), I would stop what i was doing and freak out and run from the TV.

When I saw a commercial, I once ran away from the TV and into the kitchen table and busted the corner of my eye open and needed a stitch.

Then in the TV Guide there was an ad for them, and I made my sister rip out the page and throw it out...

Of course she held onto the page and would trot it out and show it to me at wonderful times like dinner or once, at Church, and watch me freak out.

They really freaked me out.

I didn't know what they were called back then, so I called them "The White Lady" for some reason.


I mean, look at these fuckers!
http://www.vip-tv.tv/Images/Sendungen/mummenschanz.jpg
http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v7n5/toilet.gif

[kittyinjammies]

Poltergiest for me, too. I'm positive my phobia of clowns come from seeing that movie.

[Alice in Wonderland]

Don't laugh - but "Watership Down".

There was some seriously fucked up shit going on in that movie. Especially when the warren gets gassed. General Woundwort also scared the crap out of me, and what with Fiver's psychadelic visions... I doubt they'd even have the balls to make kid's films like that anymore.

Also, the "Magic" commercials were scary as all hell. The movie, however, as observed, does not live up to them.

[BadaBadaBing]

Originally posted by hoggle5000
Twillight Zone the movie. When John Lithgow opens the window shade on the airplane and sees the monster pressed up against the window looking at him.

I was seven when I saw it with my parents at the theatre. At the end when the police were taking him away, I was convinced it was real for the longest time....


It was Will Shatner, and yes, it was fucking scary.

[kittyinjammies]

No, it was John Lithgow.

Twilight Zone the Movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/fullcredits)

[BadaBadaBing]

Originally posted by kittyinjammies
No, it was John Lithgow.

Twilight Zone the Movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/fullcredits)


Shit. Sorry. I'm going mad.

[kittyinjammies]

No problem. I looked because I wasn't sure either. :)

[Lieut. Skinner]

american werewolf in london fucked me the fuck up.

i was only 9 years old when it hit drive ins and my parents took us to see it.

the "jolly roger" drive in double feature:
american werewolf in london
the blues brothers.

american werewolf fucking petrified me. i was literally shaking from seeing it.

damn i got jammed on that deal.

[Guttenberg Fan Club]

Originally posted by Tindalos
'Magic'

Freaky, damn little dummy...

This movie was so freaky to me, I became petrified of all ventriloquist dummies. I called all of them "The Boss" (Yes, I know that Hopkins was 'boss' in the movie, but I was a kid - give me a break). My dad being the great soul he is, would point them out every single time he saw one. We'd be in a toy store & he'd call me over "Hey, Doug, what's that on the top shelf over there?", at which point I'd scream "The Boss!" and run out of the store crying. Apparently it was hilarious.

[ShaolinMK]

Hold on . . .is The Last Unicorn the anime movie? I think the unicorn's name was Unico and he was running around with a demon named Beezle.

There was this witch turning people into Lego-like blocks to add on to her evil "Lego castle" as I like to call it.

That is a trippy movie. Haven't seen it since I was a kid. Would love to see it again . . .possibly stoned - just kidding.

Edited to say the name of the movie I'm talking about is Unico in the Island of Magic . Watch if you dare . . .

[Rob]

Killer Klowns from Outer Space fucking scarred me for life....I still can't watch it...

[biff]

The first movie to scare the shit outta me wasn't a theatrical release, it was when In Cold Blood was first shown on TV. And it wasn't necessarily the movie itself, as much as it was the fathom-deep voice of the announcer after commercial breaks saying 'DUE TO SOME VIOLENT CONTENT, PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.' Hehe, that stuff still sends chills up my spine on occasion...

[Borgosi]

Way back in '74 my best friend and I went to the drive-in to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it was part of a double feature and I don't remember the first movie. We had a cooler full of beer and some weed, durning the first movie we just partied. We had never heard of TCM so it didn't seem like a bad idea when my friend suggested the we drop some acid. An hour of so latter when TCM started we were getting off on the acid very hard.

Latter when the beer and nature called we were tripping so bad and with the movie and all we decided to pee in the beer cans and pour them out the windows. We were just to scaried to leave the car.

It's now one of my favorite movies.

[HellSpawn]

Salem's lot & Jaws

[Dances with Chainsaws]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I watched it for the first time when I was 10 years old. It was the most terrifying thing that I had ever seen. I was so scared, that I slept under the dinner table with all the chairs pulled in for three days before my mom caught me and made me return to my room....I'm still amazed that Leatherface never got me.

[The Gut]

Wasn't William Shattner in the original "Twilight Zone" tv series playing the part that John Lithgow played in the movie version?

[BillJohnson]

Yep.

[soultaker]

Does anyone remember a short film about a guy being chased by a spool of recording tape? He had a magnet that he used to fend it off but he eventually dropped it and the recording tape engulfed him. We watched it in school when I was in 3rd grade (around 1981). I don't know why they showed it to us because it was creepy as shit and gave me nightmares.

[Writhing Walt]

Lady in White

I had nightmares of my uncle, and I formed a cluastrophobia and was afraid of evelators as a kid.

[nekkerbee]

Does anyone remember a short film about a guy being chased by a spool of recording tape? He had a magnet that he used to fend it off but he eventually dropped it and the recording tape engulfed him. We watched it in school when I was in 3rd grade (around 1981). I don't know why they showed it to us because it was creepy as shit and gave me nightmares.

Yep, I remember that! My friend had a copy of that on VHS way back in the day. He also had one where a fisherman is fishing on a beach, then sees a ham sandwich on the beach. He takes a bite, then drops it because there's a big hook stuck in his throat. He grabs the line and it leads into the ocean, and then he's slowly reeled in...

First fright was probably Jaws, which my folks took me to see when I was 5. I also remember seeing the Exorcist on TV shortly afterward, and freaking out when Regan started doing flopping uncontrollably on the bed, then slams back on the mattress with her eyes rolled in the back of her head. Fucked me up big time.

[Royal]

Like Hellspawn, I got damaged from watching Jaws and Salem's Lot.
The face-tearing scene in Poltergiest freaked me out when I was a kid.

[ChainsawXxX]

Originally posted by Borgosi
Way back in '74 my best friend and I went to the drive-in to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it was part of a double feature and I don't remember the first movie. We had a cooler full of beer and some weed, durning the first movie we just partied. We had never heard of TCM so it didn't seem like a bad idea when my friend suggested the we drop some acid. An hour of so latter when TCM started we were getting off on the acid very hard.

Latter when the beer and nature called we were tripping so bad and with the movie and all we decided to pee in the beer cans and pour them out the windows. We were just to scaried to leave the car.

It's now one of my favorite movies.

You, sir, are my new hero. Bigger than Santa!

[EOD]

Originally posted by BillJohnson
The commercial for "Beyond the door" used to scare the crap out of me. The Night Gallery" episode about the china doll creeped me out big time.


I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! "WHOOOOO ARE YOUUUUUU!?!"


sent me into a panic quite a bit as a kid. Movie stank, I came to find out years later, but that commercial was completely frightening.
I'm glad I didn't see the doll episode of Night Gallery until later, that was one creepy ass doll.


EOD

[EOD]

Originally posted by Malachi Constant
Shatner was in it, though, so he was at least half-right. Funny little cameo.

Shatner played the role in the TV series, Lithgow played it in the film.

EOD

[EOD]

Black Sabbath, the Bava film, I saw as a very young child, and it scared the living be-jeeeeezus out of me. It scared me so bad, I thought for years that I'd had a real ghost experience at the place I'd seen the movie (my Grandma's house). It was of course the one vignette with the nurse who takes the ring from the dead lady's hand. Freakin' terrifying.

then there was the CIRCLE OF FEAR TV series.


EOD

[Penh Gwyn]

Damn you evil people! I'd successfully repressed all memory of the "Beyond the Door" trailer until now. Eek! The first movie I remember scaring the crap out of me was (now remember, I was very young at the time) "The Legend of Boggy Creek." Did I mention I was very young at the time? Because I was very young at the time, you see. Like, 6 or so. We lived right next to these big scary woods, and I wasn't entirely clear on the fact that the movie wasn't a documentary, and, well, it was scary. My younger brother was so traumatized by "The Blob" that I could terrify him into incoherence with our red beanbag chair.

[JoeDarkfall]

Thank god for Mr. E, I thought I was going mad! Everyone I've ever talked to has never heard of The Pit.

But, the movie that scared me the most was Prophecy. You know, the 197? something movie with Talia Shire and the dude from Falcon Crest.

We used to go camping all the time when I was a kid. After seeing Prophecy, those were some of the most tiring, non-sleeping weekends of my life.

Ommpa Lumpas are pretty scary too.

[DickDastardly]

Originally posted by Sacrilicious Supersucker
The Thing didn't get to me at all. Let me see something stupid like Maximun Overdrive and I'd get freaked out. I had a phobia of trucks for years after seeing that.

Yes! that evil clown truck freaked me out.

I saw just one scene out of this movie when I was like 7 and it scared me for months.

There is a guy out in like a cornfield, he's hunting something. Then there are I think 2 characters in like an outfitted van a ways away. There are tracking some creature as it gets closer and closer to the guy in the field. He can't see it but the two in the van keep yelling, "It's almost on you!" or something like that. Then the creature grabs him and impales him on the handle of some sort of farm machine. Fairly straight forward alien rip-off but it scared the crap out of me. If anyone knows what film this is I'd love to know.

[Borgosi]

After seeing TCM on acid we would try to find other movies to watch while we tripped in the hopes of reliving the experence. There were times that we got close but nothing is every as good the second time.

When video hit in the late 70's we looked and looked until we found TCM on video. Of course we already knew where to get the acid.

Some people would say that a movie like TCM and acid could only lead to a bad trip. Maybe that's what we wanted. We did get scaried at times but it was always fun. I don't think we ever had a "bad trip".

Anyway those days are long gone. I have done drugs in years. If I could find some acid again, I would get some but that's the only drug I would do again.

[Charlie Brigden]

Four words: THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN.

[Ratty]

Speaking of Night Gallery, the pilot episode with Roddy McDowell and the graveyard paintings that "moved" fucked me up as a kid.

Ditto the "In Search Of" episode on Haunted Castles. Shudder . . .

[ibtrav]

Scariest movie for me was Body Double by Brian De Palma. I was young at the time and happened to catch a glimpse of this movie while my mom and dad were watching it on cable downstairs late one night. When the guy comes in to the women's house and drills her to the floor-oh shit! His face was fucked up-kinda like Freddy. I was terrified of that movie because of that character.....UGH!
I also remember the short about the guy that gets eaten by the filmstrip...that used to come on HBO during the day in between movies. That was SO fuckin- weird, it freaked my little brother and me out.
Also, Twilight Zone when Dan Akroyd says, "You wanna see something really scary?" and turns around to show that ugly ass monster face.....oh hell yeh that freaked me out.
Nightmare on Elm Street's got me too. The first but more importantly, the second one got me. The opening nightmare with the school bus and Freddy in Jessie's house at nighttime......WHEW! Now I watch it and laugh at the exploding parakeet and all the homoerotic imagery, but when I was little, that shit was HORRIFYING!!!!

www.ibtrav.com

[bunnymud wants tacos]

What freaked me out when I was wee little were the animations on Monty Python


I could watch ANY horror movie and not be scared.....but that MP animation just spooked a deep pit in my mind


I think anything that didn't make any sense scared me when I was little


and now I have grown up and became the thing I feared most


a rambling idiot

[nappo]

the thing when i was 7 when that dogs head opened up i went mad would not touch a dogs head for years incase it opened up

it,.... now makes me afraid of clowns

alien..now hate small tunnels damn movies...but they were good so me ok now lol

[mahduk]

Originally posted by Farmer Vincent's fritters
I agree. there was a similar converstion about a year ago and quite a few people mentioned that the commercial for Magic rocked their world. It gave me nightmares.

The ads for "It's Alive" really got to me as a kid. It got worse when I saw the film.

[ferriferous foodi]

Originally posted by Alice in Wonderland
Don't laugh - but "Watership Down".

There was some seriously fucked up shit going on in that movie. Especially when the warren gets gassed. General Woundwort also scared the crap out of me, and what with Fiver's psychadelic visions... I doubt they'd even have the balls to make kid's films like that anymore.

Also, the "Magic" commercials were scary as all hell. The movie, however, as observed, does not live up to them.


incidentally.. have you seen The Plague Dogs (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084509/) ?? its a better flick.

[ResetSmith]

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. That movie scared me so bad when i was 7 or 8 that i was sleeping in my mom and dad's room every night for a week. I just sat up almost every night staring at their dark walk-in closet waiting to screem if i saw that fucked up lady. That movie has a vibe that was made to scare little kids.

[The Impure One]

Definitly Killer Clowns from outerspace or whatever.. Not only did they scare this shit out of me at like 5 but after my cousins showed it to me i went outside and noticed this big church i never noticed before(i didn't know it was a church) was far off in the distance and it had lights on the tower so it was all lit up at night

My cousins told me it was the big tent from the movie and i was always afraid of them coming to get me and suffocating me in cotton candy.

To this day i'm still deathly afraid of clowns (the only thing though) and i can't stand watching that movie kinda funny how something thats supposed to be funny scares me more than things that are supposed to be scary.

[Markus]

Ok, because I've been a lurker as opposed to a contributor on this board, I'll offer my 2 cents:

For me, the scariest movie as a child was the original Night of the Living Dead. I saw it at age 8 in a campground pavilion movie theatre at night, with my older brothers (i.e., no parents). Afterward, I had to walk into the woods to our family's campsight while my brothers harrased me the whole way. I couldn't sleep that night (or for several nights) as I envisioned zombies ripping through our tent to get me. Not only was I traumatized that night, but 30 yrs later, I'm still a HUGE Romero fan (and of all non-campy zombie movies).

And, to further explain my passion for Romero movies, I snuck into see Dawn of the Dead at age 13, in a mall movie theatre (in Richmond Heights, OH). Seeing DOTD in a mall theatre, during my mallrat days, was to me the ultimate way to experience that great movie.

[Boys #22: elmie]

Originally posted by Markus
Ok, because I've been a lurker as opposed to a contributor on this board, I'll offer my 2 cents:

For me, the scariest movie as a child was the original Night of the Living Dead. I saw it at age 8 in a campground pavilion movie theatre at night, with my older brothers (i.e., no parents). Afterward, I had to walk into the woods to our family's campsight while my brothers harrased me the whole way. I couldn't sleep that night (or for several nights) as I envisioned zombies ripping through our tent to get me. Not only was I traumatized that night, but 30 yrs later, I'm still a HUGE Romero fan (and of all non-campy zombie movies).

And, to further explain my passion for Romero movies, I snuck into see Dawn of the Dead at age 13, in a mall movie theatre (in Richmond Heights, OH). Seeing DOTD in a mall theatre, during my mallrat days, was to me the ultimate way to experience that great movie.


Welcome Markus, and please post MORE ....... I had an older sister ( who herself was under 17 at the time ) who BS'ed our way into DAWN back in 1979 ....... I sat there frozen during the first 20 minutes, and by the film's end, I was a new man :) ......... one of my fondest memories of childhood

[Wild Se7en]

Never was scared of most horror movies as a child except for some zombie movies, yet one film never ceased to fuck me up.

Pee Wees Big Adventure : The Large Marge Revelation Scene

[barton138]

The Last Starfighter....I dont remember much of this movie, but there is an android who takes the place of the title character when he is in space. In one scene (before it has fully taken on human form) it pulls off a bedsheet that had been covering its face, revealing this weird, horrible gooey mess.

[EOD]

I don't know how I could've forgotten the last vignette in TRILOGY OF TERROR. That truly scared me out of my wits as a kid. It was the one with Karen Black and the freaky little, knife weilding doll.


EOD

[malfuncsean]

Of course I go throught this entire thread and the very last one says mine! Well this is a pretty funny story and a true one. When I was 8 years old I saw "Trilogy of Terror" over at my uncle's house and I lost my f'n mind! When that zulu fetish doll went after Karen Black I seriously freaked out like I never have ever again. I was screaming and crying for them to turn the TV off but they wouldn't. They watched the whole thing and so did I while spazing out the whole time. That night when I got home I couldn't stop thinking about that damn doll. I go into my bedroom and get ready for bed and I see sitting in my room is my Gene Simmons KISS doll. I stare and stare at the thing just waiting for it to jump up and come after to me. Finally I can't take it anymore so I get up and take the doll into the kitchen and stick him in a cupboard. I get back in bed and lay there staring at the light coming from the hallway through my cracked open bedroom door. Just waiting for him to come running in after me. As I get more tired my eyes get heavier but they stay fixed on that open crack in the door. Suddenly like a quick blur I see something run in my room at full speed! I swear my heart stopped! It jumps on my bed and right in my face! I screamed like I had never before! It was my cat. I will NEVER forget that night. Funny to think that 20 years later I would have a replica of the doll from the film sitting right next to my bed. -Clark

[HypnoToad]

The first movie I can remember scaring me:

The year, 1986. My age, 4. The movie, Mr. Boogedy. Yeah, I was scared to death by the peanut butter and jelly faced pilgrim who terrorized Richard Masur and family.

[thedudeabides]

Originally posted by EOD
I don't know how I could've forgotten the last vignette in TRILOGY OF TERROR. That truly scared me out of my wits as a kid. It was the one with Karen Black and the freaky little, knife weilding doll.
EOD

It's true, Karen Black's wonky eye is truely frightening.

[liamE]

I first saw Salem's Lot when I was around four and the scene where the kid knocks on the window for his brother made it impossible for me to sleep with a window open.

Another film that fucked me up was an oldie about giant spiders. No idea what it was called but it was in colour and had a scene where someone went into a shed and a huge spider jumped from the ceiling onto him. Even now I have to look up before I walk into a shed.

What was that film called anyway? It wasn't Tarantula or Kingdom of the Spiders.

[Emancipator]

When i was a kid my parents sheltered me from scary movies but the one that scared the crap out of me was Critters II :) Wasnt allowed to see anymore critters after that one.

[Jack19]

Silver Bullet scared the crap out of me. I stilll like that movie but it seems like I am the only one. I was actually more scared by books then movies. I used to read books about bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster that would scare me. The one that scared me the most was mothman.

[EvilCLownLiquor]

Hey guys, I just joined, and figured this to be the first thread to post in...


When I think of watching horror movies as a kid, the first movie I think of is
Syngenor (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100728/) , I think this was actually one of the first horror movies I've ever seen when I was 7, and, Jesus Christ, when the half syngenor, half woman came on screen I'd sink into my seat and close my eyes, especially when it started melting *ewwwww*

Also, when one of the Syngenors tries to break into the bathroom where the girl is hiding is fucking scary, and that weird propaganda film was always unsettling to me for some reason...

[ChainsawXxX]

Y'know, while looking back on this post, and all of the responses, I realized this is what I love about horror films. People who can watch a horror film as a kid, and have the odds for them of the movie scarring them for life. Never wanting to see another movie again. But instead, they embrace that movie, and look back at that traumatizing film...fondly.

Viva la horror.

[B166ER]

Originally posted by HypnoToad
The first movie I can remember scaring me:

The year, 1986. My age, 4. The movie, Mr. Boogedy. Yeah, I was scared to death by the peanut butter and jelly faced pilgrim who terrorized Richard Masur and family.

DAMN! I'd forgotten all about that movie. Still can't remember it too well, but fucked if that one didn't creep the hell out of me when I was 6 or 7!

[Markus]

Originally posted by Boys #22: elmie
Welcome Markus, and please post MORE ....... I had an older sister ( who herself was under 17 at the time ) who BS'ed our way into DAWN back in 1979 ....... I sat there frozen during the first 20 minutes, and by the film's end, I was a new man :) ......... one of my fondest memories of childhood
Boys#22 - thanks for the welcome! I started lurking on this board last fall when I heard about the new Dawn movie and have been on it about 4-5 times a day ever since. Real good group of people here! I wanted to respond to your post a couple days ago, but I've been real busy as my wife just gave birth to our third child on Friday (Mark Jr. is 8lbs, 2 oz and 21-1/2" long). His two older sisters have been a hand full, as my wife just came home today (just got free to go on the computer at 1:00 am).

But to justify this post, I also wanted to see if anyone remembered a movie I saw when I was little in the early 70s. Basically, a family in an RV witnessed a satanic killing and spent the rest of the movie fleeing a cult, which were pretty much everyone in this area out west. The last scene is them thinking they got away, but finding that they were actually herded back to the starting point for their sacrifice. Really creeped me out and I have never seen or heard anything about this movie since. Anyone here know of it?

[yt]

This thread brings up a lot of good bad memories. Most of the movies mentioned here gave me nightmares. Just pulling one out of the pack that I don't think has been mentioned yet was this weird TV movie called Picture Mommy Dead. Brrrr. I'm too scared to rewatch it.

The movie that gave me the most nightmares as a kid was The Exorcist.

[Messiahman]

The one that utterly destroyed me as a kid was DEADLY BLESSING. In particular, the dream scene in which Sharon Stone leans back and, at the command of a disembodied voice, opens her mouth -- a spider descends on a strand of webbing and plops right down between her lips. I tell you I was WEEKS getting over that.

The trailers for THE SHINING hit me pretty hard, as did the MAGIC trailers as well. And I, too, was one of those who found himself severely bothered by that HBO short with the carnivorous magnetic tape. Brrrrrr!

For some reason, THE BOOGENS also horrified me, and years later when I got the chance to go into a mineshaft in Colorado, I was constantly looking over my shoulder for the creepy little crab/turtle monsters. I know they were there, too...they were hiding just out of sight.

[Ratty]

But to justify this post, I also wanted to see if anyone remembered a movie I saw when I was little in the early 70s. Basically, a family in an RV witnessed a satanic killing and spent the rest of the movie fleeing a cult, which were pretty much everyone in this area out west. The last scene is them thinking they got away, but finding that they were actually herded back to the starting point for their sacrifice. Really creeped me out and I have never seen or heard anything about this movie since. Anyone here know of it?

That would be Race With The Devil with Peter Fonda. Pretty routine chase picture, but, yeah, that ending is memorable.

[General Logan]

"It". That fucking clown scared the hell outta me.

In later years, learning it was Tim Curry has completely obliterated the fear.

[Jack19]

Originally posted by Cosmoline
"The Shining" scared me, even the preview scared me. But "Jaws" scared me every time I so much as swam in a lake. Took me years to get over it. I still can't imagine anything worse than getting attacked by a shark.

I gotta agree with you there, everyone always says burning to death would be the worst way to go, but I think getting eaten by something is worse. Especially a shark because there so alien. If you get attacked you are out of your enviroment and at a complete disadvantage.

[Markus]

Originally posted by Ratty
That would be Race With The Devil with Peter Fonda. Pretty routine chase picture, but, yeah, that ending is memorable.

Thanks Ratty! I always what that was called. Its amazing how mediocre movies seem really good when you're a kid. For example, I recently saw a "Three Stooges" episode that I loved as a kid ("Punch Drunks"- the one where Curly was a boxer that went nuts when he heard Pop Goes the Weasal) and it was really disappointing.

[ChainsawXxX]

Originally posted by Markus
Thanks Ratty! I always what that was called. Its amazing how mediocre movies seem really good when you're a kid. For example, I recently saw a "Three Stooges" episode that I loved as a kid ("Punch Drunks"- the one where Curly was a boxer that went nuts when he heard Pop Goes the Weasal) and it was really disappointing.

Are you kidding me? That one rocked! But I haven't seen it in a while, so you may be right.

[The Rain Dog]

http://www.shillpages.com/movies/americanwerewolfinlondon1981dvdo.gif

Scared the bejesus outta me when I was little.

Now its one of my favourites.

RD

[Boys #22: elmie]

RACE WITH THE DEVIL is an excellent film ( for me at least -I saw it again about 5 years ago ) and the terror is heightened by the fact that you never really get a good grasp as to who the villians are ..... much the same as DUEL .... it's the unknown that is truly frightening .......

[Dr. Vitus Werdegast]

The weird shambling antler things/monsters in Time Bandits scared the crap out of me as a kid. In all the old horror flicks I digested as a kid on the horror host shows, you knew the monsters were people in suits or makeup because they had the same form of a human being more or less.

But those things in Time Bandits were so tall and awkward moving and so non-human that they just scared me silly.

As for a horror movie? Hard to remember my first real scare, but watching the Shining on tv one night in my basement with the lights out as a kid was the first and only time I remember changing the channel I was so scared...only to change it back seconds later.

[HellSpawn]

When I was very, very young I saw a movie with some sort of space monster that kind of looked like a humanoid squid/octopus thing that drained electricity or some such nonsense and it was laying eggs everywhere, I think it was some sort of old sci-fi movie and needless to say that I remember that I had nightmares for a very long time after that…

Either that or drugs and alcohol really don’t mix and I’m totally creating childhood events that never took place.

Pretty scary stuff indeed.

[Dr Vivisector]

Originally posted by HellSpawn
When I was very, very young I saw a movie with some sort of space monster that kind of looked like a humanoid squid/octopus thing that drained electricity or some such nonsense and it was laying eggs everywhere, I think it was some sort of old sci-fi movie and needless to say that I remember that I had nightmares for a very long time after that…

Either that or drugs and alcohol really don’t mix and I’m totally creating childhood events that never took place.

Pretty scary stuff indeed.

++++
Sounds like the Green Slime....an Italian/Japanese coproducton.

Human sized octopoid monsters with hundreds of eyes and and electrocuting tentacles invade a space station with hilarious results.

I'll always remember the shot of the cheap ring shaped space station model with tiny green slime monsters glued to the hull being set on fire.....glorious.

If there's any movie that needs to be remade with modern tech it's the Green Slime. I can only imagine the hentai freaks going to the theatre in droves.

[Iron Maiden]

The Birds was the first movie to really scare me. I had seen many slasher movies at a young age, but I can't say that I was really that scared. Maybe it was because I didn't relate to the poeple being killed. I did relate to those kids being attacked in The Birds, though! That scared me.

[THE ONE AND ONLY]

The terror of my childhood was the old Incredible Hulk television series. Whenever Bill Bixby's eyes started turning different shades, I was always outside on the porch of my house afterwards. Hell, I even made my Mom unplug the TV on Friday nights so the Hulk wouldn't come out of the TV ,and chase me around. Another one was the miniseries V when I was nine. I was so into that flick when I was watching it, but when the aliens started swallowing rodents and birds whole, I started to get the hebbie jeebies. Then that flick proceded to finish off whatever courage I had left when the one Visitor removed his eyeballs, put them in a little carrying case,and turned around to reveal those red irised cat eyes that sent me running out of the room. Today I just watch both of those and just find them plain stupid ,but I can see what scared that nine year old within.

One thing that I've noticed that came up in this discussion is that many of us have been scared by the ads for these horror flicks. What I find sort of amusing today, is that many of these ads for these horror flicks, were aired with children's programing. You had flicks like Friday The 13th :The Final Chapter, Prince of Darkness, and The Forest being advertised with cartoons like Duck Tails, Tranformers, and Masters of The Universe. Reprehensible by todays uptight standards. However, I felt sorry for the partent trying to calm down thier child after he or she was watching He-Man, only to get an eyeful of the ad for SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT :D . Already at the time I had a wierd bugboo about Saint Nick coming to get me in my sleep on Christmas Eve, that trailer locked that image of the jolly old elf in my mind.....forever.

[Emancipator]

Originally posted by B166ER
DAMN! I'd forgotten all about that movie. Still can't remember it too well, but fucked if that one didn't creep the hell out of me when I was 6 or 7!


Damn me to bud, the boogey man used to scare the piss out of me as a kid.

[Mr. Freeze]

Originally posted by DickDastardly
Yes! that evil clown truck freaked me out. That was the laughing visage of The Green Goblin from the Spider-Man comics. Cool, hey?

[ChainsawXxX]

Oh yeah. If they remake Maximum Overdrive (again), imagine how cool it'd be to have this face bearing down on you: http://s92796877.onlinehome.us/venom-mouth.jpg

How f'd up would that be?

[EvilCLownLiquor]

Originally posted by Emancipator
Damn me to bud, the boogey man used to scare the piss out of me as a kid.

Oh yeah, was that the one where in one scene a kid is sticking his head out a window and al of a sudden the window comes slamming down on his neck? If so, that was another good one...

[EOD]

The more I read this post, the more stuff I remember that traumatized me as a kid. Here's a big one:


IN SEARCH OF

(bigfoot, loch ness, UFO, and especially GHOST episodes).


EOD

[EOD]

Originally posted by EvilCLownLiquor
Oh yeah, was that the one where in one scene a kid is sticking his head out a window and al of a sudden the window comes slamming down on his neck? If so, that was another good one...

It's been a long time but I vaguely remember a scene like that (though far more memorable to me were the kissing, double head knife empalement and the image of the girl floating in the air with the mirror shard over her eye, then there was the flying kitchen emplements scene!). I need to see that again, I've seen it as an adult, but it's been 10 years or so. I remember thinking what a cool, nightmarish vibe THE BOOGEY MAN has. A little like Phantasm in that regard, kind of disconnected, but it works. I don't know whether the tone of the film was intentional or complete accident, but it works.


EOD


PS The show best set up to scare the piss out of me as a child that failed to do so was KOLCHAK. Watched it every week, loved it, it never scared me once.

[ChainsawXxX]

I just remembered...for about 2 years, "The Boogens" were my mortal enemies. Seeing the commercial as a kid, where the guy gets dragged underneath his truck, I couldn't go anywheres near a car at night. I had to have my mom carry me to the car once from our friends house on one dark night (and I wasn't a light kid back then either, not like now:rolleyes:)

They just don't make commerecials for horror movies like that anymore. For some reason, watching a girl jumping up in the air, firing a shotgun at zombies in midair, all set to DMX's "Up In Here" doesn't have the same frightening effect on me. Call me crazy.

[Werewolf Girl]

I remember Alligator really scaring me as a kid. And a few scenes in Gremlins.

[Gruber]

Emil Muzz from the Tom Hanks Dragnet movie used to frighten me as a boy. He has one scary face.

[mahduk]

Originally posted by Gruber
Emil Muzz from the Tom Hanks Dragnet movie used to frighten me as a boy. He has one scary face.

"OK, Copper! Mr. Crimestopper! What's wrong with what we're doin'? We just like to dance in our GOAT SKIN PANTS around this ancient ruin."

[Chris Myers]

Tobe Hooper's Invasion from Mars got me.

[ImBehindYou]

I remember this Space 1999 episode when I was seven that actually freaked me out pretty bad. There was some sort of ship/creature thing that the main characters were fighting, and some of them were attempting to enter into it's hull to fight it. Those that did make it in came out barbecued. It actually spit them back out. For a seven year old, that was pretty messed up. I was chok full of :eek!: about that for days. Sometime later JC's Halloween got to me. I was doing pretty good until Myers actually did get back up after the closet incident. I was hooked on horror after that. It just seemed to me that in the horror genre nothing was sacred, and that realization would be far more intriguing and exciting as the years rolled by. A few scenes that still haunt me from other shows:

The Exorcist - The sudden ghoulish appearance of the priest's mother on the white bed.

Stepfather (2, I believe) - The scene where the father is coming down the stairs nonchalantly to leave, and you see the blood stained carnage on the walls of the living room behind him. I actually didn't know it was this kind of a movie until that very moment.

The Exorcist 3 - Already been discussed previously I see, that buildup to the nurse's demise was nearly perfect, as well as the demonic joker statue that breifly appears later on.

[C.Swicegood]

Originally posted by thedudeabides
OK, time to confess something to you all:

When I was a child I was piss your pants terrified of Mummenschanz .
That freaky mime group.

If there was a commercial on (if I remember correctly, their act was coming around the area), I would stop what i was doing and freak out and run from the TV.

When I saw a commercial, I once ran away from the TV and into the kitchen table and busted the corner of my eye open and needed a stitch.

Then in the TV Guide there was an ad for them, and I made my sister rip out the page and throw it out...

Of course she held onto the page and would trot it out and show it to me at wonderful times like dinner or once, at Church, and watch me freak out.

They really freaked me out.

I didn't know what they were called back then, so I called them "The White Lady" for some reason.


I mean, look at these fuckers!
http://www.vip-tv.tv/Images/Sendungen/mummenschanz.jpg
http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v7n5/toilet.gif

Oh my God, YOU TOO? I swear I had no idea what these guys were before I read your post but remember seeing the commercials for them on TV when I was little. The guy with post it notes on is face taking them off slowly one at a time , the toilet paper guy, the way they moved around like spiderman, scared the piss out of me as a kid..... so now my childhood demons have a name...and that name is Mummenschanz.

I was also afraid of the last long limbed alien from Close encounters, I knew that creepy smily bastard was going to come in my room and take me away.

ET and that awful poster of him with his long creepy fingers coming out from behind Elliots closet door had the same effect along with Yoda from Empire. When Luke tells him that he isn't scared Yoda looks at him and says in a creepy voice "You will be, you WILL be...." lead to dreams of Yoda trying to kill me and my dad.

Yeah, thanks for drudging up all these childhood horrors ;)

[Rufus Rockefeller XIII]

That one movie where the kids have the hole to hell in their backyard. The part where the telephone melts after the girl hangs it up scared me so bad :frown:

[THE ONE AND ONLY]

The flick your thinking of Rufus is the smi-1987 classic, THE GATE.

[Emancipator]

Originally posted by THE ONE AND ONLY
The terror of my childhood was the old Incredible Hulk television series. Whenever Bill Bixby's eyes started turning different shades, I was always outside on the porch of my house afterwards. Hell, I even made my Mom unplug the TV on Friday nights so the Hulk wouldn't come out of the TV ,and chase me around.

Now that is being super safe! Loved your post :)