Remember me, Eddie?!
The Mummy. It wasn’t the titular character. It was the scarabs.
I don’t remember my age, but Spirited Away absolutely fucked me up for a little while. I felt like I was in that world and was terrified of No-Face eating me up. Legitimately had nightmares… It doesn’t seem that bad rewatching it but it was not good for my younger mind.
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Haha as an adult my reaction was “ommmmmggg this is the fuckin shiiiit”
Not to dismiss your reaction. Kids can have very intense reactions to stimuli like that. The movie Alien terrified me.
Terminator 1
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead!
This fucked me up more than any monsters… This thing just has one mission and it’s relentless
It wasn’t a movie per se. I thought it was when I was a kid, though. It’s an episode of “Friday the 13th: The Series” called “The Executioner”.
I was like maybe 6 or 7 at the time.
It starts with this guy in prison you see them take him to the electric chair and attempt to execute him. They botch it and the warden or whoever pretty much goes “oops, well by law we did technically carry out your sentence so you’re a free man now”
He then goes on to become a dentist and uses a “cursed electric chair” as his dentist chair to take revenge on the world.
This gave me a real fear of going to the dentist on top of just being a kid and being scared to go. Still hate going to the dentist (who doesn’t I guess)
I used to play Myst at the time and that even made me feel uncomfortable in the Time Machine room with the dentist chair at the first island.
edit: I watched it again as an adult and it was corny as hell
And the other movie that scared the hell out of me was Superman III when Vera got sucked into the machine at the end and turned into an android.
Fire in the Sky. Hoo boy I still get the willies decades later.
At the height of the cold war, 87 or 88 iirc, a movie came on HBO called Dreamscape. It’s WW3 imagery really blew my mind, I recall having dreams about it for ages. I’d turned it on because a few weeks before I’d really enjoyed Innerspace with the same lead actor, but this was a bit different lol
Can’t remember what name of this movie, but it had in the end a train flying over a destroyed bridge and into a river at the bottom of a ravine. That and corpses and debris floating left it seared in my head for a couple years.
edit: might be this. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074292/
It’s a tie between the wicked witch and her monkeys in the Wizzard of Oz and the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Still scary!
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TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!
That shit made me laugh. I loved PeeWee Herman growing up.
Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they’re certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing
I change my mind. I most certainly do not want a boat just like this.
In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.
The toxic waste scene fucked me up for a while.
Gremlins, when they transformed
A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it’s only PG! It’s a comedy!
Yeah that was a mistake.
A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don’t know what the fuck I was thinking.
Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how “family-friendly” movies are anymore. I guess I just don’t really pay attention to that.
For some reason they haven’t kept in touch…
Lol I do the goddamn same thing. Some form of brain damage i think
Ugh… I grew up during the 80s with absolutely no parental oversight. I was allowed to read and watch whatever I wanted. Ton of slasher and horror movies, though 3 fuuuuuucked me up. Friday the 13th - Jason, Child’s Play - Chucky, and the most impactful being Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger.
At a 6 year old sleepover, the host father rented Nightmare on elm Street for a bunch of us little dudes. Half way through the movie, i got up and dressed out of my pajamas and walked home. I had nightmares for years about Freddy, chasing me in our basement around the oil heater. Fucking traumatized…
Saw Nightmare On Elm Street at 13yo so I was ok, I knew it was fake. After a few years when I bought it on VHS I saw that it was 18+ and I understand…
I lived on elm street when that movie came out. Did not appreciate that very much.
