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Threads, Growing up near Sheffield and watched it when I was about 12...

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You watched Event Horizon as a child? Damn, that's rough! I watched it as a young adult on TV thinking it was just normal sci fi and was scared shitless by the end...

As a child there was a part of a movie I watched that gave me nightmares for days. It was someone rubbing a bloody chickens paw on a womans leg. That's it, that's all I saw before my parents yelled for me to go to bed but it haunted me for days.

At age 8 Critters. I couldn't go to the toilet alone for weeks after seeing once come out of the toilet. It's a PG too!

For reference I'd already watched exorcist by that age as my cousin and I snuck the copy out of my uncle's video shop. Exorcist didn't bother me anywhere near as much!

Ernest scared stupid. That troll going around at night, sneaking into kids rooms and turning them into wooden figurines was terrifying to my kid brain.

Definitely Stephen King's IT, the 90's miniseries. Tim Curry is absolutely terrifying as Pennywise. That lip curl he does when he says "Oh yes, Georgie, they float".

When I was little, the Gremlins movies terrified me! Not sure why since they're super campy, but 🤷‍♂️ kids are weird.

I apparently had recurring T-Rex-chasing-me nightmares after my grandparents let me watch Jurassic Park when I was like 5 or 6 (they thought it was just a dinosaur movie or something)

Sound of Music. Still does. Those fucking puppets. I have to leave the room for that scene when my wife watches it.

Species from 1995. Parents and their friends were watching it and told us to not come in because it was too scary.

I thought they were bullshitting young me...I was wrong. Lol. Had wonderful nightmares for a while.

Chucky 🔪

James and the giant peach was already an all around unsettling movie, but that thunderstorm rhino scared the bejeebes out of me as a kid.

As an adult i was super scared by that movie where the tooth fairy gets you if you're in the dark. I still turn my stairway light on when i walk to bed.

ET scared the crap out of me.

The one that comes to mind is Geordi's eyes on Star Trek TNG. I don't know why, and I eventually got over it. But watching every new episode of TNG was sort of an tense experience wondering if the visor would come off for any reason.

The Exorcist got me pretty good

Trilogy of Terror The little warrior doll that comes alive scared the living hell out of me

Fire in the sky - The scene after he was abducted and wakes up on the UFO always freaked me out as a kid. I remember renting the VHS from Blockbuster back in the day. This was also when shows like Sightings and Unsolved Mystery were popular on TV.

Who the hell let's their child watch event horizon?

Time Bandits. The evil character at the end. It was truly the most evil character I had ever seen.

The Mummy (1990s movie, not that Netflix series)

1. Dumbo, the pink elephants scene. Genuinely had fever dreams of that when i got sick over the years.

2. New Alcatraz. Granted, it's monster horror that I shouldn't have been watching, but my gramps got annoyed at me because it's "obviously fake"

the cube and ghost ship

The first Resident Evil movie. Not because of the zombies, it was the laser scene that got to me. I was convinced that lasers would come out of any reflective surface to get me. I didn't like how they seemed to react to the guy avoiding them, making it impossible for him to escape, like they were intelligent and trying to kill him.

Thank you for validating me. Event Horizon scares me to this day. Clawing out his eyes? Fucking no thank you.

Return of the Living Dead, not because it's any good but just because I was really scared of zombies as a kid. The Tarman zombie gave me nightmares for years.

ghost ship and the cube!

Gremlins for me, was way too young for that. Now it's one of my all time favorite movies.

Those really weird thumb creatures from Spy Kids. Could not STAND them and the movie would rerun almost every day.

Also King Rameses from Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Great time to plug !horror@lemmy.ml

The Exorcist and The Omen. I cannot watch either again to this day.

How come nobody mentioned Goosebumps? That shit was catered to kids, but I only dared watch it with the sound off.

The 1990 remake of the Night of the Living Dead. I was like 10 when I saw it, and then I had to walk through a dark forest alone to get home (I was supposed to walk with older girls but they left me behind). I legitimately thought I was going to die.

Jack and the Beanstalk. Not really a movie, but anime/cartoon from 1974. My parents turned it on for me every time they left the house. Check it up, it's terrifying, especially for a 4-year-old.

The aliens in Mars attacks were pretty scary.

My Girl. The ending with the kid dying from getting stung by all those bees messed with my mind as I was only like 5 or 6 when I saw it.

Weirdly, the original Andromeda Strain scared me more than any gore. It was probably linked to my childhood fear of sirens.

The Grudge. The Japanese original and the US ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptirica

That was scaaary for young kids, I was afraid to watch it again 30 years after. Now it is almost funny.

Here is the link if you want to check it out: https://youtube.com/watch?vojhfYK0T5c