Not a movie, but a 'feature length music video'. Michael Jackson's Thriller scared the ever living shit out of 5 or 6 year old me.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The old animated one by Disney. The Witch/Evil Queen scenes would always scare the living shit out of little old me! When my sister and I would watch the movie with our grandparents, they would have to fast-forward through those bits.
The Strangers. I lived in a house similarly isolated with a sliding glass door just like the one in the movie where she moves the curtain and heβs right there staring in.
Something was on TV and I have no idea what it was nor do I care to try to find it. Someone was in the hospital and transformed into some sort of monster while the nurse was out of the room and when she came back in it reached out from under the hospital bed and ripped her fucking leg off. I'd never had thoughts about monsters under the bed before but after that I always jumped as far away from the edge of the bed as possible when I got out.
No movie really scared me when I was a kid. But my brother watched the original The Day The Earth Stood Still and screamed bloody murder when the robot or whatever came out lmao.
After whining for a long time my mom let me see Carrie on a Wednesday afternoon, the Sissy Spacek version. After watching it pretty unscathed to the end the scene came where they show her grave and the hand rises up from the grave....My first official jump scare and since I still remember it today, it has left quite the impression.
The terminator, and Ed209 from RoboCop. Even back then I knew it was quite a possibility.
βPokemon: Jirachi, Wish Makerβ for me. It had this really creepy Groudon with tentacles.
When I was 4 and watched Spirited Away I was terrified
SAW
Superman III
I watched Halloween for the first time when I was in like 3rd grade. It was even the dumbed down version on TNT with commercials, but I ended up waking up in the middle of the night and puking over the railing of the top bunk. Poor sister was on the bottom.
I vividly remember watching everyone clean up my puke while I sat up there lol.
Anyway, I fucking love horror movies now. What an origin story.
The Tripods was a TV series that traumatized me!
Haunting in Connecticut. Iβm from Connecticut.
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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Alive_(1974_film)
But really just the commercials on TV.
Really showing my age here.
Witness - I was about the same age as the kid in the movie. I'm still sketched put in Airport/train/bus station bathrooms.
Mr. Boogety