Close Encounters of the Third Kind terrified me as a kid. Not because of the alien shit, but because the thought of a vacuum turning on and running by itself was just the most horrific thing I could imagine.
I didn’t realize my cat had a Lemmy account.
My mother used to make me watch scary movies with her to toughen me up.
Gave me nightmares for years.
PugMary sounds like a difficult woman to grow up with, sorry you had to go through that.
She was a single mother with somewhat archaic ideas of what a boy should learn from his father, and as I had no father in the picture, she took the task upon herself.
It was a mixed bag. But she was sincerely trying her best out of parental love, and I didn’t turn out too fucked up, so mostly I look back on it with amusement.
I just watched this movie in it’s entirety for the 1st time, a month ago. It took me 3 "Yea, NOPE"s to successfully get thru the scene where the two are stuck in the narrow passage and the Earth shifts. I still cringe thinking about it.
I was about 5 when my dad had me watch Candyman 2 with him. I wouldn’t go in front of a mirror for over a year afterward.
My dad did this too! It was more like he would just leave them on the TV, though, and not as much having me sit down with him to watch. It kinda let me tap out whenever, but boy did I get real scared at times.
I remember when Signs was on once, that one got me. Anything that vaguely sounded like clicking at night would have me sweating, haha. We had this fish tank and the filter noises from it would keep me up for hours just listening in case it was an alien.
All that said, I remember those things as a quirky and kinda fun memory now, and probably was what got me into scary movies as an adult.
My mom never let me watch scary movies growing up, so when I finally got the watch The Birds at 13 it scared the shit out of me. Couldn’t sleep for a few weeks.
I don’t watch scary movies still.
We watched The Birds in class in 6th grade, it was lovely. Absolute hysteria modulated by Hitchcock’s suspense in between horror.
That teacher molded an entire class, swear.
I was a weird kid. My God parent’s son showed me Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the first 3 Friday the 13th movies when I was, like 7 or 8, I think? I don’t remember being scared. I do remember being grossed out at a scene from TCM where a dude was pulling maggots off his head, torching them with a lighter and then eating them, tho.
But then Pet Cemetery scared the shit out of me and gave me nightmares for weeks when I saw it at 10 or 11. Not because of the supernatural shit; but because of the flashback scene of the sick sister. The way she looked and how she puked. That’s real shit. That can happen to me. An undead kid trying to kill me can’t. That’s not scary.
I was also very afraid of the tornado in Wizard of Oz as a child. Because tornados are real!
The film that broke me as a child was *The Fair-Haired Child". Pretty unknown horror movie but goddamn it was a lot for ~11 year old me.
Oh, and The Outer Limits: Sandkings! Not ostensibly a horror movie but plenty creepy and weird.
That reminds me that my most terrifying movie scene as a kid wasn’t actually an scary movie.
It was a movie with a scene were the toilet talks or acts as he is going to eat the kid, can’t quite remember the details. The trauma was serious I couldn’t go to the bathroom to take a shit without feeling weird, terrified that it would bite my ass and all that, I tried to avoid going as long as possible…
I can’t seem to find the movie or the scene, all I see is a scene from Look Who Is Talking but that’s not it. I did see it like later on life and I think it was like in a public bathroom and maybe the kid kind of had a daydream… But honestly no clue, I couldn’t find it.
The toilet scene from “Look Who’s Talking Too” was the one that scared the shit outta me as a kid. Not sure which one scarred you, but I’m more curious as to why “scary toilets” was ever a thing to begin with
You might have done some emotional damage there lol
My parents took me to see aliens when I was a we lad. To this day I am terrified of the alien series.
For some reason the movie the dark Crystal had me fucked up when I was like 5years old.
Dude, The Dark Crystal was unnerving when I first saw it almost 20 years old in the late 90s. I don’t think you were wrong there.
The Dark Cauldron was the first movie I walked out of when I was 5, followed the next year with Return To OZ
Unnerving! What a great word for it.
Feel like it applies to a lot of kid scary actually… like Goosebumps or the carnival scene in Big… just like lingering uneasiness
The Dark Crystal is a good scary movie for kids. The movie that got me scared as a kid was a Ernest Scared Stupid. I can’t explain why, that movie scared the shit out of me. After that it was watching The Relic.
I dunno what OP’s daughter was watching that wasn’t ‘scary enough’ but going straight to The Descent was a terrible idea.
I begged to see Poltergeist when it came out in 1982, I was 11. One of my main arguments was that it was only rated PG, ET came out the same year and it was rated PG; the PG-13 rating didn’t exist yet.
I did not sleep in my room for 3 months after that and when I finally was able to go back all my stuffed animals had to be out of the room.
I have never found another movie again that scared me so much and I have seen more horror movies than I could count.
Split second is the horror movie I saw way too early in my life. I can’t remember the circumstances but I may have been 4-5 seeing a particularly scary scene in the basement of my grandparents house.
Descent would have fucked me up, the claustrophobia messed with me seeing it as an adult.
I need help finding a horror movie (at least I think it was a horror movie, maybe horror/comedy). The ending has a woman kissing a big furry monster.
Pet sematary did this to me
