Which films scared you the most as a kid? - Page 4

gloom_cookie · 05-04-2006, 02:00 PM

"Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things"

After seeing this, I had to do math in my head. How many hours would it take for the zombies to walk to my house, and could I be awake and eating breakfast before they showed up.

4mytribe · 05-04-2006, 07:06 PM

Humungous. Oh my God that was soooooooo scary. I've tried in vain for years to find this movie but cant. I thought it would be a cult classic it was so scary.

Vampyrekisses · 05-05-2006, 02:49 AM

Also Poltergiest

The part where the young girl tries to throw the cover over the clown and misses, and the next time that she looks up the clown has gone and is hiding under her bed.

I was only young when I saw that film and ive had a phobia of clowns ever since.

selfdestruction · 05-05-2006, 02:56 AM

Jaws pt 1, where the shark bites the guy in the stomach. Didnt go in the sea for months!

Poltergiest, mainly because its something that might, maybe happen..you never know.

Now, at my age, SAW...that really freaks me out!..wont be watching SAW 2. prefer ice age with the kids

BADSEED · 05-10-2006, 03:02 PM

The Excorcist scared me the most as a kid, hands down.

lena · 05-10-2006, 05:53 PM

Oh, god, I saw the first chucky movie when I was 8 or 9 and had nightmares for a month.

Immortal_Death · 06-10-2006, 02:25 AM

what scared me the most since i was like about 10 years old was goosebumps

Immortal_Death · 06-10-2006, 02:56 AM

what scared me the most since i was like about 10 years old was goosebumps

Minyaliel · 06-10-2006, 03:11 AM

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what scared me the most since i was like about 10 years old was goosebumps

Yeah, me too. Nowadays I'm still freaked out by that dead girl in "The Amityville Horror"...

Somber Illusions · 06-10-2006, 10:01 PM

At about the age of 6, I remember watching a movie titled Dolls. My room was surround by porcelain dolls, so I was horrified for about two years ever since.

Here are some more films that haunted my childhood:

Candy Man
Pumpkin Head
Raw Head Rex
Chucky
The Leprechaun

nuksaa · 06-10-2006, 10:06 PM

Bambi, I can't stand the movie today. I was way to young and didn't take well to Bambi's mother getting shot.

Kettu · 06-11-2006, 12:44 AM

faces of death really got into my head.

then again, I was 9 at the time..

end.of.eternity · 06-11-2006, 08:25 AM

Kettu, näin saman leffan, mutta olin 11 tai 10...

Jacks Girl · 06-12-2006, 12:28 PM

I think most horror films freaked me out as a kid, but I still forced myself to watch them. I suppose it was kind of a love/hate relationship, I found them amazing to watch, yet I'd be terrified of going to bed afterwards. One program, not film, that did seriously freak me out was an episode of X-Files, where there was this alien-thing that lived in the sewers and looked like he was made of soap/wax. All I remember was this one scene where you thought it was dead, and it suddenly opened its eyes! Still makes me feel uncomfortable when I think about it.

spookypurple · 06-12-2006, 02:37 PM

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I think most horror films freaked me out as a kid, but I still forced myself to watch them. I suppose it was kind of a love/hate relationship, I found them amazing to watch, yet I'd be terrified of going to bed afterwards. One program, not film, that did seriously freak me out was an episode of X-Files, where there was this alien-thing that lived in the sewers and looked like he was made of soap/wax. All I remember was this one scene where you thought it was dead, and it suddenly opened its eyes! Still makes me feel uncomfortable when I think about it.

I know the one you mean - it was called "Host". Raaaather creepy.

Legacy of Wulf · 06-13-2006, 05:17 AM

I have a vague memory of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds." I was real young, and only saw a few minutes of it... the part where that woman was inside the phone booth when the birds were attacking.

Scared the hell out of me at the time.

Minyaliel · 06-13-2006, 01:01 PM

When thinking very far back, I remember being scared out of my by a couple of scenes in the first Ghostbusters movie... now, that only makes me feel embarassed to think about :P

Immortal_Death · 06-18-2006, 07:20 AM

Child's Play......

Tryfan · 06-23-2006, 02:17 PM

I got really freaked out by a movie called "threads" It was a made for TV movie that came out in the U.K in 1984, and was about the effects of a nuclear attack on the city of Sheffield. It ws incredibly realistic, and after images of mass graves, walking radiation victims eating rats to stay alive, and the cityu centre full of shadows burned onto walls, I didnt sleep properly for ages. There was an american film called "The Day After" which had the same sort of plotline, and is also freaky.

Malady · 06-23-2006, 05:23 PM

Omg- The Wizard of Oz gave me nightmares for years after I saw it at age 3. It wasn't the flying monkeys that scared me though (I liked the monkeys, and still do). . .it was Glinda. So scary. No one who travels around in a bubble should be trusted. And the munchkins. . .

nightskylight · 06-23-2006, 05:48 PM

Arachnophobia. I was never able to watch it all the way through. I'm deathly afraid of spiders, sadly. Also The Exorcist and IT, as well. Clowns are evil.

Child_of_Fury · 06-24-2006, 04:06 AM

It was a nordic kids' cartoon "Pekka Töpöhäntä" (erm... "Pekka the Short-tailed"?). It was about a short-tailed cat that was framed for eating a cake and punished by throwing him into a cleaning room, where the family mother had been ironing and left the iron plugged in... the room caught on fire, and the cat barely escaped. It doesn't sound very bad, but hey - I was a very pyrophobic kid back then.

Another one was an anime called 'Hopeanuoli', originally 'Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin'. It was originally aimed for 17+ aged viewers, but I saw it when I was 7 or so... it's about wild dogs that gathered groups to fight a gigantic bear called Aka Kabuto, who killed the main character's, Gin's, father Riki. Very gore at some points... bears eating horses, and even each other, dogs getting pierced with sharp spears... sweet.

And, I couldn't stand to watch the intro of the 80's cartoon "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe". I was always freaked out in the end where Skeletor's laughter echoed loudly. Strange, because I'm a big Skeletor-fan nowadays.

Lady Victoria Pareesis · 06-24-2006, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Child_of_Fury

It was a nordic kids' cartoon "Pekka Töpöhäntä" (erm... "Pekka the Short-tailed"?). It was about a short-tailed cat that was framed for eating a cake and punished by throwing him into a cleaning room, where the family mother had been ironing and left the iron plugged in... the room caught on fire, and the cat barely escaped. It doesn't sound very bad, but hey - I was a very pyrophobic kid back then.

Does the cat have adventures wich include a snake pretending he was his tail or something like that?
I'm looking for a movie I loved when I was a child, wich was the story of a cat with a very very short tail.
I remember it was, very very cute.

Child_of_Fury · 06-24-2006, 06:46 AM

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Does the cat have adventures wich include a snake pretending he was his tail or something like that?

I think so, yes. I can't say for sure, but that sounds extremely familiar.

SycophAntichrist · 06-25-2006, 04:03 AM

I think I was about 6 or 7, and this movie - I think it was basically a take-off of Jaws, but with a killer whale as the 'monster' - just happened to be starting on TV when I walked into the living room.

Just did a search and 'Orca' is the name of the movie, here's the blurb:

"The killer whale is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance - across seas, across time, across all obstacles."

Anyway, I saw the scene when the men on the whaling boat harpoon the Orca's mate, and haul her on board; you can hear her otherworldly, terrified sounds as she is dragged onto a deck which soon becomes slick with her blood. I'm not sure if she actually gives birth to her calf on the deck too, but I think she does.

I couldn't stand it.

I'd have to say at that time I was quite difficult to scare, having grown up during a time when the 'moral majority' didn't think that watching violent movies had the potential to turn seemingly innocent children into Mr Hyde - but just watching that scene shook me up.

I think I'll get that movie out and watch it if it's still around. But I'll be siding with the killer whale...