C.H.U.D.
Early 80s b-grade movie. Absolutely laughable from a modern cinematic perspective, but I haven’t touched it in over a third of a century due to how it scared the fark out of young-teenaged me. I have also taken a disliking to horror movies (in general) for that same reason.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi gave me nightmares as a young child, for years. Still, remembering how much I loved it, downloaded it to show my young kids, gave it a watch while they were out. Hell. No.
Let’s just say Orson Wells had no business narrating a children’s cartoon.
Lots of the answers here make me feel old
Not technically a movie, but the 1990 It mini series has always gotten me. I can watch the newer movies and it won’t bother me at all, but that show was masterful in terrifying me as a kid.
I’m old, but “The Mephisto Waltz,” a1971 horror film about a dying pianist (and Satanist) taking over a young piano players body. Lots of murder, lots of screaming, and decanters of blue liquid. My parents took me in a drive in to see it, and I guess thought I’d be okay with it at age five, sleeping in the back of the car.
Nope.
Blue liquid still freaks me out.
The original 70s Texas Chainsaw Massacre makes me uncomfortable still as an adult.
Sophomore in college probably isn’t too young, but probably Requiem for a Dream if I were ever to watch it again, which I’m not gonna do.
So when it was a little too young, I slept in the same room with my grandmother during the summer and she would like to watch TV very late at night, even while she slept. Because of that, i would sometimes happen to come across some of the more mature movies that they would be airing. This is a little too specific, but one night they were airing Superhero Movie 2008. I don’t remember if I was paying attention or not, but when my grandmother put the channel with this movie on, it was around the funeral scene.
Yeahhhh my young ass was traumatized. Necrophilia is a no no.
E.T.
I saw it when I was probably 4 or 5? I had recurring nightmares for YEARS. Like, well into my mid teens. I’m pretty sure I even had one or two as an adult. I’m recovered now and I’ve watched the movie without incident, but I don’t like it and I don’t really want to willingly watch it again.
Which part scared you? I think for me, the guys in biohazard suits and big plastic tubes creeped me out.
That’s a good question. If I’m honest I haven’t seen UT in probably 15 years.
I think it was the cornfield chasing parts? I also recall just being super creeped out by E.T. himself. The way he made sounds, the way his fingers move, etc.
The biohazard stuff you’re talking about scared me, but I think just the sounds E.T. was making, not the guys in suits specifically.
Porn, it’s absolutely worth nothing.
From someone who needs an emotional connection to make sex palatable, I absolutely agree. Never saw the point of porn, engaging with it always made me feel dirty and hollow on the inside. One-night stands are much the same, which is why I have never had any - I’ve backed out every time. No puritism anywhere here, I’m an atheist dude.
Event Horizon. Nuh uh. Mmmm, nope. Nah.
I watched that one when I was like 15 and it was the first horror movie that ever legitimately scared me lol
I saw that as an adult and it fucked with me.
I was like 16 or 17 when it came out. It was by far the scariest movie I had ever seen at the time, and a few years after.
I came here just to say this but wasn’t expecting to see it at the top of the thread, I’d seen scary movies before but holy hell this one chilled me to my core and even as an adult I still squinted when I watched it
It’s a seriously disturbing movie. What made it worse for me is that I didn’t even know it was horror. I’m big on sci fi, and that’s what I thought it was. I was lulled in by the story but it gave nightmares…
I think that’s what got me too, I was expecting sci-fi and whilst I technically got it, I also got traumatised in the process lol. Credit where it’s due, it’s a fantastic movie because of the horrors I never imagined possible, but I watched it once more as an adult and that’s enough for me
You don’t need eyes to see!
Return to Oz.
Dooooorrrrrrrtthhyyyyyyyy. GAAAALLLLLLEEEEEEE!
Tommy. So much horror for a musical.
Aliens. It wasn’t the movie itself, it was the TV adverts for it. A two-second shot of a door buckling as something pounded against it from the other side. I was exactly the right age to be shocked by the thought that you can’t shut the monsters out with just a closed door.
Mosquito (1994)
My older brother really did a number renting and bringing that movie to my house. I remember I saw it on a summer afternoon with him. You know, the time of the year when mosquitoes are everywhere.
I should watch it again now, I’m sure the effects aged poorly, and maybe that heals my wounds from the past.
