Tommy. So much horror for a musical.
The banshee from Darby O’Gill and the Little People still creeps me out!
There is no way you’ll ever catch me saying Candyman more than once
That was my pick for our Halloween movie this year. The look on my 12 year old’s face during the bee scene was priceless.
I couldn’t even describe a single scene, I watched the whole thing but I was young and only retained the fear
Yeah, that guy always pissed me off too
I watched this in the theater when I was 6 or 7 years old. Freaked me the freak out, especially that baby at the end. That baby, man.
Unrelated, did you ever watch the sequel? It’s sort of great
I did, and I enjoyed it, and in fact the original movie became a bit of an obsession for me. I watched a video that explained the meaning as related to tools and man’s use and relationship with them.
I can’t find it now, but this article gives a good overview of the concept with quotes from Kubrick backing the idea up. I’m still a pretty faithful Kubrick fan, with exceptions.
That sounds incredibly trippy to see in theaters at 6-7. Kinda jealous of your story!
Yeah I’m not sure what the adults were thinking in that situation. My guess is they weren’t thinking at all. They knew I was into sci-fi and space so maybe they thought it was just going to be a cool sci-fi space movie.
Who knew there would be monkey murders, creepy voyeuristic killer computers, and giant space babies?
Wrath of Kahn,
It was the first movie my mom dropped me off at at about 12nyears old. I’m sure she was grateful she didn’t have to go.
I was not ready for the earworms. Still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Gah! The worm scene is the WORST.
When I read the thread title, that’s what I instantly thought of. I was about the same age and it was about the same situation, and I had the same reaction. And still do.
Ayy me too
The TOS Trek movies had some weird moments like that.
The transporter accident in the first movie is another weird tone mismatch
I’m using “scare” a little loosely here, but I was waaaay to young to have seen clips of Alien when I did. It really fucked up to the point that I wasn’t able to sleep in pitch black into my adulthood. Nowadays, Alien is one of my favorite movies, specifically because it’s so scary, but I avoided horror movies like the plague at least up until high school
I can certainly watch that movie no problem now, and I wouldn’t say it scares me in the same way it did when I was little, but I wouldn’t love it as a horror movie if it wasn’t still one of the most frightening pieces of cinema
Alien might be the scariest movie of all time, IMO, so this makes perfect sense to me.
Alien was actually my first movie, although I was too young to remember. But I remember Aliens. That movie scared the shit out of me. I slept with the lights on for a long time. I still don’t like those movies.
Same here. At a family get together my older sister and the other older kids decided they wanted to watch Aliens.
I was all, “yeah, that’s cool. I’m cool. I’ll totally stay in here too.”
That movie scared. The. Shit. Out of 9 year old me.
Event Horizon. Nuh uh. Mmmm, nope. Nah.
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
I saw that as an adult and it fucked with me.
You don’t need eyes to see!
I watched that one when I was like 15 and it was the first horror movie that ever legitimately scared me lol
There was some movie on TV that I caught a glimpse of when I should’ve been in bed. I was probably about 3 yo. It was some blobby monster which in my memory was a bit like a skinny Michelin Man, emerging from a pond or river. Scared the shit outta me and the memory stuck.
Surprised nobody mentioned Jaws. My parents decided that it was ok for a four year old to watch.
I am still terrified of the sea.
Same here. I was twice your age (8) when I saw it. Still don’t like being out of my depth in the sea - even the deep end of swimming pools gives me a bit of a shiver…
Ringu.
I was about six or seven when I watched it despite my parents telling me to go to sleep. I can hear my father watching it and me trying to pretend to sleep and watch it at the same time.
I wasn’t able to sleep after the movie and wasn’t able to sleep without a light in my room and a blanket covering all my body (which sucks during summer because I live in a tropical country) for the next two decades. Wasn’t able to sleep properly, too without any background noise as I often experienced sleep paralysis without it.
Saw Dawn Dawn of the Dead (1978) in the theater when I was 12. Didn’t scar me for life, but it did have a big impact.
Duel at Diablo. That guy roasting over the fire…
Robocop. I was around 9 at the time and saw it at a schoolmate’s place (his parents sucked). The scene where Red shoots Murphy’s hand off shocked me. I had nightmares about losing my arm.
I imagine the later part where a bad guy starts melting after getting doused in toxic sludge didn’t do you any favors either!
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.
Bruce Lee’s - The Big Boss where they put some dead bodies into the ice in a ice factory and the big ice saw is sawing them into smaller pieces.
I watched it through a crack in the door from a different room when my dad and my uncle watched it after I supposedly went to sleep. Needless to say that I didn’t get much sleep that night. But I never told my dad that I’ve seen it :D
