Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Apparently my parents were extremely good about not exposing us to stuff too early. Except for blazing saddles. My brother picked up some new vocabulary from that film at the age of 2.
For some reason, I have always found The Brave Little Toaster deeply unsettling, but I can’t really explain why.
Bonus round suggestion: was there a book you read when you were too young?
Mine was Pillars of the Earth. I was, like… 5? I think?
It is unsettling, it’s not just you.
I read horror books often. The latest I read was The Institute by Stephen King.
It’s pretty disturbing. Didn’t give me nightmares, but I still think about it.
Doesn’t a vacuum commit suicide in that movie? That can probably explain why.
I remember the vacuum having a seizure and swallowing his cord… Also, the entire junkyard scene can fuck right off
Same here, I thought I was the only one. That movie is so creepy! Gave me nightmares as a kid. I still remember the wall radiator overheating and dying and the junkyard scene freaked me right out.
I already mentioned one movie in a reply (Arachnophobia), but another that really sticks out, and which I watched at an even younger age is The NeverEnding Story.
I remember being around 5 or 6 at a friends’ house, parents just left all the toddlers in the playroom in front of the movie and had their social gathering, meanwhile I’m terrified and hysterically crying my eyes out (I’m sure at least a couple of the other kids were too, but I can’t remember)…
Artax in the swamp destroyed me completely, and the Darkness and the Sphynx statues, and even Morla scared the living shit out of me (yes, they left us there to watch the entire movie).I still can’t bare to watch the swamp scene.
at a friend’s* house
The Horror Show. That’s when I decided it wasn’t a good idea to watch unlabled VHS tapes from the basement.
Event Horizon.
I know it gets a bad rap, but it is a cult classic in my book. The most perfect symmetry of science fiction and body horror since Alien(s). Add on top of that a fantastic cast, a mildly campy vibe, and it somehow manages to hold up well even today in my opinion. Even though it scared the fuck out of me as a kid, I have a weird nostalgia for it now.
All of the issues with Event Horizon are because of the studio screwing up the story. And the footage of the good version of the movie was lost on the cutting room floor, so we’ll never see it.
Its such a good premise and so well executed that its still good despite its story & pacing issues. One of the best moments of my life was showing it to my Warhammer 40k loving friend for the first time. It blew his mind.
Event Horizon is an awesome movie.
There was so much I never knew about the production of the movie until the guys at Red Letter Media did a Re:View about it. I was kinda bummed that Mike and Jay didn’t like the movie, but it was cool to learn the history, warts and all.
I keep holding out hope that someday it might be remade or perhaps there could be a sequel from a competent team that enjoyed the first movie. I am generally against remake or reboot culture, but Event Horizon just always seemed like a perfect candidate for it to me.
Missed it as a kid, but our local cinema put it on the big screen a few months back. Can absolutely see why it’s a cult classic!
Knew this one would be on the list. Factor in watching solo in the middle of the night and you have the recipe for staying up until morning.
Watching it solo in the middle of the night thinking it was just a regular sci-fi movie is what fucked me up. I was like “cool! spaceships! warp drives!” and then had my world fucking rocked.
From dusk till dawn
Jaws when I was six. Even swimming pools make me uncomfortable.
Watership Down
My parents thought it was a nice cartoon about rabbits I guess. Weirdly, My nightmares where mostly about the intro with the special art style, mostly…
They showed us that in primary school, i loved the book as a kid but that cartoon was gory.
Oh it’s a nice cartoon about rabbits, very child-friendly! The fact that the Wikipedia article has a section called “Effects on children and BBFC classification” that opens with
Watership Down has developed a reputation as a distressing children’s text, with Ed Power of The Independent describing the film in a 40th anniversary retrospective as a “classic” but which “arguably traumatised an entire generation”.
sums it up pretty well!
Aliens. I was terrified of facehuggers being under my bed for a decade. Not so much anymore.
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that scooby doo movie with zombies, spooky shit
The first Friday the thirteenth when i was 15 or so. My parents didn’t even allow me to watch the news or any movies aside from a few cartoons, so i was shocked.
This song describes a similar experience
Blow Out at about age 8. I was worried for ages that someone would strangle me and mutilate me in a public toilet.
Watership Down was worse though. Why anyone thought that was okay to show to children, I will never know.
it.
I still dislike clowns to this day.
Add another one of us to the list of, fuck clowns because of this movie.
This movie was on network television at primetime! Like every kid in America was traumatized that day.
I read the book when I was …12? Learned that reading a book can be much scarier than watching a movie.
I was around the same age, and even back then I knew the child orgy scene was really fucked up
Ditto.
Eight Legged Freaks fucked me up with the cat scene at the beginning. I’m a big softie for animals in films.
