Jurassic Park for me. I had an amazing JP jumper when I was like…maybe 6. It was far too big for me but I loved dinosaurs. Naturally this meant I wanted to watch the film because…well I’m 6 and it’s got dinosaurs.
Ultimately I ended up watching it with my Mum and Dad. We got as far as the iconic T-Rex chase scene and I told them to turn it off. Didn’t go near the film for another few years.
I’ve now got my own 6 year old. There’s no scenario I could envisage where I even consider letting her watch a film as gory, tense and frightening as JP.
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The opening scene for Terminator 2: Judgement Day. I already had a deep seated fear of spontaneous combustion, so watching that didn’t help in the slightest.
Salem’s Lot. The tapping at the window. The Master… I was way, way too young to see that
Threads. We were shown it at school, about 12 or 13, told we should see it because it might happen. Didn’t sleep a full night after that until 2005.
The Fly. Probably accounts for some of my hatred of flies lol
Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. I was like 7. I was okay-ish with those. Chucky, on the other hand, was too much.
The Matrix at 7 years old messed me up a bit, what with the whole mouth melting together-scene and all.
Freaked is the reason I slept with a blanket over my head for most of my childhood. Now I love it.
Another one that freaked me the hell out was David Copperfield. It was meant for kids but the moldies were horrifying.
I was allowed to watch a lot of horror movies as a kid, but those are the only two movies that I remember bothering me so much.
Watched beastmaster, purely because I had seen my Mum and older siblings watching it, and it looked pretty harmless at first glance, something like He-Man which I liked at the time.
I asked a bunch but was always told no, so one day I snuck down in the middle of the night to watch it, needless to say, it was not like He-Man.
Didn’t really mess me up but I watched Fear and Loathing when I was like 12. My friend recorded some shitty Wesley Snipes movie off Sky movies and insisted on loaning me the tape. I watched it once and can’t even remember it. But Fear and Loathing was on after it and that movie blew my mind. I ended up taking a shit load of drugs as a teenager. Probably wouldn’t have made a difference but I do wonder if that movie left me more open to trying them at the time.
Hills have eyes (remake). Honestly still disturbing as an adult
I watched that when it came out but the scene with the father and the tree is still firmly planted in my head.
Yeah I was 12 when that came out and wow that movie went far. I remember hearing about people walking out of the theatre back then
Not a movie, but it really traumatized me to the point I still see it today. When I was 5 or 6 I saw some PSA during children’s programming to get people to buckle up their children in a car. Some guy was driving, with his daughter in the back. She was showing him how she had learned to play a song on the recorder (the flute). Then he had to brake and I still see the flute rammed down her throat to this day. It was effective, though, as I am known to tell my kids to not run or play with something in their mouth.
It was the kid breaking into the substation to get his frisbee that was stuck in one of the insulators that did it for me. “Jimmmmmyyyy!!!” while smoke was pouring out of his shoes.
It’s only a mild trauma, but I couldn’t sleep after Spy Kids and Monsters, Inc and was especially scared of the Robot Kids appearing in the dark for a few years.
I think this is due to me being too young to be able to catch the plot twists in the end. So those movies to me ended with no changes and the bad guys still doing well.
Aliens, I saw it before Alien. Parasitism and wanting to escape life through death are interesting concepts. Ultimately I came to my conclusions about suffering and how consciousness repeatedly emerges in the world alone. Still haven’t found anyone who “gets it” but it feels really basic, what I believe. Maybe I’m missing something but it seems kind of childish to fear death the way people do. One of my horrible family members is very decrepit now and everyone is acting like he has to be as selfish and horrible about it as he is but I know I won’t be like that. I wouldn’t be like that, with palliative care and surrounded by loved ones. He’s ungrateful. I hate him. I hope he dies soon. He will.
Carry On Screaming. Nightmares for years.
