Don't know if this topic has been discussed, couldn't find anything, but the horror movie thread made me think of what things in movies scared you as a kid? Some of mine are.
The werewolf in an american werewolf in london - and the lead actor David Naughton. Even though its a comedy it would scare the hell out of me.
The little troll in cats eye - that scary fucker was an asshole.
Bill Murray used to scare me for some reason. When I would see his face on the cover of the vhs tapes I would cry like a baby.
I used to get scared when I would watch robocop because the city (detroit i think?) looked so crummy and crime ridden.
Just a trip down memory lane.
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that Dinosaur inking Wayne Knight in Jurassic Park.
movies with skelletons in general.
beavis and butthead.
the Heavy Metal movie.
Everything in the Shining
I was okay with Werewolf in London but for some reason I couldn't watch Michael J Fox turning into Teenwolf in the bathroom.
Quote from: SlorgEverything in the Shining
I would agree, but more specifically, the two girls standing in the hallway freaked me out good.
Also, IT. That clown scared the hell out of me when i was younger.
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emperor palpatine and when darth vadar took his mask off.
the shot of the alien dude in close encounter of the third kind.
When Barney was being tortured in A Man Called Flintstone. You guys ever see that flick? Still the scariest movie I've ever seen.
I was scared of all clowns even the good ones, I still am.
The evil judge in Roger Rabbit. I've had many a nightmare about him.
Jaws, sharks, killer whales, water in general. I have a recurring dream where I'm trapped in a swimming pool, wave pool, outdoor pool, and I'm walking along the ledge which is about a foot thick, and I can see into the water, and sharks and killer whales are swimming around, waiting for me to fall in...
Also, the Red Bull from The Last Unicorn.
Oh, and the box cover from Candyman -- I would've been too afraid to rent it, but even seeing the cover in the video store freaked me out.
Edit: beat by SoNowThen on the Roger Rabbit thing!
the statue of the lion outside the library at the beginning of ghostbusters
when the dog got the shit beat out of him in radio flyer
the clown doll from poltergeist
i second ET. when i was little i made my mom come into my room before bed and check my closet to make sure ET wasn't in there. i wouldn't go to sleep unless she did.
also, this one is a little obscure, but as a kid i was always scared of the KKK costume. i can't really remember a specific movie i saw it in, but the KKK just used to freak me out. those white cone hats, they're... weird. plus the whole killing black ppl thing wasn't cool.
Zelda in Pet Sematary.
Quote from: ©bradalso, this one is a little obscure, but as a kid i was always scared of the KKK costume. i can't really remember a specific movie i saw it in, but the KKK just used to freak me out. those white cone hats, they're... weird. plus the whole killing black ppl thing wasn't cool.
you must be referring to blazing saddles.
snuff films have always scared me.
Quote from: ewardthe statue of the lion outside the library at the beginning of ghostbusters
HOLY SHIT! You too? I was so gonna post that, I fucking got scared shitless, I'd be watching the Columbia lady...then all of a sudden, the music would crescendo to a deafening level and that lion would just glide onto the screen, big, mouth open, just waiting to eat you. That was some scary shit. I'm so surprised anyone else put it.
"Dumbo" and "Lady and the Tramp" were incredibly depressing/frightening movies. Everything else that scared me is probably repressed.
well, my dad told me i was scare of Vader from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
i don't know why i was scared
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The Incredible Hulk.
jim carrey in the mask
christopher lloyd in roger rabbit (when it's revealed that he's a
**SPOILER** toon)
In Ghostbusters 2 I believe, when the slime comes into the bathtub.
that devil like creature in LEGEND
all of never ending story and willow freaked the hell out of me
1. Nearly everything in Poltergeist, especially trees and clowns and corpse-filled swimming pools
2. Michael Myers
3. A quartet of really cheesey 70s movies that, in retrospect, aren't that scary, but scared the hell out of me at the time, because I was in single digits -- The Car, Burnt Offerings, The Sentinel and Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things.
I was really too old to be afraid of them....but those monsters in Ernest Scared Stupid scared me a lot.
Nothing scared me more than this...
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I couldnt sleep and when I woke up in the middle of the night I'd see the damn clown everywhere... it was fucking scary[/url]
Quote from: Find Your MagaliPoltergeist...corpse-filled swimming pools.
tru.dat
Already mentioned, but: Poltergeist, Evil Roger Rabbit Judge...these two seriously screwed me up.
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a babysitter took me to see this when i was 3 years old. maybe my first time in a theatre.
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the sound of Bill Cosby shifting through walls was truly worse than death and chokable mints put together.
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what about critters 3 with leo dicaprio? that's some scary shit.
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i think the biggest scary force in my earlier youth was michael myers. everywhere i'd go i'd imagine that white face following me with a butcher knife. scared the fucking shit outta me
The Grandma ghost who enjoys stealing babies from skyscraper ledges in Ghostbuster's 2.
Also a long time ago, I remember seeing a film that terrified me. I can't find this film today because I only remember a few parts of the film. I remember this white abominal bigfoot type of monster was killing these people out in the woods in the middle of nowhere. Very bloody.
...the bug in the ear in that star trek movie......
number 2 i think......
the dude that came out of the wall in The Gate
the lost boys and fright night
shit that really scared me!
the shining.... whole movie especially redrum part
Watching Star Trek TNG the Borg always scared the sh*t out of me, and by the time my 9th birthday came along and First Contact arrived... oh man I didn't sleep for a week.
Also, Apollo 13... that nightmare scene in the beginning...
i saw a mans genitals in a porno when i was a young boy -- they scared me very much.
Quote from: cowboykurtisi saw a mans genitals in a porno when i was a young boy -- they scared me very much.
was it john holmes?
this movie scared me. anyone remember this movie?
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The first Scream fucked me up big time for many years. Poltergeist was also pretty scary for a bit.
Quote from: Chest RockwellThe first Scream fucked me up big time for many years.
wha? the first scream wasn't even many years ago. how old are you, if i may ask.
Im 15...Scream came out in 1996...so that means I was 8 or so when it came out.
:(
Quote from: snaporazthis movie scared me. anyone remember this movie?
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i've never seen it but i recognize the cover
Quote from: SlorgEverything in the Shining
That scene with Danny sitting in the hallway and the ball rolling towards him. So simple, yet I was young as crap and it did the trick into scaring the living piss out of me. :shock:
By far this film. Next on the list was "The People Under the Stairs" for a while.
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people under the stairs is a guilty pleasure of mine.....so is the oc
Anyone remember 'The Boy Who Could Fly'?
I know it's not supposed to be a scary film, but it fucked me up good and proper.
Showgirls...
come on, somebody had to say it!
Geez. Since we're going to extremes... how about that huge freaky dog from "The Never-Ending Story"??? Ahhh!!! :shock:
I don't know who here used to watch this movie growing up, but that damn thing used to really scare the crap out of me. I think it was called "Falkor", but I'm not sure. Uhh. I had nightmares and funny thing is, Freddy just came and went. :lol:
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Quote from: ckad79Geez. Since we're going to extremes... how about that huge freaky dog from "The Never-Ending Story"??? Ahhh!!! :shock:
I don't know who here used to watch this movie growing up, but that damn thing used to really scare the crap out of me. I think it was called "Falkor", but I'm not sure. Uhh. I had nightmares and funny thing is, Freddy just came and went. :lol:
The dog was so nice, though. What really freaked me out was the scene when Atrayu's horse is swallowed up in the bog-stuff. That scene always brings a tear to my eye.
It's a dragon...
Quote from: SloyjIt's a dragon...
The point is it's not scary.
Quote from: Chest RockwellQuote from: SloyjIt's a dragon...
The point is it's not scary.
I was told it was a gaint dog. If it's a dragon, fine, cause it doesn't look like a dog but yes, it scared the crap out of me.
it was pretty scary. i never saw it cos of that dog thing.
that pic is creeping me out.
The dradog was so pleasant a character, though. I don't understand how anyone could be afraid of that gentle beast.
Quote from: Chest RockwellThe dradog was so pleasant a character, though. I don't understand how anyone could be afraid of that gentle beast.
He was a delight. Dragons look like dogs (Spirited Away) and that's what makes them cool.
Quote from: SloyjQuote from: Chest RockwellThe dradog was so pleasant a character, though. I don't understand how anyone could be afraid of that gentle beast.
He was a delight. Dragons look like dogs (Spirited Away) and that's what makes them cool.
Well I don't know about dragons looking like dogs in general, but this is a furry dragon that likes to be patted on the head (right?).
Quote from: Chest RockwellQuote from: SloyjQuote from: Chest RockwellThe dradog was so pleasant a character, though. I don't understand how anyone could be afraid of that gentle beast.
He was a delight. Dragons look like dogs (Spirited Away) and that's what makes them cool.
Well I don't know about dragons looking like dogs in general, but this is a furry dragon that likes to be patted on the head (right?).
I think he liked people stabbing his scales
Quote from: SleeplessAnyone remember 'The Boy Who Could Fly'?
I know it's not supposed to be a scary film, but it fucked me up good and proper.
I can remember Fred Savage burying his G.I. Joe's in the backyard. That was a sad moment. The scary part of the movie was Jay Underwood actually flying.
gay people, just kidding
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number 2 i think......
Holy shit! I saw that when I was maybe 6 and since then, I've slept with the covers over my head at night.
And there was also...
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I was scared of this man from age 6 to about 11. Subject of many nightmares.
i was afraid of movie previews. i couldn't watch them. my dad would have to stay in the theater and watch the previews while my mom would stay in the lobby until he came out and told us they were over. it was really only when something in the theater was intense, b/c it was just so darn loud! i cried during bambi. not when the mother got killed, but when it was raining, right before they sang "drip drop," because it was too scary.
scary things, scary things...
the first 5 minutes of batman returns i started freaking out and we had to leave.
i have two traumatic freddy krueger experiences that i remember to this day. once, the remote control was broken while my mom and sister were watching something stupid, so they asked me to go to the cable box and change it (which, looking back, is kind of funny, b/c my sister was the oldest, why the fuck wasn't she changing it?). we had a scrambler and were getting free pay per view at the time and i remember that freddy's dead: the final nightmare was playing on the pay station. i wanted to flip quickly past the pay channels, but something just stopped me and there it was on freddy's dead, where lisa zane is walking through the dream hallway. i knew freddy was going to pop out any second, so instead of changing the channel, i ran out of the room screaming and crying. the second experience was when wes craven's new nightmare was coming out and i was sitting with my friend in the tv room and a preview comes on tv. at this point, i was about 9 years old, but as soon as they showed that preview, once again, i freaked out and ran upstairs, refusing to go back down. i made my friend turn off the tv before i came back downstairs. in between the time the movie was in theaters and on video, however, i conquered my fear and rented the first one at my friend's house. he couldn't handle it after 10 minutes, so i watched the rest with his mom.
meeeemmmoriees....
Yeah when I was a little kid, I used to get really freaked out by one particular scene in Willy Wonka. This particlular scene involved Wilder on the boat in the factory and it feels like your on a trip. He's saying weird stuff while these freaky colors are going on it. I don't know if this scared me because of the stamps I was licking or what. Who knows.
I remember when I was 6 or 7, that I would run out of the house in that claustrophobic garbage scene in star wars. I only found out how they escaped when the special edition came out.
Pleasure Island in Pinnochio, when the kids are smoking and turning into donkeys it freaked me the fuck out.
In Problem Child 2 when the girl speeds up the ride and everyone starts throwing up all over eachother.
Nothing 'horror' ever scared me then, I started watching Friday the 13th and Nightmare movies at like 5.
The rabbit in the hat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wie8q-CdY5k) from Twilight Zone: The Movie. I used to have nightmares that I was lost in a maze made of chain-link fences and this thing was chasing me.
Also, it wasn't scary so much as haunting, but Flight of the Navigator, when the kid comes home and discovers that eight years have passed without him. For some reason, that stuck with me for a long time.
Speaking of Twilight Zone: The Movie, I still can't watch that scene with John Lithgow on the plane and the little alien creature wreaking havoc on the wing.
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Speaking of Bunnies, this fucking bunny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGSfG7Toc6g) in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey was probably the creepiest thing I ever saw as a kid. It ruined Easter for me.
Quote from: polkablues on September 13, 2011, 05:10:17 PM
Flight of the Navigator, when the kid comes home and discovers that eight years have passed without him. For some reason, that stuck with me for a long time.
I found that kind of liberating. A kid on his own with no parents for 8 years? Sign me up! I guess what kinda made me anxious was how would he control that ship the whole time, that's a daunting task for a kid.
I was watching Signs without expecting much of anything, but still following the story enough to process any scare if and when it happened. I wasn't very, very young but still a kid at the time. Just semi-casually watching, and then this motherfucker showed up:
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Fuck this guy. For one reason or another, I couldn't sleep without major anxiety, expecting a stupid ass alien to run across my door and scare the shit out of me. Wasn't about to close the door either and get abducted by some stupid ass bald-ass green alien. Fuck that.
This little irish fuck scared my skinny white ass so much I almost quit movies.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAaTzccCik 1:16...that crouching run still makes me a little uneasy!
the sixth sense destroyed me. I didn't watch a scary movie for 5 year after that.
fuck, I just googled "ghost under the table" and the result scared the shit out of me. I'm still a little bit sensitive I guess.