1. Signs - the aliens terrified me and I was scared walking to school for a long time
2. The scarabs from The Mummy - I thought they would come out from under the sink and the closets to eat me alive

Same, for a long time as a kid I'd get freaked out around large flocks of birds and tried to avoid them as much as possible.

When I was young, but not that young, there was a show called Duckman or something like that. I didn't get the channel at home, but I was sleeping over at a friend's house, and he got this channel, so it was on late at night.

In the episode the main character breaks up with a woman, and she's like stalking him for revenge or something, I don't remember the plot. But in one short scene he's taking a bath to relax after the stress she's been causing him, and she pokes her head up out of the bath water with crazy eyes and then pulls him under.

There was something about that I very much didn't like. That was the only episode of the show I ever saw, but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a burnout comedy ala Beavis and Butthead or something, and I don't even think this particular moment was meant to be scary. It was probably meant to be exaggerated and silly. But the crazy lady coming out of the water where she shouldn't be able to be? Nope.

That fucked me up, on and off, for years. I'd just be laying in bed, and then the image or even the concept would come to me, and I'd feel uneasy. Despite not being in a bath at the time! Ugh.

The Silence as well

I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.

Funny enough Our Robocop Remake takes that idea and turns it around, so many scenes when characters are discussing Clarence Boddicker they instead show pictures of Kurtwood Smith in That 70's Show, haha. Great fan made parody movie, definitely worth a watch though it's the opposite of terrifying so a bit off-topic here.

2 must've been not so veiled cause I watched that shit on a loop as a kid. It was taped on a VHS with an actual horror movie about a cosmetic plant misshapenning I had to fast forward through. And I was never spooked by it. I could see if I saw 1 earlier having the same sentiment though.

Ooh, good one indeed.

The stretchy yellow guy in x-files

Oh my gosh, yes, the scarabs! They were so scary for a young kid!

Maybe I'm lucky in a way because I read IT before seeing it, so it wasn't so much the clown that scared me as much as Paul Bunyan or a leper or the existential crisis of the Dead Lights.

I was still maybe only 12 when I read It, but there were far scarier things than the clowns, hahaha. Watching the mini series afterwards was more fun, imo. :D

That one fucking news clip from Signs where the alien just walks past the alley feels so fucking real. Gives me the jeebies every time.

Jurassic Park scared me real bad. Probably too intense for a toddler.

Sully (Monster Inc) and Shrek

I was about 9, on holiday in an hotel. Usually my sister and I shared a room, but something scared her. So my mother slept in her room and I with my father. He was still planning for some attractions to visit and did not pay any attention. I just turned on the TV and all by myself watched Per Cemetery... The last scene with the kiss stayed with me for a long time...

The Peter Lorre lamp? But he gave Lampy a new bulb! The car crusher is way more fucked up.

Tooms? Who ate liver to survive?

The Blair Witch Project gave me quite a lot of fear of dark forests, or lost places for that matter.

avoid anything that has clowns in it or any media that has clowns.

Don’t turn on Fox News then

Yeah idk why I have this impression, I saw it like 30 years ago and don't remember too many details

The Hitcher

Honestly it holds up, but it is wildly intense for what is ostensibly a kid movie.

Bingo

he did alot of jumpscares. nightmare on elm street, since its relatable to everyone.

the magical indian homeless guy that, that forces his way into the body cavity of people who disrespects him when they dont give him money, and then controls them and burst out of thier body cavity. he follows them and the victims hear this squeaking sound. also capable of shapeshifting to look like another person. i believe he uses magic to do this, also unkillable when he was shot, as the last scene have him back at the airport in india?

the early ones yea. the later ones became tame because they were easily outmanuevered, the heros got used to thier tactics. but the angels also evolved by manipulating reality. the angels got freaky again when they were able to replicate by coming out of a TV, or CCTV security system from one area to another. and even telepathic replication.

mark sheppard was in that episode i remember(the supernatural demon, and bsg lawyer, voyager characther)

That fucking bull scared the shit out me for years

That episode i don't remember. Sounds like nightmare fuel

I saw bits and pieces of Event Horizon on the old satellite dish when I was probably 6 or 7.

Sure wish I didn't have eyes there either, lady.

hes probably the strongest villian in the show, he couldnt be killed because somehow he use magic to ressurect himself, or made "justsu clone" of himself, hence his appearance in a random airport in india. i think you search clips of it on youtube.

and i dont remember what happened , with the boy he was STALKING mysteriously why shapeshifted into a janitor/his mom, also the ability to teleport.

When I was 10 I had nightmares from the episode "Detour" from X-Files. I previously moved to my mother and she and my stepfather had to work at night. We also had a dog, that barked a lot. So the setting was perfect.. took me months to get over it :D

Do you know which episode it is?

I very distinctively remember this, but I didn't know that's what it was from! Woah.

In the movie "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" there's a scene where a robot kid's face starts drooping, like sliding off the frame or something, and that really got me.

Unfun fact, the creators of Return to Oz researched the top psychological fears of children and carefully built their movie around them.

Saw it on TV in the basement alone on a Saturday, and it is one of the most unsettling things I've seen to this day.

One of my earliest memories of fear was being at a neighbor's house when I was maybe 3 years old. I didn't understand TV well, and whatever she was watching ended, followed by this intense low music and sound going high and the 80s Viacom V logo getting bigger. With "A Viacom presentation" text. I genuinely thought the V was coming to get me and I hid behind her chair.

Yeah, this fucker. Literally called "The V of Doom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON6VeY99tl8

Then it didn't get me, and it was fine, but that damn Viacom logo scared the shit outta me.

I saw Robocop 2 too early. The scene that fucked me up is where the bad guy in the robot went from 0 to 100 and snapped his ex's neck.

Hannah Montana

Specifically a Halloween episode about a doll

The air conditioner in The Brave Little Toaster

The lift. I was eight or nine. I didn't dare enter any lift for years.

The original Salem's Lot 🤣 the scene where vamp is standing outside the obvious 2nd story window out of nowhere, it gave me nightmares for months, I still hate looking out windows at night. I should try and give it a rewatch, I'm a horror glutton nowadays

The Day After 1983

I was around 10-11 years old. the whole fuckin movie terrified me.

It was the face peeling scene for me. Took months to get over that!

Cruella De Vil, both Glenn Close's rendition and the animated version. Funny now, but man did she scare me when I was little.

The Library two-parter and Midnight were my introduction to Doctor Who as an eight (maybe nine??) year old

Catweazle! I was 4 years old... he looked scary

The book has a vampire baby flying in front of the window.

A Christmas Carol (1984) really fucked with me when I was younger; I think I've rewatched it since and it wasn't that bad

"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". When that mannequin head fell out of the box and rolled down the stairs I had nightmares for weeks. I was about 6-10 years old when I saw it.

Tales from the Darkside, specifically the Cat from Hell sketch. It's where a black cat slashes a guy pretty badly before literally diving into him. I left the room after that.

I didn't revisit that scene until I was an adult, and let's just say that kid me had good instincts, since the scene afterwards showed the cat literally burrowing through the guy before popping out of his mouth.