Remember me, Eddie?!

Gremlins, when they transformed

The Omen. An absolute classic.

Also Nightbreed.

TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!

Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing

In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.

Your example took me a minute to remember what it was from, but yes, Judge Doom definitely deserves a spot on the list.

Robocop 2. Cain. I was terrified.

Mårran

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Watership Down and Gremlins.

Also, the Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXikpns1bog

I watched the first 10 minutes of Friday the 13th then shut it off because I was too scared. The Jason in my mind was more terrifying than any of his movies.

Chucky scared the ever living shit out of me when I was a kid! I had this recurring nightmare that whenever I'd close my eyes I could see through Chucky's eyes and he'd be killing people or on his way to my house to get me. It was awful. Now he's one of my favorite horror icons.

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Jaws. Was scared of the beach for years and couldn't sleep with my arm hanging outside/over the bed for like, 10 years haha.

The Brave Little Toaster dream scene for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdZh8a4ZvE

Chucky scared the shit out of me too. That and the Mars Attacks aliens which is pretty funny in hindsight.

The Adventures of Mark Twain from 1985 has a scene where Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher enter a sort of pocket dimension and meet a stranger who is just a robe holding a mask. The stranger claims their name is Satan. Satan creates a doll sized castle and gives the children clay to make people. After the people are made Satan gives them life and all 4 characters watch the clay people for a little while. Then Satan calls them insignificant, annoying, and worthless before he smashes some with his hand, lightning strikes other clay people, and the rest get swallowed up by a sinkhole along with the castle. While this is happening Satan's face/mask distorted and twists until it resembles a skull.

I saw this movie while spending a weekend at a family member's house as a kid, maybe somewhere between the ages of 5 and 7 (it was an old movie then). I woke up in the middle of the night and this movie was put on while I was left alone in the living room. I don't remember anything else from this movie, but it definitely fucked me up

The Borg.

I watched Star Trek as a kid with my grandma on our local TV station. The Borg were always so scary to me because not even the super advanced Federation could defeat them. And the assimilation they did of stripping away who and what you were was terrifying.

Then First Contact came out and I learned that they just as vulnerable as anyone else to a 45 ACP and that was alright.

The toxic waste scene fucked me up for a while.

A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it's only PG! It's a comedy!

Yeah that was a mistake.

A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don't know what the fuck I was thinking.

Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how "family-friendly" movies are anymore. I guess I just don't really pay attention to that.

For some reason they haven't kept in touch...

Lol I do the goddamn same thing. Some form of brain damage i think

I saw Robocop too early.

The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.

Ugh... I grew up during the 80s with absolutely no parental oversight. I was allowed to read and watch whatever I wanted. Ton of slasher and horror movies, though 3 fuuuuuucked me up. Friday the 13th - Jason, Child's Play - Chucky, and the most impactful being Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger.

At a 6 year old sleepover, the host father rented Nightmare on elm Street for a bunch of us little dudes. Half way through the movie, i got up and dressed out of my pajamas and walked home. I had nightmares for years about Freddy, chasing me in our basement around the oil heater. Fucking traumatized.....

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

I was too young to watch that. I couldn’t look at eggplants afterwards because they reminded of the things the aliens hatched out of.

That motherfucking dog in the intro of Goosebumps. Give me a grenade launcher. Please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PkFLTfID_o

Wizard of oz, mainly the wicked witch.

I was too terrified to watch Killer Klowns from Outer Space on VHS growing up. Picking out a movie I would always quickly skip over it and try not to look for too long.The first time I watched it in my 20s I was laughing my ass off at both the movie and the fact that I had made it that far in life thinking it was really scary.

Same goes for the book Slaughterhouse Five. It must have had some pop culture inertia if they made at least five of them.

The lurker shark from Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy that's there to keep you from swimming out too far. Absolutely fucking terrified me, and I think it even vibrates the DualShock 2.

I never had an issue with scary movies growing up, but fuck Poltergeist 2 and the braces scene. I was already uncomfortable with the dentist and I knew I eventually needed braces. That ruined me.

Earnest Halloween scared me more than anything else.

Ah hahaha, what a literal blast from the past. I completely forgot about it.

I saw The Thing (1982) when I was 10 and it terrified me for years. Its my favorite horror movie now.

That, and the acid scene.

Bitches leave.

Don't laugh guys.

Howard the Duck.

Edit: Relooking at it, totally justified

Gremlins was definitely not for kids IMO, and we watched it on Christmas because why not.

I saw Mars Attacks way too young. The aliens absolutely terrified me.

Ok let me get my glasses:

• Ghostbusters 2 (the painting), IT (it), Candyman (BEES), Arachnophobia (guess), Tales from the Cryptkeeper (a tale about a lake blob), Never Ending Stoooreey (G'mork, Poor poor Atreyu), Superman (being buried alive)...

...And many more.

War of the worlds. I was probably much too young to be watching it but that gave me a fear of aliens for several years.

Saw Nightmare On Elm Street at 13yo so I was ok, I knew it was fake. After a few years when I bought it on VHS I saw that it was 18+ and I understand...

Carry On Screaming

It triggered my first ever nightmare and I suffered from them for a few years after.

Them soapy tiddies.

That shit made me laugh. I loved PeeWee Herman growing up.

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Hey, it was pretty perceptive of you to be scared of Jeffry Jones as a kid.

Understandable.

The thing about Ghostlbuster II that got me the most was Janosz in spectral form flying in with a carriage and stealing the baby.

That fucking computer from Superman III, jesus christ my parents should not have let me watch that when I was, like, seven or eight.

Good one! It creeped me out but I think I was too young to really understand it.

My parents thought it was a good idea to let me (9) and my 12 year old brother watch Poltergeist while they were out at some social event.

That movie damaged me. I love it now though.

Fire in the Sky. Way too young for the honey scene.

I never thought I had buried traumatic memories but I guess if I did they wouldn’t be called buried.

Anyway, time to drink myself to sleep.