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Films you were not emotionally prepared for/traumatized by as a kid
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Fucking this. The wheelers are nightmare fuel
Same movie, but...
I didn't even want to post the other gifs with Artax sunk in further, since the horse looks legit petrified and I'm pretty sure I'm still traumatized from it. :/
Came to post this.
RedSparrows
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I forgot this one. Did anyone else watch it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougal_and_the_Blue_Cat
I watched it LOADS as a kid, and yet it was HORRIBLE.
Eerie screams from a creepy abandoned factory, a horrible room of scary masks, a disembodied voice that seeks to dominate the world, and everyone gets trapped in a cave-prison and Florence weeps about how they're all doomed. It was horrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougal_and_the_Blue_Cat
I watched it LOADS as a kid, and yet it was HORRIBLE.
Eerie screams from a creepy abandoned factory, a horrible room of scary masks, a disembodied voice that seeks to dominate the world, and everyone gets trapped in a cave-prison and Florence weeps about how they're all doomed. It was horrible.
god damn it pinocchio
god damn it
Yep, came to post this. Scared the crap outta me when I was a kid.
Also, Neverending Story.
Finale Fireworker
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This is kind of a weird one, but I was severely messed up by Mars Attacks.
There is a scene in that movie where a man reaches his fingers inside a woman's mouth. She then bite off his finger and it is flung into a fish tank. The scene is played for laughs, but the unexpected terror that overcame me put me in a fit of screams. It is the only episode of such an emotional event from my entire youth.
I just couldn't stop screaming. The pain of having a finger severed, the grotesqueness of it flying into a fish tank, and the image of unassuming goldfish popping their mouths on the bloody flesh, gave me a horrific sensory overload. I couldn't stop seeing the image in my head or feeling the pain in my finger. I couldn't stop envisioning it or thinking about it. It just played on a loop in my head, and before my eyes when I closed them, and I couldn't get it to stop.
I just kept whaling and screaming and clutching my hands into fists. And because I didn't know what the movie was and that was the only scene I saw, I couldn't even reference or articulate the image to adults. They all thought I was losing my mind (which I was).
I don't remember calming down and it doesn't bother me anymore. But at the time, for reasons I really don't know, I was fucked right up and mortified into a state of screeching shock.
There is a scene in that movie where a man reaches his fingers inside a woman's mouth. She then bite off his finger and it is flung into a fish tank. The scene is played for laughs, but the unexpected terror that overcame me put me in a fit of screams. It is the only episode of such an emotional event from my entire youth.
I just couldn't stop screaming. The pain of having a finger severed, the grotesqueness of it flying into a fish tank, and the image of unassuming goldfish popping their mouths on the bloody flesh, gave me a horrific sensory overload. I couldn't stop seeing the image in my head or feeling the pain in my finger. I couldn't stop envisioning it or thinking about it. It just played on a loop in my head, and before my eyes when I closed them, and I couldn't get it to stop.
I just kept whaling and screaming and clutching my hands into fists. And because I didn't know what the movie was and that was the only scene I saw, I couldn't even reference or articulate the image to adults. They all thought I was losing my mind (which I was).
I don't remember calming down and it doesn't bother me anymore. But at the time, for reasons I really don't know, I was fucked right up and mortified into a state of screeching shock.
Martinski43
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Watched Congo way too young when i was way too impressionable. I know since it's a very dumb and silly movie but the gore (gouged out eyeballs etc) and the gorillas scared the shit out of me. iirc i had nightmares about gorillas for months after 
I guess theres a reason for age limits on movies after all even on silly dumb movies like Congo.
Jurassic Park and the raptors were pretty scary too as a 7-8 yr old.
I guess theres a reason for age limits on movies after all even on silly dumb movies like Congo.
Jurassic Park and the raptors were pretty scary too as a 7-8 yr old.
NekoFever
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The Witches
This movie traumatized me as a kid!
We watched this in school when I was about 6, and I had to sit in the corridor while the rest of the class finished it because I was too scared.
And the film is a lot less fucked up than the book!
I was quite desensitised because I talked my dad into letting me watch a lot of inappropriate stuff (I'd seen Robocop, Alien, Nightmare on Elm Street, Predator, Terminator, etc before I was 10) but occasionally something less intense would fuck me up, and The Witches was one of them.
Hoya Destroyer
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Yep, Artax in the quicksand, Return to Oz's Wheelers and pretty much all of Jaws terrified me when I was a kid.
I loved Predator when I was a kid (because it complemented my love of GI Joe toys so well), but I would dread that Dillon "arm" scene. The thought of a guy with such perfect arms losing one of them in the blink of an eye, used to upset me. lol
I loved Predator when I was a kid (because it complemented my love of GI Joe toys so well), but I would dread that Dillon "arm" scene. The thought of a guy with such perfect arms losing one of them in the blink of an eye, used to upset me. lol
this. i saw Robocop in theaters when i was 12 and 30 years later I still cannot watch Murphy's death scene. Damn you, Verhoeven.
This. Specially seeing this in your grandparents creepy house at night and having your older cousin making pranks all night after both seeing it.
Think I was like 5 or 6.
Didn't sleep for three days.
Muskieratboi
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End of Evangelion.
And I had to walk home afterwards.
Alone.
At night.
Yeah.
And I had to walk home afterwards.
Alone.
At night.
Yeah.
I love the gap in experiences here.
"This Disney movie was WAY too much for me, couldn't sleep for weeks."
"My dad used to watch snuff films with me, ha ha, what a rascal."
But for me I saw a glimpse of the original War of the Worlds when I was young... somewhere in the 6-8 range? A shadow creeping down a stairwell while the protagonists huddle in terror. That locked in my brain for whatever reason.
"This Disney movie was WAY too much for me, couldn't sleep for weeks."
"My dad used to watch snuff films with me, ha ha, what a rascal."
But for me I saw a glimpse of the original War of the Worlds when I was young... somewhere in the 6-8 range? A shadow creeping down a stairwell while the protagonists huddle in terror. That locked in my brain for whatever reason.
I sincerely thought that was a nightmare I had in the 90s, until the internet came along and told me it was a real film.
Tal Shiar Agent
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Did not expect this when I was 10.
MarkMclovin
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As a kid in the 80's, Nightmare on Elm street. Particularly the scene where Jonny D gets sucked into the bed. Pretty sure I pissed the bed because of that. Fucked me up for a while.
Then it was The Hulk TV show. Only when he changed.
But what REALLY fucked me up was the extended Thriller music video. Obviously the beginning where he changes into a wolf. That fucked me up for a long time. And because of that, I couldn't watch American warewolf in London for years.
More recently, Blair Witch Project fucked with me for a while. Our bathroom was downstairs so everytime I went down in the middle on the night, I half expected to see someone stood in the corner of the room when I switched the light on.
Then it was The Hulk TV show. Only when he changed.
But what REALLY fucked me up was the extended Thriller music video. Obviously the beginning where he changes into a wolf. That fucked me up for a long time. And because of that, I couldn't watch American warewolf in London for years.
More recently, Blair Witch Project fucked with me for a while. Our bathroom was downstairs so everytime I went down in the middle on the night, I half expected to see someone stood in the corner of the room when I switched the light on.
ThatStupidLion
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Childsplay
Legend of the fall
Legend of the fall
GeordieMark
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I begged my mum to let me rent an Incredible Hulk vhs once when I was little, and wouldn't take no for an answer. I was a massive fan of the comics, but this was the live action Tony Ferrigno version. Eventually she gave in and rented it for me. I think I saw the first Banner/Hulk transformation before running upstairs to hide, refusing to come back down until she'd proved that it was gone.
Fortunately I never saw anything that really terrified me, but my little bro and his friends watched Child's Play when they were pretty young and it traumatised a few of them, with one even needing counselling.
Fortunately I never saw anything that really terrified me, but my little bro and his friends watched Child's Play when they were pretty young and it traumatised a few of them, with one even needing counselling.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Nothing, and my parents started taking me to R-rated stuff when I was three.
The nightmare scene with the Nazi werewolves in An American Werewolf In London made my younger sister throw up, though. Good thing we were at a drive-in and she made it outside of the car. She was three at the time.
The nightmare scene with the Nazi werewolves in An American Werewolf In London made my younger sister throw up, though. Good thing we were at a drive-in and she made it outside of the car. She was three at the time.
TheContact
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Lord of the Flies. I was 7 or 8. Watched that rock land on the fat kids head and saw the blood and him die. Then saw the kids stab what they thought was a ghost but was really their friend on the beach with spears. Fucked me up
I was around 6/7 when I first saw The Duel. I didn't tell anyone but I was quite scared of most trucks afterwards.
For some unknown reasons though, I loved watching it (and I remember being glued to the screen each time) and it still is one of my favorite movies ever.
And yeah, The Exorcist, Pet Cemetery and Evil Dead at around 10 was also a bad idea as I think about it.
For some unknown reasons though, I loved watching it (and I remember being glued to the screen each time) and it still is one of my favorite movies ever.
And yeah, The Exorcist, Pet Cemetery and Evil Dead at around 10 was also a bad idea as I think about it.
Gunslinger
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The exorcist. That movie fd me up. Especially the spider walk scene. I don't know how they did that special effect at that time but dear me. Scared the shit out of me.
Also the dream sequence father karras had is still the most scariest dream sequence I saw in a movie.
Also the dream sequence father karras had is still the most scariest dream sequence I saw in a movie.
Boy Wander
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I've always had a bit of an anxiety issue so there's a few that gave me nightmares:
1) Jaws. Scared the shit out of me and gave me nightmares where I was being chased by a shark.
2) Nightmare on Elm Street 3. I had a lot of Freddy Krueger dreams after seeing that.
3) Weirdest of all, The Terminator. Which is also one of my favourites ever. Had a recurring nightmare where I was being hunted by the Terminator and it would find me even if I hid between the walls (don't ask how I managed to hide there lol).
1) Jaws. Scared the shit out of me and gave me nightmares where I was being chased by a shark.
2) Nightmare on Elm Street 3. I had a lot of Freddy Krueger dreams after seeing that.
3) Weirdest of all, The Terminator. Which is also one of my favourites ever. Had a recurring nightmare where I was being hunted by the Terminator and it would find me even if I hid between the walls (don't ask how I managed to hide there lol).
RedSparrows
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Terminator IS scary. It is why the film is so good, the monster is aa nasty as it should be. The brilliant music helps.
Gotta say I had a sheltered childhood compared to you guys! Thankfully: everything scared me as a kid...
TastyBread
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Same here man! What's crazy is that me and my friend were meant to watch it that night on his dad's pc but the cat pissed on the screen and ruined it. It didn't matter because the movie was on Ch 4 that night anyway. Like it was fate!
Shit I watched this when I was like 17 and was not prepared for it. Don't think anyone can be ready for that.
damn y'all noone mentioned My Girl? seeing my boy thomas j all swole up like that fucked me up when i was a kid
that movie made me hold my dookie in for like a month. i thought pennywise & a giant spider were stacking it down in the sewers like gold bricks. so yeah, i'd say that counts.
that movie made me hold my dookie in for like a month. i thought pennywise & a giant spider were stacking it down in the sewers like gold bricks. so yeah, i'd say that counts.
TheDarkKnight774
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My parents rented the movie Antarctica in the 80s. I think they saw a movie about dogs and thought it was family friendly.
I proceeded to watch a dog snuff film and bawl my eyes out
Runner up: Benji the Hunted
I proceeded to watch a dog snuff film and bawl my eyes out
Runner up: Benji the Hunted
Greigor The Fellhand
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Saw old boy when I was 15. Was not expecting everything that happened
Sorry for your loss but the imagery of that scene is just too insane to not laugh. Holy shit
lunchtoast
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Arachnophobia, was 4 or 5 when I watched with my parents. That fear still lingers. Also the IT mini-series. Seems so corny now. He spends most of the series just standing at a distance holding balloons and smiling.
SkywardBeam
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The 1954 animated movie adaption of Orwell's Animal Farm. Saw it being 5 or 6 years old. Quite the heavy stuff for a child, thematically and with the dark and disturbing imagery. And this is rated "6 years and older" here... :/
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