Hexxen-Panda
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The ending of It's a Wonderful Life destroyed me emotionally as a 13 year old, but in a very positive and cathartic way.
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Films you were not emotionally prepared for/traumatized by as a kid
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Fancyarcher
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Grave of The Fireflies comes to mind. As a 10 year old, I didn't expect it to be as emotional as I did.
People who aren't afraid to scare kids.
People who aren't afraid to scare kids.
thesoapster
Member
The Ghost and the Darkness. Holy shit.
SoulUnison
Banned
Uncle and Cousin let me watch Starship Troopers with them when I was, like 8 maybe?
I was...not a kid who could stand violence or gore.
I was...not a kid who could stand violence or gore.
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Yup I basically went the same route. Alien shit was huge in the early-mid 90s. That Roswell tape was like the craziest shit ever for a few days. That kind of stuff just doesn't fly these days what with the Internet and smartphones and such.
edit: Oh damn Atreyu's horse dying was some brutal shit too. Totally forgot about that.
Hambulance
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Not as a kid, but A Monster Calls destroyed me this year.
Insane Metal
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Intruders - 1992
Fire in the Sky - 1993
Fire in the Sky - 1993
Nothing1016
Member
I can't think of a single movie. I do remember being like 7/8 and watching The Exorcist and finding the movie absolutely hilarious before falling asleep from boredom. Mind you a 27 year old movie at the time (around the year 2000) doesn't hold up that well in the horror department.
Watching a brief snippet of Starship Troopers when I was like 5, the part on Klendathu where the reporter gets bitten in half, spurred on a long obsession with military sci-fi in my childhood. It's interesting because I could handle the gore here but with a film in a more grounded setting it messed with me.
Confidence Man
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There was this movie from the 80's I think where a class of kids and their teacher get abducted by a bunch of guys in animal masks, don't remember the name of it.
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Fire in the Sky - 1993
Ahhhh god damn dude.
Grown ass man here and that shit still gives me the willies.
i have an uncle who refuses to watch that movie again he was so afraid the first time.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
I think I watched Langoliers in like the first grade
when i was a kid i got one of those screamers where the exorcist girl face pops up accompanied by a horrific loud scream
i will never watch the exorcist thanks to that single moment
Banjotanooki
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LOL, glad I wasn't the only one. My uncle left me in a room with the movie playing and I was scared of Chucky all the way until I was 14.
Freeza Under The Shower
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You're all a bunch of wussies, nothing can faze m-
okay we're done here
Fire in the Sky - 1993
okay we're done here
bootsthecat
Banned
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. :/
Gee, thanks for bringing back that memory. The plea by the childlike empress got me all teared up as well.
As far as nightmare fuel, Nightmare on Elm St 2/3. I would've been 6-8. Nightmares for weeks
Was one of the kidnappers wearing a Santa Claus / Father Christmas Mask. If so it was Fortress. It freaked me out as well.
The end of Prince of Darkness still bothers me to this day.
PhantomZone
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The woman that gets turned into a robot in Superman III. Still gives me the creeps today more than any horror movie.
Head of Vengarl
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I was 6 when this movie came out. Watched it with my dad and it scared the SHIT out of me - like I'm talking nightmares and being scared of the dark for months afterward. My parents and sister still crack jokes about it to this day.
Swimmer9800
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In 5th grade i saw the strangers and was afraid to stay home alone for over a year.
makingmusic476
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You can't be serious.
Oh, I remember another one: Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County aka The McPherson Tape. It's that shitty found footage movie about a family that ends up being abducted by aliens, and my dumb-ass kid self thought it was actually real (because I had no idea about "found footage movies" as a genre) and the movie tried incredibly hard to seem real. Like, it had interviews with "UFO experts" and shit to break the found footage segments.
The whole descend into madness vibe, with things getting progressively worse just unsettled me. And then the ending... fuck. It got to me good, and I already had a trauma regarding aliens - it just made it worse. And after the movie "ends", they show pictures of each "disappeared" family member with a telephone number to call if you had any info about them. I was chilled and my trauma sorta got worse for a while
The whole descend into madness vibe, with things getting progressively worse just unsettled me. And then the ending... fuck. It got to me good, and I already had a trauma regarding aliens - it just made it worse. And after the movie "ends", they show pictures of each "disappeared" family member with a telephone number to call if you had any info about them. I was chilled and my trauma sorta got worse for a while
Lots of horror movies as a kid along with my siblings. Lots of R rated stuff. The Fly. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. The Shining. Clockwork Orange etc. My father was not an intelligent man.
The absolute worst is Faces of Death when I was around ten couple of brothers were even younger. My sister still gets mad about it. Not just once but multiple Faces of Deaths. My dad was a fan of the series. What the fuck dad? We still give him shit for it to this very day. My father is not an intelligent man.
The absolute worst is Faces of Death when I was around ten couple of brothers were even younger. My sister still gets mad about it. Not just once but multiple Faces of Deaths. My dad was a fan of the series. What the fuck dad? We still give him shit for it to this very day. My father is not an intelligent man.
ComradeZero
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
You know the scene.
You know the scene.
Hispanic! At the Disco
Member
Saw AI at 13 and im pretty sure I cried the entire movie.
GameAddict411
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The original Terminator when I was six years old. I couldn't sleep that night because I thought a real robot like that will come back one day. Oh, and the footage of the world after the machines took over were incredible. The image of the mountains of skulls were imprinted in my head. It was awful lol.
WoolyNinja
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I was 5 - my babysitter watched John Carpenter's The Thing. Its one of the only things I remember from that long ago so it was obviously quite traumatic.
Great movie though!
Great movie though!
Spring-Loaded
Member
12 Monkeys made 6-year-old me cry. The ending had me terrified of time travel.
Was that the one with the weird latex-like stuff wrapped around the abductees, and then they dropped some jelly in their covered mouths? That shook me
Psychoward
Banned
Jaws when I was pretty young, the jump scare when they're diving at night made me cry and run upstairs to my mom lol
This shit right here....
Oh a nice cartoon about rabbits,wait WTF ARE THEY DOING!?!?!?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
The first two movies to seriously fuck my head up as a kid were, I think, viewed in the same summer, on VHS.
Platoon and Miracle Mile
Two completely different movies, but I remember both of them just completely wrecking me. I think with Platoon, it was pretty obvious (War is pretty fucked up, it makes people do fucked up shit, and none of it really means anything) but Miracle Mile - I think it was the first movie that blended like 3 or 4 different emotions at the same time, pretty much non-stop, and had an unhappy ending that was obviously the only real happy ending available.
So basically, sustained emotional sensory overload that culminates in the literal end of the world. And before that summer, my concept of "war film" basically began and ended with space fantasy.
And then I got introduced to THOSE two.
Platoon and Miracle Mile
Two completely different movies, but I remember both of them just completely wrecking me. I think with Platoon, it was pretty obvious (War is pretty fucked up, it makes people do fucked up shit, and none of it really means anything) but Miracle Mile - I think it was the first movie that blended like 3 or 4 different emotions at the same time, pretty much non-stop, and had an unhappy ending that was obviously the only real happy ending available.
So basically, sustained emotional sensory overload that culminates in the literal end of the world. And before that summer, my concept of "war film" basically began and ended with space fantasy.
And then I got introduced to THOSE two.
Djungelfrukt
Member
yeah, as others have said already: Stephen Kings IT.
fucked me up royally, saw it when i was thirteen, couldnt sleep alone for a week, and i dont think im exaggerating when i say i didnt watch a proper horror movie until i was twenty.
with that said, im planning on facing my fears and watch the new one on day one.
fucked me up royally, saw it when i was thirteen, couldnt sleep alone for a week, and i dont think im exaggerating when i say i didnt watch a proper horror movie until i was twenty.
with that said, im planning on facing my fears and watch the new one on day one.
Username1198
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Toxic avenger
Nightmare on elm street
Friday the thirteenth
Robocop
IT
All Nightmare fuel
Nightmare on elm street
Friday the thirteenth
Robocop
IT
All Nightmare fuel
Yep, that's the one. The effects are pretty damn good if you think about it but of course it's just terrifying as a kid.
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