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Films you were not emotionally prepared for/traumatized by as a kid

Cepheus

Member
Prisoner of Azkaban age 7 in the cinema. The werewolf transformation scene scared me so much, I now have a were-thing transformation phobia. I can't even watch Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit. Dead serious.

Also, it doesn't really count, but I was tricked into playing the Exorcist Maze Game aged 12 and I developed a stammer for a few days because of it.
 

Dabanton

Member
Neverending Story

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Gmork is nightmare fuel for a 9 year old.

He haunted me for years. In fact so many things freaked me out in that movie.

Nowadays one thing makes me very uneasy and it's Morla the turtle something about that whole exchange in nihilism is very scary to an adult mind.
 

Dabanton

Member
I still can't bring myself to watch the scene where Murphy gets gunned down again. I saw that when I was 8 or 9, and I'm still bothered by it.

Aside from that, I love the movie. Hell, I find the scene with the toxic waste to be hilarious.

It was absolutely brutal.I saw it when I was 9- 10 when I saw it. Something so raw about the way they take his body apart with their guns. :(
 

CloudWolf

Member
He haunted me for years. In fact so many things freaked me out in that movie.

Nowadays one thing makes me very uneasy and it's Morla the turtle something about that whole exchange in nihilism is very scary to an adult mind.

Low-key the most emotionally draining scene in that film:

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Nothing like seeing the happy Rock Biter character of the intro musing about how all his friends died because of him while waiting for his own death. Kid-me was shocked.
 

zeioIIDX

Member
Requiem for a Dream. Saw it on HBO over the summer when I was in 7th grade. I was too depressed and shocked to even leave the sofa when it was over. I just sat there watching public access junk until I drifted off to sleep.
 

keuja

Member
This fucking guy in Ghostbuster

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I could see him out of the corner of my eyes for months.

Edit: and hiding in bedroom closet and feeding on fear too... how fucked up is that
 

barit

Member
Neverending Story

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Gmork is nightmare fuel for a 9 year old.

Came here to post this. Thank you!

Yep that shit fucked me up. Always looked away when he was shown. That was more traumatizing than watching Alien for the first time as kid lol
 

dno_1966

Member
Bambi when i was very young

i saw this really freaky version of Alice in Wonderland which gave me nightmares

Mask, saw this when i was a bit older and it really got to me, especially the ending
 

EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Surprisingly not a lot in film, at least from what I can recall, significantly disrupted me emotionally. I do remember being totally enthralled and at times terrified by Jurassic Park, but in a really engaging, positive way. As a child I adored dinosaurs would regularly check out paleontology books from the library for my Mum and Dad to read to me. Jurassic Park was the culmination of all these things put to cinema with such believability that it really dug deep beneath the skin. Raptors in the kitchen was the stuff if awesome nightmares.

Television however far more commonly fucked me up, in particular when I'd cop a sneak peak at an X-Files episode or something like that. I was also obsessed with stories of extraterrestrials, Grey abductions, and other spooky nonsense. To my shame, there's an episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman where the two fall asleep in their car and wake up from a time lapse (classic abduction story), and have incremental flashbacks after the fact of staring up first person from a table as eerily figures loom over with masks and scalpels.

This sequences scared the absolute fucking shit out of me. Probably more than anything.
 
Nightmare on Elm Street.

For whatever reason.. The local station, KTLA 5, decided to show this as their Saturday movie of the week sometime in the late 80s. I watched it. I was probably 7 or 8.

I didn't sleep in the center of my bed for at least a month. The scene where Johnny Depp gets pulled into the waterbed scarred me pretty good.

Also.. For good measure..

Click.

I was not prepared for where that movie goes, as an adult and a father.
 

robotuw

Member
I know it's a silly movie, but Gremlins screwed me up as a kid. I was probably 6-7ish and too young for it. I was afraid of the dark for years because of that movie.
 

dofry

That's "Dr." dofry to you.
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

The same. My dad used to rent a VHS player from the local movie rental service with a bunch of James Bond movies. I just started watching the pile of movies and between the VHS tapes there was a copy of Jaws. Saw that and I did not learn to swim until I was an adult. I was so scared of water, even swimming pools, and still to this day I get uneasy when I am in the ocean. I can't swim far away and just feel there is something. Even in countries where there are no sharks.

Another film was called Without Warning, I movie about an alien that throws people eating pancakes in a forest. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081764/
 
The B-17 segment from Heavy Metal - The gruesome designs of the undead and the bleak conclusion. Yeah, I didn't handled that experience well as a kid.
 

Anticol

Banned
IT, I hate clowns until this day.

After reading some of the comments, The Witches as well, god damn great movie but scary as f.
 

Herne

Member
Absolutely Watership Down. I watched it in my cousin's place and the Black Rabbit of Inlé left a mark on my psyche.

G'mork in Never Ending Story, as well as Artax dying in the swamp. The golden sphinx gates also put the fear of God in me.

IT, though I was a bit older when I saw that, it still left its mark. Years later I read the book (at night, of course) and every now and then I'd put the book down and hide under the covers... And I was in my late 20's at this point. I don't have a fear of clowns but Pennywise scares the shit out of me.
 

dofry

That's "Dr." dofry to you.
Wait, do you mean some people were eating pancakes, and an alien threw those people into a forest or the pancakes ate people after being deployed into a forest by an alien?

The alien throws pancake-like things that eat the victims. The setting is a forest. English, not my lingo. :)
Now that I read my own sentence, it makes no fucking sense at all. Can't be bothered to edit because it's funny.
 
Aliens when I was 8 or 9. I hated going to bed for a few weeks after cuz I was terrified the Alien Queen was going to stab me through the mattress with her tail the same way she got Bishop.
 
The Fly (1986). I watched a lot of horror movies as a kid, but this is the one that really got to me when I first saw it. I really like body horror movies now, but I still find this one hard to watch. Was gonna post some pics, but yeah... Fuck that.
 

daxy

Member
The Fly

I was not ready. I bet that this would be most people's answer if they saw it at a young enough age.

Edit: hah, amazing ^
 

jm89

Member
Deep impact.

It's gonna sound silly, but the summer i watched it any noise in the sky would send me into a panic. Airplanes use to fly over our area regularly so it fucked me up pretty good. Also it didn't help that summer we had a asteroid fly by real close and i just happen to hear it on the radio and it was never mentioned again.
 

massoluk

Banned
Total Recall. I was confused as fuck. I thought Arnold was the bad guy for a long time because my mind can't follow that switcheroo plot and I still thought cops in uniform are the good guys. Arnold shot a beautiful wife, mingled with mutant, did insane property damage, massacred a whole bunch of policemen, nuked Mars. And that eyeballing scene in the end gave me nightmare
 
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god damn it pinocchio

god damn it

Yeap! Same scene. I was horrified that being "evil" would mutate my body and rob me of my sentience. It was body horror and dread combined into an innocent moralistic cartoon.

I was 4 I believe, after that scene ended made me extremely sad and alone, for now I know that it could happen. I remember feeling like I lost something and I couldn't get it back, remember that my mom was in the other room, but I still felt like I lost her. Fast forward 8 years and I did lose her, I'm just glad I had her for that amount of time, was lucky to have met such an amazing woman.
 
Cruella de Ville in 101 Dalmations, when her eyes go nuts. Eesh, freaked out 6 year old me for a long time.

A farm safety video called Rest in Peace. Watched it at school. Holy fuck I didn't go near a farm for a year. Tramplings, drowning in grain, being gored by a tractor/hay bale thing, run over by a tractor, probably fucking pitchforked by an incestuous loon, god knows. Horrible thing to see.
 

yepyepyep

Member
Intruders - 1992

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Fire in the Sky - 1993

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Damn. These two fucked me up as a child. My mum was sort of into alien abduction movies at the time and while she didn't show these films to us, me and my siblings watched the VHS tapes when she was sleeping during the day (she workded night shift at the time). The bit in Intruders where a woman is woken up by noise and sees the silhouette of construction workers staring at her gave me nightmares that lasted for years.

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

i mean those kids were brats but it doesn't mean they deserved to be...kidnapped? murdered? tortured? not entirely clear.
 

aravuus

Member
Halloween and The Ring made nights tough for at least a week or two. I think I was around 9 or 10 when I saw them.

Halloween is actually one of my favorite horror movies nowadays. I rewatch it every now and then.
 

venomenon

Member
Link, a thriller/mild horror movie about a murderous ape. Relatively harmless but at the age of 5 or 6 I was scared as fuck. Re-watched it like 20 years later, realised it's actually a horribly bad and boring film.

Never Ending Story has been mentioned a lot here, this was my favourite movie at that age and while the wolf certainly was scary, it didn't affect me nearly as much as Link did.

One thing that definitely traumatised me was a Tiny Toons cartoon (at least I think it was Tiny Toons) of all things. No idea what exactly it was about but I distinctly remember a scene with an extremely fast carnival ride that turned the people that went in there into a gooey mass.
 
I saw the original Halloween behind the couch when I was 2 (and the original movie was 1). My dad was on the couch and thought we were in bed. I still remember my mom yelling at him when she got home.

I also have somewhat horrific memories of the end of Raiders & Poltergeist. I believe Poltergeist was the reason they created PG-13, with Temple of Doom being the first PG-13 movie. My mother's attempt to screen what we watched vanished when we saw Aliens in the theater when I was 9.
 

CrunchyB

Member
I saw the The Black Cauldron in the movie theater with my parents, I was 6 maybe?

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It was terrifying at that age, I had to walk out at the end, it was just too much. Pretty good movie to be honest, but more suited for about 10 years olds. My parents of course had no idea.

I saw most of the usual suspects (Robocop, Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc) when I was about 12 or so. But nothing ever scared me as much as that f-ing Disney movie :)

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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.

This too. Very effectively scary scene and kinda unexpected for the series. I think it uses stop-motion which always helps with the creepiness.
 

Bashtee

Member
Felidae. I was 7 and happily eating my moms potato gratin, because I was able to rent a movie for 12 year olds. I did not finish my meal and did not like cats after that for quite a while.

Anatomy when I was 12. The scene where the guy wakes up and they take out his ribs and cut off his skin, to prepare him for an exposure.
 
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