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[Waggles]

Stephen King's IT.
The Thing and Watership Down are probably up there too. Alien, maybe.

 

[Baleoce]

Opening scene to Jaws,
IT in general,
That scene where the woman gets turned into a machine in Superman III

 

[Pakkidis]

Misery...

 

[Shaanyboi]

I was scared shitless!!!

The scene where his head peeks out, watching Dana? That shit fucked me up. Left me paranoid of any picture with a creepy face like it was watching me.

Also the nanny that grabs baby Oscar with the red eyes? Don't watch that when you're 3.

 

[Mahonay]

Fire in the Sky fucked me up REAL GOOD.

For years I slept with my bed in the corner right up against my wall, fearing that aliens were going to abduct and perform nightmarish experiments on me.

 

[Tacitus_]

Watership Down.

The thread.

Seriously.

turns into this

 

[The Cowboy]

Short Circuit 2, my younger self was not prepared.

They spend an entire movie showing how Johnny 5 is alive, they also show he is very child like and super trusting - then they have 2 people with crowbars try to beat him to death (whilst a 3rd watches egging them on) whilst Johnny 5 screams "please don't kill me", then they also throw in battery fluid flying of him out like blood!!!.

I was in tears the 1st time i ever watched it.

 

[Redd]

Grave of The Fireflies... I wasn't even a kid, more of a teen when I watched it. of course I was thinking "oh, an anime from the folks who did Totoro." when I was going in...

Oh man. Watched it once and will never again. It just went from bad to worse for those kids.

War is brutal.

 

[Alric]

Where the Red Fern Grows

Family classic my ass you monster.

 

[notsol337]

When I was 6 years old, I loved space and spaceships. I watched Star Wars and Star Trek quite a bit, and was constantly talking about the stars and the moon.

My dad was flipping through channels, and landed on what was clearly a giant spaceship. I was really excited and asked him if we could watch the space show. Dad said "I do really love this movie" and so we watched it.

I saw Alien for the first time at 6. I could not handle it. I had really bad night terrors for weeks afterward, and I distinctly remember my mother being infuriated with my Dad for not using enough judgement to tell me no.

 

[yanipheonu]

Jurrasic Park itself wasn't that scary, but my young imagination had a field day with the concept of Velociraptors.

 

[plus]

Spirited Away when the parents turned into pigs and Chihiro was stranded all alone

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

The NeverEnding Story

Superman III

The villains from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Great Mouse Detective and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs really scared me when I was very little.

 

[eso76]

Oh, I just remembered something

The company of wolves:

This picture was printed on the back of the VHS box I saw while casually browsing through movies to rent at the local store.

I was 8/9 and this gave me nightmares for months.

(of course though, i still had to rent the video and watch the movie, which iirc consisted of of 7 episodes, each a different take on the werewolf theme and varied greatly in mood and cinematography: dark, humourous, scary, sexy..)

Full transformation scene here, still have a hard time handling it for some reason.

Enjoy this guy peeling his skin off !

Oh and of course this motherfucker right here:

used to love Creepshow as a kid,
Wasn't too scared with the rest of the movie, but this guy just standing (floating, likely) just looking at you through the window...my curtains remained closed for a while.

 

[Txαi]

Not a film per se, but in DBZ: the sound effect of Guldo from the Ginyu Force paralyzing Gohan and Krillin really caught me off guard as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACWSOKszrg&t=4m1s

 

[Fast Forward]

I would not say it "traumatized" me, but watching Sleepaway Camp at like 10-11 had a memorable effect on me for sure. In particular, the ending. Had that creepy image stuck in my head for a few days.

Otherwise, sure, I watched plenty of other violent movies around the same age, like Robocop, but did not have the effect on me like Sleepaway Camp did.

 

[Diabelli]

The story of Erica trapped in a painting in The Witches.

Also, these fuckers.

 

[autumnleaf]

Robocop. Still can't deal with that scene.

 

[Jumeira]

RoboCop, the melted man, the guy in the board room getting lit up with chunks of his flesh splattering everywhere. Shook me as a kid, it was awful.

Chucky from Child's play, I wasn't able to sleep anywhere near my sister's dolls.

Michael Jackson's Thriller. That bloodcurdling laugh still haunts me today.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Night of the living dead fucked me up pretty bad as a kid. Childs play gave me nightmares for a while. Batteries not included fucked me up for life.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Toxic Avenger around age 10.

WTF

I saw Robocop in my early teens. Very early teens. It was my first R rated film.

 

[Timedog]

The Gate

 

[CadetMahoney]

ctrf+f the thing

yea that film was kinda impressive for it's time. Evil Dead 2 had jump scared but weren't as scary.

 

[The Mule]

Where the hell were parents/guardians when you lot were watching stuff like Robocop or The Thing at 5-6? wtf

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.

Yes, the golden sphinx too. There was something unsettling about the cold dead stare.

 

[Spectone]

I saw this movie when I was about 9
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Shoot_(1982_film)

The Wikipedia entry doesn't do justice to how bad it is.

 

[Kalamoj]

Fucking Bambi, still hate that movie.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Where the hell were parents/guardians when you lot were watching stuff like Robocop or The Thing at 5-6? wtf

I was by myself that day. I thought Robocop was a scifi superhero movie...