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[highrider]

For me it was Salem’s Lot, a pretty mediocre tv miniseries that aired when I was a kid ( long, long ago lol ) which is really a vampire story. There’s a scene when a young kid who’s been converted to being a vampire is levitating outside another kids window to entice the kid to invite him in. Im not sure why but it really stuck with me, it scared me and still does to this day lol.

 

[Star-Lord]

Around The Twist on CBBC. For a kids show, it was really fucking creepy. It was like Goosebumps on steroids.

 

[ClanOfNone]

Poltergeist gave lil me the willies, everytime I opened my closet I feared a yawning interdimensional portal.

 

[teezzy]

Nightmares for weeks

 

[GeekyDad]

Jaws. I was four-years old. Don't ask me why my mother took us to see that in the theater. I hid on the floor behind the seat in front of me peeking through during most of the movie. Holy fuck!

 

[nush]

 

[PropellerEar]

Indiana Jones - Temple of Doom
Was 7-8 when I saw it had crazy nightmares about horned weirdo taking out my heart.
'Kali Ma Shakti de'

 

[Star-Lord]

Jaws. I was four-years old. Don't ask me why my mother took us to see that in the theater. I hid on the floor behind the seat in front of me peeking through during most of the movie. Holy fuck!

People Splashing In Water: The Movie

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I can still vaguely remember this scene from the original Visitors series with one of the aliens killing somebody by putting its hand on the victim’s face. I think that was it.

 

[EekTheKat]

Troll or Troll 2. Though thinking about it might have been the first. But I do remember nightmares about it.

 

[highrider]

Nightmares for weeks

Dafuck I really missed out on not seeing this as a kid

 

[UnNamed]

This scene from Superman was pretty shocking when I was a kid.

 

[QSD]

Really old (black & white) movie version of a christmas carol. The ghost going 'scroooooge' kept me awake a good few hours

 

[bitbydeath]

Probably the blob.
Didn’t expect the young kid to die.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Around The Twist on CBBC. For a kids show, it was really fucking creepy. It was like Goosebumps on steroids.

I liked the one where one of the brothers couldn't stop saying "Without my pants" at the end of every sentence. I had a bit of a crush on the sister back then too lol

 

[laynelane]

My parents didn't monitor what we watched on TV so my brother and I innocently watched a late night movie called: The Exorcist. We were absolutely petrified. I still remember the slow crawl through the dark house to get to our bedrooms after - my older bro made me go first lol.

 

[kunonabi]

My sister made me watch horror movies with her all the time so I got desensitized pretty quick but Pumpkin Head was the only movie to ever result in an actual nightmare. The nightmare didn't resemble anything from the film but it still. Other than that Deadly Friend and the Wolf from The Never Ending Story really got to me.

 

[MaestroMike]

Childs play freaked me out for a good minute...years actually hehe

 

[MrS]

 

[AJUMP23]

Ghostbusters. It gave me nightmares and I wasn’t allowed to watch movies for a while.

may dad says when I watched Empire strikes back I was scared of the ice monster.

 

[Porcile]

Yeah Salem's Lot was really creepy even though vampires are fucking stupid. I wouldn't call it mediocre. It's easily one of the best horror films ever made.

 

[highrider]

Yeah Salem's Lot was really creepy even though vampires are fucking stupid. I wouldn't call it mediocre. It's easily one of the best horror films ever made.

This was a miniseries that aired in the late 70s, I’m not familiar with the movie but this was definitely mediocre.

 

[Radrigal]

I vividly remember Terminator 1 scaring the shit out of me when I was a kid. An unstoppable machine hell-bent on killing its target. I remember being wide awake at night getting paranoid that suddenly red eyes would appear in the dark and start looking at me.

 

[Javthusiast]

Watching Murphy get shredded to pieces in Robocop as a 9 or 10 year old.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Fraggle Rock

My earliest memory of something scaring the shit out of me. I was maybe 4 years old. I didn't get further than the intro before I pissed myself. The trolls gave me nightmares.

 

[*Nightwing]

Jaws. I was four-years old. Don't ask me why my mother took us to see that in the theater. I hid on the floor behind the seat in front of me peeking through during most of the movie. Holy fuck!

+1

I couldn’t even take baths and started showering as a toddler and I couldn’t jump in deep puddles not understanding sharks natural habitats and lack of magic don’t allow them to traverse fresh water plumbing or make it hundreds of miles inland throughout my childhood.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

But now I'm a badass so this barely scares me anymore.

 

[Gameboy415]

Watership Down.
It's an animated movie about rabbits!....brutally murdering each other.

 

[Little Mac]

Jaws. I was young. It hit me hard. For a few years, I had a tough time even in swimming pools. Always thought this fucker was behind me.

 

[Pagusas]

remember watching from the hall way through my bedroom door being cracked open, my parents rented it for a date night movie and told me to go to bed. Movies are way scarier when you watch them that way.

 

[22:22:22]

I think it was a British (kid) show; something something couple kids (brother and sister) some old geezer and underground tunnels where big hairy creatures resided that could ball up and roll through said tunnels chasing those in their way

I was maybe 5 so around 35 years ago?

 

[Artoris]

Poltergeist gave lil me the willies, everytime I opened my closet I feared a yawning interdimensional portal.

For me also Poltergeist and I read some wear that they used real corpses

 

[jufonuk]

Terrahawks

Ulysses 33

 

[zeorhymer]

I think it was The Blob where the person got sucked down the sink. As a kid I couldn't look at a sink or tub drain for a while, lol.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Poltergeist was on telly one Boxing Day years ago when I was very young and I hid behind the sofa while my family watched it, think I was about 10 or 11.

 

[Thaedolus]

Ghostbusters II in the theater when I was like 4, Vigo was terrifying

 

[Faded Memory]

Jaws and Poltergeist movies.
Tales of the unexpected TV show scared me to bits also.
I saw Shogun Assassin / Lone wolf and Cub at an early age which messed me up a bit afterwards too.

 

[Vagswarm]

The first Jason / Friday the 13th. Those sounds were haunting. Plus the suspense of not knowing what's going to happen. Then the water scene at the very end was a definite hell no moment.

Jason scared me for quite some time after that.

 

[Slaylock]

Jaws. I was young. It hit me hard. For a few years, I had a tough time even in swimming pools after that. Always thought this fucker was behind me.

Same for me. I almost lost it when this happened.

 

[BigBooper]

I think it was Arachnophobia. My dad used to watch movies late at night that we weren't allowed to, but I sometimes snuck in. It could also have been Predator or Ghostbusters. My memory's a little hazy.

 

[nightmare-slain]

poltergeist. i think it was a film..could've been a tv series. i only remember these lights moving about and it terrified me. right now i can't remember shit about it but i do remember those lights freaking me out.

im thinking it was light orbs of some kind but i might be remembering it incorrectly. could've just been general light flashes lol. my mum probably had me watch the 1982 movie when i was like 4 (thanks mum <3)

 

[thefool]

It might not have been the first, but Vigo (Ghostbusters 2) scared the hell out of me

 

[Burning Blade]

My dad had me watch Eraserhead with him when I was about 8. Chilling nightmares for weeks.

 

[Kagey K]

Movie - Child’s Play. I was scared of my sisters dolls for weeks.

TV - Unsolved Mysteries. That theme song, and Robert Stack.

 

[Sidney Prescott]

The Sixth Sense.

That scene when he's in the tent and the camera pans to the girl. I still struggle to watch it.

 

[Burning Blade]

Movie - Child’s Play. I was scared of my sisters dolls for weeks.

TV - Unsolved Mysteries. That theme song, and Robert Stack.

Unsolved Mysteries theme followed by X-Files theme made it very difficult to sleep.

 

[EverydayBeast]

For me I give Star Wars Episode 4 on that gruesome bar scene, I wasn't prepared for the situation Luke was in

 

[WoodyStare]

Episode with Zeebo the Clown from Are You Afraid of the Dark

The clown itself didn’t terrify me but I definitely thought he was creepy. What really got to me was the scene where the kid is alone in his house and stalked by the clown. It would obviously look ridiculous to actually show the clown walking around the house, but the makers use this to their advantage brilliantly by playing with the imagination. The footprint on the kitchen floor, the kids reaction to the phone call, the shadow under his bedroom door. Even a reference to Black Christmas/When A Stranger Calls with the call coming from inside the house. All of that scared the shit out of me.

 

[levyjl1988]

Mikey pop up scare from the first Men in Black movie. I left the movie theatre right after that in tears. I was a scared little wuss back then. Also zombies from the first Resident Evil movie.

Not scared anymore, I love horror films and games. I 100% Dead Space.

 

[DragoonKain]

I saw Terminator when I was like 10 and had nightmares about it for years.