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Movie scenes that traumatized you as a kid
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akachan ningen
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this entire movie traumatized me. it was too bizarre for me. if I watched it now I'd probably love it.
Definitely agree that we 80s kids had more screwed up movies thrust upon us as kids. Still, I think Labyrinth was pretty tame by 80s standards (though it's still one of my favorite films). The Dark Crystal had a few scenes that were freaky for the youngins:
I still say "Return to Oz" takes the cake for (purposely or not) freaky 80s movies that were ostensibly billed as kid flicks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XjC_0lGm0E
Oh yea this too:
Puppet Master
God damn, you guys. I couldn't even get past the last two pages. I'm fucking bailing. The scene in the bathtub from IT and one of the close-ups of Chuckie and Child's Play freaked me the fuck out when I was a kid. But I'm not digging for the images after all this crazy shit you guys have been posting. lol
Count Dookkake
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Especially when the fly gently points the shotgun away from him/it. Disturbing
IIRC, he pulls it toward his face after she lowers it.
I don't recall it that way, but it's not like my memory is very good. That scene just hit something when I last watched it with my friends. As in, we died in laughter.
Yup
Not exactly a movie but I used to watch this horror show which appeared on Sci fi when it wasn't crappy ScyFy in 1999-2002. It was called Sci-Fright and it hosted horror films, the intro to that show was pretty creepy with weird cut-ins ad noise and eventually you would see a schoolgirl skipping, and when they show her face... the first time I saw it I almost got a heart attack.
I can't find the pic or the intro to the show but believe me, a 10 year old version of yourself watching it on your own at 10 at night in 1999 would piss your pants... like I did.
I can't find the pic or the intro to the show but believe me, a 10 year old version of yourself watching it on your own at 10 at night in 1999 would piss your pants... like I did.
MiamiWesker
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For some reason Lo Pan from Big Trouble scared the crap out of me when he started shooting beams out of his eyes. Also there was a scene in Robocop 2 that i was terrified of, it involved the bad guy, I forgot what.
bengraven
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Holy shit, fuck that. I loved the rest of the film, but God damn that opening scene.
Also, when ET jumps out of the bushes at the beginning. He makes such a horrible noise!
oh god this
PackerinMN
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Step-father abuse scenes in Radio Flyer. I cried at the end of that movie and it was the strangest feeling I've felt in my life.
Are you me?
I saw E.T. when I was about 5 or 6, and the pale, disoriented sick E.T. in the river freaked me out too. I think it was because it looked real... That whole movie freaked me out.
br0ken_shad0w
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The Langoliers
These fuckers made me fear airports for years.
My cousin showing me this while I was a kid probably fucked me up more than any horror or scary scenes though. (in more ways than one)
Lionel Mandrake
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Mars Attacks is the big one. Skeletons, man.... Freaked me out.
The Brave Little Toaster had me terrified of heaters as a kid.
To jog your memory, this is him dying.
Also, there's this Cannon Movie Tales presents Snow White movie...
And at the end, the magic mirror, which is the freakiest thing ever, explodes, and with it the evil Queen, who is aging rapidly, breaks like glass. Messed up.
The Brave Little Toaster had me terrified of heaters as a kid.
To jog your memory, this is him dying.
Also, there's this Cannon Movie Tales presents Snow White movie...
And at the end, the magic mirror, which is the freakiest thing ever, explodes, and with it the evil Queen, who is aging rapidly, breaks like glass. Messed up.
Mineshaft_Gap
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Thomas J. can't see without his glasses.
DEEEESTROYED me.
DEEEESTROYED me.
Oh God yes. That's exactly it. I want to watch that movie again.
Even when it comes and saves the day in the end? I could understand being freaked out by the main road sequence and the chase, but I can't imagine being freaked out by a T. rex fighting Velociraptors. Even as a little kid I knew that was awesome.
My answer to the topic is probably the Martians and their ray guns in Mars Attacks!.
Oh dear lord. This movie creeped the hell out of me as a kid. I was covering my eyes as everyone evaporated.
It probably is now, but those damn howls scared me shitless as a kid.
Anyway, a lot of nice mentions already in the thread, but two that haven't been mentioned:
the mirror scene from Deep Red.
The ending from The house with the laughing windows (rewatching it now though, it's more hilarious than anything).
Haven't watched either since i was like 8 or 10.
Nintendoll
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i once stayed up well passed my bedtime and managed to sneak into the living room to watch tv. i turned it on to find the last 20 minutes or so of "johnny's got his gun". I didnt fully understand at the time what was going on (ESL), but I got the gist enough to be disturbed the fuck out.
i remember it so vividly that simply thinking back on it and the visceral experience it gave me will give me the chills.
i remember it so vividly that simply thinking back on it and the visceral experience it gave me will give me the chills.
I remember some animated movie that was really dark and fucked up where a troll or monster was pulling children out of buildings and eating them. I can't remember the name of it. Any ideas?
Also, some of the shit in All Dogs Go To Heaven was disturbing for a kid. Don Bluth made some depressing films. They were pretty good though.
Also, some of the shit in All Dogs Go To Heaven was disturbing for a kid. Don Bluth made some depressing films. They were pretty good though.
Oxigen_Waste
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He's not talking about that part, that's at the very end, he's talking about the bit at 0:20 here.
He just casually dismisses the shotgun, it's hilarious. ^^
He's talking about the very end, when he points the gun she's holding at his own head so she'd kill him.
Holy shit, fuck that. I loved the rest of the film, but God damn that opening scene.
Also, when ET jumps out of the bushes at the beginning. He makes such a horrible noise!
fucking fuck. i first saw ghostbusters when i was 2 years old at a babysitter's. this scene in particular freaked me out so much, i think it created my first memory.
Chuckie
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Wow... so many scenes already mentioned.
-Goonies: that fucked up giant
-Poltergeist Pretty much all of it
-Dark Chrystal, especially that machine that made their eyes milky and empty
Also an odd one: Empire Strikes Back. I saw it when I was really young.. so I didn't really understand the cave scene.
First I was like... wtf...Darth Vader is there!!!! And then this:
It fucking freaked me out.
-Goonies: that fucked up giant
-Poltergeist Pretty much all of it
-Dark Chrystal, especially that machine that made their eyes milky and empty
Also an odd one: Empire Strikes Back. I saw it when I was really young.. so I didn't really understand the cave scene.
First I was like... wtf...Darth Vader is there!!!! And then this:
It fucking freaked me out.
19 years later and that movie still scares the crap out of me.
Me too! I honestly don't remember anything earlier!
My nephew was like 5 or 6 when the new War of the Worlds movie came out. When the aliens started evaporating people, he thought it was FUNNY AS HELL! I thought he was going to pass out he was laughing so hard.
Disturbing, no?
pieatorium
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American Werewolf in London the first transformation scene, my brothers made fun of me because I had to leave the room :/
I didn't see Salom's Lot (1979) mentioned anywhere?
Maybe I'm too old or that I'm just a pussy for being scared back in the day but I never looked at a window the same EVER again... and it must have curtains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y
Maybe I'm too old or that I'm just a pussy for being scared back in the day but I never looked at a window the same EVER again... and it must have curtains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y
Terminator 2 dream scene.
I was 5 or so when I saw that one part, and I wouldn't go near parks for weeks.
Coincidently one of my animation tutors worked on the film.
I was 5 or so when I saw that one part, and I wouldn't go near parks for weeks.
Also this.This was terrifying:
Fuck that movie
Coincidently one of my animation tutors worked on the film.
Oh yea this too:
What is this from? Everytime I see it, I think of rodney dangerfield
edit, nevermind. it's in the url
perfectnight
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Hellraiser... all of it.
I was about 5 or 6 when I watched it.
I was about 5 or 6 when I watched it.
squidhands
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Twilight Zone the Movie. Huge mistake seeing that at the theaters when I was 10.
And this scene from The Exorcist III fucked me up for a loooong time. Even watching it now gives me chills.
And this scene from The Exorcist III fucked me up for a loooong time. Even watching it now gives me chills.
bengraven
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Yeah, it was an Alice miniseries on television with "your FAVORITE stars!".
The Jabberwocky is the scariest fucking thing to come out of that movie to a kid. As a kid at home, I covered my eyes. Even watching the show in school, during the day, in the AV room, I found myself drawing on my desk and plugging my ears.
Years later, the scariest thing about it is all the 20th century guest stars: Scott Baio, Red Buttons, Patrick Duffy, Mickey Rooney, Roddy McDowell, Sid Caesar, Sherman Helmsley, John Stamos, Jonathon Winters, Beau and Lloyd Bridges (aka the "other" Bridges), and Sammy Davis Jr.
AngmarsKing701
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Definitely The Exorcist. I must have watched that too young. I guess I didn't hit Alien until I was a little older, so while it's a creepy, scary movie, it didn't really traumatize me.
The other thing I can clearly remember is some sort of show about whether Bigfoot was real, and that odd video footage of this big thing lumbering off into the woods. Terrified the shit out of me. Had nightmares for days. Very weird.
bengraven
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This scene in Superman 3. I think I was about 8-10 years old. Gave me nightmares for many nights.
OH FUCK YES
I first saw this on a black and white TV my mom put in my room JUST to watch Superman III one night while she went to bed early. I was like 5.
The antenna had horrible reception and that added to the horror.
That scene showed up and all I saw was someone screaming and metallic sound effects and her face slowly disappearing, the drama added by the grainy effect added by the "white noise".
I turned that shit off, left the light on, and rolled over facing the wall. No sleep.
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