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Scary movie scenes when you were young

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runlikehell said:
People posting Signs are weak or are very young. That film was released in 2002, man.
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2002 was 9 years ago. Granted, for people like me of the 80's generation it doesnt seem like a big deal. But teenagers of today were just kids back then.
 
I love scary movies but this one scared me a lot and still does.


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I've had some bad experiences with oui-ja game :P.
 
I was absolutely terrified of E.T. as a little kid.

So much so that I took our VHS copy, ripped out all of the tape, and put the plastic shell back in the box.

The next time my family sat down to watch E.T., they were not pleased.
 
Always hated these girls
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RyanardoDaVinci said:
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Came here to post this. Watched plenty of horror movies when I was a kid but that movie scared the crap out of me. The fucked up thing was we got taken there by one of our elementary school teachers for some kids' birthday. Fuck that teacher.

The Scene Part 1
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^This is the scene in question that really messed with me. Don't watch if you ever intend to watch the movie as it's probably one of the better parts in it.
 
Nazis dream in american werewolf in london. I just rewatched it, it's not that scary now, but back then it scared the shit out of me, more than anything else in the movie.
 
runlikehell said:
I watched many horror films as a child. Friday the 13th, Halloween, Child's Play, Hellraiser, etc. None of the deaths got me like this one from ANoES5: Dream Child.

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Still fucks me up to this day. People posting Signs are weak or are very young. That film was released in 2002, man.

Also another death from Dream Child.

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Have you seen the extended versions of those deaths?

Greta extended death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaEd-5vMEy4

Dan extended death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0dTaGiGmY
 
THat scary Australian/nz kids program about the slim monsters and the magic rocks. Wow that was scary.

Children of the water fall or something. Wow that was some scary shit. They had a tube and they could change into human form, but would get all melty when angry and they had a tub that went into the sea.

Oh and doctor who, the one on the space station, the full length movie.

And the star trek trek with the miners and the lave creature that would burn people that spook had to mind melt with and there was something about eggs and the miner had been bad men..
 
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More specifically

That and The Skeksis scared the ever loving crap out of me when I was 8 watching it in the movie theater.
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Lionel Mandrake said:
Also, as a kid I had a crippling fear of skeletons. Mars Attacks wrecked me.

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Oh man, Mars Attacks freaked me out as a kid when it released. I was first getting into aliens and conspiracies and shit then, and I didnt take the movie for the sattire that it is, so when I watched it I got deathly scared of an alien invasion. I remember going to bed each night staring out the window, thinking every moving dot in the sky was the beginning of the invasion.
 
JdFoX187 said:
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When she showed up and kidnapped little Oscar in Ghostbusters 2, scared the living shit out of me.
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I agree with the Poltergeist and Chucky ones but this one was such a scary moment as a kid. I didn't expect a scene like this in a movie like Ghostbusters to scare the shit out of me but it did. I remember backwards crab walking away from my tv when the scene appeared.
 
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The scene where the spiders are crawling out of the people sitting on the couch. Damn spiders. That was the only movie for me though, maybe it's because I watched Tales from the Crypt on a regular basis?
 
I know the story's fake as hell but still: Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County freaked me out a lot when I was a kid. It really doesn't help that it reignited (thankfully not for much) the alien abduction phobia I had when I was like 3 or 4 years old*.

*: I used to have serious cases of sleep terror. I screamed at the top of my lungs that aliens were outside of the house waiting for my parents to fall asleep once again to abduct me. I even hit my poor mom in my desperation. Ugh. My overactive imagination did wonders for me as a kid! Every night, a different nightmare, yay.
 
An-Det said:
Oh man, Mars Attacks freaked me out as a kid when it released. I was first getting into aliens and conspiracies and shit then, and I didnt take the movie for the sattire that it is, so when I watched it I got deathly scared of an alien invasion. I remember going to bed each night staring out the window, thinking every moving dot in the sky was the beginning of the invasion.
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Yep, I thought it was a straight up horror as a kid. Pretty fun movie now, though.
 
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Freddy Krueger coming out of the damn wall. Still haunts me.

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The Exorcist spiderwalk scene (and pretty much every other scene too)
 
Like many others, I was scared by that scene from Superman 3, that scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and that scene from Poltergeist.
But... there is also that other scene...
For several years, I had to check under my bed before going to sleep because of that other scene...

It's not from a movie, but from the Inside the Closet episode (1984) of George A. Romero's (!) anthology horror TV series Tales from the Darkside.

I found a good description of the specific scene that traumatized me on this page:
Adam (Evil) BarnickÂ’s Top Ten Scariest Television Moments
8) Tales from the Darkside: 'Inside The Closet'

While even as a kid I found the show enjoyably cheesy, this episode was the one that floored lil' Barnick. A college student moves into an older man's upstairs spare room on campus, but warned not to use the small boxlike closet in the corner. Naturally curiosity gets the better of her as she notices shoes missing, items scattered..and it's revealed early on that SOMETHING makes the little closet its home..and it doesn't like the new guest.

The episodeÂ’s two creepiest moments..The young woman investigates a noise at night and finds nothing; as she lifts her heels off the floor to settle into slumber, a bleach-white emaciated clawed hand reaches for her ankle and misses. As she sleeps, a small shaft of moonlight illuminates SOMETHING under there, waiting. Every childÂ’s fear that made them hop quickly into bed made manifest.

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That's already enough to give any kid phobias; but it was the reveal/assault to follow that really messed with ten-year old yours truly. As with most of these, the FX are dated but admirable given the time. The thing in the closet, "Lizzie", is still a truly disturbing design, and its horrible crackle-noises still get me. But THE moment, which I remember being far more effective as a kid but is still pretty tough, was when Lizzie jumps on the heroine's back, and yanks her to the floor, breaking her neck before she even collapses. Brrr.
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This episode has already been mentioned here by Jesus Carbomb a few years ago in the
"What's the most frightening monster/ghost/creature you ever seen in a horror movie?" thread.

I also learned in a TV show that French model and actress Laetitia Casta had been traumatized by this creature too!
 
Supervlieg said:
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The wolf I could handle, but the dreams freaked me out
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Same here, the dream where the fucking nazi monsters invade the family home scared me so much I used to run and hide if anyone knocked our door.

EDIT: 720p here (gore) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wShZqevLU

Salems Lot, Poltergeist, the intro to The Amityville Horror, they all spooked me, I don't know why I used to watch them.

Loved Dracula as a kid but always fast-forwarded this bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODBFQUw7HB8
 
The skeleton in the pool from that one episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? really bothered me. I remember being afraid of the deep end because of that thing.

Not a movie, but still relevant in a way.

There's also the girl who is turned into a vampire in the original Fright Night. The huge mouth full of sharp teeth made that scene horrible for me.
 
Kreios said:
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The scene where the spiders are crawling out of the people sitting on the couch. Damn spiders.
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For me it was the one single spider behind the toilet that just about bit Dan Goodman that literally had me looking behind the toilet before sitting on it for several months.
 
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I remember as a kid running out of the house during this scene because I couldn't deal with not only the obviously scary visuals but the creepy sounds/screams that accompanied it. The brilliant way that it unfolds still gets to me, all smiles around the dinner table when suddenly everything goes to **** within the blink of an eye.
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Same here. :(
 
When the little girl turns bad at the end of Halloween 4.

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I saw that when I was about 14. I didn't sleep for days afterwards
 
Too lazy to find a shot, but Judge Doom at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Fuck, that voice and the buzzsaw made for nightmare fuel. Plus I had an instinctively bad reaction to the idea of getting run over by a steamroller.
 
faceless007 said:
Too lazy to find a shot, but Judge Doom at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Fuck, that voice and the buzzsaw made for nightmare fuel. Plus I had an instinctively bad reaction to the idea of getting run over by a steamroller.
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Take a look at the first page. ;)

Oh, another good one:
Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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KernelPanic said:
No one got scared by this classic from Poltergeist ?

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This right here is the one that got me good.
Was about 8 years old when I saw that. oops...

Also C.H.U.D. 2 years later. :-/

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Painting guy in Ghostbusters freaked me out.

And Jumanji has a whole freaked me out. Especially the get sucked into the boardgame part.

"In the jungle you must wait, until the dice reads five or eight."

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Choppasmith said:
Well a bunch of stuff in T2 certainly gave me nightmares, but in all fairness that movie's R for good reason.

I can't remember the name of the movie, but it had one of the Lawrence brothers in it and I think it had a couple cheap sequels. It was about a family moving into a house where all the appliances were trying to kill them.

There's one scene where a woman takes a shower, but the water heater acts up and she ends up being burned alive. Now, I was about 10 or 11 and my family was trying to get me to move on from taking baths to taking showers, and this movie terrified the idea of me in the shower for a good year or two. I think even when I started to, I was as quick and discrete as possible.

There's also another scene where someone has to reach into the sink and fix something (like a clog, I can't remember) and the garbage disposer turns itself on and chops up their hand. This scene STILL makes me nervous when reaching in sinks with garbage disposers. Thankfully my current sink doesn't have one.
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It's called Pulse: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095924/

That shower scene was horrible. (Un)Fortunately I can't find the clip on youtube
 
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