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[Volimar]

I've said it before, but Prince of Darkness.

Saw it when i was a kid and I was scared shitless of the bathroom mirror for weeks.

 

[TwiztidElf]

Two scenes for me.

JAWS. The shock moment when the guy is scuba diving the wrecked boat and the decomposing head pops out.

ROBOCOP. When ED209 blasts that poor guy.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

NSFW gif

I don't know why but the shower scene from 13 ghost was fucken scary for me, i didn't want to shower for a couple of days. if i would watch it again today it would probably be a really lame movie though.

Spoiler

btw dem tits

13 ghosts scared the hell out of me

 

[JAGII]

Probably that Ernest Halloween special that I can't remember the name. In particular the part when the kid is laying on his bed and turns around and sees a fucking troll laying beside him.

Wow! I forgot about that one -- Ernest Scared Stupid. I saw it in the theater, and that had me scared to roll over in bed.

I'm a bit ashamed to admit that.

 

[Big-E]

I remember the opening to Transformers the Movie scared the shit out of me when I was like 3 years old. Unicron destroying planets with that music was creepy. And then a few minutes later you have Ironhide getting killed followed by Optimus. Tough movie to watch when little.

 

[Piggus]

I didn't watch a lot of PG-13 or R stuff when I was really little. But there were some movies that were pretty damn creepy in some parts.

All Dogs Go to Heaven. The "hell" scene:

Also the owl scene at night from Milo and Otis.

 

[Rodney McKay]

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2110145479236650834

It hit all the right (or wrong) notes. My irrational fear for aliens, combined with "realistic" home video footage and the fact that you don't actually get to see the aliens but know they're there. Just the fact that the aliens are basically taunting the family before going in. Horrendous. Still don't want to rewatch that till today.

Oh good god, I think this is what got me as a kid as well. I don't even want to watch that clip, but is it the one where they go outside and the aliens are cutting an animal before looking up and zapping one of the guys?

 

[FrenchToastDisciple]

The panther scared the crap out of me as a kid.

Holy shit, I couldn't think of any, but you're absolutely right. That panther was terrifying, and I could never watch the whole thing.

 

[Dan Yo]

I can recall being very afraid of the scene in Beauty and the Beast where Belle is snooping around the castle and finds a rose in a jar and then the Beast just pops out of nowhere. I used to have to look away when that part came on.

 

[Seraphinianus]

Fire in the Sky. not even the movie, just the commercials.

 

[Satchel]

"They AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL float Georgie! They AAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL fllllOAT!"

fucking clowns.

 

[Satchel]

Ghostbusters: Boogie Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1UcOJWZ9AM

You motherfucker.

I had fucking blocked this until now.

Man this thread is bringing back so many previously repressed memories.

 

[DrForester]

Scene with Gmork from "The Neverending Story"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBebPeoUbJA


Also, the pirate ghosts from the Garfield Halloween Special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91wDLrPmDSY#t=9m30s

Return to Oz, a very fucked up sequel to the Wizard of Oz

"Return to Oz" is the creepiest thing ever made. Beyond anything Jim Henson did, beyond anything Burton ever has or will do. Heck, Del Toro doesn't even come close.

 

[iammeiam]

Probably shouldn't have been allowed to watch this when I was 10, Killer Bob gave me quite a few nightmares. But it did start my appreciation for David Lynch I guess...

Christ, Bob in the Euro cut of the pilot opened up a whole new kind of fear for me--it was my introduction the the "when you see it, you'll shit bricks" phenomenon. For years, after a nightmare, I'd have to methodically inspect everywhere in my bedroom to make sure there wasn't a serial killer I was seeing but failing to notice.

 

[Satchel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZPhf5p-BU

The second was the nurse station scene from Exorcist III.
Pretty self-explanatory. I was up past my bedtime in the dark all alone, watching this movie that I wasn't supposed to see. I think I almost died from fright. Something about the unmoving camera and the pedestrian, hallway perspective was really shocking.

Fuck yeah, expect I saw this movie when I was in my twenties and it STILL scared the shit out of me.

Can't believe how many of you have seen and been scared by the exact same shit that terrified me as a child.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo many of the scenes posted here scared me, and most of them I had forgotten about until this thread.

Amazing.

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

The Wheelers scared the crap out of me too when I was a kid. What made it especially terrifying was that the whole area was deserted when the young girl arrives. There an eerie silence and then shes just suddenly OVER RUN with Wheelers!
It was always such a relief to see the good guys fly the hell outta there on that magical bed

 

[Ultratech]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkZIay0J00&playnext=1&list=PLF6ACBE0F3B2BD7A7

Robocop (Murphy's murder). Uncensored version, of course

This. Not exactly something you should see as a kid...

That and The Fly (80s version). Not cool when he starts to transform.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Oh God, yes. THIS! It's fucked up cause this was my first experience with Wizard of Oz, not that original/oldie. Scarred for life!

 

[TheDarkKnight774]

I wasn't a kid (was in high school) but the mutation scene from Akira hung with me for a long while. Great movie, but it'd freak out anyone I showed it to.

The Tree/Lightening/Clown sections of Poltergeist messed me up for years as a kid.

And that Exorcist III scene is one of my favorite movie horror scenes

 

[bsb]

As a little kid, I was flipping through channels once and came upon Nightmare on Elm Street on Cinemax right at the Johnny Depp bed scene. Thought I was gonna be traumatized for life.

 

[Ultratech]

I wasn't a kid (was in high school) but the mutation scene from Akira hung with me for a long while. Great movie, but it'd freak out anyone I showed it to.

Oh yeah, the last parts of Akira made me really uncomfortable for a day or two. Tetsuo getting his arm disintegrated and the whole mutation part...

Yeah, that wasn't too fun for a day or two.

 

[BobJustBob]

Spoiler

Poltergeist

Poltergeist 2.

 

[AniHawk]

i just wanted to express a hearty FUCK YOU to the guy who posted flukeman. i still cannot handle that shit.

Spoiler

AND IT'S NOT EVEN A MOVIE GOD DAMMIT

my list:

librarian from ghostbusters 1
kidnapper from ghostbusters 2
gmork (wolf) from the neverending story
the robot scene from superman 3
the donkey island part from pinnochio

those were the ones that scared me when i was really, really little. afterward, i worked up sort of an immunity to them, although stuff like the kitchen scene from jurassic park is still tense as hell.

never watched horror films when i was little though. my dad rented fire in the sky at a time i was really into aliens and i kinda tried to sneak in his room and watch it, but i never actually saw anything.

 

[Horse Detective]

When I saw this in 1st grade, my whole week was ruined, Haha.

 

[Clipse]

The troll from Cat's Eye

Chucky

 

[alphaNoid]

Darkness from Legend

Blix from Legend

The Howling

No title needed

Clown from Garfields Halloween Special

The Blob

 

[Bad_Boy]

clown house, the whole movie.

 

[leng jai]

For some reason I vividly remember myself hiding behind the couch at the beginning of Terminator 2 at the deserted playground scene.

 

[Dmax3901]

Signs

Holy fucking shit. This. Disturbed me greatly.

I remember hiding behind the couch many a time during Jurassic Park (VHS motherfucker!).

There was an ad for Donnie Darko on TV that made the movie look a lot more like a horror than it is. This particular scene and the tone of the ad as a whole scared the shit out of me. I saw the movie later and was like lol what was I scared of.

 

[Chuckie]

The birthing scene from V

 

[G_Berry]

The Poseidon adventure made me shit as a kid.

 

[Fritz]

So many perfect examples. I just wanted to add my earliest scary movie scene:

This book from the very first Care Bears movie. It gave me nightmares, I can still remember it after all.

 

[Mik2121]

Pretty much anything involving clowns. Fuck them (I don't like them now either)

 

[frankie_wilde]

 

[Melchiah]

The troll from Cat's Eye

I thought he was adorable when I was a child. I hated

Spoiler

the cat for killing him

.

 

[Miau]

Not exactly a movie, but:

Even today it makes feel uneasy. Don't know if it's the opening music, the characters design or something else. I was always scared whenever this was on TV.

 

[Takao]

I used to get scarred at people getting eaten in Jurassic Park. I outgrew that though, since it's probably my favorite movie.

This isn't exclusive to one film or anything, but when I was a kid I always used to turn off the TV or walk away for a bit when I knew someone was about to get caught doing something bad.

 

[TwiztidElf]

Oh yeah, the rabbit in the hat in the Twilight Zone movie.

 

[Host Samurai]

The following creatures can fuck themselves.

Zelda (Pet Cemetery)

Dad on the Fathers Day episode (Creep Show)

Hitchhiker (Creep Show 2)

Zool (Ghostbusters 1)

Severed Heads on haunted railroad "Wiiiinston" (Ghostbusters 2)

It (It)

Old man (Poltergeist 2)

Fuck them all

 

[Nyx]

The ''Tree slams window and takes boy'' scene from Poltergeist.

 

[HollovVpo1nt]

You know, when I was at the age of watching this, I'd seen mich scarier movies, but Goosebumps somehow scared the ship out of me... Especially the intro!

Also the mask
images.wikia.com/goosebumps/images/5/58/Goosebumps_jpg.jpg

 

[TrAcEr_x90]

The scene of poltergiest with the meat moving on the counter(i think thats how i remember it) always scared me...

 

[BattleMonkey]

clown house, the whole movie.

Yes terrifying film for kids. Home alone? Look out the window.... oh fuck, clowns!

 

[Count Dookkake]

clown house, the whole movie.

It was scarier for the actors.

 

[Picobrain]

This one

 

[RepairmanJack]

I didn't watch a lot of PG-13 or R stuff when I was really little. But there were some movies that were pretty damn creepy in some parts.

All Dogs Go to Heaven. The "hell" scene:

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu18/inkandpixelclub/All Dogs Go To Heaven/adgth8.jpg

Also the owl scene at night from Milo and Otis.

Came to post All Dogs Go to Heaven. That whole movie creeped me the hell out as a kid.

Also E.T. and Mac from Mac and me creeped me out. The odd thing is that as a kid movies like Nightmare on Elm Street and Exorcist didn't bother me too much.

 

[Count Dookkake]

ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN is even creepier if you know what happened to the little girl...

 

[Cwarrior]

This i watch this when I was 5 with my older brother(i was scared stiff)

five at the time aswell
"Tick"
can't find scene from it just some trailer

V the original serise
the sand monster diana feeds people to scared me as kid


Poltergeist 2-left over chicke scene

 

[DangerStepp]

Man, I've been trying to figure out what this was from for years...

Short haired chick says something about just wanting to order a sandwich (I guess she and her boyfriend were in a deli?)
And all over a sudden her hands are getting cut up by a loving chainsaw or knife or something of sorts.

Blood everywhere! I still, to this day, haven't figured out what movie it is. It only lives in my mind as a childhood haunt.

 

[Jarmel]

Seeing the clown from "It". My parents should not have let me stay up to see the intro to this movie.

Saw the movie when I was six. Seriously fucked me up.