For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
My babysitter showed me Critters (in secret) when I was 5. Rather than be scarred, she turned me into a avid horror fan. I saw all the 80’s classics when I was way too young for them thanks to HBO and Cinemax.
None phased me.
Laughably, what finally got me was so mild. In Poltergeist 2 or 3, there’s a scene where the kid’s reflection no longer mimics his own movements. It’s not even the scare, but rather the set-up.
I started staring at mirrors when I was alone, just waiting for my reflection to break into a sinister smile. My fear was, when it did, what would I do? No adult would believe me. Mirrors are unavoidable. Something supernatural would be after me. I knew I wouldn’t be able to pull off some “final girl” shit IRL.
Species from 1995. Parents and their friends were watching it and told us to not come in because it was too scary.
I thought they were bullshitting young me…I was wrong. Lol. Had wonderful nightmares for a while.
The Exorcist and The Omen. I cannot watch either again to this day.
Pan’s Lanyrinth. The Pale Man haunted 12yo -me’s nightmares for a long time.
The Exorcist, specifically the part where she runs down the stairs upside down on all 4s and screams. Me and my brother cried forever that night lol
Aliens. Me and my brother sneakily was watching it when our parents were gone, and when that chest-burster came out of that woman, I was out of there like a bat out of hell. Never told my parents, of course - had to protect our VHS privileges and all that… It’s still one of my favorite movies - the original cinematic cut, not the overly long director’s cut (which seems to be the only one you can find these days.]
Nightmare on Elm Street… my sister was not a great babysitter.
The 1st one was so insanely well crafted. It’s the only horror movie that has ever genuinely scared me to the core. The body bag scene is so haunting. And the mom putting the bars on the windows is one of the most well crafted twist to increase the plot tension in all of horror.
When I was little, the Gremlins movies terrified me! Not sure why since they’re super campy, but 🤷♂️ kids are weird.
The first one is pretty scary. The second one is super campy
I just rewatched gremlins, and beside some jumpscares it’s pretty camp and tame.
But then the scene comes where the Santa Claus gets stuck in the chimney, discovered due to the smell. This is not shown, just a story that gets told pretty off handed.
I realized that that was the part that made the movie scary to me when younger. And it colored the rest of the movie darker, too.
The Tripods was a TV series that traumatized me!
Shutter, but the original Thai version.
For years after watching it I needed to make sure I was holding the bottom of my blanket with my legs all night long. Damn…
For me it was Poltergeist 2. That really scared the shit out of 9yo me 😂
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The post apocalyptic movie with Will Smith.
The eerie way the monsters looked, plus the way they stood in a circle in the dark building. It really scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Don’t play The Forest anytime soon then xD
It’s like I am Legend on steroids.
Ernest scared stupid. That troll going around at night, sneaking into kids rooms and turning them into wooden figurines was terrifying to my kid brain.
Time Bandits. Because of that move my childhood was plagued with nightmares about little people from out of time invading my room in the middle of the night.
Not scared shitless, but a mix of being scared and disgusted, maybe even slightly traumatized? :D I stumbled into an adult watching this, and had a look at it when I was honestly too young for this shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZ7Cb5WDLM
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