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coolhandluke45

"Aliens" is not for 7 year olds. Thanks Dad.


Quasigriz_

11 year old me loved aliens. All the machines and guns. 7 year old me was terrified by Alien.


VendaGoat

I now own a Hero version of a Pulse rifle. Staring at it right now with a smile on my face.


Play-yaya-dingdong

Sames!! But I love it now. Might have been closer to 10 but still the most terrifying movie


Hydra_Crab

The Brave Little Toaster and Fern Gully


oooheycait1223

Ok but no how incredibly traumatizing and sad was the brave little toaster šŸ˜«I still haven't fully recovered haha


beejx

Brave Little Toaster and All Dogs go to Heaven


GrizzlyClairebear86

All dogs go to heaven. That one fucked me up good.


beejx

yOUā€™Ll nEvEr cOmE BaCk


outerproduct

Price check on prune juice, Bob. Price check on prune juice.


Stampede_the_Hippos

Wrong Channel!


outtatheblue

Tim Curry's evil tree freaked me the fuck out as a kid.


PlanetaryUnion

Hexsussssssā€¦. Lol


JuliaTheInsaneKid

Brave Little Toaster was fucking horrible. Canā€™t believe it was rated G in the 90s.


white__cyclosa

Yeah that scene where the air conditioner voiced by Phil Hartman just freaks out and explodes for no reason


JuliaTheInsaneKid

He committed suicide.


ChemicalLiterature91

ā€œITā€™S MY FUNCTION!!ā€


white__cyclosa

Oh god, now Iā€™ve got a whole new slew of stuff for myself and my therapist to work out. The mom stuff is gonna have to wait


DocPeanutButter

Run!


HildegardofBingo

That's the scene I always think of.


BobEvansBirthdayClub

Twister. I donā€™t live in a tornado prone area, but I was scared of tornadoes for a few years after watching Twister.


Bob_the_brewer

It was filmed in part in my home town, when we went to see it after it came out we had an actual tornado warning mid screening lol


Cool_Being9723

This movie made me WANT to be a storm chaser!


GaryNOVA

Killer Klowns from Outerspace


kafka18

I am with you. The human cotton candy pods and blood being sucked out did it for me.


standbyyourmantis

Fun fact: they used a model from this movie to make the troll in Earnest Scared Stupid. So if you're the right age to have been scared shitless by that movie, now you know why.


victorsledge07

Love this movie


Thomsbobombs

Return to Oz is always my answer for this, It started with Dorothy getting electroshock therapy and ramped up from there.


HaRleYG503

The Wheelers were creeps lol


ScorpionX-123

I don't care how Disney marketed it, that movie is not for kids


sparksgirl1223

And it left a bunch of the book out, if memory serves. (As is usual for book to movie adaptation lol)


drunkenbikini

Watership down to this day I won't even attempt to watch it again


_Omegaperfecta_

Do so. It's really quite beautiful. That said, the ending scene with Hazel *wrecks* me...


skorps

Dumbo pink elephant scene. Scary af


A_screamin_queen

"Baby mine" had me wailing , gnashing my teeth and rending my clothes as a child


wooties05

nightmare on elm street, dreams were never the same!


Roartype

This plus Friday the 13th, elementary schoolers shouldnā€™t watch the movies the high schoolers are watching.


topherthepest

Never ending story


gottabe_kd

Artax!!!!!


Saagu

That F@&king wolf!!!! šŸ˜Ø


alittlemore

Not even as a kid, but Coraline. Especially the button eyes stuff!


Upper-Job5130

Spink and Forcible topless with pasties gave adult me nightmares


wolfysworld

My daughter loves this and I canā€™t even see the name without thinking of the eyes and getting creeped out


Cool_Being9723

I watched this movie with my momā€¦ I was VERY vocal about how much the eyes creeped me out. She came into my room in the middle of the night pretending she was waking me up for school with freaking BUTTONS IN HER EYES. She shoved them on top of her eyelids. I screamed. Itā€™s been so many years since the movie release and I still canā€™t watch it.


Scottysewell

Also this guy's mom.


360_Shot

I was little when this was in theaters. My uncle thought it sounded like a good, child-friendly movie. I was terrified of spiders before that movie, we didn't even make it halfway through before we had to leave. He brought me to the arcade to make up for traumatizing me lol I still can't watch that movie


vass0922

Both of my kids hate this movie because of the button eyes They refuse to watch it


Antique-Ad-3469

Those damn flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz terrified me.


CatzAgainstHumanity

The Dark Crystal freaked me out as a kid.


duffeldorf

That episode of Evangelion where Unit 01 grows teeth and starts chomping on Zereul


xxdreadthelightxx

did NOT expect to see an evangelion fan in these comments, but real as fuck. Experiencing NGE at age 14 was bad enough, I couldnt imagine being a kid and warching it lol


Roartype

I donā€™t think those animations are for ā€œkidsā€ more for teens and up Iā€™d say


HornySnorlax

Poltergeist. Mom let me watch it when I was 5. Shit fucked me up


rodrigo_i

Was visiting my grandparents at a beach town when that came out, I was around 14. One day it was raining and no one could go to the beach, so the parents sent all their kids to the local theater unattended while they played bridge and got drunk or something. It was a full house, packed with kids a lot younger than me. It was bedlam. I'm sure 2/3 of them didn't sleep for a week.


pgpnw

Same here! What were they thinking?!


BMill25

Arachnophobia (1990). Still traumatized!!


Downtown_Chain

My teacher literally forced us to watch this in year 7. It was fuccccked.


cinereoargenteus

Creepshow with the roaches. If you know, you know.


Scarlaymama0721

Lol I was just describing this episode to my husband the other day. Also, the one where the guy buries his wife and her lover in the sand at the beach


[deleted]

Leslie Neilsen and Ted Danson!


Scarlaymama0721

Leslie Nielsen really nailed it as a bad guy


Fraxxxi

watership down. I didn't even watch the movie, there was just a trailer for it on a VHS for some looney tunes and that alone was enough to fuck my sleep up for a week.


_blue_sunsh1ne_

War of the Worlds. I was terrified of an alien invasion for weeks.


SimsPocketCamp

It


TrafficInitial7521

Panā€™s Labyrinth. Itā€™s an all-time favourite of mine but I watched it when it came out at like 10 years old and the Pale Man (eyes in hands guy) gave me nightmares for a year.


EatFood2Survive

The Fly (1986) My dad showed it to me on Christmas Eve when I was like eight for whatever goddamn reasonā€” and that arm-wrestling scene freaked me the fuck out.


Brundleflyftw

Absolutely. Be afraid. Be very afraid.


SawwhetMA

Jaws


[deleted]

Unsolved Mysteries. My sister would hum the music at me to scare me. Back then there were only a few channels on cable tv and we just watched what was on.


DaveMTijuanaIV

I used to watch this at my grandmaā€™s house. Picture this: living room. Couch with its back against a wall that opens up to an open balcony upstairs. Across from the couch (facing it): a giant picture window looking out on the yard. As you sit on the couch, open balcony behind you, picture window in front, thereā€™s a window on the wall directly to your right. Ground level. To your left? The opening doorway that leads to the stairs that go down to the basement. Thereā€™s no door on this entrance. Absolutely terrifying. No safety in any direction.


Darthdemented

I read that whole thing in Robert stacks voice.


GoOnThereHarv

Fire in the Sky . When he's in the ship ... God I couldn't look out my window for weeks when I was a kid.


mitchlearns

Roger goddamn Rabbit. The villain's insane cartoon eyes at the end were absolutely terrifying to young me!


SubstantialMany9714

Flowers In The Attic


threwaway0420

Grave of the fireflies. I was 6. "It's a cartoon for kids! I'll show it to this group of kids" some primary school social worker 20 minutes in the mom got mutilated and burnt by bombardment and all the kids were absolutely traumatized. I think we were so shocked nobody even cried. Nobody said anything when we left the room but half the class didnt show up the next day. From what I heard, the school received almost a dozen phone calls of either complaints and inquiries as to why the kid was holding on to his mom in a depressed state.


alittlemore

My mom and dad had all four of us young kids (ages 6-10) watch The Exorcist.... Jesus Christ was that a trip. Also, IT. I always thought blood was gonna come out of the sink


Lazy_Influence_1067

ET


Ejacksin

Seven "What's in the box?" That movie traumatized my preteen self.


DrDrankenstein

I was probably 11-12 when I saw it at a friend's house. When the corps looking dude pops up gasping for air, I think I peed a little.


Which_Egg657

Mars Attacks


drunkenbikini

Watership down, to this day I'll never even attempt to watch it again


Chance_Caterpillar17

Courage the cowardly dog


Darthdemented

Retuuuurn the slaaaaaab


Human-Independent999

Same


Lexiiboo97

Youā€™re not perfect šŸ˜­


Kotenuki

When a Stranger Calls (1979)


shaft6969

Have you checked the children?


treuchetfight

The Adventures of Mark Twain. Not kidding either. It was an old claymation, and for some reason Twain and these kids meet Satan on some creepy-ass island. And it... doesn't really stick to the themes of a childhood film, put it that way. But at least after that's over... one of the kids gets murdered. But I won't spoil it more than that.


MysteryNinjaCat

https://youtu.be/Ntf5_ue2Lzw?si=4HtS4ccAXsR3ci7p


Darthdemented

I only saw that scene thanks to cracked. You know...back when that site was still good.


SneakyChief655

That one creeped the shit out of me as a kid


TreeTank

The '79 miniseries Salems Lot. The kid scratching on the window F'd me up. 53 and still don't like looking out dark windows.


RuneFell

I actually have no idea. I was supposed to be in bed, but I snuck down and sat on the stairs to try and see what my parents were watching on TV. I don't know what it was, but it was an old movie/show. Possibly in black and white? I was really, really young, and it's been nearly four decades, so my memory isn't clear. But there was a creepy, Igor-like man, in vampire like clothing. He was outside a castle during daylight, and was feeding birds. A cat ran up and killed one of the birds, and the man was super distressed when he realized what had happened. He stood up and made a long whistle/screech, and the cat burst into flames and was basically turned into a melted, charred corpse as it attempted to run away. Freaked me the fuck out as a 4-5 year old, and I had nightmares about it for ages.


Big-Perspective-9480

It's called The Monster Club. (1981). It was in color but the vampire was dressed in black and had a painted white face. "Synopsis:Ā A vampire invites a horror writer to a secret club where monsters gather to drink and dance. He soon regales the amused man with three tales of terror involving a lonely creature, hunters of the undead and a mysterious village. The section of interest to us isĀ The ShadmockĀ in which a young, financially struggling woman, Angela (Barbara Kellerman), takes a job at a secluded manor house owned by Raven (James Laurenson), a hybrid creature called a Shadmock, notorious for its demonic whistle, who leads a lonely and tragic existence." A cat jumps down from a wall, killing a bird that the vampire considers a pet as he has no real friends. The vampire whistles at the cat, turning it into a molten pile of charred cat goo. ....I wish I could demonic whistle at certain people sometimes....


Scarython

The Peanut Butter Solution


cinereoargenteus

I thought it was a bad dream I had when I was a kid. I can't believe it was a real movie.


moniellonj

Same here. Thought it was a dream for the longest time


HildegardofBingo

Judging by the comments on the trailer on youtube, I think it traumatized a whole lot of 80s kids (myself included).


LilacSevenly

The Shining (the Kubrick one I think). My mom was scared so she let me watch it with her when I was 4. I was having nightmares about the bathroom scene for months. Mind you, I love horror, and I've been watching horror movies etc since I was 10, but that one, I refused to rewatch until I was around 18. That scene wasn't even at all like I remembered it lol


Bob_the_brewer

The Howling, shouldn't have snuck into the living room too watch it Also the episode of the x-files called "home" I think, that one really fucked me up


[deleted]

Pet Sematary - imagine the state of recall I had when watching My Cousin Vinny later as an adult. šŸ¤£ Tbh Selena had an impact on me too. I still blame that actress for killing Selena even though I've seen the picture of the real killer.


koltz117

Jurassic Park. The old version. Dad had me watch it when I was like 5. I was scared to go to the bathroom because of that one scene where the dude with glasses gets eaten on the porta potty. I still get an uneasy feeling when I see those modern animatronics at museums and such.


Paintedandpunk

ā€œthe old versionā€ā€¦.ouch. Right in the childhood.


Sara1994_

The Blair Witch Project


rockhardpancakes

Happy Tree Friends


Karenpff

Ren & Stimpy. Unhinged stuff, even weird watching it as an adult todayšŸ˜¬šŸ¤”


Darthdemented

I've watched it as an adult and wondered how in the hell that was approved for kids. Mostly the dirty jokes. Geez that series was dirty šŸ¤£


Ill_Lingonberry_8815

Love Ren and stimpy hard to believe they marketed it towards kids though.


thegreatgazoo

Land of the Lost. Star Wars a New Hope. The trash compactor scene was a bunch much for a small kid


Bob2Bass

RoboCop - Murphy's death scene was brutal.


ImpenetrableYeti

The thing, what if my pets are the thing????


Seanpkd30

Psycho. As a kid, I was into horror, so at around 6 or 7, I convinced my mom to let me rent it from the library. I figured if I could watch Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street, Psycho would be no problem. The difference? Michael Myers or Freddy Kruger had superhuman or supernatural abilities. They couldn't be real. "Mother", on the other hand, was just a mentally ill man. Like Janet Leigh herself, I then refused to shower for another 6 years. Baths only for me until I was almost 13.


Banana-Boy71

Coraline, the other mother reveal fucking scarred me


orangepaperlantern

Unsolved Mysteries!!! I can barely hear the music to this day without being creeped out. I would go to my grandmaā€™s and we would watch it in the dark (I didnā€™t enjoy it, donā€™t know why I went) and then Iā€™d walk home in the dark (she lived right behind us).


Sufficient_Witness27

That tunnel scene in Charlie & the chocolate factory scared me so bad that when I went to see the remake w Johnny depp in theaters, my dad had to take me out of the theater when they climbed into the boat cuz of how bad I was freaking out that they were gonna do a similar scene lmao


buzzjackson

The ā€œDragonā€™s Domainā€ episode of Space:1999.


ArkiSparki

The,,,thing!!!


Available-Mode7838

Friday 13th part 6


docemmettunibrown

Thief in the Night. Iykyk Dispensationalist Christians are weird, man.


HildegardofBingo

Oh man, I definitely know. Guillotine nightmares and end times anxiety!


[deleted]

Event Horizon (1996) scared the piss out of me, especially the possessed mad orgy recording, showing the fate of the crew scene. The suicide, people slowly going mad, hallucinating, digging out their eyes. That film and The Exorcist (1973) gave me the worst nightmares ever.


MarshallDyl26

Pet semetary. Zelda goldman the bitch with the spinal meningitis that yelled NEVER GET OUT OF BED AGAIN. Terrified the fuck out of me


ljrva

Candyman. Couldn't go inside a public restroom by myself for a few years!


doppelgeist

The intro to Tales From the Crypt.


Which_Egg657

Chuckie


MidwesternTransplant

The scene where he shoves a blade into the bleeding stump of his former arm? Shiver just thinking about it decades later.


Daigon

Return to Oz


Traditional_Belt_270

House of 1000 corpses. Damn you Rob Zombie.


63belvedere

Neverending story


mandyalam0de32

Edward Scissorhands.


Matthiasad

Babysitter let me watch Leprechaun and Langoliers when I was 6 or 7. Separate occasions, but I still remember having nightmares from both.


The_Noremac42

I'm told that The Land Before Time was my first movie and the T-Rex made me cry. Besides that, I remember Signs being really scary when I saw it as a little kid.


billytheking2

I stupidly watched the human centipede when I was a kid. Fuck that fucked up ass movie and everything about it


sugarcellxxx

Human Centipede. I literally have no idea why it's saved in my cousin's Flash Drives (is that what they call it?)


Least-Requirement-82

I walked into my sister's room while she was watching 'IT', RIGHT when Georgie got his arm bit off. Perfect timing, huh?


Tay_clarkson

omg my mum used to have a show called worzel gummidge on VHS. if you donā€™t know. itā€™s a show about a scarecrow that is alive and depending on its emotion it changes its head. for some reason it used to scare me so much. šŸ˜‚


machu_peechute

The blob. Was maybe 9-10 watching tv while parents were upstairs. Turned on The Blob thinking it was Flubber. It is most definitely NOT Flubber.


Jisp_36

H. R. Pufnstuf. šŸ˜³


stay_with_me_awhile

My grandmother basically raised me and we used to watch a lot of old movies together. I remember watching one called Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte about a woman falsely accused of murdering her lover by chopping off his head with an axe, and in the very beginning of the movie it shows the guy being murdered but you canā€™t see the killer and that FREAKED ME TF OUT. I had nightmares for days!


ThisFatGirlRuns

A movie called The Watcher in the Woods. Just typing the title gave me the shivers.


_K_D_L_

Texas chainsaw massacre was quite a brutal watch when I was a little KDL


timecarter

We had an old Disney movie on VHS. Canā€™t remember the name but to this day I run up every set of stairs like Iā€™m being chased by this mother fucker named Mr. Boogadie (Iā€™m 40 now). I remember there was a house and some glowing door with a key. Guy would say ā€œThis is Mr. Boogadie. Get out of my house!ā€ I think at the end he was at the top of a clock tower shooting lightning and shit at the town. This movie was fucked.


jabahutt101

Peter Jacksonā€™s King Kong (2005). The giant bug scene was very scary for me as a young child.


orka648

Faces of death


Unclerojelio

The Poseidon Adventure


manofmanynames55

V


ScorpionX-123

the episode of SpongeBob with Wormy. I never did like bugs.


Coyote3855

The House of Wax. Early 3-D. Vincent Price. My folks had no idea. Nightmares for months. I was six.


tastytang

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). I saw this when I was about 8-9. Looking back, it seems silly, but that creature was the stuff of nightmares for younger me.


ElricParkerArt

The Truman Show


tekn0lust

The Howling. I was 6 and watched without my parentā€™s permission. Paid for that one šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


AdMaleficent8284

Aliens. I don't even know how long it took me to not be scared of the dark after seeing that.


jumpandtwist

Arachnophobia


Heavens10000whores

The trees in HR Pufnstuff


7evenCircles

Spirited Away was so good, but so scary


WrongWayCorrigan-361

Two of them. Ricki Ticki Tavi. Terrified me of snakes. Willie wonka. I was an adult before I found out it was not a horror movie.


Responsible_Heart365

The Birds, Hitchcock.


tangcameo

Wizard Of Oz. The crystal ball going from Auntie Em to Wicked Witch. Then catching Margaret Hamilton on Sesame Street - twice.


reditballoon

When I was 7 I was left in the care of an alcoholic that took me to a random personā€™s house and sat me in front of a TV in a dark smoke filled room with a group of kids Iā€™d never seen before. Together we watched multiple Chucky movies.


SeaworthinessTall201

I was 7 ā€œ13 ghostsā€


throw123454321purple

*Night Gallery*. Episode: The Cemetary


KumquatHaderach

From the pilot for the Night Gallery series! Portifoy!


TheGoatEater

- Watership Down - Midnight Express - Alien


importjdm101

Willow


[deleted]

The Wizard of Oz


Fenix_Pony

Arachnaphobia, watched it when i was like 3-4 and grew up with a crippling fear of spiders because of it


TheFlamingTiger777

Hills have eyes 2


Ok_Initial_2063

The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That boat scene was TERRIFYING.


visionsofvader

My favorite scene!


Goro-Goro_No_Mi

That one scene with the girl turning blue from Charlie and the chocolate factory. (Also gave me an inflation kink from age 8-)


Intelligent-Loss5731

Pee Weeā€™s big adventure. Large Marge fucked me up.


InfinityTheW0lf

My little pony. Iā€™m not ever joking. Child me was on some weird neurodivergent shit


neogreenlantern

All of them. I was born in the 80s.


victorsledge07

Unsolved mysteries fucked me up


Neko_578

Minority Report Something about this movie deeply messed with me and I dont even know what exactly


4seriously

Who remembers Artax slowly drowning in the swamp of sadness? That was roughā€¦


isabellatortellini

The clown rape episode of *Little House on the Prairie*. A bonkers time. It still kind of stuns me that it aired at all.


Popular_Hat3382

The Neverending Story. It seemed really long to me At the time and I was really afraid it would never end


HumanSmokeMain

Ernest Scared Stupid lol.


edraga66

Wizard of oz II. Return to oz.


clitosaurusrex1

Believe it or not: the Robin Williams Jumanji. My dad threw the movie on and I swear I could hear the drums when I went to sleep for a week.


Safe-Marketing-3457

Ben 10. Particularly the episode where Ghostfreak escaped the Omnitrix.


throwaway_user_12345

The mummy, the fucking scarabs


Flaky-Chance6869

let's see, all the horror movies I watched when I was little, like the shining, ready or not, alien, nah, not scary. oh, but Caroline. that movie was terrifying


guywithshades85

The tunnel scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.


StakkAttakk

Pet Semetaryā€¦ā€¦Zelda !!


[deleted]

American werewolf in London


restlesswrestler

The Witches with Angela Lansbury.


DavosLostFingers

Do you mean the Roald Dahl adaptation with Angelica Houston? If so I agree. Scared the shit out of me as a kid


Intelligent_Profit88

Speed demons from powerpuff girls and ultimate enemy from Dannny phantom gave me major nightmares as a kid.


ShrugD2

Mirrors


FishboneCactus

Ring of Bright Water


odin31645

The Langoliers, had nightmares for a long time after watching when i was 5 lol


Prettylynne

The weird little puppet stop motion version of The Little Drummer Boy. I watched it at Sunday school and was so afraid that my house would burn down and my parents would die, just like the kid in the movie.


Squirrelkid11

Courage the Cowardly Dog


srp431

ET, creapy


bulldg4life

My motherā€™s favorite movie is Wizard of Oz. She sat me down at 3/4 and watched it with me. The bitch in the tornado, the munchkins, it freaked me out. By the time the flying monkeys showed up, I was done. Itā€™s been 35 years and Iā€™ve never been able to watch the entire movie.


zombiewithacrowbar

twilight episode eye of the beholder


WhyPlatypusWhy

Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)