Childhood Films that Scarred You For Life

[Boom]

That noise he makes when he's scared always made me laugh.

It's like a cat meowing very loudly through a high-speed fan.

 

[Solidus]

Yeah E.T. creeped me out as a kid too. The part that freaked me out the most is when Elliot is laying on the lawn chair outside of the shed waiting for him that first time. The way he shuffles up to him is really creepy. As a kid it terrified me.

 

[scarlet-witch]

I knew a lot of kids that were afraid of E.T. i had no idea they tried to "cute" him up in a dvd release.

 

[Drizzle]

I knew a lot of kids that were afraid of E.T. i had no idea they tried to "cute" him up in a dvd release.

It was a theatrical release too. They also replaced the cops' guns with walkie talkies in the same version.

 

[Finarfiniel]

Return to Oz

The Wheelers right?

Yes! Not to mention the evil Queen who has loads of different heads and the super creepy stop motion Nome King at the end. When he starts melting... *shudder*

Temple of Doom: The heart removal sequence

Temple of Doom gave me horrendous nightmares as a kid, including one I can clearly remember to this day where me, my dad and my sister got trapped in the temple and we were running down an endless tunnel, being chased by giant insects. The insects obviously affected me much deeper than the deranged cultist magically removing a live man's heart.

 

[Roose Bolton]

The Neverending Story.

Seeing that damned horse drown was terrible for 5 year old me.

 

[Drizzle]

The Neverending Story.

Seeing that damned horse drown was terrible for 5 year old me.

That was bad. Almost as bad as this guy:

 

[scarlet-witch]

It was a theatrical release too. They also replaced the cops' guns with walkie talkies in the same version.

I remember the Dark Crystal freaking me out a little. Especially towards the end when the girl gets stabbed.

 

[Drizzle]

I actually didn't see The Dark Crystal until I was an adult and the Skeksis still creeped me out.

 

[childeroland]

When the Wind Blows

Plague Dogs

Paperhouse

Grave of the Fireflies

Return to Oz

 

[scifiwolf]

E.T. scarred me at 4 years old. Lifelong fear of the dark after that one. I could watch monsters and horror and war and murder and all manner of terrifying subjects, but E.T. destroyed me. I didn't need him cuter or more animated, or the guns removed, I needed Steven to be a s**ttier director who wasn't so awesome at filming atmosphere.

 

[Zant]

All dogs go to Heaven. Why does this film exist?

 

[The Joker]

It's like a cat meowing very loudly through a high-speed fan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c5WVU5XmRw&t=1m4s

Yes! Not to mention the evil Queen who has loads of different heads and the super creepy stop motion Nome King at the end. When he starts melting... *shudder*

Oh Princess Mombi. Yes she was creepy. Funny I didn't mind the Nome King as a kid. I thought the sight of him wearing the ruby slippers was hilarious.

 

[Muze]

not a film but I remember being scared by a segment of 'Freddy's Nightmares.' it was the episode Missing Persons; just had to look it up. it was the first time i had been so scared by something that I turned it off. I couldn't sleep that night. and, to break me of it, my parents put me in the garage and locked the door.

 

[Timebomb]

I actually didn't see The Dark Crystal until I was an adult and the Skeksis still creeped me out.

Definitely The Dark Crystal. That movie I'd just too weird for children to watch. I saw it when I was really young and it's stayed with me ever since and not in a good way.

 

[scarlet-witch]

All dogs go to Heaven. Why does this film exist?

I ask myself why the sequel exists. I liked All Dogs Go To Heaven (though I look at it with more sadness now after reading what happened to Judith Barsi, the girl who voiced Anne Marie) but why on Earth did they give this a musical sequel? They did the same thing to Secret of NIMH. Awful..

 

[moviefreak]

None. That's 'cause I was not easily scared as a child. I was the one to yell "boooo!" to my sister. heh

As a teen The Exorcist was the only one that really gave me psychological creepiness, that was in late 1970s as I didn't see it on the first run in1973. But it lasted just for a few days. lolol

 

[Drizzle]

I ask myself why the sequel exists. I liked All Dogs Go To Heaven (though I look at it with more sadness now after reading what happened to Judith Barsi, the girl who voiced Anne Marie) but why on Earth did they give this a musical sequel? They did the same thing to Secret of NIMH. Awful..

The first one was a musical too. Or at least, there were a couple songs in it, like the one with the alligator.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Weird one I guess, but as a kid I was terrified of Edward Scissorhands. Not the movie itself, just the guy's chalk white, scarred face. I could not enjoy the film until I was in my teens.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I'm just happy I'm not the only one that had a bad reaction to E.T. the first time seeing it.

 

[mikeboydus]

Creepshow, especially The Crate, The Creep and Father's Day. I may have been 4 or 5 years old at the time. I credit that film as desensitizing me to other horror films like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween, which I did not find very scary as a child, though Clive Barker's Rawhead Rex bothered me pretty bad around the age of 7 to 8.

 

[Muze]

Creepshow, especially The Crate, The Creep and Father's Day. I may have been 4 or 5 years old at the time. I credit that film as desensitizing me to other horror films like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween, which I did not find very scary as a child, though Clive Barker's Rawhead Rex bothered me pretty bad around the age of 7 to 8.

Joe Hill's acting debut

 

[Warhammer]

My dad also let me watch that before I was a teen because I had gotten my hands on an Entertainment Weekly magazine that called it the scariest movie of all time. He finally gave into my pestering and it scared me more than any film I had ever seen. I slept on my bedroom floor because I thought you had to be in bed to be possessed.

Then I watched it again when I was a teen and had a complete 180 viewing experience and was like "this is a masterpiece!"

"The Version You've Never Seen" cut of the film, my goodness. The superimposed demon face in various scenes, the spider walk, the digital remaster, etc.

But to be quite honest, as I've gotten older, it is such a well made film. Not exactly scary but you get hooked, especially Father Karras's story.

 

[scarlet-witch]

"The Version You've Never Seen" cut of the film, my goodness. The superimposed demon face in various scenes, the spider walk, the digital remaster, etc.

But to be quite honest, as I've gotten older, it is such a well made film. Not exactly scary but you get hooked, especially Father Karras's story.

Yes! The Version You've Never Seen was the cut I watched. I actually don't think I've seen the original, come to think of it. I'm pretty sure the DVD I own of it was the newer version too.

It's amazing to me how afraid I was before she even cut up her face. Just the thrashing around in the bed and the spider crawl terrified me.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

I loved A Clockwork Orange which I first saw when I was 5 and Caligula, which I saw a couple of months later. But Tommy creeped me out for whatever reason