Scenes from scary movies you remember in childhood that freaked you out.

[-JKR-]

Also, Jeffrey Jones' character freaked me out in Howard the Duck. I managed to watch the entire movie though...

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I remember when my parents got our first VCR back when I was about 5 or 6. My mom picked the first 3 videos they could rent back when renting began. I remember like yesterday. She got Jaws, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and for the kids, she got Pinocchio. The scene that freaked me most was when Pinocchio started to turn into the donkey. And then the part with the giant whale. Jaws and TCM didn't really phase me much.

 

[wiegeabo]

I remember when my parents got our first VCR back when I was about 5 or 6. My mom picked the first 3 videos they could rent back when renting began. I remember like yesterday. She got Jaws, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and for the kids, she got Pinocchio. The scene that freaked me most was when Pinocchio started to turn into the donkey. And then the part with the giant whale. Jaws and TCM didn't really phase me much.

Walt Disney. Scaring the **** out of children since 1937.

 

[Gunga Diner]

I saw The Passion of the Christ when I was 11. The images of satan gave me nightmares for years. Now I'm agnostic.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Hi,

Excalibur ( John Boorman ) when it was released in France, I was very young and I asked my parents how they managed to find an actor that accept to have his eye removed during the hanging scene ( the tree with all the hanged men that have failed Morgana trial ).

 

[Figs]

I don't think I've ever heard an audience scream so loud than I heard with that scene.

I remember catching that movie on TV around when I was in middle school. That has got to be one of the longest and craziest buildups in most films that i've seen. Just that long shot down the hall watching the nurse go back and forth wondering if something was going to happen or what the hell the point of it all was for.

 

[Bim]

So no one is going to mention Poltergeist 2 here?

The mother****ing old man from Poltergeist 2. The absolute scariest old man I have EVER seen. He gave made me lose sleep and I could never get him out of my head. God, he gives me the creeps just thinking about him.

God is in his holy temple.
Earthly thoughts, be silent now.
While with revrence we assemble
And before his presence bow

Man, how could i forget about him? he freaked me out.. to this day that old man just creeps the hell out of me.

Have to agree with bullets about the sister in law from Pet Semetary... man was that woman unpleasant to look at. And the kid going devilish was a bit creepy too

 

[Doctor Jones]

The Grady twin sister scenes in The Shining. My first Kubrick film at a young age. Around 8 or 9 I think. Jesus Christ.

 

[Haff]

Stephen King's It, Tim Curry clown scene in the shower.

 

[The Joker]

God is in his holy temple.
Earthly thoughts, be silent now.
While with revrence we assemble
And before his presence bow

Man, how could i forget about him? he freaked me out.. to this day that old man just creeps the hell out of me.

 

[danoyse]

God is in his holy temple.
Earthly thoughts, be silent now.
While with revrence we assemble
And before his presence bow

Man, how could i forget about him? he freaked me out.. to this day that old man just creeps the hell out of me.

A kid in my middle school used to sing that in the hallways right after that movie showed up on HBO for the first time.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Bastard.

 

[Lighthouse]

You know what guys, compared to today's kids, we got off easy.

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[wiegeabo]

Bastard.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Bastard.

Any scene with this guy was creepy too...

 

[wiegeabo]

Any scene with this guy was creepy too...

God damn, that movie traumatized me when I was a kid. The sphere drilling into a guy's head? Yeah, I didn't sleep well after that...

 

[Alchemyst]

What was the name of that movie with those dolls, one of them had like a really small head and large body, another one had a drill mounted on his head, and the last one had like a blade and a hook for hands??? Once again, that stop motion stuff made all of there movements look creepy.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Any scene with this guy was creepy too...

You son of a *****. I can't look at your avvy now.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

What was the name of that movie with those dolls, one of them had like a really small head and large body, another one had a drill mounted on his head, and the last one had like a blade and a hook for hands??? Once again, that stop motion stuff made all of there movements look creepy.

Puppet Master, but that movie was cool because weren't the puppets kind of good guys in that?

 

[Alchemyst]

*shudders* **** YOU!!!!!!!!!

 

[Fanticon]

i saw the first predator when i was like 7 or 8 and have pissed myself to sleep for the last 20 years since. thats how f'd up that movie was for me at that age. Because as a child I had never seen Arnold not in control in a movie and here he was, at least to me, in some believable danger. I'm not gonna lie, something was very deep rooted in me after seeing Predator so young that I still have an occasional nightmare about being stalked by the predator.

The Blob 1988 scared the crap out of me...what a horrible way to go, any death scene in the blob. That is a seriously awesome remake and friggin' terrifying for me wen i was 7 or whatever. The Blob kills and absorbs anything in its path. See I can imagine in real life the horror of getting murdered and attacked because that is a reality we hope to never face but see in the news all the time...but getting killed by the friggin' blob! I can't imagine the horror, not even getting mauled by wild animal or ripped apart by shark even compares.

1985 Cats Eye...that freaky troll and that cat appearing to suffocate the little girl. i was scared of my own black cat when i saw that movie when i was like 6.

Twilight Zone, the thing on the wing, dan akroyd at the end of the movie, and the girl who's mouth was sewn shut.

The Roach Motel Death in Nightmare on Elm St. 4 might be funny now but not when I was a kid. That grossed me out.

I don't know...thats just a few but one thing is for sure I watched waaaayyyy to many of them when I was a kid.

 

[Pittman4Two]

Halloween - the music. Just about the entire evening after the sun went down.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Halloween made me lose sleep when I was younger too. Carpenter shot this film so damn well. The breathing, the mask... those jump moments, and who can forget the music? So simple, the movies afterwards ****ed it all up. It got over complicated. It works and it's scary because it's simple.

 

[Dark Victory]

Any scene with this guy was creepy too...

The scene in Phantasm where the man is standing over the kid's bed scared the hell out of me. Also, I remember catching the tv spots for 28 Days Later waaaayyyy back in 2003 when I was about eight or nine, and I couldn't go to bed with those images streaming through my head. Of course, the actual movie wasn't even that scary.

 

[Figs]

1985 Cats Eye...that freaky troll and that cat appearing to suffocate the little girl. i was scared of my own black cat when i saw that movie when i was like 6.

You shouldn't have been scared of your cat but happy whenever you saw it.

It was probably protecting you every night from the little troll who was standing on your chest sucking your soul out while you were unaware.