It could be a Hitchcock film, Kubrick, The Scream franchise, or Halloween? What was it?
For me, it was the Nightmare on Elm Street films, particularly #1.
There's something brilliant about a villain that can only kill you in your dreams, with razor sharp blades that he wears on his hands and oh, by the way he has a severely burned and grotesque face.
I was 10 when I saw it for the first time and I slept with a butchers knife under my pillow for a week afterwards.
What about you? What's your pick?
Alien - the first one. Scary stuff.
Around the same time, I saw "ET", in the theatre, before I saw any previews, or knew anything about it. I was expecting a movie like "Alien". I think it's a much better movie in this situation (almost impossible since then, sad to say); the first half hour or so is actually pretty scary. ET is creepy as hell, he stalks a little girl, and you don't even see what it looks like for a long time.
As a kid, this little shit haunted me through the streets of Egypt for many many months. Recently, the Evil Dead remake didn't...scare me, per say, but man that shit was intense. My heart-rate was still up long after we'd left the movie. Tangibly related edit: FUCK JUMPSTART FOURTH GRADE. This absolutely terrified me as a kid. I STILL avoid watching it, all I did was quickly copy and paste the youtube link. Nightmare fuel. I just skipped it and went to Jumpstart 5th grade. Jumpstart 5th grade was my shit, tho. I did play JS 4th Grade when I was like 6, so that might have something to do with it.
Preach on Chuckie, man. Like b_b, I was like, 6 when I saw it, and I was afraid of that guy until one day after moving to a new house, I had a dream where I confronted him in the basement. He was trying to take me down and I choked the fucker with my longer arms Epic struggle ensued (as it only can in dreams) and I managed to conquer my foe (and my fear). After that, no more fear of Chuckie.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure http://i.imgur.com/09qHFgX.gif Fuck that scene.
Good call, I always wanted to fast-forward that scene, but couldn't because I didn't want to appear weak. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Every few months my mom would visit her family in Chicago and my dad, my brothers and I would have what we called "bachelor's weekend." Always entailed eating schlock and watching scary movies, which my mom hated. It was during these weekends that I was introduced to The Shining, Silence of the Lambs, and Cape Fear, all around the ages of 6-12. Totally inappropriate. But the movie that got to me the most during one of these weekends was, inexplicably, Poltergeist III. That movie effed me up so bad that I couldn't be alone in front of a mirror for years. I mean, seriously, years. How did you get away with the butchers knife thing?
Those are all terrifying films, especially for a young tyke. I recall seeing the shining at about 12 years old and being so shook up by being aroused and terrified all at once. You know the scene with the hotty in the bath that turns in to an old corpse of a woman? That got me. Also those twins on the bikes. Sheesh. Forgot all about the poltergeist films, I watched them too often as a kid. Freaked me out. noooo! Dude still freaks me out
Think I was too young when I watched The Shining to get that specific reaction. It was the blood pouring out of the elevators that did it for me (freaked me out, I mean, not aroused me...). Cape Fear went way over my head, too. As did The Vanishing, which I watched again recently and wished I hadn't. Funny thing about Poltergeist- first one didn't do a thing to me. Something tells me that that would be the one that got me now- more for the whole "kid disappearing in the middle of the night" thing than any supernatural aspect. What an evil series. My dad mentioned one time that Don't Look Now is just about the scariest movie he's seen as a grown-up with kids. Anybody seen it? Not sure I want to.
This is exactly what happened to me. Babysitter put me in the back bedroom to watch Free Willy. Free Willy? No thank you. I'm a grown ass five/six year old. Went to the living room, stood behind the recliner, and watched as Chucky murdered somebody. I was scared of the dark, and of all dolls (Poltergeist didn't help) for years.
Evil Dead was pure nightmare fuel to 11 year old Camarillo. Book of the Dead, corpses in the cellar, the tree rape. I couldn't wander in the woods behind my house at night for months. I was too young to recognize it for the classic dark horrorcomedy it really is. "Shut up Linda!"
I was shown Tim Burton's Batman (1989) when I was 5 years old. I went out of the room to get a drink and walked back into the room when Jack Nicholson's Joker appeared on screen. Yeah... Jack Nicholson is a scary man. I had nightmares for 2 years because of that
Two contenders, for some of the weirdest reasons. - Beauty and the Beast, the Enchanted Christmas, from when I was five years old. Yes, the direct-to-video sequel, not the original movie, which I never watched until I was like 14. It was because of Forte. His creepy, empty eyes and the way his face would fill up the entire screen on so many shots. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when I was 9. Mostly because of the two messages that were scrawled in bloody paint on the walls (THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE). My pupils still dilate when I see them.
I remember being young and home alone - what an unusual, beautiful circumstance, one to be taken advantage of! - flipping through TV channels. The guide told me that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was about to start. It must have been 8 pm and Buffy must have still been on the air. I'm home alone, I thought. Vampires are cool. I want to watch this. I hunkered down, wrapped in a blanket and already anticipating the delicious spine-tingles of fear. This was so bad of me. My mother would never let me watch Buffy if she was home. Heck, she didn't even like me watching Indiana Jones. Buffy was about to start! I don't even know if they got past the theme song when the standard Buffy/slightly-scary-TV-show warning came on: I had never seen this warning before, and I was a bit of a serious kid at times. Parents strongly cautioned. Material may be inappropriate... And long story short, I got so spooked by the warning that I changed the channel, and then I went a step further, and I turned the TV off.
__ __ __ __ I had some trouble coming up with a movie at first and then I remembered: Stephen King's Rose Red. Which I watched for the first time, rented from a movie rental place, and which was so long it was on two videotapes. Yes, kids, two. Like The King and I and I think Gone With The Wind. Anyway, there's a scene in there where Emory, the mostly-annoyingly-awful kid trapped in the haunted mansion with the others that we like more, is in bed trying to sleep. Out of nowhere first one, then another woman appears in bed next to him and start trying to seduce him. He resists. The camera focuses on Emory and one woman. Suddenly, the woman on his other side reaches her hand up to stroke his arm...and it's turned into a dried-out, skeletal, brown bony thing. The special effects are laughable in this day and age but then, I was terrified. __ __ __ __ I love horror movies and being scared. In college I went on a spree of renting B (and C and D) movies. There's one I'll never forget called "Rest Stop." It is truly terrible, I grant you that, and the plot is missing a lot of sense. But at one point it plays on a deep-seated fear I'd nursed, at that point, for several years: of being in/entering a restroom stall, sitting down to do my business, and then having some previously unseen/unperceived terrifying supernatural creature reach out from under the stall next to me and grab my leg. Emphasis in order to try and convey the feelings of these fears. So if anyone's afraid of shit like that I'd totally recommend that movie. __ __ __ __ P. S. dudes, my birthday is on Halloween. Love getting scared. Last year I watched so many horror movies (and American Horror Story episodes) that I gave myself nightmares. Didn't stop. Can't stop. Won't stop. c:Parents Strongly Cautioned
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I HATE horror movies. I can't watch them, I will see scary things everywhere in the dark and I scream at things that I know are going to happen, just like that Harry Potter scene where they fight Nagini in Godric's Hollow and she falls down the stairs and you know she is going to jump back up and attack. I screamed like a little girl in a cinema full of teens... If I had to chose a movie that tormented me for the longest time I would have to say The Basketball Diaries. Yes, it is a movie with DiCaprio about drugs and I had nightmares for 3 years, I thought they will never stop. My extreme fear of drug users came from there, I would avoid people smoking weed thinking they could force me to become addicted or something. Now I am for legalizing all drugs, funny.
My parents showed me 'The Sixth Sense' when I was about 11/12. I was scared for weeks, especially so as the house I lived in back then was very creepy. The scene where the voice calls to kid from the cupboard at the top of stairs was the one that stuck with me.