re: What movies scared you when you were little that you didn’t watch till you were an adult

I wasn't afraid to go see anything as a 4th grader thru college.

Even though they scared me so much I slept with my head under the covers & had a wooden stake between my mattress and box springs thru elementary school, I loved scary movies. The small town I lived in got lots of older movies so I grew up going to Hammer Studio double features with Christopher Lee as Dracula. I saw Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, The Exorcist, Jaws, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Thing, The Omen, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), all the way thru to 80's stuff like An American Werewolf in London, in the theater. We had a drive in that showed old movies so I saw the Lon Chaney Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy (1932), The Birds, King Kong, the Godzilla movies, the Vincent Price movies, and a few of the Roger Corman B-horrors there.

After I was grown I didn't enjoy them as much. As an adult, I've gone to see the Exorcist sequels/perquel, anything from George A. Romero or Robert Rodriguez, and a few others on purpose. I've also caught stuff like Event Horizon by accident. It scared the sh*t out of me.