re: What movie traumatized you as a kid?

Nightmare on Elm St.

The Exorcist

it's good to see Fire in the Sky get some love, that movie is absolutely terrifying.

I don't exactly remember the name. I think it was an old Hammer Horror movie. I recall a midget falling on an axe. I just remember being disturbed by the whole movie.

Another movie had a women looking through some binoculars that shot nails into her eyes when she tried to focus. That one really got to me as a kid.

The Lost Continent creeped me out as a kid. Another Hammer Horror film. I watched it a few years ago and wasn't sure what caused so much dread when I watched it as a kid.

The movie based on the incident in the apartment complex where a woman was stalked and slowly killed why nobody in the apartment complex helped or even called the police. That one screwed me up.

I think as a kid, monster movies didn't normally creep me out. What really messed with me, was normal human beings doing horrible things.

Although Dracula vs Frankenstein did make me ill when Dracula pulled off Frankenstein's arms then head. I was not ready for that.

As a kid?

The Road?

2009?

How old are you?

Damn, I feel old...



I'd have to say Red Dawn (84) because I literally thought the Russians were coming at any moment!!!! I was 7.

The Exorcist
Pet Semetary (Zelda)
Candyman
I vaguely remember freaking out at the aliens in Close Encounters, and my parents trying to calm me down by telling me that they were nice aliens, like ET
Twilight Zone (Lithgow on the plane)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (Large Marge)

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Wizard of Oz.

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Both of my kids have seen it multiple times. There is nothing terrifying about it.

Personally, The Excorcist at 4 years traumatized me for a few years. Now I don't believe they could make a movie to freak me out. I'm over that crap. Horror movies are no different than action movies for me.

Im selective about horror. If its not intended to scare the piss out of someone I'm wasting my time and so far I've wasted alot if time. The Conjuring series is great entertainment but I've yet to find anything else close.

Ive seen Leprechaun ive actually seen the entire series on tv, I didn't realize until about 2-3 years ago a young Jennifer Anniston is one of the leads

ive never found it scary, IMO they tried to make it too much like Childs Play of course I saw it on t when I was 9 so...

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The Thing for me. I was far too young to see a movie like that but convinced my aunt to take me. After the movie she dropped me off and left while I went to retrieve the spare key for the front door. We lived in the country a mile away from our closest neighbors. I ended up dropping the key and it fell in a place that I couldn't reach it. I had a slight freak out and went HAM on the front door trying to wake my parents up. They were quite amused when they opened the door. Me not so much.

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Thanks for sharing, baw. I felt that way a few times as a small kid.