Movies that scared you when you were little

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  • fannyfrost
    fannyfrost Posts: 756 Member
    Alice in Wonderland and Jaws (I still check the water for sharks when I go in)
  • MSeel1984
    MSeel1984 Posts: 2,297 Member
    I saw a scene from "The Untouchables" when I was little...it scared the living daylights out of me...
  • ahviendha
    ahviendha Posts: 1,291 Member
    dark crystal, secret of nimh and watership down.

    oh and water world!
  • liannexxx
    liannexxx Posts: 201 Member
    IT (as in the clown film) I couldn't sleep for nearly two days
  • Catlady87
    Catlady87 Posts: 302 Member
    ET definitely!
    Oh and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The bad guy in that was really freaking scary!
  • Tony_Brewski
    Tony_Brewski Posts: 1,376 Member
    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I was always afraid I'd not have enough time to eat all the treats there!
  • micheleld73
    micheleld73 Posts: 914 Member
    The Shining

    ETA - I still won't watch Misery...
  • knitwit0704
    knitwit0704 Posts: 376
    This is a character, not a movie, but the Oompa-Loompas in Willy Wonka (the original).
  • smaihlee
    smaihlee Posts: 171 Member

    Also...not a movie, but The incredible Hulk t.v. show scared the living daylights out of me when he would change.

    THANK YOU. You are the first person I've ever heard of who shared this horrible fear. I desperately loved the show and had a little girl crush on Bill Bixby. But when those buttons started popping off his shirt, I would high-tail it out of the room until I knew he was safely "hulkified".

    Years passed after the show went off-air and I would not have the occasion to watch it again until I was in the hospital, in labor. The TV Land channel seemed to be an entertaining way to pass the time between epidural and full dilation. THE HULK came on and I squee'd with delight. I explained my long-ago fear of the "in between" state to my husband, which he thought was quite funny.

    Lo and behold, it was a "...Hulk" episode I'd never seen before--one in which David is out in the woods and something goes wrong and he gets stuck in the "in between" state for pretty much the entire episode. And here I am, hooked up to IVs and unable to go anywhere. Had I not just told my husband the story of my childhood horror at seeing David Banner morph into the Hulk, he probably wouldn't have taken the remote away from me when I asked him to change the channel. But my hubby is a sick b*stard and he knew that was pretty much the only way I was ever going to get over that fear. :bigsmile:
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
    Chucky and scream
  • caramelgyrlk
    caramelgyrlk Posts: 1,112 Member
    Nightmare on elm street and Chucky
  • catfive1
    catfive1 Posts: 529 Member
    Planet of the Apes
  • Samenamenewlook
    Samenamenewlook Posts: 296 Member
    Nightmare on Elm Street
  • celtbell3
    celtbell3 Posts: 738 Member
    Child: Wizard of Oz (monkeys)
    Teenager: Each and Every Nightmare on Elm Street (I didn't sleep for two months)
    Adult: All NEWS
  • VorJoshigan
    VorJoshigan Posts: 1,106 Member
    ET

    I still have nightmares that men in space suits will come to get me.
  • SonnyDelite99
    SonnyDelite99 Posts: 189
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1974)
  • marywilsoncline
    marywilsoncline Posts: 301 Member
    Poltergiest and pet cemertary:frown:
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Island of Terror
    The Blob
    The Exorcist
  • NewCaddy
    NewCaddy Posts: 845 Member
    Snow White (the dragon scene)
  • Denjo060
    Denjo060 Posts: 1,008
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1974)







    OMG me too and I was in my 30s when I saw it for the first time FREAKY!!!
  • NavyKnightAh13
    NavyKnightAh13 Posts: 1,394 Member
    E.T. and let me tell you, every time my 17 month old points, all I can think of is "where is the little light"

    Carrie. Still to this very day, I have to convince myself that no one is telepathic.

    The Exorcist.
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
    The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock) I saw it when I was like 9 years old and it scaredme soooo bad! :noway:
  • onwarddownward
    onwarddownward Posts: 1,683 Member
    Poltergiest.
  • carbons2k
    carbons2k Posts: 383 Member
    frightnight... the original!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • KatLifter
    KatLifter Posts: 1,314 Member
    Gremlins. And, "The It".

    O.O

    ME TOO, Gremlins lives on in my mind as the scariest movie of all time. We had to leave the theater I was so scared!
  • racheljonel
    racheljonel Posts: 400 Member
    E.T.

    Me too! Still freaks me out to this day. My parents make fun of me constantly and my mom even got me an E.T. ornament for Xmas as a joke. I had my dad check under my bed every night for about a year. I was convinced that disgusting, wrinkly abomination was hiding under there.

    haha my mom makes fun of me for it too. I think it was the whole tents and like, medical squad scenes that really freaked me out the most. It was like WTF are they doing to this little walking uncircumcised penis man.
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    He-Man:Master of the Universe.

    I still haven't rewatched that movie because it scared me so much as a kid.

    And in my defense, my brother was a major He-Man fan.
  • avababy05
    avababy05 Posts: 930 Member
    The Birds
  • KatieHall77
    KatieHall77 Posts: 129 Member
    Yes! All Dogs Go to Heaven had really dark themes, it was all about death and organized crime.

    Aliens with Sigourney Weaveer was my big one. Saw it when I was maybe six, my parents thought it was just a Sci Fi film. Boy were they wrong. That movie ruined my desire to ever be an astronaut.
  • stealthSLOTH
    stealthSLOTH Posts: 695 Member
    CARRIE! (cringes)

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