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Posted: Dec 13 2005 12:24 pm

I find that a lot of people seem to have a movie or two from their past that has fucked them up a little. I have a friend who watched The Exorcist while babysitting (after the kids went to bed) on one New Years Eve back when she was in Jr High, and she went totally hysterical and had to call the kids' parents and get them to come home.

Me - I have a ton of movies like this. But the one that messed me up the most as a kid would have to be A Nightmare On Elm Street 3, Dream Warriors. Watched it at a sleepover birthday party in the 5th grade, and didn't sleep for a week afterwards. I remember being completely overwhelmed by the scene where the kid gets his veins ripped out and is used like a marionette by Freddy.

Anybody else have a movie that fucked them up a little when they were young?

Posted: Dec 13 2005 03:51 pm

Either Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, both of which I saw the cable versions of on USA's Up All Night with Gilbert Gottfried. Halloween is a brilliant horror movie to begin with and when you're 11 and watching it at midnight on Saturday, forget about it. The parts that freaked me out most in NOES5 were the comic book thing and the part where Freddy turned the girl into a doll.

Also Time Bandits. The ending always scared and confused me.

Posted: Dec 13 2005 04:09 pm

This is going to sound silly for a reason which I will explain. I was quite a bit screwed up by The Blair Witch Project when it first came to the video store. This is mainly for three reasons in an order inverse to its effect.

A) I watched it in the dark.
B) I watched it while alone in the house.
C) I thought it was the actual footage from the students, not actors, etc.

Yea, that was pretty ignorant of me. Once I learned that it wasn't the actual footage, it didn't bother me so much. The kid in the corner (hanging?) was so weird though...

Posted: Dec 13 2005 05:41 pm

Child's Play 2. To this day, I claim it is the scarest film I've ever seen. Why? I was like 7 years old when I saw it! I had Chucky nightmares for years. They seriously didn't stop until I saw Bride of Chucky. That doll was fucked up! But now... the franchise is a comedy and I found out the creator, Don Mancini, is gay. It both makes sense yet puzzles me.

The Boogedy movies from Disney also deeply affected my life. I didn't see a Jason movie until a month before seeing Vs. Freddy. And it was Jason X. Freddy flicks, I saw part three when I was in 8th grade. Alas, after you've seen Chucky nothing scares you.

Seriously, a movie can not scare me the way CP2 did. Not The Exorcist, not The Shining, and especially not Poltergist.

Posted: Dec 13 2005 08:51 pm

Rycona wrote:

Yea, that was pretty ignorant of me. Once I learned that it wasn't the actual footage, it didn't bother me so much. The kid in the corner (hanging?) was so weird though...

this part was the only part that creeped me out.
i dont think he was hanging,just standing in the corner.

actually,now that you mention it he m ight have been hanging. i dont remember

Posted: Dec 14 2005 02:47 am

Mikey was SO not hanging. He was just standing in the corner. There is a noose in front of the house to hint that the house was Rustin Parr's house (which has burned down in terms of the movie, so it's creeeeeeeeeepy that house shouldn't be there!)

Chances are, I'm a way bigger Blair Witch fan than anyone else on the internet.

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Dumb as it seems, when I was little, it was the Disney-produced "Mister Boogedy" pictures that scared me shitless. He just floated there like a cross between the Emperor and a zombie, going "boogedy, boogedy, boo!" and for some reason I always lost it. There was even a parental ban on me watching either "Mister Boogedy" or "Bride of Boogedy" in those days because they both gave me nightmares.

Posted: Dec 14 2005 10:43 am

I didn't really watch a lot of scary movies as a kid, though you may or may not know that The Witches left an indelible scar on me.

And though it wasn't a movie, Mr. Stack and his Unsolved Mysteries, especially the ghost ones, scared the heck out of me.

Posted: Dec 14 2005 03:01 pm

I remember Mr. Boogedy. My friend had it on tape and he used to talk about how scary it was. I watched it and then I punched him in the head. We were in 2nd-3rd grade at the time. I read the book and saw the movie It in 1st grade, so I suppose at that point Mr. Boogedy didn't stand a chance.

Another thing that just plain creeped the Hell out of me was the scene where the flies attack/kill the priest in, I think, The Amityville Horror. I just don't like buzzing insects and such. =-=shudders=-=

Posted: Dec 14 2005 03:38 pm

Valdronius wrote:

I didn't really watch a lot of scary movies as a kid, though you may or may not know that The Witches left an indelible scar on me.

God, how could I forget The Witches and It !? Those two were seriously f'ed up. Shocked

Posted: Dec 14 2005 04:39 pm

One night I was watching Jason Takes Manhattan when I was about 9 with my sister and my mom and the lights went out about halfway through. I remember being ridiculously freaked out but trying not to show it because it was more fun torturing my sister, who was probably about 7 or so. Good times.

Posted: Dec 14 2005 06:13 pm

The first time I saw Blair Witch was up at a friend's cottage shortly after it had come out. I didn't know anything about the movie at the time, and had no clue whether it was real or not. For the rest of the night, whenever there was even the slightest noise from outside, we were all like "What the hell was that?!!"

Posted: Dec 15 2005 11:30 am

When I was a kid, All Dogs Go to Heaven scared me. Dogs trying to murder each other, the death scenes, heaven, hell, dog-satan, and all the little demon guys, not to mention all those voodoo rats and that bigass aligator! That shit really freaked me out!

Hee hee, I love that crazy gator now though.

Posted: Dec 15 2005 01:15 pm

I love All Dogs Go to Heaven! It's one of my favorite children's movies. I know the scene you're talking about. He has that dream about all the demons and stuff and then he wakes up on a broom and falls over. Then he has to go find Anne Marie because she ran off to the Wallop family and... =-=rambles=-=

Posted: Dec 16 2005 01:03 am

Dude, while watching Superman III I remembered that my sisters use to give me a hard time because I thought the robot chick at the end was scary. Seeing her now, I'm still scared. That bitch is Frightening!

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I grew up with Nightmare on Elm Street, but no matter how many times I watched it, the first one always scared the ever-loving shit out of me. Watching Tina get sliced up and thrown around the room while Rod just sat there screaming.... ugh.

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I saw Terminator first time when I was about 3 or 4 years old. My dad wanted me to sit still while he was cutting my hair. He kept me shit stiff in seat by showing a movie where huge guy guns down people. Not knowing how to read, it was kinda scary to watch it, as I missed all of the plot.

Joined: Apr 24 2006 Posts: 292

Well I was watching Nickalodeon and they had this short movie about the monster in the closet with yellow eyes. It was cartoonish but still I would be afriad of the dark from watching that movie and close my closet door until I could only see the white.

Posted: May 02 2006 09:18 am

theres is a lot of movie who scared me while i was young but all those movie became all my favorites one later while i was older Very Happy

all those movie scared me while a was 8 or younger

Predator 1 (oah my god, hunter's from outer space.... :\)
Terminator 1 and/or 2 (killing robot from future is always frightening Smile

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Darth Vader (man that guy is scary with is Force's Power lol)
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Joined: Jun 01 2006 Posts: 70

No movies freaked me out as a kid, I found most of them funny lol. To add to the topic though I'll just say The Ring messed me up, and I'll save you time making fun of me because everyone I know has already done that lol.

Posted: Jun 02 2006 12:03 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

Also Time Bandits. The ending always scared and confused me.

Now why would Time Bandits confuse you? I loved that movie, even though it was very weird. Anything in particular that scared you in the ending?

Posted: Jun 02 2006 12:23 am

Gremlins gave me a permanent fear of public bathrooms. I avoid urinals because I know my dick will get bit off if I try to use one.

Actually, I'm making that up. I've never seen Gremlins.

Posted: Jun 02 2006 09:29 am

rj815 wrote:

Now why would Time Bandits confuse you? I loved that movie, even though it was very weird. Anything in particular that scared you in the ending?

When his parents explode and then the emergency services just drive off and leave Kevin all by himself, homeless, parentless, and penniless? When I was 8, that was a pretty messed up thing to have to try and make sense of.

Murdar Machene wrote:

Actually, I'm making that up. I've never seen Gremlins.

Seeing as the infamous toilet monster scene was from Ghoulies, I don't doubt it. Razz

Posted: Jun 02 2006 12:43 pm

Murdar Machene wrote:

Gremlins gave me a permanent fear of public bathrooms. I avoid urinals because I know my dick will get bit off if I try to use one.

Actually I figured the scene with the moving, scalding showerheads in It would've done that for you.

Personally, I remember being creeped out by that huge sneezing snail in The Neverending Story.

Posted: Jun 02 2006 01:06 pm

I'm going to mention "The People Under the Stairs" because I saw only one scene of it when I was a kid. That was when the little girl is thrown in to a boiling hot bathtub. Freaked me out for years until I saw the whole movie a decade later. Now I love it, because it's so funny. Laughing