Remember me, Eddie?!
@Suck_on_my_Presence Jaws did, I lived near a lake. Took me a while to realize the lake was really much too small for sharks, but the movie gave me vivid dreams.
Alien terrified me, as the house I lived in had long dark hallways where those beasts or eggs could hide. Saw the film when video2000 and Betamax were still competing. I never found xenomorphs in my house and terror faded, but the franchise stayed with me including Disneyfication.
What actually scared me more was Poltergeist. What a terrifying world, house, family, setting, glow from behind closed doors and the TV sucked you in to the other side.
Return to Oz
Childhood trauma all over the place…
Watched this as an adult. Movie is messed up.
ET. I’d have nightmares so bad that my dad had to sleep in my room because I was so terrified of him (I’d dream he was walking on my bed). He still freaks me out!
Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they’re certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing
I just that with my kid and it for some reason I laughed so hard my kid thought the whole thing was funny. It’s just so absurd and terrible and wonderful. He’s this nightmare murder dude in a kids movie.
It’s genuiy terrifying. But I made it fun for my kid somehow.
I change my mind. I most certainly do not want a boat just like this.
It IS a freakout!
Very much so. When I was a kid my folks tried multiple times to get me to watch this movie and I could never get past the tunnel.
As an adult I still can’t watch it and I love me some Gene Wilder otherwise.
TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!
That shit made me laugh. I loved PeeWee Herman growing up.
To be clear, it still terrifies me.
I enjoy the rest of the movie but this is one of the greatest horror sequences ever. A remake that truly surpasses the original.
EDIT: I have to give a shoutout to the movie that had the most real world effect on me. That would be Arachnophobia. I couldn’t function normally for months. Sitting on the toilet. Putting my shoes on. Sticking my hand in a bag of chips. I was a wreck.
What are these from?
Seems to be this one Twilight Zone: The Movie | Terror at 20,000 Feet
No idea how I never heard about this. Loved the og twilight zone version
Volcano (1997) terrified young me. How could anyone sleep peacefully when lava could just appear out of nowhere?
Needless to say I never lived even remotely close to any kind of geologically active area, let alone a volcano.
Related, Dante’s Peak was terrifying to me as a child.
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When the grandma is screaming in pain from pushing their boat? Still gives me real life terror
I remember seeing a trailer for that movie at the theater and it scared me so bad I had to cover my eyes
In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.
The toxic waste scene fucked me up for a while.
One of my favorite villain-death-scenes of all time
I only saw parts of it and yet it haunted me for years. I found it genuinely terrifying and fucked up.
Who framed Roger rabbit, the scene with the judge guy putting a shoe cartoon into the acid barrel.
Darkness falls.
It’s a movie about the tooth fairy but the tooth fairy is actually an old woman who used to collect the teeth of the children in her village until the townspeople burnt her alive and then she became a spirit who was essentially the tooth fairy but if you ever saw her she’d kill you.
It’s cheesy as hell but it was terrifying when I was younger
That movie is responsible for one of my favorite movie quotes that no one recognizes:
“We’re safe in the car, right!?”
And you’re in fact NOT safe in the car
Gremlins, when they transformed
A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it’s only PG! It’s a comedy!
Yeah that was a mistake.
A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don’t know what the fuck I was thinking.
Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how “family-friendly” movies are anymore. I guess I just don’t really pay attention to that.
For some reason they haven’t kept in touch…
Fun fact: Gremlins was one of the movies which led to the creation of the PG-13 rating.
Lol I do the goddamn same thing. Some form of brain damage i think
That movie fucked me up as a kid. I had recurring nightmares for a decade.
The Evil Queen disguised as an old lady in Snow White
At the height of the cold war, 87 or 88 iirc, a movie came on HBO called Dreamscape. It’s WW3 imagery really blew my mind, I recall having dreams about it for ages. I’d turned it on because a few weeks before I’d really enjoyed Innerspace with the same lead actor, but this was a bit different lol
When I killed your brother, I talked…JUST. LIKE. THIIIIIISSSSS!
Shoe murdering bastard
My theory: Judge Doom needs to act always serious and frightening or else all his minion weasels are laughing themselves to death.
Terminator 1
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead!
This fucked me up more than any monsters… This thing just has one mission and it’s relentless
