What movie/s scared you as a kid?

I didn't realize how obviously humorous "An American Werewolf in London" was as a kid but the infamous **** demon home invasion nightmare scene scared me as a kid!
 
Watership Down. I found a rabbit cartoon to watch and it kicked my butt. Halloween gave me nightmares for years.
 
Crazy doll thing from Trilogy of Terror. No contest. Still creeps me out now, and I haven't seen it in 20 years.
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Fritsch_the_cat said:
Yeah, that one was pretty scary. The Legend of Boggy Creek scared me too. Not a movie but nothing scared me more than that damned wing walker thing on Twilight Zone. I wouldn't get near a window at night for a long time.
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Wow! You got that right! How could I forget that one! We own this movie, and watch it every so often, and it still gets to me 40 years later! "He always travels the creeks....." We used to drive from Galveston back home to Shreveport/Bossier City when we lived there in the early 70s, and it was always late at night, and my dad would scare us while we were driving through the long, dark, lonely wooded areas, with Bigfoot stories!:eek:

And @bb721 -- thank you for mentioning Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Forgot that one, too. The original for me. And kind of that silly version with Matthew McConaughey, too. It was pretty disturbing, if nothing else. lol.
 
Fritsch_the_cat said:
Yeah, that one was pretty scary. The Legend of Boggy Creek scared me too. Not a movie but nothing scared me more than that damned wing walker thing on Twilight Zone. I wouldn't get near a window at night for a long time.
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I remember seeing that lol and being scared at the time. Id go out on the front porch with my pellet gun thinking I was ready for Bigfoot. That area SE okla/W Ark seem to be a hotbed for bigfoot sightings, ive been around those parts a few times and its not somewhere you want to get lost at lol.
 
friday the 13th. it made me absolutely hate horror movies.
 
Boom said:
Watership Down. I found a rabbit cartoon to watch and it kicked my butt. Halloween gave me nightmares for years.
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Yeah, Watership Down. Dark stuff. Would have been 7 or so when my mother took me to see it in the theater. Bad mom. Not sure it really scared me so much as it threw my brain upside down. Hard to be a dopey, carefree kid after seeing that.

Final act of Fantasia however, that one scared me. Major meltdown in the theater. Possibly around that same time/age.
 
I'll also add When a Stranger Calls. My brother and I used to terrorize our babysitters with this movie but, truth be told, we were plenty scared of it too. Then became a teenager and forced into occasional sitter duty. Hard to watch after kids at night without thinking of that movie.

And add me to the Jaws list. By far the king. If I have an irrational fear, it's of dark water and getting bisected by a giant shark while my top half is still conscious. I don't fear clowns or creepy dolls or people in hockey masks anymore, but you could not pay me to go scuba diving.
 
kimrose said:
Wow! You got that right! How could I forget that one! We own this movie, and watch it every so often, and it still gets to me 40 years later! "He always travels the creeks....." We used to drive from Galveston back home to Shreveport/Bossier City when we lived there in the early 70s, and it was always late at night, and my dad would scare us while we were driving through the long, dark, lonely wooded areas, with Bigfoot stories!:eek:

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When it stuck it's arm through the window going after the guy sitting on the toilet scared me, since I already had a fear of window from that Twighlight Zone thing.

And @bb721 -- thank you for mentioning Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Forgot that one, too. The original for me.
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Yeah, I forgot that one too. Scary and disturbing.
 
Achilleslastand said:
I remember seeing that lol and being scared at the time. Id go out on the front porch with my pellet gun thinking I was ready for Bigfoot. That area SE okla/W Ark seem to be a hotbed for bigfoot sightings, ive been around those parts a few times and its not somewhere you want to get lost at lol.
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LOL, I'll have to tell the story some day of the time I saw "The Fouke Monster".
 
http://i1343.***BLOCKED***/albums/o781/evaughn72/poster227x227_zpsmu6my5go.jpeg It would have been even scarier if I would have known it would become a reality in 2015.
 
Fritsch_the_cat said:
Yeah, that one was pretty scary. The Legend of Boggy Creek scared me too. Not a movie but nothing scared me more than that damned wing walker thing on Twilight Zone. I wouldn't get near a window at night for a long time.
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That whole Twilight zone movie freaked me out. The boy who kept adults as prisoners, and yeab the plane wing walker
 
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There are a lot of great examples posted in the thread so far but these are the two movies that terrified me as a teenager. They still do, albeit to a much smaller degree.
 
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