What Movie Traumatized You as a Kid?

[triplets_93]

As a little kid, watching Invaders From Mars at home on the b&w TV set scared me.

 

[rynochop]

The shining..I was in a hotel last month at the end room and expected those girls to come out.ha

 

[Doomsday]

This one gave me nightmares for a while when I was younger

 

[NorthoftheRedRiver]

I'm pretty amazed at some of the movies that you guys were allowed to watch as kids. Different times, I guess.

 

[Vtwin]

The Exorcist.

I have to give Jaws some love too. Even though I could rationalize some reality into most horror flicks and I was nowhere near an ocean, Jaws had me thinking hard at o-dark-thirty the next morning when we were loading up the boat to go duck hunting on an island in the large fresh water lake that hadn't seen a man eating fish in 10,000 years.

 

[Khartun]

The Omen
The Car
Duel

I loved The Car. Great show!

 

[John813]

Fire in the Sky

I've always had a alien fear

Yup. Any alien movie would make me sleep with the lights on for a bit.

 

[DallasEast]

I skimmed the thread and may have missed it being mentioned already but the original 1958 The Blob traumatized me during childhood (e.g. late 60's to early 80's). There was something very unsettling for me about a creature that could catch you within any fortified structure by squeezing through the tiniest opening and then liquifying your entire body. It inspired some pretty good nightmares in my youth.

Leap forward to the late 80's. I was apprehensive about The Blob remake but it was extremely stupid. I laughed throughout much of the movie, sometimes out loud.

'Traumatize' and 'horrified' are two different concepts for me though. The Exorcist horrified me but it did not traumatize me like The Blob.

 

[quickccc]

the Exorcist
Dawn of the Dead
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws

- the Exorcist - Still proclaimed to this very day as the scariest horror movie of all time.
Name another scare flick in real life that forced ambulances to movie theaters for shocked, fainting viewing victims. .
my screaming sisters inside the car, in the drive thru theaters did not help matters for me..lol To this day, i refuse to watch it late at night..

- Jaws- Ben Gardner’s one eyed, chomped off bald head, floating out of the shark-wrecked boat … Yikes !!

- Dawn of Dead freaked me out so badly that I could not dare sleep and close my eyes that night, and I dare not tell the usual pranksters how scared I was... lol
Couldn’t wait til Dawn light finally hit the curtains …

- City of the Living Dead (aka Gates of Hell) was another spooky one that had me looking behind doors, And dreading night noises.

Kingdom of the Spiders: Many years before there was Arachnophobia (which i believe got ideas from KOTS) ..there was this movies. and had me looking in my shoes, inside my tires, and under my bed.. this is something Raid- Decon spray could not handle. !!

- It’s a Wonderful Life - so heart touching and moving, well directed, well written and very well casted.
Makes me feel Xmas since and all the time.
This movie, Broken Arrow and Harry are my fav James Stewart flicks

 

[quickccc]

It is super cheesy now but I remember this one scaring the crap out of me.

Wow.it was about to post the same movie.. !!
I didn't think anyone else would know it or remember it

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[KJJ]

The witch in the Wizard of Oz traumatized me.

 

[zrinkill]

Superman 3

 

[VaqueroTD]

Superman 3

I remember that! That IS a creepy scene.

Something about that, you just want to turn your head and not watch.

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

The Food of the Gods really freaked me out as a kid. Giant animals attacking people scared the crap out of me. I watched it years later as a teenager and it made me laugh with the terrible effects, but as a little kid it was terrifying. Even funnier was Marjoe Gortner was supposed to be an NFL player.

LOL, that it was rated PG. Shows how much the rating system has changed.

 

[triplets_93]

I'm pretty amazed at some of the movies that you guys were allowed to watch as kids. Different times, I guess.

I'm from the era, that, as a child, had no VCRs, no video games, and no cable TV. There was never anything in my home inappropriate for my age. I also had no older siblings whose shoulder to look over, as they were watching something that would have been age inappropriate for me.

That was different story be the time my nephews were children in the 1990's.

 

[cowboyec]

the exorcist.
no movie has ever scared me like that.

jaws.
when i go for a summer night swim in my pool after a late night at the church...i still hear that music.

 

[speedkilz88]

I don't think I even watched the Exorcist but the trailer, clips I've seen was traumatizing enough.

I saw Salem's Lot and that had a couple creepy scenes but nothing too much. I did find it haunting about Bonnie Bedilia's character at the end.

I saw Dracula (1979) with one of my brothers when I was around 9. I had to sleep with my head turned a certain direction due to the side Dracula bit his victims.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

This one gave me nightmares for a while when I was younger

Beat me to it…

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Poltergeist- particularly the clown under the bed!

They should have started selling those clowns in real life. They would have made a fortune.

 

[Tabascocat]

They should have started selling those clowns in real life. They would have made a fortune.

They did but wasn’t mass produced. There are some very expensive replicas out there