Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Event horizon fucked me up for a while
This was mine. The scene where he is holding his own eyes is still stuck in my head. I think my sister was watching it, she was into her horror style films. I didnt know what it was. I must have been somewhere between 9 and 10. The film came out in 1997 and i was born 9 years earlier but this was rented from a video shop so it was way after cinema release.
Edit: just looked it up and it was released on video 2 days after my 10th birthday, so i will have been 10. Yuck.
Growing up in the 80s meant that pretty much any kids movie was going to be traumatizing. Gremlins: horrifying. Neverending Story: emotional damage. The Land Before Time: can’t think of dinosaurs without tearing up. It’s like the whole movie industry was explicitly devoted to fucking us up.
Hey, don’t forget Transformers: The Movie, the one in which all your heroes just fuckin’ died (so some greedy toy company execs could boost sales).
I vividly remember watching that movie in the theater. My brother and I were so hyped we were standing on our seats for the opening song. Then they had Optimus Prime cuss and we absolutely couldn’t believe it. When he died, I had never seen such bullshit. Optimus Prime can’t die, he was the toughest robot ever.
Flight of the Navigator was awesome.as a kid. Kinda fucked up when I rewatched it a few years ago
Pee-wee Herman did the voice of the ship’s computer
You also have the Dark Crystal, Water Ship Down, The Last Unicorn, Watcher in the Woods (which was a Disney movie!) and the Secret of NIMH. Seriously, kids movies in the eighties were horrifying.
I suspect a bunch of animators wanted their work to be taken seriously as art, but were stuck making kids movies, so they made kids movies that were shockingly dark to try to persuade people that animation was a versatile medium.
Tbh I don’t think anyone is old enough to watch Mars Attacks. The visual design is too much. The movie itself isn’t that bad, but the fucking martians. Fuck me.
ACK ACK!
ACK ACK TO YOU TOO!
yodeling induced head explosion
The Seventh Sign.
To this day I can’t watch biblical horror in particular without nightmares. I’m not even Christian.
Why did my parents think it was a good idea to take me to see The Excorcist
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Blair witch project when I was 8. Watched it by myself.
Jaws. The first one. In a theater. To this day I won’t swim in water where I can’t see the bottom.
Same here!
We’ll it doesn’t haunt me but looking back it was RoboCop. That movie is a bit much for a 6 year old to watch.
greatest movie though
I have a vivid memory of my first time watching it (at about 8 years old, on good ol’ VHS), and running away to peek from behind the door during >!Murphy’s execution!<. It’s still fucked up every time it comes on. Horrific
It’s never an entire movie, it’s a scene here and there.
Like in The Exorcist, when they showed it on network television back in the late-70s it must have been, the CBS Saturday Night Movie or something like that, “viewer discretion is advised”.
Anyway… clicking channels, I stumbled upon a moment during the ritual itself, with the girl in silhouette on her knees, arms towards the ceiling, the demon Pazuzu behind her. That screwed up many a night afterwards.As a young adult, another scene that fucked with my head for many a night was the grainy dream transmission, with the faint audio covered in static noise, from John Carpenter’s “Prince Of Darkness”.
Now I’m gonna flip the concept on its’ head and tell you what film cured my fears of the dark at the time. Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation Of Christ”.
It was The Exorcist on Network television for too many of us Gen X’ers.
The Gate
Akira. My father rented it for my brother and me because “animated movie is for kids”. I was 4, and my brother was 3.
i’m so sorry
I don’t remember much of it clearly, thankfully. I know Akira is a classic but it turned me off of anything body horror forever.
Pet Cemetery, kid getting hit by the semi
Nah, it’s Zelda. That creepy bitch haunted me for years.
“raaaaaaaachellllllll…”
Fuck that.
Didn’t help that my mom said I looked like him when I was that little lol
Dude! Zelda was my biggest fear for a good couple years after that movie.
The Thing messed me up as a 14 year old.
Aliens. I was terrified of facehuggers being under my bed for a decade. Not so much anymore.
