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For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Satan from the Passion of Christ, the hanging scene in Schindler's List

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The Stephen King movie Silver Bullet. I have always really liked but been freaked out by werewolf movies and something about Everett McGills performance as the priest mixed with the usual stalking of the wolf really spooked me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Candyman, thought of a dark bathroom still scares me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haunting in Connecticut. Iโ€™m from Connecticut.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Witness - I was about the same age as the kid in the movie. I'm still sketched put in Airport/train/bus station bathrooms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Came here to also say third scene of Trilogy Of Terror

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Night of the living dead. My brother and I rented it when I was about 7 I think. Didn't make it more than 10 minutes into that movie and I was begging him to turn it off.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland scared the shit out of me when I was young. Seeing mangled humans turned into cyborgs on that ship lost at sea was terrifying.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Alive_(1974_film)

But really just the commercials on TV.

Really showing my age here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fantasia, not specifically the Night on bald mountain section, but the bits with the orchestra.

Also a TV series in the UK called Mealstrom. The paintings would come to life, which was ok but the intro was creepy AF https://youtu.be/_FwP5LAXd7U

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can't really remember why but I never wanted to watch Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer again after seeing it once. I just googled it and it could be the Ice-Queen that's in there that I didn't like but I'm not sure.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Jeepers Creepers

I can still the remember the little jingle

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When I was quite a bit younger, The Mask freaked me right out. On top of the Goosebumps episode about a mask overtaking you, I straight up refused to put any on for the longest time. Still don't love them.

The start of the Goofy Movie, during Max's dream...those dark vibes hit me hard. Would wait in the bathroom until it was done.

The Ring was a big one because my "friend" called and did the whole "seven days..." thing. Before we had caller IDs. The same friend made me watch Darkness Falls, and I think I repressed it all because I remember nothing about it other than hating the whole experience.

Not much of a scary movie fan to this day. Go figure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mr. Boogety

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta go with The Green Mile

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if cartoons count, the "return the slab" episode on Courage the cowerdly dog, scared the hell out of me and I couldn't be in the dark for months after.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Jurassic Park (original) on the big screen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

All Freddy Kruger movies., All Chucky Movies, IT, Grudge, Saw movies

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was a child Child's Play came on some channel on TV, and since I was a child I thought it was a fun movie for kids. Luckily my much older sister saw what was going on, recognized and knew the movie, and forbade me from watching it. Thanks to her I avoided some kind of phobia, I'm sure.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw Backdraft when I wasn't supposed to. Still have to have the door closed to sleep.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Should always sleep with the bedroom door closed. Can provide just enough protection to give you time to escape out a window. Or, be rescued from the window.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used to watch old B-movie horror on Saturdays in the 70's.

This one, which is completely ridiculous, scared the hell out of me because of the disembodied alien hand crawling around attacking people.

I was too young to realize how stupid it was, and it just absolutely terrified me. The hand became the monster under the bed for the rest of my life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Saucer_Men

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