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Oct 4
2007
12:00 PM ET
What movies scared the @#$& out of you when you were a kid?
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By the way, that picture of Linda Blair above? Bringing it all back – bad choice, EW!!!
It was Candyman for me as well. I was sleeping over my friend’s house and we watched it. We went to bed and all I kept thinking about was the sceen where he hovers over the girl sleeping… I don’t think I even closed my eyes that night. It still gives me the willies.
Gremlins. I was scared to open cupboards and closets for weeks. Of course it didn’t help that my sister convinced my mom to buy her a coloring book with the “bad” Gremlin on the cover and would hide and jump out at me with it in front of her.
When I was about 7 or 8, I used to stayed up late on Saturday nights watching “Creature Features” on channel 2 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the movies were just fun and only kinda scary — Japanese monster movies, Universal horror films from the 30s and the like. But one night they showed “Night of the Living Dead” from 1968. The documentary-like feel of the low budget masterpiece and the relentless creepiness of the zombies have permanently burned that film into my cerebral cortex. It was not a fun way to be scared — it was truly terrifying and I’ve never been able to watch it since (I’m now 38 years old).
“The Exorcist” scared the crap out of me, until they got to the part where the devil yells at the priest “Your mother does (perverted things) in hell!”. I figured “Cool. At least they have a recreation period.”
I remember when I was 7 or 8, I saw Amityville Horror, the orginal one. That movie scared me so bad that to this day (I’m in my 30′s) I refuse to go into a house that has those “windows” that are synonomous with the movie. I also remember thinking at that age, “The house told you to leave…so GO!” lol
Magic and the original Night of the Living Dead creeped me out in a big way, but the big whopper was what I think was a made for TV movie called “The Gorgon” which was a modernized Medusa story I watched when I was 5 – gave me nightmares for two months and for two years I wouldn’t look out my bedroom window at night because I KNEW the Gorgon was out there, just waiting to turn me into stone. The night after I saw it I remember hanging over the upstairs bannister sobbing uncontrollably, wailing to my mom that “I am too young to die!”
Jaws scared me when I saw it, especially when Robert Shaw gets killed. A Disney movie called The Watcher in the Woods creeped me out until I finally saw it on DVD a couple of years ago and realized it actually wasn’t that scary. And, sadly, I saw the original Nightmare on Elm Street when I was nineteen and had to get my boyfriend to check out my apartment when I went home because I was so scared. I realized later that wouldn’t help because Freddy could still get me in my sleep…
I would have to say that “The Exorcist” and “Candyman”. I still can’t watch them, and I am 37.
There are three that I can think of off the top of my head that scared the crap out of me as a child:
1. The Last Unicorn – I absolutely loved (and still love) this movie but the Red Bull terrified me. It actually gave me nightmares.
2. Legend – Satanic Tim Curry…enough said.
3. Gremlins – I was fine up until they started to change and made my grandmother take me out of the movie theater.
For some reason I saw parts of The Elephant Man when I was a kid, and it scared the hell out of me.
I wasn’t a kid when I saw these movies but Psycho and The Changeling still creep me out to this day. I couldn’t shower if i was home alone for like a year after I saw Psycho because we had the same bathroom/shower set up in our bathroom as the bates motel, so I couldn’t get the thought of someone coming in and opening the curtain on me for the longest time. The Changeling scene where you can see the kid in the tub still gives me the chills.
Both my brothers saw IT and they were terrified of clowns for years.
The first horror movie I ever saw was Poltergeist. For me the scariest part was when the little boy was attacked by that psycho looking clown. Also, when the guy was in the bathroom pulling all of the skin off of his face. Man, I still hate clowns.
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who was scarred as a child by ‘Time Bandits.’ I had nightmares for YEARS that my mom was going to disappear after I saw that. I didn’t even know what movie it was until about 10 years ago. I keep thinking I should watch it again. I even bought it on DVD, but I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it yet. I would’ve been 5 when it came out in theaters, yet I know I watched it on TV and I didn’t see it in the theater and I couldn’t have been much older than 5 or 6. I wonder how quickly it was on TV? Now I’m a little more creeped out by that movie.
Okay, I saw the Exorcist when I was 6 and have been traumatized ever since. Beds with posts? Scary! Beds near a window? Ew! The name Regan, Yikes! To this day looking at Linda Blair gives me the willies and the horrific music (come on, you know it) is enough to make me cringe. Oh, and the ultimate: “Dimi, why you do this to me Dimi?” !!!!!! Run for your lives!
night of the living dead and pumpkinhead really freaked me out as a kid…but the one that did me in was arachnaphobia..i know not technically a horror movie but just seeing that spider creep its way up that guys leg under the sheets…eeeesh didnt sleep under the covers for weeks!!!