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Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Cartilage Head on 13 Apr 2009, 02:23
 What the fuck?

 Well one thing I can think of is probably this movie where a chick was banging a dead dude.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: BlahBlah on 13 Apr 2009, 03:18
Is it just me or is KvP's post invisible? That's scaring me.

Actually, I remember being scared by Fantasia, although I suppose that wasn't age inappropriate.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: JD on 13 Apr 2009, 03:33
I saw bits of Ichi the killer when i was like 12.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Siibillam-Law on 13 Apr 2009, 04:32
I saw bits of Ichi the killer when i was like 12.

Wow. That made me wince at 18

I saw Hallowe'en when I was like 6. Cos my mum thought it would be a good to have a family film night in (on Hallowe'en) and so we watched that. When we went trick or treating. That was a terrifying night
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Post by: LTK on 13 Apr 2009, 05:09
There wasn't much that I couldn't bear to watch as a kid, really. Hell, I was playing Quake II when I was seven. The only thing that made me look away was someone with their guts blown out of them with a grenade in Saving Private Ryan.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: JD on 13 Apr 2009, 07:16
I also hid behind the couch when Jumanji came on.(I was probably about 6 or 7)

Robin Williams is scary.
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Post by: KvP on 13 Apr 2009, 07:19
Whoa what happened? I remember it stalling when I hit "post" but when I went back to post it again it said it had successfully gone through. Never actually checked.

Uh I'll have to retype it all at some point soon.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Lines on 13 Apr 2009, 07:34
Robin Williams is scary.

What.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Christophe on 13 Apr 2009, 08:38
That scene from Robocop when that OCP executive gets brutally gunned down by the ED-209 traumatized me when I was in the second grade.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: JD on 13 Apr 2009, 08:40
I couldn't think of another reason for why I hid behind the couch. Considering I've always loved the Zoo, of course.

Also, the floating brain in Robocop 2 was really creepy
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Post by: Dimmukane on 13 Apr 2009, 08:48
Seeing the Alien stab that one dude in the chest (I think he was an android, he was throwing up what looked like milk) when I was 6 years old.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Lines on 13 Apr 2009, 08:56
^That and the scene in Silence of the Lambs where Buffalo Bill is dancing in front of the camera. Oddly these are two of my favorite movies.

I have issues.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Blyss on 13 Apr 2009, 09:02
My mother took me to see Carrie when I was like 3, and Jaws when I was 5...

Scared the ever loving shit out of me.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Alex C on 13 Apr 2009, 09:06
The Shining.

Pretty much the entire god damn movie.
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Post by: ackblom12 on 13 Apr 2009, 09:40
I saw the first Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 6. One of my sisters baby sat and decided to toss that movie in. It scared the ever loving hell out of me and kind of instilled a love of horror movies in my little brain.
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Post by: Joseph on 13 Apr 2009, 09:44
That Simpsons Halloween episode that ends with the gremlin thing holding Homer's head.  I must have been three or so.  Freaked me the fuck out.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: KvP on 13 Apr 2009, 10:12
As I was saying in my original post, like many of you I was exposed to cheesy 80's slasher / horror films as a child that scared the ever-living shit out of me. Including but not limited to: Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Child's Play.

When I was a kid I would have terrible night terrors about fat people who had bright lights emanating from their mouths and steam coming out of their ears. Also there was a fleshy orb-thing with a bunch of eyes that really freaked me out. So it was with some surprise that I was channel surfing a few years back and found myself watching my night terrors on the tele. Turns out that as a toddler at some point I was subjected to Big Trouble In Little China (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yM3-YO7qHs) and it wayyy to intense for me.
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Post by: Blue Kitty on 13 Apr 2009, 10:37
I saw the original Jurassic Park with my dad when I was like 7.  I remember hiding in between the seats, catching glimpses of the raptors as they were tracking the kids through the kitchen.



Funny thing, some parents brought their kids with them to see Watchmen.  They walked out half way through the sex scene.
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Post by: scarred on 13 Apr 2009, 10:39
I saw the original Jurassic Park with my dad when I was like 7.  I remember hiding in between the seats, catching glimpses of the raptors as they were tracking the kids through the kitchen.

Hell, I saw that scene when I was 8 or 9 in a video store, on the tiniest screen ever, and it freaked me the fuck out.

Other than that, My dad took me to the theatrical re-release of Star Wars: A New Hope when I was 4 or 5 or 6 (one of those), and it had a preview of the Tommy Lee Jones flick "Volcano" right before the movie started. That prepped my already freaked out self for the appearance of Darth Vader's mondo helmet, and I took off screaming.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 13 Apr 2009, 11:06
I saw Saving Private Ryan and Starship Troopers in theaters. I'm 20 now so I musta been 7 or 8 or something for those. Don't remember exactly. I can't say for sure if they scared me but I find it hard to believe that they didn't. I know the latter was probably my introduction to B-movies which I wholeheartedly enjoy to this day so that's something I guess...
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Cartilage Head on 13 Apr 2009, 11:37
 Oh wait I forgot. I might have said this before but I had nightmares about E.T. the extraterrestrial for a long time when I was a kid, and cried when someone tried to put the movie on around me.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: imapiratearg on 13 Apr 2009, 11:57
I think I saw a commercial for Species when I was really young, and that gave me nightmares.  I can't really remember any other things like that.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Victorinia on 13 Apr 2009, 12:36
Jurassic Park at my cousin's house when I was about five. SO SCARY.
Immediately followed by my cousin telling me that the deep-sea fish (anglers etc.) would eat me if I was a deep-sea diver like I wanted to be at the time.

It was a traumatic visit.

Otherwise, though, my parents did a good job of censoring things. My mental health is probably better off for it.
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Post by: De_El on 13 Apr 2009, 12:41
Saw Schindler's List when I was three because my parents couldn't find a babysitter. I think I saw parts or all of Stephen King's It when I was 5, because my best friend's dad was just generally irresponsible. It was pretty horrible. On the plus side, not a whole lot scares me any more.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Avec on 13 Apr 2009, 12:44
Just to fuck with me, my brother made me watch The Faculty on vhs when I was about seven.

To anyone who hasn't seen the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faculty
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Alex C on 13 Apr 2009, 13:03
Funny thing, some parents brought their kids with them to see Watchmen.  They walked out half way through the sex scene.

This kinda thing always astounds me. I'm not sure what is worse: that parents brought their kids to the Watchmen or that out of all the provocative things in that movie it was the consensual sex that finally scared them off. I was personally made more uncomfortable by all the violence and attempted rape, but I guess I'm crazy that way.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: JD on 13 Apr 2009, 13:06
Funny thing, some parents brought their kids with them to see Watchmen.  They walked out half way through the sex scene.

This kinda thing always astounds me. I'm not sure what is worse: that parents brought their kids to the Watchmen or that out of all the provocative things in that movie it was the consensual sex that finally scared them off. I was personally made more uncomfortable by all the violence and attempted rape, but I guess I'm crazy that way.

It was probably the song that made it so uncomfortable.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Alex C on 13 Apr 2009, 13:07
I am more of the opinion that the song made it hilarious.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: ackblom12 on 13 Apr 2009, 13:26
I am more of the opinion that the song made it hilarious.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Dazed on 13 Apr 2009, 13:27
I saw Event Horizon when I was like, 10? That shit was hooooorrrrrrifying.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Blue Kitty on 13 Apr 2009, 13:29
I am more of the opinion that the song made it hilarious.

The song made it uncomfortable, the gyrating made it hilarious
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: E. Spaceman on 13 Apr 2009, 18:55
When I was 6 or 7 years old I saw the movie Blue Velvet. Yep that was fucked up.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: michaelicious on 13 Apr 2009, 19:09
Thriller. It scared me so much all I could do was curl up in a ball and cry and my mom had to carry me out of the room. I feel bad because my brother and cousins probably got in trouble for watching it around me.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: DarkAvenger on 13 Apr 2009, 19:18
I saw that Meg Ryan movie "In the Cut" when I was 11 or 12. Watching Meg Ryan holding a decapitated head in a bloodstained bathroom was pretty messed up.

It also doesn't help that I now think it was the worst movie I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: zerobar on 13 Apr 2009, 21:57
"Congo" freaked me the fuck out. Saw it when i was probably 7 or 8. Scared me so bad that I actually avoided it for years afterward (not that it comes on tv very often). I watched it a couple of months ago and it was a pretty big let down.

When that freaky fucking ape threw that guys severed head down the stairs, i think that was about when it got to much for me. The ending, where they're lasering the gorillas kinda stuck with me too.

I had a ton of the Jurassic Park toys, but for a while, I hadn't seen the movie, cause I was too afraid. I guess I just wanted to have the popular toy.

Also, I have NO idea how any kid could endure Event Horizon. I just tell people in their 20's the concept of the movie, and it creeps them out.
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Post by: Dazed on 13 Apr 2009, 22:36
It probably contributed somewhat to the sunny disposition I now enjoy as an adult.

Hooray for Sam Neill disemboweling Jason Isaacs alive.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: ackblom12 on 13 Apr 2009, 23:24
I love that movie so much, I credit it with being one of the things to nurture my love of Lovecraft.
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Post by: el_loco_avs on 14 Apr 2009, 03:35
Gremlins freaked my out as a little kid.

Stupid nightmares.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Radical AC on 14 Apr 2009, 04:09
I watched the 1993 body snatchers with a baby sitter and it was pretty scary for a kid.  

But nothing freaked me out like It.  I was never really afeared of clowns, but the movie itself terrified me.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Dollface on 14 Apr 2009, 05:14
The Groke! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Groke)

Do i need to say more.
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 14 Apr 2009, 05:36
Dr.Who. Not the nice ones we have now but, like, dr.No.5 and 7, with their lurid, harsh coloured special effects. That creeped me out a bit, then.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 14 Apr 2009, 07:31
I have, to this day, an intense phobia of Freddy Krugar as my brother made me watch Nightmare on Elm St VI just after I'd gotten out of hospital for a skin graft on my ear drums. The bit where the deaf kid is pleading with Kruger/His mother not deafen him with the giant cotton bud (Q-tips to you yankees) has stayed with me for the last 11 years and still makes me feel a little ill. He also made me watch Friday the 13th (number 8 I think) and I had nightmares about Jason Voorhees tapping on my window for months. But not hockey mask Jason. Jason as a little kid with the ugly face floating under the water.

The silliest thing I was ever freaked out by was when I was little my dad had the BBC tv version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on video. The scene where Arthur and Ford are having Vogon poetry read at them freaked me the fuck out.
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Post by: MusicScribbles on 14 Apr 2009, 07:49
Man, Gremlins at age 7 is scary shit. So is The Shining a year later.
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Post by: MadassAlex on 14 Apr 2009, 08:24
I first watched Neon Genesis: Evangelion as a child of 8. That show is full of nightmare fuel, but this part stuck with me:

During one of the later episodes, an experimental Eva unit rejects control and starts fucking shit up for everyone. Shinji (the protagonist) is sent in to destroy it, using his own Eva unit. He discovers, however, that one of his best friends is the pilot (although his friend isn't in control), and refuses to damage the enemy Eva. The enemy Eva gets to work trying to destroy Shinji, but the commander of the operation steps in and initiates the "dummy plug" technology. The dummy plug is essentially an autonomous fighting system for the Eva, and it immediately gets to work.

First, Shinji's unit snaps the neck of the enemy unit. This isn't enough - it then throws the enemy to the ground, rips off its frontal armour, and proceeds to violently tear out its internal organs as the blood seeps into the nearby river and sprays across nearby skyscrapers. At one point, the fist of Shinji's unit comes down and mangles the head of the enemy unit, causing its eyeballs to roll around. As if to add insult to injury, Shinji's unit identifies the entry plug (cockpit equivalent) of the enemy unit, pulls it out, and crushes it in front of Shinji's eyes, despite the fact that a good friend was in there.

All the while, the commander of the operation (who is Shinji's father) is grinning widely, elated at the efficiency of his creation.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Cartilage Head on 14 Apr 2009, 12:13
 I'm pretty sure when I was little I got scared by the scene in Akira where the guy's girlfriend got crushed. I still haven't seen that whole movie, not because I'm scared to, I just haven't gotten around to it.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: JD on 14 Apr 2009, 12:23
I will never watch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noupHDxmUTE) again. augh
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Post by: KvP on 14 Apr 2009, 14:53
I'm pretty sure when I was little I got scared by the scene in Akira where the guy's girlfriend got crushed. I still haven't seen that whole movie, not because I'm scared to, I just haven't gotten around to it.
You know I had that exact same reaction. It was just so... random. And painful looking.
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Post by: Nodaisho on 14 Apr 2009, 16:58
The Groke! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Groke)

Do i need to say more.
The hobgoblin. Not really age-inappropriate, but scary as hell.

My dad watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with me when I was four. Didn't really traumatize me, but my mother was angry when she found out.
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Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 14 Apr 2009, 17:14
the part of The Shining when the Stork (aka Danny's mom) walks up the stairs, looks down the hall, and, through an open door, sees a man in a dog suit heeling obediently at the feet of man in a tuxedo (or something) and then they both look right at her. it's a very very short clip that has literally nothing to do with anything but, for whatever reason, it disturbed me to no end as a child.

just thinking about that scene gives me the shivers to this day.
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Post by: Siibillam-Law on 14 Apr 2009, 17:36
Those wheel things from Return to Oz

What the fuck...
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Post by: Yayniall on 14 Apr 2009, 18:40
Last of the Mohichans.
I still haven't watched it as an adult.
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Post by: Surgoshan on 14 Apr 2009, 19:42
the part of The Shining when the Stork (aka Danny's mom) walks up the stairs, looks down the hall, and, through an open door, sees a man in a dog suit heeling obediently at the feet of man in a tuxedo (or something) and then they both look right at her. it's a very very short clip that has literally nothing to do with anything but, for whatever reason, it disturbed me to no end as a child.

just thinking about that scene gives me the shivers to this day.

In the book, the man in the dog suit is blowing the dude in the tux.  Just to scar you further.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: sean on 14 Apr 2009, 21:40
So one time when I was a wee lad I was playing a mortal kombat arcade game. I did okay the first battle but i got my ass kicked the second one. I was all like oh thats lame and was watching the end cutscene thing which involved my character getting thrown into a pit of spikes and watching him get impaled and having blood go everywhere.

I was not pleased about this as a wee lad.
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Post by: Lines on 16 Apr 2009, 06:23
Oh man, the Shining. The elevators opening and blood pouing out and then the twin girls and the nasty old naked lady. All of these still give me the jibblies, but do I still like the movie? Oh yes I do.
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Post by: David_Dovey on 16 Apr 2009, 09:30
So one time when I was a wee lad I was playing a mortal kombat arcade game. I did okay the first battle but i got my ass kicked the second one. I was all like oh thats lame and was watching the end cutscene thing which involved my character getting thrown into a pit of spikes and watching him get impaled and having blood go everywhere.

I was not pleased about this as a wee lad.

Oh jeez, this so much.

Also, Hellraiser. NEVER AGE-APPROPRIATE
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Post by: Cartilage Head on 16 Apr 2009, 15:29
 I couldn't finish the first Clock Tower game when I was a kid. I was able to take it sometimes, but I just turned the game off a lot.
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Post by: David_Dovey on 17 Apr 2009, 03:16
Oh yeah and the whole sacrifice scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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Post by: Ceiling Cat on 17 Apr 2009, 22:19
I first watched Neon Genesis: Evangelion as a child of 8. That show is full of nightmare fuel, but this part stuck with me:

During one of the later episodes, an experimental Eva unit rejects control and starts fucking shit up for everyone. Shinji (the protagonist) is sent in to destroy it, using his own Eva unit. He discovers, however, that one of his best friends is the pilot (although his friend isn't in control), and refuses to damage the enemy Eva. The enemy Eva gets to work trying to destroy Shinji, but the commander of the operation steps in and initiates the "dummy plug" technology. The dummy plug is essentially an autonomous fighting system for the Eva, and it immediately gets to work.

First, Shinji's unit snaps the neck of the enemy unit. This isn't enough - it then throws the enemy to the ground, rips off its frontal armour, and proceeds to violently tear out its internal organs as the blood seeps into the nearby river and sprays across nearby skyscrapers. At one point, the fist of Shinji's unit comes down and mangles the head of the enemy unit, causing its eyeballs to roll around. As if to add insult to injury, Shinji's unit identifies the entry plug (cockpit equivalent) of the enemy unit, pulls it out, and crushes it in front of Shinji's eyes, despite the fact that a good friend was in there.

All the while, the commander of the operation (who is Shinji's father) is grinning widely, elated at the efficiency of his creation.

Also the bit where all the creepy Rei clones are floating in the tank... and then Ritsuko destroys them all  :-o
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: rae on 19 Apr 2009, 08:21
I saw Jaws when I was about 5 I think. My nan (grandmother) of all people was babysitting and thought it was a good idea to let me and my brother who was 3 at the time watch it. Terrifying.
IT-I hate clowns so so much because of this film. I love the book though.

Terminator 2 frightened me when I first saw it, I guess I was about 9 or 10. Oh and Jurassic Park. I pretty much hid underneath my coat for most of the film.
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Post by: GreyGabe on 19 Apr 2009, 13:29
Oh man... for whatever reason the movie "Mars Attacks!" absolutely terrified me  when I was seven.
Also, when I was four or five... the beginning of Ghostbusters. The part with the librarian ghost. I had to hide from that (behind the couch) every time I watched the movie. Which was often, because I liked Ghostbusters. And still do.
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Post by: Jimor on 19 Apr 2009, 13:51
Nothing I can think of from my own viewing, but I did take my little brother to see Robocop 2 in the theaters when he was 10. He's never complained about being traumatized, but I joke that it probably explains a lot afterward.  :-o

(Actually, he's turned out awesomely cool and works as a translator for a video game company in Tokyo.)
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Post by: Aurjay on 25 Apr 2009, 20:22
The Steven King Movie "It" scared the hell outta me as a kid. That movie ruined clowns for me for a long time.  Also speaking of clowns Killer Klowns from Outer Space scared me as a kid but i rewatched it as an adult and couldnt stop laughing. 
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Post by: Surgoshan on 26 Apr 2009, 05:11
King chose clowns because clowns are scary*.  That is to say, clowns were scary before King made it worse.

* To a lot of people.
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Post by: Blyss on 28 Apr 2009, 14:30
Yeah, Pennywise scarred a whole shitload of people that were already afraid of clowns.

He was a scary motherfucker, no doubt.
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Post by: ZedAvatar on 28 Apr 2009, 17:13
That scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi's face melted off gave me nightmares; still freaks me out a lil' bit.  Which means it was AWESOME.
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Post by: McTaggart on 29 Apr 2009, 06:58
For me it was the Temple of Doom where they lock the girl in the cage and lower it down into the Ican'tevenremember.
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Post by: Catacombs on 29 Apr 2009, 16:48
I watched the movie the Rock when I was 6.  I didn't really plan on watching it, I just happened to be in the same room as my mom when she was watching it and didn't leave because I was faking sleeping so I could stay up late (kind of confusing back story when i type it out).  Anyway, I think there's a scene where some green ball gets dropped that contains some type of nuclear/poison thing and the guys face just kind of melts off, but not like the Nazi in Indiana Jones.  For some reason, that scared the shit out of me.  This movie also made me think that when a person died in a movie, that was it.  The end.  They were actually dead and I wondered where they put all the dead people from movies.

One year, i think i was nine or ten, i wanted to be the guy from scream from halloween.  My mom thought that if I was gonna be him, i should at least see the movie.  So we watched Scream 2 (i'm pretty sure it was 2, when the fat chick tried crawling out of the dog door in the garage) together one night right before halloween.  Granted, its a terrible movie but i was constantly looking over my shoulder for a few weeks.

All of this makes my mom sound bad, but she did a good job raising me, haha.

Also, I didn't see the Shining til a couple years ago, but I don't think I would have found it scary when i was little, unless you count the scene with the old lady and Shelly Duncan's face.
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Post by: Surgoshan on 29 Apr 2009, 18:37
I watched the movie the Rock when I was 6. 

Shitfuck; you're not even 20!

No!  I'm not old!  I was in high school when that came out.
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Post by: Zingoleb on 04 May 2009, 01:41
Disneyland fucking terrified me as a child.

I was seven, eight? I ended up choosing a bunch of horror rides to go on, NOT KNOWING THEY WERE HORROR RIDES. I don't have many good memories of Disneyland. I remember leaving there screaming and crying in terror thinking that I was going to die, because these were fairly realistic things I was experiencing in real life, in real time, not a movie.

Fuck Disneyland.
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Post by: fish across face on 04 May 2009, 03:37
Oh yeah and the whole sacrifice scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Yeah, my older brother took me to see that in the cinema and it really broke me. 

Also Young Sherlock Holmes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090357/) the following year - people hallucinate awful stuff until they die from freaking out, and, yeah, it didn't feel good at that age.  In particular, the scene that's supposed to be comedy value, where Watson's hallucinating he's being killed by animated cupcakes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SZrHgS1Dss), freaked the shit out of me.  Cuteness turned evil?  Always scary?  I think so.
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Post by: Felrender on 05 May 2009, 17:45
The circus scene from We're Back!........

Just what the hell was that shit.
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Post by: Emaline on 10 May 2009, 20:05
Every single New Years Eve, as far back as I can remember, I was forced to watch the uncut version of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
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Post by: no one special on 11 May 2009, 03:31
I saw A Clockwork Orange when I was like 12. 

What. The. Fuck. 


*shudder*
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Post by: billiumbean on 11 May 2009, 15:07
I think Independence Day, Jaws, and Twister all traumatized me enough as a kid independently.  It was fine at first, I wasn't plagued with it or anything for a long time.

Then I moved to Denver, and the memory of those movies instilled a big bag of phobias in me.

Thing about Denver that's weird is that during the summer the weather is the same every day; Crystal clear in the morning, then a wall of clouds emerges from behind the mountains and flash-floods the shit out of everything (more or less) in the evening.

If you haven't seen Independence Day, the beginning of the movie is basically just a bunch of humongous spaceships entering Earth's atmosphere with huge walls of clouds burning around them that are not unlike those clouds I described earlier.

Compile that with the fact that I'd been terrified of tornadoes and lightning, ultra-violet light, aliens, the apocalypse, things jumping out and scaring me, ghosts, my condominium collapsing, the sun exploding, spontaneous human combustion, and basically just stuff in general, I was never not scared.

Oh, the joys of childhood.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Meg on 19 May 2009, 18:56
Papillon at about age 7. Traumatizing.

A Clockwork Orange at about age 9. I was so confused about the whole thing it was scary.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Wolf on 19 May 2009, 19:47
My father took me and a friend too see the first Nightmare on elm street in the theater I think I was 9 or 10.  I was freaked out after that.  One two freddies coming for you...

A funny thing during that movie there is a scene where a girl and guy are hooking up and freddy gets the girl and drags her all over the room and blood gets all over.  During this scene someone in the audience yelled "it must be her first time", everyone laughed.  I did not get the joke until about 10 years later when I saw the movie again.

Also I watched the exorcist around the same age. I think my dad let me watch that one as well.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Border Reiver on 20 May 2009, 05:28
It didn't scare me but it was certainly age-inappropriate.

When I was 9 and my brother was 7 my mother brought us to what she thought was the movie "Chariots of Fire", you know that uplifting story of the first person to run the 4 minute mile, but almost didn't because the race was on a Sunday and as a devout Christian he didn't think he should be racing on the Sabbath.  Well, Mom didn't read the marquee too closely that day - she brought us to see the movie "Quest for Fire", you know cavemen, lots of sex and some violence.  Well, mom realizes her mistake about 30 seconds into the movie, but being properly mortified, remained in her seat for the duration.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: JD on 20 May 2009, 13:02
You got the more interesting movie.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Blue Kitty on 20 May 2009, 15:21
For some reason I kept thinking to myself, "That's cool, you got to see Ringo Starr as a caveman," but that's another movie all together.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Border Reiver on 21 May 2009, 04:46
I'm not sure what mortified my mother more - the rather graphic violence, the large number of naked women, the large number of sex scenes, or the lack of anyone speaking a language that could be understood.

As a nine year old though - damn, those are the things that made the movie.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Blyss on 21 May 2009, 13:35
For some reason I kept thinking to myself, "That's cool, you got to see Ringo Starr as a caveman," but that's another movie all together.

Atook zug zug Lana...

 :lol:
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: beat mouse on 25 May 2009, 02:02
The Secret Of Nimh was one of my favourite books as a kid, my mom would read it to me before bed, and when I saw the movie (being 4 or 5 i suppose) I remember it scaring the living christ out of me. The book had no horrible rat war in the rain with methusulah getting stabbed up and crushed by a giant wheel, they all lived happily ever after in their new home. It was nightmares for months of little rats sneaking into my room. Never letting my kids watch that shit.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: est on 26 May 2009, 05:18
Vamp.  It's mostly a horror-comedy, but I was young and

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Katrina [Grace Jones] gets AJ in one of the better blood-sucking scenes I've ever seen (rips throat and graphically laps blood).

Fuck you Grace Jones!  Fuck youuuuuuuuu!
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Inlander on 26 May 2009, 05:31
I'm think you should be legally an adult before you're allowed to see Grace Jones do anything.
Title: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
Post by: Ozymandias on 26 May 2009, 10:30
That awful Grace Jones.