Topic: Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child. (Read 21974 times)

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.

BlahBlah · « **Reply #1 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.

JD · « **Reply #2 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 03:33 »

I saw bits of Ichi the killer when i was like 12.

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #3 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 04:32 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 13 Apr 2009, 03:33

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

LTK · « **Reply #4 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.

JD · « **Reply #5 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.

KvP · « **Reply #6 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.

Lines · « **Reply #7 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 07:34 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 13 Apr 2009, 07:16

Robin Williams is scary.

What.

Christophe · « **Reply #8 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.

JD · « **Reply #9 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

Dimmukane · « **Reply #10 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.

Lines · « **Reply #11 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.

Blyss · « **Reply #12 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.

Alex C · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 09:06 »

The Shining.

Pretty much the entire god damn movie.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #14 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.

Joseph · « **Reply #15 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.

KvP · « **Reply #16 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 and it wayyy to intense for me.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #17 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.

scarred · « **Reply #18 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 10:39 »

Quote from: 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.

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.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #19 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...

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #20 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.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #21 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.

Victorinia · « **Reply #22 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.

De_El · « **Reply #23 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.

Avec · « **Reply #24 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

Alex C · « **Reply #25 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 13:03 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 13 Apr 2009, 10:37

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.

JD · « **Reply #26 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 13:06 »

Quote from: Alex C on 13 Apr 2009, 13:03

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 13 Apr 2009, 10:37
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.

Alex C · « **Reply #27 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 13:07 »

I am more of the opinion that the song made it hilarious.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #28 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 13:26 »

Quote from: Alex C on 13 Apr 2009, 13:07

I am more of the opinion that the song made it hilarious.

Dazed · « **Reply #29 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 13:27 »

I saw Event Horizon when I was like, 10? That shit was hooooorrrrrrifying.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #30 on:** 13 Apr 2009, 13:29 »

Quote from: Alex C on 13 Apr 2009, 13:07

I am more of the opinion that the song made it hilarious.

The song made it uncomfortable, the gyrating made it hilarious

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #31 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.

michaelicious · « **Reply #32 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.

DarkAvenger · « **Reply #33 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.

zerobar · « **Reply #34 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.

Dazed · « **Reply #35 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.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #36 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.

el_loco_avs · « **Reply #37 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 03:35 »

Gremlins freaked my out as a little kid.

Stupid nightmares.

Radical AC · « **Reply #38 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.

Dollface · « **Reply #39 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 05:14 »

The Groke!

Do i need to say more.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #40 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.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #41 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.

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #42 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 07:49 »

Man, Gremlins at age 7 is scary shit. So is The Shining a year later.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #43 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.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #44 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.

JD · « **Reply #45 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 12:23 »

I will never watch this again. augh

KvP · « **Reply #46 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 14:53 »

Quote from: 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.

You know I had that exact same reaction. It was just so... random. And painful looking.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #47 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 16:58 »

Quote from: Dollface on 14 Apr 2009, 05:14

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.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #48 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.

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #49 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 17:36 »

Those wheel things from Return to Oz

What the fuck...

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