Scariest movies that you were too young to watch

MW

I watched "A Nightmare on Elm Street" when I was six, also watched "Night of the Living Dead" at a very young age. Scared the bejaysus out of me. I wasn't allowed watch them but I did it on the sly thinking I was cool hanging out with my sister and her mates who weren't meant to be watching it either. Oh also watching "IT" (The clown) I nearly crapped myself. I probably still would if I had the guts to watch it.

Basq

SpiceWorld.... terrifying!

6th

I used to be big into horror movies when i was young but i have to say the one i watched which at the time i wish i hadnt was HellRaiser, it was just too weird for my fragile mind.

Baby4

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MW

God yeah Hellraiser, oh and Candyman.....Where the hell were my parents?????

dr.bollocko

Aliens made me shake uncontrollably back and forth for about 4 nights in a row, that movie totally freaked me out.
Also David Bowie in Labyrinth. Talk about rubbing it in our faces, his bulge makes small children cry...

MW

I could talk about this all day. The labyrinth was fantastic, but totally f*cked up (at the time). Aliens was v scary, agreed. My Friend just said she couldn't sleep after seeing Michael Jackson's Thriller video lucky I am too young to remember when it first came out, she also mentioned The believers, The fog etc don't know any of them.

Ruu_Old

The one called "The Blob" (or maybe it was the glob?) anyway I got to see that. I think it was about some alien blob eating people or something.

Mrs. MacGyver

The Gremlins...yes you heard right!

bluto63

I know it's stupid, but Ernest: Scared Stupid really scared me! I don't know why!?!?

Strokesfan

What's that one with "Chuckie"? Is it just called Chuckie or something? I saw that when I was 7 - I used to lock my teddies in the wardrobe after that film... especially where he's under the car seat with the kitchen knife - scary

The Bollox

Iwatched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was about 8/9. I didn't see the whole thing, but what I did see scared the crap out of me! Leather Face was in my nightmares for quite a while. It wasn't until I was 18 that I could get the courage to watch it again

Ruu_Old

Ah there was one film I watched also, I can only think of one scene in it where some zombie (or similar) was rising from the ground and this other chap walked on his head to push him back down. It wasn't night of the dead or any of those. I'll wreck my head tonight now.

Lirange

The Thing. I was only about seven or eight at the time.

When the poor pups were turned inside out. :eek:

No place to run as they were trapped at a base down in Antarctica.

Dirk Gently

The V series scared the **** out of me when I was a kid but Diana was hot even for a Lizard so that kept me watching it.

Baby4

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brianomc

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Was that one of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels? The one where the girl in the original one returned?

For me it was definitely IT, wasn't allowed watch horror movies by the parents, so they went out one night and i think the second part of this was on tv. Watched it with my sister, bad idea, i hated clowns as it was. Don't think either of us could move off the couch to change channel, and we were still sitting there frozen with fear when my parents returned. Think i was 10ish.

Seen it so many times since and love it, still loads of bits in it where i get a chill through me.

speck

I remember watching one about a chemical spill that turned rabbits into giant killer rabbits, I was only about 5 my parents were watching it and i hide behind the chair as i was suppose to be in bed. Scared the s**** out of me. terrified of rabbits ever since

Omnipresence

it was the lizard baby birth scene in 'V'....

Just shows what imagination we had as kids.. that fecked me up for a long time ...

Saw it again recently and looked like a puppet with some green gunk on it... not very realistic now but jaysus at the time...



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jobonar

when i was about 7 i was subjected to Candyman and when i was 8/9 i was scared sh1tless by childs play!! not fun! couldnt go to bed without leaving a light on for years!! all thanks to my sister not caring about what she was watching while my parents were out!!

i remember seeing Leprachaun too... saw it when i was kinda old enough,14 ish. can't really remember it but it was more freaky than actually scary if that makes sense... didnt bother me anywhere near as much as candyman or childs play!!!

Zapp Brannigan

Watching IT at the age of 6 or 7 (not too sure which) was the moment I realised that I was going to die.
I can remember bursting out in tears during the funeral of the little kid.

constitutionus

i remember watching the evil dead on pirate when i was eight. scared the bollocks off me, seriously had nightmares for ages. next was "the thing", john carpenters version. was actually "rewarded" with one of me mates by a school teacher who was showing his class it and there was two spare spaces cause two kids were out that day so we got drafted over to the other class . i was 10 for gods sake! wasnt so scary when watching it with all the class but was afraid to go to the jax afterwards incase something came up out of the toilet and exploded me like the poor dog that ended up being charbroiled.:D

Faith

IT. It scared my so much I've seen it 10 times (and have some horrifying stories about the torture I was subjected to by my brother after it).

Candyman freaked me out.

The last Nightmare on Elm Street, with the little boy. The whole concept of those movies is terrifying!

I'd have to turn off Gremlins 2 half way through, when they tried to electrocute Gizmo.

mossnostril

Salems Lot...i watched it in my aunties house late at night.i felt safe because everyone was sittin around the living room chatting and drinking...drunk parents are rubbish..:( ..serves them right havin to follow me into the jacks for the next six months..:D

Oobie

Children of the Corn and Salems Lot - they still scare me today even though I'm immune to every other horror movie!

Zapp Brannigan

I remember Salems Lot so fondly. Granted I watched it when I was twelve, but it was so funny.

The part where the vampire crashes through the window into the kitchen had me and my mates in stitches! It was a brick in a cloak!!

petes

Slurms wrote:

I remember Salems Lot so fondly. Granted I watched it when I was twelve, but it was so funny.

The part where the vampire crashes through the window into the kitchen had me and my mates in stitches! It was a brick in a cloak!!

I saw it when I was about seven. Scared the bejaysus out of me. Seeing it as an adult was totally different. One scray bit in it still. Books ten times better.

440Hz

"IT" for me as well... God Pennywise was sooooo scary. Had nightmares about it for weeks after, but still insisted on watching it again and again.... sigh... i hate clowns ever since

Muzzy

RoboCop scared the crap outta me, it couldn't stop watchin it but remember being scared.

The Murphy execution scene, the scene at the end when Emil drives into the toxic waste. Very violent film to watch when yer five.

Someone mentioned V, that was the winner, I just downloaded the TV series and the second mini series, "The Final Battle" can't get the first mini series but HMV for €30. I never found it scary thou. The state of that baby birth scene; but I hear ya when you talk about yer imigination at the time.


A bit off topic but I remember being terrified with Michael Jackson's Thriller video when he turns into a werewolf!

rogue-entity

A Nightmare on Elm Street, saw it when I was 6, but I had to go to bed before me mam got home from "going out". Didnt bother me much really.
The one that did bother me, although I was about 9/10 at the time was "mind warp". I was watching it on Sky Movies Gold (back in the analogue days), freaky stuff.

anthony4335

amityville ,and poltergeist, remember seeing them on Betamax brought back from the Led by a friends relation in the 80's.

Ruu_Old

Betamax itself is a fairly scary thought.

anthony4335

VHS that was scary, it won the war, beta far superior.

Tar.Aldarion

Ruu wrote:

The one called "The Blob" (or maybe it was the glob?) anyway I got to see that. I think it was about some alien blob eating people or something.

That film is a classic!
Hilarious. It's 'The Blob'.

Watched 18's films since I was a kid,never really got scared by them. I remember in some film that I was watching wheh I was nne, the guy threw a basketball at girls head so hard her head riped off and the ball stayed tehre in place. Ijust thought, 'cool', while my older sisdter freaked. Hehe.

Aidan78

Has to be Salem's Lot for me also. Scared the living s**t out of me for years. Finally conquered my fear last year and rented it out from the DVD store. Talk about corny! Not even sure now what I was so terrified about. But at the time, it gave me nightmares for about a year and totally turned me off vampire movies.

Thankfully Blade has restored my faith in them

deisedolly

Ruu wrote:

Ah there was one film I watched also, I can only think of one scene in it where some zombie (or similar) was rising from the ground and this other chap walked on his head to push him back down. It wasn't night of the dead or any of those. I'll wreck my head tonight now.

That was Hocus Pocus haha! The one with the three witches and the little girl, I can't remember what relevence the zombie fella had though :rolleyes:

I remember my brother really really really wanted to see that 'Speices'(sp?) film when he was about 10, it was about some sexy naked alien or something was it?! He was obsessed with all the Alien films at the time and couldn't understand how that film was any different

Ruu_Old

deisedolly wrote:

That was Hocus Pocus haha! The one with the three witches and the little girl, I can't remember what relevence the zombie fella had though :rolleyes:

I remember my brother really really really wanted to see that 'Speices'(sp?) film when he was about 10, it was about some sexy naked alien or something was it?! He was obsessed with all the Alien films at the time and couldn't understand how that film was any different

Ah I was scared of a Walt Disney film, for shame.

TCamen

Also- I remember watching this one where this little girl used to draw a house, and then she used to find herself in it, and it was kinda scary.

http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0098061/ -- called Paperhouse, I remember it being quite disturbing, but haven't seen it since its original release to see if it stands up

I saw the original Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 4/5 -- it's the first full horror I remember watching, but Poltergiest III with the mirrors always stuck with me. As did Watcher in the Woods, an old Disney 'horror' film.

Muineach

Well with 2 brothers being 10 years older than me I just about saw everything, but the one that I can remember being scary was "The Fog" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080749/.
It was released in 1980, so I watched that film whenever it made it to Ireland on video, so I would have been about 4/5 or so.
The other thing my brother/sister keep reminding me is that I used to be afraid of the hulk, the one bit where he transforms into the hulk I used to hide behind the couch

trilo

My sisters (they were sooo mean) used to love horrors, especially the Freddie Kruger ones. needless to say i can clearly remember getting a nightmare ever year up to the age of 16. Freddie was chasing us, the family and we were trying to get away form him by driving the blue van we had. The thing was he was chasing us in the house... tee hee i can even remember the parts of the dream where we were hiding in the attic while in the van at the same time.
And then of course the horrors of Freddie reaching up from under the bed and putting his hands under the blankets and grabbing your legs.

THE TRAUMA....

tinner777

not that scary but gave me nightmares for ages. i was only six when i saw logans run. The part where the old ones, over 30's!!! i think, were killed,remember thinking mum and dad cant have long left:rolleyes:

Endasaurus

Ruu wrote:

Ah I was scared of a Walt Disney film, for shame.

You are not alone in having found the zombie aspect of Hocus Pocus scary!!

And the bit where the youthful souls are sucked out of the mouths of the children... spooky :eek:

bullets

Lirange wrote:

The Thing. I was only about seven or eight at the time.
When the poor pups were turned inside out. :eek:
No place to run as they were trapped at a base down in Antarctica.

Yep the thing sticks out with me the most.
the bit with the dog that turns inside out and the part where
they test the blood.
Love the movie now! bought it and played the PC game.

The Fly 1 was a bit scary too at the time but cool.

V was one of my all time favourited. Had the annual and all the books.
Bought the series last year.

~B

byte

Jaws is one fo the first films that freaked me out that I can recall.

MW

Yeah Jaws, I remember sitting in the dark in the sitting room with my sister, and my spanish student, I was around 10, anyhoo it was at a very scary bit of the film and my Dad burst through the door and left out a roar, my Spanish student screamed something in Spanish then she started to cry and went to bed early she got such a fright. My Dad felt so guilty, twas hilarious.

fozzle

The first time I went to the cinema without my parents I went to see Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Damn film terrified me. I was six or seven and I still get flash-backs.

snorlax

Beetlejuice!

Rhyme

Hellraiser ("Jesus wept!"), Snow White (that bloody witch), IT (clowns, 'nuff said), Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Event Horizon ("Where we're going, we wont need eyes to see", completely ruined my image of Sam Neill).

Im sure there were more, buried beneath layers of psychosis.

kevmy

Always looked at 18's films but none of them scared me except "Batman" and "Batman Returns".
Jack Nicholson's hand coming up from the vat of acid scared the hell out of me as well as his manic grin (as a result I hate clowns and never wanted to go into McDonalds cos thats where Ronald McDonald lived).

Also Danny Devito freaked me out in Returns. I dunno was it just because he's so small or what but at least I like penguins now although thats probably due to the bars:D

I saw both of them within the space of about 2 weeks when i was eight and i still loved them even though they scared me.

Faith

They seem to have rereleased IT on DVD, so I bought it on Saturday. As a grown up, it's not scary at all . It's actually laughable. My childhood horrors are ruined!

Actually, the clown is still scary, but he's actually hardly ever shown.

doonothing

scream 2, beetlejuice, and edward scissorhands, ****s sake da! i was like, 6!