what film scared the pee outta you as a kid?

Lirange · 02-08-2007 04:42AM

These creatures in the auld Beastmaster movie gave me the jeebies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPZmREjoXfg

I also didn't appreciate that villain tossing the child into the fire pit as a sacrifice. :mad:

spacecoyote · 02-08-2007 08:03AM

psicic wrote:

When I was about four or five I saw Superman III.

For whatever reason, the bit where the computer turns one of the bad guys into a 'robot' freaked me out.

Was just about to post that exact scene....it was pretty lame alright....but i remember hiding behind the sofa the 1st time i saw that on TV!

IT did freak me out....i'm not a big clown fan at all.

Also after seeing Ghoulies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089200/combined) i was not a fan of taking a dump for quite some time

togster · 02-08-2007 08:17AM

Ravenous with Guy Pearce, David Arquette and Robert Carlsyle.
AAHHHHHHhhhh....:eek:

horgan_p · 02-08-2007 08:24AM

films : it and pet cemetary.

tv show : twin peaks. i still get shivers when i think of that bob freak

Mizu_Ger · 02-08-2007 08:26AM

The Watcher in The Woods. Think it is a Disney film, but went to see it in the early 80's for a friend's birthday party. Haven't seen it since, but remember being scared by it. Must have a look out for it on DVD...

0ubliette · 02-08-2007 09:10AM

Shamrok wrote:

Without a doubt it was Salem's Lot (the original) for me. RTÉ showed it over two nights back in the early 80s. The scene with the boy floating outside his friend's bedroom window got me big time when I was 10 or 11. I found it hard to sleep that night!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

Yep myself, sister and brother were all terrified by that film in the 80's. I was pretty small when i saw it, probably around 5 or 6, and i remember after it was over, my gran made me and my sister walk our cousin home...at night, in the DARK! We were ****ting bricks!

Its a ****ing AWESOME film nowadays tho

EDIT
im also surprised at the amount of people scared by IT. I watched it when i was about 12, and just thought it sucked. Also it pisses me off because the film is so damn lame but the book is probably one of the best books ever written.

Jumpy · 02-08-2007 09:15AM

The Dark Side of the Moon (not Pink Floyd)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099364/

JIZZLORD · 02-08-2007 09:22AM

Candy man scared the **** out of me for ages!

02-08-2007 09:30AM

Deleted User wrote:

I can't beleieve nobody has mentioned The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. This film still freaks me out.

It's a quality film. Damn, I really want to watch it now.

Same as most of the others, saw IT years ago and scared the bejesus out of me.

jackdaw · 02-08-2007 09:56AM

Horror at 35,000 feet or something .. scared the crap outta me...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068715/

WindSock · 02-08-2007 10:04AM

Oh yeah, the superman 3 electro funk bit scared me too. As well as the wheelies in return to oz.

barryfitz · 02-08-2007 10:07AM

childsplay for me aswell, I was about 8 or 9 and was over in my mates house, His older brothers had it and we wathched the whole thing with them. I remember the warm feeling triclin down my legs as though it was yesterday!!

boardinwork · 02-08-2007 10:10AM

Those lads on skates in the Wizard of Oz and the Woman that kept heads

boardinwork · 02-08-2007 10:14AM

Oh and The Hand Thats Rocks The Cradle

Women are scaryer that men

They always have big hair, light going through it, white faces, and big freaky eyes in horrors

BKtje · 02-08-2007 10:14AM

Arachnophobia. The bit where shes in the bathroom and they all come flying out of every nook and cranny. Gah.

I refused to even look at a spider for ages after that tho i never killed em. Wasn't their fault i had an irrational fear

Finally got over it a while ago

Time Magazine · 02-08-2007 10:21AM

A lot of people share my hatred of It. I think Sky 1 showed it early (well, earlier than Ibiza Uncovered which I was never up late enough to see) one night. That must have been a bad day for the young people of Ireland.

Alanthroneus · 02-08-2007 10:26AM

saw a film when i was like 6 called the haunted....its scared me sh1tless..so much so i didn't sleep all night and i was convinced the pile of clothes in my room was a demon

gizmo · 02-08-2007 10:26AM

Saw Child's Play when I was about 8, that scared the ****e out of me. Since then the only film that's had an effect on me was the original Halloween. Saw it when I was about 12 and literally couldn't sleep for 2 or 3 days.

Niamho! · 02-08-2007 10:28AM

kinda Co-inky-dink with the lsat Posters name but i used to be scared sh*tless of Gremlins. PAthetic really....and whats more Pathetic is that fear lasted for years....into my Early teens.

barryfitz · 02-08-2007 10:28AM

poltergeist was another one, I remember when they found the graveyard under their house, I was afraid to go to a graveyard for years!

Morlar · 02-08-2007 10:46AM

Anything with woody allen still scares me. Other than that films that arent scary anymore but used to be . . . the exorcist, the original Alien and carpenters the thing.

Gator · 02-08-2007 10:53AM

Event Horizon really got to me

Loomis · 02-08-2007 10:57AM

miju wrote:

Just finished waching Stephen Kings IT for the first time since I was about 9 years old.

While not as scary now I remember Pennywise the clown scared the ever loving crap out of me for weeks on end.

So what film scared you all as a kid?

edit: some clips of Pennywise from IT

lol same here. Only movie that really scared me. I was about six at the time though and remember almost nothing of the movie apart from two scenes.
Other than that no film has really scared me. You get the odd jump if a 'cheap shot' is done well but not actually petrified by the movie itself.

Dave! · 02-08-2007 11:06AM

The most horrible bit is when the chick goes back to visit her father, and he becomes like a zombie thing........!!! Disgusting and creepy sh*t

Tazdedub · 02-08-2007 11:22AM

For me it has to be the exorcist and Salems lot the original. those 2 scared the sh1t outta me. But the scariest thing ever was Pet semmetry the book not the film. Thought the film was lame but the book scary.

dubmick · 02-08-2007 11:28AM

Salems Lot for me too. Scared the **** out of me.

My uncle showed it to me when I was for. What a wanker haha

G&T · 02-08-2007 11:32AM

horgan_p wrote:

films : it and pet cemetary.

tv show : twin peaks. i still get shivers when i think of that bob freak

I watched Pet cemetary in a neighbours house when I was 11.
It scared the hell out of me.:eek:
I have never forgotten it,
Must re-watch it some time and see what it's like 20 years later.

Duckjob · 02-08-2007 11:42AM

another vote for Salems Lot here- especially the bit with Mrs Glick in the hospital under the sheet.

The Omen - I remember my parents let us watch it on TV when I was about 8. Scarred me for life that did....

gazzer · 02-08-2007 11:44AM

Salems Lot scared the fcuk outta me.. That movie is responsible for giving a whole generation of kids sleepless nights. Jesus I was so scared to look at the window at night for months after seeing that movie..

Up to this day I have an irrational fear of clowns and ventriloquist(?) dummys.. Not Orville or anything like that but the ones that look like men and are wooden.. Because of this movies like Poltergeist (the bit with the toy clown), It and a movie called Magic all warped my childhood.

Another movie that absolutely freaked me out was When a Stranger Calls. I got to see that at the age of 10 during our areas Summer Project. Each Thursday for 4 weeks they would show us a movie in the parish centre. They actually showed that movie to a bunch of 8-12 year olds. We were all freaked out. The following week they showed us Jaws. I had to take my brother home from that cos he was screaming crying at it.

chakotha · 02-08-2007 11:47AM

Without a doubt it was Salem's Lot (the original) for me. RTÉ showed it over two nights back in the early 80s. The scene with the boy floating outside his friend's bedroom window got me big time when I was 10 or 11. I found it hard to sleep that night!

Snap! I watched the same 2 nights and that very scene with the smoke appearing outside the kids window had me bricking it for nights. Also in the prison cell when the monster vampire's head suddenly appears. Jeesus!

Poltergeist gave me the creeps. The bit where the kid can't sleep and he keeps checking on his toy clown sitting at the end of his bed! And where he is counting between lightning flashes and thunder.

And I was in shock after seeing what happened to Quint in Jaws when I was 11 or so.

Not a film but Sapphire and Steele was very eerie.

what film scared the pee outta you as a kid?

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