what film scared the pee outta you as a kid?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 02-08-2007 11:54AM

I watched the Japanese Ring when I was a teen. Was alone in the house for the weekend so I brought the computer up to my room, turned off every light in the house and stuck on the Dvd around 3am. The movie scared me plenty, but that wasn't what scarred me for the next 2-3 years.

On the dvd extras there was an option to watch Sadakos video. I clicked it and an extra menu screen appeared asking if I was really sure yes/no. I thought about it for a second and didn't want that video to be the last thing I saw before I went to sleep so I selected no and, being pretty tired, I went to bed without turning the computer or dvd off.

The bastards that produced that dvd were bastards. When I said 'No' I did not want to watch sadako's video again.. the screen just went black for a few minutes.. could have been five, could have been ten.. I was just lieing in bed and I heard this strange noise. A soft screeching or scraping sound, not too loud but growing in intensity. I looked up to see the well on my monitor.

I was frozen in absolute terror, have never been so scared since. I lay in the bed panicking, too tired to cop the trick and too scared to move. Eventually the video played out and I figured out what had happened. I turned the light on, unplugged the computer and monitor, turned the monitor so it would be facing the wall and stayed awake reading until dawn.

The next night and the next few nights... and many nights in the following two to three years, if I was in bed and I even thought of ring, or sadako, I would start to feel her presence behind me in the bed.. just waiting for me to turn around and look her in the eyes. I had to get out of bed, turn the light on and have a quick look to make sure she wasn't there.

i seem to be ok now, the last time I thought about her in bed all I had to do was roll around to have a quick peek and reassure myself she wasn't there. Still.. that film ****ed me up.

Spud83 · 02-08-2007 12:04PM

It definitely had to be candyman for me. It freaked my older brother out more so every morning I would keep saying "Candyman, Candyman, Candyman" into the mirror. That and "IT" where the only two films I can remember watching that actually scared me.

Tomohawk · 02-08-2007 12:05PM

Come and See (Russian: Idi i smotri) is a 1985 Soviet war movie/psychological horror. The film is set in 1943 in various villages in Belarus during the Nazi occupation.

This horrified me as a teenager. Very disturbing subject matter make this a film never to forget. If you've seen it you will not what I mean. Brillianty made and gripping anti-war film!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See

unreggd · 02-08-2007 12:06PM

Child's Play

It actually ****ed me up for years

think its cos for once the victim was a 9 y/o boy!

Splinter · 02-08-2007 12:07PM

Mordeth that is scarring me thinking bout it now...

can't believe no one else has this one though

ET frightens, yes still frightens, the crap out of me. in particular the scene in the truck/van with the guys in white tryingto take him away... getting goosbumps thinking bout it now...

Jigsaw · 02-08-2007 01:05PM

Beetlejuice scared me as a young child.

I have grown to be more resilient now though.

Duggy747 · 02-08-2007 01:10PM

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, odd choice I know. I loved the movie as a kid but the scene near the end where Christopher Lloyd's evil character is slowly crushed by the steamroller absolutely terrified me. Just seeing him flailing around while half his body was under the steamroller's wheel! Sick shít a kid shouldn't see!!

Still, my brother used to hide under the table whenever Bruce Banner turned into the Hulk in the old tv show many years ago.

The Hill Billy · 02-08-2007 01:39PM

There's a scene in The Odessa File (which I saw with my folks when I was around 5) where a guy gets tortured with a red hot poker.

Still sends shiver up my spine.

miju · 02-08-2007 02:20PM

DaveMcG wrote:

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

you mean this scene. have to say its a classic horror scene. some mind tricks, plenty of suspense built and a delay in the inevitable bad bit to come up. though the zombie bit is a bit **** looking though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwLG8EUfHg

Lola123 · 02-08-2007 02:27PM

I got scared the first time I watched annie...the musical *hangs head in shame*.
It was the bit where the bad man is chasing poor annie up some ladder thing.
It was all ok in the end though...the sun came out the next day!

MrSquishSquash · 02-08-2007 02:30PM

IT, Chucky and ET!

The last seemed friendly but thats what he wanted you to think!

Ger the man · 02-08-2007 02:38PM

Phantasm, and the BBC series in the 80's - 'The Day of the Trifids'

b_beep · 02-08-2007 03:01PM

I have to say, I was scared enough by weird bits in cartoons...!When the bold boys turn in to donkeys in Pinoccio (sp?), terrifying. And all of George Orwells Animal Farm; my Dad let us watch it when I was about 4 though he warned us it wasnt a nice cartoon.....Well f*ckin turn it off then Daddy!!! Omen was definitely the freakiest horror though

Fwaggle · 02-08-2007 03:21PM

Terminator 2

The scene where T-1000 is chasing the car and they can't seem to get away from him scares the bejesus outta me. I still can't watch it.

Morlar · 02-08-2007 03:36PM

worzel gummidge - just remembered - think I was blocking it out till now.

02-08-2007 03:38PM

Everyone in here seems to be scared of kids films ffs.

Morlar · 02-08-2007 03:43PM

Deleted User wrote:

Everyone in here seems to be scared of kids films ffs.

Well when your a kid watching tv and an adult character twists his head off and puts it under his arm while still talking and chewing grass its a bit scary alright. Also the whole idea that he kept different heads in his haystack for different days - like say an academic head for when he needed to be clever - that he would swap out with his regular head - that sorta stuff can be disturbing when your a kid.

eggplantman · 02-08-2007 03:46PM

friday the 13th freaked me out

transylman · 02-08-2007 03:47PM

Another vote fot IT. Saw it when I was 11 and it terrified me. It seems to hit every psychological trigger for scaring the beejesus out of a youngster. For years after if I started thinking about it lieing in bed at night I would break out in a cold sweat. If you watch it after age 12 though you just think its a rubbish film.

Worst bit: guy getting dragged into pipe by shining white light

02-08-2007 03:49PM

Morlar wrote:

Well when your a kid watching tv and an adult character twists his head off and puts it under his arm while still talking and chewing grass its a bit scary alright. Also the whole idea that he kept different heads in his haystack for different days - like say an academic head for when he needed to be clever - that he would swap out with his regular head - that sorta stuff can be disturbing when your a kid.

I always thought wurzel gummage was funny when I was small not scary. Its all the cousins fault, I was always at their place and they always put on aliens and stuff that.

is_that_so · 02-08-2007 03:58PM

Bride of Frankenstein. The head on Elsa Lancaster just freaked me out completely. I thought she was looking at me. And Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) in Oliver.

2funki4wheelz · 02-08-2007 04:01PM

Poltergeist, someone was babysitting me and the older kids had it on and I just saw the bit where a guy peels the skin off his face - I haven't seen it since.

And when we got Sky at home first, the movie channel or whatever sky movies was called showed one of the Nightmare on Elm St's like a zillion times and I was always watching it even though I was sure Freddie Kreuger was going to get me in bad.

edit
I see someone mentioned Triffids - they were terrifying!!! :eek:

RoyalMarine · 02-08-2007 04:06PM

Rhyme wrote:

Event Horizon.

*Shudder*

i work in a massive pharmacutical company and there is about 4 plant rooms that are a few thousand sq feet big. massive machines and i work 12 hour security there. night time patrols are the worst going into these rooms and i always get the feeling im in that movie.

builttospill · 02-08-2007 04:29PM

Watership Down...
Had me depressed for years. I swear that certain cartoons cause a lot more damage than blood or violence when you're a kid.

2funki4wheelz · 02-08-2007 04:33PM

builttospill wrote:

Watership Down...

I wasn't allowed watch that as a child, only saw it for the first time a few years ago. But I was allowed watch Animal Farm!?

Beelzebub · 02-08-2007 04:38PM

Nothing has ever scared the pee out of me.

However there were episodes of the Twilight Zone TOS and Night Gallery that made me peer through my fingers...and wish I hadn't eaten so much for tea...

thelordofcheese · 02-08-2007 05:58PM

Aliens. My dad let me watch it when i was about 9 or so, but when it got as far as ripleys dream about the chestburster clawing it's way out of her my dad reckoned it was too scary for me and sent me to bed without letting me see how it all ended.

I had no idea the planet was nuked from orbit, and that it all worked out, i was terrified for ages.

Holsten · 02-08-2007 06:04PM

The Exorcist, scary ****.

Wertz · 02-08-2007 06:27PM

A Company of Wolves scared the bejebus out of me when I was 10 or 11.

...and this might seem a bit strange but Watership Down traumatised me when I was pretty young. Mainly the bits about rabbits dying, but the movie in general just spooked my young mind. Even hearing the theme tune nowadays sends a chill up my spine...
Alien is memorable, the bit with the face-hugger and obviously the chest burst scene made me jump behind soft furnishings.
Last one that scared me in my teens was Jacob's Ladder. Great show.

[edit] On subject of the Excorsist I recall seeing that fairly young and never got the scare out of it that we were expecting (me and my mates got it on rental from some dodgy place lol) I laughed at certain bits of that show.
[edit2] lol didn't see the other post about watership down....thought that was just me. There must be a load of thirtysomethings out there with PTSD from that movie...

Catari Jaguar · 02-08-2007 09:00PM

miju wrote:

I think I remember that film. Does this have something do with a school, a young kid and some abonded looking house on the top of a cliff?

didn't scare me but a bloody good film

I saw that, thought it was Lady in Red though. Scared me witless, I was about 10. Saw IT when I was 7. The 2 parter on Sky. Never saw the end where he dies so he lived on eternal. Still out there. I was scared of showers, drains for years after.

Used to stay up to watch the Freddie Kreuger show with my brothers when my mam was in bed. Remember being too scared to go upstairs!

what film scared the pee outta you as a kid?

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