What films scared you most as a child

BunShopVoyeur · 14-09-2012 07:14AM

Poltergeist 2 or 3. Can't remember which one.

I was afraid to walk past a mirror for weeks.

candy-gal1 · 14-09-2012 07:14AM

I can never remember what its called now, but i remember seeing a movie when i was about 8 about some group of people going to a woods cabin or something to try and get over ther fears, the wooden looking man in it scared me sooo much! :eek: would love to see that now and see if it has the same effect.

The zombie guy in Hocus Pocus!

up for anything · 14-09-2012 07:24AM

Jack the Giant Killer 1962 and Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

stampydmonkey · 14-09-2012 08:01AM

my cousin (who was younger than me) showed me nightmare in elm street when i over with them for a weeks holidays when i was about 10 or 11

..cue extreme homesickness, crying on phone to parents and general sacred ****lessness for a year or two after. never did get on with him so think he did it on purpose

itchy elbows · 14-09-2012 08:08AM

The wind and the willows come on its about a rat

oldyouth · 14-09-2012 08:08AM

The original B&W version of Invasion of The Bodysnatchers. I still remember how much it freaked me out.

sebastianlieken · 14-09-2012 08:25AM

Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Those who have seen this in their youth know why. The Banshee, The death car....

this movie is U for Universal. it's not even PG!!!! :eek:

xzanti · 14-09-2012 08:31AM

I have no idea it was called but it was about some guy who having a bad trip (I was told he was having a nightmare at the time) anyway lots of every day stuff like ice creams started chasing him through the town and one tried to bury him alive..

Anyone have any idea what it was called?? IIRC it may have been some sort of Sherlock Holmes type film

Colmustard · 14-09-2012 08:33AM

It was a television series staring David Soul, "Salem's Lot", I remember checking the windows about 5 times and turning the landan light on.

I looked at it again recently and it was amazing how innocent it was compared to today's stuff.

Sneaky snake in Wanderly wagon is still very scary.

Apanachi · 14-09-2012 08:44AM

Well it wasn't a film, it was TV series, apparently I was terrified of the Incredible Hulk, my Da told me I used to hide behind the sofa in fear whenever it came on (must have been so traumatic for me that my mind blocked it out, cos I don't remember it even though I was at an age where I should be able to remember it

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And apparently my mean older brother used to record it and play the video randomly just to scare me and have a laugh - big brothers can be sooo mean

Zebra3 · 14-09-2012 08:45AM

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

Fleming should have stuck with Bond.

Nux · 14-09-2012 08:50AM

Again Darby O'Gill was one I remember scaring me. Banshe :eek:
And Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder. The psychedelic boat ride sequence with chickens having their heads cut off and snakes crawling over a man's face surely has no place in any U or PG certificate film.
Two great films tho!

Dub Ste · 14-09-2012 09:15AM

This scared the crap outta me when was younger

HerrScheisse · 14-09-2012 09:23AM

ET - the creepy little mofo!

BostonB · 14-09-2012 09:24AM

Salems Lot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem%27s_Lot_(1979_TV_miniseries)

Daroxtar · 14-09-2012 09:28AM

amybabes wrote: »

The follow up to Wizard of Oz that was made in the 80s - Return to Oz.
The Wheelers scared the absolute sh*t out of me, and the room of heads in glass cases that the witch/queen had and when Dorothy went into the room and they all woke up and started screaming!

Too scary for kids!!

To hell with the follow up, the original Wizard of Oz had the ultimate witch and vicious flying monkeys. That witch was probably the inspiration for every witch ever since. I had no problem watching Jaws when I was 5 or 6 but the wizard of Oz scared me shítless.

ruthloss · 14-09-2012 09:28AM

Colmustard wrote: »

It was a television series staring David Soul, "Salem's Lot", I remember checking the windows about 5 times and turning the landan light on.

I was half way up the stairs after an episode of 'Salem's Lot' when we had a power cut!!!, I don't think I have ever been so terrified in my life.:o

woof im a dog · 14-09-2012 09:29AM

when i was very young i watched event horizon which was a stupid idea

Colmustard · 14-09-2012 09:30AM

ruthloss wrote: »

Colmustard wrote: »

It was a television series staring David Soul, "Salem's Lot", I remember checking the windows about 5 times and turning the landan light on.

I was half way up the stairs after an episode of 'Salem's Lot' when we had a power cut!!!, I don't think I have ever been so terrified in my life.:o

It was the scene of the vampire scraping the window that got me. Mahhh when ever a car went by and cast a shadow. I was terrified, I still came back for more.

Matt_Trakker · 14-09-2012 09:32AM

Nightmare on Elm street when I was about 7 or 8, could look at a school bus or a box of cereal for a week without freaking out.
My Ma ate the bollix off me uncle for lettin me watch it. We have a good laugh about it now tho.

zef · 14-09-2012 09:35AM

Somehow I managed to watch Hitchcocks "The Birds" one Saturday night, parents had friends over in the 'parlour' (posh room rarely used with china in it) and left me to me own devices. Was petrified to even go upstairs lest a flock of evil birds appear and tear me to shreds.
Even now the child snatcher from 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' unnerves me.

80s Child · 14-09-2012 09:42AM

Bettlejuice... Parents were out, sister who was baby-sitting let me watch it. I was around 6/7. Bawled, and I mean biblically, for a good three to four hours before they came home.
I watch it now and I smile..... before I obviously start bawling again!!!

not yet · 14-09-2012 09:42AM

The daddy of them all......................

EXORCIST.

Nasty,nasty movie that scared me for years.

Conall Cernach · 14-09-2012 09:42AM

Colmustard wrote: »

ruthloss wrote: »

It was the scene of the vampire scraping the window that got me. Mahhh when ever a car went by and cast a shadow. I was terrified, I still came back for more.

Me too. I slept with a crucifix under the pillow in case of emergency.

Irishcrx · 14-09-2012 09:46AM

Like a few have said Stephen Kings IT was the one for me, terrified for years I was , I honestly did believe he was in the closet. Heard they are re-making it now I think I'll make my own child watch it...It can be like a right of passage and will give me bargaining power with them.

'Stop crying or.....IT will get you'

Duggy747 · 14-09-2012 09:50AM

No films really left an impression on me except this scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. From Judge Doom getting crushed to inflating himself back up again and speaking with the high-pitched voice plus those demented eyes. Eurgh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSTL3AidX4o

Christopher Lloyd scared the shìt out of me as him.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-09-2012 09:51AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8pro4n4irI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1O7fOh87OE

Lollipops23 · 14-09-2012 09:56AM

ET scared the bejesus out of me as a kid, so much so that I've never seen it the whole way through!!

I also used to get creeped out watching Are You Afraid Of The Dark on tv frequently.

Duckjob · 14-09-2012 10:03AM

Saw "The Omen" (1976) on TV when I was 7 or 8 and was utterly traumatised by the guy getting decapitated by the glass. I really should sit down with my folks and ask some hard questions about their parenting

Kwack · 14-09-2012 10:07AM

Anyone remember salems lot?? Scared me ****less as a kid!

dodderangler wrote: »

Previous post of 'what tv adds scared you as a child' got me thinkin of films that scared me as a child
One that sticks out was that film never ending story ( everyone gasps and say wtf) but the film is basically bout a huge wolf tring to eat a child and at the end the wolf finds him And has a creepy voice and has huge teeth and all ( did I mention huge fcukin wolf)
And the film Peter and the wolf ( not the film But the music scared sh1t out of me)
Basically wolves I know haha
But seriously what films scared you folks
Atb

What films scared you most as a child

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