Movies that scared the crap out of you as a kid

[Acidburn]

Now before I tell you this, remember I was a kid and my parents did not let me watch many horror movies.  The movie that scared me the most, to the point of tears while I sat in the bed alone at night in the dark was.......none other than...... a  old movie called Raw Headed Rex.   I have seen it since then and was amazed at how stupid it was.  Just wondering if any of you had a movie that scared the socks off of you.

[Aaron Peetz]

  Yes of course. IT freaked me to the point of tears and being scared for life. until the age of 10. I got over it. A steven king movie isn't worth being scared for the rest of your living life.

[jimmyd]

killer klowns form outr space .... fraked me out as a kid

[Anonymous User]

childs play. definitely. i saw it when i was 12 and it still scares me.

[Ash]

For me it was "The Boogens".

Released in 1982, it's about these creatures that dwell in an underground mine which happens to connect to the cellar of a house where 2 promiscuous couples are staying.

It's one of those films that wisely does not show the monsters until the very end.

Scared the hell outta me!

Here's the IMDB listing for it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082094/



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[Susan]

I didn't scare easy, i was the 5 year old who would torment her friends into screams by turning out the lights - just for the ones who were afraid of the dark. However I do remember moments in films that creeped me out or scared me. Lord knows why. Some old black and white show with some giant spider in a room and a woman screaming. Something about the 78-79? version of king kong when he stepped on the petrol guy always creeped me out. maybe it was the glee in kongs eye as he did it.  Zaat ,I think it was, i have memories of that creature and for some reason he scared me.

And the first time i saw the Shining i was royally freaked out by those twin girls, then flashes of their bodies as they said...

"Won't you come play with us Danny. Won't you come play with us...forever, and ever..and EVER"


shiver



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[I luv dolma]

A lot of horror movies freaked me out as a kid.

Killer Klowns From Outerspace and the Carnosaur movies were on the top of the list. Friday the 13ths and A Nightmare on Elm Street were there too.

Funny how all these films are my favorite movies now.

[odinn7]

I was subjected to horror films from the time I was about 5 but these were fairly tame by modern standards; things like Dracula and Wolfman. As I got a little older, we were one of the first on our block to get a VCR and my sister and I would go to the local video store and rent all kinds of horror movies. None of them really scared me but I did see Don't Be Afraid of the Dark on TV when I was a kid, that movie had a bad effect on me...caused much trauma.

[Fearless Freep]

Ghost Story


he Carnosaur movies were on the top of the list.

Betcha have a fear of chickens now ;)

[Ash]

I also remember that the original "House" movie scared the crap out of me.

When William Katt opens the attic door and that creature comes out, I nearly s**t myself when I was 9 or 10 years old!

[StatCat]

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark:

I've been hearing so much about this movie and how creepy it is. I've never seen it but it seems to have traumatized every person that has (just look at IMDB reviews)

I can remember Children shouldn't play with dead things actually freaked me out when I was young, no idea now why it did. Hell practically anything would freak me out anyway but I just remember this one in particular being on televison and messing with me.

[BeyondTheGrave]

my grandmother had all the zombie horror movies and scif horrors. she used show them to me all the time when i was little. when she first showed me Alien that just scared the crap out of me. my mom had to give away her whole collection of movies just because i was so scared. but i have to thank my grandmother she also had a bunch of B horror movies that got me into it. if wasnt for her i wouldnt be here posting.

I know I know ive been exposed permeant psychoses..
at least the colors are nice"- Aeon Flux

[JohnL]

>Just wondering if any of you had a movie that scared the socks off of you.

I always had a kind of phobia about dead things coming back to life. One that I recall was Curse of the Faceless Man, about a body that was turned to stone during the eruption of Pompei and which later came back to life. Also, there was a bigfoot movie where some college students find a mummy in a cave, bring it back with them and it turns out to be a clay-covered bigfoot that goes on a rampage. Horror Express also gave me nightmares, especially the part where the guy hears noises coming from inside the crate and he opens it to find the decayed corpse staring at him with red eyes.

>For me it was "The Boogens".

Rebecca Balding, the star's girlfriend now plays a recurring role on Charmed.

>Don't Be Afraid of the Dark:
>
>I've been hearing so much about this movie and how creepy it is. I've never
>seen it but it seems to have traumatized every person that has (just look at IMDB
>reviews)

I've seen it and it is creepy. For some reason, a lot of the stuff made during the 70's, even though most of it is pretty cheesy by today's standards, still manages to be creepier than anything made today. Modern movies just don't have the same atmosphere.

[daveblackeye15]

Let's seee noowww. We got Xtro. The part where a grown man tears out of a woman traumatized me quite a bit. (I have yet to get my revenge! XTRO your days are numbered!) Alien scared me quite a bit also. I was terrified of going to sleep because I didn't want a face hugger to lay a egg in my stomach or chest. The Uninvited also scared me quite a while. Ha! I remember there was once a time where Friday the 13th would get me scared while I watched it but now I'm invincible to it's weak power! But I never had trouble getting to sleep after watching a Friday the 13 film. Grizzly scared me a lot and I had trouble sleeping for a few days. I never watched the full movie but I never got to see the costume and if I had I proabably wouldn't have been so scared afterwards (I still need to finish that movie)

[Yaddo42]

Clips of the original "Nosferatu" used to scare me, it was those eyes. I can even remember getting off the bus from school and staying at my aunt's house where I would have to stay by myself until my aunt and cousins got home. I was so obsessed with the Max Schrek vampire that I used to get freaked out walking toward the house, imagining Count Orlock glaring through the windows at me waiting for me to enter.

I remember getting really worked up the first time I saw the Corman version of "The Pit and The Pendulum". Near the end as the blade is nearing the character strapped to the table and the blade begins to cut into his shirt the CBS affiliate cut away to show "The NFL Today". I was so tense asking my dad, "How does it end? Does the guy live?" He laughed and said, "I think so", kidding me since he had seen it many times before. I didn't see the film again, and find out the real ending for years.

I know I got scared once, about the time I was four or five, while watching just the intro to a syndicated horror show, "Chiller" maybe from what I was told later. The opening started with this cheap graphic of an old man slowly walking up a twisting path to a stereotypical spooky castle at the top of a hill. Then this small fluttering image, meant to look like a bat, menaces and attacks the man, who drops drops dead with a pathetic groan. The image/bat then flies nearly straight up at the screen (the "camera" was positioned high so that the viewer is looking down at the man climbing the path.). As it fills the screen we see that it is the logo/title for the show, but since I hadn't learned to read yet, I can't remember what the name was. If anyone knows or recognizes this, I'd greatly appreciate it.