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Pee-wee's Big Adventure. (Hear me out)
This was back in the 80s, when TV screens were glass and shooting a suction cup gun at it was the pinnacle of child entertainment. On one of my retrieval trips, when I was arms length from the screen, Large Marge made "the face." I screamed and ran. I couldn't watch the movie for years afterward. I still get minor anxiety to this day.
The Mummy (1990s movie, not that Netflix series)
When I was a child, Pet Sematary scared the living hell out of me.
Species from 1995. Parents and their friends were watching it and told us to not come in because it was too scary.
I thought they were bullshitting young me...I was wrong. Lol. Had wonderful nightmares for a while.
Ernest scared stupid. That troll going around at night, sneaking into kids rooms and turning them into wooden figurines was terrifying to my kid brain.
gotta agree on event horizon, I loved scary movies but that one was something else.
As an adult i was super scared by that movie where the tooth fairy gets you if you're in the dark. I still turn my stairway light on when i walk to bed.
The ring.
The one that comes to mind is Geordi's eyes on Star Trek TNG. I don't know why, and I eventually got over it. But watching every new episode of TNG was sort of an tense experience wondering if the visor would come off for any reason.
Threads, Growing up near Sheffield and watched it when I was about 12...
Gremlins for me, was way too young for that. Now it's one of my all time favorite movies.
Stephen King's IT.
Tim Curry is a phenomenal actor.
Weirdly, the original Andromeda Strain scared me more than any gore. It was probably linked to my childhood fear of sirens.
How come nobody mentioned Goosebumps? That shit was catered to kids, but I only dared watch it with the sound off.
Bruh I was scared by the vampire Simpsons Halloween episode. And goosebumps.
The first Resident Evil movie. Not because of the zombies, it was the laser scene that got to me. I was convinced that lasers would come out of any reflective surface to get me. I didn't like how they seemed to react to the guy avoiding them, making it impossible for him to escape, like they were intelligent and trying to kill him.
James and the giant peach was already an all around unsettling movie, but that thunderstorm rhino scared the bejeebes out of me as a kid.
Dumbo, the pink elephants scene. Genuinely had fever dreams of that when i got sick over the years.
New Alcatraz. Granted, it's monster horror that I shouldn't have been watching, but my gramps got annoyed at me because it's "obviously fake"
Time Bandits. The evil character at the end. It was truly the most evil character I had ever seen.
Who the hell let's their child watch event horizon?
Who said someone let me? You know, children sometimes do stuff adults don't approve of. And some people have shitty parents. In my case it's both.
Fire in the sky - The scene after he was abducted and wakes up on the UFO always freaked me out as a kid. I remember renting the VHS from Blockbuster back in the day. This was also when shows like Sightings and Unsolved Mystery were popular on TV.
Trilogy of Terror The little warrior doll that comes alive scared the living hell out of me
The Exorcist and The Omen. I cannot watch either again to this day.
The aliens in Mars attacks were pretty scary.
The 1990 remake of the Night of the Living Dead. I was like 10 when I saw it, and then I had to walk through a dark forest alone to get home (I was supposed to walk with older girls but they left me behind). I legitimately thought I was going to die.
Thank you for validating me. Event Horizon scares me to this day. Clawing out his eyes? Fucking no thank you.
Those really weird thumb creatures from Spy Kids. Could not STAND them and the movie would rerun almost every day.
Also King Rameses from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
I remember when I has a kid my dad was Watching "Pink Floyd The Wall" and the scene where the kids walked on an assembly line to become sausages scared me a lot. It became kind of a misterious movie to me because the melody was kids popular and I could remember how dark that sensation was.
Many years later I started listening to Pink Floyd and watched the entire movie. I still love it.
An American Werewolf in London. My parents were watching it when I was like 6. The opening sequence on the moors scared the hell out of me, and they decided I should go to bed. I think they had heard it was a comedy, so weren't prepared for actual horror. That scene stuck with me for like 20 years before I ever rewatched it. It's a good movie as an adult.