Jack and the Beanstalk. Not really a movie, but anime/cartoon from 1974. My parents turned it on for me every time they left the house. Check it up, it's terrifying, especially for a 4-year-old.
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The Tall Man from Phantasm scared the shit out of me
I still have a nightmare once a decade about him chasing me screaming "BOY!"
My Girl. The ending with the kid dying from getting stung by all those bees messed with my mind as I was only like 5 or 6 when I saw it.
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Maximum Overdrive. It has taken me until adulthood to get over the irrational fear that big machines like trucks will come alive and drive me over. For many, many years I always got a slightly uneasy feeling when I'm cycling and a big truck goes by (even though I live in a country with good bike infrastructure and bike on separated bike paths). Even now at 26 I occasionally get the feeling. It's silly, and I've mostly gotten over it. I guess my interest in cars and anything mechanical has helped me get over it, thankfully curiosity is sometimes strong than fear.
Funnily enough I occasionally listen to AC/DC and at some long ago point I stumbled upon their album "Who Made Who" and it became a favourite of mine. It was only a few years ago I realized that the album is the soundtrack to Maximum Overdrive!
Several years ago I actually bought a DVD copy of the movie; it's still wrapped in plastic to this day. It's not that I'm scared to see it, I just haven't gotten around to it yet, and by now I'm unsure where it even is any more.
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.
Return of the Living Dead, not because it's any good but just because I was really scared of zombies as a kid. The Tarman zombie gave me nightmares for years.
The Exorcist, specifically the part where she runs down the stairs upside down on all 4s and screams. Me and my brother cried forever that night lol
When I was 4 and watched Spirited Away I was terrified
Superman III
Threads (1984). Still one of the most realistically possibje horror films ever made. The BBC banned its re-airing for 40 years due to being too disturbing.
Even in a post about movies, I can't escape the talk about Threads! /s
Everything Facebook touches really does evoke horror!
Schindler's List. Saw plenty of scary movies before this, but that scene where the officer murders the engineering prisoner who's just trying to tell him about a problem with the building. It just sticks in my mind to this day as maybe the first time my young, sheltered self had been confronted with a realistic example of what dehumanizing could do.
I watched Dirty Harry when I was around 6 or 7 and my parents had gone out for the night. I was really freaked out and crying when they came homeβ¦
Them!.... old movie about giant ants. Even now when i hear the noise they make it gives me goose bumps.
For me it was Poltergeist 2. That really scared the shit out of 9yo me π
βPokemon: Jirachi, Wish Makerβ for me. It had this really creepy Groudon with tentacles.
The Strangers. I lived in a house similarly isolated with a sliding glass door just like the one in the movie where she moves the curtain and heβs right there staring in.
The Grudge. The Japanese original and the US ones.
Something was on TV and I have no idea what it was nor do I care to try to find it. Someone was in the hospital and transformed into some sort of monster while the nurse was out of the room and when she came back in it reached out from under the hospital bed and ripped her fucking leg off. I'd never had thoughts about monsters under the bed before but after that I always jumped as far away from the edge of the bed as possible when I got out.
killer klowns from outer space. now as an adult i find out its considered a comedy!
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The old animated one by Disney. The Witch/Evil Queen scenes would always scare the living shit out of little old me! When my sister and I would watch the movie with our grandparents, they would have to fast-forward through those bits.
Fantasia, not specifically the Night on bald mountain section, but the bits with the orchestra.
Also a TV series in the UK called Mealstrom. The paintings would come to life, which was ok but the intro was creepy AF https://youtu.be/_FwP5LAXd7U
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