Current Events > First horror movie to really scare you (as a kid)?

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For me it was Child's Play (technically first was a foreign horror movie but Chucky was the first mainstream one). I think I was like 5 or something. A friend's older brother and his group were watching it so we watched too so we could fit in with the bigger kids. Shit scared me lol

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the ring/the grudge? cant remember exactly, just the girl crawling

now i fantasize about it

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Cujo

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Either Wes Craven's New Nightmare or Poltergeist, I forget which one I saw first

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Poltergeist creeped me out. It's a relatively tame movie, but they do a great job of building up the atmosphere.

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Day of the Dead. The scream of the dude getting his head torn off still bothers the shit out of me.

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In the Mouth of Madness. It's one of the few I watched back then

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Original Texas Chainsaw when I was 8.

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chest bursting in alien was pretty fucked. now one of my favorite movies. movies never really scared me that much tho. unsolved mysteries did, thats when I learned that murderers were out there just walking around. also tornado warning/watch sirens freaked me the fuck out too.

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Spawn.

That fucking clown and his maggot food and his demon form especially, my God.

Idk why that movie gets such hate, I liked it.
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BuckVanHammer posted...

chest bursting in alien was pretty fucked. now one of my favorite movies.

That's one of those scenes I really wish I didn't know about or saw parodies of beforehand.

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House on Haunted Hill remake. This scene deeply disturbed me

https://youtu.be/aYhhxqkd0Vw

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Hayame Zero posted...

That's one of those scenes I really wish I didn't know about or saw parodies of beforehand.

I saw spaceballs first, kind of killed it for me

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SuperExcitebike posted...

House on Haunted Hill remake. This scene deeply disturbed me

https://youtu.be/aYhhxqkd0Vw

That's...really creepy. I also liked this movie. But haven't seen it in years lol.
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I was afraid of Chucky when I was a kid. Then I had a dream where I caught him waiting in ambush for me. I pulled him out of his hiding spot and threw him up against a wall.

After that, I was no longer afraid of him. :)

I saw Candyman when I was pretty young and it scared the shit out of me.

For like a week after I couldn't go the bathroom with the door closed and was scared to even look at the mirror.
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I remember when I was a kid watching this scary movie with slugs and a scene where a decomposing cat jumps onto a woman and couldn't for the life of me find the until recently. I thought it was a fever dream I had or something. Anyways it was called Night of the Creeps.

the ring

i found it really scary, but i saw it with a friend and he had trouble going to sleep after that

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Master Kazuya posted...

technically first was a foreign horror movie

Why does it matter

SuperExcitebike posted...

House on Haunted Hill remake. This scene deeply disturbed me

https://youtu.be/aYhhxqkd0Vw

I thought of this scene too. Remains one of my favourite horror movies.

Also I was very young when I watched the first Scary Movie and that scared me a bit. Scream 3 to as well. Ghostface has always creeped me out.

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Children of the Corn. My dad let me watch it when I was like 5 and we lived right next to corn fields

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thronedfire2 posted...

Children of the Corn. My dad let me watch it when I was like 5 and we lived right next to corn fields

That's like taking your kid to a cabin in the woods with a bunch of windows and telling him that campfire story of the paintings in the cabin.

What the fuck man.
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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Why does it matter

Cause I don't like lying and me saying Chucky would technically be a lie.

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I cant remember what it was, but it had a clown, maybe a few, chasing kids through a meat locker.

This will have been mid 90s, so if anyone has a clue of what it could have been, I'd appreciate it.

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Alien long ago after asking to watch it.

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I watched 'Jaws' as a kid with parental permission and I still don't have any idea why they didn't explicitly warn me about some of the jump scares. I was very decently sheltered as a kid and was definitely not prepared for that shit.

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have to be a horror movie? because the first movie that i remember scaring me was temple of doom. that heart ripping out scene.

if we're only talking about horror movies, then i dont know, maybe childs play?

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Actual horror movie? Poltergeist
Any movie? Either Time Bandits or Wrath of Kahn.

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Making Contact, another movie about a killer doll that was a few years older than Child's Play.

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I grew up watching scary movies including the Nightmare on Elm Street movies as a little kid. None of them scared me. I always told myself and my younger cousin who got scared easily that if it were real, they would attack the cameraman. However, a few years later I saw 13 Ghosts and From Hell when I was in the 5th grade. For some reason, these movies creeped me the fuck out lol. To this day these are the only movies that ever scared me.

Also, here's something funny. Scary movies like Freddy Krueger didn't scare me as a kid. Yet those fuzzies from the level Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy in Yoshi's Island on SNES scared the shit out of me when i was like kindergarten age. Every time they'd come on screen, I'd have to get out of the room or turn the TV off lol.

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BuckVanHammer posted...

chest bursting in alien was pretty fucked. now one of my favorite movies.

Yeah that, I saw it when I was like 6.


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The Exorcist.

Master Kazuya posted...

Cause I don't like lying and me saying Chucky would technically be a lie.

Well why didn't you start with the first movie? You went against your own topic title in the OP.

Phantasm

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jurassic park. saw that at like 6 or something.

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Wasn't a movie, but rather Resident Evil. First FMV sequence with the zombie scared me on a level that I haven't ever been afraid since. Would've been 7 years old at the time.

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Hellraiser 2 when I was 5.

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Hayame Zero posted...

Day of the Dead. The scream of the dude getting his head torn off still bothers the shit out of me.

Mine is Night of the Living Dead and probably for the same reason. Karen Coopers scream when her daughter is stabbing her.

Although it has gone on to become probably my favorite movie.

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The original Nightmare on Elm Street. Specifically long arms Freddy, and when he kills that girl shortly after. I was only 4 or 5. Shouldn't have been allowed to watch it tbh.

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The Shining.

Nothing had happened in the movie, then Jack Nicholson gave that face and that did it for me.
Also the constant creepy atmosphere and the scary music building up to... Tuesday!

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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Well why didn't you start with the first movie? You went against your own topic title in the OP.

I'm not sure. I guess my real intention was to relate the experience of seeing a movie I was terrified of as a kid with others, and see what movies other people picked and imagine/relate to the fear of seeing X movie as a youngn. I mentioned Chucky because although it's the second movie, it's the first movie I'd be able to relate to with others. Idk I didn't think about it too much, I just kinda made the topic on a trailing thought and rough drafted it.

BTW here's the movie I was referencing just for context. It's not even meant to be an actual horror movie, it's a comedy movie about IIRC two guys who want to buy a place, one guy kinda does something a little shady to get the house over the 2nd guy, and the 2nd guy dresses up like a ghost and possesses the house and torments the guy who bought it so that he moves out. He sings a classic folk song whenever he shows up and there's something still faintly unsettling whenever I hear the melody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBlwTb3ok7Q

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Alien
The dinner scene was too much for the pre-schooler me.Which set me up for the next film....

Alien:Resurrection
My parents took me with them to the cinema despite my insistence of not wanting to go.
As the movie was playing,I turned my back to the screen and looked at the audiences seated behind us instead.

I eventually got bored and tired from kneeling in my seat.I turned around and absorbed all the sounds and lights of the black horror.

For at least a week.I remembered myself crying alone in my own bed unable to sleep from the aftershock of having view my biggest childhood phobia.

I'm a big Xenomorph now.I went and watched the Prometheus and Alien:covenant premier alone.

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MC_BatCommander posted...

Wasn't a movie, but rather Resident Evil. First FMV sequence with the zombie scared me on a level that I haven't ever been afraid since. Would've been 7 years old at the time.

For me it was the Licker FMV from RE2.

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13 ghosts

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Some Troma type movie that was playing at my aunt's house (my uncle must have been watching it before the family party and just left the tv on. I wandered in and ended up regretting it). From what I can recall, there was some cult and one of them squeezed a dude to death and made vomit out blood and organs and then there was some cauldron with severed head stew in it. Kinda traumatized me for a bit. If I saw it today though I would probably laugh and be like "this actually affected me?"
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Ah man I just thought of another one!

The scene from the 80s movie House where his wife visits him at the haunted house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nurVmy0SaTc

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The Stand, I think. I'm not that old. It was already an older movie

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opopopza posted...

Poltergeist creeped me out. It's a relatively tame movie, but they do a great job of building up the atmosphere.

Man... Poltergeist when your 5? Scared the living hell out of me.

Also, Spawn is a fantastic movie. It might not follow the comics, but John Leguizamo as Clown? match made in heaven.