Pet sematary did this to me
I was a weird kid. My God parent’s son showed me Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the first 3 Friday the 13th movies when I was, like 7 or 8, I think? I don’t remember being scared. I do remember being grossed out at a scene from TCM where a dude was pulling maggots off his head, torching them with a lighter and then eating them, tho.
But then Pet Cemetery scared the shit out of me and gave me nightmares for weeks when I saw it at 10 or 11. Not because of the supernatural shit; but because of the flashback scene of the sick sister. The way she looked and how she puked. That’s real shit. That can happen to me. An undead kid trying to kill me can’t. That’s not scary.
I was also very afraid of the tornado in Wizard of Oz as a child. Because tornados are real!
I begged to see Poltergeist when it came out in 1982, I was 11. One of my main arguments was that it was only rated PG, ET came out the same year and it was rated PG; the PG-13 rating didn’t exist yet.
I did not sleep in my room for 3 months after that and when I finally was able to go back all my stuffed animals had to be out of the room.
I have never found another movie again that scared me so much and I have seen more horror movies than I could count.
My mom never let me watch scary movies growing up, so when I finally got the watch The Birds at 13 it scared the shit out of me. Couldn’t sleep for a few weeks.
I don’t watch scary movies still.
We watched The Birds in class in 6th grade, it was lovely. Absolute hysteria modulated by Hitchcock’s suspense in between horror.
That teacher molded an entire class, swear.
The Dark Crystal is a good scary movie for kids. The movie that got me scared as a kid was a Ernest Scared Stupid. I can’t explain why, that movie scared the shit out of me. After that it was watching The Relic.
I dunno what OP’s daughter was watching that wasn’t ‘scary enough’ but going straight to The Descent was a terrible idea.
For some reason the movie the dark Crystal had me fucked up when I was like 5years old.
Dude, The Dark Crystal was unnerving when I first saw it almost 20 years old in the late 90s. I don’t think you were wrong there.
The Dark Cauldron was the first movie I walked out of when I was 5, followed the next year with Return To OZ
Unnerving! What a great word for it.
Feel like it applies to a lot of kid scary actually… like Goosebumps or the carnival scene in Big… just like lingering uneasiness
The film that broke me as a child was *The Fair-Haired Child". Pretty unknown horror movie but goddamn it was a lot for ~11 year old me.
Oh, and The Outer Limits: Sandkings! Not ostensibly a horror movie but plenty creepy and weird.
You might have done some emotional damage there lol
My parents took me to see aliens when I was a we lad. To this day I am terrified of the alien series.
My genius parents took my brother and I to see SCANNERS in the theater.
Watched the whole fucking thing.
But that was back when your parents could beat you for waking them up at night with nightmares so I don’t think it ruined their night.
That was my friend’s dad’s head!
man that was my gif avatar on deviant art for like 13 years haha
Hahahaha it’s all I remember of the movie
no shit? which one there’s a lot of heads popped - the guy during the debate w/ the 'stache?
That reminds me that my most terrifying movie scene as a kid wasn’t actually an scary movie.
It was a movie with a scene were the toilet talks or acts as he is going to eat the kid, can’t quite remember the details. The trauma was serious I couldn’t go to the bathroom to take a shit without feeling weird, terrified that it would bite my ass and all that, I tried to avoid going as long as possible…
I can’t seem to find the movie or the scene, all I see is a scene from Look Who Is Talking but that’s not it. I did see it like later on life and I think it was like in a public bathroom and maybe the kid kind of had a daydream… But honestly no clue, I couldn’t find it.
The toilet scene from “Look Who’s Talking Too” was the one that scared the shit outta me as a kid. Not sure which one scarred you, but I’m more curious as to why “scary toilets” was ever a thing to begin with
There were two that really left me scarred in retrospect.
There was this weird 70s or early 80s movie and this scene with these doll things coming to life in this small quarters… like a genie bottle or some alien ship… I think there was like satin and shit… and the doll things had these sharp teeth and started biting this woman trapped in there… and they all swarm her and overcome her… 35 yrs later… if anyone knows the name… Please help?
The Accused… saw that way too early.
Oh, and the song Hungry Eyes…
Not at all but wtf was that?! Lol
Regarding the doll coming to life movie, was it [Trilogy of Terror](Trilogy of Terror https://g.co/kgs/gKb1fTb)? My wife and I vividly recall this movie from our childhood and it definitely scared the crap out of me. The movie was a collection of 3 stories but the one with the doll is the only one people seem to remember.
I think the film you are thinking of with the dolls is Barbarella (1968).
OMG decades of wonder and I’ve heard the name of this film a billion times let alone the Scott Weiland song.
Just watched the clip. So I remember there being more dolls and it being more closed in like the lamp in I Dream of Genie. But the image of the stocking ripping and the wound looks familiar.
Terror as a child. Campy af and no wonder mom had no idea it was scarring, as an adult.
My mother used to make me watch scary movies with her to toughen me up.
Gave me nightmares for years.
PugMary sounds like a difficult woman to grow up with, sorry you had to go through that.
She was a single mother with somewhat archaic ideas of what a boy should learn from his father, and as I had no father in the picture, she took the task upon herself.
It was a mixed bag. But she was sincerely trying her best out of parental love, and I didn’t turn out too fucked up, so mostly I look back on it with amusement.
I was about 5 when my dad had me watch Candyman 2 with him. I wouldn’t go in front of a mirror for over a year afterward.
My dad did this too! It was more like he would just leave them on the TV, though, and not as much having me sit down with him to watch. It kinda let me tap out whenever, but boy did I get real scared at times.
I remember when Signs was on once, that one got me. Anything that vaguely sounded like clicking at night would have me sweating, haha. We had this fish tank and the filter noises from it would keep me up for hours just listening in case it was an alien.
All that said, I remember those things as a quirky and kinda fun memory now, and probably was what got me into scary movies as an adult.
The Descent scared the sh*t out of me. That one jumpscare was so unexpected and so intense that my body couldn’t even react to it, I just got massive chills all the way through without moving. It was surreal. Letting your kid watch this is just insane
I had the same experience when i watched it. The uncanny feeling lingered for a few days.
But, idk … For me, it was a mistake to watch it again. Knowing what to expect, i paid more attention to everything else and i didn’t like it, i don’t remember why exactly.
There being 2 endings didn’t help my mind when I watched it a second time and had a completely different experience… I was like, wtf, I know this is the same movie, but why do I feel so very different.
Ugh fuck just about everything about this movie. It was a masterpiece.
Let’s put extremely normal and relatable people into a pretty normal situation with pretty good intentions, then let’s have them do a somewhat risky hobby in a somewhat stressful environment, then let’s have normal reactions to some pretty fucked up, high stress situations, then let’s fucking have some pretty fucked up relationship stuff come out and some pretty understandable reactions to it, then let’s add some fucking fucked up fucking fuck fucks who may or may not be human and may or may not be looking to eat or just getting off on fucking people up. And then let’s have just the tiniest but it reminder of normalcy fuck up everything that wasn’t fucked before. And then you don’t know which ending you’re getting, and you don’t know which one is technically better for the characters.
Well now I kinda wanna watch it, even tho I’m not really into horror… that many uses of the word fuck in one paragraph -has- to mean something 😜
It’s already on my Plex so I guess now’s a good time!
Out of all the horror movies Ive ever watched, its my absolute favorite. It’s truly one of the best “horror” movies you will ever watch. The dread is so well done. The jump scares are well paced and actually add to the story. It’s fantastic and lingers with you for awhile.
My other favorites of all time, is the first tape from V/H/S, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nope, The Poltergeist, The Ring, Juon (White Ghost, Specifically).
It was really hard to watch through the land shift scene. I’m super claustrophobic. Reading wiki articles about spelunkers getting stuck is enough for panic attacks. I stopped right before the shift (fortune), and right after to recover. After that I did fine with it. It was very well done.
I didn’t find the jump scares to be very impactful, but maybe it’s because I was anticipating those and was more interested in the rest of it? Or the panic burned out my jump scare receptor lol
I didn’t know about the 2 versions. Hmm, gonna see if i find the other version, you’ve got me hooked up. Both times i saw the same version, but i guess there is no “happy” ending. It can’t, really.
sigh, my claustrophobia already makes me gasp for air when i watch documentaries with people in tight caves. Here we go again.
Descent and its sequel (though cursed by virtue of being a sequel) were great. In general, women-led horror movies are awesome when done right, like having women in characters who self actualize instead being used as a filler or sideshow.
Some others include Ginger Snaps (and its second movie), Alien (don’t like the sequels), Scream, and Piggy (2022). Evil Dead as a franchise does not have a female lead (I am not that familiar with this franchise), but Evil Dead Rise was executed really well, and worked on many levels.
Yeah what I want out of a good entertaining Friday night film is shallow in your face Hollywood pandering on female empowerment and gender equality. It just makes for such a good cinematic experience.
