Any media out there that scared the absolute shit out of you as a kid?

[Reizzz]

So the year is 1987 and I'm 4 years old, my mom lets me watch tv and I come across that god damn fucking scary (at the time) music video by Genesis for Land of confusion.



I'm gonna be honest it still kind of freaks me out today

How about you guys any shows, commercials or movies etc...
that like scarred you for life?

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

That heater in Brave Little Toaster straight-up killed himself.

 

[Landawng]

Michael Jackson's Thriller. When he turns into the werewolf and screams "Go Away!!" I would run out of the room crying lol

 

[3bdelilah]

I watched the IT miniseries (1990) when I was no older than 7 years old, so that shit made me terrified of clowns. Still think they're creepy things.

 

[TransEuropaExpress]

So the year is 1987 and I'm 4 years old, my mom lets me watch tv and I come across that god damn fucking scary (at the time) music video by Genesis for Land of confusion.



I'm gonna be honest it still kind of freaks me out today

How about you guys any shows, commercials or movies etc...
that like scarred you for life?

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Ew yes, fuck that video!!! It was insanely creepy when I was a kid!

Also that The Cure video for Lullaby, jesus.

 

[Pirate Bae]

The Wizard of Oz

I still have trouble watching it for some reason

 

[JeffGubb]

This scene from Ghoulies II made me so afraid of going to the bathroom that I pooped my pants 4 or 5 times when I was eight. I hovered over the toilet for at least a year after that.

 

[nsilvias]

mars attacks (fuck this in particular)
rec
hostile

 

[Atlantis]

I watched a lot of Scooby Doo on Cartoon Network as a kid, and I remember turning off the TV immediately when this happened.

 

[Retromess]

I was VERY scared of the movie E.T. when I was a kid until around age 14 or so.

The first act of that movie, essentially, is almost shot like a horror movie. E.T. and his family skulking around in the shadows, being hunted, and the part where they part the reeds to see E.T. screaming straight ruined me for any type of surprise jump scare.
Then you get to where Elliot is throwing the ball in his yard, and the ball rolls back. I still get chills thinking about that, and how scary it would be to suddenly see a strange, alien figure standing there.

Eventually I was able to get through those parts, but the end of the second act after Halloween, where E.T. ends up in the river, all white and sick, and the astronauts show up at the home... Yeah. It's effective.

As an adult I can absolutely appreciate and love that movie dearly, but there are definitely some tense and scary parts in that movie, especially for young me.

 

[Brass Body Dave]

The end of Darby O'Gill and the Little People

absolutely horrific end

 

[Ryuelli]

 

[Deleted member 56266]

 

[John Harker]

Bill and Tedd's Bogus Adventure.

Kid you night, this movie gave me nightmares for years.
The imagery in the movie (death, shadows, scary bunnies, etc), which I saw in theaters and I suppose I was too young, gave me nightmares and then the fear of those nightmares snowballed and happened even when I aged out of being scared by movies like Bill and Tedd.

Amazing what those age warnings will do to you if you're too young and ignore them!

Also keep B&T4 faaaaaaar awaaaaaaaaaay hahahaha

 

[Gareth]

ET

 

[sapien85]

The crypt keeper in tales from the crypt. Also some episodes of the x files.

 

[Zoph]

Fire in the Sky.

 

[linkboy]

This fucker.

I remember it being on The Wonderful Word of Disney on ABC and I wanted nothing to do with it. I had to have been around 6 or 7. Went to the other side of my grandparents restaurant and just avoided the TV until it was over.

 

[gamma]

Event Horizon. That hell scene though

 

[Deleted member 420]

I never got past the first few minutes of Ernest Scared Stupid

 

[Emergency & I]

 

[Relix]

Event Horizon fucked me up

 

[Reizzz]

Another one for me is the assistant being swallowed whole in Jurassic World. I COULDN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT after for a long while.

 

[YamchasRevenge]

 

[Piggus]

Mars Attacks

I saw it in theaters with my cousin and uncle and I guess I was just too young for it even though it's basically a comedy lol. Something about the ray guns skeletonizing people really freaked me out. Wasn't used to seeing anything like that.

Return to Oz mentioned above is another good one. That movie is still super creepy though.

 

[Deleted member 16516]

Loved the X-Files, but this mofo from Season 2 gave me nightmares.

 

[Geg]

I remember being terrified of the movie Hocus Pocus just from watching the trailer in a theater as a kid

I would have been 4 or 5 at the time

 

[Ravelle]

The entire The Fly movie.

My young self was not ready for that level of body horror.

 

[lunarworks]

So the year is 1987 and I'm 4 years old, my mom lets me watch tv and I come across that god damn fucking scary (at the time) music video by Genesis for Land of confusion.



I'm gonna be honest it still kind of freaks me out today

How about you guys any shows, commercials or movies etc...
that like scarred you for life?

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The Spitting Image aesthetic was not something I vibed with. That's one of those weird things unique to that time period that we've all fortunately forgotten about.

 

[Thisisme]

This scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit:

Judge Doom Dips a Shoe

One of the most chilling scenes I've ever seen, and it's of Christopher Lloyd executing a cartoon character. Judge Doom is one crazy mofo.

www.youtube.com

 

[Reizzz]

Fire in the Sky.

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Fuck yeah I hate that scene when he's covered in the slime...!!!!!

 

[TransEuropaExpress]

Pet Sematary

Not the actual movie but those horrific scenes with her sister...

 

[RedHoodedOwl]

The Greedy from the Raggedy Ann and Andy Adventure

The WWII bomber segment from Heavy Metal

 

[Cess007]

IT

The shower scene fucked me up good for years.

 

[Ahti]

From the classic Ghostbusters-movie. (Ghostbusters-movies in general.)




Alien 1 is the worst, lol.




Great song though.

 

[Jeffolation]

E.T. and Harry and the Hendersons. I was four years old and these motherfuckers were ugly and scary af

 

[R.P. McMurphy]

The mirror in the original snow white. Once had a fever dream as a kid where I saw the mirror on the wall of my bedroom. Even as an adult I refuse to watch it.

 

[0x03]

Unsolved Mysteries. That damn opening theme used to cause an anxiety spiral and the episode on spontaneous human combustion haunted me for years.

 

[Walter White Walker]

When I was a little kid, I watched some movie where dwarves danced around a table with a woman on it, picked her up, took her to the cellar and shoved her in a wood-burning furnace. That was pretty fucked up.

 

[Post Reply]

E.T. pretty much destroyed me as a kid. These 2 scenes in particular.

Terrified any time I had to go outside and take out the trash or get something from out garage:


Couldn't sleep with an open closet door as a kid:

 

[Meows]

All those heads were nightmare fuel..

 

[cake]

Gonna echo Mars Attacks and the It miniseries, watched both pretty young. Mars Attacks I didn't quite get was a comedy and so all the scenes of the aliens murdering a shitton of people scared the hell out of me, meanwhile I watched the It miniseries in a secluded cabin in the middle of nowhere at night and it was terrifying.

Along with watching New Nightmare really young, these all helped build a lifelong love of horror, so some good came out of it.

 

[HardTimesFamilyPride]

Surprised nobody mentioned that animated Hobbit movie yet.

I have vague memories of seeing Flight of the Navigator once as a little kid and being very unnerved by it

 

[chuey]

This movie freaked me out as a kid. I thought I had a good chance getting abducted by aliens. Then it freaked me out more when I found out this happened in my home state. I still reference Heber, Az as Alien Country.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

So the year is 1987 and I'm 4 years old, my mom lets me watch tv and I come across that god damn fucking scary (at the time) music video by Genesis for Land of confusion.



I'm gonna be honest it still kind of freaks me out today

How about you guys any shows, commercials or movies etc...
that like scarred you for life?

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This video right here! Man I must have blocked this one from my memory didn't recognize it until the one playing the keyboard takes a bite of whatever that was.

Ghoulies scared the shit out me as well.

 

[Lukar]

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Oh fuuuuuuuck this.

Also, that one Stephen King movie where these floating balls eat the planet or something?

 

[whiteninja]

One of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies (cant even remember which one) has part where a guy merges into his motorcycle. The whole thing looked excruciating and I hate even trying to remember it.

 

[THErest]

Hmmm. Okay.

This motherfucker. Thanks, Nickelodeon.

Also this scene. Always looked away. Shit, thanks, Sphere (about 12 seconds in--EDIT: FUCK IT'S THE THUMBNAIL IMAGE! FUCK FUCK FUCK).




Also, somehow this scared the shit out of me in theaters, I was shook.

I also agree with Mars Attacks, Vigo from GB2, and I just remembered another one for myself....

 

[Elfgore]

The Wizard of Oz

I still have trouble watching it for some reason

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It's the witch that gets me. I had a huge fear of witches growing up. There's one scene in the original Scooby Doo where a witch just hovers slowly towards the camera, legit terrified me as a child.

 

[cyba89]

The Mirror Of Truth story from Beyond Belief.

Spoiler: creepy warning

That shit aired during daytime television here. There was another story involving a woman in a mirror that was also super creepy.