Event horizon, it still terrifies me to this day

In 5th grade Catholic middle school they show us an anti drug movie hosted by Rosey Grier. There's clips of people going through withdrawal, photos of people who smuggled drugs under incisions in their skin, all kinds of horrible stuff. It was similar to the real life gore movies they used to show during driver's ed classes. They did apologize after realizing they messed up. It's no wonder I didn't try weed until I was 18. I haven't been able to find this on the internet

I was not ready to see Mars Attacks. What is worse is knowing it is campy and ridiculous but I still can't make myself watch it again as an adult.

Starship troopers. Still have the mental Image of the bug drilling a hole in a dudes head.

Also robo cop. All I can remember is him (only head and torso) being hooked up to cables and medical computers and one of the scientists says "what a weird kind of pain he's having" or something like that

This is going to be a departure from the rest of this thread.

I saw Emmanuelle when I was 10 or so, and man did that movie change me. Some scenes still pop into my head, clear as when I first saw them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_(1974_film)

When I was younger, I watched this movie where a terrifying creature, vaguely resembling a human and driven only by thoughts of death, escaped from a parallel dimension to hunt down a girl at her middle school, and there was this Wayland-Yutani type company who tried to cover up the escape by having their security force capture the creature and send it back to its own dimension, but then, the creature took the girl and her mother with it to its hell dimension, with the company security force in pursuit.

And then a bunch of guys who are way too into horses got in a big fight that turned into a dance number, and then creature went to the gynecologist for some reason.

I was brought to tears by the existential dread that still haunts me to this day that I decided to take a break from movies. But whatever that movie was, it should have won an Oscar this year.

Killer clowns from outer space, that clown thing that comes up from the toilet messed me up.

The Fly

The exorcist.

I was probably 8 years old, this thing gave me nightmares for years

Mars Attacks. Hilarious now but it absolutely traumatised me when I was younger.

It's silly, but as a kid I once turned on the TV to Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life", and in particular, the scene where an enormous man is fed so much that he explodes. Still haunts me to this day.

The Exorcist

Aliens.

That movie scared the shit out of me. It’s been more than 35 years and I still don’t like that movie.

Terminator 2

that scooby doo movie with zombies, spooky shit

For some reason, I have always found The Brave Little Toaster deeply unsettling, but I can’t really explain why.

Bonus round suggestion: was there a book you read when you were too young?

Mine was Pillars of the Earth. I was, like… 5? I think?

Fire in the Sky... I am 40 and was maybe 10/11 when I watched it. I now have a legit fear of being abducted by aliens that makes it hard to sleep alone. I can't watch any movie that deals with alien abductions.

Watership Down.

Like, after I saw that movie as a kid, horrible things in other movies didn't really have an impact. Well... That, and I understood movies were all make-belief. I used to love watching making-of features for movies.

Evil Dead (1 & 2)

Everything claymation reanimated just scarred me lol. Years later in high school I remember watching Sam Raimi's Spiderman with the Doc Oc surgery scene, and that camera work took me right back to being too young for Evil Dead.

Sam Raimi has very distinct style

Grave of the Fireflies.

Literally impossible to see that at an age where it won't scar you for life.

Ghost Ship. Every now and then the wire scene and the scene where they eat maggots comes back to me in my thoughts, and i hate it lol.

The Seventh Sign.

To this day I can’t watch biblical horror in particular without nightmares. I’m not even Christian.

Why did my parents think it was a good idea to take me to see The Excorcist

Tbh I don't think anyone is old enough to watch Mars Attacks. The visual design is too much. The movie itself isn't that bad, but the fucking martians. Fuck me.

I saw Nightmare on Elm Street at age 4... my sister was "babysitting" I had nightmares for years.. still remember them decades later.

Arachnophobia. That movie is the reason I’m scared of spiders. I loved spiders prior and had a book of spiders that I’d read while pooping (grass spiders are so fckn cool) and would even play with them, but after that movie I couldn’t anymore. I’ve gone back and watched it as an adult and it’s so campy and cheesy. If only I’d watched it when I was older I could have enjoyed it.

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Jaws

I was around 6 or 7 when I saw it on television, before R rating was even a thing and almost 40 years later I am still terrified of sharks.

Apparently my parents were extremely good about not exposing us to stuff too early. Except for blazing saddles. My brother picked up some new vocabulary from that film at the age of 2.

I was 11, and the movie was the sixth sense. The girl vomiting scared me, and also when the mom leaves the kitchen and returns a few seconds later and all the cupboard doors and drawers are open…

I was watching this with my family at home and during the movie my older brother used his cell phone to call our home phone which was located on the other side of the house in the kitchen. I hadn’t realized it was him calling the home phone and I jumped at the opportunity to leave the scary move to go answer the phone. All the lights were off as I entered the kitchen. I flipped the lights on and boom… all of the doors and drawers are wide open. My brother lured me into the kitchen with that phone call just to scare me.

It’s not that scary of a movie but to this day I refuse to watch it. Also, I stopped speaking with my brother years ago.

Cats.

I was so confused by all the singing cat people.