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[–] MrEC@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Green Inferno. I’m a huge horror fan and am not bothered by gore, but man that cannibalism was so graphic I can’t shake the images.

Nothing But Trouble

[–] iguessimlemming@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Oh and The Shining at the time (11 y/o home alone) really messed me up as well.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

Tons of horror movies.

[–] ileftreddit@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Poltergeist, I was like 6

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

American News

[–] GoddessGundy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Mangler. It's a B horror movie and some of the graphics, which I won't spoil, were more than my 7 year old brain could reconcile.

silence of the lambs at like 8. still one if my all time faves but I definitely could've waited a few more years to get into it lol

[–] JPSound@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is gunna sound stupid, but "Tales from the Hood." At the end of that movie, where you learned all the guys are already dead, in hell and the guy telling the stories is satan just scared the absolute shit outta me.

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[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Fire in the sky. Alien abduction still freak me out

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". In my defense, I was about 6 years old when I saw it.

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The Exorcist

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

The Naked Lunch. I was probably 10 years old? I didn't understand any of the plot, I was weirded the fuck out and the giant bugs made me sick to my stomach.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

My Girl. I have a fear of bees because of that movie.

[–] derry@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Grizzly. Couldn't sleep the night I saw that one

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I slept over at a friend's house, and we watched The Shining when I was 12. Still haunts me to this day, and I've never re-watched it since.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I got taken to see The Sixth Sense when I was like 10 lol

[–] blurec@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 week ago
[–] MikeyU@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

2 Movies really.

  1. Bette Davis in the Nanny. I haven't liked the bath since.
  2. Death Wish. Wasn't suitable for an adolescent. I'm still traumatized by the home invasion / rape scene. Hey, that was Hope Lange from the Ghost & Mrs Muir!
[–] Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

For me it was The Amytiville Horror (1979). I still can't look out of a window at night and not think of seeing eyes. I didn't see the film until I was about 11, so mid 80s.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Hellraiser and the original Dune. Claymation looks so fake now, but it didn’t back then.

[–] QueenFern@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

The Thin Red Line

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Kids, the movie from the mid 90s where a New York teen is trying to bang virgins and spreading HIV. Freaked me out.

[–] knocks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Total Recall freaked me out pretty good and I saw it when I was like 32

[–] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Jurassic Park 3 when I was 9 for a friend's birthday. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for weeks. I'm not really haunted by it any more but the scene where the skeleton in the parachute swings out of the tree is seared into my brain.

[–] BabyVi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Creep Show, the segment with the Antarctic wolf creature scared the shit outta me. It still creeps me out to this day for some reason.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Poltergeist 2 - specifically the braces scene, I was terrified of getting them. Oddly enough, I was fine with the first one.

That super creepy Alice in Wonderland version from around the same time that I always forget the name of.

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Saving private Ryan at ten years old.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Sleepers. I was raised watching horror and other movies which I probably should not have (early favorites included A Nightmare on Elm Street and Robocop), but the only one which was too much was seeing Sleepers when I was ten or eleven. Too realistic, I guess.

[–] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's a shitty horror flick called The Hand from the early eighties. Michael Caine is in it, hamming it for the paycheck I suppose but still kinda cool even if the movie is pretty bad. Anyway, there's a terrible effects shot of the titular crawling hand pushing its way through the plumbing in a shower, and I still sometimes have nightmares of that scene decades later. 5 year old me was not ready.

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