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.
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.
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
amazing horror series from the 80s/90s
My first “too scary” movie was the 1999 cinematic masterpiece The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser. For those unfamiliar: not very scary at all, but I was probably eight when I saw it.
My siblings and I would fight over who got to sleep with the cat - in the movie the mummy is scared away by cats. Anybody who owns a cat knows this is a pointless argument, and the cat sleeps with who it wants.
Jesus those scarab beetles going under the skin.
Fuck those scarabs, gave me a lifelong fear of anything under skin
Sounds like they really got under your skin…
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind terrified me as a kid. Not because of the alien shit, but because the thought of a vacuum turning on and running by itself was just the most horrific thing I could imagine.
I didn’t realize my cat had a Lemmy account.
