My dads brother visited us one time - when I was around 7 years old - and they sent me to bed and watched a movie together on TV. I’m not sure where my mom was, perhaps taking care of my little brother, but I quietly went down the stairs and saw them watching the movie, and I stayed very quietly so they would not know I’m there.

It was a Bruce Lee movie, “The Big Boss (1971)”. In that movie Bruce works at a ice factory and his boss kills some people and puts them into the ice. That’s not the worst of it. They then have those big ice blocks and a big blade saw and that saw cuts the big blocks into smaller peaces. It also cuts those bodies in the ice blocks into smaller pieces.

I couldn’t believe what I saw and went back upstairs and couldn’t fall asleep. I never told my parents.

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    I watched Event Horizon when I was 10 not knowing it was an horror movie and I had recurring nightmares for weeks

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      Same but I was in my mid twenties.

      The director’s cut would have been a classic for the ages.

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        I saw this in my 20s as well, somehow never having heard a thing about it. I thought it was gonna be a standard sci-fi movie. Boy was I surprised.

        Also, I’ve heard about that lost footage that they filmed but never released. Shit sounds wild.

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      Watch a movie called Demon Wind when I was 9. Only scary movie that ever got to me and I had been watching them since I was 5. But for whatever reason that movie fuck me up that I had accident in bed.

      Funny watch that movie as an adult and it so bad and corny but it disturb me at 9.

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      The brothers Grimm for me. I don’t see many people discussing it online, but I enjoyed it. That scene where the horse eats a kid is still distressing to me years later.

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    The Brave Little Toaster. I loved that movie cause what little kid doesn’t want to watch a bunch of singing appliances? It’s actually a really good movie but the themes about existential crisis and the need for purpose are way over a kids head. Also, the clown scene gave me nightmares.

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    Stephen King’s IT was broadcast on network TV during primetime. I remember being excited to gather around the TV to watch a movie and oooooh boy was not prepared. I don’t think my parents let me finish.

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      I finished it! Couldn’t take a shower without fear or let my feet stick out from the blankets for years. Definitely the one that scarred me most, likely because I was in 1st grade.

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      I was watching IT at my grandma’s and she just saw the clown at the beginning and thought it must be kids movie. But eventually my mum came home and stopped it (also my grandma got yelled at).

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    Terminator 2. Also Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Oh and a glimpse of Silence of the lambs before I got caught by mum that time.

    The heart part in Indiana Jones haunted me. as did the idea of a killer robot that you can’t reason with or plead mercy to.

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      Yeah Temple of Doom and T2 for me as well.

      ToD was somehow approved by my parents (I think it was rated PG-13, not R) and we even owned it on VHS but I definitely lost some sleep over the heart scene and also the monkey brains.

      T2 was definitely not approved, but I watched it at a friend’s house.

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        Same!! I watched it at a friends house ahaha 😂 Mum was not pleased. Ah well. Now it’s funny.

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    The Shining

    I must have seen it at a very early age, maybe 2 or 3, because I had recurring nightmares about the chase scene that I couldn’t contextualize until I saw it again in my teens.

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    Videodrome. Watched it few years ago and started strongly recalling watching certain scenes. 20 minutes in I was like oh wow I’ve seen this before, but by the time James woods was doing bdsm with a debbie harry television, I was like “who let me watch this?”

    It explains a lot, honestly

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    I saw a nasty horror movie as a kid of around 7-8. My friend had this weird uncle who was living with his mother house next to ours. He was the only one at street with VHS player. One day, instead of our favorite Tom & Jerry, he put a cassette with the movie into the player. It was some weird horror called “the spirit of the Forest” or something like that, about a cabin in the forest and a spirit possessing its visitors, making them kill each other. I had trouble getting back home in the middle of the day. Fortunately, no nightmares. Few years later, the uncle killed his mother, because voices told him to. He got locked up in the psychiatric ward and my friend moved in with his parents, yay.

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    I watched The Shining at a friend’s house when I was like 10. First and last time I ever watched that nightmare fuel.

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    According to my parents, saw Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom when I was 4. Then I saw Jaws at age 6. But it was Ghostbusters that gave me nightmares for about 7 years afterwards.

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    I took my son to see this puppet movie when he was about 8. That sex scene went on for ever (I was covering his eyes).

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    Look, it was the 80s/90s. We had one TV. My parents were not going to watch kid shit during their down time so we watched whatever they felt like watching. Thus, I have too many to list here.

    But for context apparently Alien and Aliens made me squeaky and giggly/happy as a baby. To this day I sometimes have bizarrely detailed dreams with xenomorph subplots.

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      Yeah I still giggly at this scene in Aliens

      Hudson: Hey Vasquez you ever been mistaken for a man?

      Vasquez: …No…Have you…???

      Best come back ever her facial expression when she says it is priceless.

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        She also played John Connor’s foster Mom in Terminator 2. Blade arm right through his foster Dad and the milk carton!

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    I think I was about ten and an older girl down the road showed me and my friends Pet Sematary. There was a scene where this creepy ass girl chokes in bed and that scared me for years. I slept with the light on and was too scared to roll over in case she was in my bed. It’s probably so cringey now though if I was to re-watch it.

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    An American Werewolf in London.

    I stayed up watching it on my brother’s black and white TV. My parents had no idea. I nearly shit the bed afterward when my brother jumped on me in the dark and yelled “raaaah.”