"“Jaws” definitely scared me as a kid. It made me terrified of swimming in the ocean."
"The Fox and the Hound
I screamcried my entire walk home"
"Monster House
The combination of the uncanny 3d animation and the backstory for the house was nightmare fuel"
"IT (ORIGINAL with Tim Curry)"
"Watership down.
Emotional scar for life."
"All of Gremlins, 5 was way too young for those little green f@#kers."
"Not the whole movie, but the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz terrified me as a child. The wicked witch was a little much too."
"The NeverEnding Story—that scene with Artax in the Swamp of Sadness messed me up for years. I was way too young to process that kind of emotional trauma. I’m pretty sure I refused to watch anything with horses for a solid year after that. It’s wild how those scenes just stick with you!"
"Final Destination. Tell me this movie didn’t traumatize you."
"The Dark Crystal
Those muppets have haunted me for decades"
"Coraline, my cousin’s house has a little passageway like in coraline and I was scared sh#tless of that when I was a wee lad."
"My Girl.
He wanted to be an acrobat"
"I hesitate to talk about this because I have legitimate panic attacks related to it. But I’ll keep it short: The movie Witches, where the little girl gets sucked into the painting and moves around each day. For some reason that like REALLY disturbed me as a kid (had to leave the theatre) and even as an adult any media that is suggestive of that idea freaks me out severely, to the point of panic attacks."
"Signs. :("
"Poltergeist. That MF clown"
"The Brave Little Toaster"
"Fire in the Sky
I refused to go out after dark for a while after watching that movie."
"Scary Movie, the one where they had the exorcist girl piss on the floor and spin her head around.
My mom wanted to read a book and have some “me time” so she gave me and my older brother the TV for the night. She called my 18-year-old cousin asking if Scary Movie was a funny movie since that’s what it said in the description. My cousin said yes. Little did she know my mom wasn’t the one that was going to watch it, but me as an 8 and my brother as a 10 year old were going to. My older brother tried to turn the TV off as we were already traumatized. Issue was that we didn’t have a remote and he couldn’t reach the TV so he had me sit on his back to turn it off but because of the stress we both fell. Mom ran into the room since she heard us but since she was having “me time”, she was doing her skin routine in her PJs (same exact PJ as the girl in the movie, and her skin routine made her smear some sort of mud thingy on her face)… in the heat of the moment, this made everything even scarier. She saw how the movie was way too scary for kids our age and started crying and apologizing."
"Return to Oz lol"
"For reasons I do not understand, I was terrified of James and The Giant Peach."
"The tunnel scene of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I also thought all of the kids legitimately died for some reason…"
"The scene in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island when Fred pulls off the zombie’s head thinking it was a mask"
"The Ring. It messed me up as a kid. I couldn’t sleep for days, convinced I’d see that creepy girl crawl out of the TV!"
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