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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You're all in here with horror and mature movies, but I'll hit you with Watership Down for the win π
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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I'm old, so keep that in mind.
I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey in the theater when I was 7. I wasn't even with my family, I was with a friend and his parents. It freaked me the freak out. That space baby at the end. The dreams I had.
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.
Dad took me and my brother to see Predator in the theater. Would have been about 10 and my brother 8. While I applaud him wanting to share something he was excited about with his children I am sure there were better options.
The Exorcist and Candyman.
Also, I can't remember the name of it, but my mom was watching some movie about women in prison. And someone got mad, took out her fork from her cup noodles, and stabbed a woman in the leg. Twisted, pulled it out, wiped it in her pants and kept eating.
I was maybe 5 or 6, but I swore I would never go to prison after that. I had nightmares of that woman and that fork
Candyman, a mates older brother showed it to us when I was around 10ish, donβt think I was ever the same again.
Also caught a bit of Toxic Avenger on late evening tv around the same age, when I should have been asleep but sneaked on the tv. Boy did I regret that.
The Ring
It was a mid-90s movie on HBO called βCyber Sexβ or something like that. I was much too young to be watching. Pretty sure it started my fascination with porn and eventual addictionβ¦
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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Omen, Excorcist, Nightmare on Elm St, Jason, Cujo, Friday the 13th - I was a very free range kid. The one that really sticks out is (IIRC) The Amityville Horror. There is a scene with these red glowing eyes down a dark hallway...the adult in me knows it was probably just some guy with two flashlights, but it still raises the hairs on my arms thinking about it
First horror movie ever saw was Nightmare on Elm Street. Was 5 and only reason mom allowed it was because kids were calling me Freddy Kruger and I didn't know why. After I watched it I thought "cool" and when I went back to school I taught back to the kids that yes I was and I would visit them in their dreams. They didn't call me that anymore.
That's a pretty boss move, I don't know if I'd be that quick thinking
Watching Hellraiser 2 was pretty bad. I didn't understand what was going on, but forever remembered the scary woman with no skin!
Jaws. Watched it when I was about 8. Now in my 40s and still don't like being in open water or sea where I can't see the bottom... I know what's down there...
Same movie, same age, same irrational thoughts in water!
I live 3hrs from the coast and even swimming in a crystal clear fresh water river, it's still in the back of my mind as an adult, as I kid, I wouldn't even swim a alone in our pool!
I watched Event Horizon when I was 10 not knowing it was an horror movie and I had recurring nightmares for weeks
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.
Same but I was in my mid twenties.
The director's cut would have been a classic for the ages.
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Same. Where we're going, we don't need eyes.
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Leprechaun and a slew of other horror movies, I canβt recall the names of. Still dislike 90% of the horror genre but was able to watch Alien (1979) just recently and it was surprisingly done well.
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To many but the one that haunts me is βchaserβ. A Korean movie about a serial killer who haunts prostitutes.
Why I remind it? Well, I watched it with my brother and when I got back from the toilet, he pretended to be some rando in a hoodie with a knife. Keep in mind, I was 14 and it was 11:30PM.
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 canβt reason with or plead mercy to.
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The Lover 1992 when I was like 9 or 10. Those who know the movie, will understand that this maybe was a bit much for a boy. However it had a lasting effected on my appreciation, of what a good emotional movie looks like. I'd call it double edged sword, as obviously that movie is inappropriate for a kid to watch. However the relationship between the two is very beautifully portrait and made me a helpless romantic. It was at a time when they'd show movies like that on free TV at night and I was visiting my grandparents and they had a TV upstairs.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
I couldn't sleep....
Same. And eggplants scared the hell out of me after seeing that. I guess they looked enough like the things the aliens came out of.
Brain Damage. Scary and way too sexual for a little kid.
Akira definitely counts. I'm sure my parents were in the "all cartoons are for kids" camp that everyone was in in the 90s. Similarly, the Guyver.
Scary Movie 3. Among many reasons that's a film you shouldn't watch as a child, that was my introduction to the Ring, and I had a TV in my room.
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."