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Here are some movies that scarred me as a child, and made me into the paranoid delusional nut ball that I am. Feel free to share yours too.

In no particular order

1. Trilogy of terror(1975) “OH my god f@%k’n Zuni fetish doll!”

2. Kingdom of the Spiders(1977) “I’m still scared of spiders to this day.”

3. Dawn of the Dead (1978) “That I keep loaded guns next to the bed,not for burglers.But in case a zombie apocalypse breaks out.”

4. House of Usher (1960) “Scared the sh@t outa me. But, made me a Price,and Horror movie fan for life.”

5. The Ten Commandments(1956)  “Gods gonna kill me with green fog.”

6. JAWS (1975) “I lived in Florida,and never went into the ocean.”

7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) “Dad told me every night that if I didn’t go to sleep, the Aliens were going to take me away.”

8. The Exorcist (1973) “Satan’s gonna get me!”

9. Poltergeist (1982) ” The part where the guys face falls off made me avoid mirrors for weeks.Now it’s just comical.”

10.The Blob (1958) ” I was convinced as a small child that the Blob was going to get me on the toilet.”

Looking back, these movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. But,  inevetibly they laid the foundation for my appreciation of Classic, and New Horror. And my parents wonder why I’m weird. ;)

Wow! Letting a child watch all of those films is borderline child abuse.

Here’s a few of mine, many of which were never intended to be scary:

1) V (1983) I watched as a child expecting a ‘space’ movie somewhat like Star Wars. Watching what I would’ve described as that pretty alien leader lady eat that mouse live on TV stuck with me a long time.

2)Them! (1954) James Whitmore was an underrated actor, but I was convinced that I was going to be eaten by giant ants.

3)Wizard of OZ (1939)I sometimes still can’t beleive people call this a fantasy, childrens movie. It always scared the crap out of me.

4)Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971) WAAAY to trippy for a little kids movie. Wilder freaked me out. I still can’t sit through the whole film.

5)Pinocchio (1940) Kidnappers, Booze, disfigurement (both in nose and in donkey), child labor, theft, lying, you name it. It is a fairly adult themed movie pretending to be a kids movie.

I love scary movies. Far more sinister are the films that scare without ‘intending’ to do so.

Oh, and as far as most scary of all time for me (not that I saw it as a child) is Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet (1986). That’s some creepy stuff if you ask me.

Hummm… where to begin…. I guess in no particular order…

The Beastmaster (1982) The first movie I ever remember seeing, and those winged creature things still creep me out to this day…

Candyman (1992)  Seriously, I made my grandma take the mirror out of the bathroom for about a month…

The Evil Dead (1981)  We lived out in the middle of the woods. I couldn’t sleep for days…

Friday the 13th (1980) Me and my cousins used to chase each other around with the fire place tools…

I’m sure there are many more, just none that i can think of at the current moment. Just thought I’d share my childhood traumas. Good times, yo…

Remember that “It’s Alive” movie. Man, just the commercial used to freak me out. Creepy.

JayMeltdown - 09 March 2009 06:56 PM

1. Trilogy of terror(1975) “OH my god f@%k’n Zuni fetish doll!”

This scared me too, at the time.  I rented it not too long ago to watch with my husband.  I fell asleep before the doll showed up and woke up to the bed shaking.  He was laughing!!!  The bastard!  It doesn’t scare me now, and my husband gave me a visual that ruined this doll for me.  He said it reminded him of Animal.  “Woman, woman!!!”  Ugh, the bastard.

The movies that scared me as a child have all been mentioned.(Poltergeist and the lot)  Gremlins also scared me.  American Werewolf in London terrified me in the theater.  The most frightening early memory was seeing The Shining trailer in the theater.  That is an effective trailer.  Especially, if your a kid.

Oh, there were two Pinocchio cartoons I saw as a kid.  They may have been German as I was in Germany at the time.  They scared the shite out of me.  One of them was a Pinocchio in space one. =O

Hey, barb, don’t blame me.  You made me watch Trilogy of Terror.  It’s not my fault the little doll is hilarious and looks just like Animal.

By the way, my number 1 is Friday the 13th Part 2.  That movie ruined me on going into the woods at night, which is kind of sad, when you think about it.  What adolescent boy doesn’t love running around in the woods at night? 

Second runner up was Deadly Eyes (aka The Rats).  For the longest time after seeing that, I was terrified of putting my feet on the floor in movie theaters, lest giant rats try to eat my feet.

Naked Eskimo - 24 July 2009 08:31 PM

Hey, barb, don’t blame me.  You made me watch Trilogy of Terror.  It’s not my fault the little doll is hilarious and looks just like Animal.

grr.

Oh, I just remembered another one.  My parents would let me watch ANYTHING animated.  Hence, saw a bunch of animated movies that I probably shouldn’t have.  I remember one called Sarah and the Squirrel.  I still can’t watch war movies and I blame that on this movie.