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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

For me it was gremlins, I was like 8. The end scene with the one that pops out of the fountain, that shit scared the living fuck outta me.

Also being forced to go see Lost Boys with my sister at 10 years old while sick with the flu, because my parents had a date and didn't want to reschedule or some shit. That movie wasn't THAT scary, but when you already feel like absolute shit........

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Corey Haim is utterly terrifying in Lost Boys. Truly demonic performance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Gremlins was actually a huge part of the reason for the PG-13 rating, alongside Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The G rating was starting to gain a stigma for childishness so kids' movies would throw in a damn or hell to get a PG rating, and movies that almost but didn't quite cross the threshold for R landed in PG alongside them. This added up to parents thinking "hey it's PG, so it's family-friendly", and ended up with traumatized kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Wow I thought I was alone. Gremlins scarred me as a child.