A Nightmare on Elm Street. I think I was ten? That was not a good night's rest.
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Hannah Montana-specifically an Halloween episode referencing murderous puppets
Felidae
Or whatever the animated movie featuring a gory cat detective story was called.
Evil Dead (1 & 2)
Everything claymation reanimated just scarred me lol. Years later in high school I remember watching Sam Raimi's Spiderman with the Doc Oc surgery scene, and that camera work took me right back to being too young for Evil Dead.
Sam Raimi has very distinct style
The Horror Show. That's when I decided it wasn't a good idea to watch unlabled VHS tapes from the basement.
Nothing probably haunts me to this day but there were some horror anthology series that were pretty harsh when I was little. I also vaguely remember a movie about some creepy doll. I don't think it's Child's Play, but just about any creepy doll would do, though.
Apparently my parents were extremely good about not exposing us to stuff too early. Except for blazing saddles. My brother picked up some new vocabulary from that film at the age of 2.
The Silver Bullet. That Werewolf scared me soooo much as a kid.
Grave of the Fireflies.
Literally impossible to see that at an age where it won't scar you for life.
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The first Friday the thirteenth when i was 15 or so. My parents didn't even allow me to watch the news or any movies aside from a few cartoons, so i was shocked.
When I was a kid, my friend and I went to blockbuster and pulled a copy of Poltergeist from the store shelf. There must be a different movie that is also called Poltergeist, besides the most popular movie with that name. Anyway, we returned to my house, put the VHS in the tape player, and began watching it. Without giving too much away, it had some awkward scene between two of the adult characters in the film. It was so awkward, that my friend actually screamed, “this is not Poltergeist!” She had seen the popular film, before that day, and I had not. To this day. I have still not seen Poltergeist because I have this fear of finding, and playing, that awful movie by mistake.
The Blob (80s version), The Thing, and House. The first two still hold up really well but the third one I rewatched as an adult and it was so stupid I was embarrassed I had been so terrified of it as a little kid.
I was not ready to see Mars Attacks. What is worse is knowing it is campy and ridiculous but I still can't make myself watch it again as an adult.
gremlins and thriller.
Ugh Gremlins got me for sure. So did Ernest Scared Stupid, oddly enough. That fuckin troll…
But Gremlins for sure. Jesus.
amityville 2.
fucking movie was wrong on so many levels.
For some reason, I have always found The Brave Little Toaster deeply unsettling, but I can’t really explain why.
Bonus round suggestion: was there a book you read when you were too young?
Mine was Pillars of the Earth. I was, like… 5? I think?