Movies That Freaked Me Out As A Kid
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Maggie to her closet monster 20 years ago: scared sh*tless.
Maggie to her closet monster today: “I don’t know, man. I feel you a bit pretentious, uninspired and in general all over the place. I feel there is intention, but poor execution, unfortunately…”
More like "I know what you represent metaphorically in my life, closet monster. I'll try and address it internally from here. If I fail, feel free to ramp up the intimidation."
MONSTER: I was going more for a Stateside Babadook kind of thing.
MAGGIE: Oh Puh-leeeeeeeze! You're not even in the same category as the Babdook, and not just cryptozoogically speaking!
MONSTER: What do you think this hat is for?!
MAGGIE: I dunno, a requel pitch or something? Derivative and uninspired!
@@deepfocuslens Have you ever watched «Runaway Train»? A 1985 gem starring Jon Voight and Eric Roberts?
The book "If you gave a mouse a cookie" gave me nightmares. I must have been a Republican in a past lifetime, lol. Def at least created a rodent phobia in me to this day.
I miss the dark vibe of 80s kids movies: Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, The Neverending Story, og Willy Wonka, Secret of NIMH, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Watership Down, The Land Before Time, Return To Oz, Beatlejuice, Transformers The Movie, The Last Starfighter... All G /PG movies with creatures, situations, and images of genuine terror. Helicopter parenting and an unwillingness to experience anything uncomfortable has ruined popular culture.
Gremlins
Labyrinth wasn't even a kids movie. It's great but that should be pg13 for sure
Robocop scared the crap out of me as a 7 year old all the way to my late teens, mostly because it was the first time I saw how sadistic and evil people could be (Murphy getting tortured was WAY scarier than any alien/movie monster I've seen) and the stop motion of the Ed-209 droid felt unsettling. Of course I didn't get the satire as a kid but I did somewhat “comprehended” the social & corporate apathy, where people dying horribly being treated as not being a big deal, which made the film even scarier I think! I remember always double checking the locks in our house, because I knew a Xenomorph or Freddy can't bust trough our door, but Clarence and his sick gang felt real enough that they could.
That scene where the toxic sludge covers him and he gets smoked by a car 😂.
Yeah robocop was traumatizing
It always shocked me that they made a Saturday Morning Cartoon based on that movie.. 😂
@@whiskeysal Don’t forget the toys!
@@thevirtuouscollector I recall him being used in kids classes as part of the Just Say No to drugs program...you can see a photo of him with Rudy Giuliani. There was also a Rambo cartoon. The 80s were weird, man.
When I was very small, maybe eight years old, I saw _Fantastic Voyage_ (1966) with Edmond O’Brien, Raquel Welch, and the young Donald Pleasence (close to the beginning of his career). You know: it’s the one where these guys reduce themselves using (fictional) technology to the size of a microbe and get injected into a persons body, and have to make their way to the brain and remove a blood clot, using a powerful, handheld laser gun. One of them - Donald Pleasence - his character gets eaten by what we now call a macrophage, but back then was just called a white blood cell (although not all white blood cells are macrophages, there are other types of white blood cell too). I still have nightmares of him screaming “get me out, get me out“ as the cell floats down from above him and covers the window of his submarine, and then oozes into the sub and engulfs his face. I think the movie won an Academy award for special effects.
(I went on to earn my living as a practical applied immunologist and antibody chemist.)
i just watched Fantastic Voyage again a few months ago! held up very well
John Carpenter's The Thing did a number on me as a kid. I remember making drawings of me fighting the alien for weeks after first seeing that movie -- my way of working through the trauma. I'm entirely convinced that my Dad was silently laughing to himself as we watched it, knowing that I was trying my best to be brave even though I wanted outta there. 🤣
The 1964 film "Hush, Hush sweet Charlotte" starring Bette Davis from 1964 scared the heck out of me when I was 6 years old. The movie involved ax murders, was shot in black and white and gave me nightmares!
saw that when i was a little kid!!! scared the crap out of me
That means she’s a great actress
Me too!!!
Me: I'm afraid of the backstreet boys
therapist: tell me why
me: AAAAAAHHHHH!!
That’s hysterical
Burnt Offerings (1976) was the movie that got me in my early adolescence. Karen "crazy eyes" Black, Oliver Reed and an ancient Bette Davis (and the hearse driver especially) all haunted my nightmares.
"The Fox and the Hound" (1981) also hit me hard as a kid ...
and even remember it being the first ever movie that made my mother cry, and she never cries from movies.
When I was walking out of the Blair witch project the bloke in front of me said to his mate "I've had scarier experiences sat on the toilet". That creased me and my mate up as we both thought TBWP was rubbish and totally unfrightening. It actually gave me a headache, in the same way that a 3D film does.
Metropolis (1927) was the film that had me scared at about 10 years old. It wasn't the full film but I was home ill from school and caught a show on TV about how movie effects first developed. There was a bit on Melies camera jamming when he was filming traffic on a street and when he cleared the jam there was a hearse going past, the world's first jump cut. Anyway, it had the sequence of Freder down in the bowels of the city and imagining Moloch from the workers at the machine. I was terrified by that scene for years and had no idea where it came from until I saw Metropolis at university.
So I maintained the tradition, of showing Metropolis to each of my kids at about the same age. A couple of my kids still talk to me.
Candyman ruined me as a kid. I slept in my parents' room and was afraid to go into the bathroom for a month or more. I literally got PTSD flashbacks for years. I have massive respect for Tony Todd as an adult. That man is terrifying
I'm late discovering your channel. You are an excellent communicator. I have an obscure one for you . The incredible two headed transplant (1971). I watched on tv and I was too young, probably around 8, to know it was campy. The image that has stayed with me for 50 years is the psychotic head laughing and gentle head crying as they kill a young couple parked in a private spot to neck. The movie features a young bruce dern as the mad scientist.
Five year old me cried seeing theAmerican Werewolf movies. The transforming sequence was unrealistic to be honest but kid me would hide and cover my face until the transformation was done.
Return to Oz still hasn't stopped haunting me at age 43. I still hate it. It was the first film I ever saw in cinemas, and could've been the last. The movie hates children. It does lol.
I watched it and i thought it was great as a kid; however ....
I also watched Ernest scared stupid and it scared the bejeezus out of me. Like 3rd grade, can't sleep alone for months scared, so don't feel bad
Watership Down from 1978. Saw it when I was about five. Maybe the first time I can remember actually being scared. The scene with the Warren being destroyed is enough to give any preteen nightmares. Its a great movie, but I was definitely too young to watch it.
That Bright Eyes song by Art Garfunkel makes that movie even freakier! Haunted me for days.
hey, thanks for choosing my comment, Maggie! legit honored. :)
I saw Burnt Offerings as a kid…on tv. That hearse driver was terrifying.
I actually was terrified by Amadeus lmao, I watched it one day accidentally after school when I was 7 or 8 (second grade). I was alone at home, it was the first time I saw boobs, but that's not what scared me haha, I actually got excited for my own boobs to look like that one day. What scared me was Salieri! I did not know how to feel about that complicated character, and that in itself was terrifying. I had never been exposed to someone I pitied, rooted for as an underdog, and despised at the same time. The last scene where Salieri calls himself the patron saint of mediocrity and absolves all the lunatics in the madhouse of their deficiencies was chilling to 8-year-old me. I literally thought about it every day for a long time.
indeed powerful bosoms
Wizard of Oz got me.
I was like 3 or 4 years old when I saw that, and those flying monkeys ripping the Scarecrow apart devastated my little brain.
Also the talking apple trees were pretty scary when I was a kid.
You know what's not a movie but the music scared me as a kid? Theme music to Unsolved Mysteries. Each time an ad for it came on, I changed the channel immediately.
1. "The Exorcist." 2. "The Day After." 3. "Clockwork Orange." 4. "Alien." 5. "Silence of the Lambs."
That sand snake 🐍 thingy from Beetlejuice used to frighten me as a child
I was 10, home alone when A CLOCKWORK ORANGE played on TV at 3AM. When the sun came-up I felt like I had visited a different planet. It shook me but it was the very moment I became a film addict.
The 'dwarf' at the end of Dont Look Now. Still cant bear to watch...
when I saw that movie for the first time in the cinema, I swear I saw a dwarf of the same kind (progeria) on the street on the way in
Omg that terrified me
I love your reviews, and more importantly, your review topics. Another winner here. Love reading everyone's responses and reviews. Thanks darlin'. Keep 'em coming.
The boat/cave scene in "Willy Wonka"
The Hitcher (1986) as a teen. Rutger Hauer plays a really evil character that is also human and relatable.. making it more impactful than your typical villain. The ending is brilliant and makes you wonder.. is it passed on?
The original Frankenstein did it for me. It was on the late show in the early 60's and I watched from my bedroom door. Terrifying.
I'm glad you told us some of your own examples at the beginning. Usually you just read other people's picks, which I find kind of incomplete.
When I was a kid my brother showed me Dawn of the Dead. It took me years to recover. But that isn't really surprising when your 6 years old. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and that really freaked me out. By that time there wasn't much that really scared me in movies anymore but being tortured forever in a Hell dimension is something that I'd rather not think too much about.
There's not really a particular movie I was afraid of as a kid, but there were certain moments in a few movies that scare the poop out of me.
I was so afraid of Mrs. Tweedy in Chicken Run (and to some extent Mr. Tweedy as well). She was so creepily scary.
However the scene that scared me the most as a kid, was the ghost scene in the animated version of 'A Christmas Carol' from 1994. I don't think this version of the story is well known, so I'll explain:
You know the part when Scrooge looks out of the window after Marley has flown out of it, and Scrooge sees ghosts and then shuts the window? Yeah, that scene was made so scary in the 1994 version. They had the ghosts flying around with agony painted all over their faces while whining in pain. All this while a scary song with creepy vocals and organ would play in the background. I don't find it as scary now, but back then... Holy shit!
That scene is the sole reason why I slept with the TV on for 10+ years...
My uncle watched The Ring in the theater by himself but didnt tell his coworker, who asked him to watch it with him for the first time so my uncle (whos coworker didnt know that he had seen it already) pranked him by putting a blank videotape right next to his coworkers chair after the film ended. He shit himself.
I share your appreciation of Kubrick's humor in The Shining as well. Aside from the obvious one where Jack mimics Ed McMahon's "Heeeeeerrrs Johnny" after he axed his way into the bathroom, a subtle yet amusing scene was when Danny is watching cartoons and the Roadrunner theme song plays, which foreshadowed the climax where Jack chases Danny to kill him; just like Wile E. Coyote pursuing the Roadrunner with similar results.
When I was younger (not quite a kid, but close) my parents let me watch _1984_ because it was based on a literary classic. I saw the one shot in the year 1984, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton. It scared me so much I couldn't finish it. I was not ready for such a perfect portrait of systematic despair. I'm not even afraid of rats (I kinda think they're cute) but the penultimate scene, in room 101 fucks me up to this day.
P.S. Your point about getting into movies to learn the analytical side to take control over the emotions they brought out in you... that's literally why I became a horror writer.
The Exorcist (1973) was by far the scariest film that impacted my childhood years. I remember watching it as a 10yo and couldn’t sleep for several nights. I know it has since been surpassed in the horror genre but to this day it remains my magnum opus in terms of scare factor moment lifetime memory.
SAME HERE DUDE, I had this one awful nightmare about the exorcist when I was like 10 that I still remember to this day.
@@ModernAladdin regardless of how scary or not it still is, it’s a phenomenally directed film. There’s a reason why it’s regarded as iconic in the genre so many decades later.
"The visitors" (Besökarna) A swedish haunted house movie from 1988. To this day it stills haunt me.
The two that scared me the most as a kid were Ferngully and All Dogs Go To Heaven. The 80s and 90s were a dark time for children's cartoons. I just feel lucky I was never exposed to Watership Down or The Plague Dogs.
Yep I agree
Ya, the Abominable Snowman from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer scared the shit outta me as a kid.
Interestingly Terminator 2 scared me as a kid. The scene in question being the nuclear nightmare scene which honestly still haunts me to this day. I think it had to do with the fact that I was like 9 when I first saw the film and the fact that there’s young children in the scene traumatized my brain as a kid. The rest of the movie definitely has its scary and tense moments with the T-1000. But that nightmare scene always stuck out to me because the scene is so different from everything else in the film and I always found it incredibly disturbing and hard to watch. Seeing the innocent and unaware children melting away with their parents while Sarah watches on fire is one of the most horrific and haunting images ever put to film imo. Seeing people burn alive let alone children is just a horrific thought and therefore that scene scarred me for many years. It got so bad that I would think of it every time I saw a playground. I kinda got over my fear of it a little bit as I got older but whenever I rewatch T2, that scene still haunts me every single time.
Yeah, that scene is haunting.
The feelings that you have described for the David Lynch film Inland Empire hit the nail on the head. That is exactly how I felt when watching this 3 hour long bad acid trip. The movie I remember watching when I was five years old was a film that was directed (non credited) Mario Bava called Caltiki the immortal monster. Moody and unsettling photography sets the pace on this story about a carnivorous single cell creature from the Mayan ruins. The image of it ripping the flesh off it's victims would stay with me for days. I just recently gotten a hold of a remastered blu-ray of this film and after all these years I could see why it really disturbed me.
The length of your videos are nice. Not too long, not too short. The Goldilocks Zone of YT video lengths.
The thing that scared the hell out of me as a kid was the woman they had locked in a room in Pet Sematary. My parents let me watch anything I wanted from the time I could remember. I watched the Friday the 13ths, and Halloween at like 5. They never scared me all that much, but the woman in Pet Sematary was disturbing.
I think I know what you're talking about. I saw the 2019 remake first and then I saw the original and its sequel. That scene was indeed disturbing.
With me it was jump-scares it was Nightmare on Elm Street character Freddy Krueger so without me watching TV he would pop up everywhere but I could watch movies like Friday the 13th and Halloween and not be scared at all Chucky scared me for a short time like real monsters having to sleep with the closet light on for a month stuff like that I said Jaws when I was six years old when I saw Jaws I wasn't even scared of sharks became fascination after that movie
the blair witch was my favourite review of yours!
how I've always described the face of willem defoe is that he looks like he's made of knives
The movie that freaked me out the most as a kid was Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?. I know, it's not a horror movie. But, believe me, I thought it was a horror movie at the time. I couldn't believe people behaved like that. Later, as a teen, it was the Exorcist. It's been redone to death and is almost a joke at this point. But, at the time it was truly scary and had a great soundtrack.
Anyone who grew up in the 80's surely can remember the Dark Crystal, freaked me out totally lol.
😊😢cannibal holocaust is way more disturbing
@@mikesilva3868 having read the Wikipedia article synopsis, I have no interest in ever seeing it lol.
@mikesilva3868 how are you even comparing the two lol
@@mikesilva3868LMFAOOO ?
yes Dark Crystal and Neverending Story were nightmare fuel
I’m not sure how this ended up on my TV at the time, but the bathtub scene in Harmony Korine’s GUMMO scarred me for life. something about the dirty water and eating spaghetti while bathing freaked me out. That image has stayed with me forever
The Tingler freaked the bejaysus out of me when I was a kid, and later on The Exorcist.
I love your horror videos. You seem so authentic and really passionate about films, really fun listening to you.
Regards, from Germany :)
Canibal Holocaust and A Serbian Film made me disturbed as a 13 year old, even watch Martyrs and Frontiers that age.
That wasn't good for my psychological development in my youth, got mad anxiety when I was alone
Saw the original Child's Play at the age of 6 and was scared as fuck but at the same time, LOVING it and I began drawing pics of Chucky and wanted Chucky memoribilia. Saw Child's Play 2 a year later and wasn't as scared but was a fan of Chucky. Funny how things that scared you as a kid made you a massive fan as well.
Pretty much every film had something that scared me as a kid, peewees big adventure, inner space, ET, poltergeist, Indiana Jones
finally someone else who was also afraid of E.T. lol.
Maggie, if you still haven't seen Wolfgang Petersen's *"The Neverending Story" (1984)* ...
I can assure you that *"Gmork"* (the personified werewolf who embodies "The Nothing") *is still frightening to behold* even as a grown-up.
The wizard of oz (probably my favorite film🙄)- I was terrified of the cowardly lion's musical number of "king of the forest" I remember being 4 years old, hiding behind the couch. Return to oz, however, did not terrify me
Just rewatched The Shining this weekend, and Eraserhead right before it since Kubrick was influenced by the style and tone of the film. I love the feeling that both of them give me, and it's the kind of horror that actually unsettles me in a way I enjoy. No matter where I am in a space, I feel like anything could grab me and shake me to my core, nowhere is safe
Jaws, Poltergeist, The Exorcist. Sorry I was born in the 70s man 🤣
There was one episode of the cartoon Dungeons &Dragons that horrified me. There is a scene where one of the characters thinks he sees their friend the dungeon master from behind, but the figure turns round and its not the dungeon master but a monster with a grotesquely elongated face. Completely freaked me out!
The Shining was first horror movie that i watched and it made me appreciate horror movies more and it is my favorite horror movie 🪓😱.
Great video Maggie and take care and stay safe 👍.
Movies that gave me nightmares as a kid: Invasion of the Body Snatchers(original), Equinox, Dawn of the Dead....
Jaws and The Exorcist. Couldn't swim or walk in the dark after those for many years
Do you remember this 90s kid's show on PBS called Kino's Storytime? It had this creepy orange puppet that creeped me out and gave me nightmares. Look it up! The show would start with the puppet popping up from below in front of a white background and would introduce the program. I never knew when it would do that, which made it more terrifying! Also, E.T. freaked me out as a kid. I saw Signs a year later, which was effectively creepy but less so than E.T. for some reason.
"Aliens 2" which I saw in theaters and Dario Argento's "Demons". I was an 80s kid so even though scared as f#!% kept coming back for more...
The Wall, the Pink Floyd movie
My dad saw my interest in Rock Music and thought it was a good idea showing me this when i was like 6 years old and i had nightmares for weeks
As a little kid I hated the abominable snowman in the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer tv special.
It was shortly after my 3rd birthday when Child's Play came out on VHS and I watched it, and it totally traumatized me.. Now one of my favorite memories, and one of the more nostalgic movies for me. 😎
Spirited Away scared me when I was 6
And when Bilbo tried to snatch the ring from Frodo, I don't think I recovered from that one for a while (same age)
And for some reason, the first minutes of Zombieland in the theater made me feel sick
The exorcist and the fly scared the 💩 out of me as a kid.
Now, nothing scares me anymore.
When I was a kid there’d be previews of other movies you’d fast forward through. There was a preview of a movie about some kid who was completely bald and during the preview this kid had peanut butter spread all over his bald head. I had to close my eyes and fast forward. I was scared of going to the movies as I was terrified of what previews they’d show before the feature presentation. “The peanut butter solution” 1985 - edit.
I thought I was alone in thinking what a different actor could have brought to The Shining. I always found Jack Nicholson’s performance in this actually took me away from the horror. I didn’t see a character breaking down psychologically, I just see OTT Jack.
Three TV 📺 Movies that scared me in the 70's .. The Night Stalker , Bad Ronald & Duel.
Videodrome my dads best friend was a projectionist & he would bootleg all the new films to vhs so that was in the family vhs collection I was 5 yrs. Old when I first saw it!
I didn't watch The Shining as a kid . . . but I did watch Twister, and what are they watching at the drive in movie theater? The scene where Danny encounters the twins. No warning. You don't even know it's movie within a movie. TERRIFYING.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom had the biggest impact on me as a kid. I saw most of the R-rated action/scifi/horror of the 80s by 7 or 8, generally unphased, but after that one I had nightmares for weeks about some guy ripping my heart out through my chest and dropping me into a lava pit. Every time I went into a dimly orange lit room (like the local Italian restaurant), I freaked the hell out.
A lot of parents complained about that scene and that's the one movie that changed the entire rating system. So, you can thank Spielberg himself for inventing the PG-13 rating. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. In fact, it adds more leeway into more mature content but not quite what we would consider to be adult content.
As a fourteen year old suburban kid, the 1984 documentary "Streetwise" scared me in a non-horror sense. It has held a feeling of loss and dread throughout my life.
It left a feeling of innocence lost.
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) creeped me out a lot
As a kid I loved ET but got so scared of that scene when the government shows up 😅. My brother got so scared of Little Nemo Adventurers in Dream Land
"when the government shows up"
Always the stuff of nightmares!!! ;-)
you're in the minority. When I was a kid, E.T. traumatized me for years.
It's funny that movies that scared me as a kid ("princess mononoke" and "monster house" for example) are movies that i like now but then there are movies that unsettled me and made me uncomfortable as a kid (that troll in central park movie or whatever and the disney alice in wonderland original movie) that i don't feel compelled to check out as an adult and doubt i would even like now.
1986 version of The Hitcher terrified me as a kid, never seen the full movie.
Not a movie but Wayland Flowers puppet Madame gave me ghoulish nightmares.
The pagemaster terrified me when i was a kid especilaly the jeckel and my hyde section. Like the jump scare. More people need to check it out. It was a fail critically and box office. But still a gem
Superman 3 - particularly the robot woman scene and also when superman turned evil.
There was a scene, in a film I saw as a child on television that featured an English airman whose plane crash landed and he was captured by the German authorities. I remember a big woman commandant who instructed her staff to cut his toes off. I am not sure but think the film was 633 Squadron. The scene made such a fearful impression on me that to this day I have never watched it since. Around the same time I saw Catch 22 on t.v. There is a scene in the damaged aircraft where the injured airman says he's cold, over and over; and the pilot rips aside his flying jacket and the guy's guts are in full view. Yes I was about eleven at the time and I did not expect that. The horse's head in The Godfather is a standout too
Time Machine, the classic 1960 version. I was terrified by the Morlocks. And of course, the first time I saw it again as an adult, I simply had to laugh about it.
Movies that freaked me out as a kid
Jaws
Child's Play 1 & 2
The Good Son(Too many child's death)
The Cell(F%#££ up movie to watch as a kid)
Aliens Ressurection(Only on the Alien/Human hybrid death scene 🤢)
Halloween Ressurection(Because it was my first horror movie experience)
The Original Dawn Of The Dead
and Lastly, The Original Exorcist
“The Blob” because in my young eyes, it was just a mutated Amoeba, something that exits in any decent body of water. I didn’t look over a gurgling drainage pipe for years afterwards.
which one? the original or the 1988 remake?
@@T800-theRealOne remake!
@@ZmQuad i saw the original. i don't really care for the remake.
As an Irish kid, Darby O’Gill and the little people was always on tv and that banshee scene is for sure why I love horror to this day
But my mum showed me the ring when I was 8 and to this day we still watch horror films together
Whoa I remember nothing else about Darby O'Gill but the banshees got me good too
The painting of the woman in 2017s “IT”. That’s what I consider monstruosity, instead of fangs and things like that.
That scene in Return to Oz where Queen Mombi wakes up and has no head.
Gremlins. Those puppets hold up very well, even after all these years.
The one I really remember is Let's Scare Jessica To Death. I was about 10 and my parents left me home alone (adult pool party in the neighborhood - this was allowed as it was the 1970s). It was on the late night show and I watched it. Scared the bejesus out of me. I went back and watched it as an adult and it was a bit of a slow burn (almost boring), but some scenes still resonated with the 10 year old inside of me.
I also have to say the Wizard of Oz didn't terrify me, but some of the scenes with the witch and the tornado I did find scary as a kid.
I also found the series (and TV movie) The Night Stalker to have some scary moments (Spanish Moss Murders, The Ripper and the movie, etc.)
There may have been others, but those are the only two I really remember. I was watching monster movies alot as a kid and they rarely scared me, but I did enjoy them.
I liked monsters as a kid but the movie Burnt Offerings really creeped me out.
For me, it was definitely The Exorcist. I was ten years old, and since I was still a christian at the time, the religious horror was real. And it did not help that, before that, my dad would tell stories about how, as a kid, he knew a little girl who had been possessed after she had been hanging around some Mexican witch. And how the little girl had required multiple men to restrain her. And how she had been tied to a chair and had hopped the chair to a door, and had been slamming the back of her head against it in an attempt to escape (what a load of ancient anecdote).
It, the stupid made-for-TV version, was also a bit scary as a twelve-year-old. But, to be honest, nothing has scared me since then (and I mean absolutely nothing, movies or games). I've had about one nightmare in my life. And my immunity to this kind of fear might have something to do with me playing so many Resident Evil games as a kid in the dark by myself. And then, later, being stoned playing them, as well. And I'm not even scared of the dentist (zero out of ten), so that doesn't help. But I do love horror films, and I do hope to write some stories in that genre, in the Evil Dead/Friday the 13th veins of horror.
My big sister once decided we should watch (The Horror of) Dracula. I was three years old.
It took her about half an hour to calm me down.
ET scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. The scene when he is found in the cornfield. I would have nightmares of ET’s two fingers outside my window in the middle of the night.
There was a specific episode of The Backyardigans that spooked the sh outta me I remember
Trilogy of Terror: the very last scene where Karen Black has become possessed. I'm not so sure I can watch that scene even now...
Facts!! That’s in my top 5 horror films of all time!! It’s so original! Trilogy is underrated, but true cinephiles know where it stands in cinema history
What makes it freakier is how the camera slowly pans closer and closer to her crazy face! Great actress who is still missed.
Did someone say rooted in the flesh? - David Cronenberg.
Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and if we are
counting TV shows H.R. Pufnstuf.
Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot. (1979). The scene of the floating vampire kid scratching the window will hunt me forever.
Also I saw American Werewolf in London when I was 8 and I thought the transformation scene was awesome. But later Later, at 10, I saw the transformation scene in The Howling (my favorite werewolf movie ever) and I was absolutely horrified. But the scariest thing I saw when I was a kid was Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. And what’s really scary was his zombi version, those horrible bulging eyes. 70s and 80s were the absolute best at doing horror. The way they used practical effects to create a feel of dread, solitude, and uncertainty was amazing. Cronenberg, De Palma, Hooper, Wes Craven, Joe Dante, John Landis, David Lynch, even Spielberg.
"I love you, you love me"
Maggie: 😱
My mom took me to see Platoon when I was five. That soldier zombie walks out of the enemy foxhole, arms blown off, an image permanently burned into my brain. The next day I only played with my GI Joes wearing military gear. Purple viper pilots and punky Dreadnoughts were right out. My dad heard me say "damn" and washed my mouth out with soap.
I had to leave the theatre during Wiz of Oz. I can't remember how old I was at the time. I now regard that movie as a gay singalong.