Movies that scared the sh*t out of you as a child

[CJ N2N]

(There's probably already a thread on this somewhere, and if there is, tell me and I'll kindly delete it)

Well, it's October 1st, the month of Halloween and I figured now would be a good time for some threads about scary movies so: What movies really disturbed you and gave you nightmares when you were a child?

I'm blanking at the present moment, but one that always terrified me was Mars Attacks!.

Nope I'm not joking. I was around 8 ate the time and I saw pictures of it in a book I had on aliens. I was really intrigued. My parents let me rent the tape from the library, I watched half of it and was absolutely terrified when I saw the martians melt the human beings. Watching it now, 7 years later, of course I find it funny but WOW did it scare me!

What were some of yours?

[Kad]

You're not alone on Mars Attacks! It scared me when I was younger, too.

[broadwayboy101]

Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula. Scared the bejebus out of me when I was younger!

[beautywickedlover]

'Return to Oz' for many reasons.

'The Little Mermaid': I love it now, but Ursula scared the living daylights out of me when I was younger.

'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:' Again, I love it now, but the Queen and the Apple were way too much for me as a kid.

'Jaws:' I saw it on TV once and had nightmares for a while. I do not plan on seeing it again.

'Cinderella:' The palace guards chasing after her was too intense for me when I was younger and even the music during that scene was too.

[broadwayboy101]

I forgot about Snow White! Everything was okay until she ran through that creepy forest...

[SNAFU]

Saw the original Invaders from Mars on a rainy Saturday afternoon when I was about 6. The thought of people being sucked into the sand terrified me!

[strummergirl]

The Great Mouse Detective- First you have some really gorgeous art direction, some really eery atmosphere from the toy shop (let's remember this is all from the perspective of mice) to Big Ben. Then you add Vincent Price voicing the villain with a truly frightening, action-packed third act. To me it is one of the most underrated things Disney has ever done. Also some of the stuff they got away with for a 'kids' movie is sorta hysterical in retrospect. Guess Disney was so broken in the 80s that nobody noticed it.

Return to Oz- The Wheelers.

Jaws- When the kid gets attacked....

Thriller, the music video- The awesome monster makeup and Vincent Price!

Close Encounters of the Third Kind- I saw ET first so my whole idea of aliens and Spielberg got really shaken seeing this- even if they turned out to be perfectly fine in the end. Again, child in danger.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?- Judge Doom. Done.

[Jane2]

The Wizard of Oz, specifically for 3 reasons:

1. The flying monkeys

2. The scene where Dorothy's locked in the castle, and when she looks into the crystal ball and sees Auntie Em, it suddenly turns into the face of the witch.

3. The song "O LI O, LI O LO" as the guards march into the castle.

[beautywickedlover]

One of the worst films I ever sat through as a child was 'Care Bears the Moive II: A New Generation'. Not only was it TOO SUGARY SWEET it had a villain that was DOWN RIGHT EVIL. The critic from The New York Times was right that children over the age of four might find it too spooky.

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/21/movies/screen-care-bears-in-a-sequel.html

This scene is MUCH TOO DARK for a kids' film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHjd9oq4Am4

[wickedfan]

I used to hide under the table or couch or whatever every time the Wicked Witch of the West showed up in The Wizard of Oz.

Hocus Pocus also scared the sh*t out of me.

[Mr Roxy]

The original House Of Wax. Taking off the glasses did not help. In retrospect, I should have just closed m y eyes. The music always scared the crap out of me.

[DayDreamer]

The Exorcist. I did see it as a kid and it was *way* too much, even though it was on tv and heavily edited.

[romantico]

It wasn't the movie but as a kid I was TERRIFIED of the Child Catcher from CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. He gave me nightmares and even today when I see him I always think back to when I was a kid and how much he terrified me.I could take Freddy and Jason and Leatherface any day but the Child catcher sent chills down my spine.

[ArtMan]

Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte & Chamber of Horrors

[ErikJ972]

Poltergeist
The Exorcist
Alien
Now that I'm an atheist I think The Exorcist is hilarious.

[Wynbish]

I saw Jurassic Park the week after it came out. I was eight.

[CJ N2N]

Saw Jurassic Park the day I finished kindergarten and loved it!

Strangely, I loved The Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz. Looking back, I'm wondering why they didn't absolutely terrify me.

I just remembered the movie that REALLY scared me was The Witches. I don't think I ever actually saw the whole movie, but the only thing I can remember is that one part where the witches turn the kids into mice. Couldn't sleep for WEEKS after that!

[JohnyBroadway]

Hocus Pocus.

[Marianne2]

Sadly, nothing really scared me as a child. Now if you ask me about now, I could give you a whole list.

Like I finally got around to watching the original Friday the 13th last night. Jason's mom scared me so much. And it doesn't help that it was filmed a couple of towns over from me. I know exactly where much of it was filmed.

[Jordan Catalano]

I grew up watching gory horror movies but strangely what terrified me was SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS and the first 5 minutes of GHOSTBUSTERS.

[wonkit]

Never watch TV when you are babysitting in an old creaky house. I was taking care of my baby niece and watched an old movie called DEAD OF NIGHT. The final ventriloquist episode, and the twist at the end, totally freaked me out. When I got home, I couldn't turn out the lights, or sleep.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Oddly the first five minutes of Ghostbusters didn't bother me. The part that I refused to watch for a long time was later in the movie with those hands pop out of the chair to grab Sigourney Weaver's character and then the chair slides across the room to her bedroom where the Terror Dog is waiting for her. After the first time I ALWAYS went to go to the bathroom, the kitchen, or anywhere else once she got on the phone with her mother in the lead-up to that moment and would make sure I didn't come back until the next scene had started.

[Jordan Catalano]

Yeah the hands never bothered me. And watching people get gutted, decapitated or tortured never did anything to me either. But ghosts in movies scared the crap out of me (and for the most part still do with movies like SESSION 9).

[SNAFU]

[jasonf]

Came here to say the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That guy gave me such nightmares!

The witch from Wizard of Oz did it also - the monkeys never scared me. The witch, though, was terrifying.

[GavestonPS]

PSYCHO. I was much too young to go see it when it came out, but one of my uncles thought it would be amusing to describe the plot to me in great detail.