What is a movie/TV show/book/etc. that scared the SHIT out of you as a kid?

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haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

For me, it was an early episode of Tales from the Crypt: S01E02 - And All Through the House. I was about to turn 7 years old. I remember watching it in the living room with my older brother while my mom was distracted by a phone call out on the front porch. We kind of laughed throughout the episode but once we were upstairs in bed I was certain a demented Santa was going to climb up the side of our house and murder us with an axe. I kept my brother up most of the night talking about bullshit because I was too petrified for sleep. Gave me nightmares for YEARS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Drg5z9-w8

haljordan fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Sep 30, 2022

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 00:04

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

kntfkr posted:

The mouth growing over with skin in the twilight zone movie.

yeah that was a pretty creepy segment. the original episode that it was based on was also demented as gently caress.

edit: Actually the TV series version was even worse because the kid kills all of the crops with snow at the end and you're left assuming everyone will eventually starve to death

haljordan fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Oct 1, 2022

# ¿ Sep 30, 2022 22:30

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Oh yeah...

I saw it when I was 9 or 10 at my house when my friend was over. I tried so hard to play it cool the entire time but I was terrified. After it was over it was dusk and my mom told me I had to walk my friend home. The second his front door closed I booked it racing the sun all the way home. I guess Pennywise had an impression on me.

Oh yeah this definitely scarred many a young child back in the day

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 00:41

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

I also remember an episode of Duck Tales that was based on "The Odyssey" and the part where Scrooge McDuck's boat got too close to the island with the sirens always completely terrified me, even though the show ran during the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvmzc5siEpk

haljordan fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Oct 1, 2022

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 00:52

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Kevino07 posted:

A 90s stopmotion short film called The Sandman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhU

Still unsettling now

lol like every single comment on this video is from someone who watched this as a kid and still has nightmares about it

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 01:12

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Fentry posted:

The music video for Jeremy by Pearl Jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS91knuzoOA

Scared the poo poo out of me as a little kid, didn't understand it being about suicide and thought he froze and killed his class. Still an incredibly effective video now watching it as an adult

Yeah I was 9 when that video came out and I thought the same exact thing

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 01:24

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

DangerDummy! posted:

The Blob. The original black and white one with Steve McQueen. It hosed me up for years, like sleepless nights and everything. Even Blob adjacent things like The Stuff terrified me.

Everyone made fun of me for it, too. Everyone but my dad. He got me.

You can reasonably fight a frankenstein or a dracula. You can stand a fighting chance with those guys. But how do you fight a blob?

HOW!?

The remake with Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith (whom I had the biggest loving crush on) was also pretty goddamned terrifying

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 01:26

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

DangerDummy! posted:

The movie theater scenes are pretty drat good. Obviously the McQueen version is silly B movie nonsense, but a couple of the scenes in the movie were very well done for its time.

I used to get Shawnee Smith and Danielle Harris mixed up all the time somehow. Their ages don't really line up at all afaik.

e: Kinda inside baseball for comedy nerds, but I thought it was funny that Del Close ended up playing a cult leader in the remake, kinda like in real life.

I watched "Who's Harry Crumb?" probably a million times as a kid so that's how I primarily know her.

And yeah, Del Close improv classes were pretty much a religion.

haljordan fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Oct 1, 2022

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 01:37

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Good soup! posted:

Surprised it took so long for someone to post this honestly.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 02:01

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Creepshow 2, The Raft episode was similar. A bunch of teens are trapped on a raft and a black blob surrounds them and melts them.

the part where the one guy gets pulled right through the raft was especially terrifying

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 02:46

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Tree Bucket posted:

Day time: head to the library. Cheerfully devour everything about ufos and aliens. If none available, find any book with that picture of the leftover foot from that lady who spontaneously combusted.
Night time: hours of utter, petrified terror
I wonder if that is a universal proto-goon experience.

Oh, also my older brother (accidentally?) showed me a Metallica video clip featuring shots from a movie about a dude who gets his everything exploded off. Messed me up for years.

Johnny Got His Gun.

biglads posted:

CHiPs

Terrifying

The CHiPs movie they made (in 20fucking17 no less) was just 101 minutes of gay panic.
Incredible a major studio would actually release that trash.

haljordan fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Oct 1, 2022

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 10:07

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Blinks posted:

Gremlins and Labrynth.

Gremlins was actually why the PG-13 rating was created lol

haljordan fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Oct 1, 2022

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 16:20

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

You Are A Elf posted:

Gmork in The Neverending Story. That vicious and frightening string sting, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOPAW7Em8mE

I remember crying pretty hard when Artax drowned in the swamp, that was some messed up poo poo for a supposed "kids" movie

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 16:54

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Rock Paper Tongue posted:

When I was 9 I saw that bit from Hannibal where he cuts that dude's head open and cooks his brain, and that hosed with me for a few weeks.

The worst was the movie The Vanishing, specifically when the lead guy wakes up in the coffin and realizes what happened to him. The thought of slowly suffocating in a small box underground with absolutely no way to help yourself and nothing to do but just wait to die was horrifying in a way that I hadn't really experienced before, and it stayed with me for years

HBO made an original movie about the hostages during the Iranian embassy siege (not the ones who escaped) and whenever they were moved around, they were completely covered in head to toe in duct tape except for a tiny slit for breathing. Definitely scary poo poo to young me.

edit: Now that I think about it, HBO is responsible for a lot of traumatic moments in my life.

haljordan fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Oct 1, 2022

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 17:00

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

What about the series finale for "Dinosaurs" (Not the mama!)?

https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/dinosaurs-tvs-saddest-sitcom-finale.html

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 19:34

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

The Zelda scenes were pure nightmare fuel

# ¿ Oct 2, 2022 02:41

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 00:04

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Mister Speaker posted:

Fire In the Sky is a bizarre one because it's largely not an alien abduction/horror movie. From what I remember, most of the film is actually a really decent drama piece about the whole town suspecting Walton's work buddies of killing and disappearing him. Lie detector tests and all.

But drat if it doesn't have one of the most viscerally horrifying alien abduction/experimentation scenes in it. I think I watched it with my Dad, and my Mom yelled at him for it because it gave me nightmares for weeks.

Hah I was waiting for someone to mention this, that movie still freaks me out even now

# ¿ Oct 2, 2022 15:04

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