I think a lot of these clips are NSFW.
I saw a chunk of The Thing on SciFi when I must have been about 10 or 11. Specifically, I saw the "dog" scene, without having any idea what was going on before the dog exploded and became a factory for Thing-dogs. I still can't watch any of the monster sequences in The Thing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3I2rDZAJQg&NR=1) They just scare the living shit right out of me.
Anyone else?
Grew up with James Bond movies, Cross of Iron, the Peckinpah westerns, Das Boot ... I was 9 or 10 when I saw Alien and Aliens. Before watching them I was rather weary about violent/gory movies.
My parents also let me watch -when I was 6 or 7 - the "Eis am Stiel" movies or אסקימו לימון (Eskimo Limon), a series of Israeli teenie movies popular in Germany at the time set in the 50s with gratuitious display of titties.
A movie that truly scared the bejeezus out of me was The Blob (original with Steve McQueen) when I was 6.
Quote from: Queequeg on November 17, 2009, 12:57:44 AM
I think a lot of these clips are NSFW.
I saw a chunk of The Thing on SciFi when I must have been about 10 or 11. Specifically, I saw the "dog" scene, without having any idea what was going on before the dog exploded and became a factory for Thing-dogs. I still can't watch any of the monster sequences in The Thing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3I2rDZAJQg&NR=1) They just scare the living shit right out of me.
Anyone else?
I always wondered why they had so many guns on a antarctic research base.
I saw part of Alien on PBS when I was....well...before first grade, I think. I got up to the Last Supper scene and then I started crying and ran away.
I also saw a lot of early X-Files at an early, early age.
I only saw part of it, but there was some movie on tv that had a woman in a bed and a horde of roaches were crawling around her. That brief scene left me concerned to go to sleep at night for months.
Oh, and I saw Andromeda Strain when I was ten or eleven, alone late a night in bed. It was hideously scary at the time.
I saw Aliens when I was 8 I believe. It freaked me out.
I saw the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre with my sister a few years ago at the theater (she watches every horror movie that comes out it seems). What really got me is that some stupid bitch brought a couple of toddlers along with her. I mean really?
Some Whiskey-Tango awful parent motherfucker brought her 5 year old kid to an IMAX showing of The Dark Knight.
He started SCREAMING during the "Why so serious" sequence. It was actually kind of funny, though I felt for the kid. :lol:
This is partially inspired by a story I heard on NPR a long time ago about a guy who, at age 6, watched The Shining with his uncle, and was in therapy for most of his childhood and young adult life trying to get over it.
Well, my mom always made very clear to me that it was only make belief and actors and that "in the next movie they'd all be back" when we watched some movies in which someone died on screen or got hurt (my dad was a big Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, WW2 etc. fan).
Let's see I watched jaws at age 5 or 6. Alien at 11, Halloween at like age 10 along with the thing. Yet what scared me the most?
Snow white and Pinocchio at like age 4. :P
Quote from: Queequeg on November 17, 2009, 12:57:44 AM
I think a lot of these clips are NSFW.
Close to all of them.
I watched some movie about piranha when I was a little kid. The little monsters got in to the river system somehow and were eating up all the swimmers. Was too scared to go in the swimming pool at night for months.
Quote from: katmai on November 17, 2009, 02:01:14 AM
Yet what scared me the most?
Snow white and Pinocchio at like age 4. :P
7 Horrifying Moments from Classic Kids Movies (http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/)
Whatever you call that Japanese porn where they drink their own vomit. Scarred me for life!
Quote from: Fate on November 17, 2009, 02:19:49 AM
Whatever you call that Japanese porn where they drink their own vomit. Scarred me for life!
Brazilians do that a lot, too. Or so I heard.
I saw Aliens when I was 14. That night I stayed at my grandparents in the attic. There was a storm and the attic was drafty. I spent the entire "going to sleep" phase hearing sounds of movement and getting very very nervous about facehuggers. Since then I have slept with my face into a corner. I can't sleep on my back and I can't fall asleep unless I have a corner to stick my face in.
This stuff has moderated itself over time, but it gives me bad sleeping habits. It all started one stormy night when I was 14.
Quote from: Syt on November 17, 2009, 02:13:42 AM
Quote from: katmai on November 17, 2009, 02:01:14 AM
Yet what scared me the most?
Snow white and Pinocchio at like age 4. :P
7 Horrifying Moments from Classic Kids Movies (http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/)
yep those are the scenes.
Exorcist at 14 or so.
I saw Hitchcock's Psycho at age 11 for some reason or other. It is precisely the sort of movie that frightens me even to this day (as opposed to the ridiculous sadistic gorefests which merely bore), never been able to shower in an unlocked room since :lol:
Quote from: Queequeg on November 17, 2009, 01:15:38 AM
I saw part of Alien on PBS when I was....well...before first grade, I think. I got up to the Last Supper scene and then I started crying and ran away.
I also saw a lot of early X-Files at an early, early age.
How old are you again?
Day of the Living Dead gave me a nightmare the first time I saw it, well into my teenage years. Or perhaps it was the horrible (Spanish) dubbing. Stuff of what horror movies are made :lol:
The joys of living in the Raia
I saw Night of the Living Dead and Nightmare on Elm street at a young age. Didn't sleep so well afterwards.
And to be honest, I still hate horror movies. My imagination is a bit to livid, I guess... :blush:
I sometimes think I might have started watching porn a little too young (age 11 or so)... but it's not my fault that my dad's desk drawer lock was so easy to pick. :Embarrass:
I saw David Lynch's Eraserhead on TV when I was about 12 and it scared the living bejesus out of me. Don't think I could even watch it again now.
I read the book of Alien years before I could watch the film, and my mum took it away from me as I couldn't sleep at night.
I saw about ten minutes of It when I was 6-7. I was at my aunty's and they had Sky. I turned to one of the movie channels and thought it was a film about a clown :weep:
I also saw Terminator and Terminator 2 when very young (though my mum made me watch a video of 'The Making of Terminator' first). And The Silence of the Lambs.
Saw The Haunting as a young'un. Scared the shit out of me, even more so because you never actually saw any monsters.
I still think it is right up there with Alien and Psycho as a contender for the scariest movie I have ever seen.
Quote from: Syt on November 17, 2009, 02:13:42 AM
Quote from: katmai on November 17, 2009, 02:01:14 AM
Yet what scared me the most?
Snow white and Pinocchio at like age 4. :P
7 Horrifying Moments from Classic Kids Movies (http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/)
The Pinocchio and the donkeys thing scared me when I was a kid :lol:
Friday the 13th(the original one). The Woody Woodpecker cartoon beforehand was awesome. I think I was 8 or 9 at the time.
Actually what scared the living fuck out of me when I was a kid was not a movie but a section in the Dayton Daily news that described a fictional nuclear attack on Wright Patterson wit 2 400kt warheads. I was living in the vaporization/die instantly area. And the description of the Mayor of Dayton bleeding out of the eyes in the basement of city hall was freaky as hell.
The Cold War. Gotta love it.
I saw a Woody Allen film as a 5 year old on a plane.
lots of sex. I thought it was all funny 'cause Allen was chaplain-esque.
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 17, 2009, 08:20:11 AM
Friday the 13th(the original one).
I saw that for the very first time last week. what surprised me the most was that Jason the franchise is not in the franchise film.
Halloween
I was eight or nine, my older brother and his son came over, and we all watched it together. Still the scariest movie I've ever seen, and throughout my teen years when I babysat, I locked every door in the house and had every light on throughout until the parents came home. :ph34r:
I saw what was surely a cheesy horror movie when I was a kid - I've forgotten the name of it, but there was a scene which frightened the shit out of me and kept me up many a night.
These kids go into a haunted house, and they get seperated. One of the kids is missing. The other kids hunt after him a bit, don't find him, and go home, thinking the kid has left before them. Of course he hadn't, and so the parents go to the haunted house to search for him - and find him in a perfecty bare room, naked and covered with fine scratches, circling and staring up at a burnt-out lightbulb, totally insane - just making little moaning noises.
The scary part was that they don't reveal why, leaving it to the imagination.
Oh, I forgot to mention The Woman in Black, which I found extremely scary as a kid (and it still is, having watched it again a few years ago).
I saw Jaws when I was 4 or 5. I lived next to a lake. It made for a rough summer at the beach. Than I saw Squirm the next year. It made for a rough time trying to catch nightcrawlers to go fishing with.
EDIT:
And there was their weird movie on WPIX (Channel 11 in NYC) when I was little. I think it was called Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Scared me shitless. It had to do with these little things that lived inside an old house and took people. I lived in a very old house with a lot of odd passageways and rooms.
Amusingly, when I went to see Dragonslayer a year or so later, it was no problem. So the Friday the 13th movie toughened me up.
Quote from: Strix on November 17, 2009, 09:42:07 AM
I saw Jaws when I was 4 or 5. I lived next to a lake. It made for a rough summer at the beach. Than I saw Squirm the next year. It made for a rough time trying to catch nightcrawlers to go fishing with.
I remember seeing Jaws and thinking it was "awesome", not scary. This might be because, at the time, my uncle was an avid shark fisherman. :smoke: I still have all these shark body parts he gave me (teeth, dorsal fins, etc.)
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Quote from: Strix on November 17, 2009, 09:42:07 AM
I saw Jaws when I was 4 or 5. I lived next to a lake. It made for a rough summer at the beach. Than I saw Squirm the next year. It made for a rough time trying to catch nightcrawlers to go fishing with.
I remember seeing Jaws and thinking it was "awesome", not scary. This might be because, at the time, my uncle was an avid shark fisherman. :smoke: I still have all these shark body parts he gave me (teeth, dorsal fins, etc.)
Heh, I went to see
Jaws when I was a kid - at a theatre in the good old US of A, as I was staying with my parents at
Wood's Hole (the place where the scientist in the movie comes from). :D My dad was working at the huge marine biology labs there (an awesome place to be a kid, let me tell you).
Made swimming lessons in the ocean interesting that year.
I think I was actually better at watching scary movies as a kid than I am now. I try to avoid them now while I sought them out when younger.
Yeah I think you mentioned that once befroe Mal. That sounds awesome. :cool:
Interestingly, my uncle lives on Long Beach Island, where the New Jersey shark attacks of 1916 started... which are what inspired Benchley to write Jaws. I don't think he ever caught a great white shark, but I know he caught tiger sharks, hammerheads, sand sharks, and (I think) lemon sharks. The dorsal fin he cut off and gave me was from a tiger shark.
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 17, 2009, 08:20:11 AM
Friday the 13th(the original one). The Woody Woodpecker cartoon beforehand was awesome. I think I was 8 or 9 at the time.
Actually what scared the living fuck out of me when I was a kid was not a movie but a section in the Dayton Daily news that described a fictional nuclear attack on Wright Patterson wit 2 400kt warheads. I was living in the vaporization/die instantly area. And the description of the Mayor of Dayton bleeding out of the eyes in the basement of city hall was freaky as hell.
The Cold War. Gotta love it.
Oh yeah, when I was at school, 10 or 11, so it was around 1986, we read "The last children of Schewenborn", a rather graphic depiction of life after the nuclear holocaust in Germany (complete with family slowly dieing of radiation disease, miscarriages, infanticide of malformed offspring .... ). A couple weeks later I saw The Day After. The latter still gives me the chills when I watch it.
Due to my love of things like Wasteland, Fallout, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and so on, I actually kinda think a nuclear apocalypse would be cool (assuming I survived the blasts + fallout + nuclear winter). :blush:
Speaking of which - when I was a kid I went to Saturday school (Jew school), where we got lessons on Jewish history - including of course the Holocaust. One of the older members of the congregation was a survior and they brought him in to tell stories about it, and they showed movies - lots of naked emaciated bodies being bulldozed into pits, that sort of thing.
After that, horror movies really couldn't compete.
Quote from: Caliga on November 17, 2009, 10:02:55 AM
Due to my love of things like Wasteland, Fallout, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and so on, I actually kinda think a nuclear apocalypse would be cool (assuming I survived the blasts + fallout + nuclear winter). :blush:
Oh, I still like postaopcalyptic stuff - but more on a pulp level, not on a THIS COULD HAPPEN ANYTIME level to be honest. :P
Quote from: Malthus on November 17, 2009, 10:05:26 AM
Speaking of which - when I was a kid I went to Saturday school (Jew school), where we got lessons on Jewish history - including of course the Holocaust. One of the older members of the congregation was a survior and they brought him in to tell stories about it, and they showed movies - lots of naked emaciated bodies being bulldozed into pits, that sort of thing.
After that, horror movies really couldn't compete.
Killjoy :(
Quote from: Caliga on November 17, 2009, 10:08:09 AM
Quote from: Malthus on November 17, 2009, 10:05:26 AM
Speaking of which - when I was a kid I went to Saturday school (Jew school), where we got lessons on Jewish history - including of course the Holocaust. One of the older members of the congregation was a survior and they brought him in to tell stories about it, and they showed movies - lots of naked emaciated bodies being bulldozed into pits, that sort of thing.
After that, horror movies really couldn't compete.
Killjoy :(
Didn't give me nighmares though, since it all seemed so unreal and bizzare. If you made Nazis up, they would not be believable. But they did make uber-cool villians.
After that, my artwork tended to feature Nazis being bombed and shot. :D
Quote from: Octavian on November 17, 2009, 07:57:03 AM
The Pinocchio and the donkeys thing scared me when I was a kid :lol:
Nothing funny about that. That scene is fucked up man. Disney was a bunch of sick bastards back in the day.
Quote from: Valmy on November 17, 2009, 11:12:14 AM
Quote from: Octavian on November 17, 2009, 07:57:03 AM
The Pinocchio and the donkeys thing scared me when I was a kid :lol:
Nothing funny about that. That scene is fucked up man. Disney was a bunch of sick bastards back in the day.
Never saw Pinocchio - there's a scene with Pinocchio and donkeys in it? It isn't set in a Mexican bordello, by chance? :lol:
I've always avoided scary movies, but my parents let me watch things like Monty Python and the Meaning of Life or Cheech and Chong's Next Movie by the time I was 9 years old.
Quote from: Syt on November 17, 2009, 01:04:15 AM
A movie that truly scared the bejeezus out of me was The Blob (original with Steve McQueen) when I was 6.
I've seen that one when I was 10 or so and it was scary as hell.
I remember when my parents watched The Excorist, and the kids were certainly forbidden from watching.
I snuck out of my room and watched from the hallway to the living room. That was probably not a great idea.
I also saw Hellraiser 1 and 2 when I was 10. :bleeding:
Quote from: Malthus on November 17, 2009, 10:05:26 AM
Speaking of which - when I was a kid I went to Saturday school (Jew school), where we got lessons on Jewish history - including of course the Holocaust. One of the older members of the congregation was a survior and they brought him in to tell stories about it, and they showed movies - lots of naked emaciated bodies being bulldozed into pits, that sort of thing.
After that, horror movies really couldn't compete.
:lol:
I was a foot-taller blonde kid in a Jewish preschool, and they talked about the Holocaust quite a bit. There were children's holocaust books were all these blonde people were gathering up Jewish families. I think that probably has a lot to do with some of my crazyness; I always felt kind of responsible for it.
That sexy movie with Rosie O'donnel.
My Eyes!
that stuck with me beyond childhood: none that I can think of. The Shining is still hard for me to watch, even innocuous scenes to me are dripping with dread, as I know what's coming. But I wasn't a kid when I first saw it. I was a teenager when it came out.
edit I think I recall one. I saw Peckinpah's "White Dog" on TV as a kid back in the day, and was scared of white dogs/ or any scary looking breed for a long time afterwards.
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on November 17, 2009, 12:46:55 PM
that stuck with me beyond childhood: none that I can think of. The Shining is still hard for me to watch, even innocuous scenes to me are dripping with dread, as I know what's coming. But I wasn't a kid when I first saw it. I was a teenager when it came out.
Such a very good movie.
Funny how hard it is to make a good horror flick.
Quote from: Queequeg on November 17, 2009, 11:39:52 AM
I was a foot-taller blonde kid in a Jewish preschool, and they talked about the Holocaust quite a bit. There were children's holocaust books were all these blonde people were gathering up Jewish families. I think that probably has a lot to do with some of my crazyness; I always felt kind of responsible for it.
When I was in preschool, I thought about playing with Star Wars action figures and Matchbox cars. :(
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 17, 2009, 11:46:33 AM
That sexy movie with Rosie O'donnel.
My Eyes!
:lol: Yeah, seriously: WHAT. WERE. THEY. THINKING.
Three movies I wish I had never seen as a kid.
Jaws (which I saw in the movie theatre) - still look at the ocean with a bit of fear;
Rosemary's baby and the Exorcist. Why in hell did I stay up late and sneak into the TV room to watch those movies?
Quote from: Malthus on November 17, 2009, 11:17:54 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 17, 2009, 11:12:14 AM
Quote from: Octavian on November 17, 2009, 07:57:03 AM
The Pinocchio and the donkeys thing scared me when I was a kid :lol:
Nothing funny about that. That scene is fucked up man. Disney was a bunch of sick bastards back in the day.
Never saw Pinocchio - there's a scene with Pinocchio and donkeys in it? It isn't set in a Mexican bordello, by chance? :lol:
Worse.
It's #5
http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/
Jason...I was like 5
None come right to mind for me. The strangest things got to me when I was a kid though; traditional horror films were just meh, I had too short an attention span and found them too boring to sit down and watch them and understand what was going on.
I think I understood films were all make believe from a early age but what always used to get to me was bad things happening to non-sentinents in films; in Hook where the baby is abandoned in the park I started crying in the cinema and for ages after that kept asking my mam where thing's parents were (trees, dogs, etc...), also when animals get killed in films...I think it was Highlander...And Terminator. Totally fine for most of the film but when the dogs get it I was very upset.
I don't get the mentions of aliens here. One of my friends loved that film when we were in primary school I remember. It didn't affect me much.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 17, 2009, 07:53:58 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 17, 2009, 11:17:54 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 17, 2009, 11:12:14 AM
Quote from: Octavian on November 17, 2009, 07:57:03 AM
The Pinocchio and the donkeys thing scared me when I was a kid :lol:
Nothing funny about that. That scene is fucked up man. Disney was a bunch of sick bastards back in the day.
Never saw Pinocchio - there's a scene with Pinocchio and donkeys in it? It isn't set in a Mexican bordello, by chance? :lol:
Worse.
It's #5
http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/
Heh, true; I'd rather be condemned to a Mexican bordello show than the salt mines. :lol:
Quote from: Tyr on November 17, 2009, 09:13:47 PM
None come right to mind for me. The strangest things got to me when I was a kid though; traditional horror films were just meh, I had too short an attention span and found them too boring to sit down and watch them and understand what was going on.
I think I understood films were all make believe from a early age but what always used to get to me was bad things happening to non-sentinents in films; in Hook where the baby is abandoned in the park I started crying in the cinema and for ages after that kept asking my mam where thing's parents were (trees, dogs, etc...), also when animals get killed in films...I think it was Highlander...And Terminator. Totally fine for most of the film but when the dogs get it I was very upset.
I don't get the mentions of aliens here. One of my friends loved that film when we were in primary school I remember. It didn't affect me much.
My kid is most upset, not by gore and shock-fright, but rather by situations in which sympathetic characters are quarrelling and fighting among themselves.
For example - he didn't like
Toy Story when he was 3 because the two lead characters get angry with each other and start to fight.
Pretty tame compared to many already mentioned...but recall that I loved watching "Conan the Barbarian" at a rather young age....and all sorts of other early, quite violent Sword & Sorcery films (Beastmaster, etc).
Quote from: Syt on November 17, 2009, 10:01:39 AM
Oh yeah, when I was at school, 10 or 11, so it was around 1986, we read "The last children of Schewenborn", a rather graphic depiction of life after the nuclear holocaust in Germany (complete with family slowly dieing of radiation disease, miscarriages, infanticide of malformed offspring .... ). A couple weeks later I saw The Day After. The latter still gives me the chills when I watch it.
I think i saw that as a badly acted short film in high school as part of my Modern Western Civ class.
Not a movie, but for some reason the thing I was scared the most as a kid was a cover of a book with some Warsaw legends, showing the Warsaw "cockatrice" (being a rooster with beady eyes and a snake tail). I still can't understand why I was so afraid of it.
Quote from: Martinus on November 18, 2009, 01:22:51 PM
Not a movie, but for some reason the thing I was scared the most as a kid was a cover of a book with some Warsaw legends, showing the Warsaw "cockatrice" (being a rooster with beady eyes and a snake tail). I still can't understand why I was so afraid of it.
I figured you'd love a cock monster.
Thank you, I'll be here all weak. Try the veal and be sure to tip your waitress!
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 18, 2009, 05:04:39 PM
Quote from: Martinus on November 18, 2009, 01:22:51 PM
Not a movie, but for some reason the thing I was scared the most as a kid was a cover of a book with some Warsaw legends, showing the Warsaw "cockatrice" (being a rooster with beady eyes and a snake tail). I still can't understand why I was so afraid of it.
I figured you'd love a cock monster.
Thank you, I'll be here all weak. Try the veal and be sure to tip your waitress!
Well, you are always all weak.
Quote from: Martinus on November 18, 2009, 05:06:45 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 18, 2009, 05:04:39 PM
Quote from: Martinus on November 18, 2009, 01:22:51 PM
Not a movie, but for some reason the thing I was scared the most as a kid was a cover of a book with some Warsaw legends, showing the Warsaw "cockatrice" (being a rooster with beady eyes and a snake tail). I still can't understand why I was so afraid of it.
I figured you'd love a cock monster.
Thank you, I'll be here all weak. Try the veal and be sure to tip your waitress!
Well, you are always all weak.
D'oh!
Note to self: eat dinner before engaging in verbal swordplay. No food makes Homer make spelling mistakes.
Lassie movies made me cry when I was little.
Quote from: Syt on November 17, 2009, 02:13:42 AM
Quote from: katmai on November 17, 2009, 02:01:14 AM
Yet what scared me the most?
Snow white and Pinocchio at like age 4. :P
7 Horrifying Moments from Classic Kids Movies (http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/)
I always hatred the Charlie and the Chocolate boat scene when I was younger; I had forgotten about the Childsnatcher in Chitty Chitty Bangbang, that scared me when I was younger too.
Other than that the flyign monkeys in Wizard of OZ freaked me out too. I can't think of any real horror movies I saw too young, if anything I saw most of them years after most people already had. :Embarrass:
Gone With the Wind.
That movie is fucking terrible racist propaganda lost cause fucking bullshit. Fucking fuck. Damn right he doesn't give a damn, you worthless bitch!
I didn't understand Blade Runner at all when I saw it as a child. Until I watched it later in life I never saw the appeal. Now, it's one of my all-time favorites.