Movies that scared the Sh!t out of you when you were younger.

For me theres one thing in particular that really freaked me out as a child. It was the scene in Superman 3 when the bad woman is turned into a robot. That really scared me, thing is I didnt watch horror movies as they are supposed to be scary but Superman was supposed to be a kiRAB movie wasnt it?
 
wow, same as me...

I watched original friday 13th when i was about 11 or 12 over my cousins house...
the scene where someone was speared thru the neck on a bed lying on their back freaked me out..
even though the spear could go thru even if on your side, i wouldnt sleep on my back for months and used to check under my bed before i got it every night... hehe

also the little monster creature with the jester hat out of 'cats eye' movie scared me when i was about the same age..
i used to line my books all along the skirting board to stop it coming out and getting me..

i also watched john carpenters the thing when i was about 11-12 and that freaked me out too, i wouldnt let our pet dog in the room with me alone for months.....

and also some 70s film about these little creatures all bricked up behind the grate in a cellar in this house and the new owners unbrick them and they torment the woman and eventually drag her in with them.. that done a number on me too...
 
Aliens scared the dung out of me when I was younger. I love those movies now though, so it's not a problem.

Watership Down didn't scare me, just made me cry my eyes out with that bloody song!

The Fly (remake) and it's sequel The Fly II got me the first few times, mostly towarRAB the end when the gore is ramped up to 11. I do remember some choice scenes, especially in the sequel, where a man gets the white dissolving fluid all over his face and he literally tears his own face off in a frantic bid to get the stuff off him. I think he's even still alive after it but his face and some of his skull have dissolved as have his hanRAB too, naturally.

Also, some security guard gets crushed under an elevator but his head is conveniently half in half out of the hole so we see his head get crushed and the top of it pops off and his brains fly everywhere. Even thinking about those scenes now is making me feel iffy. Maybe they were scary when I was younger, but nowadays I just find it stomach churning, and I don't usually mind gore in films....
 
For me it was The Flying Killers directed by James Cameron, the bit when the nurse gets attacked by a piranha that flies out of a corpse.

Also Twilight Zone the movie, 'Do you want to see something really scary...?'

And last but not least Jaws, found it tough just going to the bathroom after watching that.
 
The Wall, there's just something about it!

Fly, the scene I was petrified of (when he turns into the fly) was regrettably stuck onto the end of my Queen Live At Wembley video, right on the tail end of Bohemian Rhapasody, typical!

Kong (or one of the King Kong's anyway), had a bit where King Kong rips a snake in half, that scared the life out of me!
 
When I was younger it was the Hammer house films that frightened the life out of me every Friday night Appointment with fear. I laugh what I see them now compared to the films out now.
I won't watch any Nightmare on Elm street films though, they really do scare me:eek:
 
ThreaRAB

Saw it on TV in the mid 80s when I was about 12, and it was terrifying - a nuclear war like that was a very real possibility in those days, and the film was especially interestingly scary as I'm a Sheffielder!

Got the DVD now and I still struggle to watch it, even with the ropey effects.
 
IT creeped me out but I was never really scared by films. ThunderbirRAB on the other hand...:eek: My parents tell me I used to hide behind the sofa.
 
Zombie flesh eaters( uncut ) must of been about 10-11 scarred the s**t out of me that. Piss poor after watching it when i was older,but really put the wind up me at that age:D
 
Salem's Lot for me. Totally totally freaked me out. I remember watching it with my Mum & Dad and then going upstairs and putting the radio on. And then being even more freaked out. It was the first time I had ever heard Oh Superman by Laurie Anderson.

I've watched a couple of bits of Salem's Lot on Youtube recently, with the sound turned down, and I still didn't like it!
 
I didn't expect Robocop to be a violent as it was but I was expecting the acid scene as a friend told me about it so was not as disturbed by it.

The tie flapping scene with Ed209 shocked me as I was not expecting it.
 
I thought it was just me! Use to scare me every time that scene as a child.

Halloween scared me no end to when younger. The scene were Michael Myers is standing in the garden between the washing hanging on the line, but when she looks out a second time, he is gone. Really scared me, as my garden was very similar to the one in the film!
 
The Charles Laughton version of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'

I don't know what it was about this film but it kept me awake at night for months.
 
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