Scary when you're a kid... Silly when you're older.

Nightmare on Elm Street - it scared the crap out of me when I was a child (which is what Wes Craven wanted I suppose). I couldn't sleep! How I laugh now 20 years on.

The Entity - I freaked out whilst watching it with my then girlfriend (I was about 14/15?) Had to switch it off, not very masculine I agree :p Watched it recently and whilst it's still good it doesn't have any impact on me.

One film that still has an impact on me however is The Exorcist. I watched it as a child/early teen and whilst it has less of an impact on me now years later, it still touches a nerve. A scary nerve I don't wish to be touched.
 
Jaws. It terrified me as a child, but now it's my all time favourite film.

I can also remember being rather scared of Darth Vader when ITV used to show Star Wars at christmas, waaaay back in the early 80's. :o
 
The Blair Witch Project.

Scary Movie used to scare me as a kid... until I realised I wasn't supposed to be scared by it :D (the power of suggestion, misleading advertising if you ask me)
 
Clowns, I remember watching a circus in the 70's at Christmas as a kid. A midget clown started tapping the camera and started pointing into it.
I thought he was coming for me and pegged it out of the room screaming to my mum the clown was after me.
Now i'm just suspicous of em :cool:
 
Mars Attacks!!

I watched that when I was about 7...and I had nightmares for YEARS! Their disintegration rays traumatised me!

I was absolutely shocked when I watched it like 7 years later and realised it was a comedy!
 
When I was a kid I found "Return to Oz" scary. When Dorothy is in the room with all the witches' heaRAB and the scene with those weird looking "wheelers". I think that movie is unsuitable for children and apparently a lot of parents complained about it at the time...

Then there was "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" - I always thought there was something sinister about it.
 
The Watcher in the WooRAB used to terrify me back in my 4s and 5s, and the Evil Dead when I was about 14.

Back in the early 80s, before video censorship happened, I used to scare myself just looking at the video covers at the shop; anything with the word "cannibal" in the title or any Friday 13th movie with Jason holding a machete dripping with blood at the front had quite an effect on my fragile little mind.
 
On the topic of "A Nightmare On Elm Street..."

I watched a documentary where Wes Craven talked about part of the inspiration for the original film. He read an article in the newspaper about an Indonesian man (living in America) who was having terrible nightmares, he told his family he was convinced he was going to die in his sleep.

And unfortunately he was correct, he did die in his sleep...
 
Tremors!

I used to be terrified of giant worms under the ground, but I watched it again the other day and it all just looked a bit silly. Still...I wouldn't like me to stuck in the middle of the desert with no big rocks around for protection!
 
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