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What movie scene traumatized you the as a young child/teen?

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m
m
April 16, 2022 12:29 pm

Sesame Street “What goes up, must come down”

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
April 16, 2022 12:36 pm

It may be because I had never seen a horror movie before, but the original “The Blob” left me quite terrified with nightmares for years after seeing it. I remember being very bothered when I saw an older man sitting in front of me at a football game that had a huge port wine stain birthmark on the back of his neck. I think that I was around 6 or 7 when I saw the movie. Obviously went away and now it’s just a campy dated film I watch occasionally for fun.

My mom encouraged me to read The Exorcist when I was around 9 or 10 maybe. A disturbing book. When the movie came out I watched it on the earliest cable channel in Los Angeles, the Z Channel. Scared the shit out of me. Now I love watching it.

She also took me to see the Deer Hunter when I was 14. I guess that all says more about her than anything else. Have never watched that film a second time.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
  MrLiberty
April 16, 2022 1:17 pm

Both Russian Roulette scenes are hard to take but have not deterred me from watching it multiple times.

Wuzacon
Wuzacon
  lamont cranston
April 16, 2022 9:46 pm

That is the only scene I saw of that movie. Was definitely disturbing as a child.
Around that same time, my mom was talking with a Vietnam vet. He was talking about the horrors of war and eating brains or something while a captive. I passed out right off the ice cream bar stool I was sitting on.

But ultimately, my answer is the blender scene in Gremlins. I could not stay in the theater. One of my faves now, but not that day

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  MrLiberty
April 16, 2022 7:55 pm

Not a movie, but when I was 6 I saw “The Galaxy Being” on “The Outer Limits”
Terrified me for a few years. Not a few years later I saw “Night Of The Blood Beast” on Creature Features late Saturday night.
Dumbest movie ever but scared the shit out 9 year old me.

brian
brian
  Colorado Artist
April 17, 2022 12:07 pm

“The Galaxy Being” on “The Outer Limits”

Is that the one where the ‘alien’ was sucked in thru the tv signal??? That one freaked me green for a long time…

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  brian
April 17, 2022 6:14 pm

The vey same.

Michael Bojarski
Michael Bojarski
April 16, 2022 12:37 pm

I’m aging myself but Linda Blair in the Exorcist.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Michael Bojarski
April 16, 2022 12:46 pm

You’re not old, you are experienced. And frankly, everyone sees the movie for the first time at some point, even if it isn’t a new release.

charlotte corday
charlotte corday
April 16, 2022 12:38 pm

Darby O.Gill and the little people, terrifying.

Once a Marine.........
Once a Marine.........
  charlotte corday
April 16, 2022 8:25 pm

OMG, YES! I had nightmares for months and even into the years! I opened up the comment section thinking I wouldn’t even see it, but I did! God bless you and thanks.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  charlotte corday
April 16, 2022 9:09 pm

Vintage Sean Connery … 

Sack Jackington III
Sack Jackington III
  Anthony Aaron
April 16, 2022 10:14 pm

zardoz mankini cannot be unseen!

PorkChopSandwiches
PorkChopSandwiches
April 16, 2022 12:39 pm

2 scenes, the clown dragging the kid under the bed, and the guy ripping his own face off in the mirror from the original “Poltergeist”. I was 10 years old when I saw that on HBO.

Red River D
Red River D
  PorkChopSandwiches
April 16, 2022 12:45 pm

Incidentally: Those are Stephen Spielberg’s hands doing the face ripping. The model of the dude’s face was very expensive to build, so Spielberg wanted to get it right in one take — didn’t want any actor to screw it up!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 16, 2022 12:42 pm

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motley
motley
  Anonymous
April 16, 2022 1:05 pm

Darn! You beat me to the chest burster scene.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  motley
April 16, 2022 7:57 pm

None of the actors knew what was coming except for John Hurt so the fear on their faces was real.

Leah
Leah
  Anonymous
April 16, 2022 7:58 pm

The teacher showed Alien in Sci Fi class. All of the parents had to sign a permission slip for the kids to watch because it was rated R. No one wanted to be the one who freaked out when that scene happened, but you could tell some were really disturbed. One of the guys lightened the mood by asking if anyone wanted spaghetti for lunch.

THX1138
THX1138
April 16, 2022 12:43 pm

Military movies of atom bomb tests. As a child, I didn’t know they were fake, and I had nightmares. I know better now.

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https://steemit.com/nuclear/@not-the-bomb/the-nuclear-hoax-some-reasons-why-i-don-t-believe-nuclear-weapons-exist

Bombpart3
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MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  THX1138
April 16, 2022 12:48 pm

Fear and then compliance was the entire point of their exercise. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Melty
Melty
April 16, 2022 1:04 pm

When I was about 3 or 4, the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz made me break out crying and still remember it.

I must say that Hannibal the flick pretty much turned me off from gore movies. My daughter bought me the series with Christopher Walken in The Prophecy. I rewatched the 1st one and did not watch the rest. Too much shit that corrupts the mind

august
august
  Melty
April 16, 2022 7:15 pm

I’m a retired pathologist, and over the years have seen a metric tonne of death and gore. I have little appreciation for gratuitous gore in my entertainment.

Besides, the really scary stuff is when the film and it’s sound-track have been gradually building the suspense, right up to that final moment when….

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
April 16, 2022 1:11 pm

The Count in Sesame Street. Not kidding. I was mortified by that guy.

Oliver Closeoff
Oliver Closeoff
  Svarga Loka
April 16, 2022 2:29 pm

I never could stand to see Ms. Piggy when I was a kid. For some reason she scared the crap out of me.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Oliver Closeoff
April 16, 2022 4:28 pm

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman was a bit disturbing to me as a kid.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
April 16, 2022 1:15 pm

Kirk Douglas fighting the giant squid in “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”. Think I was 7 or 8. Every other year we’d take the train north and visit my mon’s sister in Rehobeth Beach. I wouldn’t go in more than waist deep until I was 12 or so.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
April 16, 2022 1:21 pm

Any horror movie is traumatizing to me. Can’t watch them. Especially those that can happen in real life. Too many psychos in the world.

The movie Seven with Brad Pitt particularly comes to mind. Didn’t think it would be scary. I so wish I never watched it!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Abigail Adams
April 16, 2022 4:56 pm

I’m well into middle age and I still won’t watch Seven again. I don’t even remember why. I only know that it so thoroughly scared the hell out of me that I’ll never watch it again.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Abigail Adams
April 16, 2022 9:13 pm

I just watched it last night … was surprised how distressing it was — and I’m a former Marine who’ll be 75 years old this June …

mileytheduchess
mileytheduchess
April 16, 2022 1:27 pm

Vincent Price in “The Last Man on Earth.” Zombie apocalypse in black and white. Authorities are collecting bodies and dumping them into a fiery pit. Vincent doesn’t want this for his dead wife, so he takes her body to a cemetery to give her a proper burial. That night, there is a clawing at the door, and a hoarse voice whispers, “Let me in.” He opens the door, and there is his wife covered in graveyard dirt.

I was babysitting while watching this, and at that point I quickly changed the channel to Johnny Carson.

Mr. Ed - Shifter of Shapes
Mr. Ed - Shifter of Shapes
April 16, 2022 1:32 pm

I don’t know the name of the movie, but it was a 1950’s(?) B horror movie on TV in the early nineteen sixties. In the movie there were nasty underground dwellers who could cause a hole in the ground to open beneath their victims feet. Once in the underground lair, the victims were subjected to an implant procedure where a long spinning needle was inserted slowly into the back of their head. If anyone knows the name of this movie, I would love to know it.

The 1957 movie Kronos ( on TV in the sixties) also scared the crap out of me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050610/

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos
  Mr. Ed - Shifter of Shapes
April 16, 2022 2:09 pm

Mr. Ed, it sounds to me like you’re referring to the original Invaders From Mars.

The awful 1986 remake features the long needle and such, along with Karen Black (sadly) and a “how did this bitch win an Oscar?” performance by Louise Fletcher, too. Avoid it and just watch the 1953 original again!

jer
jer
  Mr. Ed - Shifter of Shapes
April 16, 2022 8:39 pm

Yes, that was Invaders from Mars, also my scariest, most traumatic movie. but the scene that petrified me was when the little kid was walking along the white picket fence towards the sand pit. My brain was screaming “Stop, stop! Go back!” Other movies that scared me were Forbidden Planet when the monster was outlined with the electric force field, and the TV movie Fail Safe, when the the telephone started that high-pitched squeal to signal the nukes were starting.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Mr. Ed - Shifter of Shapes
April 16, 2022 9:14 pm

The Mole People … https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049516/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 (1956)

Scared me, too, when I saw it — at age 9 …

Mustang
Mustang
April 16, 2022 1:37 pm

Scanners

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos
  Mustang
April 16, 2022 2:22 pm

The guy who gets his head blown up! The highlight of the movie!

True story: Chris Walas (who later did “Gremlins”), who was working under the legendary Dick Smith (he of “The Exorcist” fame), said that in order to pull off that scene, it had to be done late at night and with a skeleton crew — because of the way they had to film it.

In order for the head to explode properly, according to Walas, after trying several different ways with ineffective squibs they decided it had to be a gunshot, preferably by a large-caliber rifle; unfortunately, shotguns were illegal in Canada then, but, where there’s a will…

So Walas built the fake head, stuffed it with gelatin and scraps of meat from a local butcher, and the rest is history.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 16, 2022 1:49 pm

Psycho

AKJohn
AKJohn
April 16, 2022 1:55 pm

Come on. Ol Yeller dying made you cry at least a few tears.

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos
April 16, 2022 2:01 pm

The scene in “The Gates of Hell” (aka “City of the Living Dead/ Paura nella città dei morti viventi”) when a girl literally pukes her guts out, then her boyfriend who is sitting next to her has the back of his head pulled off by a zombie in the back seat.

If that doesn’t sound horrible enough, there is a drill-through-the-head scene that looks utterly real, plus assorted zombie crunching and munching. And since it’s a Lucio Fulci film, the atmospheric visuals and disconnected story give the whole movie a nightmarish quality; seriously, if you don’t know about Fulci, you should, the man ought to have been one of the great Italian directors.

Had he not spoken publicly about his disdain of the Catholic Church, following arguably his Giallo masterpiece, “Don’t Torture a Duckling/ Non se sevizia un paperino,” in 1972 (the movie itself being a scathing dig at the Church), we would be speaking of him alongside Fellini, Antonioni and Argento now; unfortunately, for his audacity, the Church blacklisted Fulci for many years in Italy. It’s the reason why he had to be reduced to making low-budget gut-munchers just to keep making movies, like “City of the Living Dead” (and before that, “Zombie” [aka “Zombi 2”]).

Once again, the Church, so full of love and compassion, silenced a dissenter and ruined his career — same song, different verse.

TonyBaloney
TonyBaloney
April 16, 2022 2:02 pm

Flying monkeys scared the 💩 out of me. They still freak me out.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
April 16, 2022 2:08 pm

C-SPAN and CNN are the scariest things out today.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 16, 2022 2:29 pm

Lookin back, it was in reality a ‘made for TV movie’. The horror continues to this Day. Must have been 3rd grade. TV’s were wheeled into all the class rooms. Seem to recall it was before departure, but a brief surf of the net reveals mostly the arrival.

tricky dick nixon “establishing diplomatic relations” with china

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
April 16, 2022 6:50 pm

They showed a video in our grade school about bus safety. There were plenty of scenes that left enough to my young imagination, that I could imagine the continuation of each scene where a kid would get run over or maimed because they didn’t follow the rules when getting on, off or crossing in front of the bus. I had nightmares for a long time and walked way in front of the bus so I wouldn’t get run over.

Leah
Leah
April 16, 2022 2:34 pm

I was an infant who had my days and nights messed up. My dad used to rock me to sleep while watching horror movies. None of those types of scenes were or are traumatic, but each to their own. Creature Feature was must see on Saturday afternoons.

That said, when I was four years old or so, there was a scene of people trapped in an elevator and they were screaming and clawing to get out. Freaked me out. I stay away from elevators when I can and take the stairs. I work in a high rise now, and had to come to terms. I still won’t get on a jammed packed elevator to this day, though. Nope. One good thing is that elevators are still nowhere near capacity.

Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
April 16, 2022 3:21 pm

When Kowalski drives his Challenger into the 2 D-10’s at the end of Vanishing Point.

It’s been a 51 year nightmare for me. I have panic attacks every time I’m out driving and see any dozers near the road. I’ve got to pull over for fear of passing out from having trouble breathing. I’ll tell you this, whenever I have to enter one of those Contruction zones I damn near piss myself. My life is fucking awful bc of this. All bc Kowalski liked his coke.

Warren
Warren
April 16, 2022 3:23 pm

The Crying Game where the shemale walked out naked. I thought it was a movie about the IRA, turned out to be a Tranny grooming flock.

Rev6
Rev6
April 16, 2022 3:26 pm

I usually stay away from scary, horror, etc. but recently my husband had on a movie called “Unhinged” with Rusell Crowe in it – he really played the part of being unhinged, and I told my husband he had to find something else because I couldn’t watch it – or even listen to it….. I know it was a movie and acting and all but Crowe took it to another level. Now my son mimics it so it has become funny but still will never watch it or something like it ever…….other than that, the Twilight Zone with the guy on the wing of the airplane – never forgot that one.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
April 16, 2022 3:31 pm

Arachnophobia came out when I was 4 years old and of course my parents let me watch it because they’re assholes.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Stephanie Shepard
April 16, 2022 4:31 pm

Thumbs up because of the asshole comment.

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos
  MrLiberty
April 16, 2022 6:42 pm

Thumbs up because of the Thumbs Down some asshole gave you because of your Thumbs Up on Stephanie’s comment.

m
m
  Stephanie Shepard
April 16, 2022 6:40 pm

I probably traumatized my “step daughter” at age 10 when she watched Hunger Games with me (and her 12yo sister.)
She broke out in tears and just couldn’t understand how Peeta could attack and try to kill Katniss. I never thought that could be such a big deal, especially after adolescents had been killed left and right in the movie story already, but to her obviously Peeta was the most likable character.

I spent weeks afterwards to explain to her in little steps, that to some people you can lie so much that they lose touch with reality. That was like a totally theoretical exercise 6 years ago. Now I feel I may have (unintended) built some protection up in her for the crazy times we’re going through.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  m
April 16, 2022 7:00 pm

Hunger Games is not for elementary-aged kids. But you probably didn’t know better at the time. I hate that elementary school libraries have these books available (more graphic) for these young minds. Totally inappropriate for that age group. But…it’s all part of ruining their moral imagination.

Schools & teachers can’t use their brains anymore to discern what’s appropriate.

m
m
  Abigail Adams
April 16, 2022 7:22 pm

I can’t just apply the age groups today, as it was when I was young myself.
She had watched a few partially brutal films before (like Avatar) and had been okay. When her older sister wanted to watch the HG films, and she wanted too, I was paying close attention out of the corner of my eye at the first hunger games-tournament brutality scenes and again she seemed to be ok with those. Just when her hero turned dark side, it pulled the rug out from under her.

And morals… as funny as it may sound the Hunger Games films have some deeper morals in them. I especially loved the third film where the slimy character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman silently mouthes the words when District 13’s (woman) president gives a firebrand speech.
I asked the girls 1. “what is he doing?” then paused the film, 2. “how does he know the words?” and it slowly clicks “…because he wrote it [the speech]”, and then 3. “what does that mean for the sincerity of District 13’s president giving the speech?” “…it could be just acting, by her”

Often it is not the most graphic things that ruins.
Did for example, you grasp why The Incredibles 2 is a complete mindfuck, to children?

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  m
April 16, 2022 7:31 pm

“…as funny as it may sound the Hunger Games films have some deeper morals in them.”

Yes, I love the Hunger Games series. To me, I think they’re classics.

I was just saying that they’re too intense for young minds. Our culture, though, is too desensitized and adults think they’re ok for young kids. They’re absolutely not.

At least you paused & discussed with them. That’s good.

I’m very strict about the quality of literature & movies that go into young minds. Most disagree with me though.

Edit: I haven’t seen The Incredibles.

m
m
  Abigail Adams
April 16, 2022 7:40 pm

You can’t save the world single-handedly.
If you are the only one disallowing, but they can (sometimes) watch them at friends’ houses or so, you will come across as weird and you may lose a little of their trust. It takes a village… goes both ways (good and bad).

Incredibles 1 is totally fantastic.
Incredibles 2 is almost complete crap, and it would take me too long to explain the mindfuckery if you haven’t seen it.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  m
April 16, 2022 7:53 pm

m, dear, that is flawed thinking.

Have you ever heard the phrase “I’ve seen the village and I don’t want it raising my kids.”

You choose families & friends who match your values. Don’t compromise.

m
m
  Abigail Adams
April 16, 2022 7:55 pm

Well, why do you think I left the US?

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Abigail Adams
April 17, 2022 1:09 am

Wow, thank you, Archie. I appreciate that…and no need to apologize. 🙂

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Abigail Adams
April 17, 2022 5:34 am

I agree wholeheartedly. I would say Hunger Games is for 16 years and up. I remember that when the movies or books first came out, it was all the rage and our local library had a “Hunger Games” program for children where they would re-enact part of it and solve challenges and compete in games in the library. I sent the librarian an email saying that I found it deeply disturbing that they would reenact a dystopian story where the objective of children is to kill each other until only one is left. Somehow, nobody else other than me was concerned about it or thought it was disturbing (but then again, it seems like I am the only parent who finds the sight of 4 year olds with masks disturbing).

Harry Potter is only for 10-12 years and up, too, I think.

Yesterday, we visited a zoo and, unbeknownst to me, the wolf enclosure had a fresh dead goat lying in it for food on one of the busiest day of the year. Our daughter was so disturbed that she cried all afternoon and never wants to visit a zoo again, even though she has a keen awareness of the circle of life and that animals eat each other. Maybe not necessary to place the goat there on Easter Saturday, though.

Am I a lawnmower parent? Probably.

m
m
  Svarga Loka
April 17, 2022 10:13 am

I feel you missed the point of Hunger Games entirely. (Not that I’m assuming the librarian got it.)
It is to retain as much humanity as possible even in the ugliest of situations. And the kids understand that very well, at least subconsciously.

I had written before, how I -being raised entirely atheistic- at age 10 or 11 walked into a church for purely sightseeing reasons, and suddenly realized the person on the cross had nails through his wrists and ankles. (My first shocked thought was: whew, what crazy stuff is that religion thingy to make that one of their highest depictions.)
But you probably won’t demand no kid under 12 go into a church…

brian
brian
  m
April 17, 2022 12:50 pm

WAAATTT??? Theres a difference in men and womens psychology too??? This is to much… I’m still battling pronouns…

m
m
  m
April 17, 2022 6:18 pm

Very humorous, yes, your take.
Where do I even start in this pile of {redacted}.

You do understand the difference between “the point of the book/movie series” and “whatever it is you’re talking about regarding children’s minds”, I hope?

And do you not count yourself as a man, or how exactly are YOU entitled to argue that above way.

Plus we already have three opinions about what minimum age is OK for watching HG:
Is it “above elementary” (12+) as Abigail stated, or only 16+ as Svarga said, or ‘depends on the maturity of the kid’ as I did it –
or PG-13 as all parts are rated in the US? (Sweden&Denmark rating: 11+)
Who is right? Why?

And then there is the extremely deep philosophical question “do kids [at some point] even need to be a bit traumatized, under parental guidance?”
The many decades old [and good] Disney films seem to indicate yes!

So yeah, keep on arrogantly accusing others of arrogance – that will surely improve things.

willem
willem
April 16, 2022 3:49 pm

When I was around 9 years old, I took my 7-year-old sister to see “Blue Hawaii”. Unbeknown to us, a horror flick called “Mr. Sardonicus” was also shown afterwards as a double feature. This movie scared the daylights out of us both, and we didn’t want to turn off the bedroom light at night for weeks. I still remember his creepy skull-face smile.

Sardonicus and his folks were poor peasants, and his father bought an Irish sweepstakes ticket every year. Finally the big one came in. But unfortunately, the father had died some months before the drawing, and his winning ticket was in the pocket of the suit he was buried in. Sardonicus went to dig him up to get the ticket, and was so horrified by the decayed corpse that his face froze into this hideous rictus skull-grin that was truly creepy to behold.

Years later I watched it again as an adult, and laughed at how almost-boring it was. But as a small kid I was traumatized.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  willem
April 16, 2022 4:32 pm

It can all be about the setting and your frame of mind at the time. Pretty much how I explain my multi-year fear of the Blob when I was a kid.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
  willem
April 16, 2022 6:25 pm

“Blue Hawaii” is enough to scare anyone. Wasn’t Floyd The Barber in it as some kind of travel agent?

m
m
  willem
April 16, 2022 7:01 pm

Reminds me of a double feature I saw in cinema:
“Blues Brothers” followed by “The Thing”, the latter of which I had no idea what it was about.

Luckily I was old enough (16) to not get seriously traumatized by the latter.

Treefarmer
Treefarmer
April 16, 2022 3:58 pm

Nobody else for JAWS!? I don’t know that I was traumatized, but ever since I saw that movie as a kid I have half-expected something to nibble on my toes every time I go swimming, even in freshwater. In contrast, I found The Exorcist to be mildly amusing more than terrifying.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Treefarmer
April 16, 2022 4:38 pm

Lived at the beach my senior year of college. Amazing I made it out with a degree. I was in the water virtually every day. Plenty of dolphins in the area. No way your heart doesn’t skip a beat when you see the first dorsal fin cut through the water. They like to swim with the surfers and boogie boarders so sometimes the fin appears way too close by. Indeed, seeing Jaws, even many years prior, still amplified the fear such a moment produces. Wise or not, once you realize that it’s just a dolphin or several, the fear definitely subsides quickly.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
  MrLiberty
April 16, 2022 6:25 pm

“Jaws” comes out. Myrtle Beach saw a 75% cancellation rate on reservations.

Stucky
Stucky
  Treefarmer
April 16, 2022 7:30 pm

Oh, yeah, forgot about THAT one. Being totally completely honest …. that movie changed my ocean swimming habits FOREVER, even to this day. I used to go all the way out to the buoy and beyond (with a life raft). Today? 20- 30 feet tops.

kc
kc
  Treefarmer
April 16, 2022 9:58 pm

I was going to say JAWS >>>> 8 years old in a theater … OMG never sat in a bath tub till i was about 12 … there was a shark coming up that drain I swear to this day ……

Walt
Walt
April 16, 2022 4:37 pm

In my gradeschool years, a stupid B-movie called ‘The Blue Rose’ (I think MST3K reviewed it), and the first close-up video of an Egyptian mummy. Later on, it was Jaws. Even the deep end of the pool was suspect!

Twat Waffle
Twat Waffle
April 16, 2022 4:39 pm

The Amityville Horror

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
April 16, 2022 4:52 pm

Jack Ruby gunning down Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. The truth died that day.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
April 16, 2022 4:58 pm

In the Summer of 1969 my parents loved to go to the drive in movie on route 130 in Windsor, NJ on Saturday night. First we’d stop and get something to eat at Stewart’s Root Beer and then it was usually a triple feature, something kid friendly early, horror movie in the middle, and then something for the adults after the kids fell asleep in the back seat. The second movie was a black and white film made in Pennsylvania called Night of the Living Dead. The whole thing had me on the edge of my seat, but the scene where the little girl killed her father with the trowel in the basement was over the top, even for horror movies of that time.

I remember my camp counsellor (named Roger) looked just like the main character’s brother Roger. I tried to avoid him after that. I watched it again not long ago and it is really dated and pretty amateurish looking, but as a kid it really scared the hell out of me.

Jeff
Jeff
April 16, 2022 5:09 pm

Forbidden Planet – 1956 with Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielson and Anne Francis. An amazing special effects movie before any computers. Robbie the Robot! I was 9. My grandparents (who of course were all dressed up in those days.) took me about 25 miles to a major city – dinner and a movie. The Id was an invisible “mental” construct of the “evil” Dr. Morbius. The Id attacked the rescue spaceship from the earth. As it attacked there were “energy beams” shot from the ship and hand-held weapons that outlined the monster with electricity-like beams. This absolutely horrifying music was SCARY as it was the first ever electronic music in a movie. I hid under the seat and covered my ears.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 16, 2022 5:10 pm

I didn’t need movies to traumatize me. I grew up along the rivers of South America. Take a look at the television show River Monsters. I was well into my thirties before the nightmares went away.

august
august
  Anonymous
April 16, 2022 7:28 pm

Thanks to Pablo Escobar, hippopotami are slowly, inexorably taking over the rivers of their new continent!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamuses_in_Colombia

Runningdog
Runningdog
April 16, 2022 5:11 pm

The 1975 first movie Jaws. Have not swam in the ocean since.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 16, 2022 5:42 pm

The Shining all of it lol…

Undeniable
Undeniable
April 16, 2022 6:00 pm

Hands down way too freaky for three junior high kids. PG my ass. The end of the trailer said:

When you race with the devil, you better be faster than hell.

And it was a long run home from the theater to my friend’s house in the dark that night. Just viewing the YouTube vid again still gives me the creeps.

Lee Harvey Griswald
Lee Harvey Griswald
April 16, 2022 6:05 pm

There was a Brit made B&W movie… Children of theDamned, or similar where the kids had weird powers & made some guy jump onto a wrought iron fence where he landed flat & the barbs were sticking out of his chest. Saw that at a Saturday matinee with my buddy from 2nd grade.

Also a few years earlier, the Twilight Zone with Wm. Shatner on the plane when he opened the curtains & the gremlin’s face was in the window. I might have been 5, watching it with my dad. Scared the shit outta me.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 16, 2022 6:45 pm

No Wire Hangers, Mommy Dearest

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Anonymous
April 16, 2022 6:59 pm

I feel like maybe there’s a back story to that…but likely better left alone.

Alan Benway
Alan Benway
April 16, 2022 6:52 pm

The shooting of Old Yeller at the end of the movie (the first movie I saw). Extremely sad. Next movie I saw was “The Shaggy Dog”. Much better ending.

BL
BL
April 16, 2022 6:53 pm

Gort the giant silver bot that could destroy the entire world in “The Day the Earth Stood Still”(1951). Now we have billionaire asshole elites to do the job.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  BL
April 16, 2022 6:58 pm

Who says those folks aren’t actually from another planet?

BL
BL
  MrLiberty
April 16, 2022 7:16 pm

Liberty- I’m pretty sure most of them are from another plane of existence.

Stucky
Stucky
April 16, 2022 7:13 pm

Bambi getting offed. Really.

AKJohn
AKJohn
April 16, 2022 7:20 pm

Talking Tina was a twilight zone. My name is talking Tina and I’m going to kill you. Probably the first film with the possessed doll theme.

Stucky
Stucky
April 16, 2022 7:21 pm

I was about 8 years old when my parents took me to NYC to see a German movie about WWII. Not 100% sure of the title but I think it was something like Die Lezte Brucke (The Last Bridge). “Bridge” was definitely in the title.

Anyway, a lot of Germans got blown away. WTF? Maybe my parents were trying to teach me about the horrors of war. At any rate I was BAWLING my eyes out after the movie, and walking towards the Port Authority building, and even on the bus ride home. People were staring at me / us. I think dad told me to just shut the fuck up. But, I was inconsolable.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Stucky
April 17, 2022 6:20 am

Must have been Die letzte Bruecke.

I find that one of the most important tasks as a parent is not IF to introduce certain topics into our children´s consciousness but rather WHEN. When are they ready for it? It is different for each child.

Right now, our children know that there was a big war in Germany when Grandpa was little, and that the main fault was with the populace who believed the lies of politicians. That it is no different now and that that is the most important tasks for adults: discern truth from lies.

They do not know the details of the cruelty of war and the stories of the Holocaust.

Frankly, I am not sure how I will approach that, because I don´t know the truth about the Holocaust either. It is like astronomy. Should I remove all of the childrens´ books from our shelves that talk about the moon landing, because I know that it is a lie? How does one “teach” a subject if you know that the mainstream narrative is at least partially (or wholly) falsified. Is it best to just ignore the whole topic and have them find their own sources later? I am not sure.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 16, 2022 7:33 pm

It was seeing Kathy Bates naked. Can’t remember the movie as it was so traumatizing.

Stucky
Stucky
  Anonymous
April 16, 2022 7:40 pm

“There are two movies in which Kathy Bates appears nude. The first movie was back in 1991 just after her best actress Oscar win for “Misery”. That film is “At play in the fields of the lord”. The second movie is “About Schmidt”, in which she earned her third Oscar nomination, best supporting actress.:

Stucky
Stucky
  Stucky
April 16, 2022 7:45 pm

Here ya go!!!

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Stucky
Stucky
  Stucky
April 17, 2022 10:59 am

Kathy Bates’ titties got 2 down votes?? I’m trying to provide a service here!! What the hell is wrong with you people?

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Stucky
April 17, 2022 11:01 am

I bet it was Abigail with the downvotes 😉

Was this photo the result of your last google search. The one with the hoo hoos?

Stucky
Stucky
April 16, 2022 7:35 pm

This movie didn’t scare me …. and it’s not the question of the day …. but the GROSSEST MOST DISGUSTING movie I ever saw (was an adult) had to do with a bunch of people on their hands and knees and the people had their lips sewn to the asses of the person in front of them. Absolutely. Sickening. Not sure what the name was. “Caterpillar”maybe?

Ginger
Ginger
  Stucky
April 16, 2022 8:12 pm

Yep, that is the one. Even made a sequel, though once was enough.

Jimbo
Jimbo
  Stucky
April 16, 2022 9:57 pm

The Human Cetapede. One f*d up movie.

The Boogie Man
The Boogie Man
April 16, 2022 7:47 pm

“Easy Rider” and “The Graduate” kind of screwed me up for a minute

roadgeek
roadgeek
April 16, 2022 9:49 pm

The chest-burster scene in “Alien”. I was 15 years old, and seeing the movie in a theater. The Alien made his appearance, and I was so startled and frightened that I grabbed my father and tried to climb into his lap. Scary. The theatre broke into pandemonium during that scene. It was terrifying.

Jimbo
Jimbo
April 16, 2022 9:52 pm

The ending scene of “Threads” still gives me nightmares after nearly 40 years. Most disturbing movie ever made.

kc
kc
April 16, 2022 10:04 pm

way back a “B” rated movie… called tales of the crypt … the 1973 original…

1 scene where a guy had to run down a hallway with razor blades that were stuck out of the sides of the walls… while being chased by hungry dogs…. that 1 picture freaked my ass out .. I was about 7-8 years old…. my older aunt (by 8 years) used to love scaring the shit out of my young childhood…. snuck me into all the freaky crap she could….

warped I know….

Blinsto
Blinsto
April 16, 2022 10:40 pm

The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang