Movies that use to scare you as a kid [Archive]

johnniehardrock

12-01-2007, 04:58 PM

I was just watching the classic The White Buffalo that came out in 1977. When it came out I was 5 and I was scared shitless of the buffalo. I am looking at it now and it is funny how horible it is and was thinking how could I have been scared of it. Anybody else have a movie like that.

furie

12-01-2007, 05:00 PM

I was just watching the classic The White Buffalo that came out in 1977. When it came out I was 5 and I was scared shitless of the buffalo. I am looking at it now and it is funny how horible it is and was thinking how could I have been scared of it. Anybody else have a movie like that.

i never heard of "The White Buffalo" what's it about?
Jaws, The Fog, and Night of the living dead did a number on me as a kid.

chubbyknuckles

12-01-2007, 05:02 PM

I saw "Henry, portrait of a serial killer" when i was 12, it was the scariest thing i've ever scene to this day, because that shit happens in real life. That film still gets me sick in certain scenes just thinking about it.

TheGameHHH

12-01-2007, 05:02 PM

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Alice S. Fuzzybutt

12-01-2007, 05:06 PM

The Amityville Horror. I saw it in the theater with my dad and had to sleep with the lights on for weeks.

Jaws. Again, had to sleep with the lights on (I wasn't a particularly bright child).

The Horror at 37,000 Feet.

tele7

12-01-2007, 05:07 PM

Trilogy Of Terror

johnniehardrock

12-01-2007, 05:12 PM

Plot summary for
The White Buffalo (1977)

In this strange western version of JAWS, Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Bronson) hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.

patsopinion

12-01-2007, 05:15 PM

robo cop-the one with red forman when they rip his arms and legs off
i was like 7

PapaBear

12-01-2007, 05:16 PM

Jaws. Again, had to sleep with the lights on (I wasn't a particularly bright child).

I actually saw Jaws the day before we left for the beach!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/snowmaninva66/142.jpg

MellySmelly

12-01-2007, 05:18 PM

Salems Lot, the scene where the kid was floating outside his brothers window trying to get in freaked me out. I saw that guy outside my window at night for about 10 years.

Dan G

12-01-2007, 05:23 PM

The Fog and a made-for-TV movie that aired in 1982 called 'Don't go to Sleep'.

johnniehardrock

12-01-2007, 05:28 PM

Is on right now on Cablevision Channel 777

mikeyboy

12-01-2007, 05:58 PM

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory scared the crap out of me when I was 5.

Ritalin

12-01-2007, 06:04 PM

Trilogy Of Terror

Bingo

Fallon

12-01-2007, 06:08 PM

Ok, ok, ok, it's not a movie, but this used to scare the shit out of me for some reason when I was a kid. My sister even brought it up to me today, which is odd.

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lleeder

12-01-2007, 06:14 PM

Day of the rope is coming!!!!

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Judge Smails

12-01-2007, 06:22 PM

Apparently, my parents REALLY wanted to see The Exorcist when it came out. Being the doting and loving parents that they are, they didn't trust anyone enough to leave me with while they went. So, they took me with them. I was about four or five at the time. I have vague memories of being so freaked out that at some point I went out to the lobby where I sat by myself and ate my popcorn while listening to the screams coming from the theater. My parents stayed inside until the movie was over.

I've since read the book, but I've never seen the entire uncut version of the film again. I also have never let my parents forget that little fiasco and am sure to bring it up anytime they express an opinion or objection to the way that I'm bringing up my kids.

sr71blackbird

12-01-2007, 06:32 PM

When I was a kid and saw the Wizard of Oz, the tornado scene scared the shit out of me.

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patsopinion

12-01-2007, 06:46 PM

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory scared the crap out of me when I was 5.

midgets, pedophiles, a fucking creepy ass family and kids blowing up and being permanently maimed by candy

totally reasonable

my problem with that movie was why didnt he sell second half of the ticket (bring someone with you part of the ticket)

cougarjake13

12-01-2007, 06:50 PM

the first few freddy's scared the shit out of me

i was always looking in the closet and under the bed, with lights on, before i went to sleep to make sure he wasnt there

and sometimes i'd throw clothes on a chair and go to sleep and in the middle of te night id wake up and look over and it would look like he was sitting there

PapaBear

12-01-2007, 06:53 PM

It's weird. I have a really good memory, but I can't think of a single movie that scared me. I know there were some. I just can't remember what did.

chubbyknuckles

12-01-2007, 07:41 PM

My avatar pic is from a movie called FREAKS, it came out years ago in like the 40's i think, and it used to scare the crap outta me because it was made with real freaks, guys with no arms, conjoined twins, dwarves, people with disfigurements, i can watch it now, because i've learned to laugh at those less fortunate than me.

Alice S. Fuzzybutt

12-01-2007, 07:43 PM

I actually saw Jaws the day before we left for the beach!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/snowmaninva66/142.jpg

An adorable young PapaBear!

I was afraid of pools after Jaws.

TheMojoPin

12-01-2007, 09:59 PM

Avoiding the obvious intentionally "scary movies" that freaed me out as akid, there were three "regular" movies that really freaked me out. The freaky demon ghost librarian in Ghostbusters...I think I was like 4 or 5 for that...Judge Doom at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? when I was 8...and, most weirdly of all, Doc getting "shot" in the first Back to the Future. I was 5 or 6 when that came out, and I saw it in the theaers with my family. When Doc was about to get shot by the terrorists the first time around, my mom covered my eyes so I couldn't see what happened. My mom had never done that before or since, so in my kid brain I assumed she spared me from seeing something truly horrible that would have destroyed my mind. Nevermind I could hear the gunfire and she let me see him get shot again at the end of the flick...I was just extra stupid. But because of what she did, I refused to watch that part of the movie until I was probably 11.

Thanks, mom.

TheMojoPin

12-01-2007, 10:00 PM

An adorable young PapaBear!

I was afraid of pools after Jaws.

Me too, but only when I was finally going for the ladder or the side to get out. All of a sudden I'd remember the movie and think the shark was zooming up behind me and I'd have like a mini-panic attack trying to launch myself out of the pool.

PapaBear

12-01-2007, 10:03 PM

One of the only things that freaks me out about my age is threads like this. People are talking about movies that they saw when they were kids... And I was already as old as some of the people on this board.:wallbash:

WampusCrandle

12-01-2007, 11:08 PM

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade scared me so bad that it actually made me throw up on my mom. . . . what a disgrace. the part where nazi business man drinks from the wrong jesus cup and rapidly deforms into a dust freaked me out. i laugh now . . . at my 7 year old self.

Chris from TX

12-02-2007, 12:14 AM

Poltergeist 3 with all those mirrors. Especially that scene with the puddle in the parking garage.

And the library scene in Ghostbusters.

StupidGirlllll

12-02-2007, 03:03 AM

Don't be afraid of the Dark...with the little people living under the stairs that always scared me.
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sr71blackbird

12-02-2007, 04:40 AM

ToLEEdo

12-02-2007, 07:02 AM

I just told my girlfriend about this one. My dad had to take me out of the movie theatre in Beauty and the Beast when Beast was being attacked by the dogs.

DiabloSammich

12-02-2007, 09:26 AM

My avatar pic is from a movie called FREAKS, it came out years ago in like the 40's i think, and it used to scare the crap outta me because it was made with real freaks, guys with no arms, conjoined twins, dwarves, people with disfigurements, i can watch it now, because i've learned to laugh at those less fortunate than me.

For some ungodly reason my 5th grade science teacher thought it would be a good idea to show this movie to our class. It freaked us all out, and I think he has since done time for touching a minor. What a mess.

Charles Bronson

12-02-2007, 10:02 AM

little monsters. i was horrified that something might be living under my bed.

Fezticle98

12-02-2007, 10:27 AM

Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure and the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz.

There was some movie from the late '70s or early '80s that was about some young kid and some frogs. I thought it was "Frogs", but I looked it up and that was clearly not it. I think the kid's name was David. Scared the shit out of me.

Doogie

12-02-2007, 12:13 PM

riverofpiss

12-02-2007, 08:06 PM

I watched a movie on my grandparents sattelite that was about this family that goes camping in the desert. They end up getting stalked by these indian warriors who kill them and scalp them. It scared the shit out of me at the time and I can still picture the death scenes of that movie quite clearly even though I only watched it the one time. I wish I knew the name so I could watch it again to see if it really was scary.

I was probably 12 the first time I watched Stephen King's It and I was really freaked out by that movie until the end when the stupid giant spider ruins the whole thing.

Chigworthy

12-02-2007, 08:14 PM

There was something creepy about House, and I think even House II. When he looked through the medicine cabinet and it was just black void, it disturbed me. Those puppet creeps were pretty frightening in a clown kind of way. The movie was also funny, too.

FUNKMAN

12-02-2007, 08:46 PM

not really a kid, i was 21 - the scene in scarface when tony and his friend get taken into the hotel bathroom and they chainsaw his friend...

as a kid there was a movie where these little creatures came from the grate in the basement and in the end they dragged this lady down the grate. they came out in the dark and as they dragged her she grabbed a camera to use the flash but it only delayed her doom. minutes later the husband came walking into the house and I got so pissed he didn't get there earlier and start dropkicking the little fuckers...

edit: found it

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Don't_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_VHS.jpg/200px-Don't_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_VHS.jpg

Chigworthy

12-02-2007, 09:01 PM

edit: found it

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Don't_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_VHS.jpg/200px-Don't_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_VHS.jpg

This sounds very familiar, almost like Deja Vu.

Slumbag

12-02-2007, 09:31 PM

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade scared me so bad that it actually made me throw up on my mom. . . . what a disgrace. the part where nazi business man drinks from the wrong jesus cup and rapidly deforms into a dust freaked me out. i laugh now . . . at my 7 year old self.

I had one close. I was flipped out during Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, when he has to crawl through tunnel thing with all the bugs crawling around. That and Freddy Krueger. Just the picture, not even the film. Used to scare the shit out of me.

WhistlePig

12-03-2007, 07:16 PM

Definitely Trilogy of Terror and

http://members.tripod.com/webzapper/truckfront.jpg

the movie Duel. Trucks scared the shit out of me. Even the Speed Racer mammoth car episode.

PapaBear

12-03-2007, 07:18 PM

Now that I think of it, there is one. Killdozer made me afraid of bulldozers.
http://www.bijoucafe.com/goods/Killdozer_DVD.jpg