My dads brother visited us one time - when I was around 7 years old - and they sent me to bed and watched a movie together on TV. I’m not sure where my mom was, perhaps taking care of my little brother, but I quietly went down the stairs and saw them watching the movie, and I stayed very quietly so they would not know I’m there.
It was a Bruce Lee movie, “The Big Boss (1971)”. In that movie Bruce works at a ice factory and his boss kills some people and puts them into the ice. That’s not the worst of it. They then have those big ice blocks and a big blade saw and that saw cuts the big blocks into smaller peaces. It also cuts those bodies in the ice blocks into smaller pieces.
I couldn’t believe what I saw and went back upstairs and couldn’t fall asleep. I never told my parents.
I watched Event Horizon when I was 10 not knowing it was an horror movie and I had recurring nightmares for weeks
Same. Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes.
Same but I was in my mid twenties.
The director’s cut would have been a classic for the ages.
I saw this in my 20s as well, somehow never having heard a thing about it. I thought it was gonna be a standard sci-fi movie. Boy was I surprised.
Also, I’ve heard about that lost footage that they filmed but never released. Shit sounds wild.
The brothers Grimm for me. I don’t see many people discussing it online, but I enjoyed it. That scene where the horse eats a kid is still distressing to me years later.
Watch a movie called Demon Wind when I was 9. Only scary movie that ever got to me and I had been watching them since I was 5. But for whatever reason that movie fuck me up that I had accident in bed.
Funny watch that movie as an adult and it so bad and corny but it disturb me at 9.
The Brave Little Toaster. I loved that movie cause what little kid doesn’t want to watch a bunch of singing appliances? It’s actually a really good movie but the themes about existential crisis and the need for purpose are way over a kids head. Also, the clown scene gave me nightmares.
The fucking magnet in the junkyard scared me so much
“I once ran the Indy 500. I must confess I’m impressed how I did it I wonder how close that I came.”
“WORTHLESS!!”
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The blanket was my favorite character
Chucky, and I was quite young maybe 6 or 8? I had nightmares about that fucking doll for years after.
Stephen King’s IT was broadcast on network TV during primetime. I remember being excited to gather around the TV to watch a movie and oooooh boy was not prepared. I don’t think my parents let me finish.
I remember hearing about IT from other kids, and them describing all these horrific things that happen. When I watched it as an adult I couldn’t believe how tame it was. Everything had been exaggerated, and some of it was probably being confused with things from other movies.
I was watching IT at my grandma’s and she just saw the clown at the beginning and thought it must be kids movie. But eventually my mum came home and stopped it (also my grandma got yelled at).
I finished it! Couldn’t take a shower without fear or let my feet stick out from the blankets for years. Definitely the one that scarred me most, likely because I was in 1st grade.
Lol I think we’re around the same age. Definitely too young for evil clown Tim Curry.
I’ve mentioned it elsewhere, but I saw Akira when I was four and my brother was three. Our dad picked it out because “animation is for children”.
I can’t remember much of it but it left me with a deep distate for body horror and nightmares for literal weeks.
I wasn’t that young, maybe 8 but that movie still fucked me up. The hospital scene with the stuffed animals coming alive and breaking apart was and is super scary.
Ninja Scroll for me, my dad let me rent it when I was very young and I was like “holy heck what is this”
Starship trooper when I was still in kindergarten. The only thing I remember from this movie is the scene where the bug drills a hole in the soldiers head to drink his brain. Don’t plan to watch this movie ever again in my life
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Shame. It’s a great film
I was a little older, like 3rd grade, but same. Nightmares about being overrun by bug hordes for months and months.
Look, it was the 80s/90s. We had one TV. My parents were not going to watch kid shit during their down time so we watched whatever they felt like watching. Thus, I have too many to list here.
But for context apparently Alien and Aliens made me squeaky and giggly/happy as a baby. To this day I sometimes have bizarrely detailed dreams with xenomorph subplots.
When I was roughly 10 years old I watched my next door neighbors’ parents’ home made hardcore sex tape. She had found it while snooping in her dads closet. So yeah, little old me (boy) and closest friend (girl) sitting on her parents bed watching a very graphic homemade porn.
Definitely shaped my sexual development…
I was chaperoning on a school bus full of kindergarteners. They started chatting about the scariest movies they had ever seen. Some of them were talking about Goosebumps and some were talking about stuff in the realm of ET. The one little boy in my group looked up to me and said that stuff for babies that’s nothing. I said oh yeah? What are you watch. He said I like Jason I like Freddy I like Michael Myers. I asked him which scenes that he thought were the best and he actually seemed to have watched it all. I said so what did you think of IT by Stephen King. His eyes got wide and he said no no no no no no no. We’re not going to talk about that.
Faces of Death, Faces of Death 2, Faces of Death 3, Faces of Death 4, Faces of Death 5 and Faces of Death 6
Oh god I’m glad those are erased from my brain after 30 years lol
Same
The Mummy. Terrified me. Which is hilarious because now I laugh at it, both because it is largely comedic but also it’s so corny.
The fucking bugs under the skin.
Nightmares for weeks.
The scene with the guy without eyes and a tongue is imprinted into my mind because I happened to look at the TV just as that happened. I don’t even remember how old I was, but definitely way under 10.
Kentucky fried movie
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Lol I honestly don’t remember anything at all from that movie, except boobs. I was in 2nd grade.
I saw it when I was in college. Not sure if I knew what breasts were for in second grade. I either feel jealous or sorry for you.
I am not sure which.
Catholic High School Girls in Trouble!
It was made by the folks behind Airplane and Hot Shots. The humor is very much unrefined though. It might be worth a rewatch now that you’re older.
Kind of like watching Shrek as an adult, you get the second set of jokes.
Haha maybe I’ll get around to it. You should probably feel nothing for my second grade self watching that movie, it didn’t have much of an impact on me other than thinking it’s funny I watched it.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The dipping scenes haunted me.
And Judge Doom struggling as the steam roller flattens him. Up to that point he was treated as a human character. Fists pounding on the roller, he pleads and screams as it slowly crushes him. The other humans turn away rather than witness the horror. I was 6.
BUT turns out, it’s all okay! He was a toon all along! So no worries that we watched his demise, right? He’s fine! You can tell because of the high pitched laughing and bizarre “flat” version of the Judge standing up and re-inflating himself until his human eyes pop out.
Roger Rabbit. You know, for kids.
We watched that when it came out on VHS I think. Definitely not a movie for a pair of 8/9 year olds.
Though the only saving grace is that we were too young to understand what was going on.
My parents told me that I could watch any movie in theatres for my 13th birthday. I didn’t know anything about it and picked The Devil’s Advocate. They took me, my older brother, and my two younger brothers.
On the way home they yelled at me for picking an inappropriate movie.
I never saw it, what makes the movie inappropriate?
Probably age related.
E.T. --specifically the scenes starting with the government showing up to take care of him while he’s dying. E.T. being lifeless in that clear body bag will never be removed from my mind.
That color… How pale he was. Mom used to buy frozen burritos at the time. I felt uncomfortable eating them for months…
E.T. is a funny one. It was the first movie I saw in a theater, as a smallish child on a school outing. And I was traumatized by it. That weird alien skin and eyes, those creepy bony fingers. As I remember, it literally gave me nightmares. But to this day I have never met anyone who didn’t find E.T. “cute” as a child. Possibly I was just too young.
Pan’s Labyrinth.
I’ve seen plenty of films but that one tops my list for ones that shouldn’t be watched by kids.
