cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/50792
For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
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I named my truck Artax because I’m gonna cry like a little bitch when it finally dies.
A Watership Down. Fucking trauma for years.
Man I was way too young to be ready for what I was seeing lol. But I did develop a love of horror so all good now!
Fire in the Sky Just no. I couldn’t even look at an image of a grey alien for years. Had to look away during the opening credits of X-files because they flashed an image of a grey. I got over it. I actually rewatched it during the pandemic lock-in. It holds up pretty well.
Oh wow, yeah Event Horizon is not a good movie to see in your youth haha. That’s intense!
For me, I didn’t get to see the whole movie, but I walked into the living room while my parents were watching Hostel and I saw the achilles tendon scene. That imagery still haunts me to this day. Grew up to love horror, though!
Actually not the OP just thought that this community needed some love. That said I do have a very distinct memory of having one of those two for one DVDs with Event Horizon on one side and some fairly tame solar flare-themed PG-13 disaster movie on the other side that I watched ALL the time. Definitely would’ve been a shock to go from the latter to the former but I don’t think I ever did.
Blair witch project. I really thought it was real founded footage
This was definitely not a horror movie, but I watched it as a very young kid, so even as an adult I don’t like this fucker.
Poltergeist. Fucked me up around static for the rest of my life.
Same here. Not seen it since!
I was a real scaredy cat as a kid, so for me Terminator and Jurassic Park were the ones I remember giving me nightmares that other people would know. Outside of that weirdly the movie “the edge” with its bear terrified me, I always imagined a bear could just rip through the wall of our home and grab me. Another weird one was The 13th Warrior, there was a particular scene in.a bloody cabin that really upset me, but I dont think the movie was really scary, I was probably just way too young to watch it
Raiders of the Lost Ark. 12 year old me had a great time with that movie until people startet to melt…
temple of doom for me. homie getting his heart ripped out
Stephen King’s IT. Technically a mini-series. But it messed me up for awhile, especially the blood on the shower wall scene.
John Carpenter’s The Thing. I wouldn’t go down to the basement by myself for like three months.
Still one of my favorite movies.
I was going to say the same thing! I was so surprised to see that exact movie as your choice lol. It’s a great movie.
Arachnophobia. I one of the ones that claims I acquired a minor version from the film. Took me years to get over it. Of dedicated effort, after I grew up. Even today a sudden sighting can sometimes get a squeak out of me though, annoyingly.
My cousins made me watch John Carpenter’s The Thing when I was eight years old. Assholes.
The movie Saturday the 14th also messed me up for a while, what with the Creature from the Black Lagoon getting into someone’s bathtub through the drain pipes. It may be silly dreck, but it was a bit much for a five year old.
I watched that movie when I was just a little older and wouldn’t go down to the basement by myself for a few months.
It’s now one of my favorite movies though, lol.
Fright Night (the 1985 one). I was 6. The idiot daughter of the woman babysitting me thought I was asleep on the couch, so she put it on.
I was not asleep.
