My dad used to watch horror movies when he was supposed to be watching me, then fall asleep the couch with the movies still going. I don’t watch horror movies at all as an adult, I can’t handle them, but here’s a list of the ones I can remember that I got exposed to while dad was sleeping:
Scanners
Cat’s Eye
The Thing
Any old Twighlight Zone episode
The Lost Boys
Gremlins
Whatever show that was with Elvira
There was some show with a talking skeleton at the beginning all the time, I forget what it’s called
Needless to say, ANY horror movie scares me, and i avoid them all, even the “funny” ones
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Holy shit you saw The Thing as a kid!? That’s hardcore. I got nightmares when I watched it as an adult.
The talking skeleton show was “Tales From the Crypt.”
The skellyboi was the crypt keeper.
The banshee from Darby O’Gill and the Little People still creeps me out!
Ghost where the demons drag the bad guy to hell. I must have been 6 or 7.
Pet Sematary. The scene with the diseased old lady was the worst.
Braindead/splatter. Guy kills his zombie mother with a lawnmower I think.
Pumpkinhead. Actually kinda sad but still fucked up.
I had an 5 yrs older brother who would force me to watch scary movies.
That scene in Ghost messed me up.
I think its mostly the sound, for me. The sound of the fast climbing things in Half Life 2 equally terrifying.
Not me. My best friend growing up.
Child’s Play came out when we were around 5. My friends parents rented it and planned on watching it after putting him to bed even though he wanted to see the movie (and of course theu told him he was too little). They started watching it and his dad noticed my friend had snuck back down and was watching the TV from the stairs.
Well his parents decided to act like they didn’t notice and left him there to watch the whole movie.
The next day while my friend was at school his parents went out, bought a my buddy doll, and left it sitting up on his bed waiting for him. He had nightmares a good while after that one. Lol
I’ve been meaning to rewatch Watership Down for the last twenty years but have still not managed to deal with the trauma from forty years ago.
Fuck that movie, fuck the book. Just everything about it is traumatizing.
i wonder how much of the Empathy for Cute Animals but Not Humans effect is due to not many people having bad experiences with cute animals but plenty of bad experiences with humans
I, however, have the unique privilege of having had a sister who owned a deranged rabbit that she let roam the house. I once woke up from a nap to it biting me hard enough to draw blood. That thing was a furry asshole.
What little unrepressed memories of Watership Down I have seem to corroborate that rabbits are surprisingly violent…
Coraline. I can watch breakdowns of that movie on YouTube, and even watched a several hour long breakdown of the Beldam and the entire story, but I still can’t watch the movie itself
I see you man they forced us to watch it when I was 5 or 6 at school, since it lasted longer than an hour I have never seen the end … I had nightmares for years I still can’t see that movie I’m 21 and I fear nothing except that ducking movie …
Now that I think about it, they read us Where The Red Fern Grows in 5th grade when I was 11, and the next year they had us watch it
We were barely teenagers and they hit us with that
Yeah that was pure sadism lol
The first Alien movie. It came on tv once and my dad was all into it. That took years to get over.
Monster house. I vividly remember watching part of it in a best buy when i was younger. I had nightmares that my house was gonna eat me. Ive gotten over houses eating me, but the art style is still rather creepy.
The Wizard of Oz, those monkeys scared the shit out of me. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the child catcher, was so creepy that he gave me nightmares. And the show Sliders was not at all appropriate, I just remember creepy cannibal sewer people that kept me from sleeping well for months.
Wizard of Oz is definitely more scary than most adults realize when they show it to kids.
So when it was a little too young, I slept in the same room with my grandmother during the summer and she would like to watch TV very late at night, even while she slept. Because of that, i would sometimes happen to come across some of the more mature movies that they would be airing. This is a little too specific, but one night they were airing Superhero Movie 2008. I don’t remember if I was paying attention or not, but when my grandmother put the channel with this movie on, it was around the funeral scene.
Yeahhhh my young ass was traumatized. Necrophilia is a no no.
Tales from the Crypt when I was ten years old .
This was I think 1972. There was a scene where a dead guy came back to life in his coffin due to his wife’s third wish, for him to live forever.
Unfortunately he had been embalmed in formaldehyde and would live in agony forever .
My father was a manic depressive alcoholic who refused to take his lithium. Maybe not the best person to get popcorn with.
You just changed my whole perception of time lol. I was like, “Tales from the Crypt didn’t start until the 80s though.” I had no idea there was a movie in the 70s (and a comic series before that.) I only knew the iconic HBO Cryptkeeper
Me too! I only knew it from the 80’s. Had to read OPs comment 3 times.
you didnt know it was a comic? All the episodes would say something like originally presented in The Haunt of Fear or something to that effect if I’m remembering correctly
I was too young to understand what something like “originally presented in” meant lol
Aliens. It wasn’t the movie itself, it was the TV adverts for it. A two-second shot of a door buckling as something pounded against it from the other side. I was exactly the right age to be shocked by the thought that you can’t shut the monsters out with just a closed door.
Duel at Diablo. That guy roasting over the fire…
C.H.U.D.
Early 80s b-grade movie. Absolutely laughable from a modern cinematic perspective, but I haven’t touched it in over a third of a century due to how it scared the fark out of young-teenaged me. I have also taken a disliking to horror movies (in general) for that same reason.
