Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
We’ll it doesn’t haunt me but looking back it was RoboCop. That movie is a bit much for a 6 year old to watch.
greatest movie though
Akira. My father rented it for my brother and me because “animated movie is for kids”. I was 4, and my brother was 3.
Watership Down
My parents thought it was a nice cartoon about rabbits I guess. Weirdly, My nightmares where mostly about the intro with the special art style, mostly…
Oh it’s a nice cartoon about rabbits, very child-friendly! The fact that the Wikipedia article has a section called “Effects on children and BBFC classification” that opens with
Watership Down has developed a reputation as a distressing children’s text, with Ed Power of The Independent describing the film in a 40th anniversary retrospective as a “classic” but which “arguably traumatised an entire generation”.
sums it up pretty well!
They showed us that in primary school, i loved the book as a kid but that cartoon was gory.
When I was about 5-6 I had fever and couldn’t sleep. I lived in a apartment complex and my mom had the neighbour from the next apartment over for coffee so I was sitting in the neighbours apartment while they had the doors open into the hall. Well, there I was, sitting alone in the dark, watching some sappy teens have a heart to heart while suddenly the earth opens under one of them and it gets brutally eaten the fuck alive while the other one screams in panic and tries to rescue it. Had some unforgettable nightmares that night.
Fucking Tremors man.
This movie for me too. The scene I most remember was a dude talking to another dude through a window. The camera is facing out the window. Then the outside dudes face changes and the camera switches to outside and his whole lower half had been eaten
Was scared of sleeping on the ground for years incase I got swallowed
Oh oh oh I know this one!
Glory! The civil war film! There’s a scene where a union soldier takes a cannon ball to the head and it explodes in a gory mess. It was during a tour to Gettysburg, and I threw up on the bus after seeing it. Then they brilliantly played the Mel Gibson Patriot movie where a revolutionary also takes a cannon ball to the head, only this time it removes the head in slow motion and more detaches it than blows it to head smoothie
I remember watching the first one in school. That image of the cannon ball to the head was very shocking and it’s practically all I remember about the film.
I was going to ask you what school you went to where they were allowed to show that, but then I remembered my private christian middle school took us all to see the Passion of the Christ at the movie theater for a fucking field trip 😂
It was a public middle school, would you believe! I remember we had to have a permission slip to watch the movie, at least. I had a great time at that school.
This reminds me of a time when I was on a bus in Honduras with the entire back third occupied by Nuns, the bus driver put on the action thriller Officer Downe where the scene kicks off with machine gun welding Nuns battling it out in extreme graphic action and gore… Pretty crazy irony.
same!
Event Horizon.
I know it gets a bad rap, but it is a cult classic in my book. The most perfect symmetry of science fiction and body horror since Alien(s). Add on top of that a fantastic cast, a mildly campy vibe, and it somehow manages to hold up well even today in my opinion. Even though it scared the fuck out of me as a kid, I have a weird nostalgia for it now.
All of the issues with Event Horizon are because of the studio screwing up the story. And the footage of the good version of the movie was lost on the cutting room floor, so we’ll never see it.
Its such a good premise and so well executed that its still good despite its story & pacing issues. One of the best moments of my life was showing it to my Warhammer 40k loving friend for the first time. It blew his mind.
Event Horizon is an awesome movie.
There was so much I never knew about the production of the movie until the guys at Red Letter Media did a Re:View about it. I was kinda bummed that Mike and Jay didn’t like the movie, but it was cool to learn the history, warts and all.
I keep holding out hope that someday it might be remade or perhaps there could be a sequel from a competent team that enjoyed the first movie. I am generally against remake or reboot culture, but Event Horizon just always seemed like a perfect candidate for it to me.
Knew this one would be on the list. Factor in watching solo in the middle of the night and you have the recipe for staying up until morning.
Missed it as a kid, but our local cinema put it on the big screen a few months back. Can absolutely see why it’s a cult classic!
American History X. I wasn’t ready for the curb scene.
As an adult I wasn’t ready for the curb scene! Poop, now I’m thinking about it.
It’s just so intense and realistic. I’ve learned to cope with splatter, but this is personal and cruel.
So true! And it’s something that I had never thought of before seeing the movie.
same! but i was not really a kid
The movie that actually fucked me up for a bit as a kid was some black and white movie about spiders that took over a small town. I don’t remember a single thing about the movie, other than crates/the town absolutely covered in webs and people getting wrapped up like bugs.
Was it one big spider? If so there are several.
If it wasn’t in black and white there’s a few other options
I don’t recall if there was a massive spider, but I checked out that trailer and it didn’t look super familiar. Pretty sure it was in black and white, but I could be wrong. I just have a vivid memory of the crates covered in spiders/webs, and it may have been the crate that brought the spider there. Also people wrapped up in cocoons ready to be eaten/already drained.
Could it be Eight Legged Freaks? It’s not black and white but most of the action does take place at night. Giant spiders taking over a small American town, stuff covered in webs, and people in cocoons being eaten/drained.
Pretty sure 8 legged freaks is too new to be the movie I’m thinking of, it probably wouldn’t have been on ota TV in the late 90s/early 00s.
“Tarantula” and “Earth vs the Spider” come to mind, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen them. Both have the small-town thing going for them, if I’m remembering correctly!
Both of mine I later learned are comedy/satire:
Starship Troopers and Mars Attacks.
The sheer gore from Starship Troopers made me ill.
The Martian design was freaky and I wasn’t a fan of the instant death lasers. It had me thinking aliens could come down one day and we’d have no chance against them.
Ack! Ack ack ack! Ack?
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Stand By Me - The scene with the leaches. As a kid in a small country town with nothing to do on weekends but run around and swim in the local creek, I was so scared to ever do that again.
same!!
The ring
Yeah, I saw the western version age… 12? Intrusive thoughts for weeks. Dude electrocuting himself in a bathtub was what did it for me for some reason
The Ring, age 8 or 9, did me in as well. The bathtub scene is also the one that messed with my head the most.
Western is like 1/20th of quality. Japanese is so so so much more on point. It’s relentless and keeps on coming. It’s not treating you as if you are watching a movie. American version has flashbacks, switching shots to different characters only for them to react. It’s made like a movie. Japanese version is made like you are going to die in 7 days.
Bambi (seriously)
Bambi fucked everyone up at that age.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space. That was one creepy fucking movie.
My wife’s cousin has been terrified of clowns since he was 5 because of this movie.
I actually love it, it’s pretty great :)
I knew someone else was traumatized by KCFOS.
The Shining.
I remember asking dad “what’s wrong with that man (Jack Nicholson)?” and he told me that he had spiders in his brain. That was also really weird.
This one is mine too. Specifically the lady in the tub scene.
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I still dislike clowns to this day.
Add another one of us to the list of, fuck clowns because of this movie.
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