re: What movie(s) traumatized you as a child.

Race with the Devil. I had nightmares for years.

Don't know the names... but these wigged me out.

A movie where a chick looks through some binoculars and nails shoot out and pierce her eyes.

A movie with some magician who had this strange giant machine that cut heads off so he could wear the face.

A movie where the bad guy used tiny doll like midgets who would sneak in at night and stab people with long slender knives.

Frankenstein vs Dracula grossed me out when Dracula ripped Frankenstein apart. I also remember a circus midget falling and landing head first on an axe.

The Lost Continent (1968 gave me an uneasy sick feeling although not sure why. I re-watched it on Netflix.

Oh, the one that disturbed me the most was the movie based on the true story about that woman being slowly murdered over a long period of time in the courtyard of her apartment complex while people just watched from their apartments without calling the police or doing anything. That messed me up.

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Race with the Devil. I had nightmares for years

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Great answer. I forgot about that one. The ending scared the hell out of me.

Just remembered a couple of others:

'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.'
'Bad Ronald.'
'Play Misty for Me.'

All terrifying for a kid.

Not so much a horror film, but the Matrix freaked me out. I saw it in the movies and the whole "birth" scene along with the machines were pretty serious.

The Ring scared the shite out of me in theaters as well

I think you might be talking about Puppetmaster. That one is pretty freaky.

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The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective .

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Ratigan was voiced by Vincent Price. I loved that movie as a kid.

I just remembered recurring nightmares that I used to have as a kid that I'm pretty sure were inspired by Tremors. The creatures in my dreams were like those worms except they had wings and they could fly. Those motherfrickers popped up at school, at home, everywhere, killing everybody.

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the Exorcist

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This is the correct answer. My wife questions the way my parents raised me simply because I was allowed to watch this as a young child.

Poltergeist, specifically the scene where the paranormal researcher starts hallucinating things like ripping his own face off.

Jaws. Still afraid of sharks to this day. I wouldn't swim in a pool for like a year.

Child's Play freaked me out as well