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re: What movies scared you when you were little that you didn’t watch till you were an adult

Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:37 pm to
Posted by threedog79
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Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:37 pm to
The Day After (1983). I didn’t sleep for several days. Nuclear war kept me up as a small child. Scary stuff.
Posted by jorconalx
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Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 2/8/24 at 10:17 pm to
Same! My parents thought I was in bed. I could lay down in the hallway and see the TV. Fairly certain I didn’t sleep that nite or several nites after
Posted by lsusa
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Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 2/8/24 at 11:55 pm to
The Blob scared the hell out of me when I was four years old. I remember being scared to get in the bathtub.

Talking about the old B&W with Steve McQueen.
Posted by Josh Fenderman
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 12:14 am to
I still don’t want to watch Fire In The Sky
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 12:39 am to
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The Day After (1983)


That was an event. Talked about in class at school.

People think only 50/60s kids had Nuclear bomb drills...we had get under your desk drills in the 80s too...never understood the point of that...make children believe they had a shot to survive?

There's a reason they made the movie, the fear was palpable.
This post was edited on 2/9/24 at 12:40 am
Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 2:23 am to
Fortress (1985)

I think it was made for HBO but I saw it as a kid on TV one night and it scared the shite out of me.

Takes place in Australian Outback. A single room schoolhouse gets invaded by 4 psychopaths wearing funny masks. They kidnap the kids and teacher and lock them in an underground cave.

Rachel Ward was the teacher.
Posted by Corso
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2020
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 2:54 am to
For some reason my mom let me watch and rent any horror movie I wanted when I was like 5. Salem's Lot was the only one that really terrified me as a kid and I'm not much better with the damn windows when I watch now
Posted by drizztiger
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Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 4:45 am to
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Salem's Lot was the only one that really terrified me as a kid and I'm not much better with the damn windows when I watch now
Yep. I've said it a lot, that shite haunts my dreams to this day. I think Vox said it.

I definitely want to cred Children of the Corn. Creepy as frick.

We need a Stephen King thread. No, we don't.
Posted by EnglebertHumperdink
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 5:10 am to
Children of the Corn. My older brother and his friends were terrified watching it so I assumed it was scary. I was disappointed.
Posted by UncleFestersLegs
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 6:33 am to
Posted by pwejr88
Red Stick
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 6:43 am to
Cape Fear DeNiro version.
Posted by Boomdaddy65201
BoCoMo
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 6:55 am to
This cocksucker right here…




[img]The Childcatcher from the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang played by Robert Helpmann. , He was the stuff of my nightmares as a kid!,[/img]
Posted by Junkyard Hog
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Member since Aug 2019
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 7:29 am to
Cujo
Posted by MorbidTheClown
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 7:32 am to
Actually it was The Wizard of Oz.

The flying monkey scene freaked me the frick out!
Posted by Animal
Member since Dec 2017
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 7:38 am to
As a kid "Witch Board" freaked me the hell out.

Probably because I was being raised by a devout a Christian mother that harped on the dangers of trying to meddle in the spirit world.
Posted by Animal
Member since Dec 2017
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 7:42 am to
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Silver Bullet


This is another one that got me pretty good.

Blair Witch...the movie was not all that scary...until I got turned in around in the woods one morning before daylight heading for my deer stand a few days after having seen it. I was a teenager but it was all I could think about while I briefly lost.
Posted by MFn GIMP
Member since Feb 2011
19389 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 7:46 am to
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IT with Tim Curry terrified my 5 year old eyes and I was terrified of clowns for a while

As an adult I find IT hilarious and I appreciate Tims performance as Pennywise

BEEP BEEP RICHIE

This is exactly me. Took me 20+ years to get there and be able to watch it again. I still don't like clowns but I'm not afraid of them anymore.
Posted by Animal
Member since Dec 2017
4222 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 7:46 am to
One more "Puppet Master" freaked me out too. However, I had a natural aversion to puppet before then...similar to clowns.
Posted by CatsGoneWild
Pigeon forge, Tennessee
Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:08 am to
I started watching horror movies at age 5 or 6. Never stopped
Posted by MaxxPain2
Member since Oct 2021
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:22 am to
quote:

Salem's Lot was the only one that really terrified me as a kid and I'm not much better with the damn windows when I watch now


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