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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 2/9/24 at 8:16 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:16 pm to athenslife101
I wasn't afraid to go see anything as a 4th grader thru college.
Even though they scared me so much I slept with my head under the covers & had a wooden stake between my mattress and box springs thru elementary school, I loved scary movies. The small town I lived in got lots of older movies so I grew up going to Hammer Studio double features with Christopher Lee as Dracula. I saw Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, The Exorcist, Jaws, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Thing, The Omen, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), all the way thru to 80's stuff like An American Werewolf in London, in the theater. We had a drive in that showed old movies so I saw the Lon Chaney Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy (1932), The Birds, King Kong, the Godzilla movies, the Vincent Price movies, and a few of the Roger Corman B-horrors there.
After I was grown I didn't enjoy them as much. As an adult, I've gone to see the Exorcist sequels/perquel, anything from George A. Romero or Robert Rodriguez, and a few others on purpose. I've also caught stuff like Event Horizon by accident. It scared the sh*t out of me.
Even though they scared me so much I slept with my head under the covers & had a wooden stake between my mattress and box springs thru elementary school, I loved scary movies. The small town I lived in got lots of older movies so I grew up going to Hammer Studio double features with Christopher Lee as Dracula. I saw Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, The Exorcist, Jaws, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Thing, The Omen, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), all the way thru to 80's stuff like An American Werewolf in London, in the theater. We had a drive in that showed old movies so I saw the Lon Chaney Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy (1932), The Birds, King Kong, the Godzilla movies, the Vincent Price movies, and a few of the Roger Corman B-horrors there.
After I was grown I didn't enjoy them as much. As an adult, I've gone to see the Exorcist sequels/perquel, anything from George A. Romero or Robert Rodriguez, and a few others on purpose. I've also caught stuff like Event Horizon by accident. It scared the sh*t out of me.
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:57 pm to athenslife101
Everything that scared me as a kid, I forced myself to watch/rewatch as a teenager (or older kid).
The original King Kong stands head and shoulder above anything else. It was THE recurring nightmare of my childhood. Despite having seen shite like Terminator, Jaws, Robocop, Predator, Candyman, Carrie, Alien, Jurassic Park, and every Leprechaun and Child's Play movie before I was even 10. Just something about that damned ape and that damned island scared the hell out of me.
I even remember watching the '76 version just to try to "warm up" to the '33 version but even the '76 version didn't scare me half as bad.
I was 10 or 11 when I finally forced myself to watch the original. It didn't play out nearly as scary as I expected it to on rewatch. And I pretty much credit that experience for inspiring my lifelong love of giant monster movies.
The original King Kong stands head and shoulder above anything else. It was THE recurring nightmare of my childhood. Despite having seen shite like Terminator, Jaws, Robocop, Predator, Candyman, Carrie, Alien, Jurassic Park, and every Leprechaun and Child's Play movie before I was even 10. Just something about that damned ape and that damned island scared the hell out of me.
I even remember watching the '76 version just to try to "warm up" to the '33 version but even the '76 version didn't scare me half as bad.
I was 10 or 11 when I finally forced myself to watch the original. It didn't play out nearly as scary as I expected it to on rewatch. And I pretty much credit that experience for inspiring my lifelong love of giant monster movies.
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:38 pm to messyjesse
quote:The flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz were terrifying for me the 1st couple of times I watched it on TV.
The original King Kong stands head and shoulder above anything else. It was THE recurring nightmare of my childhood.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 12:08 am to athenslife101
Texas chainsaw massacre. I was always told it happened on the Texas/LA line near I-20 so pretty close to home. I didn’t need to see that crap.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 5:57 am to athenslife101
Ghostbusters 2 for me. I still haven't watched it all the way through because that damn painting terrified my younger self.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 11:13 am to athenslife101
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What movies scared you when you were little that you didn’t watch till you were an adultby athenslife101
There were two in particular that I watched when I was like 4 years old that freaked me out and I was in college before seeing them again.
Odd phrasing of the topic. I’m not sure if it’s about movies we watched as a kid but didn’t watch again until an adult, or movies we did not watch as a kid because they were too scary, only to watch as an adult for the first time. Title seems to contradict the first paragraph.
Now that my thread critique is out of the way, my first exposure as a kid was Friday nights watching Doctor Shock. The 2 scariest to a young me were Frankenstein and the Mummy. Seeing them in black and white made them scarier because it seemed as if I was watching historical footage.
As an adult, there was no way to watch them without seeing the low production quality and being unable to see them as anything but a bad high school play.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 11:55 am to athenslife101
My Mom was that impressionable age when Psycho came out. The studio did a good job of hiding what that movie was about and there was no internet. So a lot of people went to see a typical Hitchcock thriller with the hero and beautiful blonde storyline and they got quite a surprise. That type of subject matter and graphic violence just wasn't really done in movies back then. My Mom said all the kids in her school quit taking showers and started to stink.
I've heard similar stories with Jaws. Kids of a certain age that used to yearn all year for that Summer vacation trip where the family loaded down the station wagon and headed to the beach for a week suddenly did not want to go anywhere near an ocean. Apparently it actually cost the travel industry money.
Someone mentioned made-for-TV Horror movies and that's on point. For me the scene that shook me up was the indoor swimming pool scene from The Lagacy:
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I was scared to swim underwater for months after watching that and had nightmares about drowning.
I've heard similar stories with Jaws. Kids of a certain age that used to yearn all year for that Summer vacation trip where the family loaded down the station wagon and headed to the beach for a week suddenly did not want to go anywhere near an ocean. Apparently it actually cost the travel industry money.
Someone mentioned made-for-TV Horror movies and that's on point. For me the scene that shook me up was the indoor swimming pool scene from The Lagacy:
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I was scared to swim underwater for months after watching that and had nightmares about drowning.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 12:18 pm to AUFANATL
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I've heard similar stories with Jaws. Kids of a certain age that used to yearn all year for that Summer vacation trip where the family loaded down the station wagon and headed to the beach for a week suddenly did not want to go anywhere near an ocean. Apparently it actually cost the travel industry money.
It still gets me.
There hasn’t been a time post Jaws when I haven’t been sincerely concerned about what lurks below the surface when I’m in the gulf or even a large lake.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 1:18 pm to athenslife101
While quite a few scared the crap out of me as a kid in the 70's and 80's like the original Halloween, Amityville Horror, The Omen and Exorcist...I wanted more not less. The excitement and adrenaline rush of the fear combined with my ability to process the fact it was not real has turned me into a super horror fan. I was definitely cut from a different mold than most. Instead of a young man with posters all over his walls of sports stars, cool cars or musicians. I had Dracula, Frankenstein, Jason, Night of the Living Dead. I think my favorite had to be the American Werewolf in London transformation scene. But I will tell you what scares the hell out of me and I refuse to watch...anything where the dog dies! Frick that shite! 
Posted on 2/10/24 at 2:09 pm to athenslife101
I went to my first boy/girl party when I was 12. The birthday girl’s mom rented Nightmare on Elm St. for us to watch. I don’t think I got a decent night’s sleep for a week.
I do not know the name of this movie. When I was around 7 or 8 (79 to 81 or so) we went to visit relatives and they had cable. The adults were watching HBO one night and I sneaked down the hall to sneak a look. They were watching some horror movie that had a murderous newborn baby in it. It was born and killed all the Drs and shite. It fricked with my head but I still have no clue what it was.
I do not know the name of this movie. When I was around 7 or 8 (79 to 81 or so) we went to visit relatives and they had cable. The adults were watching HBO one night and I sneaked down the hall to sneak a look. They were watching some horror movie that had a murderous newborn baby in it. It was born and killed all the Drs and shite. It fricked with my head but I still have no clue what it was.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 6:13 pm to AUFANATL
Psycho scared the hell out of me too. Still hate shower curtains in hotels. I believe it about kids not wanting to take showers. The ending was pretty sick too.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 6:18 pm to MorbidTheClown
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Actually it was The Wizard of Oz.
The flying monkey scene freaked me the frick out!
+1 on the flying monkeys. I don't think I watched the whole thing again till I was in my 20s. I still am not a fan. I think I was about 5-6 years old.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 7:39 pm to athenslife101
Pumpkinhead. Don’t think I’ve watched it since
Tremors 2 and 1988 version of The Blob scared me as a kid but I’ve watched both several times since. The first Tremors didn’t scare me at all but the 2nd one was infinitely more scary to me as a kid. One of the few movies I’d say the sequel was better than the original
Tremors 2 and 1988 version of The Blob scared me as a kid but I’ve watched both several times since. The first Tremors didn’t scare me at all but the 2nd one was infinitely more scary to me as a kid. One of the few movies I’d say the sequel was better than the original
Posted on 2/10/24 at 7:53 pm to MaxxPain2
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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
Same here. If you think the movie scared you as a kid, read the book. I watched the movie when I was about 13 and read the book a couple of years later. To this day, the book scares the shite out of me. One of Kings best books.
Posted on 2/10/24 at 7:55 pm to BOSCEAUX
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Nightmare on Elm St.I don’t think I got a decent night’s sleep for a week.
Same here.
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