Remember me, Eddie?!
Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they’re certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing
I just that with my kid and it for some reason I laughed so hard my kid thought the whole thing was funny. It’s just so absurd and terrible and wonderful. He’s this nightmare murder dude in a kids movie.
It’s genuiy terrifying. But I made it fun for my kid somehow.
It IS a freakout!
Very much so. When I was a kid my folks tried multiple times to get me to watch this movie and I could never get past the tunnel.
As an adult I still can’t watch it and I love me some Gene Wilder otherwise.
TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!
That shit made me laugh. I loved PeeWee Herman growing up.
In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.
The toxic waste scene fucked me up for a while.
One of my favorite villain-death-scenes of all time
I only saw parts of it and yet it haunted me for years. I found it genuinely terrifying and fucked up.
Who framed Roger rabbit, the scene with the judge guy putting a shoe cartoon into the acid barrel.
When I killed your brother, I talked…JUST. LIKE. THIIIIIISSSSS!
Shoe murdering bastard
My theory: Judge Doom needs to act always serious and frightening or else all his minion weasels are laughing themselves to death.
Ugh… I grew up during the 80s with absolutely no parental oversight. I was allowed to read and watch whatever I wanted. Ton of slasher and horror movies, though 3 fuuuuuucked me up. Friday the 13th - Jason, Child’s Play - Chucky, and the most impactful being Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger.
At a 6 year old sleepover, the host father rented Nightmare on elm Street for a bunch of us little dudes. Half way through the movie, i got up and dressed out of my pajamas and walked home. I had nightmares for years about Freddy, chasing me in our basement around the oil heater. Fucking traumatized…
Saw Nightmare On Elm Street at 13yo so I was ok, I knew it was fake. After a few years when I bought it on VHS I saw that it was 18+ and I understand…
I lived on elm street when that movie came out. Did not appreciate that very much.
Gremlins, when they transformed
A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it’s only PG! It’s a comedy!
Yeah that was a mistake.
A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don’t know what the fuck I was thinking.
Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how “family-friendly” movies are anymore. I guess I just don’t really pay attention to that.
For some reason they haven’t kept in touch…
Fun fact: Gremlins was one of the movies which led to the creation of the PG-13 rating.
Lol I do the goddamn same thing. Some form of brain damage i think
That movie fucked me up as a kid. I had recurring nightmares for a decade.
- Signs - the aliens terrified me and I was scared walking to school for a long time
- The scarabs from The Mummy - I thought they would come out from under the sink and the closets to eat me alive
Oh my gosh, yes, the scarabs! They were so scary for a young kid!
Watership Down
Was fucked up for a child to watch. My parents thought it was going to be a harmless animated movie for children. I watched it again as an adult. It is still fucked up.
The 80s rollercoaster of terrifying animation.
Secret of NIMH, was up there too.
The Dark Crystal. Creepy fucking muppets.
My parents thought it was a good idea to let me (9) and my 12 year old brother watch Poltergeist while they were out at some social event.
That movie damaged me. I love it now though.
Same! The whole family was leaving for a big hunting \ camping weekend, and we were leaving at 2am to get there at a decent time through the 10 hour drive. As my folks were packing, 8 year old me was staying up watching tv, and my mom goes, “Poltergeist is on HBO right now, you should watch it, I think you’ll like it!” Well I don’t remember if I stopped at the clown or the tree eating scene but I definitely saw both and was then immediately wisked away to stay in the woods for a week… Terrifying
It was the face peeling scene for me. Took months to get over that!
To be clear, it still terrifies me.
I enjoy the rest of the movie but this is one of the greatest horror sequences ever. A remake that truly surpasses the original.
EDIT: I have to give a shoutout to the movie that had the most real world effect on me. That would be Arachnophobia. I couldn’t function normally for months. Sitting on the toilet. Putting my shoes on. Sticking my hand in a bag of chips. I was a wreck.
What are these from?
Seems to be this one Twilight Zone: The Movie | Terror at 20,000 Feet
No idea how I never heard about this. Loved the og twilight zone version
The Adventures of Mark Twain from 1985 has a scene where Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher enter a sort of pocket dimension and meet a stranger who is just a robe holding a mask. The stranger claims their name is Satan. Satan creates a doll sized castle and gives the children clay to make people. After the people are made Satan gives them life and all 4 characters watch the clay people for a little while. Then Satan calls them insignificant, annoying, and worthless before he smashes some with his hand, lightning strikes other clay people, and the rest get swallowed up by a sinkhole along with the castle. While this is happening Satan’s face/mask distorted and twists until it resembles a skull.
I saw this movie while spending a weekend at a family member’s house as a kid, maybe somewhere between the ages of 5 and 7 (it was an old movie then). I woke up in the middle of the night and this movie was put on while I was left alone in the living room. I don’t remember anything else from this movie, but it definitely fucked me up
Yep, that’s it
I very distinctively remember this, but I didn’t know that’s what it was from! Woah.
In general I never cared much about scary movies, but there is ONE SCENE (in an otherwise crappy movie) that left a strong impression on me.
In the movie “Signs”, there’s a moment when the news are showing footage from an alien sighting in Brazil. Usually, whenever a US movie tries to depict another country or culture, it ends up being so poorly done it’s almost like a caricature. But not this one…
The scene is from a birthday party, and every little detail is so authentic that, as a Brazilian, it’s immediately obvious that it was actually recorded in Brazil, at someone’s actual house.
It’s shaky footage from a camcorder (remember those?). There’s the party decorations, the kids’ hats, the car outside, the voices (which are intelligible Brazilian Portuguese, not gibberish). Everything felt so real and familiar, I could swear I have been in that exact party at some point in my life. And then the alien shows up and HOLY SHIT did that scare me!
Signs was such a good movie. The closet scene gets me every time I watch it, even today. Such a suspenseful movie. Forever a classic movie.
Did they do the first slice of birthday cake thing? I only learned about that a few years ago and it is such a cute and delightful tradition :)
That fucking computer from Superman III, jesus christ my parents should not have let me watch that when I was, like, seven or eight.
Are you talking about when it grabbed that woman and turned her into a cyborg thing? That fucked me up.
Lois’s death scene in Superman I fucked me up as a kid. That was a brutal way to go.
