This was definitely not a horror movie, but I watched it as a very young kid, so even as an adult I don’t like this fucker.
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Fire in the Sky Just no. I couldn't even look at an image of a grey alien for years. Had to look away during the opening credits of X-files because they flashed an image of a grey. I got over it. I actually rewatched it during the pandemic lock-in. It holds up pretty well.
Cats Eye
John Carpenter's The Thing. I wouldn't go down to the basement by myself for like three months.
Still one of my favorite movies.
Poltergeist 2. I must have been 6 or 7 the first time I watched it. The designs and special effects were amazing. This scene in particular fucked me up big time:
A Watership Down. Fucking trauma for years.
Poltergeist. Fucked me up around static for the rest of my life.
My cousins made me watch John Carpenter's The Thing when I was eight years old. Assholes.
The movie Saturday the 14th also messed me up for a while, what with the Creature from the Black Lagoon getting into someone's bathtub through the drain pipes. It may be silly dreck, but it was a bit much for a five year old.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. 12 year old me had a great time with that movie until people startet to melt...
Fright Night (the 1985 one). I was 6. The idiot daughter of the woman babysitting me thought I was asleep on the couch, so she put it on.
I was not asleep.
Human Centipede and its sequel.
I actually fainted watching it.
Stephen King's IT. Technically a mini-series. But it messed me up for awhile, especially the blood on the shower wall scene.
I too was a weaker constitution child and had to leave Beetlejuice and Jurassic Park.
I also ended up scared of Leprechaun in a hotel room when I was like 6.
One that sticks out that I've never been able to place, though. I was in another hotel room with my dad and woke up to it. All I remember was a gargoyle or something was killing people and at the end they managed to trap its spirit in a chair and then burned the chair in a fire. I had nightmares about that movie for years after but have never been able to figure out what it was.
Oh wow, yeah Event Horizon is not a good movie to see in your youth haha. That's intense!
For me, I didn't get to see the whole movie, but I walked into the living room while my parents were watching Hostel and I saw the achilles tendon scene. That imagery still haunts me to this day. Grew up to love horror, though!
The damn rabbit from Monty Python
The Shining. Watched it when I was under ten years old.
Couldn’t sleep with the lights off for months.
But I agree with OP about on the Event Horizon movie. My experience with that film was great cause I just expected a sci-fi movie. Instead I got a twisted vision of horror that still haunts me to this day.
The shinning is the only movie to have given me nightmares to this day.
When I was 17 I saw Halloweentown and the part with the ghosts made me shit bricks
Blair witch project. I really thought it was real founded footage
House of wax (1953). Invasion of the body snatchers (1956 and 1978).
Mars Attacks when I was 6. My parents had the brilliant idea to take me to see it at a drive-in, so larger than life screen, and it was the second film, so I think they probably figured I’d fall asleep and they could stay and watch. Nope. Pretty sure I didn’t sleep for weeks.