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Ernest scared stupid. That troll going around at night, sneaking into kids rooms and turning them into wooden figurines was terrifying to my kid brain.

I watched The Ring and The Grudge when I was 12. I had trouble sleeping for the next year or two because I kept imagining I could see Kayako watching me from the ceiling of my closet, and slept with the TV on because it scared me less than the blank screen.

I was not a smart child.

Salem's Lot (the 1979 mini series). The window scene with the floating kid messed me up real good.

Threads, Growing up near Sheffield and watched it when I was about 12...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

At age 8 Critters. I couldn't go to the toilet alone for weeks after seeing once come out of the toilet. It's a PG too!

For reference I'd already watched exorcist by that age as my cousin and I snuck the copy out of my uncle's video shop. Exorcist didn't bother me anywhere near as much!

You watched Event Horizon as a child? Damn, that's rough! I watched it as a young adult on TV thinking it was just normal sci fi and was scared shitless by the end...

As a child there was a part of a movie I watched that gave me nightmares for days. It was someone rubbing a bloody chickens paw on a womans leg. That's it, that's all I saw before my parents yelled for me to go to bed but it haunted me for days.

When I was a child, Pet Sematary scared the living hell out of me.

Species from 1995. Parents and their friends were watching it and told us to not come in because it was too scary.

I thought they were bullshitting young me...I was wrong. Lol. Had wonderful nightmares for a while.

James and the giant peach was already an all around unsettling movie, but that thunderstorm rhino scared the bejeebes out of me as a kid.

Chucky 🔪

Fire in the sky - The scene after he was abducted and wakes up on the UFO always freaked me out as a kid. I remember renting the VHS from Blockbuster back in the day. This was also when shows like Sightings and Unsolved Mystery were popular on TV.

I remember when I has a kid my dad was Watching "Pink Floyd The Wall" and the scene where the kids walked on an assembly line to become sausages scared me a lot. It became kind of a misterious movie to me because the melody was kids popular and I could remember how dark that sensation was.

Many years later I started listening to Pink Floyd and watched the entire movie. I still love it.

Who the hell let's their child watch event horizon?

The one that comes to mind is Geordi's eyes on Star Trek TNG. I don't know why, and I eventually got over it. But watching every new episode of TNG was sort of an tense experience wondering if the visor would come off for any reason.

Time Bandits. The evil character at the end. It was truly the most evil character I had ever seen.

Trilogy of Terror The little warrior doll that comes alive scared the living hell out of me

ET scared the crap out of me.

The Exorcist got me pretty good

The Mummy (1990s movie, not that Netflix series)

Weirdly, the original Andromeda Strain scared me more than any gore. It was probably linked to my childhood fear of sirens.

the cube and ghost ship

How come nobody mentioned Goosebumps? That shit was catered to kids, but I only dared watch it with the sound off.

ghost ship and the cube!

Thank you for validating me. Event Horizon scares me to this day. Clawing out his eyes? Fucking no thank you.

The Exorcist and The Omen. I cannot watch either again to this day.

Those really weird thumb creatures from Spy Kids. Could not STAND them and the movie would rerun almost every day.

Also King Rameses from Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Jack and the Beanstalk. Not really a movie, but anime/cartoon from 1974. My parents turned it on for me every time they left the house. Check it up, it's terrifying, especially for a 4-year-old.

The first scene of Willow

As an adult i was super scared by that movie where the tooth fairy gets you if you're in the dark. I still turn my stairway light on when i walk to bed.

My Girl. The ending with the kid dying from getting stung by all those bees messed with my mind as I was only like 5 or 6 when I saw it.

The 1990 remake of the Night of the Living Dead. I was like 10 when I saw it, and then I had to walk through a dark forest alone to get home (I was supposed to walk with older girls but they left me behind). I legitimately thought I was going to die.

Great time to plug !horror@lemmy.ml

Return of the Living Dead, not because it's any good but just because I was really scared of zombies as a kid. The Tarman zombie gave me nightmares for years.

The aliens in Mars attacks were pretty scary.

Gremlins for me, was way too young for that. Now it's one of my all time favorite movies.

The Grudge. The Japanese original and the US ones.