Remember me, Eddie?!
It’s a tie between the wicked witch and her monkeys in the Wizzard of Oz and the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Still scary!
Fire in the Sky. Hoo boy I still get the willies decades later.
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It wasn’t a movie per se. I thought it was when I was a kid, though. It’s an episode of “Friday the 13th: The Series” called “The Executioner”.
I was like maybe 6 or 7 at the time.
It starts with this guy in prison you see them take him to the electric chair and attempt to execute him. They botch it and the warden or whoever pretty much goes “oops, well by law we did technically carry out your sentence so you’re a free man now”
He then goes on to become a dentist and uses a “cursed electric chair” as his dentist chair to take revenge on the world.
This gave me a real fear of going to the dentist on top of just being a kid and being scared to go. Still hate going to the dentist (who doesn’t I guess)
I used to play Myst at the time and that even made me feel uncomfortable in the Time Machine room with the dentist chair at the first island.
edit: I watched it again as an adult and it was corny as hell
And the other movie that scared the hell out of me was Superman III when Vera got sucked into the machine at the end and turned into an android.
Terminator 1
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead!
This fucked me up more than any monsters… This thing just has one mission and it’s relentless
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.
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Seems to be this one Twilight Zone: The Movie | Terror at 20,000 Feet
Volcano (1997) terrified young me. How could anyone sleep peacefully when lava could just appear out of nowhere?
Needless to say I never lived even remotely close to any kind of geologically active area, let alone a volcano.
Related, Dante’s Peak was terrifying to me as a child.
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When the grandma is screaming in pain from pushing their boat? Still gives me real life terror
Oddly enough, I had nightmares about turning into a dog and not being able to get back to normal after watching Shaggy D.A. Also remember my dad, brother and I watching a rented Betamax copy of American Werewolf in London in our little unfinished basement TV area and being very spooked about being alone in the dark that night. Those subway access tunnels!
Darkness falls.
It’s a movie about the tooth fairy but the tooth fairy is actually an old woman who used to collect the teeth of the children in her village until the townspeople burnt her alive and then she became a spirit who was essentially the tooth fairy but if you ever saw her she’d kill you.
It’s cheesy as hell but it was terrifying when I was younger
Sybil 1976 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075296/ The Entity 1982 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082334
Both supposedly based on true stories. I was watching them around 5 years old. After The Entity I started at the ceiling all night and at times could have sworn I saw electricity arcing. I was dumbfounded by Sybil and how someone could do that to their child had some weird nightmares from that for sure.
When I was 9 I saw Jurassic Park III for a friend’s birthday. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for months. But the most distressing part was when the corpse in the parachute falls out of the tree. I still have the image of it seared into my brain.
I’ve pretty much loved horror since the Cookie Monster, but The Blair Witch Project scared the shit out me in theaters.
This is embarrassing, but I was really, really young.
I watched it during a Saturday morning creature feature on TV.
It has a disembodied alien hand that crawls around attacking people. The hand has needle-like nails on the fingers that it uses to inject victims with poison. It terrified me. I spent years jumping to my bed from the door in case there was a hand hiding under the bed.
FYI, if I remember correctly, the “poison” it injects is just alcohol. If it attacked you, you just ended up drunk.
The Day After 1983
I was around 10-11 years old. the whole fuckin movie terrified me.
