Remember me, Eddie?!
@Suck_on_my_Presence There was a German kid’s TV show, an episode in which to the protagonist the following happened: he woke up from a strange dream of a swamp, middle of the night, room half dark and all, and he found himself half-eaten by the nightmare’s crocodile that had leapt onto his bed. Out of his dream. Very scary!
The crocodile could be talked to, though, but his legs were already fully inside the thing so he could not move much at all. Talking was all that was possible, eliciting answers and conversation, and some reasoning about “let me go” and “why even ask” was done. In the end, that saved him, literally the talking himself out of it, the croc let go and disappeared. I had replays of that scene for months after.
The Mummy. It wasn’t the titular character. It was the scarabs.
@Suck_on_my_Presence Jaws did, I lived near a lake. Took me a while to realize the lake was really much too small for sharks, but the movie gave me vivid dreams.
Alien terrified me, as the house I lived in had long dark hallways where those beasts or eggs could hide. Saw the film when video2000 and Betamax were still competing. I never found xenomorphs in my house and terror faded, but the franchise stayed with me including Disneyfication.
What actually scared me more was Poltergeist. What a terrifying world, house, family, setting, glow from behind closed doors and the TV sucked you in to the other side.
TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!
That shit made me laugh. I loved PeeWee Herman growing up.
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.
I change my mind. I most certainly do not want a boat just like this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Who framed Roger rabbit, the scene with the judge guy putting a shoe cartoon into the acid barrel.
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
I very distinctively remember this, but I didn’t know that’s what it was from! Woah.
Yep, that’s it
Yep, that’s the scene
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 Last Unicorn
Ooh, good one indeed.
That fucking bull scared the shit out me for years
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!
I saw Robocop too early.
The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.
That, and the acid scene.
Bitches leave.
I grew up with a family that liked horror movies, and it was the 80s, so I watched a ton of kid-inappropriate stuff, and I felt the same way.
I still don’t watch the Murphy death scene to this day. I guess I never thought about the “why” of it, but you saying it now, that these guys were just normal people, not monsters or supernatural supernatural beings, and not in a fantasy setting, but a realistic enough place, and were taking so much realistic joy in killing this random guy in the worst way possible was more messed up than anything else I’ve seen.
The other stuff in the movie didn’t bother me, since it was mostly people getting what they deserve, but I also never really liked them throwing their buddy out of the moving car when he was begging them not to and I don’t recall him being all that injured for someone in a movie. I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
Funny enough Our Robocop Remake takes that idea and turns it around, so many scenes when characters are discussing Clarence Boddicker they instead show pictures of Kurtwood Smith in That 70’s Show, haha. Great fan made parody movie, definitely worth a watch though it’s the opposite of terrifying so a bit off-topic here.
I had never even heard of this before, but it was really fun to watch! I didn’t know I needed a Robocop musical before now! 😆
The letter home to mom and dad and the ED-209 having the same Alex Murphy style flashbacks as he was killed were hilarious, and of course the alley of perpetual sexual assault.
I saw Robocop 2 too early. The scene that fucked me up is where the bad guy in the robot went from 0 to 100 and snapped his ex’s neck.
