cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/50792
For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
I named my truck Artax because I’m gonna cry like a little bitch when it finally dies.
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A Watership Down. Fucking trauma for years.
Man I was way too young to be ready for what I was seeing lol. But I did develop a love of horror so all good now!
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.
Blair witch project. I really thought it was real founded footage
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!
Actually not the OP just thought that this community needed some love. That said I do have a very distinct memory of having one of those two for one DVDs with Event Horizon on one side and some fairly tame solar flare-themed PG-13 disaster movie on the other side that I watched ALL the time. Definitely would’ve been a shock to go from the latter to the former but I don’t think I ever did.
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.
I was a real scaredy cat as a kid, so for me Terminator and Jurassic Park were the ones I remember giving me nightmares that other people would know. Outside of that weirdly the movie “the edge” with its bear terrified me, I always imagined a bear could just rip through the wall of our home and grab me. Another weird one was The 13th Warrior, there was a particular scene in.a bloody cabin that really upset me, but I dont think the movie was really scary, I was probably just way too young to watch it
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.
I watched that movie when I was just a little older and wouldn’t go down to the basement by myself for a few months.
It’s now one of my favorite movies though, lol.
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.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. 12 year old me had a great time with that movie until people startet to melt…
temple of doom for me. homie getting his heart ripped out
I was going to say the same thing! I was so surprised to see that exact movie as your choice lol. It’s a great movie.
Stephen King’s IT. Technically a mini-series. But it messed me up for awhile, especially the blood on the shower wall scene.
Arachnophobia. I one of the ones that claims I acquired a minor version from the film. Took me years to get over it. Of dedicated effort, after I grew up. Even today a sudden sighting can sometimes get a squeak out of me though, annoyingly.
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.
I think that’s needful things
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.
