• NirodhaAvidya@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    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!

    • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      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.

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    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

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    Raiders of the Lost Ark. 12 year old me had a great time with that movie until people startet to melt…

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    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.

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    Stephen King’s IT. Technically a mini-series. But it messed me up for awhile, especially the blood on the shower wall scene.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.