Movie Scenes That Scared You As A Child
 

I have been rewatching a lot of horror movies lately, and I realize that some of the scenes in these movies had a lot to do with creating the fears I had as a child. They were stupid fears and I am over them now, but remembering what caused me so much anguish when I young is kind of fun.

Here are some of them:
The Gate-
If you've ever seen this movie, then you know about the "workman scene". In the movie, they tell a story about a workman who was killed building the house, and subsequently walled up in the house. In the scene in question, his body busts out of the wall, wakes up, and attacks the kids in the movie. This scene made me pull my bed away from the wall for years after. For about a month after I wouldn't even lean on a wall.

Jaws -
The opening scene of the girl getting attacked at night pretty much made sure I didn't even swim in pools at night. I also didn't swim in the ocean at all for a few years. Oddly enough, it is now my favorite movie of all time.

The Shining -
The first time we meet those two little girls pretty much terrified me beyond belief. I think my fear of being home alone for the first couple times stemmed from the fear of turning around and seeing these girls. Oddly enough, if I turn around now and see two girls (especially twins) in my house, I have a very different reaction. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

A Nightmare On Elm Street -
The bathtub scene with the claw coming out of the tub. I switched to showers the next day.

Psycho -
The shower scene. After I can safely assume that claws can't get me in the tub if I shower, I now have to worry about serial killers. For a little while after seeing this, I remember popping my head out of the shower every minute or two to make sure I was still alone.

There are more, but you get the idea. If you'd like, please tell what scene, and the effect it had on you afterwards.

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Totally agree with the Shining girls. Man they freaked me out.

Also, American Werewolf in London had me terrified.

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The Wizard Of Oz
Those flying monkeys were creepy, I didn't completely watch it til I was like 13 or so.

Gremlins
I remember my self and my sister literally beggin my dad to take us to see it, as it was PG13 and I was like 10. Needless to say we walked out and went to see The Jungle Book. I think it was the gremlin in the blender scene.

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Picture Mommy Dead-its a really old and probably really bad movie that I used to watch on late night tv as a kid with my two older sisters and remember being terrified-yet we would watch it everytime it was on.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0060831/

The Shining still scares me! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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I think the death of Bambi's mom is pretty solidly in the running for most kids.

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The Large Marge scene in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

And yeah, those two little girls in The Shining are terrifying.

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The Large Marge scene in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.


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Oh man, I totally forgot about that one. Yeah that scared the hell out of me.

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Poltergeist: when the kid tries to throw the blanket to cover the clown doll and he ends up missing [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Now that I'm older, I know that the blanket wouldn't have done [censored] to stop the clown doll from coming to life to try to kill him.

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Along the same vein as The Wizard of Oz, I thought parts of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory were scary.

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The terror dogs chasing Louis through the city in Ghostbusters.

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The terror dogs chasing Louis through the city in Ghostbusters.

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How could anybody be afraid of a scene with Louis?

http://xenafan.com/movies/ghostbusters/louis.jpg

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Poltergeist: when the kid tries to throw the blanket to cover the clown doll and he ends up missing [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Now that I'm older, I know that the blanket wouldn't have done [censored] to stop the clown doll from coming to life to try to kill him.

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What about the scene with the dude's face?!

edit: Also, I forget which Poltergeist sequel it was, but I think Tom Skeritt may have been in it. Anyway, there was a scene in this big empty room with mirrors on all walls. This girl was backing up slowly into the mirror and you could see her reflection slowly backing up towards her as well. Just as she leans against her reflection, back against the glass, "her reflection" spins around and grabs her by the shoulders.

HOLY [censored]. Couldn't sleep for weeks.

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The Gate-
If you've ever seen this movie, then you know about the "workman scene". In the movie, they tell a story about a workman who was killed building the house, and subsequently walled up in the house. In the scene in question, his body busts out of the wall, wakes up, and attacks the kids in the movie. This scene made me pull my bed away from the wall for years after. For about a month after I wouldn't even lean on a wall.

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This reminded me of of a scene that I'm sure is not really scary:

Does anyone recall the opening scene of The Gate 2? (Recalled from childhood memory) Where those two guys find all that money, but it ends up turning to [censored]? And then one guy runs away because his face starts getting eaten away and he runs and hides in the bathroom stall? Yeah, that scared the crap out of me.

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The scariest movie I saw as a kid, believe it or not, was an Audrey Hepburn movie: Wait Until Dark.

This was pre-Jaws, and pre-most of the movies mentioned here so far.

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I was completely terrified of the shower scene in IT.

I was deathly afraid of ET...I'm not sure how because it was a kids movie. But when Gert sees him in the closet. For some reason it really freaked me out.

The large Marge scene in Pee Wee's Big Adventure also scared me.

The nothing scene in the Never Ending Story (the wolf and Atreyu) I always FF'd through that part.

And all the Gremlin stuff scared me to no end.

Def. top two were Gremlins and ET my mom still makes fun of me for being so scared.

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In the 70s there was a really bad made for TV movie that was something like Amityville Horror meets Airport '76. Basically somehow some kind of demon got on a plane and was terrorizing the passengers. You never really saw the demon but at one point it was holed up in the back of a plane behind a curtain. A freezing wind was coming out from where it was. One of the passengers threw a baby doll behind the curtain. Then after a bit the doll popped back out and landed on the floor. It's eyes were bleeding!

Scared the crap out of me as a little kid. Finally they somehow opened the door while the plane was flying, and tricked the demon into leaving the plane. Yep.

I'll be blown away if anyone has any idea what movie I'm talking about. I sure don't.


Edit: I think I've found it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068715/
http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3bthea...ror37feet.html
Actually it's more like Excorcist meets Airport '76. Wacky.

Also does anyone remember an ongoing series on TV in the mid-70s, where a giant spider (like house size) roams around and continuously terrorizes this family? That always scared me. And what was that movie with an evil robot that looked like a wine opener? The kind where you screw it in, then push down on the handles to pull out the cork.

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I think the name was clowns or something where people got put in cotton candy cocoons. Also, Gremlins scared the [censored] out of me at a young age.

I was not scared during the shining actually.

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I think the name was clowns or something where people got put in cotton candy cocoons. Also, Gremlins scared the [censored] out of me at a young age.

I was not scared during the shining actually.

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space. One of my favorites!

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The clown one is Killer Klowns From Outer Space.

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The Large Marge scene in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.


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Oh man, I totally forgot about that one. Yeah that scared the hell out of me.

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Damn, I opened the thread to throw that one out there.

Another one for me was the first scene when Chucky came to life in Child's Play. Around that time, those My Buddy were really popular. I hid behind the couch during all of Child's Play, and I got into screaming fits whenever my cousin scared me with his My Buddy doll. Toys are scary.

That scene in polturgeist with the toy clown gets me every time too. The only thing scarier than both toys and clowns is a [censored] toy clown.

I always found Polturgeist 3 to be scarier than the first two, and I'm mostly alone in that. The third movie lacked Coach Hayden Fox, but what it did have was mirrors. The scene where the girl's reflection stops following her movements and then tries to pull her into the mirror world freaked me out very much. My mother had a thing for decorating with mirrors and we had dozens of shaped mirrors throughout the house. That combined with the scene in the movie made me very uncomfortable for a few weeks at least.

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The Large Marge scene in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.


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Oh man, I totally forgot about that one. Yeah that scared the hell out of me.

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Damn, I opened the thread to throw that one out there.

Another one for me was the first scene when Chucky came to life in Child's Play. Around that time, those My Buddy were really popular. I hid behind the couch during all of Child's Play, and I got into screaming fits whenever my cousin scared me with his My Buddy doll. Toys are scary.

That scene in polturgeist with the toy clown gets me every time too. The only thing scarier than both toys and clowns is a [censored] toy clown.

I always found Polturgeist 3 to be scarier than the first two, and I'm mostly alone in that. The third movie lacked Coach Hayden Fox, but what it did have was mirrors. The scene where the girl's reflection stops following her movements and then tries to pull her into the mirror world freaked me out very much. My mother had a thing for decorating with mirrors and we had dozens of shaped mirrors throughout the house. That combined with the scene in the movie made me very uncomfortable for a few weeks at least.

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Dude, did you read my post above?

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Oh woops, I missed that, guess I'm not alone. Damn that was a scary scene.

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There was this 1972 TV movie called "Something Evil" starring that 70's red-headed kid Johnny Whitaker (of Family Affair fame) and directed by Steven Spielberg. This family moves to a farm and ther's this evil presence in the house. Whitaker finds this pulsing, jelly blob in a glass jar in the barn that makes noises and there's an exorcism like thing with a pentagram that goes on at the end.

That's all I can recall becauser I literally haven't seen it in at least 30 years, and I'm sure it's a crappy movie, but man, did that scare the crap out of me when I was a kid.

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As a kid and early teen, I loved horror movies, so thought I was pretty tough. But when I saw the floaty vampire kid in Salem's Lot, I FREAKED!

That was pretty damn scary for a TV show. And Pennywise the Clown in It was pretty bad too.

As a real young kid, the Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang also made me cry, as did the wicked witch and the flying blue monkeys in Wizard of Oz.

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Also, not a movie, but pretty much the entire Michael Jackson Thriller video scared the [censored] outta me.

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In "The Man Who Would Be King", Sean Connery and Michael Caine are mistaken for gods in India. They play the part, to their significant benefit. When one of them gets hit by a rock (if I recall correctly) and bleeds, the natives realize they're not gods but frauds and decide to kill them. The way they are killed is they are made to walk to the center of a rope bridge (between two mountains I believe), the ends of the bridge are cut, and they fall to their deaths. I was 8 at the time and have never forgotten that scene.

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When the T-800 model 101 gets up after the truck explosion at the end of The Terminator. I came very close to hitting my head on the ceiling.

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When I was seven years old, my aunt took my sister and I to see The Neverending Story at the movie theatre. The scene where you just see the eyes of the wolf in the cave had me terrified of my closet for weeks.

A year later, I snuck into the living room of our house and watched the start of The Howling. That is not a good movie for an eight year old to watch. It took far more than just a few weeks to get past that.

Jaws made me very concerned about swimming in the ocean, but I didn't figure out that it was seeing Jaws that did it until much later.

I seem to remember catching at least part of Something Wicked This Way Comes, which scared the bejesus out of me. Probably around the same age as the first two.



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sick girl in Pet Cemetery who twisted and broke her own neck

scary

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The first Halloween film near the end when Micheal is running down the stairs after Jamie Lee Curtis. Has never left my memories, though for some reason I remember him with a carrot for a nose and wearing a cowboy hat. I had a very vivid imagination back then.

The Sludge monster from the Muppets also scarred me for a while, terrifying. I very nearly saw this Gate film on rental, but it wouldn't work so I guess I saved myself some there (damn). Lastly, that scene from the Gremlins where the professor unwittingly reaches under the desk and gets stabbed with those scissors.

One other as well, It, Stephen Spielberg "I've got lots of balloons down here". Hate clowns.

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Man, I'm so young. I used to get scared when I'd watch X- Files.

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The first Halloween film near the end when Micheal is running down the stairs after Jamie Lee Curtis. Has never left my memories, though for some reason I remember him with a carrot for a nose and wearing a cowboy hat. I had a very vivid imagination back then.

The Sludge monster from the Muppets also scarred me for a while, terrifying. I very nearly saw this Gate film on rental, but it wouldn't work so I guess I saved myself some there (damn). Lastly, that scene from the Gremlins where the professor unwittingly reaches under the desk and gets stabbed with those scissors.

One other as well, It, Stephen King "I've got lots of balloons down here". Hate clowns.

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after being reminded of the book xteen times in the last few months

i'm going to re-read it

the last time i read it was in like 5th grade.....

no [censored].

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As a child, I was terrified by the MGM lion. This made watching Tom & Jerry cartoons difficult.

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after being reminded of the book xteen times in the last few months

i'm going to re-read it

the last time i read it was in like 5th grade.....

no [censored].

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The nearest I got to a twilight zoning was I was reading It in the doctor's surgery, and just passed the line where Pennywise is referred to as 'Bob Gray' (which IIRR is only once, maybe twice, in the whole book) and just as I read it, they called the name 'Bob Gray' to go in.

If you know 'IT', you know this is the sort of thing that happens just before you see orange pom-poms or similar.

It was very, very freaky.

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When frankenstein threw the little girl in the lake.

Harsh.

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After watching Alien it was months before I would leave the ship to investigate crashed extra terrestrial spacecraft.

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No mention of Through the Looking Glass? That one scene, which I only vaguely remember, where Alice is stuck in the mirror or something. I also seem to remember a scene with some sort of dragon (was this the same scene perhaps?)

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And still scary to me is both the opening and closing scenes of When a Stranger Calls (the original with Carol Kane, not the crappy remake). The ending of that movie had me checking my entire bedroom before I went to bed every night for years.

Also, the opening of the otherwise sub-par sequel, When A Stranger Calls Back I found to be rather spooky.

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The ending of the original Friday The 13th where the child Jason jumps out of the water, forced me to rethink an upcoming Boy Scout canoe trip. My father made me go anyway, but I was terrified.