Movie Scenes That Scared You As A Child

[Tennenbaum]

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The most scared I have ever been in a movie theater is when I saw PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE when I was 6 years old. The scene that got me was when Pee Wee hitched a ride with Large Marge and her eyeballs popped out of her head after she told him the story of the dead trucker. I jumped out of my seat and ran to my Mom who was sitting in the row behind me. I was petrified for at least a full day after that. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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


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LOL, I responded before I read the thread. I thought I was the only one. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Didn't the bike operation scene dream sequence scare anyone also?

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Oh wow, yeah def. w/ the clown doctors?

[Tennenbaum]

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Didn't the bike operation scene dream sequence scare anyone also?


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For sure, but nothing topped Large Marge.



EDIT: Now that I think about it, I was also terrified of puppet game show host Guy Smiley on Sesame Street. I was convinced he was going to touch my private parts. No idea why I associated that puppet with that, but I was terrified.



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OMG...someone else who was scared of a muppet!! I hated, hated that Eagle guy from the Muppet Show. I dont remember his name but he really freaks me out. Also just thought of the scene in the Labrynth when those pink things are like dancing and pulling their heads off and tossing them around...that kind of freaked me out too.

[willie]

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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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and of COURSE i can't find my fkn copy...

ah well, i'll get a new one.. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[theRealMacoy]

great idea for a thread.

childhood fears are almost magical in their power; fundamentally affecting how one percieves and subsequently navigates the world. so strong, they linger into adulthood subtlely shaping our reality. hey, we all still have monsters under the bed, so to speak, that we can trace back to our formative years.



Dracula

this is the 1931 version with Bella Legosi in the seminal vampire role. i was 8 years old when saw this movie and only after much convinving did the babysitter let me stay up late and watch. it absolutely terrified me. so much that i had to have my neck and head entirely covered by blankets in order to try and sleep. actually, until i was 25 years old, i covered my neck whilst sleeping.



Attack of the Giant Leeches

it was my 12th birthday, and i somehow convinced my mother to take my friends and i to a restricted horror movie being shown at an adult theatre as a saturday afternoon matinee. my friends and i felt rather cool for actually managing to see this exotic movie. unfortunately, it scared all of us so much that we ended up asking to leave after only the first 30 minutes. scenes of giant leaches dropping down from the ceiling to suck people dry were simply too excrutiating to watch (or even to imagine for that matter).

as an additional note Roger Corman was the executive director of this movie.



Toy Story

i wasn't scared by this movie but it seemed to affect my neice profoundly. she was six at the tme and it was her fist visit to an actual cinema. upon returning home she placed all of her cowboy and horse dolls in the freezer. apparently, she was afraid of them coming alive.

[SammyKid11]

I was pretty petrified of David Bowie in "Labyrinth." I'm still pretty scared of him now, though.

Also, movies that were more in my teenage years that scared the crap out of me included "In the Mouth of Madness" and "Event Horizon."

[theRealMacoy]

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Also, movies that were more in my teenage years that scared the crap out of me included "In the Mouth of Madness" and "Event Horizon."

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both of these freaked the hell out of me. i saw "event horizon" in the theatre and spent at least 10 minutes cowering down in my seat with my eyes closed and ears plugged.


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"The Prince of Darkness" directed by John Carpenter.

in the middle of the night my brother and i viewed this movie (it happened to be the first time we were left overnight by ourselves). setting the scene was a heavy thunder storm with accompanying torrential rain and wind buffeting the house. when the film concluded, we recruited our dog to clear every room in the house---at one point he started barking and i nearly passed out.

[acoustix]

Event Horizon is one of the best Sci-Fi Horror flicks ever made. It really doesn't get the respect it deserves. I wasn't young enough for it to have any kind of effect on me when it came out, but I definitely thought it was the scariest movie that had been made in years.

It's too bad that they will never have an extended version come out because all of the footage shot has disappeared. Supposedly there was like 20 minutes worth of scenes in which the former crew tore each other apart, but they were taken out. When they went to find the footage to release a special edition DVD, it was all gone.

[Jim T]

I thought Event Horizon was a boring piece of crap, but I wasn't a child when it came out.

The Prince of Darkness freaked me out, and I was in college at the time. I think the really low background sounds Carpenter used had a lot to do with it.

While the twin girls in the Shining were scary, the scene that really got to me was when Jack Nickleson started making out with the naked woman in the shower, and she turned into a rotting corpse.

I actually saw Jaws in the theater, and I was 8 or 9 when that came out. Don't know how I talked my Mom into that one. The scene that really scared me was where Richard Dreyfuss was in scuba gear and investigating a hole in an 'abandoned' boat. When the owner's decapitated head floated out, I jumped about 10 feet out of my seat. I wouldn't put my feet down for the rest of the movie for some reason.

[Rick Nebiolo]

Village of the Dammed scared the heck out of me. Can't pick any scene (saw it 45 years ago) but I remember it had creepy kids with creepy shining eyes with super powers doing evil stuff. Another good one for the Netflix queue.

~ Rick

[John Cole]

Rick, I saw this when it first came out, too, and The Fly and a bunch of others. But, the scene that scared me the most was Abbott and Costello unpacking Frankenstein.