Movie Scenes That Scared You As A Child

[Mrs. Utah]

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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?

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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.

[Wynton]

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.

[Tennenbaum]

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.

[suzzer99]

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.

[shaundeeb]

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.

[Tennenbaum]

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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!

[acoustix]

The clown one is Killer Klowns From Outer Space.

[Phoenix1010]

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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.