What movie scared you the most as a kid?

[Philuva]

Children of the Corn.

[Gunny Highway]

I was five years old, and It's Alive was the only movie that ever scared me.

[mike l.]

the shining. i never actually saw it until i was a teenager but i was scared to death of even the commercial when i was however i old i was in 1979 or 80. like 6 or 7.

[sean c]

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the shining. i never actually saw it until i was a teenager but i was scared to death of even the commercial when i was however i old i was in 1979 or 80. like 6 or 7.

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Same here. I'm the same age and i still haven't watched the movie. The shadow outside the window freaked me out.

[Mermade]

Poltergeist--not the first one--the one with the old, creepy preacher guy who hummed that hymn. I saw it in elementary school and I've STILL got that tune burned in my brain.

I watched The Omen when i was around 8-9 years old. It was really scaring back then (1983-84).

[LittleOldLady]

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say 10 years old and under. And yes, I know this is gonna be generation-based, but what the hey.

I remember the Witch and the Flying Monkeys from Wizard of Oz scaring the [censored] out of me as a kid when I was watching it on the TV one time.

I now find witches hot, FWIW.


And what about you, fellow OOTers?

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I was absolutely terrified by the witch and the monkeys too.

But the very first movie I ever saw, The Red Shoes with Moira Shearer (who died just a few weeks ago), scared the wits out of me. I was just four years old, and now I wonder what my parents were thinking when they took me to see such an adult film. Unlike the Grimm Brothers' kindermaerchen which were certainly gory, but didn't scare me, just about everything Hans Christian Andersen ever wrote gave me the willies, whether it was the Snow Queen or the poor Little Match Girl, or the mermaid walking on knives. The Red Shoes were no exception--whether the film or the story. Anyone who thinks either Hans Christian Andersen or the Grimm Brothers wrote for children needs to take another look. (ANd I am not talking about the Disney versions which mostly didn't exist when I was little--OTOH come to think of it, like every other kid I was upset when Bambi's mother died, when Pinocchio fell into the clutches of Stromboli, and in the Night on Bald Mountain sequence of Fantasia.)

[mike l.]

"I'm the same age and i still haven't watched the movie."

if you like great films, or horror films, or whatever you should definitely see it. i like the location and cinematography a lot, great mood film. great score too. it's a little weak on plot, but makes up for it.

when i was older (in my 20s) i was genuinely scared (maybe haunted would be a better word) by henry portrait of a serial killer and blair witch project.

[Gunny Highway]

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blair witch project.

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I don't understand how this scared anyone. I thought the unintentional comedy level was very high, but that was about it.

[rustyboy]

Poltergeist had me too. The other was reading Outbreak at 10 and feeling like I had ebola about every other day for a week.