Movie Scenes That Scared You As A Child

[acoustix]

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.

[Frank TJ Mackey]

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

Also, American Werewolf in London had me terrified.

[EPIC]

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.

[Mrs. Utah]

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]

[MrWookie]

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

[Black Aces 518]

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

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

[acoustix]

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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.

[skunkworks]

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.

[Mrs. Utah]

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

[miajag]

The terror dogs chasing Louis through the city in Ghostbusters.