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Leprechaun and a slew of other horror movies, I can’t recall the names of. Still dislike 90% of the horror genre but was able to watch Alien (1979) just recently and it was surprisingly done well.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The dipping scenes haunted me.

Dad let me watch Poltergeist when I was 6 and Mom let me watch The Shining when I was 7. I was also 7 when the Thriller video came out, and I think that scared me more.

Twilight Zone movie.

Watched alone on dark night.

The part when the lady visits the house, where the family is terrified of putting a foot out of line.

That has the most distasteful feeling of dread. Really well done, not for kids!

Omen, Excorcist, Nightmare on Elm St, Jason, Cujo, Friday the 13th - I was a very free range kid. The one that really sticks out is (IIRC) The Amityville Horror. There is a scene with these red glowing eyes down a dark hallway...the adult in me knows it was probably just some guy with two flashlights, but it still raises the hairs on my arms thinking about it

Watership Down

I pretty much accidentally watched Evangelion as a kid thumbing on a TV set. It has definitely shaped my type for women for years to come.

Dad took me and my brother to see Predator in the theater. Would have been about 10 and my brother 8. While I applaud him wanting to share something he was excited about with his children I am sure there were better options.

Stephen King's IT from behind the couch.

How I didn't develop a lifelong fear of clowns I have no idea.

The Lover 1992 when I was like 9 or 10. Those who know the movie, will understand that this maybe was a bit much for a boy. However it had a lasting effected on my appreciation, of what a good emotional movie looks like. I'd call it double edged sword, as obviously that movie is inappropriate for a kid to watch. However the relationship between the two is very beautifully portrait and made me a helpless romantic. It was at a time when they'd show movies like that on free TV at night and I was visiting my grandparents and they had a TV upstairs.

To many but the one that haunts me is “chaser”. A Korean movie about a serial killer who haunts prostitutes.

Why I remind it? Well, I watched it with my brother and when I got back from the toilet, he pretended to be some rando in a hoodie with a knife. Keep in mind, I was 14 and it was 11:30PM.

Jaws at about 5 yrs old and Robocop a couple of years later at about 7yrs old the uncut version loved them both except jaws made me phobic of the ocean and open water so paid a price with that one lol although I have all 4 movies on dvd watch them from time to time. Have both Robocop original and the newer one which is sh@t comparitively, no surprise being just a 12A no swearing and or adult humour no guys exploading on windscreens from being melted down with toxic waste then hit by a car lol and no fist spike weapon either. It will never hold a candle to the original movie which is a true product of the 80s and a must own movie, one rad movie.

I still can't believe Jaws was classified just PG and still is that's to savage for kids really not all of it the shark looks awful corny and cheap tat but the scenes you don't see it and the man in the pond where you see it sideways it looks real then it bites his leg off and you see the leg sinking those scenes aren't fit for kids no way. .

The Exorcist and Candyman.

Also, I can't remember the name of it, but my mom was watching some movie about women in prison. And someone got mad, took out her fork from her cup noodles, and stabbed a woman in the leg. Twisted, pulled it out, wiped it in her pants and kept eating.

I was maybe 5 or 6, but I swore I would never go to prison after that. I had nightmares of that woman and that fork

Insidious 1. First and last time I was scared.
And I watched "Mission to Mars" (2002) somewhere around 22:00 on TV snd that was deeply creepy.

My parents were super strict. I was at a buddy's house when Terminator 2 first came to VHS and we watched it. I was probably around 11. Having not really seen anything like that, it definitely impacted me for a while. Then again, I was already having nightmares most nights by then anyway.

Unexpectedly got nightmares for years after watching the movie Twister.

Flatline (1990)

Big Boob Nurses 17

• The Neverending Story: STARTS with a horse DYING FROM SADNESS and the movie is about existence being devoured by nothingness.
• Nightmare on Elm Street: where the fuck were my parents?!
• Time Bandits: the cages floating in the void, the dwarves being chased down a corridor, the parents die to evil at the end...don't they? Ambiguous existential dread all around this one.
• The Thing: no clear childhood memories or nightmares but I know I saw it before I was 10.
• Reanimator: ditto for The Thing.
• The Shining
• Cat People

Candyman. I couldn't even look in a mirror for weeks.

I had nightmares from Dawn of the Dead for weeks. I was 8 or 9 when my mom tried to show it to me, lol

Candyman, a mates older brother showed it to us when I was around 10ish, don’t think I was ever the same again.

Also caught a bit of Toxic Avenger on late evening tv around the same age, when I should have been asleep but sneaked on the tv. Boy did I regret that.

My brother showed me a movie from my dad's hidden porno stash when I was 8. So probably that.

Dad allowed me to watch Species. Had to sleep in my parents' bed that night. Mom was FURIOUS :D

Mars Attacks! was very poorly marketed. I remember the commercials for it seeming tame and asking my parents to take me to the theater to see it and it fucked me up for a few good weeks. We didn't even stay to the end, but I had nightmares about it that very same night.