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Added 2024-08-05 21:00:03 +0000 UTCWhat is a horror movie that scared you the most as a child, and why?
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Tales From The Hood for one as an anthology; the very ending resolution had the 3 thugs in the morgue sent to hell after being surprised once the Devil revealed himself after sentencing them to Hell. I was 4 when I saw that scene and it visually showed hell on cinema. It's the only movie that shows Hell other than Spawn that I've seen in live action! It freaked the hell out of me when I saw the Devil 😱😂.
davis376 .
2024-08-20 23:30:21 +0000 UTCdef by temptation
Herbert Baker
2024-08-12 02:49:21 +0000 UTCAliens because Newt got taken and her brother killed, must have been the first time I had seen children get harmed in a movie, I think I was around six years old.
Dushan Perera
2024-08-06 14:13:20 +0000 UTCWhen I was little I went to an Italian restaurant with my family and there was a tiny old-fashioned CRT TV hanging in the upper corner of the room that was playing Halloween. The room was fully lit, there was no audio, and I only saw part of the film on a small screen at least 15ft away, but I was scared of the dark for months after that. I'm not sure exactly what scared me, but perhaps it was the relative plausibility of it all. The setting and characters are just so normal--it could be my neighborhood, or my house, or my babysitter that's being terrorized. It really sets that "this could happen to anyone" vibe.
Patrick Aris
2024-08-06 06:59:29 +0000 UTCDidn't watch much horror growing up, but I remember How the Grinch Stole Christmas used to terrify me for ONE reason. That creepy face Jim Carrey makes at the beginning of the movie frightened me. I remember running to the other side of the house as a kid once when the trailer was playing on TV. Even to this day, that still creeps me out.
Ken
2024-08-05 23:17:47 +0000 UTC“Look at me, Damien! It's all for you.” The Omen (1976). I saw it when I was really young with a friend and his older siblings. We were mostly talking over the movie since it opens pretty light, but at the end of the first act, when the nanny gleefully hangs herself out the third-story window, the entire room went silent and we all had our attention glued to the screen afterward. I think about that scene a lot. It really disturbed me at the time, but now I appreciate how effective it was at setting the mood for the rest of the film. It’s not my favourite horror, but it has its moments and an absolutely iconic score from Jerry Goldsmith.
Drew Perkins
2024-08-05 22:45:09 +0000 UTCThe Ring. Saw it when I was 11. And it scared me off horror movies for about a decade. Can’t remember why, aside from the classic climbing out of a he well shot. Deserves a rewatch.
Scott
2024-08-05 22:17:32 +0000 UTCI remember this 80s slasher called Sleepaway Camp which I saw when I was a teenager and I was bingeing tons of slashers by that point before I knew what good films were and this one was as generic as it could be. Then you get to the final scene where the killer is revealed and it's completely obvious who it is long before then except for this extra little twist that I won't spoil but it adds a whole new layer of disturbing which caught me by surprise and shocked the hell out of me.
Wolfman Brandon
2024-08-05 22:02:54 +0000 UTC"The Bermuda Triangle", 1978. Been there with my mom and looked SO real. The horror elements were very subtle therefore very effective for a young boy! Will never forget that horrific smile of that bloody doll at the end of the film!!!
Alexandros Alexandropoulos
2024-08-05 21:57:12 +0000 UTCI remember walking into the middle of Scream at a family Easter party (I even vividly remember the scenes I was there for; everything from Gale and Dewey leaving the party all the way to Gale crashing the van with *******'s dead body on the windshield; and I remember it was edited for TV so *******'s body in the garage was shown in slow motion, which in my opinion made it scarier). Anyway, when you're young and afraid of everything, you don't understand the humor and satire of the writing, and it literally scarred me for years. Eventually I began to love horror but had to work my way up through the genre in order to confront Scream, my Mt. Everest at the time, and when I finally did it became one of my favorite movies. Still love and rewatch it to this day, even though I don't find it particularly scary after the opening scene.
Edward Looney
2024-08-05 21:39:53 +0000 UTCThe exorcist because religion
Cole Hladun
2024-08-05 21:24:58 +0000 UTCThese aren’t horror movies, but they have creepy scenes in them. Field of Dreams. The thought of a disembodied voice coming from the sky telling me what to do scared the living shit out of me as a kid. Also, Matilda. Trunchbull is a straight up horror villain.
Henri J. Mertens
2024-08-05 21:13:05 +0000 UTCTexas Chainsaw Massacre! It felt so real and down in the dirt, it’s almost like an artistic snuff film. It being based off something true def got a younger me. Not to mention my older sister used to mess with me by saying that leather face was still active and on the loose deaf made it nightmare fuel.
jared Clarke
2024-08-05 21:03:01 +0000 UTC
