None, but I saw Child’s Play as a kid and it scared me for years afterwards.
I don’t know how old we all were, but I joined some kids older than me watch Resident Evil. It was okay until the laser corridor scene. Haunted me for years.
There are many other movie scenes of that nature that stuck with me. Guy getting eaten by shark. Guy losing a leg in rescue attempt. Guy getting violently whacked by piece of cable. Guy losing his hand by confronting his father. Except for the last one I do not recall any of these movies titles or overall story lol
Bad taste. My brother got a copy but didn’t let me watch, so I waited until he was out before I put it on.
I can still remember the guy putting his brains back in his head and carrying on.
Then I heard the director was making some fantasy movies and lost respect for him.
Yeah those fantasy movies definitely tanked his career
A Nightmare on Elm Street.
I was 8, my Mom said I wasn’t allowed to watch it. I watched it at a friend’s house.
I was so sure that night that Freddy was going to grab me through the bed like he did to Johnny Depp that I went to my Mom in her room and admitted to her that I watched it then promptly vomited on her due to the accumulated fear.
Grave of the Fireflies. I was around 24 years old.
Same, but I still recommend the movie to everyone. It haunts in all the right ways.
My friend found a bunch of vhs tapes that his dad hid, and we would watch them together. We were both around 8 or 9, and we watched various porn tapes, and stuff like Heavy Metal and other R rated stuff. The stuff that really gave a lasting impression in my mind’s eye though was a collection of actual deaths caught on tape called “Faces of Death” and a movie called “Pink Flamingos”. Ill always remember aligators ripping a paraglider apart, and the chicken scene from pink flamingos. I rematched it when I was older and it didn’t seem as bad as I remembered, but it’s not a great scene to have stuck in your head…
Now I specialize in making horror illustrations lol.
American History X. Curb stomping was a lot for 13 year old me to process.
Bridge to terrabithia
Wasn’t really to young but didn’t know what to expect and got emotionally crushed by accident. Just heard it was a good movie and put it on one evening.
The book really messed up my class.
“Akira” when I was 10-ish. Wanted to check what this anime thing was about, was not prepared for nuclear blasts, and people becoming giant body-horror amoebas. Still, it was a good intro into anime, along with Dominion Tank Police (another hilariously not-for-10-year-olds number). And set the bar way too high for most other ones I watched later.
Final destination
Saw
Event Horizon. I saw the first half as part of the second half of a double feature at the drive-in theater with my family. I think Men in Black was the first feature. I was 9 when I saw that topless dead woman scene. It’s such an underrated movie.
Oh my God yes! I was about the same age when my dad brought me to see it in theaters. Holy shit I couldn’t sleep for a few days. Love how the ship gives Warhammer 40k vibes watching it now
Wasn’t it partially based on that universe?
While not officially, there are just way too many subtle nods like the ship obviously going through the warp.
The Truman show
So much existential dread
The scarab scene in The Mummy
The mummy is the only movie I can think of to ever give me a nightmare. And it was that damn scarab scene.
Yes holy shit that haunted me for YEARS
The Never Ending Story. I was 28. Still shaken a couple decades later.
Poor horse
No spoilers!
That’s not fair. The story literally never ends.
LOL
The film ends about 1/3 into the book. And the book gets dark
I am actually trying to read a water damaged copy of the book, lent to me by a friend who named her son Atreyu.
The internet and grad school have combined in an attempt to destroy my ability to read a paper book.
Maybe a story that never ends is too big a challenge in my quest to regain that ability?
Nah, I love dark shit and I can’t wait to get to the part where he meets the nihilistic tortise with allergies. I am really curious to see what the film makers were working with from the book.
I saw this the first time I actually got high, I was probably 15 or 16. I don’t think I’ve laughed that hard since, I was absolutely not prepared for Falcor going in.
The Exorcist. I was about 8 years old. It was on tv one Saturday night. At church the next morning I had a bunch of questions and needed some consoling.
