Films That Scared The Hell Out Of You As A Kid (Non Horror).

[FPLOON]

Out of all of the classic horror films I watched with my grandmother, nothing scared me more than basically seeing this:

Spoiler: From Total Recall

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What's worse is that, just like when I saw

Spoiler: that one scene in The Shinning,

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this,

it was really out of context since that was my first experience watching those movies to begin with...

 

[Asita]

Star Wars. The scene with the interrogation droid hit two major points for me. The first being a fear of needles, and the second being that I somehow got it in my head that 'truth serum' - or whatever you want to call the injection - actually entailed mind control[footnote]Yeah, yeah, I was young and stupid, blah, blah, blah[/footnote] (and the very idea of mind control scared the flub out of me back then). It disturbed me enough that I made a point of avoiding the franchise until my family dragged me to see the special edition of Return of the Jedi when it was in theatres. Since then...well suffice to say that I've seen them all enough that I've pretty much got the movie franchise memorized.

Willie Wonka terrified me as a kid. I think it was the fan scene and the girl blowing up into a blueberry that got to me, like I was going to accidentally get some of that candy.

Really? No mention of the tunnel scene? I swear that was put in just to freak kids out...well that and the sheer mood whiplash.

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[PilgrimScott_III]

The scene in The Mask where Stanley puts the mask on for the first time. Holy FUCK was that scary; just the sight of what was supposed to be an inanimate object suddenly latching onto someone's face and covering their whole head, coupled with the dark lighting, the sickening dark green colour that the mask has at that point, and Stanley's muffled screams during the whole process... *shudders*

I couldn't watch that scene for years, which was a real pain because my family absolutely loved the movie and insisted on watching it at least once a month for a time (and for good reason, it's a really funny movie overall, with a lot of iconically hilarious parts in that movie ). Sure, things got funny afterward, but I remember every time the movie started up sitting in silent fear of the scene, then exiting the room once it got there, then coming back in once it was over. Only recently have I been able to sit through that scene in its entirety. Glad I never watched any of the Alien movies at that age...

 

[LostCrusader]

Willie Wonka terrified me as a kid. I think it was the fan scene and the girl blowing up into a blueberry that got to me, like I was going to accidentally get some of that candy.

Really? No mention of the tunnel scene? I swear that was put in just to freak kids out...well that and the sheer mood whiplash.

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Oddly, I don't think that one bothered me. That or I was so horribly traumatized by it and repressed it entirely.

 

[Solbasa]

I don't know if it's exactly right to say that it scared me that much, but when I was little I wasn't able to watch that scene in Finding Nemo where Marlin and Dory go through the field of jellyfish. Hell, even now I find it difficult to watch, just because I have, and have always had, a kind of fear of jellyfish. Again, I don't know if fear is exactly the right word, but I've always found them incredibly unsettling, to say the least. I still do, kind of, but it's not quite as bad as when I was a little kid.

 

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space: This movie is SOOOO cheesy, but holy crap it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. The clowns are so incredibly freaky looking, I could imagine even an adult who has a fear of clowns would crap their pants over this one.

WOW. You just made me remember this movie! One of my first horror movies actually and yes, there were some pretty spooky scenes. It was one of two movies that my friend's brother let us watch when parents were out and I was super young.

The second was Puppet Master. Also pretty creepy.

Ghostbusters 2: This one felt way freakier to me than the original Ghostbusters did. That scene where the nerdy assistant who was possessed by the Sorcerer is in the dark hallway, and his eyes start shooting light? Don't know why, scared the shit out of me.

The train scene scared me badly, but the rest of it I just really enjoyed, especially the whole walking statue thing. I am and have always been a sucker for jump scares.

and now you will both have the theme song stuck in your head for weeks. i miss horror comedies, somewhere along the line in the last 20 years people seem to of decided that there could be horror OR comedy movies.

i actually entered this thread to see what people were saying and what scared them that was non horror. nothing for me though. tends to happen when you watch halloween(original) and shriek of the mutilated (cannibals) at age 7 in a single night

 

[Kyrian007]

Who Framed Rodger Rabbit. Do I need to say which scene?

It was the scene where the evil guy gets steamrolled, then gets up and starts walking around, right?

Finally, someone who understands!

Yeep, him get steamrolled was pretty screwed up'ed and then he inflates himself back up and starts screeching at the guy about killing his brothers in a high pitched voiced with weird eyes.

What, this scene?

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I love that scene. But then again, I love things that creep me out. I even did back then as a kid. I remember as a pre-school kid my favorite picture book was...

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An ACTUAL ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S VERSION of Masque of the Red Death. That's why I'm so screwed up. Seriously, who publishes that?

Watcher in the Woods, an old disney film aimed at kids but scaring the hell out of me, wouldn't look in a mirror or a window for ages.

I'll second Watcher in the Woods as well. It was frightening enough to me as an 8 year old that it might well not qualify for this thread because it might as well have just been "horror." It seemed to be specifically made to terrify children. I still like watching it from time to time, still kind of creepy. Very effective use of Bette Davis, a great casting choice there. Oh, and just so you don't feel left out...

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[Queen Michael]

Gremlins. There was the part where a man dressed up as Santa Claus screamed for help, and also the part where an old woman sees the gremlins sing Crhistmas carols and think it's devils come to drag her to Hell. As a devout Christian kid, I lived in constant fear of that happening to me.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Back in the late 90's when CGI was being used more and, more there was this straight-to-tape thing that my dad bought...or rented. It was a series of CG-animations set to various musical styles but it sounded mostly industrial (not necessarily metal or, rock, just a steady, heavy beat kind of thing). I remember being kind of freaked out by the whole thing and I can't really say why...it wasn't necessarily uncanny-valley effect but it still felt unsettling to me.

 

[Cyberstrike_v1legacy]

The Siege with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis for being a foreshadow of what has happened to the US during on the War on Terror. The scene with Washington and Willis arguing over whether or not to torture a prisoner they capture is very creepy.

 

[Asita]

Gremlins. There was the part where a man dressed up as Santa Claus screamed for help, and also the part where an old woman sees the gremlins sing Crhistmas carols and think it's devils come to drag her to Hell. As a devout Christian kid, I lived in constant fear of that happening to me.

Isn't Gremlins a horror/comedy hybrid though?