Jurassic Park for me. I had an amazing JP jumper when I was like…maybe 6. It was far too big for me but I loved dinosaurs. Naturally this meant I wanted to watch the film because…well I’m 6 and it’s got dinosaurs.
Ultimately I ended up watching it with my Mum and Dad. We got as far as the iconic T-Rex chase scene and I told them to turn it off. Didn’t go near the film for another few years.
I’ve now got my own 6 year old. There’s no scenario I could envisage where I even consider letting her watch a film as gory, tense and frightening as JP.
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Mine is Jaws. I was around six, going to a Disney movie, saw the poster and convinced my baby sitter to watch it. Bad mistake!
Same. 30 odd years later and I still have a mild panic when I enter the sea.
From dusk till dawn
Definitely should not have watched Beverly Hills Cop. The nonstop swearing and stupid ‘banana in the tailpipe’ type pranks were not good influences.
For me it was the original blob (which was back then already vintage almost) and this fucked me. I never actually turned anything off except when some of the neighbors gave me a „cool movie about cars“ and then the rat and bucket scene of fast and furious made me turn it off.
IT. I refused to shower without another person in the room for weeks.
Watched beastmaster, purely because I had seen my Mum and older siblings watching it, and it looked pretty harmless at first glance, something like He-Man which I liked at the time.
I asked a bunch but was always told no, so one day I snuck down in the middle of the night to watch it, needless to say, it was not like He-Man.
Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. I was like 7. I was okay-ish with those. Chucky, on the other hand, was too much.
It’s only a mild trauma, but I couldn’t sleep after Spy Kids and Monsters, Inc and was especially scared of the Robot Kids appearing in the dark for a few years.
I think this is due to me being too young to be able to catch the plot twists in the end. So those movies to me ended with no changes and the bad guys still doing well.
Return To Oz was mine. Took me decades to bring myself to rewatch it.
Was it Jack falling into the swirling abyss? Thay freaked me out. I think the concept of nothingness/dying hit me hard then.
So much of it was nightmare fuel, it’s hard to choose, but I think it was the scene where Dorothy’s friends have been turned into ornaments that haunted me the most.
Oh with the wooden sawhorse and she had to choose them! I think i need to watch this again (in the daylight, with curtains fully up)
The opening scene for Terminator 2: Judgement Day. I already had a deep seated fear of spontaneous combustion, so watching that didn’t help in the slightest.
Threads. We were shown it at school, about 12 or 13, told we should see it because it might happen. Didn’t sleep a full night after that until 2005.
I was way little, like maybe 5, when the first Jumanji came out. We saw it in theater: the moving plants and giant mosquitos scared the absolute fuck out of me.
Parents had to take me out of the showing, and snuck me into Toy Story instead - much better! :D
Freaked is the reason I slept with a blanket over my head for most of my childhood. Now I love it.
Another one that freaked me the hell out was David Copperfield. It was meant for kids but the moldies were horrifying.
I was allowed to watch a lot of horror movies as a kid, but those are the only two movies that I remember bothering me so much.
My mum thought I was ready for The Thing way too soon. Fast forward like 30 years and it’s right up there in my all-time favourites now.
The Thing was actually the first movie my family owned on DVD. I was so desperate to watch it and couldn’t find it on VHS, so I convinced my dad to finally buy a DVD player. He held out as long as he did because he thought DVDs would be replaced by mini-disks aaaaaannnyyyy day now.
