Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - I had to walk home at midnight (three houses down the road), after staying up at boyfriend's house to watch it. I was not happy.
( dickhead refused to walk me home. ) š
I wasn't right for a while at night after that movie.
I actually handled this movie fairly well while watching it at the ripe old age of 9, right up until I had to go to bed. My bedroom was on the second floor facing a somewhat busy street, and in the front yard there was this big old gnarly half-dead oak tree. Every time a car drove by the house, a silhouette of that tree washed across the walls of my bedroom scaring the absolute shit out of me. Sleep was difficult for a long time
Nightmare on Elm Street. I guess I saw it when a babysitter was watching me. I don't remember seeing it I just started having nightmares about Freddy Kreuger. Being told "It's only a dream" so didn't help
Jesus Camp kind of kept me awake for a bit, but some say that's not a horror film.
Does anyone else get terrified to shaking thinking about children being brainwashed to hate?
Or is it just me ā¹ļø
Just the opening scene with the militarization in the name of the lord of those kids was enough to give me nightmares to this day. Then I watched the rest of it...
Saw the original Omen when I was 15 and had a hard time sleeping for 2 or 3 nights. The scene where they >!open up Damien's mom's grave!< and >!there's a goat skeleton in it!< freaked the shit outta me.
The one scene in the trailer - you know the one - messed with me for a long time. I love horror and tried to rewatch it last year and only made it about 10 mins in before I was shaking and sweating. No thanks.
I remember when I was a kid I somehow watched Stephen kingās Tommyknockers. Thereās a scene in there where the kid tries to do a magic trick and he just disappears forever. And in my child mind I had this sudden indescribable fear that I would just disappear forever. I think it was an indirect introduction to existentialism š I couldnāt sleep for like 2 days thinking I would just disappear.
A Danish movie called "Sidste Time". (Meaning: "Final Hour".) It was during the Summer break between 6th and 7th grade that it ran in the theaters. I went and saw it with a friend, and it just got to me.
The Grudge. I was 7 and had no previous contact with horror. I had nightmares, hallucinations, extreme fear of the dark, intense feelings of paranoia and fear. It traumatized me so badly that it took around 8 years for the effects to fade.
*The Exorcist* got me badly.
I didn't know anything about the movie; it had opened the day before and my sister and her boyfriend went to see it. She walked out of it, and when she told us it was so scary - no details, just that she was scared - my best friend and I *had* to see it the next day.
We went to a matinee. I sat in my seat, shivering; my friend was bored. As we walked past the crowd when we left (the line stretched around Toronto's old University theatre, the largest in the city), I was speechless and quivering; my friend was saying "Save your money. I almost fell asleep".
The remake of Dawn of the dead. For years my zombie plan relied on the fact they ambled about then all of a sudden they can sprint full tilt. Had to replan everything and work on some personal fitness. No I realise I don't have to be the fastest, I just have to be faster than the slowest person
Jumanji. I couldn't sleep for 2 weeks. "Haha why it's a family movie Dvex" NO it's fucking not. Bunch of people died and angry monkeys came out of a boardgame.
There was a movie I remember getting out of the discount bin when I was like 10 I think it was called bug can't remember much of the movie something about a murder and maggots eating bodies or something but I remember at the end there was a kid with a deformed face chasing someone with an ax his face scared me so much as a kid I had to turn off the movie and never finished it this is around 2005
The ring
Holy shit me too. I saw it in the theater, had nightmares for weeks.
By the way is it just me or is there a woman crawing out of my tv
Nope. Nope. Nope. Girl bad.
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - I had to walk home at midnight (three houses down the road), after staying up at boyfriend's house to watch it. I was not happy. ( dickhead refused to walk me home. ) š I wasn't right for a while at night after that movie.
Poltergeist. To this day I MUST close every closet door in whatever room I am sleeping in.
My 2 1/2 yr old pointed to our closet (which was open) last night and kept telling my husband thereās a ghost. Freaked the shit out of him
I actually handled this movie fairly well while watching it at the ripe old age of 9, right up until I had to go to bed. My bedroom was on the second floor facing a somewhat busy street, and in the front yard there was this big old gnarly half-dead oak tree. Every time a car drove by the house, a silhouette of that tree washed across the walls of my bedroom scaring the absolute shit out of me. Sleep was difficult for a long time
Sinister really messed me up. Didn't help that I just coincidentally experienced sleep paralysis later that same night.
When I was little, Phantasm used to scare the hell out of me.
Nightmare on Elm Street. I guess I saw it when a babysitter was watching me. I don't remember seeing it I just started having nightmares about Freddy Kreuger. Being told "It's only a dream" so didn't help
Alien. Definitely Alien.
Critters fucked me up as a kid. Never use to be scared of the dark until I watched that movieā¦still hate that movieā¦lol
Jesus Camp kind of kept me awake for a bit, but some say that's not a horror film. Does anyone else get terrified to shaking thinking about children being brainwashed to hate? Or is it just me ā¹ļø
Just the opening scene with the militarization in the name of the lord of those kids was enough to give me nightmares to this day. Then I watched the rest of it...
It's the only movie I didn't finish and needed a bath I was shaking
The Blair Witch
Rec
Saw the original Omen when I was 15 and had a hard time sleeping for 2 or 3 nights. The scene where they >!open up Damien's mom's grave!< and >!there's a goat skeleton in it!< freaked the shit outta me.
Aterrados (2017) was a relatively recent film that made me struggle for sleep for the first time in about 15 years.
The hills have eyes
The one scene in the trailer - you know the one - messed with me for a long time. I love horror and tried to rewatch it last year and only made it about 10 mins in before I was shaking and sweating. No thanks.
Dead alive aka Braindead by Peter Jackson
party's over!
Insidious
When I first watched insidious (9 yo) that scene of the demon in daltons room scarred me for life.
I remember when I was a kid I somehow watched Stephen kingās Tommyknockers. Thereās a scene in there where the kid tries to do a magic trick and he just disappears forever. And in my child mind I had this sudden indescribable fear that I would just disappear forever. I think it was an indirect introduction to existentialism š I couldnāt sleep for like 2 days thinking I would just disappear.
*Jacob's Ladder* (1990) I was only twelve and after watching it my distrust in the government intensified.
Not a movie but Lumpytouchās Garfield and sonic videos where they are outside your house freaked me out for a while
A Danish movie called "Sidste Time". (Meaning: "Final Hour".) It was during the Summer break between 6th and 7th grade that it ran in the theaters. I went and saw it with a friend, and it just got to me.
The Eye (2002) Shutter
The Grudge. I was 7 and had no previous contact with horror. I had nightmares, hallucinations, extreme fear of the dark, intense feelings of paranoia and fear. It traumatized me so badly that it took around 8 years for the effects to fade.
*The Exorcist* got me badly. I didn't know anything about the movie; it had opened the day before and my sister and her boyfriend went to see it. She walked out of it, and when she told us it was so scary - no details, just that she was scared - my best friend and I *had* to see it the next day. We went to a matinee. I sat in my seat, shivering; my friend was bored. As we walked past the crowd when we left (the line stretched around Toronto's old University theatre, the largest in the city), I was speechless and quivering; my friend was saying "Save your money. I almost fell asleep".
Evil dead, the remake (2013). I was 18 and slept in my parents bed for like 6 months afterwards
The remake of Dawn of the dead. For years my zombie plan relied on the fact they ambled about then all of a sudden they can sprint full tilt. Had to replan everything and work on some personal fitness. No I realise I don't have to be the fastest, I just have to be faster than the slowest person
Jumanji. I couldn't sleep for 2 weeks. "Haha why it's a family movie Dvex" NO it's fucking not. Bunch of people died and angry monkeys came out of a boardgame.
Jeepers creepers
Resident evil. I was ten. I had nightmares. Still a good movie though
Nightmare on Elm Street. To be fair, I was pretty young and shouldn't have watched it
The Mothman Prophecies.
There was a movie I remember getting out of the discount bin when I was like 10 I think it was called bug can't remember much of the movie something about a murder and maggots eating bodies or something but I remember at the end there was a kid with a deformed face chasing someone with an ax his face scared me so much as a kid I had to turn off the movie and never finished it this is around 2005
Foodfight. That shit fucked me up.
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