Scariest Movie You Saw Under The Age Of 12?

[PeterRR]

>people tried to get off the island by tying metal barrels together

Sounds like "The Killer Shrews."

Don C.

Wow thanks for the answer haven't seen movie since I was a kid will look for it on NETFLIX

[ctc]

>people tried to get off the island by tying metal barrels together

Sounds like "The Killer Shrews."

Don C.

[Adam West]

Again first truly scary movie was "The Birds"...I was also scared of "Creature from the Black Lagoon" for some reason and WOZ when I was younger. When I was about 13 or 14 I saw "Cujo" with my cousin who got me in. I wasn't scared at all. I have had dogs all my life and couldn't imagine a dog acting that way.

[Joe90]

Anybody remember the Japanese Film MATANGO!

aka Gilligan's Island on Mushrooms...

[PNGwynne]

I think you're remembering Night of the Demon (Curse of the Demon) directed by Jacques Tourneur. Simply one of the BEST horror movies ever.

I agree!

[PNGwynne]

I remember seein the Night Gallery re-run of the "Cool Air" episode around age
11 and being really terrified. That ending, whew!

Also, the "Prey" segment in Trilogy of Terror--that may have been first-run. The Zuni doll was sooo frightening, I kept thinking it would be creeping around my room at night.

[Richard J. Fowlks]

When I was nine, my cousins showed me both The Exorcist and Poltergeist on the same weekend when I was nine. Sick people. But they also showed me Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different, so I've forgiven them.

Not a movie per se, but I was TERRIFIED of the Thriller video when it first came out; I was 10.

[MIB41]

Without a doubt it was Jaws for me. I had just finished 4th grade heading into fifth that year and boy Jaws freaked me out. I went to see it with my dad. I can clearly remember wanting to leave the theater after I saw the Great White drag that swim instructor underwater. I was absolutely panicked. No film has ever scared me like that. My parents had to make me take a freakin' bath after two days of refusing. The very notion of seeing the surface of water scared me.I guess you could say I was traumatized by it. Of course now it's one of my all time favorites. I think that's true for alot of people. Anything that scares you, ends up fascinating you.

[jds1911a1]

I went to see Jaws when I was 11 (my aunt took me and my cousin). I don't believe we realised how scary that movie was to a couple of 11 year olds in "75. I still remember every time that music started, you could see half the people in the aisle pulling their legs up into the seats (to keep away from the shark!) JOHN

to quote Matt Hooper "I got that beat" but not my much

I was 4 it was a drive in movie and 2 weeks we were at the jersey shore. My brother said he felt something brush against his leg. my Mom thought he was playing a joke (we were infamous for rubber snakes and mice in the cupboards). he felt it again and told Mom and she said "if you think it's funny to trick me we're getting out of the water" which would have been a real punishment. as we got closer to the waterline 2 guys who had been golfing came running down the beach into the surf past us to club a 3 foot shark that was behind my brother to death (they had seen the fin behind him). It was probably sick or a docile species (like a sand shark) but in 75 Sharks were evil. Mom felt Terrible and shockingly I wouldn't go into the ocean again for a decade

[artskull]

I don't know the title of this movie and I havent seen it for close to 40 years, but man when I did see it some scenes scared me bigtime.

It was black and white (probably low budget)

It had devil worshippers.

Most outstanding thing I can remember was a giant devil coming down railroad tracks at night.

The giant devil appeared a few times (I think) ... usually surrounded by a cloud or smoke

I think you're remembering Night of the Demon (Curse of the Demon) directed by Jacques Tourneur. Simply one of the BEST horror movies ever.

[Mikey]

I don't know the title of this movie and I havent seen it for close to 40 years, but man when I did see it some scenes scared me bigtime.

It was black and white (probably low budget)

It had devil worshippers.

Most outstanding thing I can remember was a giant devil coming down railroad tracks at night.

The giant devil appeared a few times (I think) ... usually surrounded by a cloud or smoke

[PeterRR]

To me growing up in the 1960's the movie that really creep me out was Carnival Of Souls. The dancing seen the whole movie. I remember in another seen when she look out the window and there was one the zombies in the window. That seen bother me for years . When I when to bed and closed my shade in my room I never looked out window. Another movie the scared us growing up was a late night movie don't remember the name but there were these giant rat like creature (Not Food of the Gods) this was in black and white. What I remember the people tried to get off the island by tying metal barrels together turn them upside and get in and they headed for the water does anybody know the name of that movie haven't seen it in more then 30 years

[Joe90]

So many to mention.

The two that stick out for me this particular minute are The Bad Seed, and The Haunting (1963).

I also remember having dreams about being trapped in my Aunt and Uncles farmhouse by Ro-Man of Robot Monster fame. I can still remember peering out the window and seeing Ro-Man lurking on the edge of a large grove of trees out in the cow pasture. Scary stuff...

[drthielegood]

I remember seeing a version of Hanzel and Gretyl(sp) that scared the hell out of me as a kid. I don't remember much except for the fact that it was live action, everyone had english accents (I think) and they actually inferred that kids were being eaten by the witch. It was messed up..you actually met kids early in the film who were mysteriously gone a few scenes later. Anyone now this one.

anyway...scared me.

[captact]

I was 12 when i was "taken" to see THE EXCORCIST!!! MAN,..I was scared for a whole month , sleeping at night with the lights on and holding all night on a rosary,..DAMN,...that movie freaked me out!!!!