Scariest Movie You Saw Under The Age Of 12?

[Earth 2 Chris]

Overall , the scariest thing on TV as a kid had to be Lady Elaine Fairchild. What was that evil bulbous nosed witch anyway? Did Mr.Roger's kid make that puppet at day camp? That thing was horrid! She would have been a perfect addition to the mego monster line.

Glad I wasn't the only kid traumatized by that particular puppet.

Chris

[palitoy]

Animal Farm.

I was four and thought it was a Disney cartoon.

[drzaius1]

Jaws freaked me out as a kid. The most effective scary movie i have ever seen is probably silence of the lambs. Even though i was probably 20 when that came out , that scene with the night vision goggles was tense.

Overall , the scariest thing on TV as a kid had to be Lady Elaine Fairchild. What was that evil bulbous nosed witch anyway? Did Mr.Roger's kid make that puppet at day camp? That thing was horrid! She would have been a perfect addition to the mego monster line.

[shyndman]

I remember a William Castle movie called Mr. Sardonicus which scared the heck out of me when I was little. It had this scene where the bad guy "punished" a woman with leeches. Ugh.

[ctc]

Heeheee....

So many classics! As a kid I wasn't scared by horror films. (Slept through most of the Exorcist, and rooted for the Alien; both when I was about 8.) But I gotta say you folks have mentioned a lot of stuff that I thought was awesome! Funny thing; when I got to the U, I met a LOT of people who were terrified of Dr Who as kids. (Many couldn't get past the opening music.)

Don C.

[Hector]

Trilogy of Terror (wooden statue episode)

Oh hell yeah...the Amelia episode...starring Karen Black.




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I just re-watched it...and I still get shivers...the ending is GREAT too!

[starsky]

jaws for me.

[HardyGirl]

OMG, have you ever seen the TV spots for Magic? A close up shot of that creepy dummy reciting a creepy poem. Gave me nightmares.

I saw a documentary on YouTube that said parents were really disturbed b/c this trailer was scaring the crap outta their kids. I wasn't really scared, a little creeped out, but I had to watch it every time it came on.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkx07HYylo

[HardyGirl]

Beyond the door.......I couldn't sleep for a week....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bDdncqvtfQ

Yup, I saw that one when I was like 10 or 11. That was my first exposure to "Home Box Office" (before it was called HBO), at a friend's babysitter's house. I wasn't as much scared as I was grossed out. But I thought I was a big shot at school the next day. I do remember one of the younger kids started off near the TV, and somewhere midway, she had backed up all the way across the room against the far wall w/ her thumb in her mouth. Same babysitter (not mine, the friend's) took us to see "Bug" about fire bugs. The part that freaked me out was when the girl picked up the phone receiver and the bug burned her ear. For a long time, I would look at the phone receiver before I started talking. The last I guess was a movie called "Rabid". Really GROSS! I basically covered my eyes and ears when a scary part came on, and I came home w/ really sore ears from smashing my hands against them so I couldn't hear the screaming.

[mego73]

House of Frankenstein when I was a kid. Inspired me to make Monster Cafe Saltillo...

But being REALLY scared are two movies I saw much later but the VHS covers scared me. Shock Treatment and Magic....

OMG, have you ever seen the TV spots for Magic? A close up shot of that creepy dummy reciting a creepy poem. Gave me nightmares.

Another scary commercial was this commercial for "The Hunger Project", which I think was a charity. The idea was to show a starving, emaciated boy morph into a healthy, fed one. This was the early 80's so they used airbrushed drawings until they faded into the healthy boy at the end. So, the commercial starts out with this ultra creepy, but almost photorealistic drawing of an emaciated boy in black and white underscored by creepy music, during the Voiceover they fade to drawings of him improving, until they go to then real boy in color.

That commercial terrorized me. It came on without without warning mostly at later at night or on Saturday Morning (!!). I used to avert my eyes during commercial breaks because I was afraid it would show up.

[werewolfz]

For me, it was Phantasm......that tall dude with the white hair just freaked me out.

[kingdom warrior]

Beyond the door.......I couldn't sleep for a week....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bDdncqvtfQ

[mego73]

The one that really got under my skin was the first network TV showing of The Exorcist. They took out the profanity and the crucifix scene but left the terror

Same deal for Carrie.

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

I went to the drive-in to see LOVE AT FIRST BITE (parent's choice, I think) and on another screen was some blood-drenched Hammer horror movie all blood and boobs. Talk about having an effect on a young psyche.

[sprytel]

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein scared the beejeezus out of me at age 4. My grandfather was a big A&C fan, and his TV was in the repair shop, so he came over to our house to watch it. I guess my parents assumed I'd be up for this, since I was so into super heroes and didn't mind the villains. When Lon Chaney started to change into the Wolfman I went bat-crap!!! My parents had to turn the TV off and my grandfather probably thought I was doomed to be a sissy my whole life. Took me years to get over that one. Now Larry Talbot is my favorite Universal character. Go figure.

I stayed away from scary movies all together until I saw "The Thing" when I was like 9 or so. What a movie to start out with!!! Ye gods that was just grossly disturbing!

Chris

When I was little, the Abbott and Costello monster movies scared me too. And I usually did ok with monster movies. But something about the mashup of genres bothered me. Quit goofing around, don't you realize that Frankenstein is right behind you!