What movies scared you (as a kid) ?

[bleit1701]

The original Salems Lot just plain creeps me out. Even today.

Halloween too. Though more then than now. They are so quiet it's eerie.

People under the Stairs and House of 1000 corpses are both just not right. Which also makes them creep fests.

[Mikey]

I always thought Horror at 37,000 ft was creepy...

[Den82]

I saw movies as a child, no child should see.

The ones that screwed me up most

Hills Have Eyes

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

I slept with a light on for YEARS because of this 1 movie. Didn't see the first 1 until years later and I used to avoid just seeing the video box in the video store, because it just told me it was far worse than the second.

Saw bits and pieces of Evil Dead.

House on Haunted Hill and 13 Ghosts terrified me.

I didn't see the Exorcist, but I remember coming attractions for it on HBO and I wouldn't dare even think about tying to see it.

Ironically, most of these films went on to become my favorites.

[megoapesnut]

A LOWWWW budget horror film titled Equinox. I was so scared I couldn't sleep for a few days. I would wake up in sweating terror. I tracked it down a few years ago and it is ABSURD! It was filmed by some college kids on a $200 budget and it shows.

[Brad]

Maggy has never seen The Wizard of Oz! When she told me this I thought she was kidding with me since she is 40 years old. I told her I would make her watch it someday just because. I have a version on VHS that is synched up to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon so maybe I'll show her that one.

[david_b]

Wizard of Oz, and my older brother took me to see 'Tommy' when I was young.. The sight of all the abusive Uncles and Tina as the Acid Queen was a bit much at a young age.

[Toy Talk]

Alien cost me at least one months worth of sleep.

Don't feel bad Sandy, Wizard of Oz gave me the weeby jeebies with those flying monkeys.

The House on Haunted Hill

[StrangeVisitor]

I don't why but this William Castle/Sid Caesar comedy gave me nightmares.

And..


I remember covering my eyes and going in the next room when they showed the subjects who'd been "mutated " by the teleporter. Now I can see it is a very mild scene.

[johnmiic]

Forgot the title, it involved creatures that sucked the bones out of people. When they were chopped open with an axe they were full of spaghetti.

I think that was: Island of Terror w/Peter Cushing.

Island of Terror (1966) - IMDb

Baron Blood. Attack of the Moonbeast, Terror Train, Gargoyles, 1972, The Crawling Eye, Dawn of the Dead, lots of Lost In Space episodes used to scare me.

There's one I can't remember the title of where the people on this island couldn't get on a raft and escape to sea because there were some tiny creatures that were in the water and they would get thru the wood and devour you. They were portrayed like radioactive glowing particles.

[Cmonster]

The Wizard of Oz scared the living daylights out me when I was really little. No lie.

SC

[The Toyroom]

The Omen....I still can't standing chanting and movies with creepy kids..."It's all for you Damien!"

[thunderbolt]

Forgot the title, it involved creatures that sucked the bones out of people. When they were chopped open with an axe they were full of spaghetti.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I was a weird kid; horror movies didn't scare me. (I used to root for the monsters. Make of that what you will....) But there was ONE that freaked me right out, and I don't know why. I THINK it was called "The Raven" and was about a dude who was a giant were-bird.

Don C.

[wolfie]

The House by The Cemetary.

I should never have been watching this at the age i did.

[almitysufx]

Gargoyles, 1972, haven't thought about that movie in a long time. I don't remember much about it at all, except checking under my bed for a while after.lol
That and Jaws.