WWAWD old movie effects that scared you as a child.

[Meownaw]

They played that low key BBC show over there? I'm surprised.

It was on VHS.

 

[Bernard Murphy]

I remember seeing Species as a kid, and the scenes genuinely scared and confused me. Surprisingly, I'm not into tentacle porn.

 

[TheNanaDook]

Just about everything from Event Horizon. I saw it once when i was like 12 and it messed me up. I’m sure it’s cornball shit now, but i don’t want to ruin a memory of a true horror movie so i refuse to go back and rewatch it

 

[Lamont & Tonelli]

It was on VHS.

And PBS, I think I still have my old tapes I recorded off the TV. They played Lion, Witch , Prince Caspian, and I think there was a third series that I don't recall. Maugrim and the sea monster from Prince Caspian freaked me the fuck out.

The water torture machine in Princess Bride, Gmork the wolf monster from Neverending Story, and the Mars atmosphere "HYAULGH" scenes from Total Recall. I haven't seen Princess Bride since, so I have no idea if it still holds up as horrifying.

 

[DiarrheaDick]

I think I was 4 or 5 when I first saw Howard the Duck and I'm honestly not sure why my parents thought it was an appropriate film for me to watch. It was in regular rotation at my house and there some scenes, including this one, I'd sit out if it was dark outside.



Not sure why exactly, but whatever specific thing an audio engineer did with the dinosaur roaring literally gave me nightmares.

Stop motion in general is so much more creepy than CGI to me.

 

[guest]

They played that low key BBC show over there? I'm surprised.

Another American here who rented the VHS set. The Silver Chair slapped.

 

[Meownaw]

Another American here who rented the VHS set. The Silver Chair slapped.

I wonder if they hold up. I enjoyed them a lot even though I had a constant feeling of fear and dread watching them as a kid.

 

[guest]

I wonder if they hold up. I enjoyed them a lot even though I had a constant feeling of fear and dread watching them as a kid.

I feel like they'd hold up better than the Disney ones, at least. It's funny you describe them that way, I got that too. There was a sense of unease that ran through all of them.

 

[Mr-Wrinkle-Paws]

In the 70's WPIX intro to the horror movies late at night scared the bejesus out of little kids

 

[Meownaw]

I feel like they'd hold up better than the Disney ones, at least. It's funny you describe them that way, I got that too. There was a sense of unease that ran through all of them.

I got those same feelings looking at I Spy books as a kid. Just look at this shit.

 

[Lamont & Tonelli]

Thread brought this one back from when I was like 3 and saw it at the next door neighbors. The eye in the hand was gruesome enough, then the kid stabs himself in his own hand with a shard of broken glass.

 

[Skatole C9H9N]

Anything from The Fly

 

[Carl Winslow]

Opening part of Ghostbusters

 

[Carl Winslow]

There was a Japan cartoon called Unico ??

There was a part where the bad guy’s eye did something and it scared the fuck out of me at like 3 years old. It took me like 20 years to even get the title of the fucking movie

 

[bumbum8]

Large Marge for sure and "Welcome to hell, motherfuckers" from Tales from the Hood

 

[eggfeller]

the Large Marge scene fucked me up too. saw Poltergeist when i was 6 & started crying in terror when the skeletons started coming out of the swimming pool. rewatched it recently & it was unbelievable how something so corny could have struck fear into my heart like that. i feel mildly validated knowing now that they were real skeletons though

 

[Pino_palladino]

I had the view master reel of thriller. Freaked me out. I was confused as to why my parents would give that to me as a present

 

[Uncle Floyd]

I'd flip the channel during the intro and wait until the show had started. Something about that shot of the tall white trees scared the bejeezus out of me.

 

[LiberalPussy]

I was like six when I saw this and it freaked me out.

 

[guest]

I got a movie effect that scared you as a child right here