[Closed] Films that wrecked my childhood

I think I watched King Kong at 2 yrs and too many horrors and hence desensitized to blood and gore.

I work as a haematologist now...

Jaws.
I was 20 before I swam in the ocean

ET.

I know he's friendly but HE'S UNDER MY BED!!

The Exorcist when I was 8. Didn't sleep for a week.

Only film that ever "affected" me as a kid was Ghostbusters - I remember waking up with a green blob at the end of my bed, so scared I couldnt actually speak/scream. Funny because I quite liked the slimer in the film.

Watership down was just depressing, can't imagine why anyone would WANT to watch it lol.

Ring of bright water. Cried like a girl.

Still can't see an otter without wanting to smash it's head in with a shovel...

lol MrSparkle 😀 same here.

American Werewolf in London, when I was 10.

I know it's "funny", but Im terrified if I try and watch it again.

The Goonies, I went missing for days after a holiday down in cornwall I never could find that cave with a secret pirate ship of treasure though I did find a skull on the beach once. Always thought one of my teachers at school was chunk.

Tarka the otter. That changed the course of my childhood from becoming a man, to making me cry like a girl.

Nightmare On Elm Street scared the shit out me when I was 11 😆

About 15 years later I plucked up the courage to watch it again and discovered how laughably bad it was.

Hey you guys!!!!!

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'Scum' convinced me I really, really din't want to go to Prison...

1979, I'm 11, watching the Oscars, they're handing out the award for best film, amongst the candidates is Alien. They show some clips.... 😯

Properly scared.

The Italian Job... what kind of ending is that, made me think for hours about how to get the gold off the bus.

the poison injecting robots in Runaway (1984) got to me
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Seen at about age nine or ten, I think.

Fields of any tall crop are creepy places, this captured that....

Bambi.

I roared my eyes out all the way home after his mam got shot.

In about 1972, I hasten to add...

If,

Scum

Queer as folk

My beutiful laundrette

and any party political broadcast by any member of the conservative party.

Neon Maniacs

Fire in the Sky. I watched that when I was about 7 and struggled to sleep properyl for a while after

defo scum, seen it when i was around 11, kinda warped my head and should never have seen it. made me part of who i am today, and not in a good way

the time i can remmeber being scared.
i was in my nans caravan in wheely everyone went to bed and i watched a horror film that was like 3 short parts one of which was called bobby or something.
about a woman who's son drowned and she used witchcraft to bring him back.
i have always watched horrors as a kid but when the kid walks up the stairs and says bobby didnt want to come back SO HE SENT ME!! and a devil face came out of the shaddows i had a coronary!!!
i must hve been 8-10yrs old

7 or 8 watching friday 13th the bit at the end when he jumps out of the water and drags her out of the boat......scared the living shit out of me I screamed like a girl, didnt sleep well for ages probably shouldn't have watched Halloween a few months later either

only the government safety films. I can't run on a beach in bare feet, and never will be able to.

Thanks.

Poltergeist - where a clown came out from under the bed and attacked someone in their bedroom.

Never liked clowns ever since.

Jaws had a profound effect on me, I no longer swim with giant foam rubber sharks.

Animal farm 😯

The Twilight Zone had me scared quite a bit when I was 10 or 11.

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, was the one with the gremlin on the plane wing

One I thought was really scary but cant find it in the Twilight Zone episode database had a big scary rabbit in it. It was a black and white film. Does anyone know what it was - woul dhave been early/mid 80s.

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Docudrama based around a nuclear attack on Sheffield

Absolutley scared the crap out of me, I dont think my parents knew what they'd let me watch!!

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Apaches (late 70s full length public information film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apaches_(Public_Information_Film)

Lots of kids get killed one by one in nasty farm accidents.

I am nearly 37 and still get freaked out at the though of the child drowning in a slurry pit.

Have just followed the link to 'Building Sites Bite' (referenced at the bottom of the wikipedia article). Thank god I never saw that one - as a child I though building sites were one big adventure playground!

Don't Look Now. Still unsettles me to watch it as an adult.

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If anyone knows this film, have they noticed the homage paid to it in the final scenes of Casino Royale ?

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Donnie Darko?

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or Harvey which was in black and white.
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Them public service adverts where the kid and his cat used to tell you about Fire etc. Freeked me out.

Oh and the lad climbing the pylon after his frisbee. I wouldnt go within a mile of a power station after that one

samuri - nope it was definately of the same generation as the Twilight Zone. Not DD.

I recall a kid playing in a room and this huge bunny (skinned? hairless?) being there.

Superman 3 with that woman who gets sucked into the computer and turned into a weird robot thing. Scared me so bad I have never liked having wardrobes in my room since...

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Stephen King's IT, the clown one, I saw it when I was about 11.

Always hated clowns since then

Pah! Clowns! I remember winding up a friend's son about a circus being in town when he was out getting logs for their fire one night. He had clown-phobia.

Ok, I cried a bit when i first saw "The Fox and the Hound" and "Watership Down" was a little sad too, but I think the worst was ET. I mean, poor alien!

Hahaha! Found it. It was a "rabbit trick".

Not for the faint-hearted.

(and not in black and white. funny how the mind deceives eh?)

I watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was 9 or 10, that didn't help with the sleeping :p
Only other thing that really gave me nightmares (think I was about 12) was the Creepshow one with the thing in the crate, I guess because it escapes at the end...

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Although watching them now I find it quite entertaining, when I was little these guys scared the crap out of me!

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And we watched it every Christmas!

Wooooooooooohahaha!

Loved it!

Let me see, there were a few. I watched a fair few scary films/tv shows growing up but only a handful stuck with me or genuinely gave me chills.

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Man ]The Twightlight Zone: Shadow Man[/url]

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie ]Twighlight zone the Movie, Terror at 20000 ft segment[/url]

The space baby mutant thing from "V".

Crows picking the eyes from dead knights in Excalibur.....there are a few others, I'm sure of it but they just are'nt sprining to mind yet.

No one scared of Zelda?

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I bloody well was...

'Birds' has ****ed me for life, 28 years later I still don't like birds in enclosed spaces , I was about 10 or 11 when I watched those seagulls go down the zipwire into the phone box!

That & tales of the unexpected, some of those were scary for a pre pubescent, but later on...

Not a film but the Doomwatch episode with the rats, you will have to be VV old to remember

Doom watch with the rats, and the toilet seat lid rises and falls down and then all of a sudden you see the rats head, would never go in the toilet for years if the seat was down, then i got some rats and they bred and i ended up with 48 of them , lovely little things they where, well recomended.

Labyrinth....with David Bowie.....the puppets were damn scary, they just popped up out of no where at any given time!!!!!!! :'(

the day of the trifids, scared me to death i was going to go blind if i went outside

Night Of The Demon,watched it when I was around 7 or 8.The scene where a bloke's being chased through the woods by some invisible beast that just leaves huge smoking footprints gave me nightmares for years.....

From when I was a kid . . . .

Jaws - To this day I still make sure I'm not the furthest person out to sea when I swim - so that someone else is easier shark bait than me. I even view big swimming pools with suspicion! 🙂

Dr Who - Some of the Jon Pertwee episodes with "The Master" scared me when I was 10. There was one about witchcraft in particular, but also the one where the maniquins came alive and had guns that came out of their hinged wrists 🙁

The Texas Chainsaw Masacare - Watched it at a friends and he had to walk me home at midnight afterwards! I was about 16. Slept with the light on for a week after that 🙂

triffids
jaws
building sites bite
apaches
jimmmmmmmmeeeee!

and that dark blooding horror public service advert for not swimming in cold lakes "we don't go there, not since the accident"

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers- the one with Donald Sutherland where the pods of the Boxer dog and his owner get damaged and the juices mix- result is boxer dog with man's face- can't look at a Boxer dog now without thinking of that.

Dead of Night.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_of_Night

Remember watching this as a kid with my mum during school holidays.

You will never be able to be in the same room as a ventriloquists dummy again!

Still a brilliant film now, although the accents are a bit 'cut glass'.

oh, eraserhead!

The Omega Man, Pretty scarey I felt made me really scared of the night for a while, yes I know it's a shit film but right time right age.

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As per SRO earlier, i'm sure this messed with many kids heads back in the day!!

Brief Encounter

Taught me, too early, that women don't want sex, they want security

Has to be [b]JAWS[/b] - love swimming, and water generally, but since that film I still get horrors in open water when I cant see the bottom.

Couple of years ago taking a 40ft yacht cross channel in a dead calm we motored over a bit of fishing net and fouled our prop.

Stationary with no wind so we couldn't sail out. We were in the middle of one of the shipping lanes. Radar showed 3 large vessels on intercept, about 4 miles or 10 mins away, each of them might not see us and run us down (one bloke on the bridge and he's on the loo trous round his ankles, reading the Daily Star). Over the side i went to cut clear the prop.

I wasn't too concerned about the cold water, the oncoming big ships, or the swell causing the boat to bounce up and down on top of me. I was really worried about 400ft of water beneath me and what might be in it. Damn that film, I never moved so fast and was relieved to be out of the water. And I wet the bed that night and had nightmares for a couple of weeks afterwards.

All purely based on the terror of swimming in open water and that fish 😯

Never been bothered that much by any other film.

I watched Watership Down once when I was in hospital as a kid - really traumatised me. Made even worse by the fact that I couldn't watch until the relatively happy ending, so just assumed it carried on being as bleak and dark.

I only managed to watch it again recently and get through the whole thing.

edit: just noticed that Plague Dogs is made by the same people as Watership Down, evil bastards. Glad I never saw that as a kid.

Midnight Express.
In a misspent youth, no way would I touch narcotics in a foreign land.

The Omen.
F*cked me right up. 😯

Grum, i totally agree.

Watership Down is ****ed up. I can't understand why it's a kids film and im my opinion you'd have to be a sadist to knowingly get a child under ten to watch it.

I'm glad i've never seen Plague Dogs too.

The Exorcist at 10. One bit where the lights are flashing on and off and she's having a fit, her face turns into a devil face. It's still burned oon my retina..

The Exorcist
La Cabina
Doctor Who
Tales of the Unexpected
Hammer House of Horrors

Also watched The Evil Dead as a 16 year old - I thought it was dead funny but it screwed my mate's head in so badly he couldn't sleep for days. One night he was left home alone by his dad and he made me stay with him until he fell asleep before I could let myself out and walk the 20 minutes back home at about midnight! Cheers Paul Cope for that one you great big girl's blouse. 🙂

Salem's Lot - Vampire two-part film

Threads - Post-nuclear war based in Sheffield

The first scene in Robocop made a profound impression on me when I was about 13 or 14 ish. The sheer fatalistic despair of a good man being tormented and shot dozens of times by those nasty bullies really got to me.

Crap film of course - and that scene was only thrown in there as a prelude to a robot shooting baddies but that's how these things work. For the same reason I left the room when Reservoir Dogs was being shown, at age 20 or so. Still haven't seen it all, and have no intention to.

There's a horrible rape scene in excaliber. Saw it when I was way too young.
That put me off rape.

Oh yeah and Scum that put me off male rape too.

Anybody seen Society?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_(film)

Ok I was in my late teens, but it still ****ed me up.

Robocop is not a crap film

it is wicked brills

Threads. Couldn't watch it all the way through.

The Sea Monsters in Dr Who. My dad told me they lived in my room at night and came out if I moved. I still sleep without moving.

2001, mostly the scene at the end as the starchild appears. I'm still freaked out by foetuses and similar-looking babies to this day.
There's a low budget British SF film called Xtro (which I must have seen at about 13ish) which had some fairly inventive, disturbing sequences.

My parents let me stay up and watch the end of "The Great Escape". I blubbed my eyes out when Donald Pleasance died. Can't remember how old I was but I do remember I was wearing a red Ladybird dressing gown. (With little ladybirds for buttons)

My dad had to be taken out of the cinema during the Wizard of Oz cos the flying monkeys scared him so much.

The first scene in Robocop ... Crap film of course... I left the room when Reservoir Dogs was being shown, at age 20 or so. Still haven't seen it all, and have no intention to.

Robocop and Reservoir Dogs are both great films. Fact.

only the government safety films

I remember being terrified by one about rabies. Can't remember any of the details, just that it sounded like the most horrendous thing ever and we were really fortunate that it hadn't spread to the UK.

The Fog, when i was about 12, i watched it around a friend's house and had to walk home alone afterwards in... the fog. I love that film now though, a million times better than the remake.

There was one episode of Hammer House of Horror that terrified me as a child. It involved a hitchiker in a rain mac with a long finger nail :0/

being terrified by one about rabies

That wouldn't be [url= http://www.startrader.co.uk/Action%20TV/guide80s/maddeath.htm ]'The Mad Death'[/url] would it, ChrisL? Don't know how my folks let me watch that, but it was gripping as well as terrifying. I'm sure it had a moment where someone opens a fridge to find a human head on a plate inside.... I think my reaction was: "AAaaaarrrgggghh, A FING HEAD ON A FING PLATE IN THE F***ING FRIDGE..." and not to open the fridge for about a fortnight!