Jaws - as a 7 year old it was terrifying.
As a very small kid Pinocchio scared me very badly.
Tears, screaming, removed from cinema etc.
Still can't stand it today.
As a good Catholic kid, the Omen was very, very scary indeed.
Love it now though.
And an old British horror film called Dead of Night contains a segment with a talking ventriloquists dummy - scares me even now.
As an adult, I thought The Shining & Halloween were both superb.
The Shining is a very, very dark movie indeed.
Bloody hell, how old are you?
47 why ❓
Alien, still haven't watched it from start to end!
PJ
As a child it was the wizard of oz and jaws, as an adult the ring, I was hiding behind my popcorn!
I watched something when I was around 8 with my sister. It was black and white with a bed sheet that cane to life it was possibly stop-motion as the movement was really jerky. I was petrified. Our house was been renovated and we were sharing a bedroom for a bit, for weeks I lay awake looking at her bed thinking the cover was going to kill us. Never been able to find what it was we watched but we both remember it vividly.
Salems lot, and that evil little ****er tapping on the window! What didn't help was where we lived at the time!
king-ocelot: possibly "oh whistle and I'll come to you" by M.R James. On YouTube...
I watched The Shining at a mates house when I was about 9 and needless to say I was bricking it. What made it worse was returning to an empty house and wandering through the living room 100% certain I was alone and still being freaked out. When my mum, who should have been out, said hello I literally jumped/scrambled over the sofa, shouting gibberish to get away...
Think she could tell I'd been watching something I shouldn't have been!
As an adult Event Horizon was disturbing.
Not read any of this but....
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Utterly terrified me. Only ever shown once on UK tv so big points score if you know it...
There were probably others before it, but I'll always remember being petrified the first time I saw the scene in Aliens where Ripley is locked in the med-bay and the face-huggers have been released!
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Oh, God, The Telephone Box!
I did see it.
The scene at the end in the big cave was a bit of a shocker.
I'd forgotten about that till now.
Oh, God, The Telephone Box!
Well yeah, actually called La Cabina - a Spanish short film. For years after I would wedge open telephone box doors with my foot just in case.
EDIT: And I have just ordered two copies, one each for my brothers for Christmas presents 🙂
king-ocelot: possibly "oh whistle and I'll come to you" by M.R James. On YouTube...
Wow thanks! I have been looking for that for years, I thought it was older than that and American. That bed cover bit is just as I remember it but the rest of the play slightly different.
Watch from 10:40 if you can't bothered with the rest, I can remember being shown this at school and having nightmares about it for weeks afterwards....
The kid at the window in Salem's Lot!
That clown under the bed in Poltergeist scared the crap outta me as a kid!
John Carpenter's The Fog when I was about eleven.
Have been a massive horror fan ever since.
As a child - Omen
Amazed no one has mentioned 'Blair Witch' - that really freaked me.
And possibly wierdly 'Touching the Void' - I was almost sick watching that.
Jaws
This one. I was only 7, and our house backed onto woodland. I would get shadows of trees on my curtains. Quite understandable really.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078203/
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The last bit of 'Carrie' where she pops up out of the grave.
First film: Jaws.
But first memory of being scared whilst watching TV: The Tomorrow People theme music. Still scares me now.
Seems daft now but Candyman was pretty scary.
The Devil Rides Out proper scared me when I was about 10.
Can't even look at a goat...
Jaws for me when it first came out at Stourbridge Cinema with Alison McKenzie - our first date.
Ben Gardner's head appearing through the hole in the hull. I wasn't expecting that.
Not strictly a film, but "The Singing Ringing Tree"
That bastard dwarf gave me nightmares for weeks.
But first memory of being scared whilst watching TV: The Tomorrow People theme music. Still scares me now.
Same here.
Jaws
Cracking thread this... I think i have 99% of the films mentioned on DVD, i do love horror films.
The devil rides out, total classic that. Love it.
Children of the corn.... scarey !!!!
I love the Saw series..
For me though i believe it was Dr Who. Tom Baker series on a Sat evening down in my nans.
Not sure which I saw first - the Omen or Psycho. Both scared me when I was about 10 but Psycho in a funny way.
Sure I saw the film about the phone box twice! Brilliant.
Sure I saw the film about the phone box twice! Brilliant.
Just looked - apparently it has been shown three times. I think I saw it on the first airing in 1975 - when I was just 8!
Not a film but a "children's" TV show called "The Changes" when I was but a littly. Uncomfortable viewing.
just watching SAW 3 now.... shheeeeesh it's a bit strong !!!!!
The Original Psycho, saw it as a kid, nightmare.
Funny, never been scared of much in real life, but hate scary movies never been to one from that day to this.
Blimey first films to scare most of you were horror films!
I used to sh!t it when the following came on TV: Daleks on Dr Who, The Incredible Hulk (when he got angry) and Darth Vader. I wasn't too keen on the Wicked Witch of the West either.
The first horror films I remember were Nightmare on Elm Street (Jnr seems obsessed with Freddie at the moment for some reason) and Poltergeist. Can't remember them scaring me.
American Werewolf in London did. As did Ghos****ch.
Another vote for the kid tapping at the window in Salem's lot. Then the Omen sometime after that.
Jaws as well, or some awful werewolf / zombie horror thing that my brother forced me to watch when he was babysitting me at a very young age and was hugely amused when I was frankly terrified. Didn't sleep properly again for years and was forever checking outside the windows.
Jacobs Ladder. v disturbing, even now.
Sapphire and Steel for proper scary TV shows.
Jacobs Ladder. v disturbing, even now.
I think that's the closest I've come to walking out of the cinema.
A Nightmare on Elm Street and Robocop. Both when I was about 12.
I struggle to watch The Fly even now. Not particularly scary but very disturbing!
Hitchcock's The Birds. I rode through Bodega Bay the other day, still gives me shivers.
