for me it had to be watching this when i was 8-9
truly terrifying 😆
in all seriousness though it did give me the willies 😯
The Omen
I watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was about 10 (gotta love grandparents...) but the first film to give me proper nightmares was The Creepshow, the bit with the thing in the crate (I was probably 11 or 12 and didn't sleep properly for months after).
Omen.
The Wizard of Oz when I was about five - the wicked witch of the west scared me witless...
The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang scared me 🙁
I think the rest of the film is what scares me now 🙁
101 Dalmations
Another one here for The Omen
My brother and I found a video of Hellraiser at 6am one morning when our parents were still in bed. We were very young, he was 5 and I was 7.
I remember feeling absolutely awful after it, I still remember some of the scenes (particularly a man with lots of nails in his face!), which is impressive since I haven't watched it since...however it started a long love affair with horror films for my brother!
Poltergeist. I had been told we were going to watch Chariots of Fire...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The early days of video, my dad foolishly let me rent it, watched it in broad daylight, from behind the couch.
Closely followed by Nightmare on Elm St. Saw that at the pictures and was so scared walking home from the train at night I had to walk up the middle of the road.
+1 for Poltergeist
Jaws. I was probably about 4.
I refused to go to the loo after watching it and wouldn't sleep on my own...
Jaws here too. I absolutely crapped myself.
Cujo - hid behind sofa . Dad thought my reaction was hilarious, git 😀
The Omen, think I was around 8 when I saw it, not good.
My dad also sneaked me into the cinema to see Alien around the same time because he thought "it would be a bit like StarWars", it wasn't.
Another one for Hellraiser 😯 Watched with a friend at his house, which was very isolated on the west coast of Cumbria, and very dark. Bad idea.
+1 Jaws – great film.
The Wiazard If Oz when I was about 4 years old.
The Shining, I guess, particularly the bits with the kid on the trike in the corridor.
Double posty
Salem's Lot for me too. I still have nighmares about David Soul's inability to close the bloody door on that yellow jeep.
Salem's lot
I remember this movie giving me nightmares when I was younger as i lived in the countryside with lots of scarecrows:
You can imagine what happens after this:
It.
Still haven't seen it all the way through and it is one of the only Stephen King supernatural/horror books I haven't read.
When I was quite young I could not watch this scene...
I have no idea why looking back on it...
TBH, the first film to properly scare me was the Blair Witch Project. It reminded me of going camping up in the wilds in the Forest of Dean as a kid and seeing freaky little houses...
can't remember which one i saw first out of the omen, mad max or the exorcist but it was one of those three.
American werewolf in London for me when I was about 10. Never got past the moors at the beginning. Put me right off it for years even though everyone used to say it was black comedy. When I finally plucked up the courage to watch it in my 20's it wasn't that bad after all. Also watched bram stokers Dracula with some mates in my teens while on magic mushrooms. That was, errr, interesting shall we say 😀 😳
Can't remember in which order but 'Evil Dead' was probably the 'first'.
Dreaded going to bed for weeks 😳
Another Jaws victim here, very young maybe 4-5
Dread to think what 'Dead Mans Shoes' would have done
Return to Oz:
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When I was about 8 I watched The Swarm at my grandparents house. That scared the bejeesus out of me for some time.
One that my mates' Mum + Dad had made...
No-one deserved to see that. 😯
The Omen and another, made-for-tv movie with Parker Stevenson (of Hardy Boys fame) called 'This House Possessed'.
Showing my youth here; the kitchen scene in Jurassic Park scared the bejeesus out of me!
To this day I still have to remind myself that Velociraptors are the size of a turkey...
Gremlins, i were a wee lad at the time!
i hid behind the couch.
As a kid hammer horrors scared the hell out of me.. Alien as an adult is a little 'tense' at times.
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As a kid hammer horrors scared the hell out of me.. Alien as an adult is a little 'tense' at times.
Bloody hell, how old are you?
American Werewolf in London.
SCARED THE SH!T OUT OF ME.
.....(still does)
I'm embarrased to say now that it was Thriller when I was about 5 or 6.
I watched Blair Witch project on acid with a few mates. Not the best of idea's. 😯
Midnight Lace.
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This one...
Six years old, and my 'behind the sofa' moment...
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.
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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.