Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Event Horizon. I couldn’t sleep for days as an 11 year old! Love it now, but man, way too scary.
Sam Neillalmost seemed apologetic about how it turned out after editing in an interview.
Jaws when I was six. Even swimming pools make me uncomfortable.
Interview with the Vampire. I was waaaay too young to be watching that, and the scene where the light comes out and burns that one to a crisp scared the hell out of me. I remember having trouble falling asleep for a couple nights after that.
That scene was absolutely horrifying to watch the first time I saw the movie and I must have been in my mid-late teens at that point…
Watership Down
My parents thought it was a nice cartoon about rabbits I guess. Weirdly, My nightmares where mostly about the intro with the special art style, mostly…
They showed us that in primary school, i loved the book as a kid but that cartoon was gory.
Oh it’s a nice cartoon about rabbits, very child-friendly! The fact that the Wikipedia article has a section called “Effects on children and BBFC classification” that opens with
Watership Down has developed a reputation as a distressing children’s text, with Ed Power of The Independent describing the film in a 40th anniversary retrospective as a “classic” but which “arguably traumatised an entire generation”.
sums it up pretty well!
Nothing but Trouble
it’s like some horrible fever dream
The movie that actually fucked me up for a bit as a kid was some black and white movie about spiders that took over a small town. I don’t remember a single thing about the movie, other than crates/the town absolutely covered in webs and people getting wrapped up like bugs.
I’m pretty sure you mean Arachnophobia, which is the film I came here to mention.
Someone put it on at a slumber party before I could see what it was (definitely wouldn’t have stuck around if I knew what was coming). It kept me up for months and months, and intensified an already existing phobia. It’s like 30 years later and I’ll still occasionally wake up in horror from seeing huge spiders in my dreams…
That one put me in fear every time I walked into a room in my house for weeks. I would always be looking above the door and to the sides, just in case a spider was on the wall ready to pounce. ugh!
I’ve seen arachnophobia, but I’m pretty sure that’s not it. I just rewatched the trailer and I definitely don’t see anything that looks like what i see in my head from the flick im thinking of.
Huh, well now I know there’s another spider horror film out there for me to avoid, but not what it’s called, so that’s fun lol
Mostly kidding, but if you do remember the name at some point, please do share! 😂I’ll try to remember if the title ever comes to me. I’ve been tilting at this windmill periodically for years, so I don’t have much hope.
Take care stranger.
You’re good, and who knows, maybe today is the day some other random stranger ends your search, it’s just wasn’t me lol
And thanks, right back at you!
Was it one big spider? If so there are several.
If it wasn’t in black and white there’s a few other options
I don’t recall if there was a massive spider, but I checked out that trailer and it didn’t look super familiar. Pretty sure it was in black and white, but I could be wrong. I just have a vivid memory of the crates covered in spiders/webs, and it may have been the crate that brought the spider there. Also people wrapped up in cocoons ready to be eaten/already drained.
Could it be Eight Legged Freaks? It’s not black and white but most of the action does take place at night. Giant spiders taking over a small American town, stuff covered in webs, and people in cocoons being eaten/drained.
Pretty sure 8 legged freaks is too new to be the movie I’m thinking of, it probably wouldn’t have been on ota TV in the late 90s/early 00s.
I already mentioned one movie in a reply (Arachnophobia), but another that really sticks out, and which I watched at an even younger age is The NeverEnding Story.
I remember being around 5 or 6 at a friends’ house, parents just left all the toddlers in the playroom in front of the movie and had their social gathering, meanwhile I’m terrified and hysterically crying my eyes out (I’m sure at least a couple of the other kids were too, but I can’t remember)…
Artax in the swamp destroyed me completely, and the Darkness and the Sphynx statues, and even Morla scared the living shit out of me (yes, they left us there to watch the entire movie).I still can’t bare to watch the swamp scene.
at a friend’s* house
Killer Clowns from Outer Space. That was one creepy fucking movie.
My wife’s cousin has been terrified of clowns since he was 5 because of this movie.
I actually love it, it’s pretty great :)
I knew someone else was traumatized by KCFOS.
Sybil
Terminator 2
I was way too young, grandmaw had to go to a matinee. Boy, she did love Arnold.
The Big Boss, there is a scene where some killed guys are frozen in a ice factory and their bodies cut into smaller pieces. I was watching it through the door which was opened just a little bit instead of sleeping, while my dad and uncle where watching it.
A Nightmare on Elm Street. I think I was ten? That was not a good night’s rest.
In 5th grade Catholic middle school they show us an anti drug movie hosted by Rosey Grier. There’s clips of people going through withdrawal, photos of people who smuggled drugs under incisions in their skin, all kinds of horrible stuff. It was similar to the real life gore movies they used to show during driver’s ed classes. They did apologize after realizing they messed up. It’s no wonder I didn’t try weed until I was 18. I haven’t been able to find this on the internet
American History X. I wasn’t ready for the curb scene.
As an adult I wasn’t ready for the curb scene! Poop, now I’m thinking about it.
It’s just so intense and realistic. I’ve learned to cope with splatter, but this is personal and cruel.
So true! And it’s something that I had never thought of before seeing the movie.
The Exorcist
