There were 2 movies i just remembered one had me so scared that i had to watch cartoons right after to stop me from having nightmares it was Squirm, it was about worms.
The other one i cant think of the name of it but something got into the food supply and it turned people into these disgusting looking frenzied psychos. I recall someone frying burgers or ppl at a picnic or something. Its called the Night of Something i cant remember.
"Konga": A movie about a huge ape that was used for medical experiments and escaped to wreck mayhem around town.
I was a paper boy at the time and on weekends I did my route in the predawn dark. One of the scenes showed a paper boy's bike crushed with the wheel still spinning and paper boy missing in the driveway of a customer's house.
People found newspapers in their bushes, under their cars, and even on the roof of the porch for a few weeks after seeing that movie. I refused to go up anyone's driveway to deliver the paper in the dark. I pitched them from the sidewalk or street which was just beyond my accurate range.
I wouldn't really say traumatized but i watched Jacob's Ladder when i was like 5 or 6. without permission of course and had nightmares for a good while of the scenes where Tim Robbins looked in the mirror and his head in the reflection started spinning. not bad for someone of a little older age but i was obviously way to young to be watching it
When I was eight years old, my parents made the stellar parenting decision of taking me and my sister (age 7 at the time) to go see the original “Amityville Horror” at the drive-in. At the time, we had just moved into an old farmhouse, and our dad could have won a James Brolin lookalike contest. To say this movie traumatized us might be an understatement.
During covid, I would workout in my garage at midnight 🕛 and very little light. Which, looking back was insane. But I would freak out because I swear I can feel the scientist with the fly head watching me! I would picture him in my head. And it doesn’t help that my garage kinda looks like his laboratory.
Also fire in the sky freaked me out! But rewatching it as an adult “I’m like Oooooooohh that’s where I get my fantasies from”
The Lost Boys. I slept with my covers over my head for months because for some reason I thought it would keep me safe from vampires coming through the window. I also took the garlic out of the kitchen and hid it under the bed. That didn't go over so well and my mom got mad.
The other movie is called The Curse actually thank you Reddit! Lol i had to ask ppl on reddit and they came thru for me! A meteorite hit it got into the water supply which cows drank so on and so forth. But that movie scared that bejesus out of me.
My mom took me to the movies once in the 90’s i was traumatized and cried cause i thought my dad was going to find us (he didn't approve of movies and tv) 😳 it was that weird nemo move (not finding nemo but the movie from the 90’s)
@HowtoDestroyAngels I'm right there with you on Salem's Lot. Every night since, had to make sure no floaty boys were in the fog, hanging outside the window. I also have a twin brother, which adds even more spookiness.
But there's one that freaked me out, and I have yet to revisit, called Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983).
At 5 years old, I had difficulty fully grasping what I was watching. But it was resoundingly very mysterious and dark. And Evil. But that's it. Can't remember specific things that happened. Well it was over 40 years ago. 😔
Also, the book has been on my bucket list of books.
@HowtoDestroyAngels also the part where they are trying to open Barlows coffin, and the others are waking up behind them, just does it. The tension and how slowly they're going about it, gave me the willys. Still does!
@DearAmbellina2113 I'll definitely catch it this next week sometime 😉 another obscure one that I recently found was The Keep. A couple of people you might recognize were in it.
@itsok now I'm curious, cause I just re-binged the whole series. Which one that is..... and Oh yeah that one.... and everytime I watch it, I'm like.. how the hell do they keep getting away with and keep the whole thing going without any interruption and interference?
Definitely It. I watched it when I was 6. Gave me nightmares for years. It probably made me be a bedwetter for a lot longer than I should have been. Still terrified of clowns.
@LordBarbossa I know, right? And while we're at it, we can have police officers dressed in blue but drop the badge, or have pastry chefs go to work without those big poofy hats. 😆
I know being scared of a certain type of people seems weird, and I can't fully explain it. But it's the way it is. Like being scared of anyone who owns a gun. You never know when they might snap,but I guess taking their guns away isn't a good option🤷
I love you buddy, but we're gonna have to disagree on the topic of clowns (this is coming from a person whos favorite actor actually wanted to be a professional clown back in the day)
@LordBarbossa I am grateful, sir, that you took my comment in the spirit it was intended. And I understand that fears aren't something we can argue away with logic, no matter how much we wish our brains worked that way.
It came out in 1982, and I watched it on semi-scrambled HBO, so I guess I was about 8 years old, watching Ted Danson drowning in the ocean buried up to his neck in sand.
@AngelUnforgiven The part that got me was that last jump scare when she reached out of the ground in that dream sequence. I screeched like a cartoon housewife who’d just seen a mouse.
