Your most traumatic childhood movie experience.

[Quorthon]

So what were your most traumatic movie experiences?

Mine were the following:

Cujo (I was about 4 when I saw it)
Pet Semetary
It's Alive

It was made all the worse by staying at the house of horrors that passed for my Grandma's house. In the ceiling was an attic door--like the one the mom swung from in Pet Semetary, which was over the bed we'd use which was big enough for Gauge to hide under and above the bed? The nastiest picture of a Saint Bernard to ever coat a canvas. Imagine the terror.

Later, that terrifying Cujo painting was replaced by an equally creepy one of Jesus.

And those killer babies... Why, oh why did my parents watch that at CHRISTMAS?!

[LivingDeadGirl]

Probably the first time I watched The Exorcist....and it still creeps me out today.
And...the first time I saw Amityville Horror. Not too scary now days, but I was a kid back then.

[Heineken Skywalker]

livingdeadgirl said:

Probably the first time I watched The Exorcist....and it still creeps me out today.

Ditto. I was quite young the first time I saw it and I guess it's just stayed with me all this time.
When I was even younger, we're talking a very little kid, maybe 4 or so, I was at a relative's house and the kids were watching THE WIZARD OF OZ. I'd never even heard of it, let alone seen it before, and I happened to walk in during the scene which featured the Wicked Witch ordering her flying monkeys to capture Dorothy. Laugh if you must, but those flying monkeys scared the hell out of me and I ran out of the room.
I love that movie now, but it really fucked me up that night.

[DrLenera]

Salem's Lot-the vampire boy visiting his friend and knocking on the window,his arms moving like those of a puppet

V [miniseries]-the 'rebel' leader is kidnapped by the aliens who try and 'convert' her by feeding her dreams of going along dark corridors pursued by big insects and such like

Invasion of the Body Snatchers [original]-all of it

Poltergeist 2-at the cinema,that evil ghostly priest,even though I was 14 {a year underage!]

[LivingDeadGirl]

heinekenskywalker said:

Laugh if you must, but those flying monkeys scared the hell out of me and I ran out of the room.

I hate those monkeys, they're still creepy even after watching the movie a zillion times. And I fell asleep watching it last night so guess what I dreamed about? Those damn monkeys!

[LivingDeadGirl]

drlenera said:

Salem's Lot-the vampire boy visiting his friend and knocking on the window,his arms moving like those of a puppet

Eww, that scene got me the first time I watched the movie. Love it! And of course it was the inspiration for that scene in Lost Boys where Michael is floating outside of Sam's window.

[Quorthon]

livingdeadgirl said:

heinekenskywalker said:

Laugh if you must, but those flying monkeys scared the hell out of me and I ran out of the room.

I hate those monkeys, they're still creepy even after watching the movie a zillion times. And I fell asleep watching it last night so guess what I dreamed about? Those damn monkeys!

That's actually pretty damn funny.

[slayrrr666]

I'd say mine was Jaws. I first saw it when I was six or seven. I had just started to learn how to swim, and there was a TV in the living room, which over-looked the pool, and you could see inside the room to look at the TV screen. It was the scene when the fisherman in the small pool is attacked, and when you see the shape gliding through the water and the guy falls under, and then you see his dismembered, bleeding leg falling down to the bottom? Fuck me, that creeped me out, and it wasn't until I was about eleven that I could go into the water.
Right after that, we moved and we lived with our uncle (the person who got me into Metal and classic, or pre-1968 horror films) and stayed there while the house was being renovated. I stumbled upon his Vincent Price collection, and The House on Haunted Hill was one I wanted to see, and at the part where that ghost pops up and then floats away, I became afraid of being in the hallway alone again. The house where we moved into looked similar to that one inside. Those were my two horrific childhood experiences.

[frankenjohn]

After watching "The Blair Witch Project," I am afraid to go into the woods alone again.

[LivingDeadGirl]

I was kinda creeped out after the first time I watched it too....but my house is surrounded by woods so that may have had something to do with it. And to think, as a child I used to play alone in those woods all the time & didn't think a thing of it.

[slayrrr666]

I never really got The Blair Witch Project. It seemed to over-the-top with the editing, and that fuzz in the camera just ruined it. I never really was scared of it.

[Quorthon]

It made me so motion sick that I for a couple years I had immense trouble playing first-person video games. Which sucked because my games class at college used the Quake II engine...

I built an extremely tiny deathmatch arena that had pillars everywhere only 3 weapons--all the most powerful and explosive. In about 10 minutes me and another guy killed each other over 50 times each--and I was seconds away from puking. Very bad idea to make that stage. Worse idea to test it.

[JayPee]

i know they're not horror movies, but two movies that made me poop my pants as a kid were Lord of the Flies (i can still see them dropping that rock on Piggy when i close my eyes!) and Willy Wonka (only the part where Violet turns into a blueberry).

[Phoenix]

I've mentioned mine on The Board somewhere before:

Sleepaway Camp
Aliens

[josipbrozbadboy]

The first theater film I saw was Conan the destroyer at 5, you probably won´t know it but stuff like Endgame - bronx lotta finale is not something that 8 year olds hould see.

come on, Cujo and Pet... are like childrens films