I don't know if it was the first movie that scared me, but its the first one that comes to mind. It would have to be "IT". I was so scared after watching it, that I couldn't go near anything clown related for weeks. I also stopped using "it" in a sentence for about a month. Suprisingly, my English mark dropped ๐.
The first horror movie to ever scare me was the first horror movie I ever watched:
Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
I was around 9-10 years old and me and my mates were round at my house watching the movie and it scared the shit out of us. I had to go to the doctor to get sleep pills as I couldnt get to sleep. tbh I was scared of that movie for about 2 years and never watched a horror movie again till i was 14. Looking back now and laughing at my favourite horror character (Mr Krueger), I like the movie but still see how I was scared.
Discos - it left a deep scar
hey i know i'm new to this but come on you have to be for real the movies are only scary if it could really happen those are the ones that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up and make you look over your shoulder. but i would have to say ARACHNOPHOBIA not that it would happen like that but i experenced it one christmas we bought a tree and after having it in the house the spider eggs hached and there were spiders all over my house very creepy now thats scary now thats reality ๐ฑ ๐ฑ ๐ฑ ๐ฑ ๐ฑ
Ill agree with Child's Play being the first to scare. Which I think will be true for most children of the 80's, it has more scare value to younger viewers b/c who didnt have some kind of doll or action fig. or something in their room that, after viewing the movie, thought would come alive while you slept!