What Movie Scared You the Most as a Child

I'm a life long horror fan. That being said most horror movies (even the ones I love) don't really 'scare' me because I know it's just a movie. However, when I was a kid, I'm talking young kid here, before kindergarten, I saw Troll, and it scared the living jeebus out of me. Watching it now, it's laughable, but growing up I couldn't watch even part of it without it keeping me up at night.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else? If so, what movie was it that scared the poo out of you as a kid.

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James

Nightmare on Elm Street. Watched this at a sleepover party, of course I was the one right on the edge of the room next to the door(we all set our sleeping bags in a row along the room next to each other), was looking round the side the whole night after watching Nightmare on Elm Street...

Apart from that film, the only thing to really really scare me in the Horror world was a British television programme called Ghost Watch. Eek!!

You can see an edited video here of all the sightings throughout the programme of Mr. Pipes, don't watch if you want to see the whole programme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSswG04zvc

As did, not a Horror, the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Not the whole film, only the character JUDGE DOOM, especially in his evil form... I couldn't sleep because the image of him in loony form kept appearing on the ceiling of my bedroom.

Urgh, especially this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfhV5oC-WK8&feature=related

Ghost Watch was superb. Looking back at it now though it's hard to see how so many people were fooled by it. The presenters were fine but the acting by the family was terrible.

For me, 2 films used to terrify me when I was young. Salem's Lot and The Thing.

Yeah it was the early 90s when it was shown, and for me anyway it was at an age where I didn't really notice dodgy acting, I would have been too scared lol.

As a kid my sister was terrified the Big Bertha (I think that was her name) from Peewee's big adventure, the scene were the trucker's face went all claymation and grotesque. I still give her shit about that, and then she just reminds me of troll and I shut up.

When I was a kid, I was scared shitless by one of the characters from Moomin.

http://www.kijo.no/wp-content/uploads/hufsa.jpg

At the age of 10 or so I watched Nightmare on Elm Street III after my dad fell asleep. That frightened me for years to come.

Leprechaun I

I was scared of the Leprechaun, I didn't really understand what was going on in the films.

When I was younger Michaels Myers breathin under his mask used to scare the shit out of me.

The Shining scared the holy hell out of me when I was younger. My mom tricked me into watching it when I was about 11 years old and I didn't sleep at all that night.

Only movie that scared me when I was young.

Hellraiser. I think I was about 4 years old when I saw it. Scared the living shit out me.

Nightmare on Elmstreet: Dream Warriors I accidently saw it when I was 3 years, well I think it left a mark on me 🙂

The melting guy from Robocop 1 scared the shit out of me aswell

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]Chucky....

I was always afraid of dolls coming to life & killing me, so when it was in the movies, I had another reason to fear.

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IT and Poltergeist III. I couldn't get past the scene in Poltergeist III when the girl was pulled into a puddle by the hands of the poltergeist.

Nothing really scared me that I could remember but Pet Sematary was creepy and so was Maximum Overdrive.

Halloween 2 (really don't know why, now thinking about it) and Ghostwatch, for those to young or outside the UK, here is what it was about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch

The mummy and the haunting re-make....dunno why but those movies made me sh*t myself when I was young, now when I see them though nothing 🙂

That's the thing about seeing a horror movie when you're young - not matter how jaded you can get later, the memories of you being scared when you were young just stick in your DNA.
The first Halloween was maybe the first film that unnerved me.
The first couple of Friday the 13ths made me scared at night whenever we were at the cottage.

Originally posted by BackFire
The Shining scared the holy hell out of me when I was younger. My mom tricked me into watching it when I was about 11 years old and I didn't sleep at all that night.

Only movie that scared me when I was young.

I saw the Shining when I was around the same age, pretty scary stuff. The scene where we see the guy in the bear suit, scared the crap out of me.

Rawhead rex and Tale from the darkside. You know the last story..,the one where the guy gets hooked up with a gargoyle and shit. Don't know why, but that and the opening sequence to Twilight Zone. That was the type of horror i went for