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QUESTION: What movie traumatized you as a kid?
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The Water Cooler – What Movie Traumatized You When You Were A Kid?
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We’d watch “Shock-It-To-Me Theater” on channel 20.
That was before “Creature Features” on channel 2.
🙂
It
“Deliverance “
I saw it in the movie theater when it came out. I was 5 years old.
“ Squeal like a pig”
“You sure got a pretty mouth”
How did you manage to get into a movie theater to see “Deliverance”, that is not a movie for children, espcially at such a young age as 5 years old!
@ Hanne
Parents of course.
I guess Danish and American movie theaters are different. In Denmark you would not be able to bring a 5 year old to a movie that has an x rating. No, they don’t demand to see proof, but someone that young would not be able to get into a movie like “Deliverance”. Having said that the Danish censors are not as strict as the US, and someone over I think 13 or 14 can get in if with a parent or other adult.
None… real life was traumatizing enough – movies were a welcome break
That does not sound too good. Hope you weren’t traumatized for life.
Piranha and Jaws, not fun when lived on the water in disco Bay at the time LOL
Amityville Horror. Never looked at a fireplace the same way again.
When I was a little kid, probably about 8 or 9, it was the Frankenstein, Dracula, Mummy, and Werewolf movies that scared me. I’d sit Indian style with my legs up on the seat because I thought the monster might be under me, and grab my legs and pull me down. AT night, I’d lay awake in bed thinking about the monster, and thinking he’s going to come and get me. I’d look out the window but didn’t see any monsters, go back to bed, and still couldn’t sleep. Intellectually, I knew it’s only a movie with an actor playing the monster, but it still had me worried. Being scared was a big part of the experience, and never stopped me from going to the Saturday matinée with my friends to see another scary movie.
Hey Dawg: That Saturday afternoon scary movie at the Lafayette Park Theater was
WAR of THE WORLDS!! I was 8 or 9. YIEKE!!!!
‘Northwest Frontier”.
There was a scene where a railway bridge had been blown up, leaving a portion with only the two rails crossing the gap. The people crossed by balancing along one of the rails. One misstep and they would have fallen hundreds of feet to their deaths. A small boy (about my age at the time) had to balance his way across too, and nearly fell.
I had falling dreams for years after seeing that.
Exorcist!
War of the Worlds (the original) at the theater by myself. Had nightmares
The exorcist and Chuckie
When I was a kid my parents took me to see ‘The Fog’, I would get scared to go outside if it was foggy out foe months after. Now I’m just scared to go outside under any weather.
Dementia 13, Phantasm, The Exorcist, Bloodsucking Freaks (please never ever watch the latter)
@Paranoid Pablito
Phantasm………….”BOY”. That was so creepy.
Friday the 13th, it was rough doing my paper route the next morning.
Black Christmas
Perhaps “Bambi” can’t even remember if I saw it, but I knew the story. My childhood home was very close to a small forrest, and seeing deers and other animals were normal, I couldn’t stand the thought of harm happening to these cut animals. My parents didn’t allow me to go to, or take me to scarry movies, and we didn’t get a TV until I was a teenager.
Halloween, the original.
ARACHNAPHOBIA.
https://youtu.be/RQWSh7Db-_E Scene of Tornado in Wizard of Oz. Never got to see it until I was ill and could go to church @6pm that Sunday, as it would play on TV on Sunday I think annually? Right at 6pm. When I did, pow! Didn’t help feeling sick. 🙂
my sister would have nightmares about the Wicked Witch …
On the Beach. Too young, but my folks took me. Really traumatized. The story was terrifying, about what happens after widespread nuclear war; people taking suicide pills in Australia rather than go through radiation sickness & painful death; the submarine crew that beaches in SF and finds dead bodies at a patio table (I think). So traumatic for a kid that I have never watched the film as an adult, or read the book.
I saw that movie when I was 18 or 19, and it was scary, since at that time we were in the middle of the cold war, I’m pretty sure I saw it after the Cuban Missile Crisis, since I saw it when I lived in Copenhagen and I didn’t move to Copenhagen until November 1963. The story line interested me, but I also had a huge crush on Anthony Perkins, and like Gregory Peck as well. It is available for free on Utube, altough some scenes are cut out, I saw it again a few months ago (Anthoney Perkins still a pleasure to look at)and there were no scenes of dead bodies on a patio table.
Waterloo Bridge. Saw as a teen and cried most of the night it had such a sad ending. I’ve never watched whenever it come on TV, which was rare.
I wouldn’t say traumatized, but after seeing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, I had many nights of dreams where I was stranded in the middle of the ocean. Still liked the movie, just led to a few rather terrifying dreams.
Old Yeller. I would never let my children or grandchildren watch Old Yeller. Walt Disney must have had some issues from his childhood to produce a movie like that.
I wasn’t really a “kid”, but at 16, I saw: The Entity. OMG! I was terrified, and couldn’t shower alone in my home for over a year.
One and done, I never have watched that movie again.
Jaws.
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Spielberg is a fantastic director.
Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO… Would not shower for weeks 🙂
I heard others say that, it didn’t have that effect on me. A friend of mine back then (in the early sixties, when we were all teenager) a friend of mine, said after he saw The Birds, when he walked home (he lived close to where the movie theater was) he was freaking out evertime a bird flew overhead.
Soylent Green. I actually may have eaten this at a Chinese restaurant which closed down numerous time citing failed health inspections.
Believe it or not, Bambi. I remember hiding under my seat during the forest fire.
The Snake Pit
Night of the Living Dead! I saw it when I was 10 years old on Creature Feature and I have never been the same … even 53 years later …
Agreed! Friday night Creature Feature program was the best…and that opening scene in black/white at the cemetery when the brother says, “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!” set the tone of this creepy movie…my sister had nightmares after watching this movie…classic horror film, for sure!
The original 1925 silent Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney. A friend’s older brother was a film student and somehow purloined a 16mm copy. It was scratchy and incomplete but absolutely terrifying. That was one to lose sleep over.
The original Poltergeist. I was 4 when it came out, that’s a little young to see that movie
It’s Alive. I was afraid to take a shower after watching it. I watched it again as an adult and it was the stupidest movie ever with the worst special effects.
The Birds.
Back in 1939, I was about 5 and my Mom took me to see Wizard of Oz. Those flying monkeys were terrifying. Also, I think it was 1942, Bambi came out and when the mother was killed was pretty dreadful as well.