Remember me, Eddie?!
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Don’t know how old I was (like 8 or so), but it aired in the afternoon and my parents left the TV on… Didn’t sleep for months.
In the 70s apparently showing a horror movie during daytime was okay 🫣
Kinda late but Neverending Story.
Those laser beam statues scares me. Also when the giant turtle emerges and you get that shot of it la head slowly approaching the camera. Somehow that was super distressing to me.
The Stuff scared the fucking shit out of me as a child, I definitely watched it way too young. My mom told me that after watching the movie, she was helping me in the bathroom and she had to leave because the phone was ringing (I was young enough I still needed help to go to the bathroom). When she came back I was standing on top of the toilet lid crying and screaming that the stuff was going to come up out of the toilet and get me.
I haven’t been able to watch it again. I understand it’s a comedy and I would probably enjoy it, but I’m way too fucking traumatized to even try.
I used to have nightmares about E.T. standing at the foot of my bed, reaching out to touch me with his glowing finger. He was essentially my sleep paralysis demon.
This is embarrassing, but I was really, really young.
I watched it during a Saturday morning creature feature on TV.
It has a disembodied alien hand that crawls around attacking people. The hand has needle-like nails on the fingers that it uses to inject victims with poison. It terrified me. I spent years jumping to my bed from the door in case there was a hand hiding under the bed.
FYI, if I remember correctly, the “poison” it injects is just alcohol. If it attacked you, you just ended up drunk.
Tales from the Darkside, specifically the Cat from Hell sketch. It’s where a black cat slashes a guy pretty badly before literally diving into him. I left the room after that.
I didn’t revisit that scene until I was an adult, and let’s just say that kid me had good instincts, since the scene afterwards showed the cat literally burrowing through the guy before popping out of his mouth.
Oh man, completely forgot about this until now. Could explain why I’m not a cat person
“Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte”. When that mannequin head fell out of the box and rolled down the stairs I had nightmares for weeks. I was about 6-10 years old when I saw it.
A Christmas Carol (1984) really fucked with me when I was younger; I think I’ve rewatched it since and it wasn’t that bad
Catweazle! I was 4 years old… he looked scary
The Day After 1983
I was around 10-11 years old. the whole fuckin movie terrified me.
The air conditioner in The Brave Little Toaster
Hannah Montana
Specifically a Halloween episode about a doll
Cruella De Vil, both Glenn Close’s rendition and the animated version. Funny now, but man did she scare me when I was little.
The lift. I was eight or nine. I didn’t dare enter any lift for years.
One of my earliest memories of fear was being at a neighbor’s house when I was maybe 3 years old. I didn’t understand TV well, and whatever she was watching ended, followed by this intense low music and sound going high and the 80s Viacom V logo getting bigger. With “A Viacom presentation” text. I genuinely thought the V was coming to get me and I hid behind her chair.
Yeah, this fucker. Literally called “The V of Doom” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON6VeY99tl8
Then it didn’t get me, and it was fine, but that damn Viacom logo scared the shit outta me.
