TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!

Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing

In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.

Gremlins, when they transformed

When I killed your brother, I talked...JUST. LIKE. THIIIIIISSSSS!

Ugh... I grew up during the 80s with absolutely no parental oversight. I was allowed to read and watch whatever I wanted. Ton of slasher and horror movies, though 3 fuuuuuucked me up. Friday the 13th - Jason, Child's Play - Chucky, and the most impactful being Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy Krueger.

At a 6 year old sleepover, the host father rented Nightmare on elm Street for a bunch of us little dudes. Half way through the movie, i got up and dressed out of my pajamas and walked home. I had nightmares for years about Freddy, chasing me in our basement around the oil heater. Fucking traumatized.....

Who framed Roger rabbit, the scene with the judge guy putting a shoe cartoon into the acid barrel.

The Adventures of Mark Twain from 1985 has a scene where Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher enter a sort of pocket dimension and meet a stranger who is just a robe holding a mask. The stranger claims their name is Satan. Satan creates a doll sized castle and gives the children clay to make people. After the people are made Satan gives them life and all 4 characters watch the clay people for a little while. Then Satan calls them insignificant, annoying, and worthless before he smashes some with his hand, lightning strikes other clay people, and the rest get swallowed up by a sinkhole along with the castle. While this is happening Satan's face/mask distorted and twists until it resembles a skull.

I saw this movie while spending a weekend at a family member's house as a kid, maybe somewhere between the ages of 5 and 7 (it was an old movie then). I woke up in the middle of the night and this movie was put on while I was left alone in the living room. I don't remember anything else from this movie, but it definitely fucked me up

Watership Down

Was fucked up for a child to watch. My parents thought it was going to be a harmless animated movie for children. I watched it again as an adult. It is still fucked up.

My parents thought it was a good idea to let me (9) and my 12 year old brother watch Poltergeist while they were out at some social event.

That movie damaged me. I love it now though.

I saw Robocop too early.

The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.

The Dark Crystal. Creepy fucking muppets.

I saw The Thing (1982) when I was 10 and it terrified me for years. Its my favorite horror movie now.

1. Signs - the aliens terrified me and I was scared walking to school for a long time
2. The scarabs from The Mummy - I thought they would come out from under the sink and the closets to eat me alive

Watership Down and Gremlins.

Also, the Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXikpns1bog

In general I never cared much about scary movies, but there is ONE SCENE (in an otherwise crappy movie) that left a strong impression on me.

In the movie "Signs", there's a moment when the news are showing footage from an alien sighting in Brazil. Usually, whenever a US movie tries to depict another country or culture, it ends up being so poorly done it's almost like a caricature. But not this one...

The scene is from a birthday party, and every little detail is so authentic that, as a Brazilian, it's immediately obvious that it was actually recorded in Brazil, at someone's actual house.

It's shaky footage from a camcorder (remember those?). There's the party decorations, the kids' hats, the car outside, the voices (which are intelligible Brazilian Portuguese, not gibberish). Everything felt so real and familiar, I could swear I have been in that exact party at some point in my life. And then the alien shows up and HOLY SHIT did that scare me!

The Air Conditioner in The Brave Little Toaster.

That fucking computer from Superman III, jesus christ my parents should not have let me watch that when I was, like, seven or eight.

Don't laugh guys.

Howard the Duck.

Edit: Relooking at it, totally justified

Eh, showing my age.

Watership Down

What an awful movie for a kid to see.

Return to Oz

Childhood trauma all over the place...

The Borg.

I watched Star Trek as a kid with my grandma on our local TV station. The Borg were always so scary to me because not even the super advanced Federation could defeat them. And the assimilation they did of stripping away who and what you were was terrifying.

Then First Contact came out and I learned that they just as vulnerable as anyone else to a 45 ACP and that was alright.

When I killed your brother, I talked just. Like. THIS.

There was an ad on TV for Knorr's soup when I was a toddler, and the big vegetable scarecrow character with the black hat scared the absolute fuck outta me. Just look at this cunt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzia7sJtVM

Like what was I supposed to take away from this? That a scarecrow is alive and knows when it's being looked at, and only then will it stop coming after me? And it eats its own flesh in soup-form? The fuck? 😭

The Brave Little Toaster dream scene for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdZh8a4ZvE

Jaws. Was scared of the beach for years and couldn't sleep with my arm hanging outside/over the bed for like, 10 years haha.

Wizard of Oz.

To my credit, I was afraid of the tornado and tornados are fucking real and scary.

When I was young, but not that young, there was a show called Duckman or something like that. I didn't get the channel at home, but I was sleeping over at a friend's house, and he got this channel, so it was on late at night.

In the episode the main character breaks up with a woman, and she's like stalking him for revenge or something, I don't remember the plot. But in one short scene he's taking a bath to relax after the stress she's been causing him, and she pokes her head up out of the bath water with crazy eyes and then pulls him under.

There was something about that I very much didn't like. That was the only episode of the show I ever saw, but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a burnout comedy ala Beavis and Butthead or something, and I don't even think this particular moment was meant to be scary. It was probably meant to be exaggerated and silly. But the crazy lady coming out of the water where she shouldn't be able to be? Nope.

That fucked me up, on and off, for years. I'd just be laying in bed, and then the image or even the concept would come to me, and I'd feel uneasy. Despite not being in a bath at the time! Ugh.

That motherfucking dog in the intro of Goosebumps. Give me a grenade launcher. Please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PkFLTfID_o

Ok let me get my glasses:

• Ghostbusters 2 (the painting), IT (it), Candyman (BEES), Arachnophobia (guess), Tales from the Cryptkeeper (a tale about a lake blob), Never Ending Stoooreey (G'mork, Poor poor Atreyu), Superman (being buried alive)...

...And many more.

5 year old me was not prepared for Mr Toilet Man in Look Who's Talking.

Twilight Zone movie.

The kid that the whole family is shit scared of. One scene about being quiet.

That horrid clown doll that sat at the foot of the bed in the boys room scared the heck outta me. I had one of those shitty things!

So Poltergeist.