Movies you are still traumatized by..

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Matt²

Are you / were you traumatized by a movie or scene as a child?

What movie and why? Doesn't have to be a serious reflection, can be humorous...


me: The Muppet Movie.
Loved the movie as a kid, would love to see it again.. however it constantly reminds me that they had to stop the movie and only THEN did I discover that my mom had had a grand seizure and she was being taken by ambulance to the hospital. :\ (She recovered and lived until 2000)
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Every time I watched Disney's Alice in Wonderland as a kid I had nightmares. I don't think I've watched it since and I'm not sure I want to risk it.

I also had terrible nightmares after seeing Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Specifically this scene:


That claymation face freaked me out for a good week afterwards.
 
Cajungal

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I saw The Exorcist a little too young I guess... and right after one of the brothers at my Catholic school told us about how a guy he was in Seminary with took part in an Exorcism. For my entire 8th grade year, I was paranoid in my bed. Every time I shifted and made the bed move, I was like, "oh shit, demons!" I tried to watch it again once thinking, "Ok, now that I'm all grown up, this shouldn't be scary." I was wrong.

***For some reason I can't add spoiler tags when editing, so if you've never seen Requiem for a Dream, just don't read that down there.***



To a lesser extent that one scene in Requiem for a Dream with the diet pill mom at the VERY end when she goes nuts. That scene with her and the doctors made me so upset the first time around. I think I was depressed for 3 or so days. I remember not being able to laugh at anything for a few days after that movie. I didn't care for the movie in general, but her story in particular was just a little too much for me.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

This is not gonna be blazingly original, but Jaws. I really can't go in natural bodies of water that well. I go in the ocean a little bit, but can only do it really with a big group of people.
 
David

David

The scene in Poltergeist where the clown doll tries to strangle the kid. I have a monkey doll about the same size as the clown, and I still keep it buried in my closet where I can't see it when I'm trying to sleep.
 
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makare

I went and checked out that movie you mentioned Cajungal.

Now I has a freaked out.
 
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makare

Requiem for a Dream

I had never seen it so I kind of skipped through it.... the end is emotionally disturbing.
 
Bumble the Boy Wonder

Bumble the Boy Wonder

The Street Fighter movie traumatized me :( I never wanted to see a video game movie again... yet I saw almost all of them..

On a more serious note, IT gave me the heebie jeebies for years.. Not towards clowns though. My grandparents live near a large warehouse that, for some reason, I was convinced was housing tunnels to the sewers, which held a large spider-like creature... I dunno, just what the movie did to me..
Honestly, I can't even remember if there even was a scene like that in the movie...
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Yeah, yeah it really is, makare. I'm not saying it isn't well made or that it's terrible or anything... just that I could have lived a perfectly rich life without putting myself through that emotionally draining experience. I already knew that I shouldn't take heroine, lest I
be forced to fellate the guy who voiced Goliath or fuck a lady on a pool table for drug money.
 
Enresshou

Enresshou

Gremlins. I know it's a comedy, but--when I was five years old--I dreamed that the blue bat from Eureka's Castle was dancing, silently, in front of me.

Then he smiled, split into four of himself, their face and skin melted off, and four gremlins were trying to tear me apart and devour my flesh.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I remember sobbing my eyes out at Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the old version, not the new one with Johnny Depp). The whole film scared the crap out of me.

Particularly memorable was when I thought Charlie and his grandpa were going to get shredded by that giant fan.
 
Math242

Math242

motherfucking nightmare on Elm street.

i was way too young when i saw that movie. Fucking Freddy Krueger.

Even now, almost 25 years later, i feel VERY unconfortable if i have to watch that movie.
 
Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

I don't know how the teachers in my school agreed to have "IT" shown on the bus during a school trip when we were little. I don't care those other kids like it, it traumatized the other 80 % of the bus! In my case, I was slightly anxious with bathrooms and toilets and showers if it was at night or I felt alone.
 
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makare

Oh I hate It.... I hate spiders and I hate clowns.. that movie is my living hell!
 
Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

I hate spiders too, but we never got to see the scenes in wich it looked like a spider. Luckly, the trip was shorter than the film.

What I'm also afraid of, as I have said previously on the forums, is insects in general. It's something I owe to an episode of a cartoon I loved as a kid (David the gnome) in wich he once had to treat a gnome kid with termites in his liver or something, wich made him not grow up... and also, deer with insect larvae growing inside their noses.

I also watched Alien.
 
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Philosopher B.

Oh, man, the banshee in Darby creeped me out like nobody's business as a kid. 'Tis a little less traumatizing now, but I totally dig where you're coming from.

Another thing that scarred me when I was younger was Watership Down. I haven't been able to bring myself to see it since. :confused:
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Bumble the Boy Wonder said:
On a more serious note, IT gave me the heebie jeebies for years.. Not towards clowns though. My grandparents live near a large warehouse that, for some reason, I was convinced was housing tunnels to the sewers, which held a large spider-like creature... I dunno, just what the movie did to me..
Honestly, I can't even remember if there even was a scene like that in the movie...
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You think those tunnels were bad, you should read the book. In the movie, those were all nice-sized climbing tunnels and they didn't go to deep. In the book they get tighter and tighter as the get deeper and deeper under the city, creeping through this stuff for a couple hours, with no light. When they're adults, they have to crawl in it, and at one point I believe one of them has some trouble getting through, like that scene before the cave-in in The Descent...

None of my old terror movies still scare me, unfortunately. Fear of Don Bluth films didn't last too long. Child's Play used to scare me because I had a doll like that, which I hid under the bed. The Unnamable freaked me out, but I was 5. I saw it a couple years ago and noted its cheesiness. Honestly, I've always had a pretty thick skin for this stuff. My parents let me watch the Night of the Living Dead, Carnosaur, and the 70s Invasion of the Body Snatchers on one weekend when I was 8.

But one thing that still gets me is zombies, and I know people like to rag on it, but the Dawn of the Dead remake really agitated that, especially the beginning with the little girl. Although reading Cell was worse; I can't remember a book ever giving me a nightmare before, and I think it touched more on what is creepy about zombies than any real zombie thing.

EDIT: Didn't see the post above. Ah yes, Fire in the Sky. I remember seeing commercials for that when it came out and being scared. Then my parents watched it one night and I tried to stay in my bedroom. That was a looong time ago. Late last year, we started up Netflix again and I put it on the queue, wanting to finally see it. Weeks passed, it got close to the top... and I removed it. I still don't think I'm old enough to watch that movie.
 
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LordRavage

Galaxy Of Terror

I saw this in the theaters at the ripe old age of 8. I didn't remember most of the movie because I hid my eyes and sobbed quietly to myself. I was so messed up from this movie that I refused to watch it ever again. Then when I turned 17, I decided to face my fear and watch it. I was surprised on how much I loved it!

No comment on the worm rape scene.
 
North_Ranger

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I still get creeped out by the final transformation scenes of Seth Brundle in The Fly. The way his human parts are just falling off like withered slabs of slime... I get the shivers just by thinking about it.

Also, I wasn't a child then, but the first time I saw the Romero zombie movies - they played all three on Halloween '02 on telly - I had trouble sleeping for a night or two. Werewolves, vampires, aliens... those don't haunt my dreams. But zombies... something about the whole world turning into ravenous monsters, not being safe in your own home...

Also, the heart-ripping scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It took me better part of a decade to be able to watch that without flinching.
 
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Matt²

The Lovely Boner said:
This is not gonna be blazingly original, but Jaws. I really can't go in natural bodies of water that well. I go in the ocean a little bit, but can only do it really with a big group of people.
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heh, was just thinking I needed to add Jaws... for some horrific reason (maybe sadistic) my sisters took me to see Jaws 2 when it came out.. I think I was 6. I've never wanted to go in the ocean since, and even going into lakes has scared me. =\
 
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Wasabi Poptart

bhamv3 said:
I remember sobbing my eyes out at Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the old version, not the new one with Johnny Depp). The whole film scared the crap out of me.

Particularly memorable was when I thought Charlie and his grandpa were going to get shredded by that giant fan.
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For me it was the scene were they're on the boat. When Gene Wilder started singing I wanted to cry and never watch anymore of that movie.

 
Eriol

Eriol

Hannibal. The scene near the end. Disturbs me just thinking about it. The rest of the movie is "meh" (I liked Red Dragon WAY better, even though both are not as good as Silence), but that one scene just creeps me out just thinking about it. Horrible to see.
 
Vytamindi

Vytamindi

I LOVE LOVE LOVED Alice Through the Looking Glass when I was little. Easily my favorite movie to watch over and over. The damn Jabberwocky still freaks me out!

 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

When I was really young, around five or six, I was staying at my aunt's house, and she let me watch Nightmare on Elm Street. It scared the living daylights out of me. My mom was pissed, because after that I was terrified of going to sleep.

To remedy this, my mom had me watch a behind the scenes 'making of' of Nightmare on Elm Street. The power of scary movies was lost on me forever after that. Even to my young mind, I just couldn't be scared anymore, knowing that Freddy Kreuger was really a seemingly nice man in Halloween makeup playing pretend.

After that, I loved all the Nightmare movies, because I thought they were funny.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Hey Silver Jelly! Have I got a gif for you.


As for me, Child's Play. The idea that one of my mom's doll's would be staring me in the face when I woke up caused many a sleepless night.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Enresshou said:
Gremlins. I know it's a comedy, but--when I was five years old--I dreamed that the blue bat from Eureka's Castle was dancing, silently, in front of me.

Then he smiled, split into four of himself, their face and skin melted off, and four gremlins were trying to tear me apart and devour my flesh.
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It's perfectly understandable to have nightmares about Eureeka's Castle. R.L. Stine was co-creator and head writer.
 
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