Movie that scared you the most when you were a kid.
Post a pic if you want.
Mine is:
Straight Jacket
Why my parents let me watch this at 7 years old, I'll never know.
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...as we speak. Chloe Moretz as Carrie, Julianne Moore as Carrie's mom. Kimberly Pierce ("Boys Don't Cry"
directing. There's a teaser trailer at IMdB.
In the theatre, during this scene, a little boy in the row behind me jumped into the row I was in.
Poor baby! 
They never really scared me, save one.
"It" by Steven King. Made for TV. 
to start singing:
"How do you do? I
see you've met my
faithful... handyman..." 
I could take the demon clown, but the spider! Something about the spider scared the 
out of me!
I still get nervous when I see large flocks of birds.
So for me, it's Psycho.
Bake
I used to hide under the couch cushions when they showed up.
Neither did "The Wizard", for that matter. (The one in front of the curtain.)
I always used to hide when The Abominable Snowman came on the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" show, too.
When I was a kid you could only see the Wizard of Oz once a year on TV. I dreaded the monkeys and the melting witch. 
My little boy (3) is totally scared of the Abominable Snowman too! He has to hide under a blanket. Poor little guy. However, he loves the rest of Rudolph.
The Omen also scares the crap outta me
want to see what a difference 40 years makes. 
Seriously.
'cept I remember seeing it at the movie, when I was a kid, about age..10, I think.
Creeped me out for decades.
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only that it was made no later than 1967 or so. I only saw a preview, but that freaked the crap out of me. It showed a green slime monster (zombie?) slowly descending a staircase. What made it especially creepy was that the staircase had a remarkable resemblance to the one at my grandparents' house
The plot concerns a team of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins who come across a blob-like monster. They manage to destroy it with fire while keeping a sample of the monster. Meanwhile, a comet is due to pass close to Earth, the same comet which passed near the Earth at the time the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed. The film proposes the question "Is there a connection between the monster and the comet?"
The film begins as a delirious archaeologist stumbles into his group's camp without his partner, both of whom having been exploring a cave. He becomes mad, requiring hospitalization. Their interest piqued, the group sets out for the cave.
Upon reaching the cave, they find a deep pool of water, behind which is a large statue of Caltiki, the vengeful Mayan goddess who had been ceremonially presented with human sacrifices. Hoping to find artifacts, the group sends one of their numbers down into the pool. At the bottom, he finds a menagerie of skeletons clad in gold jewelry. Running out of oxygen, he comes back up, clutching as much gold as he can. Although the group wishes him to not go down again, he insists on doing so, suggesting that they could become millionaires from the wealth below. Relenting to him, they let him descend once more. As he collects more and more treasure, his cable to the surface suddenly writhes erratically. Fearing for his safety, the group pulls him back to the surface, only to find, upon removing his face mask, his body reduced to a decayed mass distended about his skeleton.
Moments later, the monster that attacked him rears up from the pool, attempting to digest anyone near. One of the group is caught, but is then rescued. As the team escapes, the monster begins to crawl out of the cave menacingly. Luckily, there is a tanker truck full of gasoline nearby that the main character drives into the vile blob. It explodes violently, vanquishing it.
The team travels back to Mexico City to take the man who had been caught by the monster to a hospital. Still on his arm is a small piece of the monster that had come apart from the main blob and is still digesting him. When the surgeons remove the blob, they find that his arm is nothing more than a few moist scraps of flesh still connected to his bones. The surgeons wrap it up anyway. After further experimenting on the blob, scientists later discover that it is a unicellular bacterium that quickly grows when in the presence of radiation. Unfortunately, a comet that emits radiation and crosses Earth's path only once in every 850 years or so is quickly approaching. Upon the comet's closest approach, the piece of the blob that the main character left in his house with his wife and infant expands to enormous size and reproduces.
Dr. John Fielding (John Merivale), meanwhile, attempts to convince the Mexican government to send its army to destroy the beast, but is then thrown in prison for his "madness". Fortunately, the government changes its mind, releases him, and sends regiments of flame-throwing tanks to his house. Upon their arrival, they find that the blobs have overrun the house and Dr. Fielding's wife and child are desperately standing on a second-floor window ledge. The mother and child are rescued by Dr. Fielding as the flame-throwing tanks lay waste to the blob monsters.
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It filled the house and that made me think of the staircase scene. and I imagined it coming from under the bed for me. I was spooked!
War of the Worlds with Gene Barry had me imagining. Like they might zap me through the window at night. Other than that, nothing else. Scary movies for little kids, sheesh.
at the local downtown movie theater back in the '60s. I'll have to take another look at that one. Thanks for the suggestion
But if you replace that scene to the one the "scary movie" made:
to the basketball bouncing down the stairs......it makes it all better
I'll have to watch again.
Thanks!
On edit: I looked on IMDB, and it's a different Elizabeth Allen. And with my glasses on, it's obviously Donna Douglas!
And Mothra.
I was 2 or 3 and tagged along with my big sister to the 25 cent Saturday matinee!!
I was WAAYY too young to see any of those.
I probably saw The Day The Earth Stood Still in the late 50s but it wasn't scary and Michael Rennie was handsome and cool.
But the one I saw first, that had the most impact on me until this day was 'Frankenstein' released in 1931 directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster. I saw it on a Friday evening and that night was the first movie I took with me into my dreams. I dreamed I could see the monster, lumbering down the street in the fog, moving slowly toward my house. Once he saw me through my bedroom widow, he reached through to pull me from my bunk bed. Oh man, Frankenstein, yes, definitely Frankenstein!
I was under ten and alone and turned around the tv and came into the middle of a small wedding scene. The Justice of the Peace concludes the ceremony and jokingly starts talking about kissing the bride when she pulls a knife and guts him. Later terrible things happen to a mute woman in a wheelchair.
I have seen the film since and it is reasonably effective even if the big secret seems obvious as hell to anyone with eyes or ears.
Looking at a list of severed hand movies I found, the one I'm thinking of may be "The Beast With Five Fingers" from 1946. But whatever the movie, it was on late night TV as part of the Creature Features program they used to air in the 70s in the New York area and other places.
I saw this at a time when my father was very ill and would soon pass on, so I was traumatized by that as well. I just remember it randomly coming on the TV one night when my mom had other family over, and they were all in the kitchen talking about whatever. In my morbid fascination with the movie, I never bothered to change the channel. Instead, I gave myself a couple of years worth of anxiety and nightmares about severed hands crawling around and strangling people.
I don't know why I was watching that movie as a kid, either, terrified me for weeks. My mother told me that previous to that it was Cinderella. 
The one with the little gnomes that come out at night? Because that would be my pick. My close runner-up would be the "devil doll" segment of ABC's Trilogy of Terror.
Those ABC Movies of The Week, 30% of the time, were goddamn terrifying. No wonder I'm so messed up today.
the original.
and on a HUGE 40 foot screen, this scene... I remember ducking behind the seat in front of me, keeping my eyes closed.
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The film society there would show movies on weekends, saw a lot of classics there. When I saw The Wizard of Oz on the big screen, I realized that I'd missed a lot all the years I saw it on TV. And that's when I also saw Psycho. I was afraid to take showers for years after that...
I was 11.
not the crappy Speilberg remake.
I had nightmares for weeks.
Saw it on Shock Theater...it scared the wits out of me at about age 10.
It was certainly the scariest movie I'd seen, and I was eighteen at the time. We'd read the preview comic in Heavy Metal, though it stopped just before the crew found the derelict ship. I do remember it was described as mind-blowing, and it certainly was that, in addition to all the other body-destructing scenes
they mention something like that in the documentary that came with my 2 DVD set. I distinctly remember them talking about reports of people running out of the theater to throw up. And they tell of a theater owner who prided himself on his pristine bathroom facilities, and he complained to one of them (maybe O'Bannon?) that the chestburster scene had really left them a mess. But, he said, they found a solution; they just cut the scene out of the movie! The bathrooms remained clean afterwards.
Also Ridley Scott recalls watching the movie in a theater and in the end when Ripley goes back into the ship to get the cat while trying to evade the Alien, as the tension was mounting some lady just jumped up and yelled something like, "Just leave the fucking cat!!!"
That wicked queen!
saw it as a child on late night tv and was convinced my parents were going to turn me into a pod person
I have no idea why.
The Exorcist, Psycho, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70s reboot)
"It's all for you, Damien!"
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Watching it now on TCM, lots of other cheesy 50's sci-fi like Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, as well.
Ray Harryhausen is still with us, bless him.
Of course as an adult I now view it as a comedy but as a kid it really did make me afraid of spiders.
the other
don't be afraid of the dark
salem's lots
child of glass
sleetak
space 1999
and ive met many since then
TV: Sleestaks.
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but I applaud your effort!
This movie was mostly dark, or so it seemed to me then...arggggg..maybe I will take it up with an IMDB forum myself.
Thank you
One was "An American Werewolf in London". I remember seeing the scene where the guy changes into the wolf on TV (probably a preview or something) and it frightened the hell out of me. The idea that your body would just spontaneously start changing like that really got to me. Incidentally I have yet to see this movie, I never came across it again later in life. I did see "An American Werewolf in Paris" though.
Then there was Alien; I was a big sci-fi fan as a kid already. I must have been about 9 or 10, and this friend of mine was given a big illustrated book about sci-fi movies (the biggies for us in the book were the first two Star Wars movies). So we'd sit and pore over this book endlessly, which was mostly full of movies we'd never seen. To our big shock "Alien" was in there as well, with a couple of gruesome pictures. I remember wondering why anybody would want to make a movie like that. 
We always skipped past those pages, but I vaguely remember a picture of what might have been Carlo Rambaldi loading the Alien's head (probably the one with the moving jaws) into his car... That one just stuck with me.
Of course "Alien" now is one of my favorite movies.
As for TV I vaguely remember something from "Space: 1999". I may be way off here, but I believe in the beginning of one episode it was raining on the moon, and a group of people in space suits were slogging through the mud. Suddenly on of them steps into quicksand and starts sinking. The others try to pull him out while he pleads for help, but eventually he is swallowed by the mud. I just remember feeling terrible for the poor guy.
