What movie scared you when you were a little kid?

For me it was Evil Dead, which I saw at the age of 7.

When I watch it now, it's hilarious, but when when I was a little kid and that amoeba stuff enveloped the spaceship, I about lost it

Where they show and tell the story of a man being abducted and operated on by ALIENS.

Fucking scared the shit out of me as a little kid, I spent many nights with the covers pulled over my head because of that movie.

I imagined it was chasing me into my bedroom; I always rounded that corner FAST!!

I spent three months sleeping with a night light. I still cannot watch it to this day. The creepiest part about the movie is that it's supposedly a true account.

Fuckin A. Now I'm freaking myself out.

My husband was watching that and I was out of the room before the first scary thing happened and I am full -grown. I would never let my kid - 8 - watch anything like that.

Kids used to tell me their parents let them watch Freddie and Chuckie and Jason and I could never figure out why.

yes, I'm a weenie. :)

My father probably doesn't remember that night, though.

no blood and gore, just f***ing creepy

The racial stereotypes are so pathetic. The book is different, because it is more obvious who is telling the story (Scarlett) and what her limited and shallow perspective is.

I read an interview with Butterfly McQueen, who played Prissy ("I don't know nothing about birthing no babies"). She said that the only person nice to her on the set of that movie, other than the other black actors, was Clark Gable. The rest of the white cast ignored the black cast members.

saw it when I was a kid. Inspired me to find Shirley Jackson's novel too.

Shirly died quite young - early 40s I think.

I had dreams with rattling spiral staircases for years later.

that staircase *shudder*

looking for the room where they were in the night. ...that and the Whose hand am i holding questions ?

shudders...

*SHUDDER*

and I agree, creepy. Would be more so to a kid!

In the Wizard of OZ........come to think of it Monkeys still scare
the crap out of me.....especially the one who calls himself the
great uniter.

it was Miss Gultch and the Witch. In fact, I still feel creepy when I see Miss Gultch on that bicycle taking the dog.

When they started talking and throwing apples.

"In Space, no one can hear you scream"

Let's just say that in the theater EVERYONE heard me scream!!!

and also the flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" scared the hell out of me! :scared:

...which I find most enjoyable, now. Wale knew what he was doing with that and the following one, as well.

Boris Karloff... but if ANYONE can remember Boris Karloff's THRILLER series on television.
That on scared the wits out of me.
There were a couple of good Twilight Zones and Alfred Hitchcock episodes too.

Still get a little creeped out when I see too many crows gather in one place...

me;)

Dr. Phibes

<shudder>

as a young couple who move into her dead relative's house, and after being warned not to open up the sealed fireplace by the old caretaker (Wm. Demarest), they move in.

They unseal the fireplace. Bad things happen.

They don't know that evil little red demons live in the house, and want to make Kim Darby into one of them.

"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"?

I saw it in 5th grade and it completely scared me. Several nights later my friend grabbed my ankle and hissed while I was waiting at his front door for someone to answer. That did it for me!

tripped the person at the top of the stairs?

Or the end when Darby kept flashing camera flashes at them to save herself because they did not like the light?

Only Night Gallery could freak me out more. I was about 6 at the time, and that movie seriously weirded me out.

:scared:

I thought that was the title.

...and don't forget the little fetish guy from Trilogy of Terror!

That was seriously creepy. Messed with my head a lot. I have never forgotten that thing with the knife in its teeth climbing up the bed covers to get her...

I remember being totally freaked out by those flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz. I hated them but loved that movie.

I also remember watching The Birds and not wanting to go to school the next day. I just knew recess was not gonna be pretty. (Odd but true--we stayed overnight in the schoolhouse they used for that scene in the movie--it is now a B & B.) I still get creeped out when I see a big flock of birds, however.

Man--this thread is dredging up a lot of old memories!


Laura

Remember the scissors? Eek.

Played by Robert Mitchum, I think. That movie scared the bejeezus out of me.

I don't know if that was the name of the movie; it was on television, and I was about 5. It was about a man-shaped monster made out of mud. I had nightmares about Mud Man for weeks after.

I'll see if I can find anything.

On edit...to add

http://home.earthlink.net/~usondermann/mud.html

A fellow seeker at least.

Reading some of the descriptions jogged my memory. I remember the scene now about the detatched hand tripping someone.

though it scared my younger sister much more... she had just gotten a talking doll for Christmas a month or two back, and she swears to this day that that night the doll fell over, and doing so somehow its talking mechanism was activated.

the whole house was up after that, what with her screaming.

We had a stupid "My Buddy" Doll and it reminded me of chucky only with blond hair. So my dad had a wood shop up stairs in our house and it was pretty dusty up there as you can imagine so he took the doll and made little doll prints everywhere up there then took the light bulb out and sent me up there to look for his wallet. There was just enough light coming in to the room from the window where I could make out the foot prints. Then I looked over and saw the doll. That was the worst trauma of my child hood. I was so scared I couldn't even move. I love my dad but what a jack ass!!!;)

... "the Other" was about the evil ghost of this young boy's dead twin who killed people.. very creepy late seventies flick... :scared:

forgot about that one.

me and my cousin Dennis were under the seats at Cranford movie theatre in NJ

i watched it it stuck in my mind for sure

the part with the floor opening up and the bubbling acid

yikes

about the giant grasshoppers from Mars.

my parents took me when i was 6 or 7. it was at the drive-in. i never slept when stuff was going on so what were they thinking? i'll tell ya my mom shat herself when they showed the actual footage of the camps. bodies being bulldozed. forever burned into my mind. and tried to cover my eyes. my dad said "no gloria, she has to know that this happened." it freaked my stuff though, i'm tellin ya

Not sure which one, but it was where Kermitt grew fangs/shark teeth... man! was I one freaked-out 5-year-old!

it involved these alien puppets that just made "meep meep" sounds. Don't know why but it TOTALLY creeped me out.

When Nancys feet sink in the steps and its that goopey shit.

Really bothered me for some reason.

First saw it at age 6. The part with the tree especially creeped me out.

Can't remember many detail except these folks befriending a teen under their house and it got ugly.

Some basic images and the title have stayed with me since I was 8.

I can't even really find much info on it now. (Only searched about 5 minutes though)

Ronnie...and the future Mrs. Reagan...in the same movie! Yikes!

For a movie fan like me, THAT was scary. :-)

And the first time I ever visited Georgetown, it was around 1990 and I was in a car with my friends driving through it. I said, "Hey, this reminds me of The Exorcist!" (It was filmed there). And, swear to God, the Exorcist theme came on the radio right after I said that! There was a remake of the theme on the radio at the time.

I remember being a kid when my parents bought their first VCR, and one of the first movies they bought was the Exorcist. They thought they'd chansed me out of the room, but I snuck into the hallway and watched it from there.

I had nightmares for DAYS after watching that :scared:

1970's made for TV movie with Kim Darby about a young couple moving into a house that has some interesting inhabitants already there.

Scary as all hell.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0069992/

this made-for-TV movie, and I still remember it.

Starring Karen Black and Oliver Reed.

Hopefully someone will bring it out on DVD.

:scared:

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He just won't say what one.

where one is a bad seed. Something seems not right about the whole setup... Not that scary until right near the end when the chilling implications of what has been happening in the whole movie become clear...

a Joan Crawford movie. She looked positively demonic to me at that time.

I liked the neat little twist to that one.

in Kansas, for another, the Wicked Witch of the West and the final monkeys.

beautifully done and very creepy.

I still can't bear to watch those flying monkees!

1)Night of the Living Dead
Saw it at my Grannie's apartment. Late at night. Alone in the living room. Scared the CRAP out of me. Saw it later as a young adult and couldn't stop laughing...

2)The Other
Creepy tale of twins(?) From a Thomas Tyron story.

3)Jaws
Was a tad uncomfortable in the water for a while...

Kubrick and Nickelson. :scared:

makes Jack a dull boy"

Also when Jack goes to see Lloyd, the bartender. Something about the lighting makes that hotel sooo creepy.

and I think that one is probably the scariest of all time. Maybe not the best, but definitely the scariest.

REEEEEDDD RUUUUUUUMMMMMMM! :scared:

In The Shining, which makes it doubly disturbing.

"Scream and Scream Again". It involves amputations and stealing body parts, and there's a scene where a man is handcuffed to the bumper of a police car, and he's trying so hard to get away that he rips both hands off at the wrists. That gave me nightmares for a LONG time, and I can still see it clearly.

Saw it when I was 8 and the damned movie still haunts me.

Holy shit. :scared:

Scared the crap outta me. Also (a bit earlier I think) was "Tales From the Crypt." I will never forget the vignette of a woman who died and then was embalmed, but had someone make a wish that she come back to life and live forever. Unfortunately, the wish came true after she was embalmed, so she lived forever in eternal pain.

I've seen it since then and found it corny as hell and not at all frightening, but at the time... sheesh... kept me awake at night.

And I was 16! Nothing scared me that much when I was a kid.
To this day I can't watch it. Just hearing the music, those 'bells' - yikes.

Especially the 1954 newsreels of the Viet-Mihn waving their flag over the command bunker of the French generals (Castries and Navarre, in absentia as usual) at Dien Bien Phu.

For a long time I confused Korea with Germany (in my childish mind). My dad was wounded in Italy and later captured by the Germans. He then escaped. I was born in 1948. I remember his stories in the early 50s. I remember his reserve duty, and I remember his admonitions against war. I remember him worrying about a call-up to Korea (hence my confusion). Good damn thing George W. Bu$h wasn't president then. Eh, Dad?

He became a professor of entomology. Go figure. Great guy. He turned 84 last Saturday.

V absolutely terrified me as a kid... Reptillian Aliens taking over..

Tina Turner creeped me out!! :scared:

the original, not the lousy version recently released.

the Morelocks scared the crap out of me with their glowing eyes in the subterranean caves.

One of my all time favorites-- the original that is- ah a young Rod Taylor :loveya:, but I was in my teens when I first saw it. I could see if I were younger, the Morlocks would have creeped me out too.

No joke I was an adult before I watched that entire movie. I would always leave during the flying monkey scene! Yikes!

The original or the John Carpenter/ Kurt Russell remake?

but I first saw it as an adult... what a classic!

and I really didn't get it until I was older

and The Exorcist scared the shit out of my husband. To this DAY, he won't watch it and can't even stand to hear the theme music! I have re-watched Salem's Lot several times and it doesn't seem AS scary but still creepy as hell.

I saw a movie called Phantasm.I couldn't sleep with the lights out for a month.

Scared the bajesus out of me!!!

The Others, the new one. Eeeeeee....... it creeped me OUT! And Signs, too. The Alien gave me the heebijeebies. For mom, it the Excorsist or the Birds.

I didn't see the ending coming in The Others. Signs felt like it was a nightmare, you're trapped in a house and something is trying to get in.

The Birds scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid. A few days after I saw it a bird got in the house and I nearly wet myself.

But my personal favorite as a kid was The Poltergeist. You should check it out if you haven't already seen it.

any scary movie and it never bothered me. My dad even had me convinced that Freddy Krueger was my secret friend and he wouldn't let any of the other bad guys get me. But for some reason Chucky scared the shit out of me and I had numerous night mares over that asshole. LOL Stupid Doll!

You saw nothing in the way of creatures or ghosts, etc. The house itself was extremely creepy!

We watched that movie one night with all the lightts out, candles only and windows open with the breeze blowing the curtains. Try it, it's good scarry fun.

She said that I was really afraid of the evil cat and cried and just wanted to go home. My Freeper mother made me stay. Explains a lot.:shrug:

Medusa was really scary! I would run and hide when she came on. Bubo was cute, though.

The whole thing!

Crazy scary midgets, Crazy scary witches, Crazy scary lions, tigers, and bears... crazy scary flying bat things, crazy scary wizard...

was anything in the wizard of oz not CRAZY or SCARY?! NO! the whole thing traumatized me for life.

Goofy me. :hi:

We had it on a film reel. This was before home video.

Evil Dead really bothered me too, but that may have been due to the acid.

When we went over to my aunt's, she had a bunch of old thriller movies...

The Blob scared the crap out of me at age 7/8...

Came out in 1961 I think. No big name actors, B&W, check it out although it's hard to find.

First movie I ever saw - I was maybe 5 or 6. When that witch turned into a fire breathing dragon and talked about "the fires of HELL", my little knees just turned into mush.

Forgot the name.

"Bug" too. First movie I ever saw. I would not talk on the phone for a while.

among others that have already been mentioned here.

The scene in the Wizard of Oz with the witch appearing to Dorothy in the crystal ball still makes me :scared:

The Exorcist came out when I was 11 or 12 and my parents forbade me to see it. I finally watched it in my 20's and promptly called my parents and thanked them for saving me from that trauma.

Honorable mention goes to the following:
The Lost Boys
I Spit on Your Grave
The Omega Man
Amityville Horror
Count Yorga, Vampire
Suspiria
The Mark of the Devil
American Werewolf in London
The Green Slime
Village of the Damned

scared the hell out of my older brother. A few nights after we saw it, we were walking home, and when we passed the big, scary house on the corner (you know, the one with the gigantic bush in front) he made me hold his hand. Me, his LITTLE brother, after seeing THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN. Although I will admit that the shot of the garden shears in the woman's portrait, with the blood running out of the picture is pretty gruesome.

Fright Night scared the hell out of me. I remember seeing it from behind my hands, my friend and I clutching each other in terror.

The original The Haunting creeped me out. Although my mom and dad made it even scarier by turning off all the lights and coming out of the dark with candles. The neighbor kid got so spooked he had to go home.