What movie most disturbed you as a child?
Came here to say this.
I saw that when I was about 4 or 5, and that fucking movie scarred me for several years. Why did they have to market it at a kid's movie? There was some horrible shit in there.
For REAL, dude. That's what I'm saying
I dont think it was ever intended to be a kids movie. The book it is based off of is very long, definitely not made for kids. Maybe pre-teens or teens but definitely not little kids. And all the other books the same author wrote were very dark and heavy in subject matter. Definitely not meant for kids.
I think the problem with the movie came because it was about talking animals and was also animated. Back in the 1970s when that movie was first made, adult animation wasn't really a thing, at least not a mainstream thing, and talking animals was seen as mostly things for children. So that's probably why the movie was marketed that way.
This is the answer! I was 6-7 years old and went with a group of friends for one of their birthdays - we all came out crying and hysterical. The poor mum who took us had no idea who to comfort first. What a truly terrifying and horrific “kids” film!
Brave Little Toaster
The dying air conditioner scene. shudders
There was a movie called "Herbie rides again" (based on the Love Bug/Herbie films about a race car) that I watched as a child and one scene SCARRED ME FOR YEARS. Basically in this scene this old man has a nightmare that he's standing on a building and and a bunch of EVIL looking volkswagen beetles start like flying around him and squirting oil onto his face!! I developed like a small phobia of flying cars after that, lmao.
Lol didn't expect to see that one in here.
The rape scene in Pulp Fiction made me feel sick. Good movie though
You watched this as a kid?
I was 10 and it was on HBO
Yeah not buying this
You don't believe that kids watch movies that aren't always made for kids?
Oh I completely do. My first R rated movie was Anaconda. My cousins snuck me in the back door. I'm saying if you're a kid you don't know what's happening in that scene.
Why not lmao I was 11 when I saw Pulp Fiction for the first time, this isn’t some outlandish claim
11 year old human infants haven't fully developed vision yet, they can't yet discern the pixels on a screen into the shapes they represent.
good point
True but I knew the sound of ass play
Got em
Lol before internet streaming the whole family watched whatever was on TV. And what was on TV was sometimes pretty graphic. I had a hell of a realisation when I tried to show my children the movies I grew up that maybe I should let the past stay in the past.
Twilight Zone The Movie. Dad took me to see it in the theater when I was 7 because we loved the show. That movie fucked me up.
That movie was scary AF.
That fucking gremlin that was on the plane was in my nightmares for years.
Worse after I grew up and learned they killed a couple people with a helicopter while filming, and pretty much had no reprecussions
The Last Unicorn was pretty dark, I definitely have some trauma from that one.
Same
"Dont look back and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention"
The Rats of Nimh
Yes! It was The Secret of Nimh and not a happy story at all.
Yes! I remember watching it and I’ve never watched it since. This was in the 80s
Bridge to Terabithia
😭😭😭
You can say that again. Judging by the trailer, I expected a fun, light-hearted movie full of whimsy and wonder. I thought it would be another Chronicles of Narnia movie or a more family friendly version of Lord of the Rings.
What we got was a bleak, dark, next to joyless family drama concerning death, abuse, and other less than fun topics.
they made us watch this every week in middle school, it was rough
Can't forget that. I couldn't sleep after I watched it. It just upset me too much. I still think it's a good movie, but I'll never forget.
Matilda. The scene where the fat kid gets forced to eat an entire cake horrified me when my family saw it in theaters.
BRUCE, BRUCE, BRUCE!
i loved that scene as a kid, i always wished i could've been in his shoes
I cried and we almost had to leave the theater. I still can't stand it when movies show people's lips up close. Lol
Looked tasty though
I'm same, like the TV show, I'm a person who's mostly clean and neat so and disgusting scenes terrified me.
We were forced to watch it in grade 2
For some reason in my middle school, a teacher showed us The Poltergeist on movie day.... yeah...
For me it was the clown doll arms stretching out and abducting the child into the closet. I already had that classic child anxiety about the closet being open, and lots of weird porcelain dolls my grandma gave me, so I think it just all came together really nicely for me lol.
oh god my mom had a porcelain doll that her grandma gave her and that shit terrified me as a kid, i hated it
I blocked that one from my memory. It still scares me.
The Chucky movies. Dolls are pretty disturbing.
I couldn’t even walk past Chucky DVD covers or posters as a kid, he scared the shit out of me.
I wish you could understand how much I relate to this. My sister had a messed up doll and my Mum jokingly said, "It looks like Chucky". My curious mind hopped on Google which I had only recently discovered how to use and typed in Chucky the Doll on Google Images and when I saw the face with scratches alone, I ran out of the room with my younger brother and we didn't even have the courage to go back and close the tab. It was a phobia that lasted until I got to my late teens and realised how ridiculously amusing the movies actually were
I remember thinking it looked terrifying as a kid but then I saw part of it when I was 13 and thought it was funny and couldn’t understand how I ever thought that could possibly be scary.
Fire in the sky. Just about peed my pants at the scene
Signs.
As a kid I was fascinated with aliens and that kind of stuff. That movie made me change interests lol.
Labyrinth, but can't really remember why, haven't watched it since
Was it David Bowie's package?
I didn't watch Labyrinth until I was an adult and Im still deeply disturbed. The puppets that pulled off body parts while singing felt like watching a bad acid trip.
Although I have no memory of it I'm going to say this was the reason
When she fell down the hole and it was a bunch of hands coming out of the wall to grab her, that's what did it to me
You guys are not selling re-watching this movie to me. Not at all.
Jaws
I swear that scene seemed to provide a template for bullshit paranormal YouTube videos ever since.
Blair witch project!
We were adults when we stupidly watched it, and it scared the living hell out of me.
Oh god I love that movie
Any streaming services its on? I wanna see it lol.
It's on Hulu, that's the only place I could find it
The Exorcist
Why did u see this as a child?
Kids were tougher back in the day
I came here to say the same thing 😭
Yep
Who framed Roger rabbit
Ooooh yeah that's a messed up scene at the end.
The Fox and The Hound
That one scene still gets to me.
Dumbo. Not a movie for insecure children.
According to my mother Snow White gave me nightmares as a child. Specifically the scene where she's running through the forest and the trees all have faces and shit.
Poltergeist. It's only PG. Lol.
My aunt had me watch A Clockwork Orange with her when I was 4. I had no clue what was going on but I remembered the film all through my childhood
Did anyone else's parents get them the black cauldron for a Disney movie? The movie is messed up.
My mom let me watch so many horror movies as a kid but for some reason the grudge was the one that got me. I had a closet across from my bed and it was not a fun time for awhile.
The Dark Crystal, I can’t even watch it now at 24 without wanting to throw up.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, everything about the childcatcher gave me nightmares for years. I also developed a deep fear of monkeys from The Wizzard of Oz
"I smell children!"
Idk, but The Black Cauldron, The Dark Crystal, and The Temple of Doom are all contenders.
Original Ghostbusters. Slimer was super scary to an eight-year-old.
A porn one. I was eight or nine years old, went to my brother Phillip (16) room and tv was on, pressed play and a black doctor was checking out the pulse on a white nurse ass. Lmao. I remember being scared of doctors for a while. Edit, English is not my first language, sorry for any mistake ;)
That's almost wholesome for Reddit. 😁
Darby O’gill and The Little People.
Something about the Death Carriage just fucking spooked me as a kid.
The Sixth Sense
The Watcher in the Woods. It still freaks me out.
The grudge. Scariest movie ive ever seen.
- the jawless girl
- the bed scene
- the opening jumpscare
- the body in the atic
- the cat boy
Honestly it was the movie Earnest Scared Stupid, it was always a fear of mine that a monster would sneak into my house and kidnap me and confine me Into a prison forever.
Not a movie but the music video for Thriller scared the absolute shit out of me.
Nightmare on Elm Street! The scene where he comes through the bed 😩
That fountain, holy shit that was crazy
As your mum and dad slept next door. Parenting skills
Candyman
Sybil. Why the hell my parents watched that on TV with their 7 year old in the room I will never know.
White Noise. I wasn’t even young but still a minor I guess.
The HBO static screen still makes me jump. I dunno why that movie got me so bad.
Cujo. I was 7. I still have a fear of snarling or barking dogs.
The shining
Mars Attacks
In Pinocchio where all the kids get turned into donkeys. It's a horror film sweetened with that tricky bastard Jiminy cricket.
There is an 80s horror movie called The Gate. To this day one of my favorite horror movies and there are so many scenes that disturbed me, but I still watched it on a somewhat regular basis. I was maybe 5 or 6 when I first watched it and given I didn't have any nightmares or any other negative reaction, my parents allowed me to watch it when I wanted. Basically from the early 90s up until 5 years ago I hadn't seen it until I found it on YouTube. I could recall every single scene and I still enjoyed the hell out of it while also still being disturbed by some of it.
In a similar vein, I had RoboCop toys growing up including one where Robocop had a striker that would snap cap gun caps. I recall seeing the movie around the same time as I saw The Gate, but didn't remember a ton about it. Around 2010 RoboCop was on a free weekend of one of the premium cable channels so I watched it and was blown away that they ever made kid's toys for it. I also had a ton of Rambo toys. The 80s were a wild time for kid's toys.
I saw Creepshow 2 when I was like 7 years old. Pretty messed up movie for a kid.
Yes! The Raft episode I still remember so clearly!
I saw IT (the original) as a very small child and had recurring nightmares for years and was afraid to get too close to drains lmao
I actually became afraid of clowns because of it for a few years
It
Dad left Trainspotting on for me to watch when I was like 7. I forgot about it but sometimes had dreams of alot of the scenes, watched it later in life and realised where they were from. Great film & book though.
Chucky
Halloween
Gremlins
Animal farm. My mom thought it was a nice kid friendly movie. (Her and my dad never really followed the movie ratings) Boy did my brother and I have nightmares for a couple of days.
Last House on the Left. 70's version.
I “accidentally” watched Children of the Corn at a very young age. I still can’t stand cornfields. That will screw you up for life.
This is going to sound absurd.
Dunkston Checks In.
There is a part where they are watching a movie about an ape hiding in a bathroom waiting to attack a woman.
To this day I can not sleep in a room with a bathroom attached to it without that bathroom door being closed.
Meanwhile I ADORED this movie as a kid and am shocked as an adult that it didn't do better, because my child brain thought it was fantastic.
The Blob from 1988. I saw that movie WAY before my ability to handle scary movies.
I was scared for months of movie theatres and dark ceilings in general.
By far Killer Klowns From Outerspace
I saw that movie in the theatre when I was like 9 for some reason. I will never watch that movie again.
The scene in The Matrix when the tracking bug crawls into Neo's belly button
That messed with my head for a few years, I was like 10 I think?
Cabin Fever
Gremlins. There's a scene where a gremlin pops out of a trash can. Had nightmares for years where I'd be strolling along and see a row of trash cans and sure enough a goddamn gremlin would pop out of one as I walked by. Never been able to trust trash cans.
Back in the 60s there was a TV documentary about Easter Island, and two tribes called the long-ears and the short-ears (the long-ears stretched out their ear lobes). The long-ears were outnumbered so the took refuge in a corner of the island and built a long trench that they filled with firewood, which they would light on fire when needed as a defense. The short-ears found a way around and lit the fire-trench, then attacked the long-ears from behind. Many long-ears retreated and fell into the fire trench.
It was a simple 60s-era graphic of people falling into a burning trench, but it kept me up at nights and I still remember it. Don't remember the name of the documentary, though (apparently the story is dubious but I guess they didn't substantiate facts much in those days).
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Pinocchio
I watched The Silence of the Lambs when I was 10. I didn't sleep for 2 days.
The green mile. I don't remember much of it but I remember it really freaked me out. Just because of how bleak and sad it was and cause at the time I was to young to really understand it
The Last Unicorn. I liked it but some parts of it scared me just because of how disturbing and warped it was. I'm sure if I rewatched it now it would freak me out even more
Zombie Land.
Still don't know why it scared me but i still love it to this day
Superman 3 when the super computer turns the lady into that creepy ass robot.
The witches.
Misery, saw the scene of her cutting off his foot as a kid and i’ve thought about it ever since.
A Nightmare on Elm Street....
Like every kid under 9 years old my safe place was in my bed, this took that away from me... I was mentally FUQED for a few days.
I watched it in the basement when everyone was asleep when I was 8. This movie also caused me run up the stairs whenever going from the basement or any dark room in the dark/nighttime until my early 20s.
Return to Oz. The Wheelers still creep me the fuck out. The whole movie is a fever dream. Still love it though.
Coraline. And I've watched Predator, The Conjuring, and other horror movies when I was 10
Coraline or maybe the Resident Evil movies. My mom loved those movies. I felt sick at the scene when they were in that laser room trap thing and that one guy got cut up into little squares. *shudders. I still can't get that out of my head To this day.
The incredibles
Can I ask why?
Personally for me is the Wizard of Oz Damn those flying monkeys.
Wait till you see Return to Oz!
I refuse to watch.
Jeepers creepers maybe
The ring or the strangers
Aladdin. I was really little when it came out in theaters and the cave coming to life when he touched the lamp scared the shit out of me.
Ethnic Nationalism is the evil thing that caused the Holocaust, and you're painting with a dishonest, incorrect, and misleading brush when you conflate ethnic nationalism with collectivism in general. I saw how little you care about people and reality in your other posts, so I doubt you care that you are wrong. But you are.
Debbie does Dallas
Tie between Wallace & Gromit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Alvin and the Chipmunks
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. The owl's song, the creepy locations along the way, the growling that was following them. It was all a fever dream, even after the comedic twist in the end
Pinocchio
Coraline
Silent Hill 2, esp those pyramid head shits
Did you see the first one? I swear the creatures in there is so much worse. Especially the bathroom scene when the mom made it to silent hill
i watched it when i got older & def think it was for the best i missed it as a child lmfaoo
Omg yes. I only watched the first one, I was too traumatized to watch the 2nd.
The Breadwinner
When I was 4 years old, my parents brought me to a double movie showing of Mrs Doubtfire and Jurassic Park at a Cinepark(drive in movie theater). They expected me to fall asleep before the second movie but unfortunately for them I still remember hiding under the car seat trying to not see the fat man get devoured by a dinosaur. Luckily for them, I didn't get too traumatized by it and it just made me want to rewatch the movie when I was older.
When I was about ten years old I watched a movie on Lifetime called Bastard Out of Carolina. It was pretty messed up for daytime TV.
The ring fuct me up man
“Let’s scare Jessica to death”
Trilogy of terror
Coraline. It's an excellent movie, but that last scene with the Other Mother has haunted me for years.
starwars: revenge of the sith, I was 5 and seeing a goodguy turn evil was deeply upsetting to me
Scum
Trilogy of terror -eeeeh eeeeh eeeh
Poltergeist my step sister has her friends over and I couldn't sleep (because they were screaming) so I ended up sat down with them and watch it as well. That kid got pull away to the other side scene got me. Not because it was scary but because the scene look so disturb with that red slime looking blood.
Also Shutter (2004, Original Thai version), that ending disturb me that I won't look up or look into mirror when my neck hurt for years when I was a child...
The Fly.
I had nightmares about turning into a fly.
coraline and chucky… especially chucky
The Mask. The idea of losing control from a mask was terrifying.
There was a French Canadian studio that put out a bunch of movies in the 80s that were aimed at kids and truly twisted. The studio was called “La Fête”, and going to a French immersion school at the time meant you were gonna be forced to watch these totally unnerving films. The Great Land of Small and Peanutbutter Solution stand out and still give me fever dreams.
Ace Ventura at 6 years old
RoboCop fucked me up a bit as a kid.
Return to Oz makes me feel sick.
Prancer. It was a movie that was supposed to be about a girl finding one of Santa’s reindeer, but instead it was about a girls being emotionally abused by a drunk uncle… that’s what I took from it as a 7 year old at least.
Ww2 was kinda a movie in America
The Beast Within
There’s this one movie that’s about some young adults or something on a hike in a canyonous area and there being stalked and killed by this guy who was in FPP. One guy is repelling down the side of a cliff and you just see the killer’s hand with a knife cut the the rope.
Idk what it was called. I didn’t finish it. It was on tv late Saturday night when they used to show scary movies. Old movie.
Haven't really had a movie disturb me but I remember as a kid that I would FF through the Gollum cave scene in the animated The Hobbit movie.
He was scary as eff.
Toys in the Attic (2009).
It was intended for kids, but the surreal and foreign designs of the toys terrified me.
Darkness falls.
Altered States
The darkness falls episode, XFiles
Edward Scissor Hands
Watership Down