what film scared the pee outta you as a kid?

miju

Just finished waching Stephen Kings IT for the first time since I was about 9 years old.

While not as scary now I remember Pennywise the clown scared the ever loving crap out of me for weeks on end.

So what film scared you all as a kid?

edit: some clips of Pennywise from IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Oe62FKlac

Huggles

miju wrote:

Just finished waching Stephen Kings IT for the first time since I was about 9 years old.

While not as scary now I remember Pennywise the clown scared the ever loving crap out of me for weeks on end.

So what film scared you all as a kid?

Oh yeah thats definitely one, along with the twins in the Shining.

Was scared ****less of childcatcher in Chitty Bang Bang too.

miju

oh yeah I remember the chldcatcher in chitty , chitty bang bang as well. he just kinda creeped me out though

Pighead

Pighead was born in 77. Theres an awful lot of kids from my generation that were disturbed by Salems Lot. Haven't watched it since. Too afraid.

skibum

Jaws, my dad took me to see it when I was 10 as a birthday present, that f*cking sound track scared the sh!te out of me

admiralofthefleet

'It' scared the living daylights out of me, i still hate clowns, the modern day superman scared me too because it was total pants

Shryke

Didn't think this would suit the films board?

I wasn't the kind of kid to get frightened at films. Especially the 'scary' ones. They were usually a bit of a laugh. Edward Scissorhands depressed the **** out of me though.

afatbollix

i was 8 and at a friends birthday party i seen jerasic park i hid behind the couch dfor bits

Ruu_Old

Hocus Pocus.

Collie D

admiralofthefleet wrote:

'It' scared the living daylights out of me, i still hate clowns, the modern day superman scared me too because it was total pants

Remember thinking it was scary but never thought it scared me. But I have an unexplained hatred of clowns too, hmm, Stephen King lawsuit coming up. Class action, admiral?

Rhyme

Event Horizon.

*Shudder*

zuutroy

Pighead wrote:

Pighead was born in 77. Theres an awful lot of kids from my generation that were disturbed by Salems Lot. Haven't watched it since. Too afraid.

My God, you're 30! I had you down as 22. As for films...cant think of any really...the bad gremlins kinda freaked me out.

Pighead

Ruu wrote:

Hocus Pocus.

He he!

Pighead

zuutroy wrote:

My God, you're 30! I had you down as 22.

Nope 30. Pighead was 22 about 8 years ago though. Perhaps thats were the confusion arose?

Terry

Nothing scared me.
I'm a double hard bastard.
See those threads about standing up to scumbags?
I didn't post there because my stories of standing up to them would frighten the hardest of you.


























my mammy told me the local slaughterhouse was haunted. I was afraid to walk by it for years

Aliens.

admiralofthefleet

Collie D wrote:

Class action, admiral?

indeed, i cant even go near a circus. im 26 years old and i would literally run a mile if i saw a clown, stephen king is indeed a cnut

back on topic, ghost also gave me the creeps, those ghouls that took the bad people away:eek:

zuutroy

Pighead wrote:

Nope 30. Pighead was 22 about 8 years ago though. Perhaps thats were the confusion arose?

You mean it's not 1999 anymore....?

Terry

admiralofthefleet wrote:

indeed, i cant even go near a circus. im 26 years old and i would literally run a mile if i saw a clown, stephen king is indeed a cnut

back on topic, ghost also gave me the creeps, those ghouls that took the bad people away:eek:

Clowns only scare me because of the time I tried to sneak into a circus and one of the clowns caught me and kicked me up the arse.
My friends got in without being caught, the bastards.

Collie D

zuutroy wrote:

You mean it's not 1999 anymore....?

Somebody should tell Prince. He's just given away his new album for free thinking he can still rake in the royalties on that song

Pighead

Terry wrote:

Clowns only scare me because of the time I tried to sneak into a circus and one of the clowns caught me and kicked me up the arse.
My friends got in without being caught, the bastards.

Jesus, bad luck buddy. Of all the circus performers to catch you sneaking in and give you a kick up the arse, it had to be the one with the biggest shoes.

Duiske

The older heads here might remember "The Hand". Its was about a white gloved hand that used to go around choking the bejaysus out of anyone it came across. Must have been 6/7 when I seen it. The nightmares faded away after about 4 months. !!

redtom

When I were a lad (a long time ago now), I was out running round one fine summer's evening and got to starin in the neighbours window as they had a "video" out for the night (ah, good times - top loading VCR machines... ) - anyway, out they popped and said "Hey, come on in and watch it if you want" - evil bastards, it turned out to be Evil Dead 2 and I came in just as a hand came through the trapdoor and rammed a pencil into someone's ankle, again and again... man, I was scared abso****inlutely ****less that night and it took me a long time to ever watch that one again...

biko

Dead & Buried

Collie D

Pighead wrote:

Jesus, bad luck buddy. Of all the circus performers to catch you sneaking in and give you a kick up the arse, it had to be the one with the biggest shoes.

Hat to admit it but I laughed

Killaqueen!!!

The Queen from Alice in Wonderland (cartoon version) She was scary!

Irish Wolf

Threads...



*edit* adding link for the younger members of the audience...

Pighead

Irish Wolf wrote:

Threads...

According to imdb 'threads' is a documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and it's effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.

Pretty scary alright buddy but don't worry Sheffields miles and miles away. Turn that frown upside down..

tonc76

The Fog

1980 version

Saw it in 1984 I think (I was 8)

Still gets the sh1ts up me when there's a fog out

texas star

Nite of the living dead,jesus still cant watch any of them.:eek:

Extreme-LoopZ

I think the movie was called The Lady in White, saw it when I was about 5, I remember it scared the bjezus outa me then, I haven't seen it since though.....

texas star

Oh and American Warewolf in London...AHHHH bloke sitting in pictures all green and aaaahhhh awful:eek:

John Carpenters "The Thing". Scared me sh*tless when I was small. Now I love it. One of the very best horror films ever made.

mcauley

Cant quite pinpoint why....but Labyrinth scared the bejesus outta me as a kid....

Something terribly unsettling about David Bowie in that movie.

Still makes me shudder!!!

mad m

Exorcist! enough said!

I can't beleieve nobody has mentioned The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. This film still freaks me out.

Irish Wolf

Pighead wrote:

According to imdb 'threads' is a documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and it's effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.

Pretty scary alright buddy but don't worry Sheffields miles and miles away. Turn that frown upside down..

But what about the fallout Pighead? WHAT ABOUT THE FALLOUT!!! :eek:

The Bollox

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. watched it first when I was 9 / 10 and had shítloads of nightmares. it wasn't until I was 17 that I had the courage to watch it again and some scenes still scare the pants off me!

miju

Extreme-LoopZ wrote:

I think the movie was called The Lady in White, saw it when I was about 5, I remember it scared the bjezus outa me then, I haven't seen it since though.....

I think I remember that film. Does this have something do with a school, a young kid and some abonded looking house on the top of a cliff?

didn't scare me but a bloody good film

Extreme-LoopZ

yeh the kid gets locked in school and sees a murder or something.......

Labyrinth was my fave movie as a kid! I'm still in love with David Bowie in those spandex trousers:eek: in a kids movie:D

Red Hand

When the aliens come out of the spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Saw it when I was 4 and wasn't able to watch it again for years.

Orange69

The Fly..

Still freaks me out a bit to this day..

gucci

i remember the first time i seen the classic "Killer Bees!!" when i was about 8 or 9, i thought "this film had no effect on me whatsoever, im not scared" anyways it was dark and i went out to fetch something outside so i flicked on the light at the back door, two MOTHS zoomed around the light, que me leaping about 4 foot off the ground and letting a quite girly scream out of me also, me ould lad nearly wet himself laughing at me!!!


on a seperate one, watching crying game when i was an innocent 10 or 11 year old i was quite scared and confused after the "revelation" scene

gucci

mcauley wrote:

Cant quite pinpoint why....but Labyrinth scared the bejesus outta me as a kid....

Something terribly unsettling about David Bowie in that movie.

Still makes me shudder!!!

i watched it last week with my 3 year old niece (her first time watching it!) and she wasnt scared....ya big wuss!! although in fairness bowies two different colour eyes and those freaky puppets had me waiting for her to ball!!

Dave!

Pighead wrote:

Jesus, bad luck buddy. Of all the circus performers to catch you sneaking in and give you a kick up the arse, it had to be the one with the biggest shoes.

rofl

When I was younger I was sh*t scared of IT the clown, and Pet Sematary. Especially this chick in PS:
http://bebo.com/watch/3986066192

She gave me nightmares for months. But I confronted my fear by putting her on my flashbox on Bebo......... and never watching it fully.......

Nailz

Hellraiser, that was some freaky sh1t man.

ferdi

mcauley wrote:

Cant quite pinpoint why....but Labyrinth scared the bejesus outta me as a kid....

Something terribly unsettling about David Bowie in that movie.

Still makes me shudder!!!

Was it David Bowie's bulge?

Drag00n79

Without a doubt it was Salem's Lot (the original) for me. RTÉ showed it over two nights back in the early 80s. The scene with the boy floating outside his friend's bedroom window got me big time when I was 10 or 11. I found it hard to sleep that night!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

445279.ie

When a Stranger Calls

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080130/

The one with the famous line "Have you checked the children?" :eek:

Was also terrified of The Incredible Hulk

LivingDeadGirl

The witch from Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent. I had my very first nightmare at the age of 3, and it was about her

psicic

When I was about four or five I saw Superman III.

For whatever reason, the bit where the computer turns one of the bad guys into a 'robot' freaked me out. It was on ITV, but I'm nearly positive in the version I saw back then the character was DEAD dead and didn't survive at the end. Either way, the whole evil computer thing freaked me out. The thunderstorm that night did not help me get over my fear - I felt uneasy about that movie for a long time afterwards.

Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street freaked me out a bit when I first saw him. Kept on having to rationalise to myself why there was no need to be afraid and how I didn't believe he was hiding in that dark corner in my room...