As a small child, the witch in Snow White scared me really bad, specifically the scene when the dwarves chased her to the cliff edge in the rainstorm.



There is a scene in Shogun where they boiled someone. It was awful and I had nightmares for a long time. I am not sure why I saw that movie as a kid.

There was something about the Running Man that really creeped me out but I cannot recall the scene.

Tanya 93 said:

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Curb stomp

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yes
this was awful

Whos Juan said:

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Willy Wonka tunnel scene

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That's a great one. Funny to watch as an adult and try to remember why it seemed scary.

I was 4 when my dad took me to see this:



Godzilla Versus Hedorah (released in this country as Godzilla Versus the Smog Monster). That squid thing with the big red eyes swimming right into the camera caused me many nightmares.

And maybe leaning too much toward horror, but this movie is probably my earliest movie memory.



It's called The Monster That Challenged the World. I was probably no more than 3 years old. I recall that we watched it on TV. The scene that would be burned into my memory I could not find online, but right before the above scene, the little girl had gone into the lab where there was a compression chamber. The critter had been decompressed in that chamber. She started pushing some random buttons on the thing, and lo and behold, it was recompressed (is that a word?). It broke out of the top of that chamber, looked like a jack-in-the-box monster on a spring. Scared me so bad that I refused to go into my bathroom alone because there was a window in there that I was convinced that monster would bust through to get me while I was dropping a deuce. The memory of that scene was with me my entire life. When Netflix came around with their system of sending you discs, I went through every monster movie they had - and went through a lot of crap - before I finally stumbled on this title.

Agasaurus Tex said:

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Is it safe?

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I can't believe I didn't think of that one.

Oh I forgot about Clan of the Cave Bear. The cave mom falling into the earthquake scarred me for several years! I still avoid crevasses.

I don't know if it counts as a horror movie, but to this day, no movie has impacted me more than Jaws. I'd check for sharks at the lake, a river, and even a pool when I was younger after seeing it. Certainly every time I'm at a beach.


The underwater scenes got me the most...combo drowning and mauling and dying

In the Game, when Michael Douglas plugs his brother,Thar was so intense for me

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Bad movie and it's comically a bad scene in reality , but that lady being turned into a robot in Superman III scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

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This. I still get creeped out by it, regardless of how stupid it actually looks.

I have the opposite feeling on a lot of these 70s movies. I saw Star Wars before I saw any of them (Black Hole, Flash Gordon, etc.) and that made me realize how cheesy all of those other movies look. It took all the fear away that i may have felt if I had seem them first.

I used to be a big fan of Air Wolf, and back in those days, Jan-Michael Vincent was a big star. Because of this, his previous movies were all over the TV. I watched one called "Shadow of the Hawk". I don't remember anything about it, and it's probably terrible. But I do remember that this freaking thing would jump scare over and over again:



To this day, decades later, it's the only thing I remember about it. I used to have nightmares about that thing.

The scene in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan when Khan put those beetle things in their helmets, and the bugs subsequently burrowed into their ears. That messed my elementary school self up for a bit.

The previously mentioned Temple of Doom heart yanking scene.

Random one (think I have this one right): in one of the Chuck Norris, Missing in Action movies, there's a scene where they put a bag over the prisoner's head and put a rat in the bag. After a scuffle for a few seconds, this big patch of blood starts to appear on the bag, the bag is removed, and he's killed the rat by biting it. That almost made me throw up as a kid and I'm not sure I've ever seen the rest of the film.

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My kids just gave the WTF look and dad didn't get to pick the movie for awhile.

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maroon barchetta said:

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Lots of scenes from Chernobyl.

Lots.

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Yep, though in a way it does seem like they storyboard the series like a horror story.

Emotional Support Cobra said:

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Oh I forgot about Clan of the Cave Bear. The cave mom falling into the earthquake scarred me for several years! I still avoid crevasses.

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Great shout

So I consider Scream to be more of a comedy than horror.

But that first scene was something else. My wife was never the same after seeing that.

I can't remember exact scenes in Labrynth but for a bunch of damn muppets it had some creepy shjt going on.

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I watched The Day After in school and the nuke scene scared the crap out of me.

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Everybody at school was depressed the next day. It wasn't so much the nukes as it was the horror of surviving.

It was a night…just like tonight. Why…tonight's the anniversary!

We were close enough to a major city that we assumed the shock waves would reach us