After reading through the 'songs that scared you as child' thread, it reminded me of films that scared the be'jesus out of me as a nipper.

The opening scene of Ghostbusters with the old lady librarian & all those papers flying out :(

I can still remember watching Evil Dead when I was about 8 years old.

When I was off sick from school I watched the whole Nightmare on Elm St. series. (only dared watch in the day tho!)

What about you lot?

:shocked:Chocky

An American Werewolf in London was bad enough with the scenes on the moor at the beginning and the underground tube station in London.

Also, I know it may not seem too scary now but as a kid watching 'Salems Lot' at midnight was terrifying! the bit where the young kid's brother is floating outside his window and then gets in!:o as well as the part at the end where David Soul is sat in the old house and the door to coffin room is open and all the vampires are crawling towards him - makes you want to shout 'SHUT THAT BLOODY DOOR AND GET OUT!' LOL!:help::o

Wrath of Kahn.... it was the baby slug things off the back of the armadillo thing that did it for me - 8 years old, hidden behind the sofa! It took years for me to be able to watch Star Trek!

I watched IT when I was little and gave me nightmares for ages!!!!

Jaws gave me one of the worst nightmares I've ever had. My duvet had got tangled around my waist and In my dream it was interpretted into being bitten by a shark.





E.T.also gave me nightmares:blush::blush:

'Ghostbusters' is a fantastic film! I saw it at the old Gaumont when it was first released and that library ghost scene sent the popcorn flying :hihi: . And I'll second 'An American Werewolf in London'; the Nazi dream scene scared the poo out of me, as did the poor bloke being terrorised by the unseen werewolf on the underground. The fact that it was bloody funny film somehow made the horror much more frightening.

'The Amityville House'
'Children of the Corn'

Rosemary's Baby scared the crap out of me and my friend one night having a sleep over. We had to change th channel. It's one of my favourite films now.

The hanging scene in The Omen too.

The hanging scene in The Omen too.

Yes that was quite disturbing...I always got the creeps when that reporter with the big camera, saw a threatening shadow on the photograph of himself.

Yeh, the Omen is a great film. I'll have to watch it again soon I think.

Oh I just remembered something else. When I was younger I was watching TV really late at night in my room (with the sound down really low so my parents couldn't hear!) and I was watching what I think may have been a film version of the Handmaid's Tale because it was about this girl who had to have sex with a man but he wasn't allowed to touch her, and he had to be on this rope thing hovering above her. And then later on I think she got stoned to death.

That really creeped me out.

"the hand" which was an appointment with fear film on a friday night.I loved the vampire,were wolf and frankenstein ones but the hand used to scare me stiff.

I was particularly afraid of animated skeletons as a kid, so films like Jason and the Argonauts where skeletons rise from the ground to attack the Argonauts were scary, as was War of the Worlds (you see people’s skeleton as they are vaporised) and This Island Earth (you see the protagonists skeletons as they are put through a pressure chamber).

My Dad took me to see Westworld when I was far too young, Yul Brynner's turn as an unstoppable killing machine (a-la The Terminator) was very scary.

I was particularly afraid of animated skeletons as a kid, so films like Jason and the Argonauts where skeletons rise from the ground to attack the Argonauts were scary, as was War of the Worlds (you see people’s skeleton as they are vaporised) and This Island Earth (you see the protagonists skeletons as they are put through a pressure chamber).

My Dad took me to see Westworld when I was far too young, Yul Brynner's turn as an unstoppable killing machine (a-la The Terminator) was very scary.

Good call - I always thought Yul Brynner was really menacing in that role.

Though not strictly a film, I remember an episode of Sapphire and Steel ( I think?) which featured a little boy with no face. Faceless figures always **** me up as a kid, and I remember I couldnt sleep for ages after I watched that.

An American Werewolf in London was bad enough with the scenes on the moor at the beginning and the underground tube station in London.

Also, I know it may not seem too scary now but as a kid watching 'Salems Lot' at midnight was terrifying! the bit where the young kid's brother is floating outside his window and then gets in!:o as well as the part at the end where David Soul is sat in the old house and the door to coffin room is open and all the vampires are crawling towards him - makes you want to shout 'SHUT THAT BLOODY DOOR AND GET OUT!' LOL!:help::o

They were the two that sprang to my mind!

:)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

And before you ask how a flying car was scary, I mean the character called "The Child Catcher" played in the film by Robert Helpmann.

Frightened the s*** out of me, especially the part where he entices the children into the back of his cart and drives away.
Still not happy about it 39 years later come to think of it...!

E.T

Never watched it untill my evil nanan (whos now died) made me sit down and watch it even when she knew it scared me. i was only 5 :mad:

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

And before you ask how a flying car was scary, I mean the character called "The Child Catcher" played in the film by Robert Helpmann.

Frightened the s*** out of me, especially the part where he entices the children into the back of his cart and drives away.
Still not happy about it 39 years later come to think of it...!


Oooh, yeah, I was terrified of the Child Catcher as well - shudder.

Strangely enough, the film that most upset me as a child was Peter Sellers' "Shot in the Dark". As an adult I find it an incredibly funny film, if a bit macabre - but it was the bit where Peter Sellers is sat in the nudist colony, talking to the dead body, thinking it's still alive. That really freaked me out

I was also very upset by the scenes of lepers in "Ben Hur", and had a real 'thing' about leprosy for years.

Oh, and I don't like "An American Werewolf in London" either - I thought it was supposed to be funny, so was caught a bit off-guard, and it scared the poop out of me!

StarSparkle

Good call - I always thought Yul Brynner was really menacing in that role.

Though not strictly a film, I remember an episode of Sapphire and Steel ( I think?) which featured a little boy with no face. Faceless figures always **** me up as a kid, and I remember I couldnt sleep for ages after I watched that.

And those horrible dolls in "Barbarella" with the teeth - there's something really creepy about china dolls... shiver

StarSparkle

I remember being scared of Sloth in The Goonies when I first watched it.

And those horrible dolls in "Barbarella" with the teeth - there's something really creepy about china dolls... shiver

StarSparkle

When I was a nipper, I used to stay at a friends house from time to time, but the only free room was his grans old room.

Running round the top of the walls was a shelf with row after row of china dolls stood to attention - all watching me with their 'orrible, dead eyes.

Can you imagine waking up in the middle of the night and having those things staring at you:wow:

When I was a nipper, I used to stay at a friends house from time to time, but the only free room was his grans old room.

Running round the top of the walls was a shelf with row after row of china dolls stood to attention - all watching me with their 'orrible, dead eyes.

Can you imagine waking up in the middle of the night and having those things staring at you:wow:

I'm sure I can imagine it, yes.... :gag: :help:

StarSparkle

I remember being scared of Sloth in The Goonies when I first watched it.

"Hey you guys!!!"

Chuckling to myself about this one Funky Gibbon :)

Quality film though!

Definately Jaws, I am so scared of sharks it's untrue, so I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to watch it when I was younger, it still scares the pants off of me now:help:

Wizzard of Oz scared the living daylights out of me :D

return to oz is worse, where the witch is running round in that room with all those heads and she is shouting "dorothey gayle,doooorrrothy gaaaaayle".
well freaky...:o

Wizzard of Oz scared the living daylights out of me :D

Oh, that was out the year you were born wasn't it?:P

It is actually quite disturbingly eerie, although magical enough for me to love it tons! And that witch, she is right mean! Does it still give you nightmares?:D

return to oz is worse, where the witch is running round in that room with all those heads and she is shouting "dorothey gayle,doooorrrothy gaaaaayle".
well freaky...:o

Oh give over, I'd forgotton about that film, it's right bad isn't it?! I'll be having nightmares tonight now, never mind AO, serves me right for teasing doesn't it?:(

:D

return to oz is worse, where the witch is running round in that room with all those heads and she is shouting "dorothey gayle,doooorrrothy gaaaaayle".
well freaky...:o

I didn't like the things with wheels on their arms.

I didn't like the Michael Jackson Thriller video.

I didn't like Snuffalupachus (sp.) in Sesame Street most of all though.

Definately Jaws, I am so scared of sharks it's untrue, so I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to watch it when I was younger, it still scares the pants off of me now:help:

I used to have sea blue carpet at the time that I watched Jaws, I'm sure I got my parents to change the carpet because of the nightmares that I was having!

I was particularly afraid of animated skeletons as a kid, so films like Jason and the Argonauts where skeletons rise from the ground to attack the Argonauts were scary, as was War of the Worlds (you see people’s skeleton as they are vaporised) and This Island Earth (you see the protagonists skeletons as they are put through a pressure chamber).

My Dad took me to see Westworld when I was far too young, Yul Brynner's turn as an unstoppable killing machine (a-la The Terminator) was very scary.

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Skeleton_warriors.jpg

Brrrr....

It's ruddy Ray Harryhausen. His stop-motion stuff always scared the pants off me too. Remember the Sinbad films? Just...horrible. :(

Any appearance of the Cybermen or Daleks used to give me nightmares, and that Peter Cushing Doctor Who film just about finished me off.

Ace. ;)

I used to have sea blue carpet at the time that I watched Jaws, I'm sure I got my parents to change the carpet because of the nightmares that I was having!

Oh BLESS!

I can see why though, I used to be a little bit scared of going to the loo incase Jaws bit me on the beeeehind:confused::hihi:

Definitely Jaws! I was only 6 when I saw it originally, and even now 25 years later I still refuse to watch it.

It's ruddy Ray Harryhausen. His stop-motion stuff always scared the pants off me too. Remember the Sinbad films? Just...horrible. :(

Any appearance of the Cybermen or Daleks used to give me nightmares, and that Peter Cushing Doctor Who film just about finished me off.


Ray Harryhausen is my hero, I loved his films as a kid, and still do. There was an exhibition of his stuff at the film museum in Bradford and I got to hear him speak about his work, he is realy cool.

As for Dr Who, Davros was v. scary, mainly because he looked like our next door neighbour at the time.

Ray Harryhausen is my hero, I loved his films as a kid, and still do. There was an exhibition of his stuff at the film museum in Bradford and I got to hear him speak about his work, he is realy cool.


Yes, great animation. Must've taken ages...

There was a film I saw once set in Venice, (I can't remember what it was called), but there was this little girl that kept appearing in a red hooded coat and running away. Very creepy...Donald Sutherland was in it.

Definately Jaws, I am so scared of sharks it's untrue, so I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to watch it when I was younger, it still scares the pants off of me now:help:

Its Jaws for me too still cant go swimming in the sea at all I just freak and think somethings going to grab me.

I still have nightmares that I am in the middle of the ocean surrounded by sharks :mad:

Its Jaws for me too still cant go swimming in the sea at all I just freak and think somethings going to grab me.

I still have nightmares that I am in the middle of the ocean surrounded by sharks :mad:

I can't swim in the sea either, or in any water that I can't see to the bottom, I tremble from fear, its a horrible feeling, and yes, sadly, I do blame that film! It's not good, because I actually LOVE swimming.

I hate not knowing whats potentially swimming close to me, it's something which is hard to explain to someone who doesn't feel the same isn't it:confused:

I remember going to see friday the 13th at the local working mens club, and at the end when she is in the lake in the boat, we all started to get up, thinking it had finished, but no, thats when he jumps out of the water, and my god, that frightened the life out of me. Not just that bit but all of the film, since then, if im in on my own i have to check under the bed before i go to sleep. :hihi:

Definitely the Chuckie films for me- think I was about 5 when i first watched it, and even now i still get nightmares :(

sloth from the goonies also scared me!

Definitely the Chuckie films for me- think I was about 5 when i first watched it, and even now i still get nightmares :(

sloth from the goonies also scared me!

Was it Chuckie, not Chocky as I thought? I also had nightmares after that film...and could never watch any of the others.

Definitely Chuckie - that is if youre on about the scary doll?!

Definitely Chuckie - that is if youre on about the scary doll?!

Yep-that's the one. I hated the way he looked when he was running. :o

ive got a phobia of ET as my mum sat me down to watch it when i was two telling me it was a "lovely family film". honestly, i was, and still am traumatised.

Was it Chuckie, not Chocky as I thought? I also had nightmares after that film...and could never watch any of the others.

Wasn't Chocky some weird kids programme about aliens?

Mine would have to be Poltergeist...scared me silly when I was about 5 or 6 and I didn't sleep properly for weeks.

Labrinth :o

There was a film I saw once set in Venice, (I can't remember what it was called), but there was this little girl that kept appearing in a red hooded coat and running away. Very creepy...Donald Sutherland was in it.
Don't look now? That is a creepy film. The weird dwarf thing in the hood, eurgh!

I used to get terrified when Hammer House of Horror came on Friday night after news at ten.

black and white frankenstien and dracula films with vincent price or boris karlof.

looking back they were really pathetic.

The pit and the pendulum was also a film that scared the life out of me as a child.

Definately Jaws, I am so scared of sharks it's untrue, so I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to watch it when I was younger, it still scares the pants off of me now:help:

Funnily the shark never scared me but the head popping out of the boat certainly did :D

...I've just remembered that I used to avoid walking near sewer grates after watching CHUD when I was 7 ;)

i was quite sheltered, i never saw anything scary until i was about 13. poltergeist. scared the bejeezus out of me. watched it a friends sleepover, twice in 12 hours. it was torturous! also pathetically "i know what you did last summer" scared me stupid too. i suck at watching horrors.

i was quite sheltered, i never saw anything scary until i was about 13. poltergeist. scared the bejeezus out of me. watched it a friends sleepover, twice in 12 hours. it was torturous! also pathetically "i know what you did last summer" scared me stupid too. i suck at watching horrors.

Me too, give me Disney any day. I have a far too over active imagination to watch anything scary, I remember watching the Candyman years and years ago and it still makes me poo my pants to think about it now, and I'm in the house all alone right now too.,...:help:

I'm such a big girl:D

uh huh. i watched Hostel recently and it made my skin crawl. it really hit a nerve, i dont know why. i didnt think i'd be able to make it through the whole film. Maybe some kind of past life experience?! My mum can't watch Titanic. She refuses. when i got it on release and i watched it at home, she came in the room and saw the tiniest bit of it, before the ship even started to sink, and she got totally hysterical. she thinks she must have been on it in a past life. freak.

Village of the Damned:o

she thinks she must have been on it in a past life. freak.

This made me actually laugh out loud.

Agree re: Hostel though, that is a very sick film. Much less so on second viewing, though.

As far as films that scared me when I was younger, though - any takers for Stephen King's 'It'? Was the sleepover film of choice when I was about 12/13. Terrifying.

When I stayed at my nans when I was about 8 yrs old, she let me stay up to watch a film called 'Les Diaboliques' (The Devils). It was the original french version from 1955. I have vague memories but can still remember the plot. It was like a horror/thriller/suspense/mystery all rolled into one. It was about a cruel headmaster of a boarding school who was killed by his wife and mistress. They drowned him in the bath and then dumped his body in the outdoor pool. When the pool was drained the body had disappeared. They kept finding evidence to suggest he was still around e.g a burning cigarette and it had a twist ending.

The Ghost of Flight 401, true story with Ernest Borgnine as the ghost. I remember after watching it, I couldn't sleep I was so scared. My dad had to make me look under all the beds in the house to prove there was nothing there before I would go to sleep.

Don't look now? That is a creepy film. The weird dwarf thing in the hood, eurgh!

Christ almighty. That thing really scared me and I only saw it a few years ago. I did lose sleep over that.

I watches Starship Troopers when I was really young, scared the living daylights out of me, couldnt sleep for days lol

[QUOTE=Deebles;2862525]When I stayed at my nans when I was about 8 yrs old, she let me stay up to watch a film called 'Les Diaboliques' (The Devils). It was the original french version from 1955. I have vague memories but can still remember the plot. It was like a horror/thriller/suspense/mystery all rolled into one. It was about a cruel headmaster of a boarding school who was killed by his wife and mistress. They drowned him in the bath and then dumped his body in the outdoor pool. When the pool was drained the body had disappeared. They kept finding evidence to suggest he was still around e.g a burning cigarette and it had a twist ending.

The Ghost of Flight 401, true story with Ernest Borgnine as the ghost. I remember after watching it, I couldn't sleep I was so scared. My dad had to make me look under all the beds in the house to prove there was nothing there before I would go to sleep.I think that film was on a couple of weeks ago, forgot to tell you. P.S.hope you got my reply.

Christ almighty. That thing really scared me and I only saw it a few years ago. I did lose sleep over that.

I know what you mean - no one needs to see Donald Sutherland 'gettin Jiggy' :gag:

I can't swim in the sea either, or in any water that I can't see to the bottom, I tremble from fear, its a horrible feeling, and yes, sadly, I do blame that film! It's not good, because I actually LOVE swimming.

I hate not knowing whats potentially swimming close to me, it's something which is hard to explain to someone who doesn't feel the same isn't it:confused:

I know when we are on hols and we go on boat trips everyone jumps in the sea except me and everyone looks at me weird as I just sit on the boat!!!

The worst was when OH decided to go diving and tried to persuade me to join him I told him there was no way I was going into the sea looking like shark food, he thinks I am nuts :help:

Christ almighty. That thing really scared me and I only saw it a few years ago. I did lose sleep over that.

Unfortunately I saw the clip of it in the 100 greatest scary moments before I saw the film so when I did see the film it kind of lost it's impact. Still scared the crap out of me though!

One film that scared me as a kid was "The Devil rides out"

I know when we are on hols and we go on boat trips everyone jumps in the sea except me and everyone looks at me weird as I just sit on the boat!!!

The worst was when OH decided to go diving and tried to persuade me to join him I told him there was no way I was going into the sea looking like shark food, he thinks I am nuts :help:

Hahaha-everyone laughs at me when I refuse to go into the sea past my ankles:hihi: Knees if I'm feeling very very brave:D

I have horrid vision of things getting me, I suppose it IS a little bit amusing, cos it's so irrational:roll:

Gremlins! I thought it was anyway.:hihi:

"Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" ... hated those damn shed-colored Oompa Loompas!

Also "The Nanny" with Bette Davis. Creepy. Very creepy.

Definately Jaws and I used to hate the music from Tales Of The Unexpected that was scary

I remember being really unnerved by The Howling... until then i was completely under the belief that IF there was such a thing as a werewolf I was safe unless it was A) a full moon and B) night time so if I avoided going anywhere at those times i'd be reght. I remember watching this film at a friends house and then laying awake all night next to her on her parent's lounge floor watching the video clock and thinking about random people turning into werewolves.
I was quite into the whole werewolf/vampire type thing so another one that freaked me a little was the company of wolves.
Ooh and scanners where the mans head blew up :gag: I've never watched that film all the way through but i understand that's the scariest part.

TV things were again Hammer house of horrors - house that bled to death and children of the full moon I must have been about eight/nine when i saw those and i can still remember loads of details and hate opening curtains in the middle of the night. lol!

Videodrome! Haha it didn't actually scare me but it was hilarious! Also Hellraiser, I saw that quite young and was a bit freaked out.

bunch of scardy cats .

I watched the film IT when i was younger and it frightened me to death and now i have a major fear of clowns :(

Dumbo ! Yes ! Thats right ! Apparently I sat on the cinema floor for the duration !

I can't say any film really scares me these days. Most modern horror films aren't scary anyway, they just go out to shock.

But since the thread title is about what scared you as a child, I will admit to being scared as a child by those giant maggots in Doctor Who.

My kids seem pretty immune to most stuff, but then you discover that they are terrified of someting strange rather than the obvious. My young son can watch all the Doctor Who monsters, and Sci-Fi monsters, but then had nightmares about a jokey rubber witches nose that we bought for halloween. He couldn't go in the same room as it, he would run out screaming. Very strange.

I know the film that would give my kids nightmares if they saw it now would be Alien because of the tension in the story, but they could probably watch Aliens no problem because it is just visual shocks rather than in the mind. I wouldn't try either on them at 8 and 11 though.

I do worry the opening poster though:

I can still remember watching Evil Dead when I was about 8 years old.


I'm surprised you can still function as a normal human! :)

Return to Oz. The Wheelers!! :shakes:

Everything about it actually, the heads in glass cases, the pumpkin, the dream machine arrghh

The only thing scary about Return To Oz is that I actaully paid to see it!

The only thing scary about Return To Oz is that I actaully paid to see it!

Haha, how old were you at this point?

Haha, how old were you at this point?

That would be telling!

It really was the 2nd worse film I've ever paid to see at the pictures. Narrowly beaten into 1st place by Jungle Book 2.

(There must be a thread somewhere on bad films?)

A film called 'Demons': ( http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/-/44/59/-/145940/Demons-Special-Edition-Box-Set/Product.html?searchtype=genre )

If you wanna be scared... then watch it.. I was a kid when I saw it on video, late at night, at a friends empty house.

I was terrified of Pinocchio.I went to the pics to see it when I was a kid.The bit where they turn into donkey's!!!:hihi:

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Gremlins! I thought it was anyway.:hihi:

Gremlins? Ya big girl! :hihi:

I was only 8 when I watched it on VHS (it was rated 15 the woman in the video shop let me have it cos Dad was with me) and wasn't scared a bit! In fact it was more funny than scary IMO.

Unfortunately they ruined it by releasing the rather pants Gremlins 2 several years later! :loopy:

Salems Lot

My son was terrified of Stephen King's It. Even now he doesn't like to watch it.