Which movies gave you nightmares as a kid?

[Inferno]

I had about a weeks worth of nightmares after seeing Aliens when I was about 9 or 10. Ironic thing is that it has since become one of my most favourite movies.

And the scene in Reanimator with the severed head on a tray was so traumatising I still haven't watched that film since (apparently its a comedy, that's something i didn't pick up in my younger years).

[XscreamXshoutX]

Childs Play...now that I relize it...its a pretty retarted movie Trilogy

[sniktawt]

Jaws scared me because it could really happen.

[ambrosia]

Aracnaphobia. And there I was thinking that I was afraid of spiders before I had seen the movie... For nearly two months, I became near paranoid of spider infestation after I had seen it.

[ZombieMan]

How odd, actually Arachnaphobia use to give me nightmares too, and also this movie that I saw when I was about 2 or 3 years old that had a killer wig in it.

[poeman]

without a doubt


CANDYMAN

[Kable24]

When I was a little kid it was zombie movies. They still give me the creeps. And the first 2 Nightmare on Elm Streets.

[morpheus1987]

child play gave me the creeps but I dont know why

[jhuddy]

children from the corn because i was little and i saw it and there was a cornfield next the house where i saw it

[cg124]

when i was young

NOES
childs play
hmm i think when i saw scream 2 i got freaked out because it was watching it in my dark room in 1:00 in the morning, and i was afraid to go to the bathroom


the last time I had a nightmare from a movie is probally

when i watched the ring, it was a good movie but i havn't watched it again yet





also when i was younger I use to watch tales from the cyrpt late at night. that show was pretty freaky

[spiderman_2k]

None that I remeber, but Jaws made me afraid to go in this big diving pool.

[Instinct]

The Shining.

[ZombieMan]

Ohhh I forgot one actually. Cat's Eye use to make me have nightmares about that little golbin/troll guy that came out of the wall in the little girl's bedroom.

[sniktawt]

Cat's Eye probably kept me from smoking.lol.

[Stowe22]

Childs Play, and Pet Semitary.

[jbailey84]

Pet Semetary
House (dont ask, it just did)
Jaws

[JackBauer]

I will never forget IT.

I just had nightmares for weeks after seeing this film. i was young and i still hate this clown!

oh and leprechaun.

[Pointy Shrub]

Gremlins
Predator
Arachnaphobia
N.O.E.S.

[Inferno]

Originally posted by cg124
hmm i think when i saw scream 2 i got freaked out because it was watching it in my dark room in 1:00 in the morning, and i was afraid to go to the bathroom


Haha, the only nightmares I got from Scream 2 was the thought of having to sit through that excuse for a movie again!

[FaceOff]

Freddy Krueger
LeatherFace

[Frizzo the Clown]

Originally posted by JackBauer
I will never forget IT.

I just had nightmares for weeks after seeing this film. i was young and i still hate this clown!

oh and leprechaun. Ah....clowns and midgets. My kind of movies. ;)

[droidguy1119]

The first ghost in Ghostbusters, when they run out of the building. But I still loved Ghostbusters then, watching it almost every weekend and just closing my eyes when it was on-screen.

Now Ghostbusters is still one of my favorite movies.

[droidguy1119]

Originally posted by Inferno
And the scene in Reanimator with the severed head on a tray was so traumatising I still haven't watched that film since (apparently its a comedy, that's something i didn't pick up in my younger years).

The entire last half of the movie has the head on a tray, but it is indeed very very funny. The scene with the dead cat is so funny my friend and I couldn't believe it.

[ankel crusher]

jaws when ben gardners head pops out of the boat.
the changeling when joseph appers in the bath.
aliens when the aliens cut the power in the complex.
scream when the killer runs across the hall in the opening sequence. ive never been more sceard watching those scenes in any horror movies in all my life, the first time i saw them i was pure white lol

[Inval1d]

IT and Arachnaphobia.

scared the crap outta me.

[Jason Krueger]

I saw a little bit of Chucky when I was 5, after I started having nightmares. It took me 10 years to get over that doll and now I'm a big fan of the series. I'm the only fan who likes part 3.

IT was creepy too.

[Inferno]

Part 3 did suck, but i suppose if your REALLLLLLYYYYY bored it can keep you occupied.

[Juxton]

The original Blob (I saw it when I was very young) and Jaws gave me nightmares for years afterward. I had a hard time swimming in pools after Jaws. But, it solidified my love of movies involving the ocean. I don't know why.

Let's see. Squirm did, but just because of that guy's face after he was being eaten by the worms and he was walking around.

Island of Terror - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060548/ - gave me nightmares of those creatures sucking my bones out.

Gremlins did, believe it or not.

[Ben Richards]

When I was young I had nightmares after watching The Fly.

[krazy_marco74]

The Ring japanese version gave me nightmares when i was a kid...I'm stil freaked out from it.

[SnoBorderZero]

I can't seem to find any movies that scare me. I just finished The Shining and I didn't find it scary at all. I've never seen the Halloween movies, are those good for scares or are they jsut lame?

[Mr.Matinee]

As for Halloweens go,They're all decently scary at first watching.While H1,H2,and H20 were all more suspensful and better storywise than 5 and 6;which were more violence oriented.H4 is a good balance between suspense is violence.
Ressurection was okay,but I found it a little dumb.

Halloween III:Season of the Witch is a JOKE;and an insult to the Halloween franchise.if you don't believe me,ask
Spiderman_2k.;)

[SQueek]

I remember being really young, maybe like 5 or younger, and I saw some Hansel and Grettle movie, i dont remember anything scaring more than that evil witch lol.

[Kitty]

when I saw Child's Play..and I was scared that my old Peewee Herman doll would come to life and try to kill me..damnit..that happy grin he always had on his face..I knew that doll was up to something..:p

[rosncranz]

Originally posted by Kitty
that happy grin he always had on his face..I knew that doll was up to something..:p

yeah, but it wasnt quite what you were thinking;)

[Movie mogul]

IT scared me big time! I still think of Jaws everytime i swim in the sea...

[sandman441]

nightmare on elm street my sister rented it when it first came out on vhs and I was about 5 and I watched a little bit of it about 5 minutes of it.

people under the stairs I think that is what it is called I never saw the movie but the commercials freaked me out.

thriller;) it was when michael jackson turned into a werewolf and the zombie scene.

arachnophobia I wasn't really scared but it made me uncomfortable though and I still can't really watch the movie

there was this commercial for a freddy krueger hotline I only saw it once or twice but I was scared of that commercial. It aired during freddy's nightmares

[cg124]

man who here hasn't been scared at least once from watching childs play has a kid;)

[Cartagia]

Originally posted by JackBauer
I will never forget IT.

I just had nightmares for weeks after seeing this film. i was young and i still hate this clown!

*shudders*

I know that feeling.

[mistaste]

the only film to scare me was when i was like ... 8 - An American Werewolf In London, cos there was this tree outside that kept hitting my window during the night and i didnt sleep for like 6 days cos i was well scared of it :(

[Shadow_Man1983]

My Uncle had a movie called "Burnt Offerings" on Beta and he would play it whenever me and my brothers came over, scared the **** out of, that limosine driver did...:shock:

[SnoBorderZero]

Yeah the 3rd Halloween doesnt even have Michael, isnt a bunch of evil masks?? Reminds me of that old Goosebumps episode...

[Inferno]

Halloween 3 scared the be-jebus out of me when i was young. Haven't seen it since and was even shocked to hear its actually complete crap.

Return to Oz also was pretty terrying - those things on the roller skates...*shudder*.

[pimpmastersteve]

arachnaphobia and IT

[Inferno]

Arachnaphobia had me laughing and then snoring in my seat. I'm completely perplexed why people found this scary (and i'm not fond of spiders too!).

[JAE]

When A Stranger Calls

Funhouse

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Poltergeist

[Damovieguy]

Jaws
American Werewolf in london
Poltergeist

[drzarius]

Originally posted by Shadow_Man1983
My Uncle had a movie called "Burnt Offerings" on Beta and he would play it whenever me and my brothers came over, scared the **** out of, that limosine driver did...:shock:

Have a copy of that I recorded off of cable. Great movie that. Creepy and scary without alot of gore and effects. Oliver Reed was awesome in this, so was Karen Black and Bette Davis!

I miss the horror movies with older/old people in them. I think the last really good one was Ghost Story with Fred Astaire. That was pretty scary, yet entertainingly frightening. Most horror nowadays is about gore and shock.

[drzarius]

LOL!!! That's what you get all of you for watching movies you know your mothers wouldn't have allowed you to watch. :D

[droidguy1119]

Oh, oh, oh, some movie, I don't know the title, but I came in during the middle and watched it with my friend, behind a chair, when my friend's older brother was watching it.

When we came in, this dude had been turned into a tree, and he was getting sawed off at the legs by a woman. He thought it tickled, but he of course died when she finished. Then she caught his friend, who she fed a cup of some strange green liquid.

A younger boy, I think a brother, and his (apparently dead) grandfather were in some strange dream and defeated the bad guys, these strange goblin creatures. At the end, the family arrives home and it looks like everything's okay, but then the little kid wants some dinner, and he goes up to where his mom said she was taking a shower. Instead of the mom, he just finds a baseball, with the words "go downstairs" in green slime, and when he goes downstairs he finds the goblin things have turned the mother into the green slime and are eating her, and the kid screams. That's the end of the movie.

Anyone know what it is?

[chustle]

The two that stand out in my mind for some reason that gave me nightmares were The Fog and Phantasm.

[SnoBorderZero]

Originally posted by droidguy1119
Oh, oh, oh, some movie, I don't know the title, but I came in during the middle and watched it with my friend, behind a chair, when my friend's older brother was watching it.

When we came in, this dude had been turned into a tree, and he was getting sawed off at the legs by a woman. He thought it tickled, but he of course died when she finished. Then she caught his friend, who she fed a cup of some strange green liquid.

A younger boy, I think a brother, and his (apparently dead) grandfather were in some strange dream and defeated the bad guys, these strange goblin creatures. At the end, the family arrives home and it looks like everything's okay, but then the little kid wants some dinner, and he goes up to where his mom said she was taking a shower. Instead of the mom, he just finds a baseball, with the words "go downstairs" in green slime, and when he goes downstairs he finds the goblin things have turned the mother into the green slime and are eating her, and the kid screams. That's the end of the movie.

Anyone know what it is?
That sounds like a very strange movie...

[Juxton]

droid - are you sure that wasn't just a nightmare you had? I can usually figure out movies by descriptions like that (I also annoy my friend when she's channel surfing by calling out the names of movies just by seeing the split-second flashes of them as the channel changes) and I can't place this one at all.

[droidguy1119]

Absolutely positive it was a flick, and indeed I think at some point someone identified it for me, but I forgot it again. It might be called Night Creatures or something simple like that -- the end and the scene with the guy having been turned into the tree are the most distinct memories of the film, and those would be the most useful in figuring out what it was.

[Juxton]

Hmm. The only Night Creatures IMDB has is a documentary hosted by John Astin.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280991/

Then there's Night Creature about a killer leopard.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079626/

[Varian]

hellraiser

[Necross]

Nearly every horror, of course I suffered from Night Terrors so.....

[React24]

Leprachaun 1, it was da first horrer i had ever seen and i spent almost a year hiding underneath my blanket thinking he was racing up my driveway in his wheelchair

[Spike2002]

After seeing the first "Nightmare On Elm Street" as a kid I couldn't sleep for almost a week. ;)

[Kinjo]

Jaws didn't give me nightmares, but I lived in Cape Cod, where it was shot, so swimming in the ocean really f'ed with me for a long time.

[Charlize'sAngel]

Poltergeist, because of the clown and when the tree comes through the window...

[Juxton]

Originally posted by Necross
Nearly every horror, of course I suffered from Night Terrors so.....

I still suffer from night terrors. It has nothing to do with what I watch, either. I suspect it might be linked to my severe headaches, though. They started about the same time.

Anyway, my nightmares follow me even when I wake up. Sometimes it takes me 10 minutes to convince myself it wasn't real.

Darn HMOs and their reluctance to allow CAT scans.

[Tornado]

I was never really scared of anything as a child, nor now, but there was one film that gave even me the creeps back then . . .

CHILD'S PLAY

That scene in which Chucky is climbing up the stairs of that building when the kid is looking out the window and then he sees that . . .

But then I had a dream in which I killed Chucky with a chainsaw (he is just a piece of wood after all) and that ended my fear for good . . .

[the mastermind]

Matilda

[RougeRaptor]

For some reason Gremlins always gave me nightmares till i was about 10.
What i don't get its always been one of my favourite movies.

[cg124]

man i really hate that clown in Poltergeist

i never look under my bed again

[Klimber]

I saw a movie in the theater in 1979 when I was like7 or 8 called Prophecy about A log company's toxic waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster. the movie scared the hell out of me. As I became more and more a fan of horror films they became less scary to me and I forced my self not to watch Prophecy again because it would be cheezy compared to later films. I just wanted to keep that one movie as a pure as I could as The one movie that scared the crap out of me, wouldn't you know it about a year and a half ago it was on HBO or Cinamax on a rainy weekend day. I was in a good 10 to 15 minutes before I realized what movie I was watching, as expected it was a bad 70's b-movie.

A few others:
Creepshow (I want my cake!)

The Devils rain (Bill Shatner and Earnest Borgnine)- the end freaked me out.

House of Usher -(Keren Ross movie) I think the movie had a scene where this guy was swimming in an indoor pool,during a part he when under and the surface sealed off and he drowned.

Some movie whose name escapes me with cockroaches that exploded.

The Ring kinda weirded me out, I did not see it in the theater but the DVD had a feature that the Ring tape played over and over. Freaky!

[neo5595]

jaws scared me for life. Everytime Im swimming in an ocean I always get the chills.

[Necross]

Originally posted by Shadow_Man1983
My Uncle had a movie called "Burnt Offerings" on Beta and he would play it whenever me and my brothers came over, scared the **** out of, that limosine driver did...:shock:

I saw this movie a couple months ago. Nothing about it scared me....I'm sure it would have when I was little but IMO I thought it was rather weak.....that limo guy actually was the worst part...

[Necross]

Originally posted by Juxton
I still suffer from night terrors. It has nothing to do with what I watch, either. I suspect it might be linked to my severe headaches, though. They started about the same time.

Anyway, my nightmares follow me even when I wake up. Sometimes it takes me 10 minutes to convince myself it wasn't real.

Darn HMOs and their reluctance to allow CAT scans.

I still have them too sometimes. I was just using it as a cover anyway, they did make me scared easier though. I was a big pussy when I was little but I knew if I saw something scary I was more likely to have one so.....

Anyway I have this one time stuck in my head. I was sleeping over a friends house and we watched The Thing. We didn't fall asleep until like 4 in the morning and that was after we went downstairs to sleep in the living room because it was close to his parents room and we had to leave the tv on lol.

IT still freaks me out, then again any movie where the main death's belong to children always bothers me.

[JBond]

"IT" was the only movie to ever give me a nightmare.

[jimhaze]

When I was younger I saw Poltergeist, Amityville Horror & The Exorcist -- All three of them scared the hell out of me -- Of course, I realized sadly after re-watching Amityville how dumb it was. Poltergeist & Exorcist still make me jump though

[Klimber]

Oh I just remembered that Cobra got me good, the scene where the creepy killer guy killed the lady in the stationwagon.

[Wolfpac]

LOOOl askin me what scared me i tell u my sister rented nightmare and childs play 2 the 1 in da factory.

God i was 7 and we watched them couldnt sleep and i was sick for almost a mont and after that i never got a ****in doll and never put my hand under the bed never.

And now look freddy si my favourite cant wait 4 freddys vs jason 2 ya btw didnt u guys relize nobody is afraid of jason or his movies lool

[starsprite]

Arachnaphobia...saw it at a really young age, gave me nightmares for about 2 months straight :(
I hate spiders!!

[Juxton]

Originally posted by Klimber
Some movie whose name escapes me with cockroaches that exploded.

I believe this is the movie you're talking about?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300216640/qid=1085045496/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/102-5889334-2284146?v=glance&s=video

It's called Bug (creative thinking at its best).

[mahukey]

the original Hitchhiker where he ties the girl to the truck and pulls her in two.....(shivers)

Ok this is cheesy but the movie with the little space aliens that had those sharp teeth and they attack this two teenagers in the barn. I can't remember the name....

Oh it gave me nightmares for years....years....

[spiderman_2k]

You mean Critters?

[mahukey]

ah...yeah that is it, thanks for reminding me.

[evildeadfan]

evil dead gave me night mares when i was a kid

[RougeRaptor]

Originally posted by spiderman_2k
You mean Critters?

CRIITERS!!!!!!
That movie rocks!!!!!!

[Tootallval80]

Originally posted by Varian
hellraiser
WORD!!!! And I think "People Under the Stairs".