we all have that movie we saw too young and probably scarred us for life.
RETURN TO OZ
The Secret of NIMH
The Shining. I was eight. Thanks, dad.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. I was also eight. I had nightmares about those ear-worms for days. My mother has not forgiven the birthday-party-mom who took us to see it and it’s been thirty-five years. I’m over it (it’s one of my favorite movies now) but my mother…she will never be over it.
ST:WoK for the same reasons, but also Poltergeist. I used to visit my dad who had cable and no concept of age appropriateness. I think I was eleven or twelve when it came on HBO And we watched it. Scared the bajeezus out of me, and I will forever hate clowns and staticky televisions.
The Blair Witch Project. Yeah, I was in my 30s. Whatever.
Nightmare on Elm Street. 8 seems to be a popular age for scarring.
Back in the very early 70s my uncle bought one of the first home VCRs. Somehow he got a copy of the original version of the “Night of the Living Dead”. THAT was the movie he played to show it off. I was about 10-12. At the ripe age of 54 I STILL can’t watched that damn thing.
dude. ok look..heres my thing..i hate zombies. I hate hate hate zombies..for a second i actually thought they were real..kinda still do..i dont watch anything with zombies..AND its because of night of the living dead…one time my husband made me watch it and i was TERRIFIED for days..and i was in my late 20s..10+years later..still afraid and I can’t even remember if we watched the whole movie..don’t even care..but yeah..i feel ya @dmellieon
The Passage with Malcolm McDowell, he played a very sadistic nazi. I couldn’t even watch the whole thing, couldn’t get past the torture scene in the kitchen. It’s really tame nowadays though compared to stuff like Saw. I can’t watch those kinds of movies either. As for The Blair Witch Project, that might have scared me, IF the cartoon network hadn’t done a whole bunch of Scooby-Doo commercials using it as the basis for the commercials. All I could think of while watching it was Scooby-Doo.
Hmm… the only thing that ever really scared me, and still does to this day: The News.
Jurassic Park. I had monster nightmares. I was 29.
Alien. An uncle took me to see it when I was 8. I haven’t seen it since and don’t think I could. I’m 45 now.
