What movie horrified you as a kid?? Why? Answer must include a gif!!

March 14, 2020

Jaws 3. I was 7 or 8 when this come out, I had not yet seen the first 2. This was only the 2nd movie I had seen in a theatre and it was in 3D and I remember I freaked during th movie, I don't know if I would have done better if we weren't watching it in 3D.

March 14, 2020

I remember my parents watching the original Amityville Horror and even though I could only hear it I was terrified to go to sleep.

Later in my adult life I actually watched the movie and thought it was horribly boring. Such a let down compared to my memories of it.

March 14, 2020

I was at a creepy aunt's house when I 1st watched this & never meeting my cousins from

her didn't help the situation, wanted to get the hell up out of there. Watch this clip cant place the gif.

Edited March 14, 2020 by Smurf

March 14, 2020

The Gates of Hell (City of the Dead) 1980

I was way too young to be sneaking in these video nasties but thats just what I did, I would outsmart my parents at this independent video store that used a velcro number system on the outside of the movie boxes (thats VHS boxes for you young folks), i'd snatch the numbers from the movies I knew my mom would not approve and find stuff like Raiders of the Lost Ark and swap numbers, Id walk up to my mom with a box, she would approve of the movie not knowing the number corresponded to the video nasty. At checkout, the clerk would not question a thing, now it helped that was allowed to watch scary movies so the family would go to sleep and id watch my movies, scared sh*tless but I would go to school and have the best movie stories.Oh you watched Night of the Demons, well I watched I Spit on Your Grave. lol.

Anyways, back on topic, The film The Gates of Hell, as the version I watched as a kid was called, truly freaked me out because it was the first time I saw a religious figure become demonic, and as a kid I saw the priest as the devil and this priest makes people's eyes bleed and make them vomit their intestines. Then the film also has a scene where it rains maggots and even after owning the film as an adult that maggot scene makes me want to puke. I bought the movie a few decades ago and watched it and hated the editing and the pacing but those moments that scared me as a kid were still priceless. Interestingly the DVD i own is called City of the Living Dead, its original title. I remember having a tough time sleeping after watching it. The only other film that did that to me as a kid was The Return of the Living Dead...cause while it has humor, its concept and incredible zombie ideas were brilliant.

March 14, 2020

What horrified and disgusted me most as a kid was the scene from Pet Sematary (1989), where the old man (Jud) is murdered by the undead child (Gage). I think I was 9 or 10 when I first watched this movie on TV, alone, and after midnight.

When I watched it again a few years ago, it was quite disappointing - not even close to being as horrifying as I had remembered.

Couldn't find a gif that would properly represent the nastiest part I had in mind, so here's the video of the scene (2min):

The slicing of the Achilles tendon started haunting my dreams every now and then for quite a few years to come. It just seemed like the nastiest thing ever to me.