Jurassic Park, I was 8. Saw it at the cinema and was hiding behind the seats. It still hits a bit hard.
That Tom Hanks movie where he’s stranded on an island after a plane crash when I was 6.
I saw it a day before taking my first plane ride and going over sea.
Aliens. Must have been 12 or so. A boring sunday and my friend’s mom drove us to the cinema. (In Germany the movie was rated 16) but we didn’t bounce off at the desk. I was not exactly horrified, but so … thrilled. After that I dived a bit too deep into the H.R.Giger universe, I guess.
Reptilicus
Star Trek: First Contact scared me shitless as a kid. They made a fucking Star Trek horror film. As an adult, I’d say 8/10 movie.
I was 4 and my grandma was visiting and was supposed to look after me while my parents went out. They gave her the VHS of the first Terminator. I snuck into the living room and watched a bunch of it without her noticing. Afterwards, all the toy robots had to be taken out of my room because ‘the man with the red eye took his eye out’. My parents were then able to put one and one together.
Nowadays one of my favorite movies, tbh.
Not exactly a movie, but my older sisters had me watch the original IT mini-series when I was very young and I had clown nightmares for years after.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg. Not sure if I was too young, but the emotions still haunt me to this day.
Birds… 30+ years later I’m still always a bit creeped out by them, especially sea gulls.
My parents had the Killer Klowns from Outer Space VHS and I was too scared to watch it as a kid. It wasn’t until my mid 20s I actually got to watch it and realize its very much a comedy and not scary at all.
Oh and The Shining at the time (11 y/o home alone) really messed me up as well.
I have no clue what the movie was. All I know is that my grandmother was watching it while I was in the same room. I remember being too bored to pay attention at 4 years old or so. Except when I looked over at the screen and saw a man put a gun to his head he pull the trigger. The music went silent after and we got an areal shot of the blood spreading. It left such an impression it’s one of my earliest memories.
Scary movie
The scarab scene in The Mummy
The mummy is the only movie I can think of to ever give me a nightmare. And it was that damn scarab scene.
Event Horizon
i can still vividly picture moments from that movie decades later
I was too young when I first saw this too. (I was in my 20s)
