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.
Yes holy shit that haunted me for YEARS
The world premiere of the Michael Jackson’s Thriller video scared the fucking shit out of me. I ran out of the room screaming when MJ turned to his date and had yellow demon cat eyes. Man fuck that.
This is what I was going to say too!
I’m not sure if it was the premiere, but I do remember being called to come and see it - so it must have been some sort of event, or else they wouldn’t have called me in specially.
Anyway, yeah, those eyes at the end. The rest didn’t bother me at all, but those eyes haunted me for years.
Well I wasn’t too young, but Requiem For A Dream still haunts me as one of the most depressing movies ever made, it’s just…really sad and disturbing. I think I saw it when I was 18.
Even Grave Of The Fireflies was more uplifting than that.
This is the first title that I thought of when reading the thread
Most depressing movie for sure. So hard to watch. I get a dark feeling even thinking about some of those scenes and character arcs
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Damn you, Large Marge!
I disagree. More children’s movies need a good horror scene. Builds character.
The boat scene from Willy Wonka is another good one.
willy wonka is a materpiece
The Truman show
So much existential dread
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)
I’m 50 and I’m still too young. That movie gives me the heebie jeebies every time, though Laurence Fishburne is the most cool-headed, logical character in any horror movie I’ve ever seen.
One of my dad’s favorite movies. We would run through the den on the way to kitchen whenever he had it on. Definitely gave me nightmares at age 10 and for years afterwards.
Hell yeah brother
Great film, other than the weird trope of “they speak Latin in hell for some unexplained reason”, which always bugs me
The scene where one guy shoves his whole forearm down his own throat is… unforgettable.
Funnily enough, I’ve forgotten it. Seen the film 2 or 3 times, too!
That was cut from some versions of the movie.
As someone who’s never seen it, I feel like I need to watch it now.
That guy spoke Latin before he went to Hell. You can hear him using it to make a pronouncement on the log just before things went bad.
Ah, had forgotten that. Plus, it’s never confirmed the ship has literally been to hell - just someplace weird, awful and magical.
Event Horizon when I was 10. I think that recalibrated what the entire concept of fear was in my mind.
Same for me, maybe I was a bit older but it scared the bejesus out of me and got me into reading scifi
Oh man I said the same thing. The topless dead woman nightmare scene is seared into my memory.
The Fly
hahah same ! must have been 5 or so. I distinctly remember a woman entering the appartment/lab and Goldblum going “hi, whatsername” while all glued to the ceiling like a proto-fly. These two seconds have been chasing me for thirty years.
Same here. 🤮😵💫
The Never Ending Story. I was 28. Still shaken a couple decades later.
The film ends about 1/3 into the book. And the book gets dark
I am actually trying to read a water damaged copy of the book, lent to me by a friend who named her son Atreyu.
The internet and grad school have combined in an attempt to destroy my ability to read a paper book.
Maybe a story that never ends is too big a challenge in my quest to regain that ability?
Nah, I love dark shit and I can’t wait to get to the part where he meets the nihilistic tortise with allergies. I am really curious to see what the film makers were working with from the book.
Poor horse
No spoilers!
That’s not fair. The story literally never ends.
LOL
I saw this the first time I actually got high, I was probably 15 or 16. I don’t think I’ve laughed that hard since, I was absolutely not prepared for Falcor going in.
My friend found a bunch of vhs tapes that his dad hid, and we would watch them together. We were both around 8 or 9, and we watched various porn tapes, and stuff like Heavy Metal and other R rated stuff. The stuff that really gave a lasting impression in my mind’s eye though was a collection of actual deaths caught on tape called “Faces of Death” and a movie called “Pink Flamingos”. Ill always remember aligators ripping a paraglider apart, and the chicken scene from pink flamingos. I rematched it when I was older and it didn’t seem as bad as I remembered, but it’s not a great scene to have stuck in your head…
Now I specialize in making horror illustrations lol.
Event Horizon. I saw the first half as part of the second half of a double feature at the drive-in theater with my family. I think Men in Black was the first feature. I was 9 when I saw that topless dead woman scene. It’s such an underrated movie.
Oh my God yes! I was about the same age when my dad brought me to see it in theaters. Holy shit I couldn’t sleep for a few days. Love how the ship gives Warhammer 40k vibes watching it now
Wasn’t it partially based on that universe?
While not officially, there are just way too many subtle nods like the ship obviously going through the warp.
The Brave Little Toaster.
Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.
Bridge to terrabithia
Wasn’t really to young but didn’t know what to expect and got emotionally crushed by accident. Just heard it was a good movie and put it on one evening.
The book really messed up my class.
Saw Bone Tomahawk in my late 30s. Wasn’t old enough to handle that yet, apparently
One of my friends recommended this, and I had to turn it off a few minutes in. That movie is insane.
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.
Oddly, I think this series is why i have arachnaphobia. Clowns I’m good with though for some reason.
If you know about how Pennywise works, this is really funny.
