1. Event Horizon
“Convinced my friend’s mom to rent it for us at Blockbuster and regretted getting away with it. We weren’t ready.”
2. Return To Oz
“The wheelers gave me nightmares as a little kid. Kids movies were pretty dark in the 80s.”
3. Sinister
“I thought my brother was going to kill me.”
4. Robocop
“I watched Robocop way too young. The opening scene when they blow Murphy’s hand off really messed me up.”
5. The Exorcist
“As a kid, I could handle aliens, serial killer stuff, your usual shock horror. But when you mix in the devil and religion, that got to me pretty good.”
6. An American Werewolf In London
“Due to poor parenting decisions, I watched it when I was only about 4 or 5. I saw it again when I was 18 and was immediately confused because it felt like someone had filmed my nightmares from 13 years earlier.”
7. Jeepers Creepers
“I had nightmares about the ending for a long time after that.”
8. Poltergeist
“It’s the reason I still occasionally look under my bed.”
9. The Witches
“The scene where they start to turn into rats was horrific.”
10. Candyman
“I didn’t like being in a dark bathroom for a few years.”
11. Pooh’s Great Adventure: The Search For Christopher Robin
“There was a Winnie the Pooh movie where they all got trapped in some sort of haunted mountain or something of the sort? Scared the living sh*t out of 6-year-old me.”
12. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
“When he got sick and turned white, specifically.”
13. Child’s Play
“It gave me nightmares for years.”
14. The Ring
“It probably owes me two full years of sleep. I was already afraid of everything when I saw it at the tender age of 11.”
15. Jacob’s Ladder
“The subway scene, and the war scene with the guy hopping on one leg. My buddy and I had to turn it off.”
16. Fire In The Sky
“I’m still not over that movie. Every time I see jelly I get a weird feeling.”
17. IT
“That f*cker can become your worst fear. That’s why it scared me so much.”
18. Final Destination
“I was really scared of doing, pretty much anything for a few days. Maybe weeks.”
19. Pet Sematary
“Zelda kinda f*cked me up at the time. Saw it at the theater and didn’t sleep well thinking about her that night.”
20. The Last Unicorn
“The only thing I remember is that some kind of devil guy in a castle had driven all the unicorns into the sea. That may not even be correct but it was my first brush with existential dread. For a long time, I felt like that movie had really f*cked me up in a significant way like I felt victimized by it and wished I hadn’t seen it.”
21. Evil Dead
“I swear I was about 5 or 6 when my older siblings put it on. They were old enough to find it funny, but it broke something in my brain that still gives me the shakes when I rewatch it. I remember making it as far as when the possessed girl is guessing every card correctly, then she twists around and her face is completely deformed. I must’ve broken the land speed record running to my parent’s bedroom!”
22. Aliens
“I was 6, not long out of the oven. I had bunk beds, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY FACE HUGGERS CAN GET UNDER BUNK BEDS? No, you don’t. I’ll never be right.”
23. The NeverEnding Story
“That GD wolf.”
24. Creepshow
“It was pretty disturbing, especially to a 6-year-old. I think my friend’s parents must’ve had it on VHS or something.”
25. The Brave Little Toaster
“That f*cking clown firefighter whispering, ‘RUN,’ through his teeth. Nightmare fuel.”
26. The Sixth Sense
“I wasn’t right for months.”
27. Jaws
“I was 10 when my Dad took me to that movie (why?), the head popping out scene was pretty traumatizing.”
28. The Watcher in the Woods
“Laugh all you want but Disney knew how to make a horror movie.”
29. Scream
“I was 6 and barely understood what was happening, I had to read subtitles, but Ghostface was definitely hiding in my closet for a year after that.”
30. Mars Attacks!
“I was 4 or 5 and it messed me up. I wouldn’t watch the movie again or most alien movies until I was an adult. I can still hear their yaps.”
31. The Mummy
“Those dang scarabs haunted my nightmares for years.”
32. Children of the Corn
“I don’t know why my parents let me watch that as a 5-years-old.”
33. Jurassic Park
“Those raptors opening doors man.”
34. The Human Centipede
“I watched it when I was 11 because my curiosity got the best of me. Big mistake.”
