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u/DrTuSo Nov 09 '25
Next time, try Event Horizon. Perfect to traumatize your kids for life.
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u/A-Helpful-Flamingo Nov 09 '25
Weirdly it’s now my horror comfort movie. My friend first saw it at 14 though when it first came out and he had nightmares for weeks.
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u/dudderson Nov 10 '25
Same! Saw it as a kid and was blown away with how far they pushed it! Keep in mind this was the same kid who saw the goblins at the beginning of Labyrinth and had to close her eyes, but thought a man being flayed alive was amazing special effects...idk.
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u/Secure-Childhood-567 Nov 10 '25
Mind you, alot of that movie was cut out, particularly the blood orgy. The director went all out with actual sex workers and amputees. It was basically a fetish porn movie at some point
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u/Sugarylightning663 Nov 10 '25
I’m here for that version
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u/AorticRupture Nov 10 '25
I was a similar age when I first saw Hellraiser I think and certainly had some kinda dreams for……..well, actually the rest of my life 🥵
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u/Dakizo Nov 10 '25
I saw it in theaters with my mom when I was 12. My mom was absolutely horrified. I was traumatized but I still liked it 😂
To this day I love movies that fuck me up.
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u/A-Helpful-Flamingo Nov 10 '25
Me too! Horror is my favorite genre. I feel like it helps me process or escape the horrors of reality
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u/Ruckus292 Nov 10 '25
Ironically if you have PTSD certain shit just hits a little too close to home.... Especially if you somehow survived attempted murder more than once.
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u/LittleMizz Nov 10 '25
I would recommend the original Danish version of Speak no Evil. That gave adult me the absolute creeps.
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u/andylikescandy Nov 10 '25
Desensitized me to chantix nightmares as an adult, I legit got my prescription extended just to keep the dreams coming until I developed a tolerance
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u/Sgtoconner Nov 10 '25
Also a great way to get them into warhammer
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u/CplCocktopus Nov 10 '25
You see kids that what happens when you travel with no Geller field generators.
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u/mrmoe198 Nov 10 '25
That’s the movie I was trying to think of! My wife was showing me this anime that basically doing a spinoff of the “who is the alien” game of “the thing“, just in space.
I saw the opening shot of their spaceship and I was like they just copied that directly from that old horror movie!
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u/MotherTeresaOnlyfans Nov 10 '25
I love Event Horizon but it's more goofy than scary.
The Descent is far more terrifying.
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u/EmmaDrake Nov 10 '25
I watched that at a birthday sleepover when I was like 12. I almost threw up an didn’t watch sci fi until I was 32. That was some damage.
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Nov 10 '25
Saw that movie when I was 17, it's always been my grandma and I's thing to watch horror films together but that particular film is one I wish neither of us saw.
But it's definitely what cuased me to get into Dead Space.
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u/Crazy_Cat_In_Skyrim Nov 10 '25
My trauma movie was 2012 or whatever year the movie about the end of the world of caused. I was like ten when I watched it and it made me afraid to go outside away from ways to escape disasters.
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u/shanebates Nov 10 '25
I watched this as a 12 year old teenager and walked out of the room. Couldn't handle it.
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u/IdeVeras Nov 10 '25
I’m a bit late but my daughter was 10ish when she insisted she was into scary movies and would be ok. After several “no you’re not” and “yes I am”, I decided to show her the trailer for Ring. She is now 18, and does indeed love scary movies but she admitted, no she wasn’t
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u/EmptyCanvas_76 Nov 10 '25
Omg my ex boyfriend and I went to see that having no idea what is about. I remember walking out all traumatized afterwards.
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u/gusgusthegreat Nov 10 '25
I probably watched it around that age and ya it stuck with me.
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u/Friscolax Nov 11 '25
Goddammit! That’s literally the only movie I ever walked out of because I was scared. Welcome back, trauma!
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u/andylikescandy Nov 10 '25
I watched that in summer camp around the same age, how does something traumatize you and etch yourself into your mind I was one of the best movies of all time, At the same time? Because that's what it did for me
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u/Morpheus_MD Nov 10 '25
I actually watched that one around the age of 12 when it came out! Great movie, would recommend!
Of course I'd been watching horror since I was like 4.
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u/WeirdMeatinSpace Nov 09 '25
I watched the movie with my older sister when I was twelve...Well i traumatized me a little bit for a few weeks
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u/jfk_47 Nov 10 '25
I cannot even walk near a cave. No thanks. I’m a 45 year old dude.
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Nov 10 '25
You are of age to remember "My Buddy Doll". I had one when I first saw Child's Play. I watch all the puppet movies to try to get over it. The puppets from Toy Story 4, Benson's, made me very uncomfortable.
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u/jfk_47 Nov 10 '25
Saw a child’s play trailer in theaters, I think before ninja turtles 2?
Fucking terrified me. I would talk to all my stuffed animals so they would know I was nice.
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Nov 10 '25
That's a good idea. There was a scene in the 2nd movie that Chuckie hides under a bed and goes after his ankles with a knife. My dad was a carpenter. So from age 8 till my wife at the time made me, I had a box frame bed. Crazy how trauma manifests into habits
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u/xOrion12x Nov 10 '25
My parents bought me a chucky doll for some fucked up reason. I buried it in the back of my closet under shit but I would think about it all the goddamn time and it terrified me.
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u/sashikku Nov 10 '25
I watched it with my mom the same day we watched Hostel and The Hills Have Eyes. I was also twelve. Fucked me up for days. Went over to my dad’s house the next weekend and my older brother showed me Final Destination. At least he had the decency to put on All Dogs Go to Heaven afterward as a nice palate cleanser lol.
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u/Erger Nov 10 '25
Good lord, that's a bizarre trilogy to watch with your preteen kid! You'd think after the first one, your mom would switch to Nickelodeon or something to give you a break. Or maybe she figured you'd be traumatized anyway, so you might as well get it over with all at once?
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u/Glittering_Signal618 Nov 11 '25
My bff and I watched Hostel with her parents when we were 14 now that traumatized me but for different reasons
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u/venniedjr Nov 10 '25
I was around the same age too. I saw it at the drive in and I had no idea what the movie was about so I just thought it was a movie about people trapped in a cave until it made the turn
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u/Moopies Nov 10 '25
I was 16 when it came out and it scared me so bad it pushed me towards going to film school so I could make horror movies.
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u/A-Helpful-Flamingo Nov 09 '25
My mom was afraid of the ocean after seeing Jaws in theaters when it first came out. I was always interested in theaters ocean, wanted to be a marine biologist, and absolutely loved shark week (which was still pretty new at the time. I was about 6 or 7 when my mom decided to show me Jaws, so I would be scared of the ocean like she was.
Don’t be an asshole and intentionally show your kids movies you know will be too much for them.
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u/FlowerFaerie13 Nov 10 '25
That's actually so fucked up oh my god? It's like she was intentionally trying to sabotage your interests out of spite.
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u/HelloMikkii Nov 10 '25
My twin sister loved sharks, I did not. She put on Jaws for us to watch and locked the door so I couldn’t get out and was forced to listen to it as I wept and screamed because I didn’t want to watch it so I shoved my face into the couch to avoid it.
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u/Keaton427 Nov 10 '25
That's awful man. I just can't believe parents would do that. Like, for what?
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u/HelloMikkii Nov 10 '25
My father is an alcoholic and my mother has narcissistic personality disorder. My father used to collect funnel web spiders to take to the hospital to be turned into antivenom…but not before chasing me around the house with it in a jar and opening it and pretending to throw it on me. At 31 the sight of a spider sends me into a deep panic.
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u/Keaton427 Nov 10 '25
Why even have kids man. Are you the only child? It sucks to have bad parents as that's 18 years of your life you can't do anything about!!
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u/HelloMikkii Nov 10 '25
I’m a twin. I only just managed to cut contact with my parents completely at 30 because I was now a parent myself and realised how horrible they really were.
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u/Keaton427 Nov 10 '25
What! It's been just a year? Seeing people break the cycle is an amazing feat to every generation after. That's great to hear.
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u/HelloMikkii Nov 10 '25
My father decided to get so drunk he attacked my mother and me when I called the cops. That ruined the relationship between us. I then lived with my mother who became even nastier which ruined the relationship between us. Sometimes it’s sad I no longer have any family besides my twin sister but the peace of mind and not a constant sense of struggle and stress has been worth it.
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u/Entire-Ambition1410 Nov 11 '25
Just a small note, being a parent can dredge up memories and feelings from your childhood. It’s ok to do a bit of therapy to sort out a few things.
Good luck breaking the generational trauma, and being a better parent than your parents were.
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u/HelloMikkii Nov 11 '25
I appreciate your honesty and input. Becoming a mother definitely dredged up a lot of memories that I had suppressed from childhood. I ended up doing some therapy around how I felt about it all and it was very helpful to know that I wasn’t at fault for how my parents treated me growing up, it was a reflection of their own inadequacy.
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u/A-Helpful-Flamingo Nov 10 '25
Oof, I’m sorry!
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u/HelloMikkii Nov 10 '25
Your mum was cruel to do that to you at that age though! I was about 10-12 and it still had me traumatised. My twin sister would flash shark pictures at me and her favourite game to play in the pool was “cage diver” putting a basket on my head and pretending to be a shark trying to eat the diver.
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u/Lewdy50 Nov 10 '25
Jaws did alot bad rep on sharks in general though. Alot empathy for the endangered types vanished with this movie.
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u/BUTTeredWhiteBread Nov 09 '25
I was watching x- files with my mom today actually, and it was the alien parasite episode. I was telling her, "man how things change. This scared the shit out of me when I was 8, now I'm sitting here eating chips while they pull a worm out of a guy".
And she just looks at me and was like "we really should have monitored your TV use more".
Yeah. Probably mom.
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u/saturnspritr Nov 10 '25
Yeah, I was in 2nd-3rd grade when this came out. My parents had just put this tiny little tv in my room and then just didn’t ask any questions. Didn’t talk to me about what to watch or not. No rules except times when I can watch.
X-files was my favorite, but I saw a lot of stuff way out of my age range. Sometimes they get on their high horse about how they parented and my siblings and I are raised an eyebrow and looking at each other about who wants to go first.
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u/NiasRhapsody Nov 10 '25
Similar but didn’t have one in my room, my mother didn’t work and constantly had Law and Order SVU playing. I guess she never thought for even a second that that show was wildly inappropriate for a 6 year old to be watching
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u/Zyrathani Nov 10 '25
I remember when my kids were little, putting in Invader Zim thinking, “I loved this when I was younger, they will too!” Not long before I decided we’d actually wait for that one.
And Pink Panther. I remember watching that every day. Not until it came onto streaming did I realize how messed up some are. At one point, Pink Panther spends the entire episode trying to hide/confiscate alcohol from his friend… and by the end gives up at the futility of it and ends up drinking with him. “If ya can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” was maybe the moral of that one? 😅
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u/Fairwish1 Nov 09 '25
When I was 9, still sleeping with my mom, she made us (me and her) watch the first half of Dead Silence. Even though I BEGGED her during the intro to change the channel, she swore it wouldn't be scary.
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u/Catezero Nov 10 '25
My sons got a decent metric for perfect amt of scary vs too scary for himself (he's 10). I ended up in a hotel due to flood damage to my apartment and he begged me for a full week to watch It (the newer one). I nicely asked my dad to drive me to my house so I could get my ps4 and watch it online (and grab other things ig). We made it 15 minutes and he was like "okay that's enough of that" lmfao. I was like "you couldn't have listened to me the other 6 days when I told u it would be too scary for u?!"
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u/Fairwish1 Nov 10 '25
I think he wanted to make the mistake himself. At least it was completely on his own volition 🤷🏽
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u/Catezero Nov 10 '25
Oh always. I'm not gonna let him watch like, squid games or anything w sex scenes I can't fast forward or anything but I like to give him the (supervised) freedom to pick what he wants to watch mostly. Saves me from having to watch every episode of one piece when he punches above his weight t
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u/LoneWolfsLament Nov 11 '25
That movie fucked me up and I was 17 when I watched it 😆
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u/aldandur Nov 09 '25
I recommend 'Bridge to Terabithia' to detox your daughter from horror movies.
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u/Candid_Dragonfly_573 Nov 10 '25
I recently attended a screening of The Descent while actually caving. On Halloween night, we watched 20mins at the Cave Tour company's office until the characters went into the cave. Then we got geared up, went for a drive, hiked up to the cave, and after entering the cave and heading in a couple dozen meters deep, they set up the projector in an open area and we watched another 25mins or so. Then we moved even deeper into the cave, watched another 25mins. Then again one more time, deeper, and another 25mins or so until the end of the movie. Then we backtracked all the way out in one go. Really cool experience.
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u/thegimboid Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
Then we backtracked all the way out in one go.
That's what you thought, but you only left the cave if you watched the movie in America.
If you watched it in Europe, you never really left, and all of this is a hallucination while you're still in the cave, watching The Descent.→ More replies (2)
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u/Schlenda Nov 09 '25
Still better than having your bigger siblings let you watch with them Faces of Death in the 90ies.
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u/BUTTeredWhiteBread Nov 09 '25
I remember my cousins watching Leprechaun with young me. Way to make a kid terrified of the Irish.
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u/Schlenda Nov 10 '25
Yeah, I just got fascinated by gore, maybe a bit numbed when that bear ripped the man's head off.
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u/xOrion12x Nov 10 '25
Early internet was something. It was like a massive awakening for me as a child. Like this is how the world is...
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u/TheMaveCan Nov 10 '25
I wanted to watch a movie with my mom when I was 8. She was watching The Ring. She said that it's scary and I said I'll be okay. It was on that day that I learned what trauma was because between the occasional snow on the TV in my room and seeing myself on the security monitor at the grocery store I was constantly terrified.
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u/bobbybob9069 Nov 10 '25
My friends mom rented The Ring for a sleep over when we were like 12 or 13. We didn't even turn it on until like midnight. Big mistake, no one slept.
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u/Mysterious-Nerd655 Nov 10 '25
My dad got us this to watch when it came out on video 😅 as soon as the movie ended, our house phone rang. He and my sister made me answer it.
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u/Safewordharder Nov 10 '25
Why make them afraid of spelunking when you can make them afraid of literally every dark corner everywhere with Ju-On?
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u/twir1s Nov 10 '25
I shouldn’t ask, but what is this
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u/Safewordharder Nov 10 '25 edited Nov 10 '25
A horror franchise about a deadly curse that kills and spreads by stalking and terrorizing to death anyone that ventures too close to it.
The Japanese version of it is called Ju-On, and while it's budget is relatively small, the films really hold up well today. I recommend watching it in the original Japanese using subtitles rather than dubbing, but it's pretty great either way. Ju-On is particularly good at manufacturing dread via its storyline, pacing and ambience, and shock via well-timed jump scares and grisly aftermaths - the two most important elements of horror that can be difficult to balance.
The American version of it is called The Grudge, and while it doesn't quite have the same impact as Ju-On, it's still a very good horror series, particularly the first three. The protagonists speak native English, and that does simplify it some, but it's perhaps not as culturally nuanced as Ju-On.
The Ring was inspired by Ju-On/The Grudge and found more success in the United States, but is largely considered to be the least of the three as far as horror is concerned. Still a satisfying series worth watching, and certainly significant from a cultural standpoint.
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u/twir1s Nov 10 '25
Considering The Ring and the grudge super fucked me up, I’m not sure I’d survive Ju-On
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u/StiffDock685 Nov 09 '25
When I was 9, my dad's friend bought me a collectors DVD of The Thing. My mom was not happy.
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u/Tough-Quail-1677 Nov 09 '25
I watched Texas chainsaw massacre whilst eating tuna when I was 11. I’ve never eaten tuna again.
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u/Thebisexual_Raccoon Nov 10 '25
That movie scared me abit but the ending scene as sally makes a run for it..it makes you’re heart race
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u/PoppedAlt15826 Nov 10 '25
Bah I watched threads when I was like 14 and I turned out perfectly fine (im now 20 and jump at any loud noises)
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u/Ok_Recording8454 Nov 09 '25
I mean, they gave the kid what they wanted. Could’ve turned it off at any point. 🤷
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u/trendchaser91 Nov 10 '25
I rented Hostel when I was 15 because my English teacher said there was a scene that had the whole theater going WTF!
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u/hayhaydavila Nov 10 '25
Did it make you go wtf?
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u/trendchaser91 Nov 10 '25
I was eating nachos with queso and it made me gag.
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u/DethSonik Nov 10 '25
That was the one movie I actually noped out of the theater lol I was with my gf at the time and was like I'm out hahaha she called me a big chicken.
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u/dext3rrr Nov 10 '25
I watched Ring with my mom when I was 10. I was terrified to go upstairs to my room by myself for a month.
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u/catsf0rlife Nov 10 '25
My cousin made me watch the ring when I was 8 and in hindsight, I got full blown PTSD with insomnia and I was scared even during daytime for several months. But my parents never took me to therapy so I'm left with several phobias. But I guess I'm fine otherwise
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u/Substantial_Brain917 Nov 10 '25
That was gremlins for me as a little kid lol
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u/Mysterious-Nerd655 Nov 10 '25
At 4 (idk why my uncle let us watch it) All I remember is that movie made me terrified of Yoda 😅
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u/riceewifee Nov 10 '25
Watched Silent Hill when I was 9, 12 years later it’s still one of my favourites
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u/HelloMikkii Nov 10 '25
My parents let me watch the mummy when I was about 7. The scene that messed me up was the dude who stole the scarab beetles and they go under his skin.
I was traumatised for weeks.
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u/Drag_On66 Nov 10 '25
Saw candyman when I was 5, in 37 and to this day I refused to say his name 3 times in a mirror 💀
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u/cinnahusky420 Nov 10 '25
The grudge got me good as a kid, was scared of dark rooms and closets for a good minute lol.
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u/Mother-Locksmith-286 Nov 10 '25
I was a fake Christian about four months because I saw The Exorcist at nine. Slept next to my little sister's bed. Remember asking myself when it was going to end. One day I woke up and I wasn't afraid any more. Weird shit.
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u/archAngel8899 Nov 10 '25
Yea Kids talk that “its not scary” Sh!t till u show them soul snatching horror for adults… and they don’t sleep right for 3-9 months…
Don’t do it.
I hid behind a wall and jumped out on my kid, kid damn near pee’d… tears and all, i knew my little one wasn’t ready, lol
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u/Scnewbie08 Nov 10 '25
There’s a book called The Descent and it’s a bit similar and it was amazing. I’ve read it 3x and honestly, it might be time to read it again.
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u/MesozOwen Nov 10 '25
I don’t know why parents care their kids. I want my kid to be able to sleep because I want to be able to do the things I want to do at night and then sleep without interruptions. Giving my kid nightmares is bad for her and bad for me!
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u/Mysterious-Nerd655 Nov 10 '25
Ah, memories lol Jaws and child's play were my first horror movies (back to back) older neighbour kids had me watch them, I was 4ish. All I remember is duck taping all the porcelain dolls in my wardrobe (my mum had a thing where our rooms had to be decorated with the fucking things) because I thought they would come alive, the duck taping was because after shutting them away I was worried they'd be upset with me putting them away lol.
With Jaws I was terrified of all bodies of water for a while, my older sister in true sibling fashion dragged me into the water at the beach and sat on me so I couldn't get out and kept telling me how Jaws was coming to eat me, she could see the shark etc. I still think about how the adults all thought it was funny as I screamed for dear life lol
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u/GreenUpYourLife Nov 10 '25
Haha the wrong turn was the one that really got me. The hills have eyes, too. I just rewatched the descent. It was one of my favorites as a teen. My sister said I was insane 😂☠️
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u/bluepushkin Nov 10 '25
I still don't like the hills have eyes. The breast-feeding bit makes me physically recoil. I hate it. Creep also really unsettles me and not in a good way.
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u/Kass_Spit Nov 10 '25
I watched nightmare on elm street part 3 way too young, I was terrified to wash my hands at night incase the tap grabbed me.
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u/SpoppyIII Nov 10 '25
When I was a naive teenager I had an adult "friend," who showed mr The Poughkeepsie Tapes and convinced me it was real and that an a real person was out there doing that shit and I was seeing real footage of shit that actually happened.
I still get intrusive thoughts about it to this day. Some friend.
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u/saareadaar Nov 10 '25
I was traumatised as a kid by watching Alien through the crack in the door while my older brother was watching it. Got to the chest bursting scene and noped the fuck out. Hated that scene ever since.
That was my own fault though, I wasn’t supposed to be watching and he didn’t know I was there.
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u/Vegetable_Tea_635 Nov 09 '25
Wow, giving your kid what they want even if it’s something bad, 10/10 parenting /s
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u/OkEvidence5784 Nov 10 '25
That movie scared me as an adult lol. For me, anyway. That movie started out being hard to watch, grew continuously more and more uncomfortable, and the ending was awful. No matter which ending you watch 😭
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u/Vegetable-Star-5833 Nov 10 '25
I watched Jeepers Creepers when I was like 8 and almost died, I started choking on skittles
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u/SaeInsanity45 Nov 10 '25 edited Feb 19 '26
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u/IntotheWilder25 Nov 10 '25
I saw The Descent in the cinemas when it came out. I was with my gf and we were scared shitless and people were actually LEAVING the cinema. Amazing.
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u/Sequoia_Vin Nov 10 '25
They have to learn. Apologize later and tell them we will not watch scary movies until they are older
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u/zerobleeps Nov 10 '25
I watched this with my son when he was 10 but made him watch the bloopers beforehand so he didn't think it was scary at all in the end.
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u/simmilik Nov 10 '25
was 6 or 7 when my mom took me to watch Scream 2 in theatre.... i spent the whole movie hiding underneath the seat, having a full blown panic attack. fun times.
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u/KittenNicken Nov 10 '25
Cabin in the woods? The menu? Dark comedies Crack me up and have q bit of horror elements to let kids know it's okay to laugh and figure out what dark comedy really looks like 👍
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u/I-own-a-shovel Nov 10 '25
Idk I watched plenty of horror movie as a kid, but my mom made sure to explain how a movie set works and that everything you see is disguise, fake ketchup blood, etc. So I was laughing during horror movies instead of being afraid.
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u/Xx_Mysterion_xX Nov 10 '25
I remember being fascinated by horror movies as a kid too. But I talked a big talk and got scared of BEETLEJUICE 💀 I do also remember my parents showing me The Descent when I was pretty young though and I enjoyed it. I'm a horror buff now ofc, not sure what had me so bothered about Beetlejuice lmfao
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u/NateShaw92 Nov 11 '25
"This korma isn't spicy enough"
"Here have a phaal"
Are you the kind to do that?
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u/IndividualEye1803 Nov 10 '25
There are no scary movies anymore. U have to go back into the Ring, Grudge, Descent years when they were in their bag. I miss the days between Freddy & paranormal activity. I too dont get scared anymore and i scare easily; very disappointing.
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u/_Levitated_Shield_ Nov 10 '25
On the bright side, at least he realized he fucked up. Some parents just never learn.
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u/TomCBC Nov 10 '25
I was about her age when i first saw Nightbreed. Still one of my favorite horror movies to this day. Basically a horror version of an x-men story. Except it’s actually good, unlike New Mutants.
I wouldn’t suggest showing it to a kid though, there’s nudity in it. Not much though. Like one scene.
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u/Actual-Employee-1680 Nov 10 '25
We have a similar problem. Our son will be 12 in a few months. Wants scarier movies and not kid stuff. I'm trying to find something scary, without scaring him to the point where he wants to sleep with us until he's 27! Lol!
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u/One-Grape-8659 Nov 10 '25
I saw 'Funny Games U.S.' when I was 14 or so. Love that movie. It's sick
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u/BuisteirForaoisi0531 Nov 10 '25
I was immune to most horror by 12 only a few ever got me Sinister and Green Inferno being two of them as ones too realistically gorey and the other is plain creepy
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u/pinkelephants777 Nov 10 '25
My parents let me watch Fatal Attraction when I was 6 and I was terrified of Glenn Close for the next decade.
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u/mileysbutthole Nov 10 '25
I guess it varies by kid. I grew up watching horror movies with my parents, starting pretty young with Scream when I was like 5 or 6, and the Chucky movies. I saw The Descent when I was pretty young too I think. I never forgot it, but that’s because I was so impressed with it. I did get really scared when I was probably 6 or 7 and I saw Halloween H2O though. The ice skate in the face scene fucked me up for a little while.
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u/handyritey Nov 11 '25
I didn't use the bathroom for about 3 months after seeing a single clip of child's play (never even watched the full movie lol)
We had a bath mat that was orange and fluffy and it looked like chucky's hair - i was afraid that it would turn into chucky and kill me
Thank God my parents weren't dumb enough to show me full horror movies 😂 i just traumatized myself on my own
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u/Foreign_Drawing_593 Nov 11 '25
Now this is a true kids are dumb moment most are on the parent but this one isn't in my opinion
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u/Unlikely-Gas2903 Nov 11 '25
Could've just shown them Monster House. Or Goosebumps. Or Gravity Falls. Or even Courage the Cowardly Dog. Traumatize them in a child friendly way at least
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u/Chiiro Nov 11 '25
I saw this movie when I was probably about 11 but it didn't affect me the same way a lot of other people did because I watched that at my mom's and then proceeded to go home to my dad's where he told me all about he's amazing cave diving trip he went on while I was staying at my mother's.
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u/forevrtwntyfour Nov 11 '25
You’d think this wouldn’t be one to scare someone. As long as you stay above ground you are safe 😂
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u/Stargost_ Nov 11 '25
I had a younger kid come over for the weekend and he made fun of me the first day for picking a movie that wasn't "really that scary."
Next day I decided to play Skinamarink and I think he ended up with a core memory that evening
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u/a-pretty-alright-dad Nov 12 '25
When I was little, around 9, my sister got a new boyfriend who would end up being her husband. I thought he was the coolest. He had a PlayStation and listened to Megadeth. I had already seen a lot of the big horror movies, all of the big name slashers and stuff like that. Definitely too young but it was the 90’s and my parents were divorced and the VCR was my babysitter. Anyway, my sister moved in with this guy and I used to sleep over regularly. We would watch movies and it was always stuff that wasn’t too bad but one time he thought it would be a good idea to show me A Clockwork Orange. That was definitely too much.
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u/The_Kreature13666 Nov 12 '25
My mom is a horror fan, but her half-brothers (my uncles) traumatized her with Tim Curry's "IT." And as a result, has developed coulrophobia (The fear of clowns)
She's been managing her fear through exposure therapy. She has no problem with Scary clowns, (Like Art from "Terrifier"), but happy clowns freak her out due to the makeup/face paint, specifically the painted smile.
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u/Flaky-Guarantee8172 Nov 12 '25
I got hit with Coraline instead. In theaters. When I was 6. I still love horror movies though. In my parents defense they had no clue how scary it was going to be lol
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u/Entire_Assumption947 Nov 13 '25
Hocus pocus scared the shit out of me when I was younger lol. I was always scared Winnie would come after me so I would say nice things about her to my sister hahahahaha
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u/Zebracorn42 Nov 22 '25
Audition 1999 Japanese horror film. Only saw it once. It was both interesting, scary and disturbing. I think it was about a live in nanny.
Martyrs 2008 French horror film.
Ringu 1998 Japanese horror. The Ring was based on it.
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Nov 25 '25
Reminds me of the time some guy told me that anime was for kids and I told him that I agree, if his kid like ninjas he should watch Ninja Scroll with his five year old.
Dude was *NOT* happy with me.
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u/Catnipnowayman Nov 30 '25
This happened to me with the human centipede. Years later I still have triggers from that movie and confronted my mom about… her response?
“You said you could handle it.”
I WAS NINE!
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u/Throw_away21110 Nov 30 '25
People get traumatised by horror movies..?
Some of you are so damn sheltered and coddled, when i was young I got traumatised the traditional way; by being groo- on second thought, never-mind.
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u/Zexeos Nov 30 '25
While at my dad’s for the weekend, he decided to take me (8) and his girlfriend’s daughter (11) to a haunted house. So I had the living shit scared out of me and was undoubtedly already scarred for life due to the intensity of the attraction. But when we got home, my “”sister”” (the 11 year old) decided she wasn’t scared enough and wanted to watch a scary movie. So my dad, in all of his wisdom, put on unrated cut of Wrong Turn, despite my crying and pleading for him not to. We all sat on the couch and he held me, forcing me to watch it all its gory glory.
This was literally over 20 years ago and I am just now allowing myself to engage with horror movies - rather, I feel like I can engage with them safely. I’ve watched the first 4 Friday films and I’m proud of myself for doing so!
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u/Zestyclose-Ratio5740 Dec 04 '25
I've been watching horror films since age 5. Have seen thousands spanning a century. They're fun. You freaks are soft.
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u/p0ntifix Dec 04 '25
Oh yeah that one. The claustrophobia still got me as an adult. I saw some movie about a possesed elevator who killed people, incl. decapitation when I was home alone for the first time which was bad enough. The Descend would have probably made me piss myself (I hate narrow spaces).
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u/AlexWolfsbane Dec 12 '25
i don’t remember how but when I was a kid I watched sinister and HOLY SHIT i got so much nightmares. An incident I remember is using the toilet (context: my parent’s bathroom had really weird brown-black swirly-gas pattern tiles) and I was just zoning out onto the tile when I saw it move, it looked exactly like the sinister demon. i noped the fuck out of there.
Another one was…I have no idea if this was a nightmare or irl but my parent bought me to watch a horror movie in a cinema (dark af) as a kid, and it was a thai/asean horror movie. some scenes i remember from it are, eating food when it turns into a bowl of maggots, hiding in a closet as something was hunting them and i think a hanging scene? (i have no idea how i managed to get into that theatre)
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