What movies scared you as a kid?

[Johnboy]

Mine would be

"Magic" ( 1978): Anyone remembered this movie? it's the horror flick with Anthony Hopkins and his psychotic ventriloquist dummy, scared the crap out of me when i was 4 back in 1986 on video or TV and made me afraid of dummies since then but i did got over my fear of them when i was 11.

"Poltergeist": That clown doll.

"Dark Crystal": Sure i loved the movie as a kid but sometimes i would duck my head down whenever the Chamberlin will about to have a close up of his scary face.

"The Last Unicorn": King Haggard even with his facial close-ups.

"Wizard of Oz" and "Return to Oz": The scene in "Wizard" where auntie Em in the crystal ball turned into the witch then we zoom in on her, and in "Return" the wheeled guys and the heads.

[2099net]

Mine would be

"Magic" ( 1978): Anyone remembered this movie? it's the horror flick with Anthony Hopkins and his psychotic ventriloquist dummy, scared the crap out of me when i was 4 back in 1986 on video or TV and made me afraid of dummies since then but i did got over my fear of them when i was 11.

Another Magic fan!

This did scare the bejesus out of me when I was about 9 or 10 and watching it late night on my bedroom TV (when of course I was forbidden to watch TV that late at that age by my parents).

I got this on DVD a couple of weeks ago. It's actually a good disc with some extras, but I haven't watched it yet. I'm a bit worried it will be a bit rubbish when viewed with older and more cynical eyes.

[TheSequelOfDisney]

I was totally freaked out by ET. I couldn't stand that movie! Everytime ET came on, I hid behind the nearest couch or chair. I was so spooked, he was just totally scary to me. This was when I was like 6, not now, even though he does look kind of funny now. And it didn't help when my family and I went to Florida, and my sister insisted on riding the ET ride about a dozen times!

[The Lizard King]

John Carpenter's Halloween.

TLK

[Lazario]

Interestingly enough - the ones I adore today. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (my favorite movie of all-time!!!) gave me nightmares that you wouldn't BELIEVE!

And I remember watching Sorority House Massacre II on late-night Cinemax, flipping through the channels I came upon the scene where the sorority girl Jamie is walking down the staircase, into the kitchen, drinking out of a bottle of Taquila (spell?), and I don't know why but I just got the impression that this must be a horror movie (of which I hadn't seen too many of at the time). It had to be the music. That movie, even though it was a direct-to-video quickie flick, had an immaculately menacing, creepy, and quite classy score lead by some organ-like instrument, big drums, and a very haunting choir singing the same note in an off-putting manner. The anticipation of what was going to happen was very scary. She leaned back against the counter (which is a sort of bar-setup, it acts as a wall between the kitchen and dining room, so it's a normal countertop that as she stands at it without it being a wall to her back, someone could be standing on the other side in the same manner she is in the dining room, in the kitchen, and be touching her back without her seeing them) (and I think thanks to movies like Scream, we know exactly what will happen). She's drinking in a very unflattering closeup and she hears the creaking of the basement door in the other room as it sort of blows from the stormy-night breeze/wind that's coming in from the sorority house's several broken and only partially boarded-up windows (now thanks the audio commentary on the Scream DVD, we know what's going to happen, since the camera actually cuts to a shot of the door blowing open/close while she leans over to look since it's in plain view from the dining room). I was literally on the edge of my bed and scared witless. I knew that from what everyone told me happened in all those Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Nightmare on Elm Street movies, that she was probably going to get slashed. And for some reason, the first time you watch a movie (usually a scary movie), the moments seem to go slower than on repeated viewings. So for some reason, this minute-long sequence seemed to last almost 3. This was really milking the suspense for a kid. And then, when she got it... I must have jumped and hit the ceiling, because at this point in my movie career, I hadn't seen anything like it. And I completely fell in love with this movie, still am to this day.

Also, Scream did scare me. That darn movie just reinvented the movie JUMP scare.

[bambifan56]

Batman Jack Nicholson as the Joker gave me nightmares as a kid.

[memnv]

When I was really young I was scared of the witch from Wizard of Oz, But I wouls still watch it every year, I remember in First Grade the lady eho played the witch came to my school and visited, If I remember right she said Donnie Most"Ralph Mouth from Happy Days" is her nephew

[DisneyPrincess]

My mom took me to a special showing of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when I was 3 or 4, and she said I started crying when they showed the witch.

There was a part in Neverending Story that always scared me, when they show the valley that people had to get through, where the statues had laser eyes and would kill whoever walked through- and they showed a man getting killed. That always scared me.

[Lars Vermundsberget]

I'm not sure I ever got to see movies that really scared me.

[Finchx0rz]

I don't think I was scared by any movie to the point where I wouldn't watch it at all. There were just certain scenes here and there that were scary, and I'd just cover my eyes or leave the room until it was over.

I was totally freaked out by ET. I couldn't stand that movie! Everytime ET came on, I hid behind the nearest couch or chair. I was so spooked, he was just totally scary to me.

The only part of <i>ET</i> that terrified me was the "house wrapped in plastic" scene. I was bored by the rest, but as I got older I grew to appreciate the whole movie.

[DaveWadding]

Batman - Jack Nicholson and his big, creepy Joker grin.

The Rescuers Down Under - No, I'm not kidding. The first time I laid eyes on that big freakin eagle on a huge movie screen, I just had to leave. And I still have never seen the movie all the way through to this day. (Of course, that's laziness on my part, but whatever)

Child's Play 2 I have no idea how I ended up even getting a glimpse of this at all, but that damn doll gave me nightmares for years.

[dvdjunkie]

Number one movie to scare the bejesus out of me then and even gives me the creeps today, over 40 years later, was Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. There has not been another movie that has frightened me more than that film.

Another one that gives me the creeps is a movie called The Children's Hour, and it definitely wasn't for children.

[MickeyMousePal]

Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy scared me very much and in ever film too.

He-Man and the Master of the Universe: Skeletor scared me alot in the live action movie not the cartoon.

Dracula: Dracula scared me as a child also since I thought it was true about vampires

[TheSequelOfDisney]

It's not really a movie but since we are on the topic of what scared us as a child, I'll elaborate what really scared me. Everyone knows about the dolls with the eyes that open/close when you flip them up and down, right? Well, when I was little, my younger sister had one of these terrifyingly scary dolls, and one night, I went into her room, took the scary doll, and I somehow took the head off. I was so frightened of those stuipid eyes! I guess I just ripped off the head and chucked it somewhere. Speaking of "chuck," I think that I was scared off those dolls because of that movie with Chuckie, the doll, with those same disturbingly grotesque eyes. I'm still creeped out by them.

[Zoltack]

I always got nightmares after watching Ghostbusters... I don't know why because that movie is suppose to be funny not scarry.
Other movies:
It
Night of the Living Dead

[Disney Duster]

There was a part in Neverending Story that always scared me, when they show the valley that people had to get through, where the statues had laser eyes and would kill whoever walked through- and they showed a man getting killed. That always scared me.

Finally someone besides me who has been scared by the Neverending Story! That laser-eye statue is fairly scary, and I find the whole movie terrifying. The thing that scared me the most, though, was Morla, that giant turtle. She was huge and ugly, and had strange glassy eyes. She usually moved slowly but had a few surprisingly quick movements for a puppet(like when she sneezed). I was actually much more scared of her than Gmork, the wolf.

[slyslayer3000]

The Blair Witch Project gives me the creeps. The chase scene through a deserted house and into the cellar...creepy.

Deep Blue Sea is not really scary but shocking. The sharks are scary especially with those sharp teeth. And there's blood. I was terrified and shocked when Samuel Jackson was eaten by a shark without even noticing it coming.

Jurassic Park...the whole restaurant kitchen scene with the velociraptors kinda freaked me out. And I was like telling the two kids to hide because those ugly and scary dinosaurs are coming.

[cydney]

Poltergist and It because of the clowns, Psycho and Carrie because when she sticks her hand up out of the ground at the end my mom grabbed my arm to scare me the first time I saw it.

[pinkrenata]

I was so terrified of E.T. when I was little that even the name had to be banned from the household. In fact, I am still quite afraid. Especially when it's dark out.

[bambifan56]

I agree with Zol, IT was a very scary film. Tim Curry added such a scary factor to Pennywise, and plus clowns are scary as is