Movies? Hm. Well, nothing other than what's intended to scare you, like The Sixth Sense. The part where the mom who cut her wrist and walks by the door, only to yell at Osment's character about what he did to her. The thought is still kind of scary honestly. I've seen it since, and it's not quite as scary in execution, once she faces him, but still... Yeah, scary thought. Expect it to be your mom, but no, it's a scary ghost chick that presumably killed herself. Something that scared me that probably shouldn't, and it wasn't a movie, was Alf. The alien in the sitcom. Yeah, it scared me. I find the show to be pretty funny now, though I hadn't seen it in a while. And there was a Goosebumps, maybe made for TV movie, or perhaps an episode where--if I remember correctly--a kid put on a mask, and it messed his face up (what to me looked like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre face, or perhaps it was the face of the bad guy from The Mask when he put the mask on, I don't remember, it was just kind of creepy), as spiders came out of his hair. That could be wrong, but that's my memory of it.

"James and the Giant peach" movie, I can't properly explain it, but just something about the animation or the art style freaked the hell out of me. I'm pretty sure I had to be taking out of the cinema. I've never gone back to it.

13 Ghosts scared me straight at around 10 years old. Couldn't close my eyes in bed for a few nights unless I was in bed with my parents. Have never been that scared since. I'll never forget that terrifying week, to be honest.

Scream 2. Ghost face scared the shit out of me and thought he would come for me. I was sleeping in the basement at the time so it made it extra creepy. I probably lived with that fear for a couple months.

Predator.

Not exactly a movie for kids, but it wasn't supposed to be scary either. That being said, I didn't sleep for the first two nights after watching it.

The whale from Pinocchio was scary as fuck yo.

Here's a dumb one that probably messed me up for life.

Parents rented Problem Child 2. Can barely remember much about it other than there was a prolonged vomit joke. Something about it must have tapped upon some primal nerve as I have are vague memories of an cold sweat dread washing over me. Not a fright or a scare, but an intense discomfort and unease.

It's the moment I look back on and realise the beginnings of the severe emetophobia I still struggle with to this day.

As for revisiting it? Deep rooted fears aside, they're also just ugly and thoroughly unappealing movies.

The Witches, Flight of the Navigator, The Secret of Nimh, and The Neverending Story are the only ones that meet the criteria and come to mind at the moment.

House and The Gate scared the bejesus out of me too (although they were supposed to).

@bill_mcneal: The scene with the horse in the swamp is horrible to watch

Jurassic Park. That kitchen scene, man.

Also that scene in Home Alone with the furnace.

I was probably about five years old when I first watched Robocop with my friend... A lot of bad scenes to see if your five, but the one part where acid falls on the dude and then gets hit by a car and explodes...

NIGHTMARES

The end of Carrie and the beginning of Children of the Corn both messed me up pretty good. Carrie I watched for the first time in its entirety only a couple of months ago. Pretty good.

There were hella scary tv-series for kids when you grew up in Scandinavia. It seems like so much of the childrens "entertainment" was to just scar us for life. For some suggestions on what to youtube; "Pompel og Pilt" and "Redda Joppe" (just the intro part. If you don't know any of the Scandinavian languages, good on you, but what the child is saying, no, pleading, NO! Begging! Is to Save Joppe! (A toy) DEAD OR ALIVE! That freaked me out so much when I was a kid.) Another honerable mention, that is not as terrifying (To you, it's still brings my heartrate up) is Grusomme Gabriel from a family show called Kaptein Sabeltann, or even more awesome in english, Captain Sabertooth. First time I saw this jerk was live in a show, and it terrified me to the bones. Still does. Right after the show I was dozing off in the car (It was pretty late at night for a kid my age) and I dreamt that my brother had suddenly become Gabriel.

Other worldwide things that scared me was Goosebumps, the dog in the intro that suddenly got cat-eyes scared me so much I couldn't sleep.

The Witches by Roald Dahl, especially the scene where the girl is trapped in the painting and just straight up dies in there. A friend of mine has a similar painting, and I swear to god that the girl in that painting is moving from time to time.

I remember two things from when I was a little kid that scared me to death. And, looking back, they reakky aren't that bad.

1. Mickey's Christmas Carol - I think it was the part specifically where Scrooge McDuck sees that Tiny Tim has died and then sees his own his grave. Holy crap, that was such a scary thing to try and process at 5 years old. Not only death but someone realizing their own mortality.
2. Garfield's Halloween Special - PIRATE GHOSTS! The scene where Garfield and Odie are hiding in the cupboard was so scary and stressful. I hated that scene. Even though I knew it would be okay, I still hated that scene every time I watched the special.

Also, I saw the trailer on television (or it was on a VHS before another movie, I can't remember which) for the 1988 Blob movie and it seriously made me fear drains, faucets and toilets for like half of my childhood.

Outside of straight horror movies, The Baron Munchausen. The scenes with Death were nightmare inducing when I was a kid.

This scene and this scene were pretty horrifying when I first saw them.

Also Ernest Scared Stupid was too intense for six year old me. I didn't like going near old large trees for years afterwards.

Never Ending Story used to freak me out. For starters they kill the damn horse nearly at the start, and that just ruined me emotionally for the rest of the movie. That wolf was completely terrifying.

Not knowing what Summer School was about and flipping the channel to that one scene. Completely caught me off guard. Oh my god it ruined me for awhile.

Oh yeah and Dark Crystal. Fuck that creepy ass looking movie.

Superman 3.

Where the woman is killed by the computer?

I did not at all expect bilbo to freak the fuck out and it scared the hell out of me. Also I gotta agree with Robocop, specifically when the guy drives into the toxic sewage tank and becomes the toxic avenger.

I thought the Alien movies were rad even as a kid, for some reason. However, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth and The Plague Dogs can all fuck right off. Also, most of Jurassic Park I was cool with, but for some reason I felt sorry for Wayne Knight's character Dennis Nedry. His death scene used to make me a weird kind of scared/sad.

Also, I was terrified of the X-Files theme and had to yell at my dad from my room to turn down the volume. X-Files would end up being an all time favorite show.

I watched Stephen King's IT when I was somewhere between 7 and 10 years old. It's from 1990 but I am sure it didn't air on Swedish television the same year. But I know I wasn't a proper teenager yet when I watched it. I recall feeling physically afraid of Pennywise and I remember thinking about and taking note of the fact that adults didn't see him or his tricks made the whole "my parents will protect me" sense of security being thrown out the window.

To this day, the best experience I have had being afraid of a film or series. Watching it now is nostalgia trip, but I keep wondering what was so scary about it. But I guess that's just a sign of being an adult, I don't actually see Pennywise anymore.

Return to Oz for sure. When the evil queen lady takes off her head in the room of severed heads........christ

Watership Down.

I have the Blu Ray and, while dated, it still packs a punch.

What Dreams May Come

I'll just leave this here...

The Brave Little Toaster had some fucked parts in it (more...disturbing than scary, I think) from what I can remember. But then again that was a long time ago, so I might not remember correctly.

I mean there was this part, at least:

Also that part where they have a bunch of cars brutally murdered via crushing. While they sing about being worthless.

The last one commits suicide.

Jaws was the first. I was terrified to leave the toilet and run to bed because I'd have to pass a crawlspace to get there, and I was afraid a shark would grab me as I ran past.

The second was It. The shower scene is what especially stuck with me, but the scene where some kid sees the clown in a sewer grate or something always freaked my shit.

Third is The X-Files intro. We just could not watch it. Always had to cover my eyes, particularly during the bit where the ghostly figure was falling. Also just the music was scary as all hell.

Those are the ones that really stick out in my memory, but the one that doesn't immediately come to mind but that also really got to me (to the point where I couldn't even listen to the theme years later) was The Exorcist. Always loved the intro bit where they uncover Beezlebub or whatever though.

Haven't watched any of them recently, but I'm interested in checking out The X-Files, and now that I think about it also checking out The Exorcist again. Only ever saw it the one time.

Childs play, nightmare on elm street, candy man

The Fly (1986) remake. Saw it when I was like... 6 or 7, so about 10 years after it came out. Throughout the movie, the fear and creepiness was building for me until I got genuinely terrified at the very end with this scene below. I finished the movie and everything, but I kept thinking about this scene and possibly running into Brundlefly in my house for about a month or two after my viewing. "No, I don't need to go pee right now. I'll just hold it until it isn't so dark because Brundlefly is out there." Shit like that.

Nowadays, I really love this movie. It's really well-done and this scene in particular is done so perfectly. I love the way his eyes just plop the fuck out with slime trailing. Definitely deserved the Best Make-Up Oscar.

Children of the Corn, for sure. Everything about that movie creeped me out.

Some films with Ray Harryhausen behind the visuals. When seeing normal actors move at 24fps and look relatively smooth, the creatures look jarring as fuck for how weird they were animated. Combined with the weird but nice detail of the monsters, it really confused me and scared me on how distinctive they were to their human counterparts. It was really trying to wrap my head around this weird disconnect.

Winnie the Pooh's Grand Adventure. The imagery in this movie can be really creepy and desolate at times, and it did give me bad dreams when I was a kid. The thing was, I still liked watching it despite the dreams I would get. I watched it again a year or so ago, and still enjoy it.

I think the movie really nails that foreboding feeling at times. I mean, they're on an adventure to a place just called Skull.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, when the dude turns into a skeleton.

@pauljeremiah: Yep. To an adult it looks pretty goofy, but when I was 5 it was the most terrifying thing I'd ever seen.

Also I just remembered I was afraid of Teen Wolf as a kid, so I guess I just scared easily.

I believe the movie was called "Ghost Story". There is a scene where they pull a car out of the lake and the door opens and the corpse starts to fall out.

The first PG-13 movie I ever saw in theaters was The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The scene where the two T-Rex tore that one guy from The West Wing apart stayed with me for quite some time.

@hermes: That's actually a scene from Cemetery Man. The director of which was also second unit director on Baron Munchausen, so it's very likely it's the same puppet, hence the confusion.

Child's Play. I saw that when I was four or five and for some reason it just broke me. I had nightmares every night for a long time. I've watched some of that series since then, but they don't they bother me anymore and I don't care for the films. I don't care for most of the western horror genre, actually.

Jaws saw it when i was very young, im 26 now and still refuse to go in the water.

The ending of Hocus Pocus scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Bette Midler still scares me!

There was a nursery rhyme video my mam had and there was a version of Humpty Dumpty that had a booming voice. I don't think I've truly recovered.

As a high school student, two movies scared the shit out of me

1. Fire in the Sky. I lived in a small town in Montana that had woods, and this movie reminded me of where I lived so it scared the shit out of me.
2. Blair Witch Project. I watched this movie and it did not scare me initially. I watched it with my mom and a group of friends. It was not scary, until i was alone and thought about it. Then I could not sleep......

As an adult, I rented Paranormal Activity. Live cam movies scare me the most because there's that "realism" to them. After the film, i had problems sleeping.

Labyrinth - David Bowie absolutely terrified me.

Temple of Doom (this fucking scene) and Akira (that's not for kids dad!)

An American Werewolf in London dream sequences scared the hell out of my friends and I when we saw it in the theaters when it came out. Those nazi werewolves made a pretty lasting impression.

I didn't watch many films as a child but I would always leave the room when the music videos for Gimme Some More and Black Hole Sun came on.

The first movie I ever had a nightmare about was Mr. Boogedy. I was never really scared of the movie (even after the nightmare I watched it a lot as a kid), but I still remember a lot about that nightmare, even though it has been nearly 30 years since I had it.

I was not a fan of the Ark opening scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when I was kid. I would close my eyes when Indy says to.

Return to Oz is basically 110% nightmare fuel. I just re-watched some scenes for the first time in probably 20 years and I...I think I probably blocked most of those scenes from my memory. Holy crow.

I don't know why, but Beeltejuice scared me as a kid. My siblings would rent it quite often, but I would never watch it with them. Still haven't seen it to this day.

Has anyone here seen Watcher in the Woods? Anyone?