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I saw Return of the Jedi in the theatre when I was 5. For years after I had nightmares of the Emperor chasing me through the local mall after closing. That dude was evil!

For me it was a book that mentaly ruined me, the book was The Hound Of Baskervile. I mean a big friking dog chasing people and nomnoming them? What is not to be frigthed of as 10 year old, it did not help that we had a rather insane rotweiler at the time either.

KingCracker wrote:White noise? Not really, but sometimes things just get to people.

And yea the Ring never gave me nightmares, but it did feth with me for awhile. I couldnt go into a dark room without turning on the lights for awhile. Though I blame Ju-on for the worst of it. Thats the original Japanese version, that was pretty scary, and THAT is what screwed up the lights for me. The ring was an ok American adaptation but for realz? Watch Ju-on

Hmm isn't Ju-On the grudge? I watched the american remake and thought it made no sense really.

I thought the ring was called ringu or was that the korean remake?

The first ring film, shutter and dark water were pretty good american remakes i thought

Aliens. Watched it too young and the dreams still haunt me occasionally.

Most of my nightmares revolve around being chased and hunted by a T-rex. For this I blame Jurassic Park, even though I was already 10 when I saw it.

I'm one of those types of people who hates what their subconcious can dredge up at night. I can be fine watching a gory or scary movie during the day, but when I go to sleep... That's why I don't watch a lot of monster movies anymore. Night time sanity protection

obsidianaura wrote:

KingCracker wrote:White noise? Not really, but sometimes things just get to people.

And yea the Ring never gave me nightmares, but it did feth with me for awhile. I couldnt go into a dark room without turning on the lights for awhile. Though I blame Ju-on for the worst of it. Thats the original Japanese version, that was pretty scary, and THAT is what screwed up the lights for me. The ring was an ok American adaptation but for realz? Watch Ju-on

Hmm isn't Ju-On the grudge? I watched the american remake and thought it made no sense really.

I thought the ring was called ringu or was that the korean remake?

The first ring film, shutter and dark water were pretty good american remakes i thought

You liked Dark Water? Really? I thought that was pretty boring to be honest. But shutter was pretty good, and actually got me a couple times. Yes, Ju-on is the original version of the Grudge, it makes more sense then the American version, I still had to read subtitles and it made more sense

Question about Dream Catcher

Something that scared me when i was young though i dont think i had nightmares was Neverending story.

The bit when the kid has to walk between the statues and hope they didn't kill him was terrifiying.

And the wolf was scary too. Looks very fake now though

I wasn't really scared by any films as a kid, my imagination conjured up all my childhood fears.
I watched the fellowship of the ring age 5 and I wasn't phased at all. In fact, I loved that film and is how I got into lord of the rings miniatures, and, by extention, warhammer 40k and dakka.

shrike wrote:I wasn't really scared by any films as a kid, my imagination conjured up all my childhood fears.
I watched the fellowship of the ring age 5 and I wasn't phased at all. In fact, I loved that film and is how I got into lord of the rings miniatures, and, by extention, warhammer 40k and dakka.

Shhh you can't have been 5 when that came out! You're making me feel old

First zombie scene in resident evil 1 (11), Ernest scared stupid (8ish), The Thing (11). These are the only things that ever scared me, that my subconscious hasn't blocked.

The Lickers from Resident Evil 2



The first time I saw one I went "ZOMFG WHAT IS THAT???? KILLITWITHFIRE!!!!"....mind you I was 11 or 12 the first time I played through it

No, you were right no matter the age, when I first saw one jump up on the ceiling I about gak my pants. I too did the "HOLY HELL WTF IS THAT!!!?!?!???!?!?!" and I died, I paniced so badly I just keep shooting, hit nothing but walls, and died

The WORST is when the licker jumps through the one-way glass after you grab one of the chess-piece keys...Holy Gak, that was one of the scariest things ever!!!

The first time I watched the original War of the Worlds when I was six years old. While the movie is not scary at all but for some reason I woke up in the middle in the night I was still groggy and saw the street light outside of my window. It looked just like the heat ray cannon from the movie. Scared the out of me.

obsidianaura wrote:

shrike wrote:I wasn't really scared by any films as a kid, my imagination conjured up all my childhood fears.
I watched the fellowship of the ring age 5 and I wasn't phased at all. In fact, I loved that film and is how I got into lord of the rings miniatures, and, by extention, warhammer 40k and dakka.

Shhh you can't have been 5 when that came out! You're making me feel old

heh.

Toastedandy wrote: Ernest scared stupid (8ish),

That movie scared me when I was little too.