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What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you? (self.askuk)

submitted 7 months ago by Oneeightnine to c/askuk

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Jurassic Park for me. I had an amazing JP jumper when I was like...maybe 6. It was far too big for me but I loved dinosaurs. Naturally this meant I wanted to watch the film because...well I'm 6 and it's got dinosaurs.

Ultimately I ended up watching it with my Mum and Dad. We got as far as the iconic T-Rex chase scene and I told them to turn it off. Didn't go near the film for another few years.

I've now got my own 6 year old. There's no scenario I could envisage where I even consider letting her watch a film as gory, tense and frightening as JP.

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[–] petenu 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Return To Oz was mine. Took me decades to bring myself to rewatch it.

[–] Bluebanrigh@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Was it Jack falling into the swirling abyss? Thay freaked me out. I think the concept of nothingness/dying hit me hard then.

[–] petenu 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So much of it was nightmare fuel, it's hard to choose, but I think it was the scene where Dorothy's friends have been turned into ornaments that haunted me the most.

[–] Bluebanrigh@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Oh with the wooden sawhorse and she had to choose them! I think i need to watch this again (in the daylight, with curtains fully up)