Aliens. I was terrified of facehuggers being under my bed for a decade. Not so much anymore.
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The Thing messed me up as a 14 year old.
The Crying Game.
Final destination 2. I was of driving age.
Kentucky fried movie
Independence Day: The dissection scene
They: The whole damned movie
Sybil
The first Friday the thirteenth when i was 15 or so. My parents didn't even allow me to watch the news or any movies aside from a few cartoons, so i was shocked.
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Brain Dead was plenty disturbing to me when I was a kid. Still one of my favourite movies and now I understand that it's a hilarious comedy, not just a gross out fest although there is plenty of that too lol
A Nightmare on Elm Street. I think I was ten? That was not a good night's rest.
Saving Private ryan. I was 11 or 12. The slow knife scene hasn't left my mind till this day.
There were a couple for me:
I was young when Alien came out, but my grandfather had it on VHS soon after. Ermagherd. Still one of my favourites films.
Xtro.
But there's one I'll never forget. A woman on a boat, with a metal bucket tied to her belly, with a heat source underneath it, that contained a rat. The rat would do anything to escape the heat... and the film showed the process. I was probably 10 at the time, and it's an image/predicament I'll never forget. No idea what the film was called.
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Casino.
That scene at the end with the bats... Still haunts me to this day.
The Blob (80s version), The Thing, and House. The first two still hold up really well but the third one I rewatched as an adult and it was so stupid I was embarrassed I had been so terrified of it as a little kid.
I was a late teenager when it came out, but I got incredibly horrified once I saw the poster for My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. Seriously, who knew turning ponies into humanoids could end up looking so uncanny?
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Mine would have to be Hollow man (2000) it was on TV at the time and for some reason as a kid watching the shifting both the animal and the human scene where they turn invisible where the skin disappeared then his muscles and veins, was absolutely terrifying, I don't remember well but my parents said I wouldn't let them sleep for weeks.
The Silver Bullet. That Werewolf scared me soooo much as a kid.
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