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What movies scared you as a kid?




For me.

"Magic": Back in 1986, i was 4 when i saw this on video with my family and it scared the crap out of me, made me afraid of dummies especially of my brother's dummy.

"Making Contact (a.k.a. Joey)": Another evil dummy movie that made me afraid of dummies at the age of 4.

"Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night": Anyone remembered this 1987 animated movie with James Earl Jones? i saw this when i was 5 at a movie theater in a mall in St. Louis, the scene where Pinocchio is captured by an evil puppeteer and slowly tortures him and changes him into a puppet slowly scared the bejesus out of me.

"It's the Stay-Puft Marshmellow Man!"-Ghostbusters.

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I know this doesn't count, but i recently watched The Blair Witch Project and i never have been so scared in my life. I didn't watch it as a kid though, but it is scary.

All The Movies I Have Seen - http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=26584075

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Two movies that scared me as a kid were:

"Asylum" (1972)
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (1973)

First time I saw "Night of the Living Dead" on TV (the original version) as a kid it scared me as well.

Oh ... and "Diabolique" (1955) ... wasn't born yet when it came out but when I did see it as a kid some years later, it was scary, too.

Funny how seeing any of these now, I just laugh at them and think about how funny it is what scares you when you're a kid.

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Since you asked, all this is strictly IMHO:

Since we're on this particular board, I first have to say that Magic was more creepy than scary, although it has a couple of good jolts in it. It's Hopkins' performance that impresses.

Psycho got to me as a kid. I had seen Hitchcock's TV show and while spooky, none were outright scary, so I wasn't expecting it. This original slasher flick gave me chills one rainy Saturday night in the mid-1960s when I saw it all alone in the basement TV room. I was about 7 or 8 at the time.

William Castle used to do some quirky things, but Mr. Sardonicus gave me some genuine scares when I was a little kid.

Jaws was very scary when I first saw it in theaters at age 14. A movie so good even Spielberg hasn't made one better.

The original Night of the Living Dead was too unreal to be really truly scary, but it's very suspenseful and has one of the best endings of any movie ever made.

An American Werewolf in London absolutely scared the crap out of me when I first saw it. There never has been a better combination of humor and horror. It's still a very cool flick and it can still raise a few hackles, but doesn't grab like the first time.

Alien was a first class trip into Scaresville. James Cameron made a great sequel, but he blew up the concept in the process.

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I go back a way.
The Thing(1951) when I was about five.
Beast of 20000 Fathoms
Them
Pyscho when I was about sixteen.
The last two movies that I can feel scared me were The Exorcist and Halloween.

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You do, don't you, richsass! I can't top that, but the first horror movie I ever saw was Dr. Terror's House of Horrors and it made a deep, terrifying impression on me. But then again, so did many risible episodes of the Outer Limits. I think that's one of the things I miss about childhood: that intense impressionability. The movie that most impressed upon me horror's potential as a cinematic art form was Psycho, which I saw when I was about 11.

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I never watched Magic, the commercial alone scared the crap out of me and gave me nightmares for months.

The movie that scared me the most was The Exorcist. My dad let me watch it with him when I was 10. It bothered me into my thirties when I made myself watch it. Anything that had to do with possession freaked me out. Prince of Darkness by John Carpenter, Killer Party

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind scared the hell INTO me as a kid! Had nightmares for weeks as did Fantastic Planet!

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I was scared of the ads of The Exorcist because I was five.
The Omen was scary for me, too.
Suspiria was scared me, too.
For some reason, the music from The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud used to scare me, too.
For some reason, Jaws did not scare me. We used to play Jaws in the pool. I saw Grizzly as a child and that did not bother me, either.
Magic did not bother me, I was old enough to think the dummy and creepy in a cool way.

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