Movies that scared the crap out of you as a kid

[Bargle5]

"The Monster That Challenged the World"
Creeped me out bad when I was a kid. Now it's just another giant mutant creature flick, but when I was 10, AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

[Dunners]

house
umm....friday the 13th part like...4 I think.
Night of the living dead
Aliens
Nightmare on elm street 3


hmm..thats all, could be worse. My uncle  was scared to death of the killer shrews when he was a boy :P.

[The Burgomaster]

HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS.  I went with my father on a Sunday afternoon after begging my parents for about a week.  There is a scene where Barnabas Collins turns into an old man and they show a close-up of his face.  I nearly jumped out of my seat.  The rest of the movie didn't really scare me . . . just that one scene.

[BoyScoutKevin]

"The Fly." The original and not the remake, which shows you how old I am. When Patricia Owens pulled the sack off of Al "David" Hedison's head, I can tell you, I was cowering on the floor, down behind the seats in the theater, down among the spilled jujubes, in a shot.

[Phantom187]

I would always change the channel for the bad parts on all the Nightmare On Elm. st. movies Yikes!

[Andi]

These types of movies I did not like:

     A Nightmare on Elm Street movies
    Alien and Aliens
   Jaws movies
    Poltergeist

I enjoyed watching Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

[Darkautumn]

"Fiend Without a Face." Saw it when I was 5, and it messed me up bad for about a week afterwards. Anytime something in the house fell over or seemed to move by itself, I fled the room, covering the back of my head to defend against invisible flying brain-things. Brrrrrrrrrrrr..................
And hey, John L, I think that Bigfoot movie you're refering to is "The Curse of Bigfoot," a 1972 low budgeter comprised mainly of footage from an unreleased early 60s flick.

[Ellie]

"Not of this Earth" (1957)

[Gerry]

Quatermass & the Pit a.k.a. Five Million Years to Earth

and

The Monster that Challenged the World

Both of those FREAKED me out.

[Susan]

Ok i may be laughed at for this one but i just remembered another film that while funny, something about it was always creepy in the back of my mind. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

[Neon Noodle]

Okay, embarassment abounds - I was scared of Fright Night.

The kid getting killed with the stairway stake freaked me out.

[JohnL]

>I know I got scared once, about the time I was four or five, while watching just the
>intro to a syndicated horror show, "Chiller" maybe from what I was told later.

That doesn't sound like the "Chiller" show I used to watch. That one used to start with a foggy scene of a tree and a pool of blood and the letters to spell out the word chiller made out fo clay. As weird music/sounds play, a six-fingered hand comes up out of the blood and picks up the letters, then sinks back into the blood as a voice says "CCChhhiiillllllleeerrrrr".

>And hey, John L, I think that Bigfoot movie you're refering to is "The Curse of
>Bigfoot," a 1972 low budgeter comprised mainly of footage from an unreleased
>early 60s flick.

Yes, that's the one.

[Hugomarink]

That's easy. There are four movies that scared the crap out of me when I was young and have stuck with me all these years:

Night of the Living Dead
Island of Terror
It's Alive
The Omen

[maria paula]

it did and still does, i would never watch home alone "the exorcist" im sure i might not sleep in the whole night long, Specially watching the director´s cut,  i only would watch it if i would have made a big bet with lots of money to lose if i dont watch it, if not, noway.

[Kory]

I didn't see The Exorcist until a year ago (I'm 26) because my husband, my dad, and my brother were all freaked out about it.  Well, I finally watched it and it didn't scare me at all.  I think it's a totally different experience watching a movie like that as an adult than as a child... partly because of it being dated (we've all seen much worse since then).  I must say, though, that those types of movies (Exorcist, The Omen, The Prophecy) are creepier than slasher movies.

The one that got me when I was little was Poltergeist.  I saw it when I was about 5 years old and slept with the light on until I was 11.   I saw it a few months ago and it made me laugh.