Salem’s Lot. Watched it with a buddy on a late night sleepover when it was on TV in the late '70s, probably 8 or 9 years old. I’ll never forget Barlow sitting up in his coffin. Or my buddy barfing when he did it.
I also won’t soon forget seeing a late-night new years eve showing of Caligula a few years later. My tiny mind wasn’t ready for either the onslaught of tits or beheadings.
Jaws.
Titanic.
I now fear most bodies of water.
Aw shit. You just reminded me of seeing Jaws from the back seat of the station wagon at the drive in at 7 when I was supposed to be sleeping.
The Day After
I ain’t been nuked yet, but you never know…
Safe to say that we were all pretty nuke-aware when that came out. It certainly didn’t help assuage our anxieties.
Gremlins
I recently showed this movie to someone and I didn’t remember it being that scary/gory! This is some crazy PG movie lol
I was recently listening to a podcast interviewing Chris Columbus on how they adapted the novel. It was the first thing he wrote that got picked up. I’ve never read the original screenplay, but they ended up cutting out the most graphic stuff. For example, at one point a disembodied head comes rolling down the stairs due to gremlin shenanigans.
So you experience could definitely have been worse.
The Brave Little Toaster.
Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.
Hey, my now very adult daughter feels the same way about The Fox and the Hound. Not judging.
Saw Robocop when I was six. Murphy getting his arm blown to bits haunted me for years… Until I saw Red Foreman years later, then I was ok
Paul Verhoeven is one sick fuck. I’ll watch anything he’s made.
Salem’s Lot.
It was forbidden, but on TV, so I’d flip channels to watch it in 30 second clips. It was far more terrifying that way, as I found out later in life; watched all the way through, it was a fairly mediocre film.
Man, if you caught the scene of Barlow sitting up in his coffin screaming, you got the gist of it.
Event Horizon
i can still vividly picture moments from that movie decades later
One of my dad’s favorite movies. We would run through the den on the way to kitchen whenever he had it on. Definitely gave me nightmares at age 10 and for years afterwards.
Hell yeah brother
My parent’s sex tape that I watched last year.
I too was traumatized by watching SatansMaggotyCumFart’s parent’s sex tape.
I have no idea why I bought it, and even less idea why SatansMaggotyCumFart would release it.
I think the third time I watched was the worse viewing.
My 3rd watch was bad too. You finally get over the shock factor and can really focus in on the details then.
I mean, is it too much to ask that people wipe the Santorum off before the salad tossing begins?
My wife made me stop at two viewings. I’ll tell her we have to push through.
I still feel bad for those horses
Hey! Spoilers!
The Fly
I’m assuming the Cronenberg version.
