Asklemmy

I was like 6 when i saw some of The Ring. It fucked me up for a long time.

Grave of the fireflies

Jurassic Park, I was 8. Saw it at the cinema and was hiding behind the seats. It still hits a bit hard.

The Mangler. It's a B horror movie and some of the graphics, which I won't spoil, were more than my 7 year old brain could reconcile.

Arachnophobia

The first Ghost busters movie

I saw scenes of it at six years old and some of them were really scary if you are too young. For weeks I had nightmares about chairs grabbing me with demon arms or demon dogs trying to eat me.

Just seeing pictures of Freddy Krueger in the TV timetable magazine (whatever do you call those?) scarred me for life and had me imagining him under my bed.

The Shining

The Thing

I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 12. That one took a while to get over.

That Tom Hanks movie where he's stranded on an island after a plane crash when I was 6.

I saw it a day before taking my first plane ride and going over sea.

Edward Scissorhands.

Don't know why. And I didn't even see it for that long, but something about the makeup, music, general ambiance, the scene when he's offered normal hands, it affected my child self profoundly. To this day, I can't watch the movie without feeling very anxious. My partner has tried to watch it with me a couple of times and I just can't.

Watership Down as a really young kid.

Schindler's List as a young teen.

Star Trek: First Contact scared me shitless as a kid. They made a fucking Star Trek horror film. As an adult, I'd say 8/10 movie.

Saving private Ryan at ten years old.

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.

The Road

They showed us 4 Rooms at summer camp when it had just come out on VHS. I was 13 but pretty sheltered and that movie was kind of nuts.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg. Not sure if I was too young, but the emotions still haunt me to this day.

Jurassic Park 3 when I was 9 for a friend's birthday. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for weeks. I'm not really haunted by it any more but the scene where the skeleton in the parachute swings out of the tree is seared into my brain.

Aliens. Must have been 12 or so. A boring sunday and my friend's mom drove us to the cinema. (In Germany the movie was rated 16) but we didn't bounce off at the desk. I was not exactly horrified, but so ... thrilled. After that I dived a bit too deep into the H.R.Giger universe, I guess.

Cats Eye

The Shining

Pet Sematary

Pumpkinhead

Poltergeist

my parents didn't make an effort to shield me. I was too young for school when I first saw any of these movies

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

The Naked Lunch. I was probably 10 years old? I didn't understand any of the plot, I was weirded the fuck out and the giant bugs made me sick to my stomach.

2 Movies really.

1. Bette Davis in the Nanny. I haven't liked the bath since.
2. Death Wish. Wasn't suitable for an adolescent. I'm still traumatized by the home invasion / rape scene. Hey, that was Hope Lange from the Ghost & Mrs Muir!

Creep Show, the segment with the Antarctic wolf creature scared the shit outta me. It still creeps me out to this day for some reason.

I wasn't too young but I am Legend left me depressed for days. I even read the book because I needed to process it. I still have flashbacks to will Smith talking along with Shrek. I should probably go watch it again now that I'm older and see if it hits differently. It was not the zombies but the deep deep loneliness that got me.

American News

For me it was The Amytiville Horror (1979). I still can't look out of a window at night and not think of seeing eyes. I didn't see the film until I was about 11, so mid 80s.

Watership Down.

My parent’s sex tape that I watched last year.