What was the first scary movie you saw? How old were you?

Glenn · 10-23-2013, 10:51 AM

About 6. I remember like it was yesterday. "The Crawling Hand" The hand of a dead astronaut returns from the grave to strangle people. After I saw that movie, I must of checked under my bed for at least a month lol.

Cin · 10-23-2013, 11:09 AM

The War of The Worlds. I was probably about 6 or 7. It didn't scare me at all. But I read Hansel and Gretal and I was terrified for years. It wasn't the witch that did it, it was the cavalier way the parents decided to get rid of their kids. Tricking them into going for a walk in the woods and leaving them there pretty much freaked me out. I regarded my mother and father with suspicion ever after.

easygoingfemme · 10-23-2013, 11:11 AM

The Exorcist. I think I was about 7 or 8. It didn't bother me too much, but I remember my friend I was watching it with got really freaked out and her parents got mad at us for having it on.

Teddybear · 10-23-2013, 11:17 AM

I dint the name of it at all but it was about GAINT spider. I'm sure it's why I can't stand spiders now. I think I was 4-5. We still lived in Fla and hadn't move to Alaska yet. Every now and again it's a random not real sure y

Scots_On_The_Rocks · 10-23-2013, 11:22 AM

Amityville Horror....I was almost 4. My mom was watching it...I had woke up and went into the living room to ask my mom if she would go down the hallway to turn on the bathroom light for me cause I was scared of the dark....before she went to turn the light on...I had already seen enough to scar me for life.

Glenn · 10-23-2013, 11:25 AM

LOL!

QUOTE=Teddybear;856682]I dint the name of it at all but it was about GAINT spider. I'm sure it's why I can't stand spiders now. I think I was 4-5. We still lived in Fla and hadn't move to Alaska yet. Every now and again it's a random not real sure y[/QUOTE]

Gemme · 10-23-2013, 11:42 AM

My mom loved horror movies, so I had exposure to them early on. However, one that reeeeally creeped me out and caused me to check and double check the bathroom before entering (the window was mottled like an old Coke bottle and created creepy shadows) and then dash in, do what I had to do, and dash out equally fast was a movie similar to this but scarier:

About that same time, I saw this:

So, there I was, 8 years old and not able to enjoy either the bathroom or the community pool. I took a lot of sink baths in the kitchen for a few months.

willow · 10-23-2013, 11:46 AM

The first scary film I remember seeing was Jaws. I saw it at the pictures with my mother and sister. It scared me half to death! I couldn't even sit down on the toilet to pee without first checking for fins

That was the first time I remember being aware of 'happen music'. DaDumDaDumDaDum.....

I was 10.

Jar · 10-23-2013, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Glenn

About 6. I remember like it was yesterday. "The Crawling Hand" The hand of a dead astronaut returns from the grave to strangle people. After I saw that movie, I must of checked under my bed for at least a month lol.

I was just about to say this! It was my first one too. My little sister watched it with me and I used to tell her it was in her closet.

Glenn · 10-23-2013, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Jar

I was just about to say this! It was my first one too. My little sister watched it with me and I used to tell her it was in her closet.

LOL! I bet she could'nt sleep in her bedroom for a month.

TruTexan · 10-26-2013, 07:36 PM

I was about 7 when I saw the Legend of Boggy Creek, got the shit scared out of me. I couldn't sleep that night after watching it for fear the swamp monster was going to come get me. LOL
I"ve since seen this as an adult and just laughed so hard I cried.

The other one was Audrey Rose and I was about 9 then, and man that movie skeered me so bad I didn't sleep for a week. When I did sleep I had night mares about the movie. LOL

Sheridan · 10-30-2013, 06:59 AM

I was 12 and it was Humanoids from the Deep (it was rerunning on HBO and I was at a friends house). Sacred the crap out of me (the humanoid baby delivering seen was the worst).

imperfect_cupcake · 10-30-2013, 07:44 AM

Carrie. I was 7 I think. maybe 8. my brother, who enjoyed damaging me, brought me into the living room when he was babysitting me (14) and let me watch it with him. I had nightmares for years.

torchiegirl · 10-30-2013, 08:29 AM

I was 8, 9 years old and I must give credit to two. JAWS and Grizzly.

I still don't act right.

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Cin · 10-30-2013, 09:09 AM

Jaws wasn't my first scary movie but it was the one that had the most effect on me. I never looked at the water in the same way again. But thankfully in a couple of years the fear part died down and my curiosity and interest was peaked and that eventually evolved into a deep love and respect for the ocean and everything in it.

I have no segue that works so I'll just say speaking of scary movies, my son (my ex gave birth to him but were together when she did so he is mine to me) who was about 2 ½ at the time, was sleeping and we were watching one of the many Friday the 13th movies, I don’t remember which one but it was during a particularly bloody part when I heard this little voice say “Ooo, mess”. I turned and there he was staring at the screen, absolutely mesmerized. He had gotten up and neither of us heard him. I scooped him up and carried him back to bed agreeing with him all the while. Yes, sweetie such a mess. They’ll clean it up I’m sure. He seemed comforted to hear that. He was always a very neat kid.

A couple of years later when he was about 4 I rented the movie Labyrinth (not a horror movie) to watch with him. He loved it. We had a great time watching it together. The next day when I went to pick him up after work at his daycare, the administrator called me in to tell me he had been acting very aggressively all day. I asked what he was doing and she told me he kept trying to pull the heads off of the other kids.

Never saw that coming.

If you ever saw Labyrinth you know there are characters in the story, Fireys, with detachable body parts who try to pull the head off the main character. Who would’ve figured he’d focus on that?

Gemme · 10-31-2013, 05:01 AM

I've already given my first but this was shortly thereafter and really messed me up.

It took me a looong time not to look at babies with ye ole side eye.

So, in order to terrify more kids and parents to be, there's a remake.

VintageFemme · 11-05-2013, 08:08 AM

I don't remember the first scary movie I saw but the first one that I do remember was Last House On The Left. We saw it at a drive-in, I was about 13 or 14 and it scared the beejezus out of me. To this day, I am not a fan of slasher type movies.

10-23-2013, 10:51 AM	#1
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