The Truman show
So much existential dread
The scarab scene in The Mummy
Yes holy shit that haunted me for YEARS
The world premiere of the Michael Jackson’s Thriller video scared the fucking shit out of me. I ran out of the room screaming when MJ turned to his date and had yellow demon cat eyes. Man fuck that.
This is what I was going to say too!
I’m not sure if it was the premiere, but I do remember being called to come and see it - so it must have been some sort of event, or else they wouldn’t have called me in specially.
Anyway, yeah, those eyes at the end. The rest didn’t bother me at all, but those eyes haunted me for years.
Event Horizon
i can still vividly picture moments from that movie decades later
I was too young when I first saw this too. (I was in my 20s)
Well I wasn’t too young, but Requiem For A Dream still haunts me as one of the most depressing movies ever made, it’s just…really sad and disturbing. I think I saw it when I was 18.
Even Grave Of The Fireflies was more uplifting than that.
Most depressing movie for sure. So hard to watch. I get a dark feeling even thinking about some of those scenes and character arcs
Saw Bone Tomahawk in my late 30s. Wasn’t old enough to handle that yet, apparently
One of my friends recommended this, and I had to turn it off a few minutes in. That movie is insane.
I was like 6 when i saw some of The Ring. It fucked me up for a long time.
My dad was flicking through the movie channels and saw that “Pulp Fiction” was on, decided to watch it because he “heard it was pretty good”.
It was already well underway, and I had the joy of watching the entire basement scene (iykyk) at 12 years old, beside my dad. Not sure why he didn’t turn it off sooner 🤷🏻
I bet you were pretty fucking far from OK eh?
The Thing
Grave of the fireflies
Event Horizon when I was 10. I think that recalibrated what the entire concept of fear was in my mind.
Same for me, maybe I was a bit older but it scared the bejesus out of me and got me into reading scifi
Oh man I said the same thing. The topless dead woman nightmare scene is seared into my memory.
I have no clue what the movie was. All I know is that my grandmother was watching it while I was in the same room. I remember being too bored to pay attention at 4 years old or so. Except when I looked over at the screen and saw a man put a gun to his head he pull the trigger. The music went silent after and we got an areal shot of the blood spreading. It left such an impression it’s one of my earliest memories.
Jaws.
Titanic.
I now fear most bodies of water.
Jaws was scary because of shark.
Titanic was scary because of iceberg.
Water did nothing wrong.
Water did nothing wrong.
What do you think icebergs are made of?
sharks ?
Ice, duh. It was planted by the CIA, anyway.
Wow, I never knew the CIA faked building the Titanic.
Nope. I’m afraid of it. And it’s 2025 so that means we ban it. No more water!
Jaws is a lesson about the shark’s house
:D
My friend found a bunch of vhs tapes that his dad hid, and we would watch them together. We were both around 8 or 9, and we watched various porn tapes, and stuff like Heavy Metal and other R rated stuff. The stuff that really gave a lasting impression in my mind’s eye though was a collection of actual deaths caught on tape called “Faces of Death” and a movie called “Pink Flamingos”. Ill always remember aligators ripping a paraglider apart, and the chicken scene from pink flamingos. I rematched it when I was older and it didn’t seem as bad as I remembered, but it’s not a great scene to have stuck in your head…
Now I specialize in making horror illustrations lol.
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.
