Movies/shows that traumatized you - Page 2

the Tales From The Crypt that had the scientist brothers, one had the formula to bring people back from the dead and it al turned out to be a joke in the end. The last line in that fuckedme up bad:"you remeber how you said feeling was the first to go...you were wrong it was the last!" as the autopsy people were opening him up....gave me the heebie geebies
as far as movies hads down the exorcist....good old fashioned malevolency from that one

TV shows:
The Dark Room. Man, that show totally wierded me out when I was a kid. Especially the one about the toy soldiers.

The Twilight Zone. I never liked this show. I don't know why. I think I believed it too much and was afraid I was going to end up in my own private hell like many of the characters.

Movies:
The Fog. This movie scared the bejesus out of me. Saw it when I was about 6 and was terrified.

Trilogy of Terror. Holy Heezy Skeezy that little devil doll scared the bejezus out of me. I was scared to get out of bed at night after watching that.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The last scene. 'Nuff said.

The Day After and Testament. I was convinced we were all going to die in a nuclear holocaust.

Jaws. To this day I hate deep water and won't go out more than 5 or 10 feet into the ocean.

Any movie involving ventriloquist dummies.

As I mentioned in a similar thread a while back, the episode of Night Gallery that kept me awake WAY past my normal bedtime was the one where Peter Lawford kept killing the spider and it would come back a little bigger each time . Finally it was large enough for it's own zip code and ate him. I STILL fucking hate spiders.

Another episode I vaguely remember had to do with a dead grandmother or aunt or something whose shadow kept appearing on the wall. Really freaked me out.

Oddly enough, the movie that had me checking under my bed a lot when I was a kid was "It's Alive." The way the baby cried and the close-up of it's bloody fang after it killed the milkman had me pretty fucked up for a while.

The episode that stuck with me was the one where a few people had discovered the meaning of life. And that knowledge drove them insane. The show progressed with each "enlightened" person whispering the secret in another person's ear and that person going instantly insane. At the end, a guy who had avoided hearing it is finally told and he heads off for a radio station. The cool thing about it is that the viewing audience never finds out what the "meaning of life" is.

Cool thread.
Mine too, goes back to childhood.
I was raised on horror films & monster movies from the time I was 4 or 5 years old, so I always had a pretty thick skin, but when i was about 10 a made for TV movie came on called GHOST STORY & it seriously freaked me out!
This thing was a pilot for an anthology series by the same name ( later it was changed to CIRCLE OF FEAR ) & had to do with a couple who moved into a brand new home that was built on the site where a witch had been executed centuries before. She was a viscious ghost & scary as hell. I couldn't sleep for about a week after watching it!
I've never seen it since that time some 30 odd years ago, but I remember it well. One of these days I plan on getting my hands on a video of it. I know that they've got to be available out there somewhere.

And I just remembered yet another one. I was an easily scarred child..

IT.

The first time I saw it, I was 11. And pretty much forced to hold a Halloween party, as I was the only one who had the space. It was held out in the shed/workshop beside our house. Now.. The workshop is just damn creepy by itself. My grandfather built it, and he's got old farming tools hanging up on the outside.. Scythes, sickles, various other sharp objects.. Perfect for some escaped maniac to chop up people with. ..Anyway.

So we rented a bunch of horror flicks. Return of the Living Dead, Granny (blaugh!), some Friday the 13th movie, and.. IT.

We watched the other ones first, then in the wee hours of the morning, popped IT into the VCR.

Holy Christ! Do you know how scary it is to watch that movie with seven other girls screaming in terror around you? Not to mention that the shed is situated in the middle of a Blair Witch-esque woods.. Complete with funky sounds and wild dogs.. And the guy convicted of Manslaughter living behind us. I'm not joking on that last one, either.

It was a night of terror and general clown-fearing. Then someone broke out a Quija board, and all hell broke loose.. But I'm not going into that.

Didn't they do a parody of this on Upright Citizen's Brigade? It was a bit where a real estate agent was showing a house, and in the corner on a pedestal was a bucket marked "Meaning of Life". The agent said it had always been there, but he advised them strongly against looking in--just leave it alone. Of course the couple looked in, and started screaming. Then later they showed the actors walking around the streets of wherever they were, doing everyday tasks like shopping or crossing the street or whatever, still screaming at the top of their lungs the whole time. The cameraman just followed them around catching the unscripted public's reactions. Funny stuff.

Or did I dream it?

The episdoe of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, when his father came back and then abandoned him a second time go become a trucker. That bastard!

Agreed. I bought this DVD 2 weeks ago (w/o having seen it). I have a lot of movie "guts", almost nothing gets to me. But I found myself actually turning my head away from the screen, because some of it was just so disturbing.

Oh, & when I was a kid: Salem's Lot. I think it scarred me in some way. Every time I watch the scene in the jail (where "the Master" is first revealed), it sends chills up my spine...