What Movie Did You Watch Too Young That Scarred You For Life?

[@user-wr3vt8uq4s]

I don't think people will ever be old enough to watch "Grave of the Fireflies". It's a beautiful animation and an intense story of the survival of 2 orphans in WW2 Japan. I was a grown ass adult but I started crying 2 minutes in and didn't stop until the end. I had to go for a long walk after that, but felt empty for like a week.

[@s.l.r.9407]

I was 30 when I first tried to watch it. And I said "tried" because I couldn't finish it, I was bawling my eyes out and just couldn't make it 'til the end.

[@insanecowstar3008]

The movie is also loosely based on a picture of a young boy carrying the body of his younger brother and asking soldiers to help bury him. War sucks.

[@mamaremy628]

Yes, that and Barefoot Gen will make you cry

[@DanielSelk]

"Come and See" ...it's an unflinching story of how devastating war can be and the way they portrayed some of those scenes were just so insanely horrific and awful but it doesn't really hit you till it's all over and it's exhausting. One particular scene in there where the boy and girl leave the house in a village they were searching through, hoping that his family is alive, and while the boy keeps running the girl looks back and sees the pile of dead bodies of the entire village by the house they were just in. Yet they just keep running, even though she cries he doesn't know what happened. It's VERY jarring and quite the audible gasp came out of me when they showed that. I should probably warn you that it gets WORSE from there, but it's that scene that makes it start getting excessively dark. Out of all war films this one felt the most real.

[@badbishop1049]

I was little when my dad took me to see who framed Roger rabbit. The scene where the shoe gets melted lived rent free in my mind for over a year. Also a nightmare on elm street. I snuck the vhs from my dad and watched this while I was home from 2nd grade with a fever. Needless to say the fever dreams I had that night included Freddy chasing me through my neighborhood. Was afraid to go to sleep for several days, lol

[@christinamann3640]

👞 🥺😭

[@williammccullough2466]

The Exorcist. It was the “your mother sews socks in hell” edited for television version, but that movie terrified me more than anything, especially since I was all of eight years old. Well, if I’m being completely honest, it’s a tie between that and David Cronenberg’s “The Brood”; those little mutant kids were horrifying, and I saw THAT movie when I was six.

[@jbailey91772]

The same with me. That movie scared me to death!

[@McFiesty]

The Passion of the Christ. My parents are super religious and made my brothers and I watch it because it was "important that we understand what Jesus did for us." I was 11 and my brothers were all younger. Wouldn't not recommend letting children watch a movie about a man being brutally tortured and killed.

[@DanielSelk]

I found it very crazy how it was "okay" for religious families to take their children to that movie but it was "wrong" for them to see any other violent R rated movie...some wouldn't allow them to see PG-13 or PG even! It confused me so much.

[@theshadowspider97]

For me, it was that 90's haunting movie. Seeing the baby cherub statues come to life and the face in the pillow scarred me for a long time. I still get creeped out seeing baby cherub statues.

[@Squidscottjeans]

As a 6 year old with a healthy fear of snakes, watching Anaconda was no bueno. Currently 32 and still terrified of snakes.

[@shaydystheshadowqueen9584]

That one scene in Jurassic Park 3 with the velociraptor in the lab pretending to be in a lab tube scared me away from any dinosaur exhibit or dinosaur sculpture for a very long time

[@MrJosephdrummond]

Elephant Man. The idea that someone has it so bad that not living is an option ... That was a lot to handle when I was 5. Still is. I'm 48 now.

[@molasorrosalom4846]

The first Nightmare on Elm Street, the first Halloween, and Carrie, the one from the 70s.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

"Bad ronald" teen kills girl, mom makes secret room for him, she dies, new family moves in, and he's watching them through holes in the wall. That night I was sure someone was in the walls, 😂😂😂

[@exsecror78]

Me, my brother and my two cousins, who were brother, went to see robocop at the theaters. We were around ages 8-11 years old. The theater staff kicked us all out because during the scene where ED209 malfunctions and guns down that poor dude, my cousin Albert (RIP) who was about 8 at the time, erupted in a full blown panic meltdown due to all the violence. People got up and complained and we all were escorted out. His mom, my aunt, was called to come get us and she was furious the theater let us kids in to see such a violent movie.

[@InsanePsychoRabbit]

Princess Mononoke. I was about 10. I had an aversion to pork and spaghetti for some time after.

[@gretchenmyers1279]

The Godfather, at a drive-in movie, so my 6 or 7 year old horse loving self saw a GIANT severed horse head in that bed...

[@DanielSelk]

I NEVER forgave my mom letting me and my sisters watch "Arachnophobia" when I was 5. When I saw it as an adult I remembered EVERY scene that had traumatized me clear as day. Also, the banshee scene in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" when I was 7. That was SCARY!!!

[@UnderRuler777]

Jurassic Park. It was my favorite movie until Lilo and Stitch. I would escape at night just to watch it. Traumatized both my parents. I would giggle when the lawyer gets eaten

[@argentorangeok6224]

The scene in Jaws where Jaws clamps down on the old man's torso and he vomits blood. I saw it when I was 7 or 8. It disturbed me for a very long time. At 48 years old, I still haven't seen the movie again.

[@margaretjudson1170]

A friend I worked with atvavhottel told me that when she was 5 years old, she stayed up to watch a movie because the commercial had showed a clown. Pennywise scared her for life. Yep, from IT. This Thanksgiving, a friend of the family who grew up in a messed up family said that as a 3 year old his family would let the kids watch horror movies and sence he was too young, he thought it was real. He suffers from PTSD and ADHD.

[@reggiereggiesauce5755]

My parents did that ‘forced family time’ thing, and decided we were to watch Doctor Who. The episode was ‘The End Of The World’, and my 8 year old self hadn’t yet comprehended that the world might end. I didn’t sleep that night, nor did my father, but I think he deserved it.

[@ryansmiley5495]

Final destination, i was 20. Still just expecting a horrible death at every turn.

[@Athlynne]

I was happily watching the Nightmare on Elm Streets, Halloweens, Stephen King movies and The Exorcist before age 10...but the animated Watership Down haunts me to this day. DO NOT watch that movie.

[@wadebullard9463]

The Omen, Amityville Horror, The Shining, The Exorcist...

[@grumbygrumble2762]

Jaws. The head coming out of the boat!!! Too scary!! Another scary one was Jodi Foster and Martin Sheen. The Little Girl who lives down the lane.

[@shannonjones9455]

The first nightmare on elm street, was 12 at most. I was so so scared! A movie hasn’t scared me as badly since that

[@molasorrosalom4846]

I saw the first one when I was like six. Man oh man, did it freak me out. Also, the original Halloween movie, when I was 7-8, and afterwards thought Michael Myers was hiding in the shadows of the basement or the closet.

[@finchborat]

I wasn't scarred by it, but I was too young for Lord of the Rings. Me, my dad, my middle brother and his wife went to see Fellowship of the Ring when it came out. I was 9 and I was hiding in my seat for a good chunk of that movie. I saw it again over 6 yrs later in my English class and by that point, I was old enough to not only get through it but enjoy it (and enjoy the other 2 films).

[@cnt2495]

Thai horror movie called Shutter. I watched it at a young age because older cousins were watching it. Scarred me for life cause I'm still scared of the dark even at age 30 even though it's been over a decade since I've seen it.

[@ryansmiley5495]

That's a good one 👍

[@Proud_Troll]

Jeepers creepers. Found a clip on KZbin in my early stages of Internet usage at about the age of 12, and it messed me up for a bit.

[@civilwildman]

I loved Willow, but the scene where the whole army (and Bavmorda’s own daughter Sorsha) was turned into pigs freaked me out a little bit as a kid.

[@christinamann3640]

The Fly, the original. I can’t remember most of it, but I remember being in bed and staring at the ceiling thinking, “I’m pretty sure I’m too young to have seen that.😳”

[@MsCassidy23]

Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman. I was five. Oddly enough, I saw Boys Don't Cry when I was sixteen and a seasoned horror buff by then. However, that film haunted me for years.

[@johndelta00]

Night of the living dead at 7 years old. I had cemetery anxiety for YEARS thanks to that movie.

[@shirleytyler-szkolny6981]

I was 8 when my dad & mom took us to see it at the drive-in - which was besude a big cemetary 😱🤯☠️

[@insanecowstar3008]

My cousin thought it was a good idea to let me watch Pink Floyd's The Wall when I was 4. When I was 8, it was Fire in the Sky. I watched Fire in the Sky but still can't manage The Wall.

[@ryansmiley5495]

Why 😂

[@ZombieJDC-z4i]

Wasn't a movie, but I saw plenty of episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation that were plenty violent and scary. Like episodes where people got vaporized with the skull drop effect. There was one where a guy got shot in the head with a steady stream of phaser fire set to maximum power until his head exploded - complete with skull, ribs, and spinal column and screeching alien. Then that one where Data was Droid-napped and the villain murdered his girlfriend with an illegal Varon-T disruptor and she died screaming in agony while a hole was slowly burned in her midsection. All that before my tenth birthday. That last one is still too upsetting to watch. But my parents didn't want me watching X-Men or Power Rangers.

[@OneDrewThree]

Jeepers Creepers and the 13 Ghosts cover alone freaked me out as a kid 😂

[@stephenburroughs5216]

The Blob , the original from the 1950's . ( I think 1958 ) . Saw it at the kiddie show on Saturday morning . I was 6 or 7 years old . My dad took us ( me and 2 brothers) out of the theatre just before the end . He said we were hiding under the seats . I did not see the end until 7 or 8 years later when it came on tv for the afternoon movie .

[@Paige0_0]

The Jackal. I loved Jack Black when I was younger and seeing him get his arm sh0t off it really freaked me out. I was like 8

[@nosleepinggames1109]

Three movies in quick succession. I was at my grandmother's house. Cube, Final Destination 2, and Thirteen Ghosts. They scarred me, but not in the traditional sense. I became obscessed with the logic of the *how* of each movie. Mostly in how stuff could obliterate the human body. Least to say, I have watched a lot of horror movies trying to sate my curiosity. Saw and Final Destination are the prime providers for that. I can't enjoy the fear of horror movies anymore, either. I gotta rely on nightmares for that.

[@kissedbypalefirex]

Gremlins...I saw it when I was 4/5..i remember the gremlin "melted" in the fountain. Alien...THAT scene. Also Event Horizon. Arachnophobia....My mom rented it, thinking it was just a comedy, because she saw the commercials with John Goodman & it was funny. When she played it, IT WAS NOT A COMEDY. My Dad, was the only one who watched the whole movie. My mom, bro & myself had to leave the room, but we all came back to see how it ends. For several weeks, there were no cobwebs in the house, we were all on the lookout for spiders. My bro, to this day HATES spiders.

[@belphy205]

The robot tearing into the spaceship in the first wallace and gromit short. Something about it terrified me. I was about 3.

[@Virsidus]

Not sure now but there was a scene from some military Sci Fi movie with some soldiers in a jungle and some alien life landing on earth grabs one of them with some long limb or tentacle and lifts him up on a tree. The other soldiers are not shooting in fear of not hurting their team mate and that alien just sucks this guy of his vitals and his eyes pop out, his face and body shrivels up while screaming for his life. That thing messed with me for so many years.

[@stephaniedolan995]

The one that got me the worst was Candyman when I was 11, couldn't sleep by myself for at least a week. The scene where they drop the dog's head through the doggy door, no thank you. Refuse to watch it to this day 30 years later. Runners-up would be Jaws, nightmare on Elm Street and It (the original). Still have nightmares about sharks and shut It off as soon as I saw Pennywise in the hanging laundry.

[@diobbrando]

Coraline💀 I was literally 6 and it was flared as kid friendly on the TV. Useless to say I couldn’t sleep alone for at least one month.

[@BloodHawkFZX]

The first mr bean movie the scene where the painting melts is still haunting me 😮

[@mattwolf7698]

The only one I can think of was the scene where they put a bug in that guys ear and it started eating his brain in Wrath of Kahn (I didn't even know what movie it was back then, I walked in on my dad watching it) and thought that could happen in real life and was kinda horrified, I was probably 6 or 7. That's it though I watched Signs around the same time and was fine funny enough. I also saw the 2003 remake Texas Chainsaw when I was 10 and actually handled it pretty well. I guess that bug scene just seemed realistic.

[@nurturetheearth]

Troll ... 😢 Every uncomfortable feeling an 8 year old could feel... I felt watching this movie

[@blackychan8570]

Grave encounters when around when it first came out. As a 12 year old it scared me till the age of 14😂😂

[@michelleranta3601]

Jaws when I was 5. I was terrified of all bodies of water afterwards ,Including the bathtub.

[@emilyluther6482]

I watched mars attacks when I was 5, and surprisingly…it didn’t frighten me. However IT freaked me out, and I still have a fear of clowns to this day!

[@Bigclifton]

For me it was Scary Movie. I was 6 and, of course, too young to understand that it was a comedy movie.

[@raimonrossitto9705]

Never watched the full movies, but the first scene in the "Don't Be Afraid of The Dark" remake and experimentation scene in "Fire In The Sky"

[@jasondouglas152]

Poltergeist 2. The worm in the tequila and the braces in the power socket

[@sammyhooligan803]

Movies never really frightened me, even though i was pirating premium movie channels in my younger years 10-14, the guys working for cable company showed me how to intercept signals, cable filters, worked out for s while.. great movies for free,😊

[@ValKob]

The Pianist. So sad. Messed me up to see people die in such horror ways.

[@magzf2143]

Saw Schindler’s List in yr 10. I’ve never been able to watch it in full again (tho I listen to the soundtrack and watch the end scenes)

[@tribalroselr]

Definitely remember those scenes I remember the wrath of khan original star trek with the bugs in checkovs ear!

[@FalloutProfile]

The mist 😂

[@deadocmike1]

A clockwork orange. I was 9

[@Razer_-fe9mo]

0:40 Same.

[@kingghidorable931]

I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only one scarred by the parents turning into pigs in spirited away

[@nicholasnguyen5181]

9. I didn’t think much about it till I saw it again as a grownup for curiosity’s sake. How’d I not get scarred from it is beyond me. Grim, decrepit, and dark… . Yikes.

[@SilviaGarcia-si5ke]

Night of the demons 2 had it on VHS and it was messed up on the boss fight and made it's super scary with static and screaming I was about 7 or 8....

[@jasper2366]

10:38 The movie title they are looking for is Critters! :)

[@imperialhighcommand8535]

War of the Worlds for me. I still get nightmares from the tripods.

[@Jack908r]

The original nasferatu. I was too young for that silent b&w classic. Scared the bejesus out of me.

[@nicholasharvey1232]

2:17 Guess you got scared stupid along with Ernest. Know what I mean, Vern?

[@mattwolf7698]

Fun fact, the skeletons in Poltergeist were real.

[@strikethatreverseit9108]

Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill.

[@Piranhamatt]

I was like 9 or 10 when we watched jurassic park 3 in cinema. The killing scenes freaked me out at the time. Like the plane hitting the Dino wheh trying to escape and so forth

[@alexraskalove7119]

A clockwork Orange and the exorcist.

[@marktheroux9465]

Mission to Mars. I don't know who decided to give it a PG, but either they were taking a bathroom break during the cyclone scene or were just plain psychopathic. While we're on the subject, I really hate watching people get turned to skeletons, so I didn't like that part of the parade attack scene in Spider-Man. If I'd watched Mars Attacks as a young kid, I'd have definitely needed extensive therapy.

[@justaboringvegetarian449]

Night of the Living Dead. The one in black and white. I was 12 or 13. I'm still scared of zombies.

[@1killeragogo]

I was 7 and my older brother showed me Full Metal Jacket.

[@ChefCannibalLou]

Pink Floyds The Wall. The meat grinder part messed me up for a few years...

[@4211mk]

Watership Down

[@dlpaul345]

The Faculty (1998)

[@bloodladcrona2974]

Harry and the Hendersons. Loved it then started having nightmares about bigfoot ripping my body to pieces then looking up and seeing me, chasing me down to do it again and rinse and repeat. No thanks

[@Elizabeth-ux5kd]

Full Metal Jacket… I was 5

[@avenlmfao]

I found the pedulum trap scene from saw 5 when i was like 11 and i deadass thought it was real 😭

[@featherfire022]

From Dusk till dawn

[@LaMostraVia]

The Exorcist at 8 years old.

[@epicsshadesmaster-animatio4398]

From dusk till dawn the first one , amazing film but jesus i think that's the last film a 5 year old should watch

[@SpiritWarubou]

God where to start. My grandpa used to show me fucked up movies when was WAY too young, like Last House on The Left when I was 8. So yeah probably that one to start. House on Haunted Hill, The Grudge, The Ring, IT, WaterShip Down even though I was like 16.

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

For me it was aliens.

[@2023Mermaid]

"Saw 1" when I was 11.

[@mesij6798]

Slither. I was like 6.

[@KreigsMarine2]

Gremlins and Arachnophobia

[@brittanynye4268]

Watership Down.

[@bowieupland6112]

"Carrie"

[@petecontreras2042]

The hills have eyes and dawn of the dead

[@porter0311]

Children of the Corn🎤⬇

[@mariobeast14]

The movie stay alive, when you die in the game. You die for real

[@Psiros]

Deliverance at age 8... 😮

[@GabrielleBraswell]

What lies beneath i was like 8 lol but now im a mega horror fan 😂

[@indib3668]

Players clube messed me up

[@Prepper1985]

Schindler’s list

[@jbailey91772]

The Exorcist

[@Super165i]

The skeletons in poltergeist were real skeletons

[@ohhshitimhere5162]

Signs

[@raynarayskye]

The fly

[@hopebambi5793]

The passion of the Christ