What movie dramatized you as a kid?

[Introverted1293]

Arachnophobia is what dramatized me as a kid. I remember looking under the covers to make sure there were no spiders in my bed. What about you?

 

[DragonFox91]

I was just thinking of that movie the other day! Scariest movie all time! I didn’t need to see it to be scared of spiders tho!

 

[eleos1954]

Arachnophobia is what dramatized me as a kid. I remember looking under the covers to make sure there were no spiders in my bed. What about you?

Heights .... had some close calls in that regard. Heights still make me nervous.

 

[bèlla]

The Omen. They showed it on television. The child was eerie, the music was creepy and I looked up the bible verses. I wasn't afraid in the sense of needing comfort. It was memorable and had a deep resounding sense of truth. Not truth because of the depictions but the certainty of the antichrist.

While I wouldn't recommend it for young viewers I was impacted nonetheless. I've never doubted satan's existence. Not even during my wanderings and search for God in other faiths. I always believed the devil was real and was bent on our destruction.

Many years ago someone shared a song from the soundtrack. I don't believe I knew the source. But the moment I played it was awful. There was an ominous feeling and unmistakable evil that only a dark soul could love. I turned it off and stopped corresponding with them.

~bella

 

[Ceallaigh]

The ads, trailers and clips for The Exorcist.

 

[d taylor]

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The Wizard of Oz. Not a movie, but Dark Shadows also. I would chew on the chair, i was sitting in, watching that show.

 

[Citanul]

Not a movie, but the TV adaptation of It. It was the end of a school term (maybe even the end of the year), and it was common practice for us to watch movies to keep us occupied while the teachers were busy wrapping things up, and someone in my class decided to bring this in for us to watch.

I would have been 11 or 12, and that was my first exposure to horror, and I didn't react well to it. I had trouble sleeping for a couple of nights after that, and while I don't think there were any repercussions, my parents weren't very impressed about us having been allowed to watch it.

 

[ThisIsMe123]

 

[peaceful-forest]

I thought the 1979 movie Amityville Horror was scary.

A pair of red eyes staring back at you in the dark...

 

[SarahsKnight]

What about you?

Just kidding. Couldn't resist the reference once it came to mind.



Actually one movie that got me at about 5 years old was Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
That must seem odd, but the scene I walked into the den on was of some burrowing creature crawling out of what looked to be a dead person's ear, and a small river of blood followed it. Then someone shot the creature to ash with a laser pistol or something. At least, The Wrath of Khan was what I remember later learning that the scene came from.
From 3 to 6 years old or so, the sight of blood in any context terrified me.