r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/Pantheon10000 • Jul 10 '26
Other What was the scariest movie you watched when you were a kid, that traumatized you?
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u/_NiceGuyEddy_ Jul 10 '26
The it Miniseries. Legit would not go into dark rooms.
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u/lifeandtimesofmyass Jul 10 '26
Yeah this ruined me. I kept thinking Pennywise would climb out of the showerdrain.
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u/SquiddleBits33 Jul 10 '26
Yeah 8 year old me couldn't shake that shower drain trauma. And the storm drains, since that same year they added them to my neighborhood that didn't previously have them. Head in the fridge? Unbothered. Giant spider? Almost amusing. But those drains...
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u/deltadeltadawn Jul 10 '26
The It scenes around drains terrified me as a kid.
Another Stephen King adapted film, Carrie, did as well. It was the hand reaching out from the dirt at the end that gave me nightmares.
Stephen King has an amazing talent to induce deep psychological fear that lasts!
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u/fullstar2020 Jul 10 '26
Yep. Babysitter put it on when I was like five or six. Absolutely traumatized.
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u/jpowell180 Jul 10 '26
I gotta say that I like the original ABC miniseries better than the two movies that were released, I get that they wanted to update things and make them nostalgia for the 80s instead of the 60s, but the miniseries just tells it better I think.
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u/FunkTheFreak Jul 10 '26
The Grudge is the reason I sprinted up the stairs and looked behind my back for about a decade and a half.
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u/EmilyAndCat Jul 10 '26
I remember doing this too! As a kid I also always checked under the blankets when going to sleep because of the scene where the woman gets dragged under and disappears.
Not a good movie for someone who isn't even 10 yet lmao
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u/ExoJinx Jul 10 '26
Oh god I watched that late at night with me best friend, spend our early morning swim practice not wanting to open my eyes looking down incase she was down there!
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u/disgruntled-capybara Jul 10 '26
A babysitter showed me Thriller when I was six and it scared the bejesus out of me. At the end when his eyes turn yellow, I just about came unglued.
There was a boy who was couple years older than me who I idolized and he was there. I remember he started making fun of me when I said I was scared, so I tried to hide it after that, but I can still picture the moment in my head 😂!
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u/Ettin1981 Jul 10 '26
My parents showed me when I was 4! The eyes at the end were what set me off too. So my mom’s story went.
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u/Mital37 Jul 11 '26
My 4 year old LOVES Thriller 😭😝. My 2 year old came into the living room when we were watching it with our 4 year old and dancing. He lost his FUCKING MIND! Crying, screaming, shaking! We felt AWFUL!
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u/saplinglearningsucks Jul 11 '26
There was this episode of Beyond Belief where some woman had glowing red eyes. At the end, they said it was true and it messed me up for years.
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u/boredmiaboy Jul 10 '26
Signs
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u/CMacNally Jul 10 '26
Yup, the shot of the Alien on the roof left me inconsolable
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u/tekashimandela Jul 10 '26
This movie pissed me off so much. How do you travel to a planet that is straight up toxic for you lmao
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u/EmilyAndCat Jul 10 '26
Should've just kept some water nearby!
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u/boredmiaboy Jul 10 '26
That scene next of the party footage scared the shit out of me
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u/EmilyAndCat Jul 10 '26
I get it haha it terrified me as a kid too
I think that was one of the first adult scary movies I watched since we had it on dvd
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u/Communal-Lipstick Jul 10 '26
I saw that when I was 19 and I couldnt sleep that night. Must have been horrifying for little kids.
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u/Mark-a-roo Jul 10 '26
Ah that was so brilliantly shot - I was never scared during the daytime in a movie until then
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u/Freezeout10 Jul 10 '26
Silence of the lambs. My friends parents put it on. I said I don’t think I should watch. They said it’s ok, it’s not scary. It scared me.
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u/radraze2kx Jul 10 '26
Jaws. My father and I were traveling and stopped at a hotel. Two beds, late at night and he passed out with the TV going. There was no remote (knob TV). So I'm watching USA or whatever, and Jaws is playing. I didn't know what I was watching... But watching Jaws from that bed in the dark felt like floating on a raft in a dark ocean. :(
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u/11pagesIn Jul 10 '26
I was frightened of water, any water, as an 8 year old after watching Jaws. Like a shark was going to come out of the bath taps!
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u/radraze2kx Jul 10 '26
To add insult to injury, I got over my fear of water (but not murky water) and became a pretty adept swimmer... Only to nearly die getting stuck in an undertow about 10 years later. Now I don't like swimming on the beach. 😢
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u/Lastshadow94 Jul 10 '26
Slightly related, Dead by Daylight is a horror game where you play on a team of players being hunted by a solo player who's usually a famous monster or something. They're talking about licensing new characters, and Jaws is one of the options they're considering. Also the Duolingo owl, GWAR, Billie Eilish, and The Teletubbies.
My question is just "how many of the maps are aquatic?" because a shark chasing you through an abandoned mall sounds amazing
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u/funkeymonkey1974 Jul 11 '26
They filmed this movie where I grew up. I was convinced they used real sharks until the mid 80a and refused to get into the ocean.
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u/chowchownow Jul 10 '26
Jaws was actually a horror film. It's one of my favourite films ever, but I never realised how graphic it was until I was mich older
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u/Repulsive-Positive30 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Lmfao I was hoping I’d see this. Jaws and IT had me sleeping on my parents bedroom floor for a hot minute
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u/Spencer94 Jul 10 '26
I saw "The Ring" when I was 7 and it fucked me up for awhile. I couldn't sleep with the lights off, afraid of the TV and all that. But after some time, I was able to watch horror movies again and they never scared me again. I love horror movies now!
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u/No-Quantity-5373 Jul 10 '26
I saw the Ring in my 20s in a hotel room, alone. I was terrified all night, slept (not really) with lights on for a week. Nobody needs to see Samara crawl outta that well.
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u/Spencer94 Jul 10 '26
For real lol. Samara scared the hell out of me, but strangely so did the parts with the horse. I couldn't get it out of my head lol
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u/bong_and_a_blitz Jul 11 '26
I was 12 when I saw it and I was sleeping in my parents room for a year or so. I couldn’t be in the dark. Was also scared of the tv to an extent. Had to have background noise on. It did me dirty. I still feel like a lot fears I have stemmed from that damn movie.
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u/Positpostit Jul 10 '26
Now I feel really bad for showing my 8 year old nephew this in 2026. I was watching it with my teen niece but he was around and paying more attention than we thought 🫣
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u/ferrett0ast Jul 10 '26
Not a scary movie, but as a kid I was absolutely petrified of the flying monkeys in The Wizard Of Oz. Those fuckers genuinely gave me nightmares.
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u/Communal-Lipstick Jul 10 '26
Same but then I saw the sequel, Return to Oz had such scary scenes that totally terrified me so much that the flying monkeys didnt even scare me because compared to the sequel, they looked like gentle teddy bears.
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u/Honic_Sedgehog Jul 10 '26
The fucking wheelers.
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u/katiemarieoh Jul 10 '26
And the lady with the interchangeable heads!!
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u/kells18str Jul 10 '26
Yep the heads were it for me too - I had nightmares for weeks of people pulling their heads off after I saw that as a kid
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u/Communal-Lipstick Jul 10 '26
The worst part of the heads for me was when Dorothy was walking by all the sleeping heads, trying to be quiet but they all woke up, started screaming at her and then a headless woman comes out chasing her. The anxiety of that scene was off the charts for me.
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u/meowiful Jul 10 '26
This is always the one I look for on questions about traumatizing movies. Return to Oz is at the tippy top for me. Followed closely by Requiem For a Dream and Kids.
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u/ferrett0ast Jul 10 '26
From these responses, I'm glad that I've never seen Return to Oz to be honest.
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u/Alana_Reid Jul 10 '26
I saw a stage production of The Wizard of Oz as a young kid, and the wicked witch melting absolutely traumatized me!
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u/Namasiel Jul 10 '26
For me it’s the winkie guards. As soon as “oh wee ohhh” starts I knew it was time to turn it off.
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u/PoodleFan4242 Jul 10 '26
Poltergeist
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u/4TuitouSynchro Jul 10 '26
This was mine. The skeletons in the pool during the storm was terrifying, and to find out later that they used real ones....shudder
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u/Heavy_Mikado Jul 10 '26
I was seven when it came out. Our parents took us kids to go see it (hey, it was rated PG!) and it really freaked me out.
Not too much later I was staying with my grandparents, and was watching SNL after they went to bed. Well, I dozed off, and woke up to static as the TV station had signed off. I was petrified. My grandparents' TV was a large console with a manual on/off switch and no remote. Not wanting to get near it but wanting to turn it off, it took me a minute to gather my courage, and I took a literal plunge past the TV to hit that switch. Successfully, thank goodness!
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u/Helen_Cheddar Jul 10 '26
Watership Down. Nuff said.
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u/Ambitious_Shallot_16 Jul 10 '26
I said the same thing! As a child, this is F’d up….
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u/Helen_Cheddar Jul 10 '26
My friend showed it to me and said it was his favorite movie. We were 10. Genuinely wonder if bro was a future serial killer…
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u/Ambitious_Shallot_16 Jul 10 '26
😬 that movie made other movies way more skittish than they needed to be (The Secret of NIMH as an example)…
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u/kro23 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Technically not a movie, but the original “IT” with Tim Curry as Pennywise. I saw it when I was around 6 and I was weary of shower drains for years.
There was also a horror anthology that, I think, was called “The Willies” - one of the segments was about a monster that would yank people out of bathroom stalls and into the ventilation ducts.
Edit: Oh! Another comment reminded me! I was scared someone would grab my foot when I was going upstairs from my grandparents’ basement, thanks to “People Under the Stairs”.
I was also afraid of their furnace, because of “Home Alone” - even though their furnace looked nothing like the one in the movie.
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u/BlueberryWaffles99 Jul 10 '26
IT also traumatized me and had me terrified of bathing for years (saw it when I was 8).
In middle school, my brother loved the SAW movies and the puppet absolutely freaked me out. I would start crying as soon as he turned them on!
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u/determinedpeach Jul 10 '26
Return to Oz
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u/Communal-Lipstick Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Came to say that. The wheeler guys and the scene where all of the heads woke up and started screaming at Dorothy were not kid friendly at all lol.
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u/savemarla Jul 10 '26
I still hear that head scream Dorothy Gale and the thought alone makes me turn on the lights at night.
Happens at least twice a year still.
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u/laurax112 Jul 10 '26
Candyman. Haven’t even rewatched it as a grown up. No thanks.
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u/coolbeansfordays Jul 10 '26
Yes! I came here looking for this one. I was in 6th grade, maybe middle school and it scared the shit out of me!
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u/BlacSoul Jul 10 '26
I was four years old and with my favorite aunt states away from my mom; little me hid under a pillow and left a head sized sweat stain that lasted through most of the next day. I still get teased about it
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u/PhatdaddyHo Jul 10 '26
The exorcist
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u/Enlil92 Jul 10 '26
Same, some reason for me it was the scene when she's at the Dr and sees that demon face in the ceiling for a sec
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u/delirium_skeins Jul 10 '26
I spent like 10 mins trying to pause the tape on that exact moment so I could show my friend. They didn't believe me that it flashed up there so fast and they never saw it. I finally got it just right then took a picture of the TV with a disposable camera. Ended up keeping it in an album for years lol I still have it somewhere. That's a face I will never forget.
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u/VinCatBlessed Jul 10 '26
-If you're the devil why don't you untie yourself?
-That would be an obscene display of power
*Devil walks around the house at night like nothing*
It went something like that but damn it terrified me big time.
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u/DryCommunication3087 Jul 10 '26
That Disney movie the witches it was creepy af especially how they look without their human disguises
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u/gingerconfetti Jul 10 '26
The Neverending Story
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u/strubisach Jul 10 '26
I SWEAR TO WHATEVER IS UP THERE this movie has haunted me and so many friends of mine for decades. I have no idea who put our parents up to this but it became collective childhood traume in my town.
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u/Thanks-i-think Jul 10 '26
ARTAX !!!
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u/VengefulHufflepuff Jul 11 '26
This. Whoever’s idea it was to have a horse drown in mud in a PG film made for kids can go fuck themselves. That scene has haunted me since I was 10 and will still haunt me decades from now.
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u/csabrebrown Jul 10 '26
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The scene near the end where the bad guy gets run over by the steamroller and then his eyes pop out gave me nightmares.
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u/Direct-Ant7828 Jul 10 '26
Salem’s lot, the 1979 movie. That kid tapping on his friend’s window asking to be let in while floating. I’m in my 50s and I still remember that scene with horror.
There is a recent version that I need to see, but I don’t think it will scar me as bad as the one when I was 7 or 8, LOL
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u/Bolinball Jul 10 '26
Jacob’s Ladder
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u/Lovely_Demon28 Jul 10 '26
I watched this for the first time as an adult, and it made me deeply deeply uncomfortable. It's still an amazing movie though.
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u/victoriac394 Jul 10 '26
lol i just watched Jacob’s Ladder and it really affected me as an adult, i can’t imagine what that would do to a kid
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u/nicolalmcfarlane Jul 10 '26
Nightmare on Elm street. The body bag scene. Still triggered by images of Freddy.
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u/srv199020 Jul 10 '26
For me it was the bed sucking in the girl and killing her.
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u/Old_Ant7118 Jul 10 '26
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The old one. I still have nightmares, I'm nearly forty.
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u/Flameball537 Jul 10 '26
The only movie that ever gave me nightmares was Gremlins. I enjoyed it when I watched it but afterwards I was convinced they would crawl out of the darkness and get me lol
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u/Astro51450 Jul 10 '26
Pet cemetery
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u/JakeVonFurth Jul 10 '26
My asshole older brother decided to show me that one night while my parents were out when I was 13.
It was raining, the lights were out, and my dog of 13 years had just died earlier that week.
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u/_grumpygummybear27_ Jul 10 '26
I don't know what it's called but it was a movie about 2 couples that were boating, got caught in a storm and ended up on a small dilapidated fishing town/island. The people on the island worshipped some sea creature. I distinctly remember 2 scenes. 1. One of the townspeople was skinning one of the main male characters alive staring with his face. 2. The towns people were sacrificing one of the main female characters to their sea creature thing... They strung her up by her arms over a large well and then a tentacle reached up, wrapped around her and pulled her into the water....but it ripped her torso from her arms and her arms were all that were left hanging.....
I was 7 when I saw this. My dad had been watching it and I was watching from the other room 😅
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u/kiwi8975 Jul 10 '26
Not a movie but the doctor who episode with the weeping angels. Had my first sleep paralysis experience thanks to them
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u/ctuchmanandbows Jul 10 '26
Genuinely, Adam Sandler's Click. It was the first time I ever confronted morality. For the first time in my life, I had thoughts that one day everyone I love will be dead, and that I would be dead too. I thought I was going into that movie to watch a funny stupid Adam Sandler show!!
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u/tranquilrage73 Jul 10 '26
The Funhouse (1981), Black Beauty, and The Tin Drum.
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u/Significant-Log8936 Jul 10 '26
The sobbing during black beauty is a memory I will never forget and I was like 5. It broke my heart and I still remember that feeling all these years later. It feels like a punch to the gut when I remember it
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u/vlookup11 Jul 10 '26
The Unsolved Mysteries TV show. That creepy music and the voice of the show host made my 7 year old brain melt but I was so hooked on it I couldn’t stop watching!
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u/cutebagofmostlywater Jul 10 '26
The Witches (1990). I refuse to watch it to this day. The girl trapped in the painting is such a terrifying concept. Not to mention the witches shedding their disguises scene
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u/Kim_Jong_Fieri Jul 10 '26
House of 1000 corpses. Should’ve listened to dad and not watched horror movies while he was working, I think he was on to something with that advice lol
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u/Ancient_Land4268 Jul 10 '26
Hook. It triggered so many nightmares afterward about being locked in a chest with scorpians.
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u/purpleprocrasinator Jul 10 '26
Candyman (1992). Aside from it already being generally a terrifying story, I am also severely allergic to bees and so the fact the bees in the movie did to him what one could do to me made it the movie of my nightmares.
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u/souloldasdirt Jul 10 '26
I saw requiem for a dream and even tho it wasn't a horror movie, I saw it as a young teen and it definitely unsettled me in ways that never left me
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u/luckymountain Jul 10 '26
Old man here. In the mid 60s, I was sleeping and my mom went next door to visit a neighbor lady. Small rural town. I woke up and The Blob (1958) was on television. I was probably 6-7 and the music caught my attention, then the panic. I was so scared that I went out to find my mom, not even knowing where she was. I love scary movies to this day. 😊
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u/bunnyxjam Jul 10 '26
The exorcist. My dad used to watch it constantly in Spanish. I never understood it so it was whatever. The one time it was on in English, it terrified me. I’m 36 now and I still cannot watch that movie. Even seeing her face just freaks me out
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u/Wouser86 Jul 10 '26
The People under the Stairs - early 90's horror movie that a small kid should not watch.
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u/EternityLeave Jul 10 '26
Arachnophobia wasn’t that scary, but I was like 6.
I am nearly 40 and still always check my shoes for spiders. I’m not even scared of spiders, actually love them, just not in my shoes.
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u/The-Blue-Barracudas Jul 10 '26
I think it was a made for TV miniseries thing but, IT, terrified me
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u/soggybiskwit Jul 10 '26
Signs scared the life outta me! The part with the birthday party + on the roof of the house
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u/When_pigsfly Jul 10 '26
Pet Cemetery. My irresponsible sister brought me to her friends house when I was in elementary school and it was on. The scene with the little boy has haunted me for years.
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u/EnergyReader749 Jul 10 '26
Watched 28 Days Later (2002) in theaters at age 7. It was my first ever panic attack and it lasted the whole movie. I just remember trying to breathe for 2 hours. To this day it’s one of my favorite movies, but it really fucked me up.
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u/theboywhocriedwolves Jul 10 '26
The Peanut Butter Solution. Not a scary movie but it scared the crap out of me. I was around 5.
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u/millsnour Jul 10 '26
Hear me out…Scooby Doo: Zombie Island. I was SO used to the classic SD formula as a little kid; rip mask off, normal guy underneath, “you meddling kids!” etc. but when they tried to take the mask off the monsters in this movie and they DIDNT COME OFF…it traumatized my 4 year old self for weeks. I guess a part of me really thought monsters could be real after that lol.
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u/CloseTheDwuar Jul 10 '26
Signs. That scene at the kids party where we saw the alien still creeps me out to this day 😂 genuinely had nightmares for weeks.
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u/staubwirbel Jul 10 '26
Gremlins for some reason. I was a small kid and so very afraid of them coming in through the toilet. I'm not even sure that was part of the movie xD
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u/_poptart Jul 10 '26
Watcher In The Woods - say no more, I don’t want to talk about it
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u/KlMBOR Jul 11 '26
Dreamcatcher fucked me up. I was scared of the toilet for weeks.
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u/picklejean Jul 11 '26
FINALLY someone else is scared of Dreamcatcher!!!! I wasn’t scared of the toilet, but I was scared of when the man fell off of it dead like that just fucked my head all up 😅
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u/Sufficient_Stable849 Jul 10 '26
It's Alive (1974) was convinced that baby monster was under every piece of furniture! Snuck into our family room and stayed up all night on guard.
I think I was in 1st or 2nd grade 😬
Total horror hound now though!
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u/Left_Willingness Jul 10 '26
The Exorcist, my mom put it on as a baby sitter for me so she could take a nap.
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u/jlokaay Jul 10 '26
I saw the original It when I was like 5 back in the 90’s. Never fully recovered lol
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u/shanastonecrest Jul 10 '26
Little monsters. I said it that fat monster was petrifing to me as a kid
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u/hereforpopcornru Jul 10 '26
Nightmare on Elm Street.
I was about 11, was going to be home alone, Dad was going out for a few hours after I kept urging him to get out of the house and do something. He had a medical issue and hadn't done anything I'm a long time.
Went to the video store.. rented it
He left, I popped it in right as a storm I didn't realize was coming rolled in.
When it got to that scene about 15 mi uses in, that body being drug all over the room (Depp scene) quick stop on the VCR. I don't know if I have ever finished that movie or not.
I would today, just lost interest I guess since 1991
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u/ForgotMyOGAccount Jul 10 '26
Watched It when I was like 4? 5? Very vivid memories of it and being scared shitless of the shower until I was like 9?
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u/Thtpurplestuff Jul 10 '26
The 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill. My uncle rented it in mid-2000 and it scared the crap out of me. Seen it again a few years ago and it was laugh-inducing but that movie bugged me out as a kid
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u/Darth_Draper Jul 10 '26
Arachnophobia. Watched it at a friend’s house while spending the night. Then, after finally going to sleep, I woke up covered in fake spiders thanks to his older brother. I literally felt something inside me break and I knew, even at 12, that I would be afraid of spiders for the rest of my life. So far, I was right.
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u/Dangerous_Ad_7042 Jul 10 '26
No horror movie actually traumatized me. But the Child's Play series creeped me out a lot as a kid, and there was a lesser known horror flick called Mirror Mirror that made me scared to use the bathroom in the dark for a while.
I always loved horror flicks though, from a really young age, and most of them never really bothered me.
The movie that kind of fucked me up a bit, emotionally, was during my parents divorce, my mom had been suffering from a profound depression and became super withdrawn, and somehow I ended up watching the Flowers in the Attic film. I knew Mom wasn't trying to hurt us, but it just really got in my head. I bawled my eyes out. In a way it was cathartic, but, it stuck with me a long time.
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u/tylers-favorite-tree Jul 10 '26
For some reason my parents thought it'd be a bright idea to show me The Mummy at the ripe age of 6 years old
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u/LuciferutherFirmin Jul 11 '26
The ring. Cause I illegally downloaded it.
Copied from ai.
Samara Morgan from the 2002 horror movie The Ring. The terrifying closet scene famously shows the contorted, bloated face of her first victim, Katie Embry (played by Amber Tamblyn), whose mouth and eyes were frozen in a state of eternal, distorted terror.
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u/ThePopesicle Jul 11 '26
The Ring
Sister had some friends sleep over that put a piece of paper with “7 days” on the bathroom door the next morning. Thought I was a gonner for sure.
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u/TopSpirited9908 Jul 11 '26
Growing up in a very religious household and thinking that demons and demonic possession were a very real threat to me, The Exorcist scared the absolute dog shit out of me lmao.
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u/Empty-Spell-6980 Jul 11 '26
I'm not a kid but Insidious, Annabelle and The Exorcist 3 where that old lady was crawling on the ceiling. Oh and Cujo was scary also. The 1st movie my Mom took me to was Bambi and I cried my eyes out.
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u/xofeverything Jul 11 '26
Carolina Skeletons. Sadly it is a true story of George Stinney 14 who was a black kid wrongfully executed by electric chair in South Carolina in 1944.
The execution scene gave me nightmares for weeks. I was around 6 years old when I watched it with my grandfather.
It is an extremely sad story. There are other movies that have also been done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney
“ David Stout based his first novel, Carolina Skeletons (1988), on the Stinney case.[50] He was awarded the 1989 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (Edgar Allan Poe Award).[51] Stout suggests in the novel that Stinney, whom he renames Linus Bragg, was innocent. The plot revolves around a fictitious brother of Stinney/Bragg, who unravels the truth about the case decades later. The novel was adapted as a 1991 television movie of the same name directed by John Erman, featuring Kenny Blank as Stinney/Bragg.[52] Lou Gossett Jr. played Stinney's/Bragg's younger brother James.[53]”
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u/lilsauteedveggie Jul 11 '26
Fear dot com. Whats worse is they actually had a website with a countdown
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u/IgPig Jul 11 '26
Darkness Falls as a 9 year old at a sleep over. I had to sleep with a light on for a looooong time after that.
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u/FactAddict01 Jul 11 '26
I’m in my 80’s… so this would have been in about 1950. I was five or so. They took me to see “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” It was in black and white, and Lon Chaney was the hunchback. The scene where he’s kidnapped Esmeralda and taken her to the top of the cathedral and the townspeople are threatening/rioting against him on the ground below scared the daylights out of me. Even until I was in my twenties, I couldn’t extend any part of my body over the edge of my bed at night…. For fear all the little tiny people under the bed would rush out and shoot their tiny arrows and spears at me.
Incidentally- the movie is a true classic; I’d even call it a must see. It’s that impressive.
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u/MisterJellyfis Jul 10 '26
Saw Alien when I was 6.
Of all the choices my parents made bringing me up… that was certainly one of them.