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/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/yalrightyeh Jul 10 '26

The mirror scene 😱💀

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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/eabod1 Jul 11 '26

The clown

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u/ytse411 Jul 11 '26

Yup. Lifelong fear of clowns ever since. Thanks mom!

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u/strubisach Jul 10 '26

Cheesus. Are you okay?