Movies that gave you PTSD as a kid :)

[soulezoo]

Jaws. Nothing else ever really bothered me. And I saw everything.
It wasn't ever safe for me to get in the water until I was in my 30's. It doesn't help that the main beaches I would visit are in the "Red Triangle". (Google is your friend)

[TexHill]

Hellraiser

[elephant]

I cant think of any movies that I saw as a kid that scared me- maybe Jurassic Park- that was probably the most scary movie I saw, I was about 10-12 years old.

But on the other hand. There was a TV show that caused anxiety, fear, panic and overall discomfort that lasted a few hours and that was Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack. The theme song, along with the sound of Roberts voice still gives chills. Especially the paranormal activity episodes and unexplained events. Robert Stack could read the ingredients and nutritional facts for Kellogg's frosted flakes and give people nightmares. I watched that show every Friday night during the summers when I was a kid.


Watch at your own risk!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5h2x3G40to


Robert stack was also a strange man, he had friends in the CIA, FBI was claims he watched his fathers friend, a esoteric, levitate and cause inanimate objects to take on a life form of there own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5h2x3G40to

[Alex V]

"Fire in the Sky"

Couldn't watch anything involving aliens for almost 10 years.

YES!!!! How did I forget this one. I refuse to camping by a lake ever since that movie.

[Kenneth]

People under the stairs.

I believe I was like 6-7 and watched it when I wasn't supposed to. We only had 4 stair in our house and I was afraid to death if them after that. I don't even know if that movie was scary but having kids live in the walls scared the hell out of me.

Hellraiser

Was with pinhead correct? If so he scared the crap out of me too.


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[WillBrink]

YES!!!! How did I forget this one. I refuse to camping by a lake ever since that movie.

Me, made me wanna camp by a lake more so they'll come get me. "Beam me up, no intelligent life to be found"

[Bluto]

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
My dad took me to see it when I was 6. Only movie I ever walked out of. Scared the crap out of me.

Serpent and the Rainbow
Living in South Florida at the time, with a sizable Haitian population, "zombie" stories like this were actually on the news.

I think today's generation is way more desensitized. My son, at 8 years old, asked to watch Night of the Living Dead (original 1968 version). We watched it together and rather than being scared, he loved it and is now a huge horror fan. That was 4 years ago. I think the only thing that truly scares him now is the Kardashians...

[Doc Safari]

I forgot one:

Barbarella

The flesh-eating dolls literally gave me nightmares. (Must have suppressed the memory temporarily).

[SteyrAUG]

I was 13 when I saw The Exorcist at the Midnight Movie with my gf. Pretending it wasn't scarring the crap out of me but I had to walk home from her house at like 3am and I was pretty much at Defcon 1 by the time I got home.

In the early days of cable I saw the original Texas Chainsaw and that messed me up. I knew there were bad people, but I never really contemplated homicidally, insane, broken people.

Saw Jaws when I was 9 and like everyone else it scarred me. Even in the swimming pool I would do practice sprints pretending I had just seen a shark. But by 14 I was swimming in the shark pit at Seacamp.

[ABNAK]

The original "Salem's Lot", specifically the part where the dead kid is floating outside the French doors and scratching at the glass to be let in, and the dumb f**k let him in! I remember screaming at the TV "No you idiot!"