Movies that gave you PTSD as a kid :)

[Big A]

"Jaws" was always playing on TV when we went to the beach in the summer. It took a LOT to get me in the water for the first day or two.
"Predator" came out around the time I went to summer camp.

Holy shit Jaws ruined me of going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. The first time I saw it I was on summer vacation and we were staying in my Aunt's condo just south of St. Augustine (Crescent beach) I think I was 12 or 13. It also didn't help that when I was younger my parents used to shark fish those very same beaches so I knew what was in the water with me if I went in. Add to that the news would always fly the chopper over the beach and film the sharks migrating up the coast. Nope...just Nope.

I loved Predator, didn't scare me at all. Now Aliens on the other hand.......**** Xenomorphs. I just hate those movies. Probably because they delivered more suspense with the horror than Predator does.

I remember Die Hard was the first R rated movie my parents let me see and the scene where Hans kills Mr. Nakatomi and his brains end up on the glass door of the conference room really stuck with me as a kid. Not so much scary as it was shocking to 8 year old me.

But yeah, I don't do Paranormal type movies. I love suspense movies where the monster is human (Se7en) but horror with ghosts or haunted houses etc, ....I'll pass.

[Straight Shooter]

Two that got me was my first R flick-The Town That Dreaded Sundown. Saw it in theater with older brother, man it scared me cause it was "based on a true story". Never did catch the dude, either.
Next one I was in 4th grade I think, saw it with a buddy of mine who literally ran out of the theater! Its Alive! Man eating babies...messed with me big time. Ive seen Town a couple years ago- MAN O MAN did it suck! Corny as hell, but as a country kid in the 70's, it was scary for that time.

[SilverBullet432]

• Labyrinth
• All Chuckie movies
• It

[Moose-Knuckle]

Yeap, Jaws.

To this day anytime I'm in the ocean I hear that horrid musical score and look over my shoulder. Deep Blue Sea did not help me any either.


As for childhood films, the pedo Child Catcher always freaked me out and to this day I'd throat punch and dick stomp him if I saw him about.

[Inkslinger]

"The Day After" was another one that kept me up at night.

[Averageman]

"The Day After" was another one that kept me up at night.

I was a teenager when that came out, so its effect was minimal.
As a kid my Dad revamped satellite communications equipment all over CONUS. We had a brief conversation about the realities of nuclear war one day after a base alert when the bombers rolled out to the end of the runway and turned back.
No Movie could ever scare me as much as my Dad saying "If they ever take off, that's it, there is no place to hide."

[ramairthree]

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[Honu]

I just remember soylent green and late 70s energy bars I was always like hmmm whats in these not sure if that is PTSD worthy but if you lived through that time frame early bars were pretty nasty

[SteyrAUG]

I just remember soylent green and late 70s energy bars I was always like hmmm whats in these not sure if that is PTSD worthy but if you lived through that time frame early bars were pretty nasty

Nothing in the 70s was as horrid as TAB diet soda. I was at a friends house and asked him mom if she had anything to drink and she gave me a TAB. It was the worst thing I had ever tasted at the time and that includes a couple unfortunate incidents with Hershey's Cocoa that I thought was ready to go hot chocolate and a bar of Baker's chocolate.

Seriously what kind of deranged woman gives a 10 year old kid a freaking TAB. It's not like I was on a diet. That TAB gave me serious PTSD.

[SteyrAUG]

I was a teenager when that came out, so its effect was minimal.
As a kid my Dad revamped satellite communications equipment all over CONUS. We had a brief conversation about the realities of nuclear war one day after a base alert when the bombers rolled out to the end of the runway and turned back.
No Movie could ever scare me as much as my Dad saying "If they ever take off, that's it, there is no place to hide."

That is some rough shit to tell a teenager. I had a pretty realistic understanding of what would happen but I always had a survival fantasy in the back of my mind. I think that movie scarred adults more than it did kids.