What movie absolutely terrified you as a kid?

Asked By: distantearlywarning 2 years ago

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Posted by GlassSlippa Mar 13th, 2010 at 9:29PM

Somehow I think this gives away our ages...lol....oh well, 50 is the new 40...so wth.....my all time scary movie was Alfred Hitchcocks "The Birds"......I believe the reason is scared me so much, and even to this day I am afraid of birds.. Is that when we see some horror movies we usually see a lot of sci fi type things, but when we saw the birds way back when, they used something that we see everyday, birds.....they used a form of fear that lets us see a common everyday animal that flys around our own backyards to invoke fear of the "what if"....we have all seen flocks of birds, so it made it so possible in our little minds......shame on them for not rating it so people would know not to take kids to it.....

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19 Answers to "What movie absolutely terrified you as a kid?"

Posted by Leporid Mar 12th, 2010 at 12:08PM

The Exorcist

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Posted by KittyChanel Mar 12th, 2010 at 8:36PM

Helter Skelter...the story of the Manson murders

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Posted by bridgett1 Mar 12th, 2010 at 8:36PM

the shinning

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Posted by BuckarooBonzai Mar 12th, 2010 at 5:44PM

The flying monkeys on the" Wizard of Oz"

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Posted by SpringCass Mar 12th, 2010 at 12:09PM

The Exorcist. I will never watch that movie again.

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Posted by KittenHasaWhip Mar 12th, 2010 at 12:09PM

The Exorcist scared me so much I didn't sleep for weeks!!

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Posted by OnlyOneChiquita Mar 12th, 2010 at 12:08PM

Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black. The special effects were awesome for that long ago.

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Posted by Clanman Mar 12th, 2010 at 10:20AM

The Exorcist! and Jaws!

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Posted by alteredego Mar 12th, 2010 at 8:40PM

It was a very old black and white movie called "The Spiral Staircase".I'm not sure but I think it was a Hitchcock movie. I didn't like "Psycho" much either. By the time everything else came out, I was old enough to understand special effects, though the first "Alien" still makes me jump when the alien pops out of John Hurt's stomach.

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Posted by restless101 Mar 12th, 2010 at 5:49PM

friday the 13th. the movie didnt scare me though seeing that damn mask in my nightmares totally scarred me for life!

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Posted by giggles4488 Mar 12th, 2010 at 5:45PM

BuckarooBonzai had my answer, those damn flying monkeys in the wizard of Oz still scare the hell out of me!

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Posted by AlternateSource Mar 12th, 2010 at 5:39PM

The Time Machine
(the old version)

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Posted by blackarcher Mar 12th, 2010 at 1:05PM

Mary Poppins! When she made all those toys fly around the room, I was terrified.

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Posted by allofus Mar 12th, 2010 at 11:23AM

Psyco made me afraid of showers with someone in the room.

Night of the living dead made me afraid of graveyards.

The birds made me afraid of when birds flock together.

It's alive made babies and birth really scary.

Jaws made me afraid of the ocean.

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Posted by SummerWind18 Mar 12th, 2010 at 11:16AM

I don't think there WAS one that "absolutely terrified me" but there were ones that I thought were sort of scary. I wasn't allowed to watch certain movies as a a kid int he first place.

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Posted by BETTERDAYS2COME Mar 12th, 2010 at 10:09AM

Little Shop of Horror

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Posted by cmojlo Mar 12th, 2010 at 9:56AM

The Exorcist....and Children shouldn't play with dead things...

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Posted by StrawberryWillow Mar 12th, 2010 at 9:55AM

Minority Report

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