anyone else tramitized by movies seen at a young age?!

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hmm, i dont remember the ring but you are probably right. btw, not making fun. i found goosebumps amusing but my friend thought it was scary.

aw man, im sorry. loony tunes? thats 1 of my favorits!woah,please take no offence(pa-leeeeeze?!),but you are oooooold. wow!i feel bad for you,that must have sucked.

Hah. I could never sit still long enough to watch the entire movie, except in a few cases. I'd end up racing around the house because I couldn't stand to be in the room when a character did something stupid.

The first time I ever saw the original CREEPSHOW-- the scene where the tombstone fell on the guy-- I got really upset because the person who got squished didn't deserve it. It wasn't even the death, it was the fact that it was undeserved. It was years before I could watch a horror movie again.

Of course, I was probably waaaaaay to freakin' young to be watching horror movies. I love them now, as long as they're intelligent.

I wasn't scared by too much. I can only remember two things when I was a kid that really scared me. That one scene from the Neverending Story where Utrayu goes through the sphynx gate, and goes up to that knight that died before he got there... and the helmet pops open to show a gory charred skull. That freaked me out.

Also, there was a short clip on Sesame Street that had a red hot I-beam being made in a factory. It had creepy music and was all firey and dark. I had to cover my ears and run when it came on. Hah!

Does anyone remember that cartoon short that I'm pretty sure was on Sesame Street where two people (unseen except for their eyes in the dark) are in a room trying to find the light switch? After a minute or so of random discussion, one finds it, and switches the light on, only to discover that his friend is actually a hairy monster. I know it sounds incredibly cheesy, but that used to scare me. When that cartoon would start, I left the room.

Yes, this is similar to my first trauma. I was 7 years old and at a friend's house when they started playing the movie "Alien" and I was HORRIFIED at the chest burster scene. And it wasn't so much the gore and the alien creature that was the real trauma. I was horrified at the concept of how it would feel when the blood and skin on the man's chest cracked causing the blood to spurt and the ribs to crack and the idea the person didn't deserve the horrible death and pain in THAT way. I didn't like his shaking and cries of pain during the whole burster coming out.

Another movie that traumatized me was "The Dead of Night" from 1978. The final story was a dead boy who terrorizes his mother during a game of Hide and Seek in the dark during a bad storm. Carrying around a knife and she was hiding while he would yell "Im coming to get you, Mommy!" You never saw the boy's face, until the end where I would see a few seconds of a demon's face before covering my eyes. Today, even, with that "Bobby" movie out, I shudder at the name Bobby cause I imagine the scariest thing I ever remember seeing.

I also remember being traumatized by a scene in the movie "Superman 3". The part where the evil sister gets caught in the supercomputer and is turned into a robot that can zap people to death. Again, the thought of how it would feel to have the computer turning you into one (she screamed the whole time!) and also the fact, the result was a scary looking droid. I'd always cover my eyes during that part of transformation.

My parents had the brilliant idea of taking me with them to go see Arachnophobia while it was in theaters. I was five-years old at the time. I still find it funny how it took only two hours to give me arachnophobia and more than 7 years to get rid of it.

I was freaked out endlessly by everything as a child. But it takes a lot to freak me out nowadays, film-wise.

I was born in 1970 and lived in(and still do) a small town in Texas. We had a very
old fashion Theater in the downtown area(most downtown areas in small towns in Texas are not completely dead but close to it because the whole world went to big parking lot super stores) Any way a movie "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" was playing
I have no memory of the movie but at the end of the movie the exit door opened and
a man dressed as Leatherface starts a chainsaw. My father stood in Terror I guess to
protect his family. (yes people it was just a joke the Theater was playing on us)

The same Theater we watched many Bigfoot movies and those are the ones that deeply entered my mind having constant fear of Bigfoot.

Later about 11 years old (or when ever The Shinning was on HBO for the first time)
it was about the last horror movie that ever scared me. Granted I do not watch them
much either.

the shinning, M1? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVDfeM0MLc[/youtube]

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That one messes with me now. Same for Rosemary's Baby.

When I went to see "Men in Black" (a film I loved) the second time, there was a trailer attached to it for "An American Werewolf in Paris." I was so traumatised that I didn't go into a movie theater again for years. I only went again to see the "Harry Potter" movie, which got me back into the theater for good. (For that HP will always have a special place in my heart.)

i saw A.A.W.P. last night! funny. sorry it trmatized you though. try watching it noe, it may not scare you anymore.

A friend of mine, who is a suspected aspy, once saw a horror with a loose eyeball in it. She still screams when she sees an eyeball, even in Dungeons and Dragon books, in a comedic way, enz.