What movie traumatized you as a child?

Now this creeped me out, too; Ray Harryhausen's stop animation monster work, especially the battle with the skeleton army in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). I mean, how can you kill something that's already dead? Skeletons in general really traumatized me...I didn't even like the fact that I had one inside my own body, Aieee!

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On The Beach.........I was about 7 or 8 years old when I saw it with my family and I figured an atomic war was going to be inevitable and everything was going to end and it was going to be horrible and hopeless like in the movie.
 

The Boris Karloff version of The Mummy. The part showing him being wrapped to be mummified while he is still alive. I first saw it when I was 6 years old. After seeing it I never put my feet & legs together when I slept in my bed because I thought if I did I would become a mummy. True story.
 
I cried so hard after this movie ended that my embarrassed sister left me sitting there, crying hysterically! I'm speaking of Imitation of Life with Lana Turner, Susan Kohner, Sandra Dee & Juanita Moore. In it, 2 women and their daughters form a friendship. White woman with daughter & Black woman with daughter who passes for white. The end had me sobbing.
 
What was the name of the movie where aliens grew in pods and took over your body while you slept? That one creeped me out big time!!
 
Not a movie, but "Little Girl Lost" which was on season 3 episode 26 of The Twilight Zone. I was about 9 or 10 I think. I was scared to lay next to the wall in my bedroom because I was afraid of falling through to another dimension.
 
Pinky said:
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_People_(Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers)
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Yes!! Thanks @Pinky 👍 There was a plant in our garden, no clue what it was, and for a time I was convinced that it contained the alien pods. My Dad, after failing to convince me that it was a fictional scenario, had to reassure me numerous times that the plant was way too far down the back garden to get to me while I slept (in my room at the front of the house.) Even then I wasn’t entirely comfortable until he moved my bed away from the window. 😂
katlupe said:
Not a movie, but "Little Girl Lost" which was on season 3 episode 26 of The Twilight Zone. I was about 9 or 10 I think. I was scared to lay next to the wall in my bedroom because I was afraid of falling through to another dimension.
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Oh!! Man I’d forgotten about the Twilight Zone!! 🤷‍♀️ The eqisode where the little boy was able to make people disappear or send them to another planet or something, and so every single person around him was terrifyingly fake-happy about everything!
 
MarciKS said:
old yeller.

and the theme music from lassie.
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would often watch "Lassie" with cousins of similar ages. they CRIED pretty much every week (sunday, right) and we'd catch it for "teasing" them about the tears. even trying to explain to them that there was ALWAYS a good ending and nobody ever died and Lassie would save the day... never helped.
 
i grew up with 3... not 4 TV channels. ABC, NBC, CBS and public broadcasting... channel 12 to me. eventually there were 3 UHF channels added... channels 17, 29 & 48 in Philly area. around that time they started showing regular movies that were long out of the theaters... i think so they could fill up broadcasting hours cheaply.

i vividly remember watching "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" huddled in the dark at my grandparents' house scard to death. i don't know whether i was really traumatized but that scene right near end when you realized the girl had fallen asleep for just enough time to be taken over... very scary.

 
I didn't go to movies when I was a little bitty kid, except Fantasia, which our parents took us to while we were still living in CA.

As a teenager, I was pretty horrified at Psycho -- the shower scene, and the one where the mother was a skeleton in the chair. I took baths for quite a while after that instead of showers.
 
Butterfly said:
I didn't go to movies when I was a little bitty kid, except Fantasia, which our parents took us to while we were still living in CA.

As a teenager, I was pretty horrified at Psycho -- the shower scene, and the one where the mother was a skeleton in the chair. I took baths for quite a while after that instead of showers.
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Worse than a skeleton! A rotted corpse in clothes! :eek:
 
wcwbf said:
would often watch "Lassie" with cousins of similar ages. they CRIED pretty much every week (sunday, right) and we'd catch it for "teasing" them about the tears. even trying to explain to them that there was ALWAYS a good ending and nobody ever died and Lassie would save the day... never helped.
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it was that music. lol!
 
Disney didn't need CGI... This thing was truly scary in a movie I was too young to even understand. It shrieked.

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