Hearing NL talk about the variety of ways that aliens could eliminate him and his loved ones has the same vibes as that segment he did of the torture device tier list. "Mm, heat ray seems pretty quick and easy, put that in S."
Can't even lie, when they melted the flesh off the bones in Mars Attacks that shit fucked me up for years. I think it was a timing thing, my grandma died and it was the first time I truly "understood" death and like a week later I'm confronted with the people melter 3000 and it genuinely hit me.
My dad was watching that one day and I walked in just as the guy got turned into a skeleton and it really fucked my day up. It wasn’t until years later that I figured out what movie it was, which somehow made it worse.
@@Runaway-Reptar That happened to me after watching _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ and _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade._ Both the people-melting scene and the rapid aging "wrong goblet" death scene, respectively, fucked me up.
For me it wasn't just seeing him melt into bones, but also the reaction of his mother seeing it happen on national TV and starting to cry. That _really_ fucked with me as a kid.
When I was 5 my Dad brought our family to see The Ring. My brother and I liked the Lord of the Rings, and my idiot Dad thought it was connected to Tolkien. I still remember the guy telling him it's rated R and he just assumed it was because of fight scenes. Turned every TV towards the wall at night for months.
Me unable to watch any movie associated with Peter Jackson because it gives me flashbacks to the time my dad snuck me into King Kong and I threw up in the popcorn bucket when I watched the dude get his head eaten by the worm
Madagascar traumatized me as a child. Specifically the scene where the little duckling gets chomped by a crocodile. I was old enough to recognize that it's animated and choices were made to depict something so "mean," but so used to typical kids' movies where deaths were dignified and ceremonious. It was jarring as hell and people in the movie theater had the GAUL TO LAUGH AT IT. I cried about it every time I thought about it for WEEKS. Now one of my biggest hobbies is learning about nature and all the horrible shit that comes with it.
I loved that movie as a kid so we bought it on DVD. The movie itself didn’t scare me but there was a “blooper reel” as Dreamworks did on a lot of their films back in the day that was just animation errors and it gave me nightmares for months
Cars always made me ask too many questions about the car world. I was probably too old, but seriously, do they get their kids from a factory? Do the cars grow? Do they reproduce sexually? Do they shift their consciousness between different vehicles as they mature? Are there secretly humans inside of them?
@@SeveralGhosthow did they survive in the neolithic age???? Like who was refining their petroleum for their food? Did they already discover fire for their combustion engines??? Literally what the hell its insane
The scene in Austin Powers 1 or 2 (can’t remember), where the giant piranhas devoured the guards’ head and the scene transitions to the now-widowed wife and her son FUCKED me up as a kid 😭
@@Halfcourtviolation The alien scene where it tries to poison the kid fucked me up. My childhood bedroom was just similar enough that when the sun was up and I walked into the room, I would get scared all over again thinking that I would see an alien in the reflection of the TV.
Scared of guy turning into alien spider Scared of kid turning into monkey Scared of toad turning into goomba My man is terrified of transformation and the loss of agency that comes with it
Alien movies never really bothered me as a kid. I was afraid of the whale from the live action Pinocchio. I was so traumatized I stopped taking baths and only took showers from then on because I was afraid of moving my head to the surface of the water because it would remind me of the whale scene.
Now, I'm not saying that a psychological thriller directed by David Fincher starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman was dripped out of its mind compared to an animated children's movie about sentient ragdolls in a post apocolyptic world, but I am saying that Se7en ate 9
Says a lot about modern day marketing that a movie i want to see with my children and have been waiting for with interest has been out for days and I didnt know until I caught this vid..
When i was 4 my parents took me to see toy story 2 but one of the previews was for revenge of the sith and it was just darth vader ominously breathing and it freaked me out so much we left the theater
In the 2008 music video for Dr. Bombay's 'S.O.S', a person in a tiger costume is hunting his family. I cannot emphasize enough how unscary this music video is, but it gave me nightmares growing up. I was scared of 'the tiger' for years. Also my mom thought to watch spirited away with my older brother when he was 6 but they had to stop in the first 10 minutes when the parents turn into pigs...scary
My childhood tv trauma was actually some kind of documentary about 9/11 in which two firefighters get buried in rubble and one of them keeps up small talk with the other to distract them until they get rescued and the other one gives him monosyllabic answers until he finally bursts out that his kneecaps got shattered and he's been trying not to scream from the pain the whole time.
@@sesamestreettv I hope you're right, because I've tried finding it (from the vague childhood memory of that one scene), but there are endless amounts of 9/11 documentaries, so I gave up on it at some point. Thank you in advance! (It WOULD be pretty funny if this "trauma" came from a Nicholas Cage movie :D)
My older cousin did a bit of trolling and had me watch the ring 1 when I was like 6 or 7, obviously I ran away after the first jumpscare but it fucked me up i did not trust movies for years
I grew up around the time they were re-releasing ET and it fucking demolished me. I remember being so terrified of this stupid movie I couldnt watch the early part of shrek on VHS because it had an ad for ET. The intro with the tall grass and ET dicking around the kid's shed are burned into my memory.
Fellow ET trauma victim here. I had to avoid the aisle of the jumbo video that had et. We went to a funland or arcade or whatever and they had a bowling alley with a movie playing above the pins and the movie was et, played bowling basically blind.
Lost in Space had me trembling as a kid, but i was also terrified of Ursula from little mermaid. Mars Attacks was very fun though i always had a great time with that one
Ghostbusters fucked me up as a kid, it was the scene where she opens the fridge and the demon says "zool" or some shit. I was legit terrified I was gonna open my fridge one day and get teleported to hell
I was traumatized by Gremlins growing up, specifically by the scene of them torturing Gizmo. Had nightmares about small critters dying for a good year.
I was too young to remember but my older sister showed me the simpsons episode where the dolphins take over the world and I refused to go near water for weeks
The lost in space movie, holy shit that was unnecsarily scary it had extistential horror themes too I mean who wants to be lost in space. By the end of I was dying at the defense of aliens probing, you know what, they do just need data why are we backporting victorian morality in regards to probing onto aliens who are in some senses a blank slate tabula rasa
if you have perforated eardrums they do join up with your throat to equalize the inner and outer ear pressure, thats why yawning on the plane helps to 'pop' them. but if your ears are healthy they stop at the eardrums. also the inner ear lies inside a little tunnel behind your jaw hinge where it terminates and the signals still have a bit of nerves to travel though to get to the brain. but theres technically no bone to stop something being shoved up there.
The Boo Box from Hook, locked in a chest with scorpions. That was only surpassed by the child sacrifice/winged devourers from The Beastmaster. Pure trauma.
A month late, but eh, whatever. There are about 8 scenes/movies I remember messing me up when I was a child. Some of them arguably aren’t even horror movies. First one is the entirety of The Blob. The whole thing. Especially whenever we see a person trapped inside the titular blob. Next one is the scene in the „insect hole“ in the 2005 King Kong movie. Especially the parts with Andy Serkis and those damn leaches. Then it’s… Snakes on a Plane. Can’t even explain that one. Also there’s the brainsucking bug from Starship Troopers. The Xenomorph from Alien. The thing from… The Thing. The opening disaster from the movie 2012. And at last a double whammy of the scene where the evil kid ambushes the old guy in Pet Cemetery, and the scene from House of Wax (2003) where a dude gets his tendons cut with a pair of scissors
I got absolutely fucked up by Mars Attacks, lost so much sleep and experienced a ton of anxiety. And weirdly, instead of avoiding the topic - I seeked out info about aliens and watched a ton of UFO "documentaries", including some really batshit crazy stuff, which further fuelled my anxiety. I also never confessed this to anyone ever, for the fear of being considered even more weird than I already was. When the adults close to me probed to find out what scared me so much - I just agreed with their version that it was demons. Fun times
inception, interstellar gave me existential crisis as a teen and then drama like 13 reasons why, euphoria deepened my depression into a void. Then since my 20's (almost 25) I've stopped feeling empathy towards most of the characters, ill feel something every now and then but it's mainly only if they are relatable in some way
Reading all of these comments kinda reminds me why you should at least read the parental guidance. Anyway, I was traumatized by the Lego Indiana Jones game when the guy melts after getting the cup. I can't touch Lego for a while after that.
He's so right. I watched the fall guy with a glass of wine and a cocktail and came out thinking it was pretty good. My brother in Christ, you just like a tasty alcohol drink.
lmao my parents/sister recorded my favorite movie, mouse hunt, on the same vhs tape as freaking aliens, so i'd forward the tape, press play, cry through the aliens trauma, quickly fast forward again, rinse and repeat
mf talking about alien movies that scare kids, but didn't mention literal Alien? that chestburster messed me up, the rest of that movie is NOT that scary
i was like 7 when i watched world's greatest dad & the next day i was playing with legos & i decided to use this cool new word i learned from the kid in that movie & i made lego batman call lego harry potter a PUSSY! in front of my mom and she was Horrified
I remember seeing Men in Black when i was really young and the scene of the alien removing his human skin to reveal his weird roach like appearance scarred me for a bit. Why was I seeing that movie at 5? The coffee aliens were funny.
The scarabs under the skin in the mummy, and the ants in Indiana Jones screwed me up as a kid, still haunted by the memory. Also the skeletons in mars attack, blegh
i rember being terrified of transformers cause my mom had big speakers for the tv and the sounds of them crashing into shit made me so scared but more often i would just get really horrfied at disaster movies cause my child mind couldn't comprehend the scale of like a thousand people dying on screen by a big wave
My dad northernlion is convinced he could take an alien in a fistfight. Panda bears and wolves are one thing but aliens? Mom says he would beat it to death with an anecdote but I don't know what that means.
my dad let me watch the ring when i was like 9 and i still randomly have nightmares even though i'm obviously not scared of it anymore. definitely should not have been allowed to watch it that young lol
My 5 year old daughter also told me she didn't want to see a movie she never saw before. Even after we made her sit down and watch the first one. We can only watch the damn paw patrol so many times sweetie.
The scariest movie I saw as a kid was independence day. I also saw a couple minutes of Chucky when I was passing through the living room and that messed me up for weeks.
when i went to go see the recent ghostbusters movie there was a family sat in front of me with a kid who must have been only 5/6 years old and i remember before the movie started thinking that seems just a tad too young for a movie like this. and as expected the moment spooky horror themed ghost stuff started happening i heard a ‘i don’t like this’ and the typical shuffling in the seat to look away from the screen. this isn’t to cast aspersions on the parents or anything - they probably wanted to go the cinema as a family and the ghostbusters films (in general) are seen as family films that they probably saw when they were younger, and i imagine they thought it being 12A/PG13 would have made it fine for all the kids. i doubt they wanted to intentionally scare their kid, and i remember the mum doing a good reassuring them so it didn’t get too much. it’s an honest mistake a lot of parents have made - hence the amount of stories here. but i do think adults kinda forget that there’s a huge difference between the very young kids and older kids when it comes to horror themed things. it wasn’t a scary film as an adult (or a very good one in general lol) but there was definitely plenty of threatening/jump scary horror themed scenes that would have been a lot for someone so young. hope the poor kid wasn’t too traumatised. and in all fairness even without threatening content young kids can find random stuff in movies scary/traumatising. christ, i still remember one of my first cinema experiences as a kid seeing the jimmy neutron movie trailer on the big screen and getting scared and overwhelmed by the cgi egg aliens lol. even just having such a big screen with a huge booming sound can be a lot to take in at a very young age!
The rock was playing on the tv when i was supposed to be in bed and i saw the scene where the baby doll opens it's eyes and shoots poisonous acidic gas at the people and it eats through the suits. We had porcelain dolls all over the hallway and it scared me so bad to walk down it at night
Cant think of a movie that fucked me up but lost tapes RUINED ME as a child i was so scared that the mothman or a chupacabra was spawn camping my door when I needed to go to the bathroom at night
