What movie screwed you up as a kid?

1. Who the FUCK was in charge of buying the drugs the year they wrote Brave Little Toaster?!
   — Guardiancomplex


2. Mars Attacks! I was way too little to watch that, but my brother convinced me it "wasn't scary". Those aliens were super creepy and gave me nightmares for a long time.
   — LadyRevontulet


3. The ring, I was really young when I first watched the japanese version on late night channel 4, I saw it in the TV guide and had to watch it , so i had my little crt tv way down low and sat really close. By the time it was over I wanted the TV out of my room immediately.
   — IsntUnderYourBed






4. Roger Rabbit - "Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked... just... like... THIS!"
   — denikar


5. The brazilian birthday party scene in Signs was so horrifying! EDIT: Oh, what a night! A last-minute-win for Germany and Reddit-gold from a very kind stranger, thank you!!!
   — wallclimber90


6. Jaws... couldn’t go back into the water after that
   — Exdiv






7. ET. Had legit night terrors about him climbing out of the toilet whenever I'd flush it in a dream. He'd climb out and chase me down the hallway and beat the fuck out of me. Lasted for years until I finished the movie and reconciled. Was afraid to flush my toilet until I was almost 10. If someone got up at night to use the bathroom, ET was pounding my ass in la-la land. No wonder I'm into weird porn now. Edit: from all these responses it sounds like we need an ET-PTSD support group.
   — GenericBagOfCrap


8. Not a movie but a videoclip. Thriller by Michael Jackson. The Michael Jackson posters in my cousins room gave me nightmares.
   — bblokje


9. The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. I was like 7 and that movie made too much sense to me. I was like “this can really happen”!! I was fine watching Nightmare on Elm Street because I knew nothing happened in dreams, but the science on The Fly was just on point to me at the time
   — pbenji






10. Fire in the Sky. The scene where the aliens are dragging him through the tunnels of the space ship.
    — poopsandreddits


11. Protip: Ridley Scott's "Alien" is inappropriate for 7 year olds easily prone to night terrors. I speak from a position of experience.
    — Guardiancomplex


12. Stand By Me. When you see the face of Ray Brower I remember having nightmares about it haha. These days I watch it at least twice a year; an all-time favourite.
    — Oathkeeper93






13. Gremlins. The Christmas story scene really messed with me when I was a kid.
    — shantzy


14. Poltergeist. I definitely was way too young. I hated looking at a TV showing static for years.
    — phelyan