Remember me, Eddie?!
That fucking computer from Superman III, jesus christ my parents should not have let me watch that when I was, like, seven or eight.
Are you talking about when it grabbed that woman and turned her into a cyborg thing? That fucked me up.
Gremlins, when they transformed
That movie fucked me up as a kid. I had recurring nightmares for a decade.
A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it’s only PG! It’s a comedy!
Yeah that was a mistake.
A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don’t know what the fuck I was thinking.
Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how “family-friendly” movies are anymore. I guess I just don’t really pay attention to that.
For some reason they haven’t kept in touch…
Fun fact: Gremlins was one of the movies which led to the creation of the PG-13 rating.
Lol I do the goddamn same thing. Some form of brain damage i think
Watership Down and Gremlins.
Also, the Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXikpns1bog
I still find myself humming the Bunyip song to myself constantly, decades later.
Watership Downs is so dark. I found the book as a kid in some cabinet and figured it’d be fun to read about the little bunnies life. That was a harsh loss of innocence. Later as an adult I figured it wasn’t really that bad and I watched the movie. Oh boy.
Gremlins was definitely not for kids IMO, and we watched it on Christmas because why not.
My favorite Christmas movie of all time
Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they’re certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing
I just that with my kid and it for some reason I laughed so hard my kid thought the whole thing was funny. It’s just so absurd and terrible and wonderful. He’s this nightmare murder dude in a kids movie.
It’s genuiy terrifying. But I made it fun for my kid somehow.
It IS a freakout!
Very much so. When I was a kid my folks tried multiple times to get me to watch this movie and I could never get past the tunnel.
As an adult I still can’t watch it and I love me some Gene Wilder otherwise.
I change my mind. I most certainly do not want a boat just like this.
Your example took me a minute to remember what it was from, but yes, Judge Doom definitely deserves a spot on the list.
TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!
That shit made me laugh. I loved PeeWee Herman growing up.
In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.
The toxic waste scene fucked me up for a while.
One of my favorite villain-death-scenes of all time
I only saw parts of it and yet it haunted me for years. I found it genuinely terrifying and fucked up.
I watched the first 10 minutes of Friday the 13th then shut it off because I was too scared. The Jason in my mind was more terrifying than any of his movies.
The Adventures of Mark Twain from 1985 has a scene where Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher enter a sort of pocket dimension and meet a stranger who is just a robe holding a mask. The stranger claims their name is Satan. Satan creates a doll sized castle and gives the children clay to make people. After the people are made Satan gives them life and all 4 characters watch the clay people for a little while. Then Satan calls them insignificant, annoying, and worthless before he smashes some with his hand, lightning strikes other clay people, and the rest get swallowed up by a sinkhole along with the castle. While this is happening Satan’s face/mask distorted and twists until it resembles a skull.
I saw this movie while spending a weekend at a family member’s house as a kid, maybe somewhere between the ages of 5 and 7 (it was an old movie then). I woke up in the middle of the night and this movie was put on while I was left alone in the living room. I don’t remember anything else from this movie, but it definitely fucked me up
I very distinctively remember this, but I didn’t know that’s what it was from! Woah.
The Omen. An absolute classic.
Also Nightbreed.
The Borg.
I watched Star Trek as a kid with my grandma on our local TV station. The Borg were always so scary to me because not even the super advanced Federation could defeat them. And the assimilation they did of stripping away who and what you were was terrifying.
Then First Contact came out and I learned that they just as vulnerable as anyone else to a 45 ACP and that was alright.
I saw Robocop too early.
The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.
I grew up with a family that liked horror movies, and it was the 80s, so I watched a ton of kid-inappropriate stuff, and I felt the same way.
I still don’t watch the Murphy death scene to this day. I guess I never thought about the “why” of it, but you saying it now, that these guys were just normal people, not monsters or supernatural supernatural beings, and not in a fantasy setting, but a realistic enough place, and were taking so much realistic joy in killing this random guy in the worst way possible was more messed up than anything else I’ve seen.
The other stuff in the movie didn’t bother me, since it was mostly people getting what they deserve, but I also never really liked them throwing their buddy out of the moving car when he was begging them not to and I don’t recall him being all that injured for someone in a movie. I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
Funny enough Our Robocop Remake takes that idea and turns it around, so many scenes when characters are discussing Clarence Boddicker they instead show pictures of Kurtwood Smith in That 70’s Show, haha. Great fan made parody movie, definitely worth a watch though it’s the opposite of terrifying so a bit off-topic here.
I had never even heard of this before, but it was really fun to watch! I didn’t know I needed a Robocop musical before now! 😆
The letter home to mom and dad and the ED-209 having the same Alex Murphy style flashbacks as he was killed were hilarious, and of course the alley of perpetual sexual assault.
I saw Robocop 2 too early. The scene that fucked me up is where the bad guy in the robot went from 0 to 100 and snapped his ex’s neck.
That, and the acid scene.
Bitches leave.
Return to Oz
Those god damned wheelers man. And then the heads in jars.
Poltergeist, no question, slept with the lights on for 2-weeks behind that shit.
My neighbor friend’s dad took me and her the day before 5th-grade started. That man levitated out his seat when that giant skull leaned out of the closet. My little brain: “oh shit oh shit oh shit the adult is scared…” To his credit, the movie was PG because PG-13 didn’t exist in 1982. But still, c’mon Dave!
Didn’t sleep, couldn’t eat the cafeteria slop, it was 105F, heat stroked out in the hall crawling back from lunch recess. It was a very memorable day.
Oh yeah my answer is poltergeist too. Too early, sucked. Bad sleep for weeks.
Also return to Oz. Those heads…
Fire in the Sky. Way too young for the honey scene.
