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traumatizing!!

posted 19 years ago by belljar666
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this movie traumatized me when I was a kid. It was on tv for some reason and all I remember is the chick with her legs being held down and a thing that looked like a seam-ripper heading toward the nethers. freaked me out a bit. was it a seam-ripper thing? that's how I remember it. still haven't seen it.

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here is a list of some of the movies that traumatized me when I was a kid (including DemonSeed). Most of them, I can watch now :) oh, for reference I'm 20 yrs old.

~Gremlins: had to leave the theater, it was cool when they were cute, then they got all toothy and nasty... no good
~Little Nemo: had to leave when all the scary crap started to happen... and kept happening; my first real experience with anime (except for Last Unicorn; now, I know it's supposed to be trippy and scary and most things that happydoodle American cartoons are. I love anime, still haven't seen this one though :p
~Jurassic Park: I "went to the bathroom" a lot, hid out in the bathroom more likely. "Is it a plant eater or meat eater daddy? planteater? ok, I can look now." pathetic. but now I've seen it so much (thanks TV) that it holds no thrill anymore.
~Interview With the Vampire: the bloody boob biting, and where the theatre vamps play with halfnaked girl onstage. i was old enough to not be truely traumatized, but it definitely stuck in my mind to make me uncomfortable.
~there was some movie I saw on TV that had some dude strapped spread eagle, naked, to a conveyor belt and was heading, penis first, toward some chomping metal jaws just big enough to fit between the legs to chomp off some manbits. they didn't show his naughty bits or anything, wasn't a porno. and I changed the channel so I don't know if he escaped or got chomped up. I don't know what it was called, but screw that movie!

I guess that's all I can think of. Thank you for you time

[–] jhelton-2 19 years ago

the last movie you are refering to is the Ice Pirates starring Robert Urich. A pretty bad sci-fi/comedy....full of cheese. Beware the Spaces Herpes.

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[–] belljar666 19 years ago

no way! never thought I'd ever find out what that crazy ass movie was. for years I was just like "that crazy ass movie messed me up, I'll never find out what it was" but know I know. I think i'll have to rent it or something. give some closure to the whole thing.

[–] hailebear2002 19 years ago

The first Friday The 13th, when Kevin Bacon died, I was freaked out that someone would be hiding under my bed.

[–] nihilistwonder 18 years ago

Not normally scared even during the "scariest" of movies, but "ALIENS" made me jump a bit, still does a little.
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[–] nicola_mc_donald_19 18 years ago

What about Stephen King's IT?

If you didn't have Coulrophobia beforehand you sure as heck had it after.

[–] preppy-3 18 years ago

Only twice was I traumatized--I saw "The Exorcist" when I was about 13 in a theatre (had nightmares for WEEKS after that) and "Friday the 13th" when Jason jumped out of the water--I literally tried to hide under my seat!

[–] rrandcoyote 17 years ago

That movie traumatized me too!!! But, only because it was one of the worst flicks ever! Thanks for the memory! Bwah ha!

[–] jeremy-200 18 years ago

Gremlins was in the theaters two or three years before you were born.

Not that I'm accusing you of anything. We had a retro movie house in our neighborhood where I got to see all sorts of movies from the fifties and sixties when I was a kid in the seventies and eighties.

Just curious.

[–] belljar666 18 years ago

it was definitely a theater, I remember straight leaving with... i guess it was Pa. Must of been a reshowing or whatever, a some years after it originally came out. Maybe for halloween.

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[–] soiwaslike831 18 years ago

Did anyone else see the Omen trilogy before they were 10? I don't know what was more traumatic, the movie, or trying to find three 6's on your scalp in the elementary school bathroom. Oh and there was some movie involving a house near an airport, a lot of wood panneling, a bathtub with a dead woman in it, and necrophilia. At least I really hope this was a movie.

[–] irearly 17 years ago

The first movie I ever saw, in a theater, when I was about 5 years old was The House on Haunted Hill. This was one of William Castle's roadshow movies. The gimmick in this one was Emergo. In one scene Vincent Price sends a skeleton out on a giant reel. In the theater a 20-foot paper skeleton on a wire came out of the wings and wafted the length of the theater. All hail Emergo! Cue screams and pandemonium. This was in a movie that already had severed heads and a body being dissolved in acid (the source of the skeleton).
To say I was traumatized does not do justice to the scene. I give credit to William Castle for making me who I am today. I mean somebody has to take the blame.

[–] charmed1163 17 years ago

What type of pycho parants would take a 5 year old to a movie like that? I'm all for horror movies but taking a small child to one is irresponsible to say the least.

[–] hellcat-trish 17 years ago

That's EXACTLY what I remember, and I was traumatized, too. In fact, I only remembered this movie because I was browsing the web and happened to have a quite vivid flashback. I was browsing the TV listings in the AM and thought "What's this about?".. and that one scene is all I remember.

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[–] harry_maskers123 17 years ago

you're right it was a seam ripper, although I'm sure the makers knew what they were doing it wasn't yet onto it's real terrifying experiments with her, it simply- and carefully- cut her clothes.

The only film that has really left me traumatised from childhood is the Wicker man which I must have seen on telly when I was about 12 or 13 I think. I was going through a period of insomnia and watching channel 4 (UK) for hours hoping for breasts, this film didn't disappoint on that front but the ending was truly harrowing!

I also remember a Tarzan film where someone drowns in quick sand and there hand is left exposed clutching a locket or something. I remember it was more graphic than your usual Tarzan outing but I think I must have dreamt about that particular scene later that night coz it definately left an impression!

Finally the artwork that came with Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds (not technically a film but scary non the less), especially panic in the streets (?) and the red weed.

[–] sistinas_ 17 years ago

the part of "Demon Seed" burned into my brain from catching it on tv when I was much younger was the part with the baby born at the end that says "I'm alive" or something...I ended up buying a vhs copy on ebay and watching it, remember nothing from watching it a few years ago but still have that old memory of it.

Also traumatizing to me as a young child was the "V" alien miniseries (ah I will add that to the netflix queue to see what was so terrible).

Sadly, I slept with the lights on sometime in 99 or 2000 after seeing "Event Horizon" .. I was just out of college - how pathetic is that?? I don't remember one scene of that movie, but I was so horrified when I found out my husband had purchased the DVD...I don't even want it in our house! If I remember being that freaked out as an ADULT...that must have been bad.

[–] RaraTLN 17 years ago

The Blob, the original and the remake, scared the crap out of me. I still can't watch them by myself. And I have problems sleeping at night after I do watch it. And I just started a sentence with And. That's some good college learning right there.

[–] cyguration 13 years ago

That's crazy but "V" also traumatized me, too. It was the part with the lady going into her house or something like that and I think an alien killed her or something?

[–] smartbomb 17 years ago

The Space Vampire episode from Buck Rogers the TV show. Look it up on YouTube sometime for a laugh.

[–] mtalman 17 years ago

The movie that traumatized me the most when I was little was a Walt Disney film called "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959)starring a very young Sean Connery. The scene where the banshee comes out of the hills to claim the soul of Katie O'Gill (Janet Munro) scared me so bad I had nightmares for weeks.

[–] Spengler1 17 years ago

If anyone is interested, this movie will air on directv "chiller" channel on Feb 19th @ 4:00am. In my area it is channel 257.

[–] nunya82 17 years ago

Rosemary's Baby STILL freaks me so much I won't watch it again, even though it has one of my favorite scenes. (When the old lady goes into the bedroom to talk on the phone and you only see the back half of her sitting on the bed. I bet anything the first time you see it you'll lean over to try and see around the door. Brilliant on the director's part.) The movie's ending, however FREAKED me out.

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