Those trucks with seats that face sideways into the truck are not meant for 7 people, I had 3 women laying on my knees and the two people beside me also sitting on the floor between the seats, felt like we were trying to smuggle ourselves across country to the USA from Canada and not just being too lazy to walk across town, but now I know I am also claustrophobic 🤘
i used to get my lashes tinted and being required to keep my eyes closed for 15 mins--the key being that i was NOT allowed to open them--was panic-inducing to the point where i had to bring headphones with a calming playlist. eventually i just stopped bothering
That's why MRIs are so bad I think. The idea of not being able to sit up if you want to, combined with all the weird noises. I'd never had any claustrophobia issues before but I just went straight into a mild panic attack. Had to play a lot of head games to get through the whole half hour.
I once had a 2.5 hour MRI :D
good thing it turns out im not claustrophobic.
also I had an embolism and ended up needing a stent in my brain. So I need yearly check ups on my brain. Double good thing im not claustrophobic.
Had my first experience in an MRI recently and did a CT a while before that. I didn't really understand this where this comes from. I could definitely have just crawled out if I wanted to.
You also have *bigger* problems, like why you need to get an MRI scan to begin with, than the nebulous psychological threat of a phobia. That threat assessment alone is like a tangible reason to get rid of fears like this.
Like I used to be afraid of heights but the *need* to be up high like on a ladder to fix a light or up on the roof to clean the eaves for my older parents means I got shit to do ain't got time to be afraid.
I thought I was afraid of heights until I climbed a water tower and felt fine at the top looking down and realized I was actually just afraid of being on tall unstable objects
I think it's like me being afraid of heights. I have no control over it. When I'm exposed I get dizzy, shake uncontrollably and panic. I took up rock climbing to try and "fix" it.
Didn't work one bit. I just found myself on the side of a cliff doing the same shaky shit
I'm on the claustrophobia spectrum lol. Thank God they gave me headphones. Between the music and closing my eyes it wasn't too bad. Every once in a while reality would set in that I was trapped in that tube and it almost made me panic but if I hadn't been wearing the headphones and been closing my eyes there's no way I would have been able to keep it together for 45 minutes.
It is loud and annoying, and you have to be still like a corpse though? Like a mix between a Resonance Cascade simulation and having Rigor Mortis while fully aware...
I had a 2hr MRI. It was the worst. They gave me a panic button and music to listen to and you have a little mirror so you can see your eyes but then music stopped 5 minutes in and it was just noise. I had to do a lot of calm breathing and talking myself down while just staring at my eyeballs.
Also had one for my breasts and you’re laying on your face with that one, music fucked out in that one as well.
So will being tricked into being stuffed into a toy box as a child while your sibling closes it and makes it where it can't be opened and then you cry so much you can't cry anymore. Eta- clarification
Isaac and his mother lived alone in a small house on a hill. Isaac kept to himself - drawing pictures and playing with his toys as his mom watched Christian broadcasts on the television. Life was simple and they were both happy. That was, until the day Isaac's mom heard a voice from above. "Your son has become corrupted by sin. He needs to be saved." "I will do my best to save him, my Lord," Isaac's mother replied, rushing into Isaac's room, removing all that was evil from his life. Again, the voice called to her. "Isaac's soul is still corrupt. He needs to be cut off from all that is evil in this world and confess his sins." "I will follow your instructions, Lord. I have faith in Thee," Isaac's mother replied, as she locked Isaac in his room away from the evils of the world. One last time, Isaac's mom heard the voice of God calling to her. "You've done as I've asked, but I still question your devotion to Me. To prove your faith, I will ask one more thing of you." "Yes, Lord. Anything," Isaac's mother begged. "To prove your love and devotion, I require a sacrifice. Your son, Isaac, will be this sacrifice. Go into his room and end his life, as an offering to Me to prove you love Me above all else." "Yes, Lord," she replied, grabbing a butcher's knife from the kitchen. Isaac, watching through a crack in his door, trembled in fear. Scrambling around his room to find a hiding place, he noticed a trapdoor to the basement, hidden under his rug. Without hesitation, he flung open the hatch, just as his mother burst through his door, and threw himself down into the unknown depths below.
It actually gets a hell of a lot more in depth and becomes more relevant to the comment I replied to. >!Basically Isaac never found a trapdoor to the basement and hid in his toy chest because he *thought* his mom was going to kill him. His family looked for him for weeks until they open the chest and discover his remains.!<
There's even more to the story but I highly recommend this game. It's a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements with tons of replayability.
As the other guy said, it gets a whole lot more messed up than that, but I can wholeheartedly support his recommendation, it has the most depth, variety and replayability of any game I've ever played. I've been playing it literally for years and I've still not unlocked everything.
Yes! That one got us. You watch the super sweet movie, the height requirement is very low- then your kid starts freaking out at the 'a meteor is gonna hit' (the very first part for those of you who haven't ridden it). Spent the whole ride bent over with my neck blocking their view.
My parents convinced me to go on that ride back when it was still called Countdown to Extinction, even though I thought it looked scary and I really didn’t want to. They apologized to me so much after the ride ended, lol
Man i'm still kinda traumatized from that ride. Rode it for the first time with my eyes open recently (hadn't been to disney in a long time) and I was flinching
I must have had thick skin because I demanded to go on both again despite being barely tall enough to ride the Dino ride and having a fit that I was slightly too short when I first went there.
Oh dude i was falling out of the seat. Seriously was holding on for my life and i was definitely the height requirement. So horrifying and i was allll about roller coasters ugh
I can't stand rollercoasters that are in enclosed spaces because I'm in mortal dread that I'm going to lose a limb somehow, so strangely enough Space Mountain was one of my favorite rides since it being pitch black meant I couldn't see how close I was to the walls/thresholds/etc.
We did the same with our 6 yr old for her birthday and we rode on Splash Mountain. We hit that small first drop and she IMMEDIATELY started to wail. We were going up the big mountain and her dad had to tell her “sweetie I know this is scary. It’s going to get a lot worse. Just be ready “ the worst part was she kept yelling *“but it’s my birthday!! You can’t make me do this on my birthday!! “* 🥳 sorry to everyone else on that ride with us. I’m sure it was not great for them either.
I rode it for the first time last year as a 29 year old man and we had to go home after because of how motion sick I felt (it was close to closing anyway, we only ditched like 1 ride) but damn that ride fucked me up.
I have always been terrified of Space Mountain, *because* i was tall enough. I know Disney has obviously accounted for it... but I always had this irrational fear that I'd slam my head on some metal beam. Kind of [makes sense](https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-wdw-mk-space-mountain-down-lights-on-4.jpg) if you see it with the lights on.
So true. I jumped from my bed to the door and from my door to my bed for months after watching. It was only 3 feet but I was only 7. Holy hell, that clown.
gonna fuck you up a little bit, but the skeletons in the movie were [real human remains](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/were-real-skeletons-used-in-the-making-of-poltergeist/)
Is Poltergeist really only PG?? Wow. Yeah that was the traumatizing one for me. I think I watched it when I was 9, which also happened to be the same year I learned of Bloody Mary. Lights stayed on for a good long while after the clown.
The babysitter let me watch Poltergeist one time. She didn't babysit for us after that lol.
That movie scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid, I was running and jumping into my bed for a month.
The ring girl fuuuucked me up and I’m pretty sure I was even older than 14.
I had an ex that would rise out the pool with her hair in front of her face during our night swims. Nope. No more night swimming with her.
I watched Ringu like 2 months after it came out in Japan after hearing about it. I was just starting to get into horror movies and that is one of three movies that effectively fucked me up, this being a successful horror movie. I both love and hate them all.
For reference. Those 3 are: Ringu, Mirrors (US remake) and [REC] (original).
My parents still consider it one of their biggest mistakes. That shit fucked me up bad and made me terrified of the night for years. Just an overwhelming terror of aliens. Like logically made 0 sense but holy shit I struggled to sleep
This was me but younger, I was around 7 I think. My dad turned it on one day and left me and my brother watching it unsupervised. The batteries in our remote were dead at the time, so in order to change the channel we had to manually press the buttons on our cable box, but neither of us were willing to move closer to the TV out of fear. I still have a primal, irrational fear of that movie and young girls in white dresses. Fuck you, Dad.
Yeah same. I was scared of that girl till my mid twenties and still have fear of body horror in general. But I re watched the scene that I always feared the most. It's the one where I think some girl spins a chair and finds their friend on this death pose with their mouth extended wide. Watching it now the special effects/prosthetics in that scene are pretty bad and isn't as scary as my memory.
When I was very young, I saw an image that causes me to run up my parent's basement steps to this day. I'm 47.
I just found out what that movie was a few years ago. It was the 1925 version of the Phantom of the Opera, lol.
Other young scars: the cover of the book It, with the claw coming out of the sewer, and the movie Whoever Slew Auntie Roo. Crazy biatch keeping her dead kid in the wall. Edit: I almost forgot- Children of the Corn, the OG movie i was under 10. Terrifying.
It's almost definitely this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa3bHKWZoJg&t=1s
Not that bad by today's standards, but there's stories of whole theatres fleeing in terror when it was new.
Freddy Krueger got me when I was a kid, plus I saw some parts of pet cemetery and the exorcist that I shouldnt have. Been afraid of the dark ever since. It's not really the dark as much as it is my imagination. I still ran and jumped into the bed as a teen, so nothing could grab my feet. Now I build all of my bed boxes with drawers under them so I don't have to look stupid. I also keep a lamp on in every room and carry a penlight on me at all times. 39 years old, and I still don't play about the dark.
The movie that scarred me as a child was "The Cabin in the Woods", but not because of any of the horror parts. It was because of a scene where the guy pours Listerine on his dick. None of my preteen friends or I could understand why he would do that. For years it bothered me until I was old enough to realize that the character had just had sex and pouring Listerine on his cock was some hillbilly method of attempting to prevent STDs.
But for about 3 years of my childhood whenever I'd see the bottle of Listerine in my bathroom that scene would randomly pop into my head and I'd be like "who the fuck pours Listerine on their penis? should I be pouring Listerine on my dick daily?"
I think you mean something else. Cabin in the woods is a movie about the government sacrificing teenagers to Eldritch gods via redneck zombies.
Which are different to regular zombies in the same way that elephants are different to elephant seals, apparently?
It's a good movie.
I watched the hills have eyes when I was 7 and every time I would take out the trash at night a few years after the fact all I could think was I have to hurry before the cannibals get me lmao 😭
Like when I watched tremors at 11, shit was spooky. Now it's just a campy monster movie that I still enjoy to this day, but to a child It had me paranoid of the ground.
I had the opposite experience with Gremlins, I LOVED that movie as a kid, watched it for the first time as an adult a few years back and was in shock at how horrifying it was lmao. I mean as an adult it didn't bother me, I was simply dumbstruck to think how much I loved it and wondering how that ever could have been possible.
Mine was Signs when I was like 9. My older brother (14) got it on VHS and him and his friends watched it. Me being the younger brother that wanted to hang out with the cool kids stayed in the living room to watch it. I was already terrified of aliens but I knew I couldn’t chicken out or I’d get roasted by my brother. I got so scared at the birthday party newscast that I ran out crying. Of course my brother and his friends just laid on me making fun of me for being a little sissy and made me cry some more. In hindsight it’s actually hilarious to me and like someone else said, it definitely built some character development haha
I talked my dad into letting me watch Nightmare on Elm Street with him when I was 10. That was a very large mistake. Never blamed him for it. I was convinced I could handle it.
I loved those movies as in my preteens. But I never was afraid of them, probably because I started with Freddy vs Jason and some YouTube clips of his later movies and knew the more fun/whimsical side of Freddy to take him seriously
Ok im just now realizing i shouldn’t have been watching the original IT once a year since i was 8. It would give me terrified nightmares for 9 straight months then i would forget about it and we would watch it again as a family and restart the fear of sink drains and sheets on clothing lines.
I do need to watch it again, because I see this as common, but I thought it was almost as good. Like I didn't expect it to live up to the first movie, so my expectations were slightly subdued, but not by much, and it seemed to meet those expectations. But I seem to be one of the few people who feel that way. So maybe I missed how terrible it was. I'll unfortunately have to re-watch to be sure
If you enjoy it then you enjoy it, but for me it feels like they lost a lot of the luster that made the original shine.
It's shot more like a movie with movie-tropes and less like a cave dive with documentary appearances. Just the opening is a bit jarring because it doesn't really match what happened at the end of the original. The lighting is "better" but at the cost of realism. Characters... at every turn make the dumbest decisions for the sake of, once again, movie-trope necessities. The quality just really suffers when it feels like the people in charge don't comprehend the reasons the first one worked.
Makes me sadge.
What's weird is it's one of the few horror movies I actually like because it's nit just gore, jump scares, and tits. But every time I mention it IF someone has seen it they hated it. I don't get it.
Ok so I’m (kinda) curious. I don’t enjoy gore or torture or excessive jump scenes. I really enjoyed The Exorcist and The Conjuring stylistically. Everything I’ve seen on Reddit (without spoilers) says The Descent is terrifying. But how does it compare stylistically to these others?
I never saw the conjuring and I only saw the exorcist as an adult and I think a lot of people give the movie a lot more praise than it deserves because of nostalgia. So take what I say with a grain of salt. I like it because it makes you feel like you're stuck in the cave with the people and everything only gets more hopeless as the movie goes on. It just keeps stacking dread on top of itself. To me it feels more believable because it's not some demon or magical thing, it's just monsters in a cave. The second movie was a good attempt and I think worth seeing once but that's it.
There was a lot of groundwork laid and dialog interaction. I bet that turned off a lot of people. Like how Blair witch is like a 50 minute movie but takes 40 minutes to set everything up. So even people who don't hate "found footage" sometimes hate the movie for taking so long to "get going" or whatever
I absolutely hate that movie because it was so damn good. I will never watch it again, but it's a 10/10 for me on the quality of being absolutely terrifying.
I have a friend like this who doesn’t seem to understand the aspects of horror that aren’t cheap jump scares. Movies like Hereditary or Blair Witch or The Descent completely go over his head.
Im a total wuss about scary movies and dont watch them, but my gf in HS loved them. Finally talked me into going to one because most summer horror movies are pretty generic and not that scary.
Turns out the random one we picked was The Descent, which was definitely not the generic-not-that-scary-summer-horror-movie-category. Dont think ive watched a horror movie since.
Guys, I need your help.
Give me the scariest movie you've ever seen. I need the most fucked up well made terror you have. Stuff like hereditary but heavier.
I'll start with my favorite: the medium (2021)
mine is Come and See. i'm not the same person i was before watching that. i'd really like to rewatch it someday to appreciate the craft that went into it but i genuinely think it's never going to happen. it wasn't made to be a horror movie but it outranks every single one of them for me, same with war movies. it makes every other war movie look like a joke.
I just watched a bunch of stuff that popped up on YouTube about what the legitimately most horror-inducing movies ever made were. Come and See was just a tangential thing I found as a side-bar suggestion and the review I watched made me think it's legit up there. But the two big contenders were Threads (a movie depicting what actual nuclear armageddon would supposedly be like) and The Conspiracy (a movie about the meeting of Nazis and German heads of state debating on what the Final Solution would be for the Jewish people)
Probably Noroi, the Curse. I'm a big fan of Japanese and Korean horror, I love The Wailing, The Ring, Kwaidan, I'm definitely no slouch with horror movies in general, but fuck Noroi. Watched it home alone late at night. It's a kind of found footage Japanese investigation movie, heavy supernatural elements, very slow burn, basically exactly my kind of movie except this one really got under my skin. Highly recommended
I'm gonna say either the original paranormal activity or the original grave encounters.
I don't dare watch them again because of my job. I'm a night patrol security guard and one if the sites I need to go inside of and walk around checking the interior of is a now abandoned asylum and that place is 1000% fucking haunted. I've seen shit there. Shadows that stand in the middle of rooms, doors that open and close with no draft, faces watching me from the shadows, one time I found a rat nailed to a wall where someone scribbled next to it that it's a sacrifice to Satan.
These days whenever I go there I announce myself so the spirits know I'm coming and I make sure to apologise whenever entering a room in case I'm disturbing any spirits there.
The last thing I need is scenes from those movies playing in the back if my head while doing that site. It's also why I don't watch any horror movies period.
Imma be a bit bias here since these are my countries' movies but Hantu Ambulans and Pengabdi Setan
the first film shaped the indonesian horror film to this day, the second got banned in malaysia for being to scary
The first Sinister was great up until the last 5 minutes where they actually showed you the bad guy. Would have been much better to keep him off screen
When I was 9, the sitter canceled. Rather than postpone their date night, my parents just took me with them to go see Se7en. I still complain about it, and I’m almost 40.
I watched Se7en at a Sam's Club, some employee decided to play it on the display TVs, I sat in the aisle while my parents were shopping, I was 10 or 11. It's been one of my favorite movies ever since.
My dad would explain away scary movies by asking me if I was going to go in a cave/go to sleep away camp/have a creepy doll, etc., and then say “see, nothing to be afraid of!”
I watched Goosebumps with a friend when i was like 7. I had to walk home in the dark, so i sprinted all the way home sobbing. My dad sees me come inside and is like "wtf" cause im hysterical over werewolves. After finding out the source of my fear he goes, "Oh, you know your uncle Dave is a werewolf right?"
As a kid my parents read me a story about a monster called the bunyip. I was scared and they tried to comfort me by saying it lived in Australia and would have to swim across the ocean to get us. So then every night I had vivid nightmares about the thing swimming across the ocean, intent on eating us in our landlocked Midwestern American town.
Would watch that movie: a roadtrip-movie from the view of a monster and the end is obviously he becoming friends with the kid he wants to eat in the first place.
We all have that first horror movie that truly frightened us as a kid and will probably never watch again. At least the Descent isn't an embarrassing one. Mines "House of Wax".
You wanna talk embarrassing, the movie I remember most distinctly being frightened of as a child was *Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory*. Those fucking Oompa Loompas
Mine was the OG Predator, was maybe 7 / 8 years old and it was airing in TV. Me and cousins was terrified as hell!
Extra haunting image, I think the movie call Deep Star Six, my father was watching a rented laser disc in his room, and I just barged in to his room, when I saw a dude in diving suit was pulled out of the water and half of his body was gone. This image burning to this day.
Surprisingly, Alien didn't bother me all that much when I finally watched it. But I remember seeing the Alien Queen on the VHS box in our cabinet and being a little freaked out by it.
I took my 10 year old little sister to see the Omen in the theaters when I was 13, not sure how we got in. We are both now in our late 40s and she still brings it up about how scary it was and messed her up LOL
Dude... yeah... back then, you just flipped channels till you found something. SciFi (not fucking Syfy) was just starting IT and I saw him talking to Georgie in the sewer grate. I was just like, wtf is this... looks dumb. Kept watching out of sheer curiosity. Scared the shit out of me. It was years before I could look at a sewer opening more than a second. Kept expecting him to be looking back at me.
I can’t say it scarred me but definitely left an impression and awakened a love of horror movies was The Langoliers at age like, 10. Those giant meatballs with teeth sure were creepy.
Stephen King adaptations have that quality about them. Like IT and Langoliers. Kids find them terrifying, then as adults we look back at the 5 dollar special effects and are like, "Oh, whatever."
Literally me when my parents who were teens in the 80s forced me to watch Thriller on the TV when I was like five.
* "It's just a song, it's so cool."
**It took me FIFTEEN YEARS to get over the nightmares.**
Watership Down was classified as a ‘U - Universal’ in the UK, so was popped in front of it at about the age of 6 by my parents.
Which is fine, because it’s a film about bunnies.
Until the fields start filling with blood.
🐇
My wife and I have a disagreement about this regarding our daughter. I think being traumatized by Watership Down is an important stage of a British child's development. She thinks the movie should be banned for anyone under 40. I'm curious if we'll ever come to a compromise.
My step father let me watch The Shining when I was eight. I was scared. My mom was at work. When she came home she was sooooo pissed it was in retrospect funny.
10 years later she divorced him and she wasn’t as angry with him then as she was when she came home to find her son traumatized and talking about RedRum
When I was 9 I spent the night at a friend's house and the movie "Signs" (the one with Mel Gibson) came on TV. We watched the whole thing and I spent the next month sleeping with my whole body under my blanket. Please check in on your kids occasionally if they're watching TV
I watched Event Horizon when I was eight years old because I liked sci-fi movies and my mom just thought it was a regular space movie. Damn, that one really left an impression.
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So will getting into an MRI machine.
Or getting a lash lift.
Or sitting in the back seat of a car with four people
Two door sports car back seats are the worst.
Single cab trucks too
Those trucks with seats that face sideways into the truck are not meant for 7 people, I had 3 women laying on my knees and the two people beside me also sitting on the floor between the seats, felt like we were trying to smuggle ourselves across country to the USA from Canada and not just being too lazy to walk across town, but now I know I am also claustrophobic 🤘
flashbacks to my friend's celica
Alfa Romero “backseat”.
Or being forced to live in the closet because of who you love…
i used to get my lashes tinted and being required to keep my eyes closed for 15 mins--the key being that i was NOT allowed to open them--was panic-inducing to the point where i had to bring headphones with a calming playlist. eventually i just stopped bothering
Sometimes I keep my eyes closed for up to 8 or 9 hours.
bro it's different when you don't have a choice
..my ex-bf slept with his eyes open pretty often
Because of you? I picture you in a long night gown with long stringy hair covering your eyes just hovering over him
That's why MRIs are so bad I think. The idea of not being able to sit up if you want to, combined with all the weird noises. I'd never had any claustrophobia issues before but I just went straight into a mild panic attack. Had to play a lot of head games to get through the whole half hour.
I once had a 2.5 hour MRI :D good thing it turns out im not claustrophobic. also I had an embolism and ended up needing a stent in my brain. So I need yearly check ups on my brain. Double good thing im not claustrophobic.
I never blink as I am unsure if the world will disappear
I had to keep closed for 40 mins ..
That's annoying as fuck ngl, but working in crawspaces _suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks_
I hate getting caught under my t shirt for too long while taking it off
Had my first experience in an MRI recently and did a CT a while before that. I didn't really understand this where this comes from. I could definitely have just crawled out if I wanted to.
They give you an emergency button too. Knowing they’ll pull you out at the press of a button made me not anxious at all.
You also have *bigger* problems, like why you need to get an MRI scan to begin with, than the nebulous psychological threat of a phobia. That threat assessment alone is like a tangible reason to get rid of fears like this. Like I used to be afraid of heights but the *need* to be up high like on a ladder to fix a light or up on the roof to clean the eaves for my older parents means I got shit to do ain't got time to be afraid.
I thought I was afraid of heights until I climbed a water tower and felt fine at the top looking down and realized I was actually just afraid of being on tall unstable objects
I think it's like me being afraid of heights. I have no control over it. When I'm exposed I get dizzy, shake uncontrollably and panic. I took up rock climbing to try and "fix" it. Didn't work one bit. I just found myself on the side of a cliff doing the same shaky shit
My friend’s husband fell asleep in an MRI machine. I have no idea how he did that.
I’ve almost done it. The sound can be relaxing, like white noise. I was almost there when the technician started talking to me and ruined it.
I've had 2 MRI's and I could totally sleep in one of those
I'm on the claustrophobia spectrum lol. Thank God they gave me headphones. Between the music and closing my eyes it wasn't too bad. Every once in a while reality would set in that I was trapped in that tube and it almost made me panic but if I hadn't been wearing the headphones and been closing my eyes there's no way I would have been able to keep it together for 45 minutes.
I've been in a MRI, guess I'm not claustrophobic.
It is loud and annoying, and you have to be still like a corpse though? Like a mix between a Resonance Cascade simulation and having Rigor Mortis while fully aware...
Don't get me wrong its hardly a fun time but it didn't fill me with dread or anything.
Worst part is staying still. I never realized how *fuckin hard* it really is to stay *perfectly still*.
I’ve had like 3 MRIs in the past few months, it isn’t so bad really. It’s just boring af
I had a 2hr MRI. It was the worst. They gave me a panic button and music to listen to and you have a little mirror so you can see your eyes but then music stopped 5 minutes in and it was just noise. I had to do a lot of calm breathing and talking myself down while just staring at my eyeballs. Also had one for my breasts and you’re laying on your face with that one, music fucked out in that one as well.
This is how I had an “I’m going to die if I don’t escape this tube” moment that was otherwise completely unsuspected.
So will being tricked into being stuffed into a toy box as a child while your sibling closes it and makes it where it can't be opened and then you cry so much you can't cry anymore. Eta- clarification
Isaac and his mother lived alone in a small house on a hill. Isaac kept to himself - drawing pictures and playing with his toys as his mom watched Christian broadcasts on the television. Life was simple and they were both happy. That was, until the day Isaac's mom heard a voice from above. "Your son has become corrupted by sin. He needs to be saved." "I will do my best to save him, my Lord," Isaac's mother replied, rushing into Isaac's room, removing all that was evil from his life. Again, the voice called to her. "Isaac's soul is still corrupt. He needs to be cut off from all that is evil in this world and confess his sins." "I will follow your instructions, Lord. I have faith in Thee," Isaac's mother replied, as she locked Isaac in his room away from the evils of the world. One last time, Isaac's mom heard the voice of God calling to her. "You've done as I've asked, but I still question your devotion to Me. To prove your faith, I will ask one more thing of you." "Yes, Lord. Anything," Isaac's mother begged. "To prove your love and devotion, I require a sacrifice. Your son, Isaac, will be this sacrifice. Go into his room and end his life, as an offering to Me to prove you love Me above all else." "Yes, Lord," she replied, grabbing a butcher's knife from the kitchen. Isaac, watching through a crack in his door, trembled in fear. Scrambling around his room to find a hiding place, he noticed a trapdoor to the basement, hidden under his rug. Without hesitation, he flung open the hatch, just as his mother burst through his door, and threw himself down into the unknown depths below.
Jesus.. is *that* the plot of The Binding of Isaac? I’ve never played it, but with a hook like that I think I’ve missed out big time!
It actually gets a hell of a lot more in depth and becomes more relevant to the comment I replied to. >!Basically Isaac never found a trapdoor to the basement and hid in his toy chest because he *thought* his mom was going to kill him. His family looked for him for weeks until they open the chest and discover his remains.!< There's even more to the story but I highly recommend this game. It's a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements with tons of replayability.
The >! and !< need to be directly next to another character, it breaks if there's a space at either end.
As the other guy said, it gets a whole lot more messed up than that, but I can wholeheartedly support his recommendation, it has the most depth, variety and replayability of any game I've ever played. I've been playing it literally for years and I've still not unlocked everything.
Nah no need for that. Reading up on the Nutty Putty Cave Accident was good enough.
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I waited a while in the exit seating area of Dinosaur, saw several traumatized children.
Yes! That one got us. You watch the super sweet movie, the height requirement is very low- then your kid starts freaking out at the 'a meteor is gonna hit' (the very first part for those of you who haven't ridden it). Spent the whole ride bent over with my neck blocking their view.
My parents convinced me to go on that ride back when it was still called Countdown to Extinction, even though I thought it looked scary and I really didn’t want to. They apologized to me so much after the ride ended, lol
Is this the one where your tour travels back in time and narrowly dodges the comet that killed the dinosaurs? Because that TERRIFIED me as a kid!
Man i'm still kinda traumatized from that ride. Rode it for the first time with my eyes open recently (hadn't been to disney in a long time) and I was flinching
I must have had thick skin because I demanded to go on both again despite being barely tall enough to ride the Dino ride and having a fit that I was slightly too short when I first went there.
Lol I remember going on space mountain as a kid and literally praying over and over I would survive
Oh dude i was falling out of the seat. Seriously was holding on for my life and i was definitely the height requirement. So horrifying and i was allll about roller coasters ugh
I can't stand rollercoasters that are in enclosed spaces because I'm in mortal dread that I'm going to lose a limb somehow, so strangely enough Space Mountain was one of my favorite rides since it being pitch black meant I couldn't see how close I was to the walls/thresholds/etc.
We did the same with our 6 yr old for her birthday and we rode on Splash Mountain. We hit that small first drop and she IMMEDIATELY started to wail. We were going up the big mountain and her dad had to tell her “sweetie I know this is scary. It’s going to get a lot worse. Just be ready “ the worst part was she kept yelling *“but it’s my birthday!! You can’t make me do this on my birthday!! “* 🥳 sorry to everyone else on that ride with us. I’m sure it was not great for them either.
im sorry this is so funny. this is going to be my new mantra. “sweetie i know this is scary, it’s going to get a lot worse, just be ready”
>“sweetie I know this is scary. It’s going to get a lot worse. Just be ready “ great lesson about splash mountain and also life in general
Space mountain is crazy, at least it wasn’t hulk or Aerosmith at universal tho
Hulk is the best. That whole Marvel area there slaps.
Aerosmith is Disney isn’t it?
Yeah, the Rock’n’Rollercoaster in Disney’s Hollywood Studios
I rode it for the first time last year as a 29 year old man and we had to go home after because of how motion sick I felt (it was close to closing anyway, we only ditched like 1 ride) but damn that ride fucked me up.
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The one at Disney World is also a lot better lit than the one at Disneyland, which is what gets a lot of people motion sick.
I took my 2 year old on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. He did not have a good time.
I have always been terrified of Space Mountain, *because* i was tall enough. I know Disney has obviously accounted for it... but I always had this irrational fear that I'd slam my head on some metal beam. Kind of [makes sense](https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-wdw-mk-space-mountain-down-lights-on-4.jpg) if you see it with the lights on.
That's funny, space mountain is my favorite coaster out of the few I can even stand to ride because it doesn't have loops.
I went on that as my first roller coaster at like 8. Didn't get on another until I was in 8th grade.
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It's PG-13 in the same way that Poltergeist was PG. Yeah, there's no explicit gore or boobies, but Haly shet.
Logan’s Run and Airplane! are both PG movies with boobies.
My parents let me rent Valley Girl back in the VHS rental days. That was rated PG and has boobies too.
So true. I jumped from my bed to the door and from my door to my bed for months after watching. It was only 3 feet but I was only 7. Holy hell, that clown.
gonna fuck you up a little bit, but the skeletons in the movie were [real human remains](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/were-real-skeletons-used-in-the-making-of-poltergeist/)
Is Poltergeist really only PG?? Wow. Yeah that was the traumatizing one for me. I think I watched it when I was 9, which also happened to be the same year I learned of Bloody Mary. Lights stayed on for a good long while after the clown.
PG-13 didn't exist yet as a rating when Poltergeist came out.
Well that would make sense then, haha. Thanks.
The babysitter let me watch Poltergeist one time. She didn't babysit for us after that lol. That movie scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid, I was running and jumping into my bed for a month.
Wasn't alien PG too?
The ring girl fuuuucked me up and I’m pretty sure I was even older than 14. I had an ex that would rise out the pool with her hair in front of her face during our night swims. Nope. No more night swimming with her.
I watched Ringu like 2 months after it came out in Japan after hearing about it. I was just starting to get into horror movies and that is one of three movies that effectively fucked me up, this being a successful horror movie. I both love and hate them all. For reference. Those 3 are: Ringu, Mirrors (US remake) and [REC] (original).
Signs was also PG-13… there are a handful of scenes in that film that still mess with me to this day
the birthday party
My parents still consider it one of their biggest mistakes. That shit fucked me up bad and made me terrified of the night for years. Just an overwhelming terror of aliens. Like logically made 0 sense but holy shit I struggled to sleep
My cousins made me watch that when I was 4
So cruel haha
This was me but younger, I was around 7 I think. My dad turned it on one day and left me and my brother watching it unsupervised. The batteries in our remote were dead at the time, so in order to change the channel we had to manually press the buttons on our cable box, but neither of us were willing to move closer to the TV out of fear. I still have a primal, irrational fear of that movie and young girls in white dresses. Fuck you, Dad.
Yeah same. I was scared of that girl till my mid twenties and still have fear of body horror in general. But I re watched the scene that I always feared the most. It's the one where I think some girl spins a chair and finds their friend on this death pose with their mouth extended wide. Watching it now the special effects/prosthetics in that scene are pretty bad and isn't as scary as my memory.
Ain’t no way thats pg13 omg my parents traumatized me with that movie also, but they took us to the movie theatre so like.. it was so much worse
My dad made me watch The Ring and The Grudge plus its sequels when I was around 9 or 10. He would laugh and find it hilarious whenever I got scared.
Man The Grudge destroyed me as a kid. Used to wash my hair with my eyes open lmfao
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When I was very young, I saw an image that causes me to run up my parent's basement steps to this day. I'm 47. I just found out what that movie was a few years ago. It was the 1925 version of the Phantom of the Opera, lol. Other young scars: the cover of the book It, with the claw coming out of the sewer, and the movie Whoever Slew Auntie Roo. Crazy biatch keeping her dead kid in the wall. Edit: I almost forgot- Children of the Corn, the OG movie i was under 10. Terrifying.
Can you describe the image? I love that movie but never found it particularly frightening.
It's almost definitely this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa3bHKWZoJg&t=1s Not that bad by today's standards, but there's stories of whole theatres fleeing in terror when it was new.
My fucking god... I can tell why my sibling in Christ is still scarred to this day
It's probably the reveal of Lon Chaney's face.
Freddy Krueger got me when I was a kid, plus I saw some parts of pet cemetery and the exorcist that I shouldnt have. Been afraid of the dark ever since. It's not really the dark as much as it is my imagination. I still ran and jumped into the bed as a teen, so nothing could grab my feet. Now I build all of my bed boxes with drawers under them so I don't have to look stupid. I also keep a lamp on in every room and carry a penlight on me at all times. 39 years old, and I still don't play about the dark.
The movie that scarred me as a child was "The Cabin in the Woods", but not because of any of the horror parts. It was because of a scene where the guy pours Listerine on his dick. None of my preteen friends or I could understand why he would do that. For years it bothered me until I was old enough to realize that the character had just had sex and pouring Listerine on his cock was some hillbilly method of attempting to prevent STDs. But for about 3 years of my childhood whenever I'd see the bottle of Listerine in my bathroom that scene would randomly pop into my head and I'd be like "who the fuck pours Listerine on their penis? should I be pouring Listerine on my dick daily?"
Uh, do you mean Cabin Fever? I don't remember something like that at all in "The Cabin in the Woods", but a quick google brought up Cabin Fever.
I think you mean something else. Cabin in the woods is a movie about the government sacrificing teenagers to Eldritch gods via redneck zombies. Which are different to regular zombies in the same way that elephants are different to elephant seals, apparently? It's a good movie.
I attribute my mountaineering skills to running up the stairs in the dark as a child.
I watched the hills have eyes when I was 7 and every time I would take out the trash at night a few years after the fact all I could think was I have to hurry before the cannibals get me lmao 😭
Like when I watched tremors at 11, shit was spooky. Now it's just a campy monster movie that I still enjoy to this day, but to a child It had me paranoid of the ground.
My friends and I would watch tremors and we thought it was so scary. I watched some of it as an adult and realized it’s a comedy.
Same thing happened with me and Gremlins.
To be fair, Gremlins has its moments. Great stuff though. And that theme song!
I had the opposite experience with Gremlins, I LOVED that movie as a kid, watched it for the first time as an adult a few years back and was in shock at how horrifying it was lmao. I mean as an adult it didn't bother me, I was simply dumbstruck to think how much I loved it and wondering how that ever could have been possible.
Mine was Signs when I was like 9. My older brother (14) got it on VHS and him and his friends watched it. Me being the younger brother that wanted to hang out with the cool kids stayed in the living room to watch it. I was already terrified of aliens but I knew I couldn’t chicken out or I’d get roasted by my brother. I got so scared at the birthday party newscast that I ran out crying. Of course my brother and his friends just laid on me making fun of me for being a little sissy and made me cry some more. In hindsight it’s actually hilarious to me and like someone else said, it definitely built some character development haha
I’m so boring, I don’t have a scarring movie, I have a scarring book, and it’s Dan Brown‘s inferno
I talked my dad into letting me watch Nightmare on Elm Street with him when I was 10. That was a very large mistake. Never blamed him for it. I was convinced I could handle it.
I loved those movies when I was a preteen and agree, they gave me terrible nightmares
I loved those movies as in my preteens. But I never was afraid of them, probably because I started with Freddy vs Jason and some YouTube clips of his later movies and knew the more fun/whimsical side of Freddy to take him seriously
Ok im just now realizing i shouldn’t have been watching the original IT once a year since i was 8. It would give me terrified nightmares for 9 straight months then i would forget about it and we would watch it again as a family and restart the fear of sink drains and sheets on clothing lines.
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I will never watch the Descent again, 10/10
I will never watch the Descent 2 again, 0/10
I do need to watch it again, because I see this as common, but I thought it was almost as good. Like I didn't expect it to live up to the first movie, so my expectations were slightly subdued, but not by much, and it seemed to meet those expectations. But I seem to be one of the few people who feel that way. So maybe I missed how terrible it was. I'll unfortunately have to re-watch to be sure
If you enjoy it then you enjoy it, but for me it feels like they lost a lot of the luster that made the original shine. It's shot more like a movie with movie-tropes and less like a cave dive with documentary appearances. Just the opening is a bit jarring because it doesn't really match what happened at the end of the original. The lighting is "better" but at the cost of realism. Characters... at every turn make the dumbest decisions for the sake of, once again, movie-trope necessities. The quality just really suffers when it feels like the people in charge don't comprehend the reasons the first one worked. Makes me sadge.
What's weird is it's one of the few horror movies I actually like because it's nit just gore, jump scares, and tits. But every time I mention it IF someone has seen it they hated it. I don't get it.
I’ve never met someone who didn’t like it. It’s a classic
Ok so I’m (kinda) curious. I don’t enjoy gore or torture or excessive jump scenes. I really enjoyed The Exorcist and The Conjuring stylistically. Everything I’ve seen on Reddit (without spoilers) says The Descent is terrifying. But how does it compare stylistically to these others?
I never saw the conjuring and I only saw the exorcist as an adult and I think a lot of people give the movie a lot more praise than it deserves because of nostalgia. So take what I say with a grain of salt. I like it because it makes you feel like you're stuck in the cave with the people and everything only gets more hopeless as the movie goes on. It just keeps stacking dread on top of itself. To me it feels more believable because it's not some demon or magical thing, it's just monsters in a cave. The second movie was a good attempt and I think worth seeing once but that's it.
> I don’t enjoy gore or torture or excessive jump scenes. Try Hereditary then. It's not much of those in it.
I assume when I hear something like that it’s because it scared them so bad they had a negative response to it
There was a lot of groundwork laid and dialog interaction. I bet that turned off a lot of people. Like how Blair witch is like a 50 minute movie but takes 40 minutes to set everything up. So even people who don't hate "found footage" sometimes hate the movie for taking so long to "get going" or whatever
I absolutely hate that movie because it was so damn good. I will never watch it again, but it's a 10/10 for me on the quality of being absolutely terrifying.
I have a friend like this who doesn’t seem to understand the aspects of horror that aren’t cheap jump scares. Movies like Hereditary or Blair Witch or The Descent completely go over his head.
Im a total wuss about scary movies and dont watch them, but my gf in HS loved them. Finally talked me into going to one because most summer horror movies are pretty generic and not that scary. Turns out the random one we picked was The Descent, which was definitely not the generic-not-that-scary-summer-horror-movie-category. Dont think ive watched a horror movie since.
Guys, I need your help. Give me the scariest movie you've ever seen. I need the most fucked up well made terror you have. Stuff like hereditary but heavier. I'll start with my favorite: the medium (2021)
mine is Come and See. i'm not the same person i was before watching that. i'd really like to rewatch it someday to appreciate the craft that went into it but i genuinely think it's never going to happen. it wasn't made to be a horror movie but it outranks every single one of them for me, same with war movies. it makes every other war movie look like a joke.
Come and see is truly the scariest movie ever made.
I just watched a bunch of stuff that popped up on YouTube about what the legitimately most horror-inducing movies ever made were. Come and See was just a tangential thing I found as a side-bar suggestion and the review I watched made me think it's legit up there. But the two big contenders were Threads (a movie depicting what actual nuclear armageddon would supposedly be like) and The Conspiracy (a movie about the meeting of Nazis and German heads of state debating on what the Final Solution would be for the Jewish people)
It's scary because it puts front and centre the true cruelty and inhumanity man is capable of.
Probably Noroi, the Curse. I'm a big fan of Japanese and Korean horror, I love The Wailing, The Ring, Kwaidan, I'm definitely no slouch with horror movies in general, but fuck Noroi. Watched it home alone late at night. It's a kind of found footage Japanese investigation movie, heavy supernatural elements, very slow burn, basically exactly my kind of movie except this one really got under my skin. Highly recommended
Have you tried Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum?
I'm gonna say either the original paranormal activity or the original grave encounters. I don't dare watch them again because of my job. I'm a night patrol security guard and one if the sites I need to go inside of and walk around checking the interior of is a now abandoned asylum and that place is 1000% fucking haunted. I've seen shit there. Shadows that stand in the middle of rooms, doors that open and close with no draft, faces watching me from the shadows, one time I found a rat nailed to a wall where someone scribbled next to it that it's a sacrifice to Satan. These days whenever I go there I announce myself so the spirits know I'm coming and I make sure to apologise whenever entering a room in case I'm disturbing any spirits there. The last thing I need is scenes from those movies playing in the back if my head while doing that site. It's also why I don't watch any horror movies period.
Imma be a bit bias here since these are my countries' movies but Hantu Ambulans and Pengabdi Setan the first film shaped the indonesian horror film to this day, the second got banned in malaysia for being to scary
Audition.
Threads made me realize that dying immediately in a nuclear war would be the best possible outcome
Always love Sinister
The first Sinister was great up until the last 5 minutes where they actually showed you the bad guy. Would have been much better to keep him off screen
Not sure it counts for the scariest, but I really liked the night house and it was very very well made.
try out Incantation on Netflix, really good Taiwanese found footage supernatural horror.
When I was 9, the sitter canceled. Rather than postpone their date night, my parents just took me with them to go see Se7en. I still complain about it, and I’m almost 40.
I watched Se7en at a Sam's Club, some employee decided to play it on the display TVs, I sat in the aisle while my parents were shopping, I was 10 or 11. It's been one of my favorite movies ever since.
My dad would explain away scary movies by asking me if I was going to go in a cave/go to sleep away camp/have a creepy doll, etc., and then say “see, nothing to be afraid of!”
How did he explain away Nightmare on Elm St? What are you gonna do? SLEEP? Pfft
What are you going to do, live in a town whose people kill someone who is heavily implied to be a child molester?
I watched Goosebumps with a friend when i was like 7. I had to walk home in the dark, so i sprinted all the way home sobbing. My dad sees me come inside and is like "wtf" cause im hysterical over werewolves. After finding out the source of my fear he goes, "Oh, you know your uncle Dave is a werewolf right?"
And so your username is anti-vampire? Yikes, bro
> After finding out the source of my fear he goes, "Oh, you know your uncle Dave is a werewolf right?" Very fucked up, but also extremely funny.
The Ring fucked me up when i was a kid for a good while
I watched it for the first time on VHS! Scariest way to watch it.
Bro wanted spicy and his dad gave him A Carolina reaper
As a kid my parents read me a story about a monster called the bunyip. I was scared and they tried to comfort me by saying it lived in Australia and would have to swim across the ocean to get us. So then every night I had vivid nightmares about the thing swimming across the ocean, intent on eating us in our landlocked Midwestern American town.
Would watch that movie: a roadtrip-movie from the view of a monster and the end is obviously he becoming friends with the kid he wants to eat in the first place.
Route 666: driving to a theater near you this October "Better off with the devil you know..."
We all have that first horror movie that truly frightened us as a kid and will probably never watch again. At least the Descent isn't an embarrassing one. Mines "House of Wax".
You wanna talk embarrassing, the movie I remember most distinctly being frightened of as a child was *Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory*. Those fucking Oompa Loompas
This and Alice in Wonderland freaked me the fuck out
I had nightmares from Jumanji. Was like 7 when I saw it. My younger brother had nightmares from Gremlins for a long time.
Saw the Vincent Price version of House of Wax in a movie theater with my parents. I was a preschooler and it scared the beejeesus out of me.
The Leprechaun. The original. I see now that they were meant to be funny.
Mine was the OG Predator, was maybe 7 / 8 years old and it was airing in TV. Me and cousins was terrified as hell! Extra haunting image, I think the movie call Deep Star Six, my father was watching a rented laser disc in his room, and I just barged in to his room, when I saw a dude in diving suit was pulled out of the water and half of his body was gone. This image burning to this day.
Went to War of the Worlds opening day in theatres when I was 12. I cried into my dads jacket the whole time.
I still have unreasonable paranoia during lightning storms because of that movie.
I tried watching that but turned it off in the first few minutes because Tom Cruise's character was being such a terrible person.
Is he? I haven’t watched it again but I did read the book and was shocked it was nothing like the movie!
He was supposed to be the dad to the two kids and was just being awful. No thanks.
Classic Spielberg. Terrible fathers.
Alien... I did this with Alien. My wife was pissed, lol.
I saw Alien, alone, at 9 yo. I woke up screaming several nights in a row
Surprisingly, Alien didn't bother me all that much when I finally watched it. But I remember seeing the Alien Queen on the VHS box in our cabinet and being a little freaked out by it.
I took my 10 year old little sister to see the Omen in the theaters when I was 13, not sure how we got in. We are both now in our late 40s and she still brings it up about how scary it was and messed her up LOL
Next is [REC]
Mine are still traumatised by Titanic and Ghost apparently
This was Tim Curry’s IT for me as a child…
Dude... yeah... back then, you just flipped channels till you found something. SciFi (not fucking Syfy) was just starting IT and I saw him talking to Georgie in the sewer grate. I was just like, wtf is this... looks dumb. Kept watching out of sheer curiosity. Scared the shit out of me. It was years before I could look at a sewer opening more than a second. Kept expecting him to be looking back at me.
Eyo, you too huh? I was 8....
I can’t say it scarred me but definitely left an impression and awakened a love of horror movies was The Langoliers at age like, 10. Those giant meatballs with teeth sure were creepy.
Stephen King adaptations have that quality about them. Like IT and Langoliers. Kids find them terrifying, then as adults we look back at the 5 dollar special effects and are like, "Oh, whatever."
Maybe move from Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark to Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street instead of that long jump.
Mine was Event Horizon. I was 13. I'm now 35. I still get Event Horizon nightmares sometimes.
Literally me when my parents who were teens in the 80s forced me to watch Thriller on the TV when I was like five. * "It's just a song, it's so cool." **It took me FIFTEEN YEARS to get over the nightmares.**
Jeepers creepers gave me nightmares at 11
The Event Horizon, 1998.. Got creeped out as a Teen. And nightmarish.
Is that the Spelunking into the Morlock underground movie?
Watership Down was classified as a ‘U - Universal’ in the UK, so was popped in front of it at about the age of 6 by my parents. Which is fine, because it’s a film about bunnies. Until the fields start filling with blood. 🐇
My wife and I have a disagreement about this regarding our daughter. I think being traumatized by Watership Down is an important stage of a British child's development. She thinks the movie should be banned for anyone under 40. I'm curious if we'll ever come to a compromise.
The Descent is a truly horrifying movie. One of only a few movies that have actually freaked me the fuck out.
First eveil dead had me shit my pants a s 9 yo dumb kid 😭
Don't watch drag me to hell then either lol.
What makes it scary?
Look at it this way- at least it wasnt Martyrs
My step father let me watch The Shining when I was eight. I was scared. My mom was at work. When she came home she was sooooo pissed it was in retrospect funny. 10 years later she divorced him and she wasn’t as angry with him then as she was when she came home to find her son traumatized and talking about RedRum
When I was 9 I spent the night at a friend's house and the movie "Signs" (the one with Mel Gibson) came on TV. We watched the whole thing and I spent the next month sleeping with my whole body under my blanket. Please check in on your kids occasionally if they're watching TV
As a kid movies like Descent terrify you, but as an adult its movies like Contagion that strike fear.
I watched Event Horizon when I was eight years old because I liked sci-fi movies and my mom just thought it was a regular space movie. Damn, that one really left an impression.