Childhood movie traumas

[rayge]

Unashamedly ripped off from my facebook feed. Which films you saw when a child/pre-pubescent upset you?

my first thought was this one, not particularly frightening in itself, I guess - it had an Unrestricted censorship rating, which is how come I saw it in a rerun fleapit in Green Lanes, Tottenham (even I'm not old enough to have seen it on release in 1951) - but containing an image that still gives me shivers when i think of it today.

[Sneelock]

well, for YEARS I had a recurring nightmare of the black & white fake-o tornado in "the Wizard of OZ".

I remember an uncle turned the TV around so he could watch "the Invasion of the Saucer Men" while we ate dinner. there's a crawling detached hand with an eyeball on it. every time I saw it I wanted to throw up (the fact that we were eating Liver & Onions didn't help) it was YEARS before I could watch that movie and see how corny and fake it was.

one more- Mario Bava's "Black Sabbath" - the sequence where the maid takes the dead ladies ring. Spoiler Alert: the dead lady takes it back. Holy SHIT that thing terrified me.

[Charlie O.]

The only one I can think of was a movie I didn't actually see and don't remember the name of. After moving to Turkey (see Godfather thread), the first movie we (the whole family this time) went to see was 1776 - a G-rated flick if ever there was one. But the "coming attraction" prevue was for a zombie movie. (I'd never heard of zombies before - I think one of my older brothers had to explain them to me.) It included a scene of a zombie taking a sword and slicing some chap's head neatly down the middle. I don't know how that got "approved for general audiences" but I do know I had nightmares about it for at least a couple of nights.

[A.R. Parsons]

I must've been about 4 when I saw this and it put me right off steak:

[Reactionary Rage]

Salem's Lot. My parents were pretty liberal and let me watch any old horror/18 rated shit growing up but I do recall a conversation my parents had as to whether I should watch it because they thought it was maybe "too intense". It probably was. The scene at the window...the blue skinned Nosferatu inspired "Master"...a creepy as fuck James Mason (" It's faith against faith when you face the master!"). It was a TV movie too so it lacked Hollywood gloss giving it a more realistic, slightly dirty, grainy feel that added to the nightmare fuel (a quality a lot of low budget 70s horror films have).

It's easy to see why a child would be disturbed. This is the stuff of nightmares...

[Reactionary Rage]

The Elephant Man was the first movie I ever cried at. It upset me greatly and I can still recall watching it with the old man and BOTH of us were blubbing away.

I watched it a couple of years back and was a COMPELETE MESS throughout.

[Deleted]

What a bunch of fucking pussies. ! PTMD , who knew.

[Deleted]

Pinnochio where all the children get captured and turned into braying donkeys.
It's a horrible thing to show to children really.

[Sneelock]

my adult daughter has never forgiven me.

[fearlessfreap]

When I was in 4th through sixth grade, I had the misfortune to attend Catholic school. A psychotic nun showed our class Night and Fog. I found it disturbing , but some of the kids were running out of the room crying.