“That commercial that shows a nice sunny day with a car driving on the countryside, and then all of a sudden you’re jump-scared by a zombie. Early-2000s TV was great…”
—u/Necessary-Taro-7522
“Near the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, when Judge Doom turned into a toon. Always freaked the s@#t outta me.”
—u/ShadyPhuck
“I don’t know about traumatized, but it was the first time I was incredibly scared of something on TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the ‘Hush’ episode.”
—u/iBelieveInSpace
“The ‘Worthless’ song from Brave Little Toaster. I was too young to understand what I was feeling when I watched that part of the movie, but that was my first experience with existential dread.”
—u/BW_Bird
“Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory — when Augustus gets sucked up the tube. They played the movie for me in daycare when I was 4, and I remember it still. I didn’t watch it again until I was in my thirties.”
—u/coochpants
“The original It. Seeing that clown in the gutter — no thanks. Looking back on it now, it’s not all that scary.”
—u/Actuaryba
“‘Return the slab!’ (from Courage the Cowardly Dog).”
—u/AdvocateSaint
“The subway scene from The Wiz. It gave me nightmares for years.”
—u/ThePickleSniffer
“My mom took me to see Watership Down because it was a cartoon. I had sweat-filled sleepless nights for years after. Never watched it again.”
—u/TheWeeDrammer
“Matilda came out right as I was starting school. Ms. Trunchbull scared the s@#t out of me. I was so scared to go to school because I thought I’d be put in the chokey … I pretended to be sick so much those first few months of school, and then my mom told me I had to tell her what was wrong or I would have to do kindergarten over again.”
—u/Byzantium42
“The movie Looks Who’s Talking — the angry-talking-toilet scene.” I didn’t s@#t for a week.”
—u/grim_gravySS
”Near the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, when Judge Doom turned into a toon. Always freaked the s@#t outta me.”
—u/ShadyPhuck
“Oh yes, and the Plague Dogs movie, too. The advertising made them look like fun, kid-friendly animal adventure movies. The reality was…far more harrowing.”
—u/Dahhhkness
“So yeah, when I was 8 I watched that Simpson episode where homer gets his thumb accidentally chopped off by marge while she’s casually cutting brownies and It freaked me the f@#k out I couldn’t watch the Simpsons for 2 years, I would run away while covering my ears whenever it aired.”
-u/ur_in_a_coma_wake_up
“The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang gives me nightmares to this day, and I’m in my mid-twenties.”
—u/GingerBud410
“The black, shadowy things from the movie Ghost.”
—u/TheOnlyBaku
“The Mummy … THE ONE FREAKING SCENE of a bug (I forget its name. It’s an Egyptian bug) that gets into the guy. GOSH. IT IS REALLY SCARY. I was A 7-YEAR-OLD CHILD…do not watch.”
—u/Chpolya
“The X-Files episode ‘Squeeze,’ the episode where the guy could squeeze through small spaces and was on a killing spree. I was afraid to use the bathroom because it was connected to the sewer.”
—u/elliold
“Old Yeller, The Exorcist, and Bambi”
-u/Pale-Concentrate-111
“That one Indiana Jones movie where they tie up this guy and this sort of priest comes and sticks his hand in the guy’s chest and pulls out his heart”
-u/futato
“An episode of Unsolved Mysteries where they talked about Spontaneous Human Combustion. Terrified me for like 2 years.”
-u/moody4foody
“The Ring. Back then, we had a very similar oval mirror and we had all Sony TVs, in which all of their remotes work with all the TVs.. my brother used to mess with me by turning on my tv and changing to a static channel. I couldn’t sleep by myself until I was around 12”
-u/prototypec
“I was unfortunate enough to watch The Hills have Eyes remake when I was 5 and my dad passed out while watching. Walked in just in time to see the old man being burned alive and “that” scene in the RV. That movie was way more f@#king graphic than it needed to be…”
-u/The_Stoned_Bard
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I hear ya on that, I did watch it once more though, that is stuff nightmares are made of~!