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Body Snatchers (1993)
An American Werewolf in London. My parents were watching it when I was like 6. The opening sequence on the moors scared the hell out of me, and they decided I should go to bed. I think they had heard it was a comedy, so weren't prepared for actual horror. That scene stuck with me for like 20 years before I ever rewatched it. It's a good movie as an adult.
Definitely Stephen King's IT, the 90's miniseries. Tim Curry is absolutely terrifying as Pennywise. That lip curl he does when he says "Oh yes, Georgie, they float".
Not a movie, but The Real Ghostbusters episode (showing that age) with the Boogeyman was downright terrifying
Candyman, thought of a dark bathroom still scares me.
if cartoons count, the "return the slab" episode on Courage the cowerdly dog, scared the hell out of me and I couldn't be in the dark for months after.
I remember when I has a kid my dad was Watching "Pink Floyd The Wall" and the scene where the kids walked on an assembly line to become sausages scared me a lot. It became kind of a misterious movie to me because the melody was kids popular and I could remember how dark that sensation was.
Many years later I started listening to Pink Floyd and watched the entire movie. I still love it.
gotta agree on event horizon, I loved scary movies but that one was something else.
Witness - I was about the same age as the kid in the movie. I'm still sketched put in Airport/train/bus station bathrooms.
James and the giant peach was already an all around unsettling movie, but that thunderstorm rhino scared the bejeebes out of me as a kid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Alive_(1974_film)
But really just the commercials on TV.
Really showing my age here.
I can't really remember why but I never wanted to watch Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer again after seeing it once. I just googled it and it could be the Ice-Queen that's in there that I didn't like but I'm not sure.
Jeepers Creepers
I can still the remember the little jingle
The OG Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. I was like, 6? Spent weeks looking under the bed for pods.
When I was a child, Pet Sematary scared the living hell out of me.