cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/50792
For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
I remember when I was little my big brother was watching it in the living room, I was told not to come out of my room but from the doorway of my room I could see a mirror that reflected the living room TV. I saw the scene of Chucky melting and I was terrified of toys coming to life until I was about 18-19.
I had a defective Tickle Me Elmo that would randomly go off randomly in the night and would terrify me and my twin brother. I remember my first and only instance of sleep paralysis where the Tickle Me Elmo toy came to life, crawled down the shelf he sat on and touched my head just out of sight while talking to me. After that I cried and cried and begged my mom to take all my toys away.
Arachnophobia. I one of the ones that claims I acquired a minor version from the film. Took me years to get over it. Of dedicated effort, after I grew up. Even today a sudden sighting can sometimes get a squeak out of me though, annoyingly.
I was going to say the same thing! I was so surprised to see that exact movie as your choice lol. It’s a great movie.
Oh wow, yeah Event Horizon is not a good movie to see in your youth haha. That’s intense!
For me, I didn’t get to see the whole movie, but I walked into the living room while my parents were watching Hostel and I saw the achilles tendon scene. That imagery still haunts me to this day. Grew up to love horror, though!
Actually not the OP just thought that this community needed some love. That said I do have a very distinct memory of having one of those two for one DVDs with Event Horizon on one side and some fairly tame solar flare-themed PG-13 disaster movie on the other side that I watched ALL the time. Definitely would’ve been a shock to go from the latter to the former but I don’t think I ever did.
The Shining. Watched it when I was under ten years old.
Couldn’t sleep with the lights off for months.
But I agree with OP about on the Event Horizon movie. My experience with that film was great cause I just expected a sci-fi movie. Instead I got a twisted vision of horror that still haunts me to this day.
