Every kid does it at least once...

You bug your parents to let you see some movie... they say no. You keep bugging and bugging and bugging... and finally they give in. And now you can't sleep because you're scared of something you saw...

I was 10(?). The movie was "The Posiedon Adventure" (OK, so I was a bit of a wimp back then...) Flash forward 30 years or so... History repeats itself... The person? My daughter (TrekGrrl). The movie? ST:FC. Intellectually, she knew that it was just a movie, but in the back of her head... she couldn't sleep because of fears of being Borgified...

What movie was it for you (or your kids)?

For me it was Congo, when I was, what, ten? I'd been looking forward to seeing it for a long time, but the minute I saw that eyeball roll out of the bushes I was freaked.

The Philadelphia Experiment, for me. I still don't know what it's about, but it creeped me out big time.

JAWS

I was ten, too. And We were on a family camping vacation to the East Coast to visit relatives.

We saw it in New Brunswick when we were visiting my Aunt. My parents got the master bed to sleep in and I was set up on a little matress on the floor next to them. It wasn't long before my Dad was on the floor and I got the bed with my Mom. I thought a shark was gonna swim out of the carpet and get me.

Needless to say, I didn't swim much when we went to the beach later on in the vacation.

For me it was "The Wrath of Khan," particularly the ear/brain-worm scene. Just after I saw the film, I went swimming and got water in my ears (as most of us do). Well, I could hear/feel the water rolling around in my ear canal and I totally believed it was an ear/brain worm. I kept imagining the scene where the worm crawled out of Chekov's ear in the movie and thinking, "I've got a worm in my head." I still think of it every time I go swimming.

Funny enough, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I was 10 at the time. (insert "Twilight Zone" music)

I was about four or five when I was wandering in and out of the living room as my brother watched The Fly and I saw both the baboon-turned-inside-out and the arm breaking.Didn't get much sleep that night, needless to say.......

Cableface how did you cope with the acid spitting, final transfomation & brain creaming scenes? I had to change channel a few times during them.

For me it was when my Siter was watching Nightmare on elm Street. She was Older and could handle it better I was about 6 and was scared out of my mind. I couldn't got to sleep for Three days for fear the Freddy would get me.

Joe, I mercifully wasn't in the room for those particular scenes.But what exactly was the brain-creaming? I don't remember that.........

When I was 6, I somehow talked my parents into letting me go to a vampire movie with some other kids from the neighborhood. When the first vampire rose up out of the grave, I got so scared one of the older kids had to take me home.

I can remember glancing at the screen off and on when my family were watching the original "The Fly" on television. Seeing that tiny, human-faced fly in the spider's web going "Help me, help me..." gave me the cauld grue. I kept visualizing it for weeks afterwards.

With another movie (and I haven't the faintest idea what the title was) it showed a man in an elevator which had broken and was falling. (No safety, apparently.) It was a long, LONG fall, and the man kept screaming, hiding his face, clawing the walls, whatever, until it finally hit bottom. It was a long time before I got into an elevator again.

When I was 9 or 10, I saw "Arachnaphobia" (sp?). I couldn't sleep that night and looked for spiders in the shower for a while afterward (And there were a couple of times when spiders were actually in my shower.)

I don't recall having nightmares about it, but the original "The Blob" had me creeped out the night I saw it. The idea of being disolved by something that could go ANYWHERE was freaky. "And what if there was a blob that WASN'T stopped by cold?" was one of many thoughts racing through my mind.

Funny, I think I was 9 or 10, too. Must be an impressionable age.

BTW, it's a good thing I didn't see the remake of "The Blob" when I was 9 or 10, given the style of victims' deaths in that version. Yuck!

And once more... "Lord of the Rings" freaked out TrekGrrl too... I caught tons of flak from Mrs. ScottN for that one.

At about age, oh, ten or so, I somehow ended up killing a Sunday afternoon watching Phase IV. This is basically the heartwarming story of how some ants become superintelligent and start stinging hapless farmers to death. Some scientists try to foil them - think Andromeda Strain, only with lotsa closeups of little yellow ants - but it's no use, by the end of the film all the scientists are dead and the ants are heading to Houston...

Well. It had never occurred to sweet, naiive little me that movies didn't always have happy endings. Especially horror movies. (And it didn't help that this movie was shot in highly realistic, pseudo-documentary style.)
For weeks I went around glancing nervously over my shoulder, wondering if the local fauna was planning to rise in revolt. To this day, the sight of a lot of ants in one spot sends a faint chill down my spine...

Then there was the time my thirteen-year-old twin sisters decided they were 'mature' enough to watch Fatal Attraction without supervision, late at night.
The next morning found them curled up in my mom's bed, whimpering, "We didn't know she was gonna KILL the bunny!"

Hey, ScottN, if you're still lurking around here...

The Poseidon Adventure?! Did you live on a houseboat at the time? I think I was about six or seven when I first saw that film, and I always liked it. (It's certainly the best of the 1970's disaster flicks.) I even still have my ViewMaster set from this film. (As a kid, I would turn the viewer upside down so I could see what the capsized sets looked like "right side up.")

I was a bit freaked by the transporter malfunction on Star Trek:TMP. It might have been OK if they hadn't screamed...

There's one thing worse than seeing something scary, and that's seeing something scary in the mirror. I remember a vampire movie where a guy drops his crucifix in a puddle, and while desperately trying to find it sees a red-eyed vampire behind him, reflected in the puddle.

(OK, vampires aren't supposed to have reflections. I don't remember whether the movie explained this.)

_{Sophie's not looking in any mirrors on the way to bed...}

The only truly disturbing film I ever saw was the made-for-TV "Omen IV: The Awakening." OK, so it was absolute trash. But still, all of the gruesome deaths were very chilling. And that baby...

It was a long time between when I switched the TV off and when I got to sleep.