The scariest dolls are the ones in BARBARELLA. They make horrible clacking sounds and they have metal teeth. My older brother was in love with this movie for obvious reasons but it scared the crap out of me! I just remember them biting into JANE FONDA's legs and I loose it.
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One of my earliest memories of a movie creeping me out as a kid would be the 1953 original INVADERS FROM MARS. I caught it on television when I was probably no older than six or seven on what must have been a black and white set because I was recently surprised to find the movie was actually shot in color despite my recollections. So this kid sees a flying saucer land in this spooky field out behind his house in the middle of the night and tries to convince his parents and the authorities of what he saw. Problem is, each time someone investigates they get dragged down beneath this sandpit that the saucer has burrowed beneath.
What's worse is that these victims come back…different. The kid's father, who was sucked into the ground, is cold and even hostile toward his own son. At one point the father even smacks the kid down to the floor when his son spots a strange growth on the back of the dad's neck. Soon the father is taking his wife up to be abducted and reprogrammed and the poor boy doesn't even know his own parents anymore. As a child, the Martians (when we finally see them) were much less scary than the thought of my parents suddenly becoming unfamiliar or mean. To this day I still sometimes double check the back of my parents' necks for any strange protuberances!
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It was a childhood visit to my cousin's house in Blacksburg, VA that scarred me for life. My visits to Dwight's were usually spent playing R.C. Pro-Am, or pool, or baseball, if the weather was nice. But for some reason, that afternoon we wound up in sitting in front of PET SEMATARY—a horror-movie experience that I'm not quite sure I've ever recovered from.
I had actually read the book, so I knew that the whole thing would end badly—but the novel hadn't prepared me for the movie's scene in which the mother finds her crippled sister in a filthy upstairs bedroom. As she looks in, the woman rises from her soiled bed and hobbles insanely around the room, screaming, "Rachel! You'll never walk again! NEVER WALK AGAIN!" As an eleven-year-old, I could handle mean cats and even scalpel-wielding zombie toddlers—but this scene was unmanageable. It was so viscerally disturbing that I had to avert my eyes, but by then, the damage had been done. And besides, I couldn't block out her cackling shrieks.
When I went back to my grandparents' house that night, I was, as clichéd as it sounds, afraid of the dark. I flipped the light off and jumped into bed, afraid not of little Gage slicing my ankle from beneath, but of a demented, abandoned woman with protruding vertebrae. Even today, if I'm stumbling around in the dark and I think of that scene, I break into a minor panic.
I don't know why we didn't play baseball that day.
Editor's note: After an extensive background check, we here at kindertrauma could find no real evidence that Jacob Lambert and PET SEMATARY director Mary Lambert are in any way related. What we did discover though, was Jacob's hilarious satirical news site THE PHILADELPHIA TURKEY.
I remembered this made for TV Movie called SSSSSssssss. It was about a guy who slowly turns into a snake. The visuals of the character in between the metamorphosis scared the hell out of me as a kid. I was terrified by it.
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The scene with the melting policeman character (whose body Jason had been occupying for a while) scared the living shit out of me. This poor guy looked like he was in extreme anguish. Absolutely terrifying.—-To top it all off I was about 6 when I saw it!
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