Movies that scared you as a kid

Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. It was terrifying to me that a script so abhorrent could be green lit by a major studio. I was too naive at the time to realize just how shitty things could(and would)get

Ernest Scared Stupid was unexpectedly scary.

And for a Disney movie Bride of Boogedy was downright terrifying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Boogedy

"Night of the Living Dead". I don't know why I was watching it at 7 or 8 years old, but it was too much for me.

I liked other horror movies, the campy silly things they showed on "Creature Features", with their ham performances and rubber monsters. But there's real fear in "NotLD".

Also, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids-- the insects in that freaked me out, among all the other incidents those kids ran into.


I LOVE THAT MOVIE BUT WILL NOT WATCH IT...I HATE WHEN ANTIE DIES.

I remember this movie really creeping me out as a kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbY0BgIRMk Ironically, years later as a teen, I wound up working in the same theater where I had watched it.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981), Don’t Go to Sleep (1982) were 2 made for TV movies that scared the piss out of me when I was a kid.

Digby. There is a scene in the trailer when his owner is in his mouth that scared me and he looked like my next door neighbor’s dog.

Stephen King's It (1990) and Tremors (1990)