Alfred Hitchcock "The Birds" scared me big time!

Miss Gulch transforms to the witch in the twister in Wizard of Oz.

I literally dove behind the couch the first time.

Oh man. That still somewhat bothers me.

There are many really terrifying things about that movie for it to be thought of as appropriate for children

The Shining when it came out.

I just remembered The Exorcist when I was about seven. I wasn't supposed to be watching it, but my trifling ass mother was out at a nightclub with her Man of the Moment. It was on HBO. Linda Blair's head started spinning and she started spewing green crap and I hauled ass out of the apartment to the neighbor's house. The End.

Definitely Alien! My first introduction to the film was at the age of 5, snuggled into my big bear of a father who was then just 23 years old, feeling absolutely terrified but unable to tear my eyes away as my dad explained, laughing and lighthearted, that it was just people like you and me in makeup and costumes like on Halloween. For the next year or so I laid awake in the top bunk of my bed at night, my little sister snoring softly below, and swear I could see a black, glistening, banana-shaped head peering back at me through the darkness of an open closet door at the foot of my bed, all drooling and hissing and patiently waiting.

I got over it though. I would wear Ellen Ripley’s character like a shield of armor through the remainder of my adolescence, all strength and charisma, and was one of those nerds who lined up at midnight to see the newest film of the Alien saga on opening night in theaters; such a profoundly feminist character for 5-year-old little me.

Wizard of Oz flying monkeys.

"The Birds" terrified me the most and was the first, but I remember watching "The Legend of Boggy Creek" when I was a kid. I was afraid to go near windows at night for a while. lol

An old black and white sci fi, I was almost 5 years old, "The Day Mars Invaded Earth" I was fine until the closing scene, when they showed the ash outlines of all the humans in the story in the swimming pool, ie Mars won.

When I was little, we went to the movie to see Night of the Hunter. Robert Mitchum was terrifying. There is a scene where he has murdered Shelly Winters, and drives her into the river in her care. She I'd sitting in the car, dead, with her long hair floating out behind her. I was scared to death. When he was following the little kids down the river was so scary. It was made in 1955, so I was 8 years old when I saw it. It was a masterpiece of psychological horror.

When I was very little (maybe 3) we were at the theater to see Snow White, and mom had to carry me out when the witch came on because I was so scared and crying so loud.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space when I was 7. I'll never forget the blood being sucked through a crazy straw or that one kid clown uppercuting that one guys head off into a trash can.

The witch in sleeping beauty. Second is the melting scene in the wizard of oz.

The Birds, Hitchcocks genius to scare the shit out of the audience was the best. The slow moving scene with all of the birds congregating outside of the school while the kids inside sang an insanely repetitive song gave me nightmares for years! Although he was a huge asshole, Hitchcock was the best.

Critters. Had nightmares for ages.

Jaws. I think I was about seven or eight and we saw it at the drive in. I refused to take baths for about a week.

That rock creature from Star Trek TOS. I was 5 or 6.

Hill house black and white

At a drive-in in the 60's, "The Premature Burial", worried about being buried alive for weeks.

Movies don’t scare me, I know they aren’t real. It really sucks, I’ve wanted them to scare me but it doesn’t happen. Maybe a sudden flash will startle, but that isn’t being scared.
There was one time that I did get freaked out, though. It was an ABC CBS etc movie. I was maybe 8 or 9 at the time, my mom was watching it on tv and I was just there. A mentally ill child was involved. I don’t know the story. At some point the child didn’t want its spaghetti, maybe knocking it off the table, maybe not. When the adult questioned the child about the spaghetti, it didn’t want the spaghetti because “it looks like brains”, which apparently the child had seen previously. Anyway, that freaked me out, but otherwise, nothing.

The Exorcist. Scarred me for life!!

The Shining. Those twins. Multiple scenes really.

The Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz when I was 5 or 6 years old. I was terrified of her, but it didn't stop me from watching the movie over and over again. It was the first movie I was given on VHS.

The ghost in the library, Ghostbusters. Still scares the crap out of me now.

"Psycho" at a drive in when the guy's mother's remains were shown in her rocking chair.

The original "Night of the living dead" "there coming to get you Barbara"