rock_nog
06-16-2014, 07:39 PM
Here comes yet another of my movie discussion threads. This time, what are your most traumatic scary movie memories from when you were a kid? They can be either something that seems almost benign by your adult sensibilities, or maybe you saw a movie you weren't supposed to and it freaks you out to this day. I have a feeling this should be entertaining (shame it's not closer to Halloween).
I've got two. One is the infamous "Large Marge" scene from Peewee's Big Adventure. Dear God, that movie freaked me out badly enough as it was (terrifying clown doctor dreams, the snake rescue from the pet shop - I don't blame him for passing out), but especially the Large Marge scene really got to me, so much so that as a kid, I had to leave the room when it was on. It wasn't until I was in college that I finally confronted that scene - watching it over and over again on youtube until I was desensitized to it.
My other most traumatic movie memory was the film Alien. See, I had fallen asleep on the couch watching Star Trek: The Next Generation one Saturday back in elementary school, and when I woke up, Alien was on. At the time, I wasn't familiar enough with Star Trek to really know all the characters, so seeing a bunch of people in space suits exploring a cave, I assumed I was still watching Star Trek. Then they found the testicle-looking eggs (as an adult, I now realize it was probably intentional that the eggs kinda looked like testicles, but it's something I picked up on even as a kid, even though I didn't really understand why an egg would look like a testicle). Then one of them got close to one... closer... closer... then OH MY GOD THIS SPIDERY-HAND-LOOKING-CREATURE JUST LEAPED UP ONTO THAT GUY'S FACE! HOLY SHITBALLS! I didn't even watch long enough to get to the chestburster scene that time, but I did at one point see that scene out of context, too, and it was just as scarring. Thus, as a kid, I had never even really watched Alien all the way through or even knew I was watching Alien at the time (both times, I came in to the movie somewhere in the middle, so had no idea what I was watching other than that it was in space), but the movie haunted my nightmares. Also, it took a long time for me to work up the courage to watch Star Trek ever again.
I've got two. One is the infamous "Large Marge" scene from Peewee's Big Adventure. Dear God, that movie freaked me out badly enough as it was (terrifying clown doctor dreams, the snake rescue from the pet shop - I don't blame him for passing out), but especially the Large Marge scene really got to me, so much so that as a kid, I had to leave the room when it was on. It wasn't until I was in college that I finally confronted that scene - watching it over and over again on youtube until I was desensitized to it.
My other most traumatic movie memory was the film Alien. See, I had fallen asleep on the couch watching Star Trek: The Next Generation one Saturday back in elementary school, and when I woke up, Alien was on. At the time, I wasn't familiar enough with Star Trek to really know all the characters, so seeing a bunch of people in space suits exploring a cave, I assumed I was still watching Star Trek. Then they found the testicle-looking eggs (as an adult, I now realize it was probably intentional that the eggs kinda looked like testicles, but it's something I picked up on even as a kid, even though I didn't really understand why an egg would look like a testicle). Then one of them got close to one... closer... closer... then OH MY GOD THIS SPIDERY-HAND-LOOKING-CREATURE JUST LEAPED UP ONTO THAT GUY'S FACE! HOLY SHITBALLS! I didn't even watch long enough to get to the chestburster scene that time, but I did at one point see that scene out of context, too, and it was just as scarring. Thus, as a kid, I had never even really watched Alien all the way through or even knew I was watching Alien at the time (both times, I came in to the movie somewhere in the middle, so had no idea what I was watching other than that it was in space), but the movie haunted my nightmares. Also, it took a long time for me to work up the courage to watch Star Trek ever again.