What movies gave to nightmares when you where a kid?

Question

for me it was Arachnophobia, Fatal Error and The Terminator

[Arachnophobia] - I still got bad arachnophobia thanks to this movie!
[Fatal Error]- This film gave me terrible nightmares for months.
The antagonist in this film is a tv box (Called the Digicron system) with a glowing red light that kills you if you try to turn it off. (A victims body crystalizes and falls apart while they're still alive; freaky gore!
(I was absolutely terrified of any red light on any electronic for over a year, I could watch TV for over 3 months and it's was 6 months before I could use a computer again.)
[The Terminator] - Selfexplanatory, that robot with those piercing red eyes and that demonic glare on the skull gave me nightmares for months. (and it still gives me the creeps to this day!)

Answer 1

When I was really little the movie Hook scarred me. Yeah I know pretty sad. I was so afraid of Captain Hook I thought he was going to kidnap me.

Answer 2

That gasping gill-man from the Black Lagoon, but a really big scare for me was Howard Hawk's "The Thing" (from another planet) I sat right up front. I had very bad eyesight and the whole movie was a blur. The low, rolling piano music was helping me to see what I thought. I had to walk home at close to midnight across snow swept streets. It gave me the creeps
I was fascinated by the alien creatures with long skinny arms with 3 fingered tree-frog hands in the original War of the Worlds.
Then I got glasses and Hollywood got effects and went all digital. I don't have nightmares .

Answer 3

We went to the drive-in (we lived in a sleepy little country town). The first movie was some family thing, then Alien came on. I was only little. My Dad was so excited as he'd been wanting to watch it for ages. As soon as I saw that alien burst out of the body I screamed and cried and cried and we had to go home. But worse than that was when we went to an anatomy museum and there was a dead body embalmed in a jar - I had nightmares and terrors for months that it was hiding under my bed - if I dared let my hand hang over the side... it might touch me...!!!

Answer 4

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, Exorcists

Answer 5

Nightmare on Elm Street

Answer 6

I know this isn't a movie but i kept having nightmares after watching Medium. I would be in the body of the victim like allison was , except it would link to me personally more eg; i was in my car instead of the shows one. It was so scary so i stopped watching it which was a pity 'cause it was a good show.

Answer 7

The original uncut Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Answer 8

The original "Night of the Living Dead"
The Exorcist
Rosemary's Baby
Original "Halloween", even though I was a teenager at the time. Some dog scared the crap out of me as I was walking home from the theater.

Answer 9

When I grew up we had "Creature Features" with Wolfman Jack. Dracula, Frankenstein, the Thing, the Hand........lots of creepy stuff. The vampire movies scared me the most and I had a blue, glow-in-the-dark plastic cross that I would sleep with to keep em away!

Answer 10

I don't remember any from when i was a kid but now days those SCREAM movies give me nightmares. That mask just freaks me out.