Films that freaked you out as a kid

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Any films that really freaked you out?

"Beneath the Planet of the Apes" - the scene where they are pulling off their faces to reveal the veins etc underneath - Yuck.
"Soylent Green" - My father took us to see it over and over. I was terrified of trash trucks for years
"Journey to the Center of Time" - A really bad film, but it haunted me for years.
"Slither" (A caper film from 1973) All I remember is the scene where a guy tosses around TNT and blows himself up.
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" - I ended up working with the director, Mel Stuart so I understand why that film is so weird.

Anybody else got stories about films that gave you nightmares?

That Sgt. Pepper movie with the Beegees in it...also, Caveman with Ringo Starr

Darby O'Gill. That was a Disney film. There was a banshee that scared me silly. Years later, some documentary said that Darby O'Gill was ahead of its time for special effects.

In the first Star Trek movie, there's a scene with a transporter malfunction. Mutated, slimy, dying people writhing on the floor. Blecch. Star Trek is NOT supposed to be gory like that.

There was another one I can't remember the name of... maybe "Saturn 5" or something? It was about an outpost on a moon of Saturn, and there is a robot that uses it's metal hand to snip off a person's hand in a fight. I think I spent the rest of the movie cringing behind my soda.

The Blob

Toy Story - The scene where the toys get back at Sid. It made me slightly paranoid about my own collection of toys, to the point where I distinctly remember having a nightmare about one of them trying to kill me.

E.T.

The night after I saw that I had a nightmare that E.T. was chasing me around a seedy motel room with a straight-razor.

Not to mention he's a groaning brown-gray blob with an affinity for touching children.

The Talking Heads music video for "Blind" scared the hell out of me more than any movie I remember.

In Bambi the scene where
his mother was shot, the
dang gunshot made me jump
out of my SKIN.

Dot and the Kangaroo. The bunyip song, oh that bunyip song There are a lot more, but I don't remember any of their names... Hmm I'll get back to you on this one.

Bram Stoker's Dracula - I don't even remember how old I was, probably around 8. The first time I saw it it scared the bejeezus out of me and the second time I saw it (shortly after) I was fascinated by the concept of vampires. This movie started my interest in vampire mythology.

From Dusk Till Dawn - I was about 10 when I saw it, by myself, in a barely lit room. I had nightmares for weeks.

Akira.

Yes I watched it as a kid.

And yes, it still freaks me out. So, so much.

I first saw Fantasia when I was five years old. That dead dinosaur scene gave me nightmares for years.

ruveyn

any number of old twilight zone and outer limits episodes featuring maimings/deformations of people into grotesquely malformed victims of evil. a primal fear of mine is maiming and pain. i don't want it to happen to me or anybody else, so any entertainment which depicts this, makes me quickly change the channel.

A lot of the old Disney films, like Pinochio (or however you spell it).

Hitchcock's Birds. I watched a part of it by mistake when I was 5. It gave me nightmares for weeks.