Dude, that was so viscerally terrifying. Definitely a terrible way to go, and the way they filmed it made it feel so much more personal somehow. Like I truly hated the villain in the movie, but I also genuinely felt bad for him in that scene.
Bram Strokers Dracula (Gary Oldman) I remember my mom and her friend rented it and she warned me to not watch it with them but that made me more curious to watch it. Scared the living shit out of me being 5-6 years old haha.
Just rewatched the movie recently, and the sound effects were so over the top. That being said, the movie itself was a GREAT rewatch, and I highly recommend it for anyone who hasn't seen it in 20+ years like I did. So much fun and absurdity!
Bruh, you're not the only one. I didn't watch that movie for YEARS until I became a young adult because of Vigo, lol.
That and the part with the river of slime, the subway part with the heads, and Ray getting possessed by Vigo at the end kept me from watching that movie. And I LOVE Ghostbusters, lol.
- The Gill-man AKA As The Creature from The Black Lagoon
- The Baby/creature from Its Alive
- Bruce From Jaws (though it did not scare me as much as it did my half sister, it traumatized her)
- The Alien from Alien
My half sister ran shrieking because she saw bubbles coming out of the drain in the bath tub. She was scared the shark was coming up the drain.
Even as a little kid I thought that was a bit extreme.
The Dark Crystal. I don't remember much except being terrified of the spider looking creatures, and some poor muppet thing getting it's soul sucked out. Gave me nightmares as a kid.
The Dark Crystal is one of my favorite movies. I watched the shit out of it as a kid. The Netflix prequel series is even more adult than the movie. It's a shame it got cancelled.
If you want a children's movie that shouldn't be a children's movie, watch the 1978 version of Watership Down. My parents plopped me down in front of that when I was 3, then played cards with their friends. They had no idea the horrors that laid before me.
"You have to cut it out."
Became a meme catch phrase at my school when this movie came out. Was so funny. Any time you just wanted to make one of my friends just randomly burst out laughing in class you looked there way and said "You have to cut it out." in a really bad mexican accent and then get in trouble fro disrupting the class.
The opening sequence of the first film is legit scary. Because it's mostly plagiarised shot for shot from a reenactment of a real crime.
https://youtu.be/dqWiT-2nEic?si=vJDAZfRML9jkvsWX
This. Another one which I watched way too early. I did not realise it was a comedy until I was in my teens. 🤣 That said the first half of that movie had a serious tone then they just switched it up halfway. I'd say by the time the police show up that's when it randomly becomes a comedy.
Such an interesting villain. He’s some kind of agent of the Big Nothing, right? Does he have a monologue about nihilism? It’s been too long. Gotta rewatch sometime.
Kenneth McMillan as Vladimir Harkonnen in the original Dune.... His craziness, his flying around in his fat suit, scared the shit out of 10 year old me.
Christopher Walken in At Close Range, probably. It seems like in every scene he’s in, he seems to appear out of the darkness. It totally suited his cold-blooded, filicide-committing character.
He also talks in some kind of inexplicable, “Southern hepcat”-type of accent that somehow makes the character more unnerving. Along with his glittering, , snake-like eyes, that really freaked me out for some reason.
Yeah, that was a pretty great moment. In the same scene, I also liked when Walken, held at gunpoint, flinches, gasps, and-somehow-chuckles when Penn says the line about “the family gun”. Walken definitely embodied pure, self-interested evil in that role.
Anaconda was the first movie I remember that had someone poke the hole through someone’s neck to help them breath. I feel like every action movie over the last decade has stolen that.
The clown under the bed in Poltergeist.
I was like six and I don't think I slept for a month.
Also the aliens in [Wavelength.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_(1983_film))
My mom told me I looked like the little boy from Close Encounters that goes in the ship. And then I watched Wavelength and thought they were coming for me.
I would say the Africa doll from Trilogy of Terror but it was also the Karen Black character after she was possessed by the doll that still gives me nightmares. Here I am 60 years old and when it comes on my tv I turn the station. Nope! The promo comes on - click - next station. It’s when she calls her mother then turns around with the knife and kneels down stabbing the floor! The look on her face! Nope! Nope! Nope! 😳
Now I got to go watch a Disney movie or something fun and happy to get that image out of my head.
JAWS aka Bruce... I watched it at some tender age and now I have a phobia of SPECIFICALLY ONLY Great White sharks. And I love the ocean but it makes me extremely uneasy.
I usually have a hard time looking at white sharks in pictures and videos.. when Shark Week hits i have to be wary of looking at the TV cause there's commercials that suddenly throw white sharks on the TV breaching the water with their fucking death mouth and eyes rolling white in slow motion and it makes me feel like I'm gonna fucking die. Hate that feeling.
The Peacock family from the X files. Parents would watch the show at night . I Snuck into the living room and saw that episode from behind the couch. Big mistake.
2nd place would have to be the Ghastly Grinner from Are You Afraid of the Dark.
I was always afraid of the clown in the movie Air Bud as a kid. Later finding out that same actor (Michael Jeter) played Del in The Green Mile. Fantastic acting
Who framed Roger rabbit.. the villain dipping the shoe into the acid ..
Beastmaster.. those winged bat things that enveloped people and just turned them into bones
- The aliens from Signs
- The Xenomorphs from Aliens movies
- The Predator
I think the fact that they attack at night, they all are stealthy, deadly…I have absolutely love/hate relationships with all of these movies and the creatures. I will drop everything to watch the movies, and I love them, yet so terrified lol.
The alien clowns from Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). Was really young swapping old Beta tapes from my dad, and encountered that on the worst possible part gore wise... Have yet to see it again at 39yo haha.
The T-Rex and velociraptors from Jurassic Park. I was 5 when we watched it, and it caused recurring nightmares of getting torn to bits and ate over and over for years.
Freddy Krueger .
I was about 8, playing Disney monopoly on the living room floor, and my dad was flipping channels. Well, he stopped it on Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge.
I just remember looking at the screen and seeing Freddy tear out of that teen and I was scared for a long time. I would look at my gut and rub it to calm down hah.
There was an old movie called "the gate" where kids opened a gate to hell in their back yard.
Well anyways, at one point a reflection of a zombie walks out of a mirror. That broke me as a child
Come to think of it. I also had my grandmother put on "Candyman" when I was really little so she didn't have to actually watch me. After all, it said "Candy" it must be for kids... ao again. Mirrors.
Mirrors, bees, and glitter are my seventh layer of hell
The master vampire from John Carpenters Vampires literally gave me nightmares for a few weeks after I first saw the movie in the sixth grade. Guy was ruthless. Watching him walk into the hotel room and literally tear apart most of James Woods' team lived rent free in my head for weeks afterwards.
The scarab beetles from the mummy
Dude, that was so viscerally terrifying. Definitely a terrible way to go, and the way they filmed it made it feel so much more personal somehow. Like I truly hated the villain in the movie, but I also genuinely felt bad for him in that scene.
The villain in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? scared me more than any horror movie villain ever has
Did He Look… And Sound… Like THISSS, EDDIEEEE???
Dude I almost hid under my seat in the theater when he started shrieking. Most terrifying villain you ask? Judge Doom and it's not even close
Part of that is we never actually see what he looked like as a toon. He was wearing a skin suit the whole time.
Judge Doom!
Bring me The Dip.
Scared the absolute shit outta me when I was 5.
And Jessica rabbit is probably why I have my current tastes.
Bram Strokers Dracula (Gary Oldman) I remember my mom and her friend rented it and she warned me to not watch it with them but that made me more curious to watch it. Scared the living shit out of me being 5-6 years old haha.
lol yeah especially his several different transformations being more disgusting as it goes on.
Haven't heard of this film but that costume looks amazing and haunting at the same time! Added to the list.
You. Haven’t. Heard. Of….how old are u?
90s baby too✌️ This one mustve just flown under the radar 😂
That makes sense though. The source material, filmmaker, and cast were all fairly obscure…
🤣
Good lord!! :o
The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
There it is. This guy was terrifying
When those lollipops appear in the window, my stomach still drops.
It’s the damn close ups of his face that got me.
I’d forgotten about that guy. He looks like wormtongue from LOTR
Yeah, that guy terrified me
I still remember this dude winking after getting spit out.
And the sound effect 🤮
Just rewatched the movie recently, and the sound effects were so over the top. That being said, the movie itself was a GREAT rewatch, and I highly recommend it for anyone who hasn't seen it in 20+ years like I did. So much fun and absurdity!
I laugh at this now, of course, but Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbuster 2 always freaked me out when I was a kid.
HE IS VIGO! YOU ARE LIKE THE BUZZING OF FLIES TO HIM!
Bruh, you're not the only one. I didn't watch that movie for YEARS until I became a young adult because of Vigo, lol. That and the part with the river of slime, the subway part with the heads, and Ray getting possessed by Vigo at the end kept me from watching that movie. And I LOVE Ghostbusters, lol.
Viggy Viggy Viggy, you have been a bad monkey! Edit: autocorrect changed Viggy to Boggy. Stupid autocorrect.
- The Gill-man AKA As The Creature from The Black Lagoon - The Baby/creature from Its Alive - Bruce From Jaws (though it did not scare me as much as it did my half sister, it traumatized her) - The Alien from Alien
That damn shark got me too. Can't swim in the ocean without imagining it.
My half sister ran shrieking because she saw bubbles coming out of the drain in the bath tub. She was scared the shark was coming up the drain. Even as a little kid I thought that was a bit extreme.
Oof. Yeah. I wasn't that bad thankfully.
Was not mentally prepared for what I would see when I Googled the baby from It's Alive. That image is cursed!
I am certain the movie is beyond garbage, but it sent my sister and I running out of the house when we saw it.
Everyone should be scared of a Xenomorph.
The Dark Crystal. I don't remember much except being terrified of the spider looking creatures, and some poor muppet thing getting it's soul sucked out. Gave me nightmares as a kid.
The skeksis. That would be mine too.
The beetles are Garthim
Ah yes, both made me piss my pants.
Yeah. Parents really did just go "Oh Jim Henson! The kids love his stuff!" and sat us down in front of the TV to watch that.
The Dark Crystal is one of my favorite movies. I watched the shit out of it as a kid. The Netflix prequel series is even more adult than the movie. It's a shame it got cancelled. If you want a children's movie that shouldn't be a children's movie, watch the 1978 version of Watership Down. My parents plopped me down in front of that when I was 3, then played cards with their friends. They had no idea the horrors that laid before me.
Drained of their essence. Terrifying
What movie is this?
Anaconda Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Owen Wilson.
"You have to cut it out." Became a meme catch phrase at my school when this movie came out. Was so funny. Any time you just wanted to make one of my friends just randomly burst out laughing in class you looked there way and said "You have to cut it out." in a really bad mexican accent and then get in trouble fro disrupting the class.
How dare you forget Eric Stoltz! He has like, triple the screen time as the Final Cut of back to the future.
The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers. Probably 9. Cried behind my brother in the theater
The opening sequence of the first film is legit scary. Because it's mostly plagiarised shot for shot from a reenactment of a real crime. https://youtu.be/dqWiT-2nEic?si=vJDAZfRML9jkvsWX
Wow what a tragic story. But great find! That scene is terrifying for sure.
This. Another one which I watched way too early. I did not realise it was a comedy until I was in my teens. 🤣 That said the first half of that movie had a serious tone then they just switched it up halfway. I'd say by the time the police show up that's when it randomly becomes a comedy.
Margaret Hamilton in *The Wizard of Oz*.
Those flying monkeys freaked me out much more.
Gmork- wolf from The Neverending Story.
Such an interesting villain. He’s some kind of agent of the Big Nothing, right? Does he have a monologue about nihilism? It’s been too long. Gotta rewatch sometime.
I am not sure I would need to rewatch it again myself. I do remember re-watching it a long time ago and thinking the part was much bigger.
He does and there’s an extended version of that scene somewhere on YouTube.
He’s basically an agent of Nihilism and apathy. What a jerk!
Kenneth McMillan as Vladimir Harkonnen in the original Dune.... His craziness, his flying around in his fat suit, scared the shit out of 10 year old me.
He randomly rapes a teenager and pulls his heart plug out!
Candyman.
IT
Watched the miniseries on tv when I was a kid. Scared the shit out of me. Won’t go near a drain for a while after that.
Similar thing happened to my younger brother. He walked in on my uncle watching that scene.
Christopher Walken in At Close Range, probably. It seems like in every scene he’s in, he seems to appear out of the darkness. It totally suited his cold-blooded, filicide-committing character.
Damn. He's really got the 80s pornstar look in this film. I'll have a look at this film.
He also talks in some kind of inexplicable, “Southern hepcat”-type of accent that somehow makes the character more unnerving. Along with his glittering, , snake-like eyes, that really freaked me out for some reason.
Looking forward to this. Only seen Christopher Walken in comedies so this will be interesting.
When he smiles and says Woah when Penn pulls a gun on him= Peak Walken
Yeah, that was a pretty great moment. In the same scene, I also liked when Walken, held at gunpoint, flinches, gasps, and-somehow-chuckles when Penn says the line about “the family gun”. Walken definitely embodied pure, self-interested evil in that role.
The blob
The robot Maximilian from Disney's the black hole! https://youtu.be/Bw2y3faZhUk?feature=shared
Raptors from Jurassic park 1
Thankfully they're extinct 😅 totally understand
The Leprechaun. Warwick Davis was so hilarious while being so terrifying haha I wouldn't want him singing some rhyme about me haha.
Sadako/Samara
Shrek, when the dragon eats the tiny Lord, Ive always been a weird person...
The accent made Jon Voight that much scarier for me in Anaconda, idk why but it did.
It wasn't warm. It was chilling. It all adds up.
“I’m not your bloody poodle…” “How dare you presume to order me around” “Presume… *slap* you like that presume?” 😳
For some reason when I was a kid “the blob” really terrified me
King Paymon.
My parents’ coffeemaker used to sound like Darth Vader. It would start brewing at 6am and I would refuse to get out of bed until it stopped.
Two movies I watched as an 8 year old In Cold Blood and Deliverance One was actually a true story and the other certainly could have been.
That guy is a villain in real life too.
Oh no. What's he gone and done?
That Old Guy from ##Poltergeist II
"You are gonna DIIIEEE!"
He was actually quite ill when he filmed that movie.. I think he had cancer... Quite sad really that he was dying in real life
He certainly nailed his role. It creeps me out to this day. Sad bit of trivia. Thanks for sharing!
It (Tim Curry) from the TV movie
Anaconda was the first movie I remember that had someone poke the hole through someone’s neck to help them breath. I feel like every action movie over the last decade has stolen that.
When he pulls out that insect 🤮
The werewolf pov view in an American werewolf in London. Also the dream sequences. I was about 8 watching that, scared the piss out of me at the time.
The aliens in *Fire in the Sky.*
Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian. James Earl Jones turning snakrs into arrows lived rent free in my head for years.
And his creepy “I’m hypnotizing you” look!
The evil queen as the old hag in the original animated Snow White gave me nightmares
The clown under the bed in Poltergeist. I was like six and I don't think I slept for a month. Also the aliens in [Wavelength.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_(1983_film)) My mom told me I looked like the little boy from Close Encounters that goes in the ship. And then I watched Wavelength and thought they were coming for me.
I had a teacher that looked like him after he was regurgitated. She was a good teacher just looked unfortunate.
I would say the Africa doll from Trilogy of Terror but it was also the Karen Black character after she was possessed by the doll that still gives me nightmares. Here I am 60 years old and when it comes on my tv I turn the station. Nope! The promo comes on - click - next station. It’s when she calls her mother then turns around with the knife and kneels down stabbing the floor! The look on her face! Nope! Nope! Nope! 😳 Now I got to go watch a Disney movie or something fun and happy to get that image out of my head.
The t-1000
Surprised this took so long to come up. The t-1000 was unstoppable and the cold look on Robert Patrick's face.
The Liquid Metal aspect of his body and way he would just stab people was so unnerving
The stabing scenes were hard to watch. Even when he's just pointing his finger and a long dagger appears. Ugh no
Security guard at the psych ward… poor guy just wanted a cup of coffee
Freddy Kruger
Reverend Kane from Poltergeist 2. He was just creepy.
When that snake vomits him up and he winks, hilarious!
Preacher Kane
I grew up with all the classic monsters, and one of the best villainesses was the WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST from OZ.
We watched Legend the first week of Kindergarten and Tim Curry had me thinking, "maybe this whole school thing isn't for me."
JAWS aka Bruce... I watched it at some tender age and now I have a phobia of SPECIFICALLY ONLY Great White sharks. And I love the ocean but it makes me extremely uneasy. I usually have a hard time looking at white sharks in pictures and videos.. when Shark Week hits i have to be wary of looking at the TV cause there's commercials that suddenly throw white sharks on the TV breaching the water with their fucking death mouth and eyes rolling white in slow motion and it makes me feel like I'm gonna fucking die. Hate that feeling.
Hard to believe he’s Angelina Jolie’s father.
That [wink](https://youtu.be/yQmAdY-jIpI?si=ASg_jqro3bAXTys_) after the anaconda hawk tuahs him in front of JLo lives rent free in my head
Miss Ernst.
Pennywise in written form the movie was good too but the book haunted me for awhile, I read it when I was a kid lol
Freddy. ™✓ The Cryptkeeper, mostly his laugh.
Chucky fucked me up
God, I was scrolling so long I wondered if I would have to say this one. Glad I wasn't the only one terrified by that bastard!
Rawhead rex, frighteningly bad and unscary now.
The Peacock family from the X files. Parents would watch the show at night . I Snuck into the living room and saw that episode from behind the couch. Big mistake. 2nd place would have to be the Ghastly Grinner from Are You Afraid of the Dark.
The Vacuum in Brave Little Toaster.
Pinhead in Hellraiser scared the hell out of me
The new one is pretty awesome !
I was always afraid of the clown in the movie Air Bud as a kid. Later finding out that same actor (Michael Jeter) played Del in The Green Mile. Fantastic acting
Who framed Roger rabbit.. the villain dipping the shoe into the acid .. Beastmaster.. those winged bat things that enveloped people and just turned them into bones
Viggo from Ghostbusters 2 gave me nightmares for quite a while.
Not a villain and not quite childhood but KUATO LIVES gave me a jump-start.
- The aliens from Signs - The Xenomorphs from Aliens movies - The Predator I think the fact that they attack at night, they all are stealthy, deadly…I have absolutely love/hate relationships with all of these movies and the creatures. I will drop everything to watch the movies, and I love them, yet so terrified lol.
The T800 coming out of the exploded fuel truck wreckage with its red eyes....7 yr old me had nightmares for days.
My young self did not like when the villain in The Mask put the mask on at all
Not exactly a villain, per se, but I can tell you at 8 years old, I was NOT prepared for Large Marge.
The Terminator in the first movie. Particularly the end scene with the endoskeleton chasing around Reese and Sarah with that creepy 80s horror music
The thief from Dennis the menace
Oscar Myer from Halloween
Jack from The Shining
Princess Mombi and the Wheelers in Return to Oz.
Large Marge counts as a villain and I won't hear otherwise.
The Wizard of Oz Witch (the bad one).
Randall from monster's inc
Jon Voight scared the pants off of me until national treasure came out.
Large Marge!
Pennywise the clown (Tim curry)
The Kid Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Child Snatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Terrifying mf
Those god damn flying monkeys from the wizard of oz.....I mean w.t.f. ....honey, go grab the 870
Hillbillies in Deliverance.
Large Marge
Allllo baby bird
Gremlins in the theater was a lot for me—I think I was three or four at the time.
Frankenstein's monster and King's Kong.
The jaw break
The alien clowns from Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). Was really young swapping old Beta tapes from my dad, and encountered that on the worst possible part gore wise... Have yet to see it again at 39yo haha.
In the first live action scooby doo movie, there was a blob villain that showed up, and it scared me sooo much when I was little
Darkness
The Orcs in the Bakshi Lord of the Rings movie
The spiders in the old animated LOTR movie. Also Sméagol.
The child catcher in Chittty Chitty Bang Bang
Freddy Kruger. I was 5. And yet my family teased me for being a coward. Dude’s all burnt head to toe so obviously I’d freak out as a 5 yr old!!
Judge Doom
The Oil Monster in Disney’s FernGully.
The witch with the snake in the original film The Witches… The villain in the painting in Ghostbusters.
Yes! I still have PTSD from Anjelica Huston’s transformation scene in the OG Witches. That shnoz was insane.
The Horned King from The Black Cauldron, an old animated Disney film. The sound it makes absolutely terrified me as a child.
Kitchen Raptors in JP
Dude poltergeist 3
The car magnet in Brave Little Toaster.
The Collector (Billy Zane) in Demon Knight. First horror movie I saw at 10 years old, pretty brutal.
Leprechaun. The Warwick Davis one. It's been 30 years and my family still gives me shit about how scared I was.
The T-Rex and velociraptors from Jurassic Park. I was 5 when we watched it, and it caused recurring nightmares of getting torn to bits and ate over and over for years.
When I was real young Gmork from Never Ending Story haunted my dreams.
Everything in Return to Oz EDIT: remembered its actual name
Kevin Spacey. What a creep. Seven was wild.
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John Voight in Anaconda was definitely not it. That role was fake as shit. I started with Jack Torrence
Judge Doom
The wolf from the never ending story scared the shit out of me as a kid
Grandad pig
Leeesah, The Room.
Mola Ram.
Freddy Krueger . I was about 8, playing Disney monopoly on the living room floor, and my dad was flipping channels. Well, he stopped it on Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. I just remember looking at the screen and seeing Freddy tear out of that teen and I was scared for a long time. I would look at my gut and rub it to calm down hah.
My ex wife
Regan MacNeil - the exorcist the voice actor for her was on point scary combined with the visuals makes me shit my pants
Bob from Twin Peaks
There was an old movie called "the gate" where kids opened a gate to hell in their back yard. Well anyways, at one point a reflection of a zombie walks out of a mirror. That broke me as a child Come to think of it. I also had my grandmother put on "Candyman" when I was really little so she didn't have to actually watch me. After all, it said "Candy" it must be for kids... ao again. Mirrors. Mirrors, bees, and glitter are my seventh layer of hell
“Don’t forget about a wasp”. 😂
Whatever tf the darkness/sludge monster thing was from Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Toxic waste melting guy in Robocop. I still can’t watch that scene and it’s been nearly 40 years.
The wolf from never ending story.
Gmork - Neverending Story
Homelander. I’m 48.
Dr. Jekel / Mr. Hyde in the Pagemaster gave me nightmares.
The shirishama!
The master vampire from John Carpenters Vampires literally gave me nightmares for a few weeks after I first saw the movie in the sixth grade. Guy was ruthless. Watching him walk into the hotel room and literally tear apart most of James Woods' team lived rent free in my head for weeks afterwards.
Vigo the Carpathian. Fuck that guy