Remember me, Eddie?!
TELL THEM LARGE MARGE SENT YA!
That shit made me laugh. I loved PeeWee Herman growing up.
Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they’re certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing
I just that with my kid and it for some reason I laughed so hard my kid thought the whole thing was funny. It’s just so absurd and terrible and wonderful. He’s this nightmare murder dude in a kids movie.
It’s genuiy terrifying. But I made it fun for my kid somehow.
It IS a freakout!
Very much so. When I was a kid my folks tried multiple times to get me to watch this movie and I could never get past the tunnel.
As an adult I still can’t watch it and I love me some Gene Wilder otherwise.
I change my mind. I most certainly do not want a boat just like this.
In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.
I only saw parts of it and yet it haunted me for years. I found it genuinely terrifying and fucked up.
Gremlins, when they transformed
A few years ago, we had some family friends (a conservative but nice Christian family) over for a movie night. They had a couple of younger girls, I think about 7 and 10 or so, plus ours about the same age. It was October so I suggested Gremlins, as I vaguely remembered enjoying it as a kid - and besides, it’s only PG! It’s a comedy!
Yeah that was a mistake.
A few months later they came over for dinner and another movie, and this time I was more careful - they wanted a family-friendly action movie, so I suggested Point Break. I honestly don’t know what the fuck I was thinking.
Now I no longer trust my own recollections of how “family-friendly” movies are anymore. I guess I just don’t really pay attention to that.
For some reason they haven’t kept in touch…
Fun fact: Gremlins was one of the movies which led to the creation of the PG-13 rating.
Lol I do the goddamn same thing. Some form of brain damage i think
That movie fucked me up as a kid. I had recurring nightmares for a decade.
When I killed your brother, I talked…JUST. LIKE. THIIIIIISSSSS!
Shoe murdering bastard
My theory: Judge Doom needs to act always serious and frightening or else all his minion weasels are laughing themselves to death.
Who framed Roger rabbit, the scene with the judge guy putting a shoe cartoon into the acid barrel.
Watership Down
Was fucked up for a child to watch. My parents thought it was going to be a harmless animated movie for children. I watched it again as an adult. It is still fucked up.
The 80s rollercoaster of terrifying animation.
Secret of NIMH, was up there too.
The Last Unicorn
Ooh, good one indeed.
The Dark Crystal. Creepy fucking muppets.
I saw Robocop too early.
The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.
That, and the acid scene.
Bitches leave.
I grew up with a family that liked horror movies, and it was the 80s, so I watched a ton of kid-inappropriate stuff, and I felt the same way.
I still don’t watch the Murphy death scene to this day. I guess I never thought about the “why” of it, but you saying it now, that these guys were just normal people, not monsters or supernatural supernatural beings, and not in a fantasy setting, but a realistic enough place, and were taking so much realistic joy in killing this random guy in the worst way possible was more messed up than anything else I’ve seen.
The other stuff in the movie didn’t bother me, since it was mostly people getting what they deserve, but I also never really liked them throwing their buddy out of the moving car when he was begging them not to and I don’t recall him being all that injured for someone in a movie. I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.
Funny enough Our Robocop Remake takes that idea and turns it around, so many scenes when characters are discussing Clarence Boddicker they instead show pictures of Kurtwood Smith in That 70’s Show, haha. Great fan made parody movie, definitely worth a watch though it’s the opposite of terrifying so a bit off-topic here.
I had never even heard of this before, but it was really fun to watch! I didn’t know I needed a Robocop musical before now! 😆
The letter home to mom and dad and the ED-209 having the same Alex Murphy style flashbacks as he was killed were hilarious, and of course the alley of perpetual sexual assault.
I saw Robocop 2 too early. The scene that fucked me up is where the bad guy in the robot went from 0 to 100 and snapped his ex’s neck.
Hey, it was pretty perceptive of you to be scared of Jeffry Jones as a kid.
Holy shit lol. Yikes.
Them soapy tiddies.
Understandable.
I saw The Thing (1982) when I was 10 and it terrified me for years. Its my favorite horror movie now.
My parents thought it was a good idea to let me (9) and my 12 year old brother watch Poltergeist while they were out at some social event.
That movie damaged me. I love it now though.
Same! The whole family was leaving for a big hunting \ camping weekend, and we were leaving at 2am to get there at a decent time through the 10 hour drive. As my folks were packing, 8 year old me was staying up watching tv, and my mom goes, “Poltergeist is on HBO right now, you should watch it, I think you’ll like it!” Well I don’t remember if I stopped at the clown or the tree eating scene but I definitely saw both and was then immediately wisked away to stay in the woods for a week… Terrifying
It was the face peeling scene for me. Took months to get over that!
Watership Down and Gremlins.
Also, the Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXikpns1bog
Gremlins was definitely not for kids IMO, and we watched it on Christmas because why not.
My favorite Christmas movie of all time
Watership Downs is so dark. I found the book as a kid in some cabinet and figured it’d be fun to read about the little bunnies life. That was a harsh loss of innocence. Later as an adult I figured it wasn’t really that bad and I watched the movie. Oh boy.
I still find myself humming the Bunyip song to myself constantly, decades later.
The Borg.
I watched Star Trek as a kid with my grandma on our local TV station. The Borg were always so scary to me because not even the super advanced Federation could defeat them. And the assimilation they did of stripping away who and what you were was terrifying.
Then First Contact came out and I learned that they just as vulnerable as anyone else to a 45 ACP and that was alright.
That fucking computer from Superman III, jesus christ my parents should not have let me watch that when I was, like, seven or eight.
Are you talking about when it grabbed that woman and turned her into a cyborg thing? That fucked me up.
