Interesting responses, everyone. While I continue to disagree with the list and the author’s premise, I definitely see where some of you are coming from about your own childhood experiences. No offense is intended to anyone who did find a particular movie scary/traumatic as a kid.
The movie that scared me - I mean REALLY scared me - as a kid was a made-for-tv horror film with Karen Black called Trilogy of Terror. The third story about the Zuni Warrior Doll made me want to hide under the blankets and never come back out!
Of course, one *could* point out the fact that if I had obeyed my parents and not snuck out of bed to watch something they told me I wasn’t allowed to see, the whole situation could have been avoided... :-)
Is that the one where Karen Black threw the wooden doll into the oven? A black cloud of smoke comes out and she is possessed by the warrior? Yeah... scary stuff. (Don’t beat yourself up... I read “The Exorcist” when my parents forbade it. We passed it around class in my Catholic School. Swear I didn’t sleep for several weeks thinking the bed was shaking!!!)
Yep, that “Trilogy of Terror” was a pretty spooky one. I also recall a “Night Gallery” episode involving a doll, which was pretty memorable. Generally, I didn’t get too scared as a kid watching horror films. One of the only exceptions I can remember was staying up late to watch the film “Black Sabbath” (1963) with Boris Karloff. Yipe, somehow that one got under my skin!
But of course, these weren’t ‘kid films,’ so I guess we’re straying from the premise of the article a little.
“The third story about the Zuni Warrior Doll”
OY, this is really freaking me out now!
Again when I was pregnant (same pregnancy I only have one kid) I woke up in the middle of the night and that scary movie was on.
JUST AT THAT PART !!!!!!!!!!!
I turned it off right away.
I can’t believe I’m on this thread after I watched 4 episodes of American Horror Story on HULU.
And I avoid Horror, you see I have no stomach for it!
I remember that old Karen Black movie! It freaked me out then and I still don’t like to think about it.
ROFLMAO! (Tears rolling down my cheeks, literally!) I will never forget that film.