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What film did you watch when you were too young, and how did it traumatize you? (feddit.uk)
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Jurassic Park for me. I had an amazing JP jumper when I was like...maybe 6. It was far too big for me but I loved dinosaurs. Naturally this meant I wanted to watch the film because...well I'm 6 and it's got dinosaurs.

Ultimately I ended up watching it with my Mum and Dad. We got as far as the iconic T-Rex chase scene and I told them to turn it off. Didn't go near the film for another few years.

I've now got my own 6 year old. There's no scenario I could envisage where I even consider letting her watch a film as gory, tense and frightening as JP.

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[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Fire in the sky. I know little green men aren't actually here taking people but that movie still traumatised me as a kid and I still hate aliens to this day. Just seeing a "picture" of one will give me nightmares for a few days.

Stupid I know but I can't help how my stupid mind works.

[–] Dolphinfreetuna@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Close Encounters of The Third Kind scared me

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Anything with what are usually called grey aliens or anything that looks like them scare me. Even the kaminoans from star wars make me feel quite uncomfortable lol.

Eyes have zero business being that big.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Now the Hypocrisy song is stuck in my head

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

This is exactly the movie which caused me damage too. I would be trying to sleep and this movie would keep going through my head. Every small sound became a big deal. I think it was the idea of something happening to me while I slept and I wouldn't even know until I was taken.

Years before this me and my cousins would somehow get rentals of movies like poltergeist, pet cemetery, nightmare on elm street, etc. Out of all of them it was fire in the sky which got to me.