'Traumatizing Horror Films' ft. Stephen King & More | Eli Roth’s History of Horror

The first IT was terrifying. More recently, the first Insidious was mind blowing in theaters with the film score blasting that high pitched violin.

nothing brings out your inner child like a truly scary horror film

👀Exorcist 1st 🏃 WITH subliminals!!!

Hereditary is by far the most disturbing film I’ve ever watched. Just how realistic the reactions of the family was and the way it seemed like the summoning was so meticulously planned as if to be almost preordained by fate really fucked with me for a while

Halloween always freaked me out

The first horror movies I ever saw were Psycho and It. I think I was like 8 or 9.

I've traumatized countless girls, ima flasher lol...

Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp
As a kid I saw everything from pumpkins,witches,ghosts etc and was NEVER scared......until this headless knight riding this huge black stallion thru these gothic woods decapitating people came and I couldnt sleep for like a month

I was 8 when I saw Jaws in 1975 and Rob Zombie is right. The kids who went into that movie and came out of that movie were not the same. Completely changed my life. I can't say that about any other movie or even anything else.

The exorcist influenced me as Christian a lot , Jason Miller and Ellen burstyn are brilliant . Texas chainsaw massacre almost made my mind insane , Halloween didn’t scare me but I felt the intimidating aura of Michael Myers .

Hellraisers pinhead and Freddy Kruger scared the 💩out of me ..I also love old horror films from Alfred Hitchcock and Vincent price

Poltergeist now seems so utterly ridiculous to me but I was born in 94 so I wouldn’t know, a concept like the Birds just freaks me out more for some reason

The Evil Dead traumatized me. When Cheryl gets possessed and floats in front of the window. I stayed up an entire night thinking someone would float in front of my window. The voice, the floating, what she said. It was just terrifying. Also Trilogy of Terror with the African doll with the pendant. Holy shit when that woman breathed in the smoke from the oven and started to stab the floor. That's the first horror movie I remember seeing and that terrified me twice and the second time was worse than the first time.

I remember joking to a friend of mine about "is the fact that you're Jewish why you're not freaking the hell out?" I was like 12-13 when I saw this movie. And It Part 1 back in 1990 freaked me so much I didn't see part 2 for 5 years.

My Father took me to see Dawn of the Dead at The Patchogue drive in when i was 9 with The Opening movie being The Northville Cemetery Massacre. Dawn Traumatized me for a while. I didn't wanna get out of the car to use the bathroom. Thank You George for 1 of the greatest Movies Ever

I wish they listed all of the movies Kane Hodder has been in. He’s an absolute legend

Salem's Lot was my scary movie as a kid. Gave me nightmares

"You're Jewish, you're fine" lmao

Original Night of the living dead. I thought they actually reanimated the body of that 1st zombie because that fool was born to play the part. The black and white made the movie that much better. I know most movies in the 60's were in BW but that added a little something extra - I'm Kensington Drake!

i remember when it came out and people came out of the theatre shaking and crying.

The Exorcist is the only horror movie i won't watch at night or by myself till this day

Jaws, The Thing and The Exorcist were probably the most traumatizing movies for me as a kid. Even today they still pack a visceral punch for me.

The Shining absolutely altered my consciousness. Saw it with no one but my dad in my big empty house out in the country. I was convinced he was going to murder me!😆

It’s crazy cause my first movie was sleep walkers and I was born in 98 well the first I can remember lmao

Exorcist 3. Awesome. Original pet semetary

Yes original poltergeist guy ripping his skin off.

Who saw original " don't be afraid of the dark"freaked my young mind

As a kid Chucky was the closest thing to a movie traumatizing me, but Twisted Metal Black sure as hell did.

There are two kinds of scared: fun-scared and truly-scared.
I grew up with Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. and this was fun-scared!
Movies in the present are truly-scared movies with blood, guts and horribly real situations.
I think that horror movies are going in the wrong direction!

As a survivor of multiple traumatizing events and a horror fan, when dude said it's better to be scared in a theater than in real life....I felt that. Horror is also one of the few genres I can watch without being re traumatized.

Everyone else: Poltergeist, Exorcist,
Stephen King: The Munsters.

Funny enough rob zombie's Halloween 2 remake was so scary when I was 6 because of the gore that I couldn't handle it

As a person who doesn’t usually get scared by movies, the shining definitely has to be the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. Everything about is terrifying from the uncomfortable score to the dread of knowing what’s going to happen but never knowing when. Jack Nicholson was ferrying and cemented him as one of my all time favorite actors. Thanks Stanley Kubrick/Stephen king

number of exorcisms in America the year before not came out:. approx 3 to 5.

the next year:. approx 3,000

Alex Kintner getting chomped by Bruce in Jaws stayed with me for days .And the Exorcist what a good solid horror movie controversial and still freaking people out.

Yeah. Exorcist, at 10. I’m messed up for life

My brother was afraid of Chucky until he was in his 20s lol

The original Candyman. I snuck to a friends house and watched it. Traumatizing.

The first movie that truly gave me nightmares was a made-for-TV Disney movie, called "Don't Look Under The Bed", and it was about the boogeyman. Thinking back now, I realize that Steve Valentine looked like a cross between Jareth in "Labyrinth" [costume], and the Grand Witch in the original "The Witches" [the prosthetic makeup]. But back then, as a third-grader...no joke, I moved all my porcelain dolls from my bedroom to a hallway closet, because I was terrified they watched me as I slept. Its creepy atmosphere still works, even though, again, hindsight makes one realize how jokey a lot of the special-effects actually were. (9/20/2023)

I'd like to personally thank Rob zombie's parents

I have yet to see a single horror or "scary movie" that even remotely comes close to scaring me. None even have, and I even started out watching them from a very young age too. If anything I find them amusing because they try too hard and it's easy to figure out the plot for me within the first few minutes or so and how it will all end.

Sara Paxton is Jewish! Bill Paxton wasn't Jewish, lol.

I seen the Shining way to young and it messed me up

i have NEVER been into Horror films and i have never been scared by Horror films even as a kid in the 70s and early 80s with one exception, the first "Amityville" and it was not even the film so much as just the one scene where the priest comes over to bless the house and he goes in that room and the door slams behind him. then the room starts to fill with flies as the music and sound of the flies builds, but even that is not what gets me it is when the sound of the flies and the music suddenly stop and everything goes silent and the door opens again and suddenly that lo fi distorted disembodied voice says "get out. GET OUT" absolute fricking goosebumps and chills.
otherwise it was always documentaries on the paranormal late at night that freaked me out, not Horror films.

I love how all of us cinema buffs have that one film that we saw when we were way too young.

Scariest movie from my childhood: Watcher in the Woods
Scariest movie from my adulthood: Sinister

The Fox and the Hound: That bear scene.

Mighty Joe Young: The giant gorilla.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken: The bleeding portrait.

Watcher in the Woods: Just the title alone creeped me out big time.

Blackbeard's Ghost: That portrait of the lady with the huge eyes.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: That scene when Moaning Myrtle describes how she died and she says she saw two yellow eyes.

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The impaled guy at the beginning.

Jurassic Park: The death scenes, the arm scene and the kitchen scene.

Jaws: Quint's death was obviously the most gruesome part, but just the idea of a man eating shark had me nervous when I went swimming afterwards.

The Babadook: The television scene.

Sinister: Just all the creepy stuff that Bughuul does throughout the movie, just standing in dark corners while people get murdered. And then showing up in the house and in the backyard.

Smile: The kitchen scene and the monitor jump scare. And the feeling that Laura describes in the first scene that something terrible will happen.

I'm gonna be honest, the arteriogram that Regan goes through in The Exorcist messed me up more than the scenes where she's possessed.