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When I was about their age my brothers and sisters locked me in the family room and turned the thriller music video on while I was sleep. I woke up to Michael staring into my soul and to this day that video gets to me. I can watch any horror movie ever made and not feel fear but for some reason seeing Mike as a ghoul or whatever the hell he was shook me to core.
I had a similar experience, and it sounds like we’re around the same age, too.
When I was a kid, my dad let me watch Alien, and the first time I saw the Xenomorph, it left me with such an intense fear that everything else suddenly seemed harmless by comparison. Ghosts, zombies, or standard monsters weren't worth talking about anymore. I developed a genuine, deep-seated fear of extraterrestrials.
As I got older, around 14 to 16, I watched Signs for the first time, and for years, that was the scariest movie in the world to me.
My folks took me to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was 5. As it was starting, they told me it was a true story. Parenting was very different in the 70's.
Dude, I felt that way about the original Candyman movie. I was also 5 when it had come out, and my mom took me to see all kinds of movies. The only thing off limits was sex scenes. She’d cover my eyes for those.
But this woman gonna ask me in a chipper voice, “You wanna go see Candyman at the movies tonight?!” And my dumbass was like, “YEAHHH!” All cheerful and shit, thinking it was a kid’s movie. I’d never been so scarred of a movie in my life. Even the movie Wolf had scared me as a kid. I was up my mom’s ass all night after days like that.
I was a very big scardey cat for a good chunk of my childhood. When the OG Resident Evil 2 game came out, it was my first horror game. Doom 64 had nothing on that for me. It got to the point that I’d ask my mom for help because I’d freeze in fear and die. I ended up getting tired of being so scared, so I did self exposure therapy on myself. Not that I knew the name of it then, mind you. The last movie of my childhood that actually scared me, was The Blair Witch Project. And I was fine the whole movie until the ending scene with the one guy just facing the corner of the wall, standing there silently. So much so, that to this day at 39 years old, I hate seeing anything like that. It’s such an oddly out of place thing, that it’s instantly unnerving and gives me chills.
I love horror now. Been playing games since I was 4, holed up in the hospital due to a genetic disease that causes a lot pain and complications, and we could sign out the wheelie TV for an hour to play games on the Super Nintendo since I wasn’t home to play mine. As for movies, American horror movies don’t do it for me anymore really. I’ll watch for a good time, but to be scared? I leave that up to Asian horror movies. They just get it.
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Yeah I could totally see that….up until that point I think we all thought of aliens as the little big headed ET looking creatures.
Omg for me it was Predator 2 movie, I still remember it mimicking the voice of a kid who offered it candy "want some candy?". Don't even get me started on the skull cleaning part and how it was drinking ppls brains and blood too. The Xenomorph traumatised me too. The birthday party scene in Signs still gets me till today. Where the alien pops out behind the bushes and walks across to the other side and everyone starts screaming. It's comical looking back at it now but back then, I was finished! 😭😂
Hahaha same. I legit couldn’t eat sprouts for YEARS because my dumbass associated the chestbusters with them. Like my kid logic was eat sprouts = alien popping through your chest. Goddamit Dad.
And yeah the jumpscare at the end of Signs messed me up for awhile 😂. I feel your pain.
My dad told me Alien was the scariest movie he'd every seen. Said when he first saw it he had to sleep with the light on, yadda yadda yadda.
Scared the shit out of me as a kid just hearing about that movieas I got older I was telling somebody about the movie and how it terrified my dad as a kid until I did the math. Dude must have been in his early 30's when he saw it!
Bro. Signs was a visceral experience at like 11. The damn alien walking out at the birthday party. Joaquin Phoenix screaming moving in Spanish and it popping out. Super well shot scene but I couldnt process what I was seeing and hated it. Now its a favourite but for years I was like straight up shell shocked by aliens
When I was in 3rd grade the movie IT was real popular, (the old one with Tim Curry) and the scene where pennywise came up thru the drain fuckin terrified me. Well one night I'm in the shower and my older brothers would put their mouths to the drain in our kitchen and talk into it trying to sound like pennywise. you could hear it real good in the bathroom drain. I heard it and thought I was tripping at first, then heard it again. Real quick I turned the water off and put my head closer to the drain. And as soon as I heard my name come out of there I jumped out screaming and crying butt ass naked into my moms room and told her what happened. That shit traumatized me so bad I didn't take a shower for almost 2 months. I'd just sit on the toilet with the water running for a while then splash water on myself to make it look like I took one. My mom figured out when I started to smell so she started letting me keep the door cracked as I would shower.
When my brother was in third grade, the original Chucky movie was still popular. I taped a butcher’s knife to the hand of our sister’s cabbage patch doll and left it on his bed in the dark. He had a table and lamp kind of behind his low headboard he’d reach over to turn on. I hid there waiting. When he finally came in and reached over, as soon as the light came on I grabbed his arm and growled “Chuckyyyyy”. Such an asshole brother thing to do.
You too eh? I didn't tape a knife to my sister dolls, but as she and I were watching Chucky I remembered my little sister was going to sleep by herself in our second floor (her room was the first one ready with brand new carpet and all new furniture, mum spent nearly three days on that room) so I just casually went "You know, you're going to be alone tonight, so when your dolls try to kill you no one will help" And so my sister slept with my parents that night, and didn't go into her room until after nearly 7 months. I felt so bad.
When I was like 7 years old I fell asleep in my mom's bed with the TV on and woke up in the middle of the night to a scene from the bride of Chucky, I think, with a woman chained to a wall undergoing some sort of seance. Idr the details clearly. Anyway, I immediately pissed on my mom's brand new mattress and was too scared to move or speak so I stayed like that until she woke up. The next day I followed my incredibly irritated mom and sister from room to room refusing to be alone and keeping my back against the wall so Chucky couldn't catch me from behind until my sister finally got fed up and told me Chucky can come through walls. I still hate that fucking doll.
My cousins would hide their Bride of Chucky doll around their house every time I visited. They also used their bodies to block the bathroom door while screaming "Bloody Mary!" Over and over again after telling me the story the night before. I was like five and it fucked me up. I was screaming and crying... Assholes.
Matter of fact, so is that black baby after him. Meanwhile, those two last children have crisis management skills you can't even find in 50 year old adults. The future is in good hands!
Right about the last two. 2nd to last sees the crisis but remains calm until she is safe to lose her shit. Last one will be a manager or ceo “everything is burning down around me, but let’s stay calm and grounded like nothing is happening” either that or she is used to seeing ghosts lol.
That kid has 3 boogeyman corpses under his bed and there's a sign on the inside of his closet door in glow in the dark crayon that says "u r trappid in hir with me, doodyhead"
That's for sure. I'm surprised on how many parents I've met who don't give a shit about their child. Even more surprised how many look at their kid with dollar signs. There's no way I could look at my kid and think "man I can't wait to make money off of you."
Exploiting your kids for internet likes is bad enough, but you are putting your kids on the internet to go viral.
Kids are cruel, why give their classmates ammunition to bully them? Don't most responsibile parents want to keep videos of their kids offline?
Giving the kid nightmares can come back and bite you in the ass. Have fun waking up to a screaming kid at 3am.
Finally, jump scares are potentially dangerous. Kid freaks out and runs into the counter top or slips and hits their head. Yes unlikely, but parents are constantly telling kids to not run in the house. Bathroom is the worst place panic.
I'm still traumatized by some halloween floor mat that made scary loud sounds when you stepped on it in some random store as a child (I hated stuff like that). I think I would lose some amount of trust of my parents as much if they pulled a mean prank like this on me. Definitely not something you can be a good sport about at that age.
Because traumatising and losing the trust of the person that believes in you the most in the World is worth the 2 laughing emojis you get on Facebook for the post.
I'd never do this to mine. They're scared of bugs. Can only imagine what this would do to them.
Do you know what it's like to have an 18yo son who freaks out over a roach? When I was his age, we'd catch bugs with our hands and throw them to the chickens.
I mean, everyone got something that freaks them out. I like to play with spiders but I will try to levitate and phase through a door if there's a cricket in the room with me. Fuck crickets.
My kid's scared of moths. I once heard another grown man say "they eat fabric, that's not that far from eating skin!".
I'm also ok with spiders and most bugs but one thing I hate is ladybugs. I know people love them but my god I don't want them anywhere near me. They freak me out.
Reason is, when I was a kid there was a massive ladybug infestation in my area and absolutely everything was covered in ladybugs. Railings, rocks, walls, doorknobs... they got inside our school and coated the cafeteria walls and ceiling by the windows. My classmate collected them in her hoodies pockets and sat next to me during class so they would just come crawling out from time to time. Everything stank of ladybug piss. Absolutely disgusting.
Might have actually been Asian Lady Beetles, can range from orangish to just off red, have a lot more spots, and always seem to clump together for warmth during the winter in homes and the like. They also bite on top of smelling bad when they get spooked.
I hate em. Your native Lady Bug is much less troublesome.
Oh damn, I didn't know that! I thought they were the same because native ladybugs here are (approximately) the same colour but seems like the spots are different. I found an old article from that time and they do specify its asian lady beetles. Good catch.
Back in my day, it was the “watch this carefully” or the “try and move your cursor through the maze” just to have a jump scare with the exorcist face and a loud scream. It was mean spirited back then and it is now
The mother who was cackling coz she held the door closed while her daughter desperately tried to get out is pure evil. I genuinely cannot imagine doing that to my kid. Who are these people?
They probably have unresolved trauma from being humiliated in their childhood by their caregivers and are now passing on that trauma and projecting onto their poor kids.
These people need to be reported. This is terrible behavior to do to anyone. To strike that genuine fear. What else are these terrible people doing to their kids? If recognized by someone they should report to make sure more abuse isn’t happening.
Yup! The parents will probably just tell the kids "shut up, it wasn't real, go back to sleep you pussy"
And then wonder why their kids don't speak to them anymore when they're adults.
The kinds of parents that love the attention posting their traumatized kids online gives them are the same parents that will love the sympathy attention from the bleeding hearts that feel sorry for them once their child grows and goes no contact.
I watched The Grudge and The Ring when I was a little too young and had some issues sleeping for a bit after that. But I grew out of it and don’t resent my parents for letting me watch. But I’m sure that’s not the case with everyone
This isn't even funny. My father did this to one of my brothers with a realistic Jason Voorhees mask. It was so bad, he crapped himself and he was promptly whooped for crapping.
Dude wtf ? This is fucking disgusting and horrible , how didn’t you crash out on your dad for that shit?? Forced him to crap himself then beat him for it, genuinely wtf . Poor kid, that’s gonna fuck with him mentally for the rest of his life
Mine had me watch the original Candyman movie as a joke and I couldn’t even go into a bathroom because it gad a mirror as a little kid so I would pee outside.
They beat my ass for it and I am like fuck you, hit me, goddamn fucking Candyman is going to rip me apart in there. They thought it was funny. Primal fear levels of horror.
My 3.5 daughter and I like to jump scare each other. But it's hiding around walls to jump out and say boo and then we laugh. Zero part of me thinks this would ever be a good idea to do to a kid.
The kid who started throwing punches needs to get enrolled into a boxing or mma gym, that kid's choose to fight before running away. 🤣 amazing potential
Somehow the absolute instinctual terror in the eyes of these tiny children as they claw at the door and plead for their mother…it doesn’t entertain me.
Doing this to your teenaged children isn't that bad but most of these kids are under 7, why the hell would anyone think it was appropriate to traumatise what is emotionally one step up from a baby
My mom thought making us cry was genuinely hilarious and took it upon herself to do it as often as possible, so yeah some people just suck ass and are mean for no good reason.
Edit: thanks for the awards and kindness! You’re all so sweet. It will probably be no surprise I am extremely low contact with her as an adult.
My ex used to say she can’t wait to have kids so she can prank them. She said she’s seen so many funny ones on TikTok. I assume she meant ones like this. I explained that pranking kids results in them not trusting you and she just disagreed and said it was funny.
Agree. When I was a kid my parents gave me an envelope labeled rattlesnake eggs. I opened it. It was booby trapped with some paperclip thing wound up with rubber bands and made a rattlesnake-esque noise when you tried opening it. As a kid I was startled but thought it was funny and couldn’t wait to watch them now do it on one of my siblings.
Just furthering your point that it depends on the prank. Some are quite tame and just goofy fun.
I think it's the total lack of understanding in what makes a prank funny as well. If the person being pranked is in genuine distress after, it's not funny. It's only funny if there's a moment of confusion followed by EVERYONE laughing
Also they think it’s okay to upload it online. What happened to keeping your kids safe? I’ve seen so many vids of pedos outing themselves in comments. Vile
The safest place a kid should feel is the company of their parents. They should be able to trust what their parents say. Having a parent put a kid in that type of scenario is a betrayal of trust. They aren't meant to be the butt of jokes for your amusement.
I’m loving how all the people saying otherwise are getting downvoted into oblivion. I’m all about pranking my kids, but with a little class and minus the fear.
When I around that age I was TERRIFIED of bloody marry. So much so I would not look at a mirror in the dark till I was an adult. 25 years later I still don’t really feel great about mirrors in dark rooms and always catch my self avoiding eye contact with them in dark rooms. If my parents did this to me as a kid I would have probably had a heart attack.
I feel bad for these kids because they are talking about how much they love their mom not knowing that their mom is trying to traumatize them for views.
That little boy who said STFU and gave the finger, I look forward to seeing him blow smoke out of his exhaust as he cuts me off in a jacked up truck, 15 years from now.
I remember first going into the haunted mansion.. I wanted to get off immediately when I was in line as a kid at Disney.. my parents got me out... They didn't force me when they knew I was a scared kid at the time... So when I see what looks like the parent holding the door closed for clout when your kid is tryna get out.. that's just crazy..
I LOVED Barney and saw him at an amusement park when I was about 3 or 4. I got very scared and couldn’t explain why, but I didn’t want to get close to him or give him a hug for a photo op. I remember my parents seeming quite disappointed because they thought they were taking me to see my idol lol. But they didn’t force me because they could see how scared I was. These people are ridiculous.
My dad used to have me help him with a horror game cause I was really good at solving puzzles, but I used to dream of zombies bursting through the walls because of it
Does anyone even like their kids anymore? I'd feel awful if I scared my worst enemy that badly let alone the person I'm supposed to love most in the whole world
Most days I’m glad I grew up before the internet because I know my mom would post content like this, but at the same time at least these kids will have a digital trail of the trauma to present to their therapists.
The internet sucks and these parents also suck. There's enough trauma inducing events that happen normally without having to manufacture some for internet "fame".
Omg I can't even imagine making my kid that terrified, you can introduce them to the scariest horror if you do it very gradually with lots of talking about it. This is just cruel I think.
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