I, like you, am NOT a horror movie afficionado by any means. In fact, I had a similar experience with a babysitter, only my downfall was The Shining, around the age of 6.

My scary non-horror films are ...

Dumb & Dumber - it really just has to do with Jim Carry - the hair, the makeup, the voice ... scary.

When a Man Loves a Woman - I grew up with an alcoholic, so I can't watch that movie very often.

Boys Don't Cry - Again, I saw it once, I probably won't ever see it again.

The Never Ending Story - specifically when Artax dies in the swamp of sorrows ... Arrrrrtaaaaaax!

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - I love me some Indiana Jones, but the Temple of Doom borderlines on an Eastern-themed snuff film, featuring bugs and vermin. I tend to squeel like a 4 year old girl when I see the bugs and the vermin.

Bamboozled - this is one of Spike Lee's lesser known films - and it shouldn't be. Everyone should watch it once, cut open their soul, and then never watch it again.

Mommy Dearest -*shudders* ... for the obvious and the personal, which I won't divulge.

Requiem for a Dream

I seriously didn't take ADVIL for a month after I watched this movie.

Boys Don't Cry got to me to as well as American History X.

Sophie's Choice - The scene where she's forced to choose will never leave me.

The Star Wars Christmas Special - The first 20 minutes involves Chewbacca's family preparing for the Wookie version of Christmas. They spent the whole time speaking the Wookie language with no subtitles. I'll never get that time back.

I was so scared/disturbed in those movies that I ran out of the theater. I was 8 at the time, I think. I think they may have been the only movies I saw at that age, but still. To this day I don't have a clue how ADGtH ends - I ran out when the dog has to choose between saving the little girl and saving his watch. I assume he saves the girl. I finally saw the Little Mermaid again when I was 15 and it was re-released. Actually I loved it then, but Ursula was way too much for me to take at age 8, apparently.

I am amazed by the fright imposed by Willy Wonka - I was never scared of the old version. It all seemed so whimsical, and correct me if I'm wrong, but they tell you all the kids are gonna be okay. The new one, on the other hand, was definitely scary and disturbing and just sad.

Watching Jesus camp freaked me out. It was nothing like the Bible camp I went to. Yes, I went to a Bible camp. I have some the greatest memories from there. No, I didn't go for the religious aspect of it but I did go for my friends. A week of having people unconditionally love you is like having the ultimate drug. All my friends knew who I was and they didn't care. Best weeks of the year.

I started watching Jesus camp knowing how easy you could be swayed into things when youre there but what I saw was extremely different from what I experienced. This film shows manipulation at it's best. What they have these children believing is so wrong. No child needs to experience an emotional breakdown at 8 years old. What amazed me the most is how much material they have on keeping this bulls**t world alive. Being the semi-naive person that I am, I was totally stunned to see that they had texts books and kiddie videos on Creation. Common sense has been bred out of them.

Everyone has right to practice whatever religion they want. But if the thing you turn to is covering your eyes instead of opening them then something is wrong. It scares to know that the people with least amount of sense have the much greater numbers.

A few movies I can never watch again

Beloved- That movie scared the sh*t out of me. It all was to real and way to vivid for me to ever watch again.

Passion of the Christ- Watching it the first time left me emotionally and physically drained. It took me 3 years to watch again all the way through. Twice is more than enough.

Pet Semetary- Watched it once when I was kid and it stayed with me forever.

any Disney cartoon creeps me out on some level, but one of the more-or-less live-action Disney movies has some scenes in it that still give me the wiggins:

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

when the suits of armour start marching along to that eerie chanting and get shot and "die" it creeps me out a lot.

also, i agree with The Day After... i thought for sure we were going to get the bomb dropped on us after that.

oh, and anything with a romance between a woman and a man 40 years her senior should be rated NC-17. *shudder*

I saw this when I was 7 & to this day I swear I will never, ever have a pet rabbit.

That film absolutely traumatised me. The rabbit war, the river/field of blood, rabbits dying every 5 seconds...terrifying!

Bambi rates up there for me. I also remember Thumbelina also scared me so much my father had to take me out of the theater, but I can't remember why; it was just the singing/dancing toads part. Weird.

Also Lilo and Stitch made me cry three times.

and Ratatouille. He almost gets shot, drowns, and gets run over by cars and carts! That movie should not be rated G.

And does Pan's Labyrinth count? The second task...

omg, inbd

I don't know what it is, but I just can't watch the movie. I have tried four times already, but I always turn it off... Somehow it really gets to me. 

I wonder if I ever get to see it from start to end...

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)

you probably don't know this movie since it's a french one but it is (supposed to be) wonderfully beautiful and touching. Long story short it is about an orphan bear cub who hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters. Maybe thirty seconds after the beginning of the movie the mum gets killed (hence the orphan cub). I was maybe 5 or 6 at this time and my mother had to take a desesperate and crying out loud me outside because I was screaming 'his mum's dead' 'his mum's dead'. It took my entire family three hours, two yoghurts and lots of hugs to calm me down. And to this day it stays an haunting memory!

"I'm gonna give you all a nice, fun, normal evening even if I have to kill every person on the face of the Earth to do it"

...because I'm a wimp ( I got talked into Resident Evil and spent most of it with my fingers in my ears watching the floor - but Milla was hot).

Monster House is meant to be a kids movie, but it managed to scare four 18 year olds - most of whom love scary movies and thought it would be tame! Little kids wouldn't be able to watch it, they'd have nightmares for weeks!

That and there's something about kids movies in general that is more scary, I think, because most of the time they feed off real fears and situations that could possibly happen in real life - ie loss of parents or something.

Maverick

...A lot still does

Lion King- Who thought a kiddie version of Macbeth was a good idea?

My Girl- I still am not over that. Bees...*shiver*

Sleeping Beauty-Nothing is okay about poisonous spinning wheel and sleeping(in a caket of all things)until some guy finds and kisses you.

The Color Purple-Just to much at such a young age!

Green Mile-I had done nothing wrong,yet I feared the death penalty...and the guy who burped bats.

Nightmare Before Christmas-The preview with the kid pulling the shrunken head out of the gift box scared me so much! I cried in 2nd grade when we had to watch it in class.

 Old movies that portrayed different minority groups as ignorant, unintelligent,and somehow less human than the main characters...its scary to look back on that stuff.

Swan Princess-perfect little love story then tragedy strikes...shes a ducky! and she almost dies!

Farenheit 911- I understand my dad wanting me to be more politically aware, but if I remember correctly...some very real people, really, got their very real, heads chopped off.

My Friend Martin- About these two friends, who go back in time and meet Matin Luther King Jr as a kid.There is a part where they try to talk him out of becoming a leader because they don't want him to die, but he decides to do it anyway...I cried so much after that.

Twister-Somehow, knowing there are people out there who go chasing these things doesn't make me feel any better.

101 Dalmations-Cruella DeVille...she...she wanted to wear puppies?

FernGully-save the forest ahhhhhhhhh!

Charlotte's Web-After all of that hard work saving Wilbur, the spider still dies.The idea of the inevitability of death is heavy stuff for preschoolers.

Bambi-Was this really a good idea?Abandonment issues for otherwise happy children?

The Little Mermaid-Ursula the thief: steals Ariel's voice, tries to steal the guy shes in love with, and steals her daddy's forky thing.

The Fourth Harry Potter movie where Harry is dragging Cedric's body out of the maze and everyone is still cheering, until Fleur screams.

A lot of other stuff too.Especially Disney's stuff.Matter of fact, Disney World creeped me out as a kid...the psychotic dolls singing"Its a Small World" and Mickey and Goofy stalking my dad... *shivers*

But I have gone on too long...Sorry!

I am so glad that Willy Wonka made the list. I literally cried the first time I saw it. I'm so with you on the blueberry scene. HORRIBLE.

All Dogs go to Heaven was also hard to watch as a child. My grandparents only had a few movies and that was one of them so I've seen it maybe 15 times.

Now for the embarrassing one... I cried at Leslie Nielsen's Dracula: Dead and Loving It as a child. I had an intense fear of vampires as a child for some reason. Maybe that is why I'm so "intrigued" by them now? ; )

OH and E.T.!! When they are going down the road dragging that kid in the tube thing... lordy.

I agree with you on The Wizard of Oz (though I saw it as foreshadowing of the bloody and disturbing war to come), Mulholland Drive (which still, after dozens of viewings, manages to surprise me), and Jesus Camp (which made me seriously consider becoming a nun just so I could teach some damn tolerance to those kids--and yes, I have been to religious camps, and no, they were not like that at all).

As for other movies that have haunted me, I'd say Dumbo is right up there. Even now, thinking about the scene where his mother wraps her trunk around Dumbo, I feel this paralyzing fear of losing my own mother. It's just that frightening of a visual.

I have to agree with Mara about Boys Don't Cry; I was so absolutely repulsed and angry during that movie that I had to turn it off. I haven't watched it since.

Two religious movies--The Magdalene Sisters and Deliver Us From Evil--also really terrified me. As a Catholic, I am always most horrified when I see people of my own faith committing atrocities in the name of God and the Church, so watching first a movie where three girls are subjected to physical and emotional torture by nuns and then watching a documentary about one pedophile priest and the giant cover-up by the Catholic Church was just awful.

My Summer of Love, though not remotely scary, makes me so uneasy whenever I watch it, though I do consider it one of my favorite films.

The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire scene at the Quidditch World Cup where the Death Eaters come at the camera, their masks all devilish, made me scream like a baby in the theatre.

And I feel like no one will know this movie, but there's a communist-era (I think it's from the '70s) Polish film by the name of Przesluchania (loosely translated as Interrogations) about a woman held prisoner for reasons that are never fully explained. It is simultaneously haunting, disturbing, terrifying, suspenseful, manipulative, dramatic, humorous, hopeful, sentimental...yeah, I could go on. But, basically, what really scared me when I watched the movie was the gradual process by which the main character (played by one of the greatest actress alive, Krystyna Janda) is broken down into little more than a hollow shell of a human being.

"Out of the box is where I live." -Starbuck

but after watching X-Files so many times, and horror film thursdays, I'm starting to actually develop some nerves! So these are the ones that, will forever, no matter how damn brave I get, scare the hell outta me:

Return to Oz: I did not see this as a child. I saw this when I was 18, after my roommate said, that Halloween, we have to see it because it's scarier than any movie I've ever seen. After maybe 20 minutes, I ran out of the room. I still have nightmares. Fairuza Balk freaked me out in the Craft, but this is a billion times worse.

Huggabunch: Remember Huggabunch? I loved it when I was 3. So we rented it again. I'm still traumatized. I'll refresh your memory: A little girl is at her grandmother's house, where said grandma is too busy for hugs. Little girl is sad and starts hearing voices, namely giggles coming out of the mirror. (this is why I was so afraid of/fascinated by mirrors as a kid) Out pops Huggins, a scary scary puppet who takes her to the world of Huggalot, where there are LOTS of other scary scary puppets, an evil ice queen, and well nothing in this film is in any way comforting. Now it MIGHT have been scarier being my friend and I watching it had accidental caffeine overdoses (we were 16 and unaware of the proper ratio of coffee to water, leading to the caffeine equivalent of 14 cups each) and could not stop shaking for the next hour or so, but it doesn't matter. Horrifying film and experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3fBShGgtzk (huggabunch scary)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant: I know it's an arthouse film that displays the brilliance of Fassbinder, cept I can't get through it. It's not the S&M, it's the S&M going truly truly bad that really freaks me out. I'm not sure if this or The Killing of Sister George gets my vote for scariest film with lesbianism ever.

As a film student, I know both films are complex psychological studies that examine the human condition (or in a non-pretentious way- they are "deep"). And I know that the period-lesbianism is in some ways merely a great shortcut to tell the audience these are socially isolated characters whose relationships have great stakes, with consequences so emotionally monumental that the knowledge every action or possibility can change the landscape of one's life becomes a burden so extraordinary they cannot help but become corrupted by their own desires.

Still, no matter what I know intellectually, emotionally it's the equivalent of cinematic dementors for me. I STILL haven't made it through each film all of the way.

The Lion King - Sooo sad....poor Simba.....and yet I had the odd fasination with Scar...I always thought he was kinda kool...even though he killed Simba's dad, which makes me cry like a baby "come on Dad we gotta go..."

Dumbo - When Mrs. Jumbo is locked away for protecting her baby...aww and the song...gets me every time

The Land Before Time - When Littlefoot's mum dies...I would always leave the room...or 'go get a drink' so sad...

Marrion: Now, tell me what do you see?
Kel: Two lovers in a passionate embrace
Kath:...Two dead sticks

The film that haunted me was one of the Superman films i can't remember what number it was.  It was the the one with the giant computer and it pulled that bad woman inside and turned her into an evil robot. 

She freaked me out big time.  I constantly watched my back, I had to walk up the stairs sideways with my back to the wall.  It was horrendous, I beg of all you producers pleeeaaase don't make a remake *shudders*

Ach! Disney films are the WORST. Dumbo and Bambi made me cry buckets when I was a kid. But because they were animated, you could get a certain distance from them. THEN, Disney re-released Old Yeller in 1974, and I saw it. Somehow this was supposed to be a good family film?? **Spoiler** A boy has to shoot his best friend who has gone mad with rabies. And the puppies at the end did NOT redeem this sad state of affairs. I still tear up when I think of it (sensitive much?).

Other films that absolutely haunted me:

Hard Candy - Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson are GREAT in this film. Plot outline from imdb: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him. And how she goes about doing this is the haunting part.

The Butcher Boy - A child slips into insanity and violence while living with a suicidal mother and an alcoholic father. Hard to believe this was Eamonn Owens first film because he is absolutely riveting.

Angels and Insects - incest and creepy aristocrats. Nuff said. Oh, and Kristin Scott Thomas helps hold my attention.

I still find myself thinking about Mullholland drive and being so confused. . . That man makes disturbing films.

Donnie Darko also has some images and feelings that just don't wear off long after the movie is over.

Thinking back to my childhood - I can't really think of a film that upset me BUT I was never a fan of the creepy old school disney efforts - AND lets not even try get into the hidden ideology within them.....

I watched it with my mother when I was little and it traumatised me so much that for years (despite the fact that I lived in middle-class suburbia and not post-Civil War Texas) I was TERRIFIED to let my dog out of my sight in case she caught rabies and I had to shoot her.. 

but watching American History X...the scene where ed norton kills the guy on the curb caught me TOTALLY off guard and i couldn't get that image out of my brain for some time... also, Trainspotting, when the baby died- i was so upset i had to go outside and scream!!!

ugh, just posting this is giving me the creeps...