The Scariest Movie Scene That Ruined My Childhood - FIRE IN THE SKY
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What horror movie scene scarred your childhood? In today's video I want to present to you the scene that haunted me as a child, the relentless and disturbing abduction scene from Fire In The Sky.
We unpack why this short segment in an unimpressive film is incredibly effective in making you feel lasting cosmic horror.
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So what movie scene kept you up at night as a kid?
A few of the scenes in The Changeling(1980).
Trilogy of Terror 1975. It's the story in the anthology called Amelia that gave me nightmares for years. The story is about a fetish doll with the spirit of a Zuni Warrior trapped within. Amelia, played by Karen Black, accidentally releases the spirit of the doll. The doll-sized warrior hunts her around her apartment. Until, ultimately Amelia is doomed. I was seven years old when I saw this late at night and ,yes, alone. I just knew that thing was going to stab my feet with his spear as I tried to get into my bed.
Yadda, yadda, yadda.. forty years go by and I see the movie on Blu-ray. Immediately, I made the purchase and laughed about it on the way home. That was so absurd, it won't scare me now because I'm all grown up. Well... to this day it sits in my library nice and safe unopened in it's original plastic wrap.
Matrix belly button scene...
@@OfficialFidget Reminds me of one of the newer Crypt Keeper episodes where a girl gets a haunted dollhouse. The disembodied (doll) head of a demon terrorizes the dolls in the house (the dolls move and play out scenes of dying). The little girl get so distraught at their fate, she throws the demon doll out of the dollhouse, but it winds up in her real house, and she just barely manages to put it back in the dollhouse in time.
Pretty much the whole movies but 1) An American Werewolf in London (the zombie soldiers nightmare) and 2) Jacob's Ladder (the subway scene). The bedroom visit from Pascow and the Zelda story from Pet Sematary are up there too.
Signs, when the alien first appears at the birthday party. My siblings forced me to watch it and I don't think I slept for a week afterwards. Ah, good times.
oh man... I remember the jump scare, the music and Joaquin Phoenix's reaction.
Seeing the CRT footage through a CRT TV in real life made it even more convincing lol
I don't know that shit didn't bother me anywhere near what the scene in fire in the sky did.
Same here, my sister got me super good lol
I remember vividly of the shivering sensation I felt during this scene. I was a young teenager when I saw this movie and this scene haunted me for months.
Travis Walton, the guy whose abduction this is based on, didn’t like this scene and says that the aliens were actually trying to heal him after the initial blast that injured his back. Maybe this new info will help heal some of that trauma. :)
damn, you got a source for that? that’s wild
@@user-fs1lc2cj5s Best way to get a sense of how different the film is from the experience Travis described would be to read his book - i.e. "The Walton Experience" - published back in the late 70s (the paperback included artist impressions based on Travis' descriptions). I read this back in the 80s. From what I remember, in the book, Travis describes meeting two alien races after his abduction - the small "Greys" who were examining him when he regained consciousness, and then later a more human like species who appeared to be "in command". Throughout it all his descriptions of the inside of the alien ship (and later what appears to be a "hangar" for the ship -) are very different from what you see in the movie "Fire In the Sky"; i.e. in the film, the environment is dark, grimy, and disgusting....by contrast, in the book, the descriptions of the alien ship and hangar are like something you'd expect on a Federation starship 😉 (i.e very clean / very shiny).
Yes, there's a lot of fear-based misinterpretations of many of these events.
@@DC-id2ih wow! thanks man appreciate it. I’ll check it out
@@user-fs1lc2cj5s he was also on joe rogans pod cast and talked about it
I too was traumatized by this movie as a child. Even as a 41 year old man, this scene still gives me knot in my stomach.
if you are 41 now, you were not "a child" when it came out.
@@xBINARYGODx i was 13... that's a child. If anything, it proves just how terrifying it really was. I grew up in a time where it was still ok to spank your kids, nobody gave a shit if we watched rated R movies, and my parents taught me right from wrong early, instead of blaming media on bad parenting. I watched "Another 48 hrs." In the THEATER my dad and uncle! All i had to do was pretend to cover my eyes when there were boobies on the screen... lol. My parents were cool, and i respected and listened to them.
It's a great scene..really fun to watch!!.. cmon
I was around the same age & saw it in a theater. I loved it. I'm actually watching it right now. In the 80s, before I was even 10, my parents let me rent horror movies like Jason, Freddy, Child's Play, even some I can't remember the names of or find if I can remember.
I rarely find myself nauseated by watching a movie... but that scene nearly had me vomiting.
It's interesting how a scene that scarred both our childhoods involved aliens... for me, it is the news footage scene of the alien from Signs
Mine too! It was specially frightening to me because the footage from the film is said to be from Brazil, and I'm Brazilian hahahah
@@Tilexine oh dear! Hahah yeah the film has loads of moments like that.. like the hand under the door and the reflection in the TV at the end... might watch it tonight!
@@kylepayne3332 THE HAND UNDER THE DOOR AAAAAAAA i remember that's when baby me gave up watching and started crying LMAO This movie really is part of the traumatizing childhood to favorite movie pipeline
I saw this abduction scene on TV when I was like 5. Paranoid me for a good while.
Saw the Signs movie in theaters when I was 12. That birthday scene re-paranoid me for months.
Lol signs was good it was a little scary my name's Kyle too! Cool right
My cousin showed me The Thing when I was around 6 years old, and that movie messed with me pretty bad. Now it's one of my favorite movies.
1000% agree. This was the only movie that scared the sh*t out of me as a kid and was genuinely terrifying
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Romans 6.23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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Jacobs ladder. The subway scene. I don’t know how I was able to watch that movie so young.
That claustrophobic shot from Nope kinda reminded me of this scene.
Was gonna say that! It messed me up for ageeeess especially since there were kids in that audience
i had mentally blocked this scene out until just now. thanks for that. thanks for reminding me of this trauma.
Thank you for gathering a support group especially for us 80s-90s kids 😁✌️
I was scarred by this for a decade, I was like 12 at the time of seeing this. I cried myself to sleep that night.
my cousin was annoyed by my disturbance that night, but I knew, I just knew, she was terrified too and tries to convince her brain to forget the whole movie as best as she can against my weeping.
The opening scene of Ghost Ship, the one where everyone on the ship got dismembered by a wire, traumatized me as a child. That's all I can remember from it because I don't think I watched the rest of it for obvious reasons.
The rest of the movie is not as scary at all. This was the scariest part of the film. You revisit that scene for a moment but only because of a memory, and you understand why it happened. The devil is in the details. It was a paranormal reason. I hope this helps a small bit.
this scene was the one that ruined horror movies for me at 7 it terrified me because this could be real or possible we dont know all the other horror villans are fake this gave me many nightmares!
That thumbnail is me when my alarm wakes me up.
As a kid I slept with a stuffed animal on my face for three months after watching Alien.
But the scene that scared me the most was probably: the tapes in the movie Sinister. Those killings seemed so real, to this day, it chills me to the bone.
The music in those scenes....💀
The lawnmower tape is one of the best jump scares ever. I damn near pissed myself
Yup def in my top 3 scariest movie scenes
Movie: Signs. Scene: Birthday party. Doesn't scare me anymore, but when I was twelve, I watched it at my grandparents house when they were out of the room watching tv downstairs, and I was so scared that I locked myself in the bedroom via the interior doorstoper.
This is the scariest, most disturbing scene that I have ever seen. Very uncomfortable to watch.
I loved Fire In The Sky
Whenever I bring it up to anyone, no one has ever heard of it 🥺
Two immediately come to mind: 1) Large Marge from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure; the way her face transforms really terrified me. 2) The sick sister scene in Pet Sematary... even now, this one freaks me out!
oh 2) Pet Sematary was really scary. The frist night visit from Pascow is terryfing too.
Yessss SICK SISTER!!
Ya Zelda messed me up bad and I watched it on vacation in Disney, like the least scary setting possible. I was 10, but I think looking back it started my love of real horror.
Edit: It is still very creepy.
eeew yes, pet sematary scene freaked me out first time I saw it as a teenager how ever. and indeed still does even though not as hard as 1st watch
This movie traumatized me as a kid, the nightmares ,fear and anxiety. Overwhelmed!
As a kid I watched a scene in the 1999 film house on haunted hill where the woman with her camera sees a mental patient in the passageway, it twitches and then runs up to her. It had no face and it let off some inhuman roar, which made her scream.
That scene gave me sleeping problems.
To this day, I refuse to watch that scene again.
I was at an anime store and they were playing this crazy kung fu movie. There was this god-like being with a doll face and an extendable neck encountering a dog for the first time. It leaned in close to examine the dog, then suddenly extended its neck, shooting it's small doll face into the dog's back with a splash of blood. Even though I was in high school, seeing that and hearing the dog scream in pain really disturbed me. Anyone know what movie that was?
The Neverending Story.... that wolf in the woods was nightmare fuel.
Second place was Pee Wees Big Adventure- Large Marge.... would make me sick to my stomach.
Mine is the Hollow Man, in the scene where the procedure fails, and he comes back and forward from visible to invisible.
The Sixth Sense haunted me as a kid. Was only 9 when it came out. The imagery was scary but also, experiencing things through the eyes of a character who was also a child... I think the scariest scene for me was when Haley Joel Osment was hiding under the table with the little ghost girl, and she started vomiting. I can't remember the context. Her dad poisoned her and they were hiding from him, something like that? It was terrifying to me. Her, and her dad.
Also the boy that says "Wanna see my dad's guns? C'mon," turns around, and the back of his head is blown out. I couldn't sleep that night, too scared to. I think it made me terrified of sleeping for a literal month. It ended up being one of my favorite movies just a couple years after that
Blade Runner: Rutget Hauer's character, Roy Batty bends down and pulls a nail from the floor boards and then proceeds to push the nail through his hand. it was years until I found out what movie it was.
As a child in the 60s I was terrified by skeletons rising out of the ground in Jason & the Argonauts, (monsters by Ray Harrihausen)because I knew there were bodies in cemeteries and other undiscovered places.💀
His actual account, if you believe it actually happened, was a lot nicer than this movie scene. He said they were 2 species of aliens who actually tried to heal him after they injured him on the ground with their thruster or whatever they used for propulsion. So if it did happen, he had a lot nicer time than the dude in the movie
The chest burster scene in Aliens. I saw the second movie before the first and did NOT know what was happening. That stayed with me for a long time.
Oh my gawd!!! Yes this scene !!! Me too!! And also: Communion!!! And the sick sister /aunt in pet cemetery who is kept in that room!
This scene from an underrated Psychological-Horror film, also traumatized me as a kid and it was my first glimpse that allowed me to realize what my greatest fear was. Lack of Control and Helplessness. The futility of my actions no matter how hard I try to regain control, and being completely powerless to defend myself, whilst being at the mercy of beings who I frustratingly can't fight back, like a helpless child. I still have nightmares of this sort of fear, and no matter how much stronger and hardened I've become, it's still in the back of my mind, like a tumor I can't escape from. In fact, I had a nightmare recently in which I'm being chased and was unable to escape from... Something.
Some scenes I saw as a kid (5-12) that still haunt me...
1. This Fire in the Sky scene
2. Lord of the Flies - The kids attack the other kid that's running down the beach with a green glowstick
3. Poltergeist - The clown
4. Critters - The red eyes peering through the kitchen window
5. Twilight Zone Movie - The gremlin on the wing
6. Maximum Overdrive - The kid getting run over by a possessed steamroller
7. Child's Play 3 - The kid jumping onto the grenade to save the others
8. Cat's Eye - The goblin
9. Creepshow - The monster in the crate
10. ET - ET shuffling out of the shed in short bursts towards Elliot
Number 10 freaked me out too!
It wasnt the clown in Poltergeist for me... it was kid being eaten by THE TREE!
ET traumatized me as a child. Whoever says ET is a friendly alien is as looney as Spielberg
Yea the crate monster got me too, especially when the dumb @ss janitor reached his hand in the crate when he saw the yellow eyes peering from the dark SMH!!!
Where were your parents? Who on earth is showing these films to a young child?! I'm sorry for your trauma. :/
Disney's Fantasia fucked me up as s kid. The cruel imagery of the dinosaur hunt and extinction event to the harsh tunes of Stranvinsky's The Rite Of Spring was terrifying but nothing in comparison to the demon later in the movie. When the dead and a devil-like creature rise to Mussorgski's Night On A Bald Mountain I felt so small and helpless as a child. The devil was real and he was the size of a mountain. Nowadays I love these scenes of animation but as a child they were fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
Back when children’s films were challenging for children and adults. That movie is a masterpiece.
Uh… the scene that still haunts me is when the reporter fights the human-like alien and tears off his mask, showing the lizard beneath. (V)
I only heard about this movie for this scene because someone who watched NOPE on Twitter said the scene gave them the same feeling
the last scene of Carrie. the graveyard jumpscare whewwww
I know that this sounds really dumb, but that certain episode from Goosebumps really got to me. It was the one with the puppet. Even now, my 36 year old self still can't handle puppets. While growing up I watched and was bored during pet cemetery, and all other horror movies but that one character struck a very strong cord with my child self.
SLAPPY?!
You know, I think I'm gonna rewatch that on Halloween.
The banging-on-the-door scene from Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963). I watched it on a little black and white TV, from my bed, one Friday night when I was about 12 or 13. I never got past that scene, and it kept me up all night. I eventually watched the whole movie, years later, and found it just as terrifying.
That Haunting is a fantastic film. Shame they never remade it.
@@xBINARYGODx They did remake It twice with the 1999 film and then the TV series. Probably your commenti was ironic since they share Little resemblance with the original film
Alien 3 where the lights go out in the hallway. Watched it at around 7 years old alone in an unfunished basement.
After watched the Blair Witch Project, and wondering what all the fuss was about, I went to bed that night, and woke up with visions of an old hag pottering about around my bed. The power of suggestion.
My experience was the same... I drove to Boston to see it, about an hour drive. Walked out saying "That Sucked." The whole hour long drive home, I was thinking "you know what would have been really scary for that movie" and gave myself nightmares for the rest of the week.
Born in 1988, i watched Kubrick's Shining when I was 6. Needless to say that the Grady twins encounter in the corridor traumatized me for weeks. Now i'm passionned with horror fictions (films, books and video games) and Kubrick's The Shining is among my top reference of horror/scare done right and done best.
It was the leprechaun movie where a guy gets chainsaws in half on stage. He was laying in a "magic trick" box while pleading to the audience that it was real. That was a lot. Oh and Hostile was nasty too with that eye hanging out 🤮
The ghost scenes from the house on haunted hill remake from the 90s screwed me up for a long time when I was a kid
For me it was Independence Day, the scene where they are dissecting the alien and it breaks free. I couldn’t that night
The scene in Princess Mononoke. Not the boar, or the deer decapitation, but that one scene where that dude's arms get torn off clean at the shoulder by an arrow. What freaked me out the most wasn't the violence and blood and act, but the dude's reaction of shock. Being so stunned that it feels more like confusion. That scene haunted me when I was ten and I still think about it every now and again. Great movie.
I was around 5 or six when I saw Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time. when the bed swallowed Johnny Depp, that scene haunted me well into my thirties. It was my first introduction to being truly disturbed. As an adult I had to watch the scene a couple times, look at the making of it, look at some interviews and friendly banter between the cast, everything. Then thank god, I was over it. I can watch the movie and see it as a crazy death now and no longer have a damn near panic attack and just enjoy the movie. Mind you I couldn't talk about it either, because when I did they would laugh at me.
omg me too. I had to walk home from my grandma's in the dark after watching this movie.
Grew up in the 90s, there was a kids show called Ghost Writer, and the three part episode with the Slime Monster gave me a fortnight of paranoia and nightmares.
As a child my parents didn't care very much as to what I watched as long as it didn't have nudity. So I watched Phantoms(1998). The drain pipe scene. Left me traumatized and with long nightmares for years. The film also left me scared of Liev Schreiber.
E.T. in the cornfield screaming haunted my nightmares... i still feel uneasy watching it tbh
I saw the Flukeman episode of the X-Files when I was about six. For years afterwards I imagined him in the darkness at night, crawling around, wheezing.
Glad I'm not the only one traumatized by this scene. Ugh I was 3 when I came out and still remember that horrendous brown jelly in the mouth scene. I couldn't eat jello or look at brown hair gel after seeing it
It goes without saying this scene traumatized me as a child. As a kid i also had other movies had a traumatic effect on me, not so much as real fear but more of a disturbing feeling or sadness that stayed with me for a while, i know It might seem strange but one of these movies was the comedy Shallow Hal, the scene where he realizes the children he went to visit are actually burn victims, that scene stayed with me after i came out of the cinema and filled me with a sense of sadness, probably the fact that the movie was a comedy did not help so i didn't expect a moment like that. Another movie that had that effect on me was the Elephant Man
I have no idea if the scene that scared me the most when I was a child was even real. I haven't been able to find it through internet searches. A child, a little white boy, was immobilized on a utility table (as opposed to a furniture table). A character holds their hand above the child's feet and they shrivel up like fruit going rotten in time lapse footage. The figure moves their hand up the boy's body until they reach his head and light pours out of the child's eyes as he screams and shakes his head wildly back and forth. I have no idea if this is from a movie or if I dreamed it.
The Eugene Tooms episode of the X-Files terrified me as a kid! I found it unbelievably creepy
Oh yes, that and the flukeman episode scared me. As a child i went through a fase where i was scared to even sit on the toilet for fear that One of these guys would come up from the drain and snatch me
The sixth sense, with that one ghost that was bloody lol
Tales from the crypt movie, when the boy turned into a monster
A scene that kept me awake as a child wasn't from a movie but from a show
And even more weirdly- it was from the Bratz show.
There was this special where they re-create the story of cinderella and in this version the father of Cinderella passes away due to eating an excess amount of food
I don't remember anything else of this fairty tale recreation special, I just remember the evil step mother making him eat one more dish, putting it in his mouth before his eyes goes blank and he dies
I could be remembering wrong but that is what I remember and it actually created a disgust in me for force feeding and things similar to that
I remember being at the video store when I was around 6 years old and being captivated by the movie cover and title that I drew it when I got home. My uncle said the movie was too scary for me and that I’d have to be older when I watched it.
Finally watched it when I was 21 and man, this scene just hit like out of nowhere! Props to everyone involved for making such a uniquely disturbing sequence. Definitely would gave me nightmares as a kid lol
Goddamn I wish my parents had that much sense lol this movie ruined my childhood.
I saw the Saw movies way way too young. Still think about it in my 20s
I remember watching this as a kid and thinking "whaaaat the". It was so trippy. I just remember being in awe about it but never knew the name of it. I was about maybe 4 or 5
The thing that got me was if his eyes are rolling in the back of his head then whatever they were doing to him was pretty severe. Whatever they put down his throat had to have reached his stomach. I mean jeez it's like having an upper endoscopy without any anesthesia. Poor guy. 😞
did the needles stick his eyes??
My family was channel-surfing when I was 7-8, I said something stupid, and then my parents turned the channel to a Christian station. It was almost at the end, but what I saw was a child was given a red balloon in this prison for Christians where the government(?) is beheading Christians with a guillotine. The main character sees a red balloon fly up, implying that the child was beheaded. The child then appears unharmed and tells him that he gave the balloon to a woman about to be executed so she wouldn’t be afraid. The film ends with the implication that all the Christians were executed and went to Heaven.
So, the name of the movie is Image of the Beast, a 1980 post-rapture Christian film that is available on RUclips, and it is terrible. I have had that movie in my head for 15 years now.
However, the implication of a child being beheaded offscreen by showing a red balloon flying off into the sky is really disturbing for a kid, and quite frankly still pretty unnerving seeing it again now.
it was that one final destination scene with the rock in the lawnmower for me
Trilogy of Terror. That little voodoo doll made me afraid of the dark til my teens!
When I was really small we tried and failed to get past the first 15 mins or so of Jeepers Creepers and it left me with a fear of weird stuff happening while out driving. And when I was a bit older we watched Signs in class - the first half one day, the second half the next. Boy, the first half of Signs when all you get are teases of the aliens is terrifying. I was convinced I was going tog et abducted that night 🤣
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. When they drink the soda and start to float up towards the rotating fan. My sister and I made our parents turn it off before the scene eneded.
Yeah, I watched this movie by myself when I was young. Absolute nightmare fuel for years.
I recently was telling my mom about this movie and how it scared the Hell out of me, she never saw the movie and laughed when I told her, then I showed her the experiment scene. She wasn't happy. 😂
As a mother, I would be mortified lol!!
OMG THAT SAME SCENE HAVE TRAUMATIZED ME AS A KID
The ending of Fat Girl, I cried when it happened not only because of what befallen the main character but i understood the poetry of it in the grand scheme of the film.
Great video! Always enjoyed this abduction scene as far as sci Fi . The scene that scared me the most as a child was in Poltergeist, specifically where the "crouching lion beast" with the flowing hair, skeleton limbs and growling noises appears outside Carol-Anne's door to keep the mother out... Pure terror for me!😮
I've seen the Anaconda film (the one with J-Lo) in theaters. That movie cemented my fear of snakes.
I watched Fire in the Sky a few months ago and I thought it sucked but that one part was scarier than Alien to me. Particularly the part where he first notices the suits after escaping the pod.
After rewatching the movie that one part is weird to me cause hes fascinated by aliens space suits, WHY !? He should've been terrified and immediately tried to get out of that area instead of hanging around and looking at them.
When I watched this scene on RUclips for the first time when I was 18 it scared me
I’ve been told it’s not as bad as I remember but still to this day I refuse to watch the whole scene, but Sarah’s nuclear nightmare from T2 is the scene that scarred me. I first saw T2 when I was like 8 or 9 and I just could never shake off the feeling that scene gave me. Anything about a nuclear holocaust just terrifies me. It’s interesting though cause I was able to watch Threads all the way through despite how horrifying it was, but still I cannot bring myself to watch the entirety of the nuke scene in T2. The worst part of all of it were the innocent children playing on the playground, oblivious to what would ensue. And the image of Sarah engulfed in flames screaming as the blast rips her skin till there’s nothing left but her skeleton horrifies me to this day. It’s too hard for me to watch and pretty much scarred my childhood.
I Agree. Early 20s when I first saw this. Very creepy. Still remember watching those scenes. Something about them...
I believe it was ILM who created this iconic scene, amazing set, amazing prosthesis, amazing wirework, amazing pacing, PURE TERROR!
Thanks to being a child of the late 70s early 80s I got hold of VHS and Betamax videos that my parents seemed blissfully unaware of so I managed to see films like Jaws, Alien, Dawn of the Dead when I was way too young and yet none of those freaked me out (in fact I really enjoyed them)
The scenes that did manage to grab me and to this day (despite seeing it numerous times and recognising how cheap it looked) was the dead friend at the window tapping to be let in, in the adaptation of Salems Lot.
Until that point vampires were Bela Legosi style cheesy characters with more in common with The Count from Sesame Street than genuine horror, but with the vision of a grey eyed child floating at a bedroom window tapping and asking to be let in reinvented vampires for me then and there. The fear of a creature at the window of your bedroom just gives you a sense of vulnerability that is impossible to shake. You can’t escape. It knows where you are and your safe haven is now a cage with the beast just staring at you through the glass.
It still gives me the shivers even now as a 50 year old grown adult.
The other scene was not even from a horror film but was the robot transformation scene from Superman 3. The scene has a naff looking super computer use a tractor beam to pull one of the helpless villains of the film to their doom. Being consumed into the computer hardware and before our eyes, stabbed, prodded, welded, and transformed into a ridiculous looking robot zombie.
The creature that emerged is not scary in the slightest with a terrible Tina Turner style fright wig and an over abundance of silver paint. But the transformation scene is still the stuff of nightmare. The sense of helplessness, being trapped, transformed, essentially consumed and reused while being restrained clearly tortured in the process is horrific. And it probably resonates in the same way and for many of the same reasons as the Fire in the Sky clip.
For me, it was two existential horror scenes in the 80s. The first was the scene in Ghostbusters when Ray & Winston are talking in Ecto 1 about the Judgement Day, the dead rising from the grave, etc. Compared to most of the otherwise silly & fun ghostbusting up to that point, that exchange of dialog seemed grimly serious and foreboding, and haunted me for years.
The second was The Never Ending Story (big surprise, i know). Specifically the scenes with The Nothing ripping apart the world, and leaving..... nothing. Basically a metaphor for death and eternal oblivion, it was (and is) a terrifying thought for a child that has no sense of their own mortality as yet.
Great video btw, Fire in the Sky came out when I was a teen but that scene was terrifying.
Yeah FITS scarred me growing up but two other movies were as at least as freaky as that, communion and The Fourth Kind
EDIT: I would also add NOPE to the list. I saw it in theaters and there are definitely some very disturbing scenes in that movie plus the sounds were just insane throughout.
That scene completely messed me up as a kid as well
Nice video as always! Mine was the Exorcist, saw it when I was 10, still haunts me.
the floobles from spy kids terrified me. especially the process of how they were made.
Same feeling bro! Here, another childhood ruined by those aliens D:
Omg I saw this as a kid and it scared the hell out of me. I was trying to find a video about it recently but didn't know the title of the movie. Thanks for uploading this.
I don't remember watching this movie as a child, but some of the scenery and imagery match nightmares i had
This is in my list of scenes that I will never forget, even though I watched that movie when I was like eight o nine years old
It might seem silly, but the scene for me was in Night of the living dead. It was playing on the tv one day during some family get together when i was young and the scene where Barbra walks up the stairs and sees the decomposing body stuck in my mind and really horrified me. not just the imagery but the idea of something or someone dead just at the top of the stairs.
I would say the Rametep scene from Young Sherlock Holmes. I never knew the name of the movie until years later, but I stumbled upon the movie close to the start of that scene and found the haunting chat fascinating, until I clocked hat was about to occur.
This scene and the one from Mimic, where one of the kids in the subway gets eaten by the giant bug where terrifying for me. With the scene from Mimic it was my first time watching a child character diying in a movie and it totally give me nightmares for like a straight week.
Signs, the birthday party scene 😭👽
For me to!
I saw this movie when i was 9 years old. The scene that stuck in my mind is when he´s hiding under the table and the syrup is pored out. Ive been searching for in for 31years, untill i found it about a week ago!!
My childhood-ruining scene was the demon parents in The Gate. I think I was something like 6 years old, watching the movie by myself for some reason.
I saw this when i was a baby, it is one of my earliest memories and has stayed with me my whole life. Im 36. It recently came up in my head again and i thought "lets see if we can find out if that was a real movie and not my imagination. I typed in 80s alien ubduction movie and this video was the first thing that popped up. I finally know the source of a memorie that ive always had with me. Thanks for this awsome video, this is a pretty big mkment for my little self inside haha
This scene scared and scar my mother to death when she was young to the point of crying and being hysterical and still to this day she forbid this movie and she is still frightened everytime I mention it
It’s dumb, and it wasn’t from a particular scene *in* the movie, but Mothman & Darkness Falls made walking past patches of woods terrifying for me as a kid.
I used to have a paper-route, and being an irresponsible kid hanging late with friends after school, I frequently walked my route past sun-down.
This brought me through stretches of street where the lights dropped out and trees took over, & all I imagined was this phantom flying through the forest on either side of me as I tried to clear the run of road flanked by it.
Damn you! That nightmare on elm street clip is the one...
For me it was not from a horror movie, though I believe the question is not restricted to one genre. Near the end of Saving Private Ryan, two soldiers fight in close combat inside a house with one plunging a knife into the heart of the other.
Yes that scene Always disturbed me. Still does to this day since everytime i Watch that movie of all the carnage it's that scene that i find difficult to Watch. I can't really understand why, do you have a theory since It disturbed you too?
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The intimacy of it perhaps.
They were so close to each other and inevitable death, it being close combat and all, which contrasted heavily against the death by mid to long range weaponry like guns, tanks and artillery.
@@thekingsean92 of course, you and I could possess generational trauma. This is never good
@@PineappleBuddhist you're right. It probably Is the fact that in that scene you don't Just see two soldiers fighting but human beings fighting for their life and not wanting to die, showing the emotion and terror that you would feel in a situation like that. Still for a child to see that scene and be traumatized Just goes to show that as kids we are not as oblivious to the world as we think, we just process it in a different way. Scenes in movies of parents arguing i used to find equally disturbing, probably because of my own bad memories of seeing my parents argue