In my case:

Halloween - saw when I was 8. It's actually kinda scary at that age.
Barbarella - has always been in with the other kids videos, as long as I can remember. Probably saw it when I was about 7.

Aliens. I had a brief phase when I was about seven of going to bed thinking "Don't think about Aliens. Don't think about Aliens". It was relatively traumatic or somesuch. As a wee nipper I sat through Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi and other lengthy films and really enjoyed them. I'm less certain that I understood Educating Rita, although the book-burning scene stayed with me my whole life, until I watched it again.

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Friday the 13th- 6 or 7
Face-Off- 5
Robocop- 5
Buffalo '66- 6
Pulp Fiction- 7

Two of these films became favorites.
Pulp Fiction was my favorite film till I was 14.

I was a right scaredy-cat with an overactive imagination so even fucking Goosebumps made me sleep with the light on when I was 11.

Anyway, the ones that made the biggest impact:

Watership Down - I was 5 or 6, and my mother thought it was about bunnies. Fair enough, it WAS, but they were ripping each others throats out and that field of blood part...ohhh

and Stephen King's IT when I was 11. It was on TV one evening and I dared myself to watch it because my stepdad was watching it. That was a mistake. At that time, I was sleeping on the lower level of the house, with my mum and stepdad upstairs, and the bathroom was all the way through the rec. room and i used to have to turn ALL the lights on

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Pink Floyds The Wall messed me up for days when I was 7.

Vamp Vamp (1986)
my parents told me it was scary I said nah..I'm tough....I was 9....Grace Jones scared the shit out of me!!! Ripping this guys heart out and eating it, gave me nightmares for along time!

hahaha, I was the BIGGEST wuss when I was a child. When I was 6 my friend showed me Beetlejuice and The Shining and I slept with the light on until I was about 11 and then I went the other way and was determined to prove I wasn't scared of ANYTHING and watched every horror/violent movie on the face of the earth. Now I have come back full circle and I am like- I don't enjoy those kind of films, I should stop wasting my time on them.

Alien. I was four. My dad took me to see it at the theater. Another was this movie called Bleeders which I think is about some ancient royal family who "stayed in the family" & then were driven underground for some reason & continued their incestuous tradition for decades until they were nothing but huge blobs/walls of flesh with many faces & the mobile ones were stealing the freshly buried bodies from the local cemetery to bring to their underground lair & eat. Run on sentence. Years of bad, bad, bad, bad, baaaaaaaad dreams.

Jaws when I was 3 or 4. I thought that sharks were coming out of the walls after me, so, I think I *may* have been a tad traumatised.

I am still a big baby about such things though.
I think Aliens too, when I was a bit older.

For some reason Stand By Me depressed the hell out of me. Not sure why, but I wanted to die after seeing that.

I tend to absorb moods too easily, and I think as a kid didn't know how to get rid of or at least ignore stuff that would get into my head.

Nothing else comes to mind. It was always America's Most Wanted that scared me, not movies.

Agreed with the Wall. For some reason I was allowed to walk in the room during 9 1/2 Weeks???? Disturbing

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Bleeders sounds awesome.

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I vaguely remember the Lindsay Anderson film "Britannia Hospital," when Malcolm McDowell is basically dismembered, sewn up, and dismembered again in a scene in which he is beheaded and blood is spraying all over the place. I couldn't decide whether that shit was hilarious or disgusting.

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people laugh at me when I tell them this but it's ok. When I was about 6 or 7 I watched the Leprechaun movie (remember those?) even though my dad told me not to because he knew they would scare the shit out of me.

Well, I slept with my bedroom light on until I was 13. I thought that the leprechaun was going to crawl out from under my bed, say something really creepy and stomp on me to death for some reason that movie had a really weird emotionally traumatic effect on me. I still will not watch it. and there's like 7 of them now.

i spit on your grave - i was 12. my newly divorced dad rented it for me to be the "cool dad" when i was at his place for the weekend. then he went out on a date.

my eyes are still scarred.

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i walked into the room when my parents were watching this when i was about 3, i only saw like 3 minutes, but it has eternally damaged me. i have clown phobia very bad.

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I saw Basketcase when I was 6. I think that helped set a precedent of mental disease.

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Went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark. My parents told me after that I was telling everyone we went to see a "bad movie". It was bad for me to see it or something.

holy shit, i believe it.

for me:

when a stranger calls

and this fucking movie which i'm not sad to have forgotten the title about a village of people who go evil over something in the water. whatever, it was sick. i tried to look it up on imdb with the keyword "water," but obviously that got me nowhere as there are about 65 million possibilities... i did find, much to my delight, that "water-tower" is a key word for whats eating gilbert grape. "match in the gas tank... boom boom."

oh AND you know what movie scared the fuck out of me when i was a little girl? the bad seed. that little girl KILLED PEOPLE!!!

well this is pretty silly as its a comedy but when i was 5, i saw Silver Streak with gene wilder and there was a scene wh