Did you ever watch a movie that traumatized you as a child?
I remember I had chicken pox at 7 years old and stayed home and watched the poltergeist on HBO by myself. I was so scared out of my mind, that I went outside and sat on the front steps of our house until my mother came home from work.
@ChristieLeanne ouch. that is a tough one. I saw that one during movie night on ship in the Marine Corps. The tv in our berthing area was right outside my rack, so I saw all of the movies whether I wanted to or not. One of them was Silence of the Lambs. I am not a fan of horror movies, so I didn't pay much attention at first, but I find myself watching it after some time. it was a heavy movie.
@sinbach The Birds!! Freaked me out! When I see a huge flock of black birds I remember my heart beating in fear! Alfred Hitchcock must have had a weird mind.
@MaryMamuzich I remember seeing an Alfred Hitchcok movie before I was familiar with him. It was not a scary movie (at first), but was about a guy trying to escape prison. He developed a plan to have the coroner sneak him out of the prison by allowing him to crawl into the casket of a deceased inmate. He would be buried and at night the coroner would come and dig him out of the grave. As planned, the prisoner got into the casket at night, was taken out of the prison and buried. When the prisoner lit a lighter to see who he was buried with he saw it was the coroner of the prison. That's where the movie ended. def freaked me out.
@sinbach I remember that one!! It kept me awake!! My brothers loved The Twilight Zone ! I hated the creepy music and I remember my brothers laughing at the stories but I'd "have to go to the bathroom" at the real scary parts. I never watch scarry movies! And I wonder.... Did the prisoner ever get out of that casket🤷🤣
@sinbach poor little boy! I didn't watch much on TV at that age. You know, Finland in the 80s. 😂 We had like only two channels, a small black and white TV, strict religious parents... But in my teens I watched things that scared me... don't remember exactly what movies. As a child we lived in a small town that you could easily go around by bike. All of my closest neighbors were boys, so we were biking a lot, and following the sounds of sirens. I saw a house burning down and it was really scary, and I had terrible nightmares. My parents and I didn't talk about feelings, so they didn't comfort me. I also saw a couple of traumatic traffic accidents with hurt people. It was my own choice to chase for the scary things...
@tanjaostman movies do not necessarily have to be really scary to scare small children. We watched Little House on the Prairie with my boys as they grew up and there was one episode about the plague - and it COMPLETELY traumatized both of my boys. we spent a lot of time with them in prayer and explaining to them that no one was going to die in our family of the plague.
@sinbach wow! I have watched the series as well - really family-friendly. But great that you were sensitive to what was going on in the boys' minds and were able to talk about it and pray!
@sinbach This might make people laugh: but there is a Chinese movie about a kid who lost his mom who was frame for stealing and dad went crazy so they were orphaned; don't even know why my parents watched it, they probably thought I was too little to understand what I was watching
@sinbach 5 years old... at church. We watched "Thief in the Night" and "A Distant Thunder." Both are 70's rapture/end times movies and both cheesy. But they scared me into salvation because I didnt want my head chopped off. Thing is, we lived on a farm next to railroad tracks. So every night the house would shake and I would hear a loud 'trumpet.' I ran downstairs to make sure mom and dad were still in bed.
It's funny now, but not back then!
My eschatology has changed but people still make cheesy end times movies. And worse yet, viewers of these movies take them as scriptural!
@Toddkapper I didn't grow up in church, so I missed out on all those "cheesy" movies, but when I was in High School I did read the LEFT BEHIND series. those really did impact the way that felt about eschatology.
@sinbach Like everything else in life, we have to compare to the Word.
Thank God, my fear based salvation turned to a love based salvation and now the events, people, and timing of the end times is less influential.
@sinbach yep. Silence of the Lambs. I was so scared but just kept watching.