Jurassic Park for me. I had an amazing JP jumper when I was like…maybe 6. It was far too big for me but I loved dinosaurs. Naturally this meant I wanted to watch the film because…well I’m 6 and it’s got dinosaurs.
Ultimately I ended up watching it with my Mum and Dad. We got as far as the iconic T-Rex chase scene and I told them to turn it off. Didn’t go near the film for another few years.
I’ve now got my own 6 year old. There’s no scenario I could envisage where I even consider letting her watch a film as gory, tense and frightening as JP.
Return To Oz was mine. Took me decades to bring myself to rewatch it.
Was it Jack falling into the swirling abyss? Thay freaked me out. I think the concept of nothingness/dying hit me hard then.
So much of it was nightmare fuel, it’s hard to choose, but I think it was the scene where Dorothy’s friends have been turned into ornaments that haunted me the most.