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Ah, what a great thread!

My worst childhoodscares in "free association" as they come to me ( with many thanks to all those who helped to jog my memory via their previous threads ) :

- ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY
Seeing this one later on in my teens, it was comical to to
think that this one could have actually frightened me at
one time, but when I saw it around 1967 on the late
show I was only six. And for some reason that human
head inside the robot body gave me the creeps!

- BLACK SABBATH
I saw this one on a triple bill with THE TERROR & THE
RAVEN during one of probably hundreds of trips to the
local drive ins with my parents during my childhood.
I was probably about seven or maybe eight & yep, as
you can imagine, the "A Drop of Water" segment TOTALLY
freaked me out.
And yeah, it DOES ,indeed, still hold up very well.

- HOMICIDAL
- HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE
- STRAIGHTJACKET
- BESERK
All of these scared the piss out of me!
Basically back at that age, any film with a homicidal
maniac doing people in with a bladed weapon would send
me into a complete state of terror.
My first exposure to such was another late night viewing
( our local FRIGHT NIGHT late show on Friday's at 11:30
was a staple in our household during the entirety of it's
run ) of HOMICIDAL & I can still clearly remember my
absolute shock & horror at the sight of that chick
plunging the knife into that old Justice of the Peace's
belly.

- NIGHT OF THE GRIZZLY
Freaked me out upon my first viewing of it at five or
six, because we lived out in the country in a house
very much surrounded by woods at the time & I was
convinced that a grizzly bear was going to attack our
house. And no amount of rationale from my parents
assuring me that there were no bears & especially
no GRIZZLIES living in or around the Buffalo, NY area
( no matter how rural our particular area might be )
helped for a few days.

- FRANKENSTEIN VS DRACULA
I never even got to see this Al Adamson "classic" until
I was 17 & we FINALLY got cable in 1978 & with it
the wonderfully essential WPIX, but back when I was
about nine or ten, I got an issue of FAMOUS MONSTERS
that featured an article on the film & it's still images
of that film's version of Frankenstein's monster really
gave me the creeps ...
Up until that point in time, I'd never been frightened by
ANY version of Frankenstein that I'd seen, but this ugly
bugger sure sent a chill up my spine.
Of course, when I finally actually saw the thing on TV
the better part of a decade later, I was pretty
disappointed, but ...