As a big time Monty Python lover, at first I thought this was odd and a little funny. But then I remembered that I was totally freaked out by The Sausages Skit by Kids in the Hall. I couldn’t watch KITH for years… my husband slowly started reintroducing KITH to me just in the last couple years. I didn’t watch it for well over a decade.
Anyway, I was so disturbed that I don’t think I’ve eaten a sausage product since. No bratwurst, no kielbasa, no chorizo, no breakfast links… nothing.
I got freaked out when I was around nine years old from seeing the movie The Fiddler On the Roof. What upset me was the historic fact of “Old World” cultures in which daughters were seen as beloved burdens to be married off ASAP.
The viewing was a treat by my best friend, as it was her B-day party. I held it together until I got home, then was just hysterically upset.
I was very upset by “War of the Worlds” movie when I was a child. Nearly 50 years later. the thought of watching it makes my skin crawl.
When I was little my Aunt took me to see Jaws, and when the movie was over she drove me to the beach.
Another time she took me to see Amityville Horror, and then drove me to the house in Amityville.
When I was older, I considered taking her to see The Blair Witch Project, and then driving to a property I know of in the woods with abandoned decaying houses…
My kids don’t get scared by anything. I never did either. When I was a kid, I loved horror movies, monster movies and gore. I was un-scareable. Still am. When my kids see violence or gore on TV, I always tell them that it’s fake, and tell them how they do it. Now they start saying, “oh, that’s so fake…those are obviously rubber intestines,” when they see it. Teaching them how to be aware of the artifice stops them from being freaked out.
The only time I can remember one of them being really scared was by some kind of giant, sweet and sour pork monster on South Park. She was like 4. She was ridiculously scared by it. I don’t know why.
South Park is one of those shows definitely on my “no-no” list for my kids…due to language. We have a teenaged daughter that has some anger/respect issues (particularly when she hears the word “no”) and she uses bad language towards us, so we already fight an uphill battle against the wee ones hearing that stuff.
But I’m on board with some horror movies as long as its not too intense, foul-mouthed or packed with sex or nudity. Its actually kind of fun to see them saying how fake something is (and this is usually due to the fact that the only acceptable horror movies anymore are older, like Jaws or Poltergeist whose special effects aren’t as good as more modern movies).
Not horror-related, but your last comment reminded me of this:
For years I was freaked out by a nightmare that began for me as a small child. As a young college student, I realized that my nightmare was actually the death scene from Logan’s Run, a movie I watched as a small child, then promptly forgot, only to terrify me at night. As it goes, I wouldn’t consider it today to be something that would be scary to a small child that might see it.
LOL. I swear it was no where near that sinister 
I’ve had many students freaking out from academics. One child who was diagnosed as autistic would throw tantrums when facing math problems.
By the “guardians’” logic, we should protect them from school.
The other night I was watching an episode of “Bleach” that contained a particularly bloody and violent fight. My daughter woke up and saw part of it, and that night she had a nightmare about severed limbs and a little girl eating a baby (though no babies were eaten, and no one lost limbs in that episode.) She’s not allowed to watch most episodes of “Bleach” anymore.
It doesn’t even have to be adult content. My daughter once saw an episode of “The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody” in which they snuck out to see the movie “Zombie Mom” without their mother’s permission. That night she dreamed that Zombie Mom was after her, and twice more in the following years. For years afterward she was terrified of zombies, and was convinced that they existed. So even Disney Channel shows aren’t completely free of potential nightmare material.