Anyway...I grew up in an "old school" Irish-Catholic household, and my paternal grandmother revelled in scaring the heck out of us as kids. We listened to the same ghost stories for most of our youths, and they were still scaring us. My father also took a perverse delight in sending us to bed terrified. I always say how most kids would get a "good night" from their fathers. Mine would say something like "Well, the vampires are really gonna get you tonight!".
There was one movie in particular, that in retrospect a kid should NOT have been watching. It's the 1970's version of Dracula with Frank Langella. He didn't frighten me so much, but his victims did. In this version, for some reason they reversed the roles of the women. Van Helsing's daughter Mina (possible spoiler!!) was the one killed by Drac, and Lucy was the one they were frantically trying to save.
Any-hoo, there's a scene where Van Helsing (played by Lawrence Olivier!!) and Harker (I think) realize what's going on and decide they need to go into Mina's grave. They go into it, and fall through into a burial vault. Harker gets separated from Van Helsing, and Van Helsing is laying face first in the ground staring at a puddle of water. The water is still rippling from his fall, when all of a sudden you see something white in the reflection and hear "Papa? Papa?". Then they pan around and you see her for the first time. My GOD, it was terrifying to see that, and actually I can feel my heart rate picking up as I write this. All I know is, the first time I saw this, that night I had to go to the bathroom at like 1 am and the bathroom in our house was downstairs from my bedroom. Of course it was the obligatory stormy night. All I can say is that I was moving between lightning flashes that night!!
So, what scared you then?