I refuse to watch John Wick because the puppy dies.
I hate films where animals die.

Which ones?
EH fucked me up when I was young lol. I recognized Lawrence Fishburne from The Matrix, so I decided to watch it for only that reason, not knowing what it was. The vent scene scared the shit out of me and I never finished it.

Well the first Alien I thought was scarier, but my age may be showing there.

Are we talking space horror or horror in general? Also, I don't want to kill the thread topic here by turning it into a conversation about recommendations.

Event Horizon is great and very rewatchable, also go see The Thing (1982).

Pro-tip: never watch "The Boondock Saints".

Or Apocalypse Now or Cannibal Holocaust. Those two have actual animals being killed, no special effects.

Well, I'm sure, there are a lot of movies out there, where animals got killed/harmed in any way - the Boondock Saints was just the first, that sprang to my mind...poor kitty.

I could also have named Star Wars. During all of primary school and most of highschool I stayed away from anything Star Wars related. I was a full out contrarian, hating Star Wars simply simply because it was so popular. Not that I would've admitted it to myself back then of course. Deep down I think I was afraid of watching it, to perhaps enjoy it and become part of the Star Wars mob myself.
So it's easy now to vividly remember the first time I actually sat through a Star Wars film. I went to a visit a friend one day after school who was a huge Star Wars nerd, coincidentally on a day he decided to rent The Phantom Menace from the video store. When he popped in the video I actually got up and left the tv room, which just goes to show how much of a dick I was about it :P But seeing as I had nowhere to go until my mom came to pick me up, I just kind of wandered about the house catching glimpses of the film every now and again. But each glimpse of the film intrigued me more and more until I finally relented and sat down to watch the rest of the film. By the the time the credits started to roll I was a full on Star Wars fan :D

I was a contrarian for the simple pleasure of being a contrarian I realized in retrospect, which makes me wonder how common it is. At least one close friend of mine actually admitted to me that he doesn't want to watch Game of Thrones since people keep going on and on about it.

Interestingly, because I now enjoy being a Star Wars fan so much, I consider myself very lucky for two reasons. One, I was still fairly young when I finally decided to see my first Star Wars film. It's easier to become a serious fan of something like Star Wars when you are young. And two, that my entry into Star Wars was The Phantom Menace, or at least that I didn't have to suffer through the many years between episodes 6 and 1. It really seems to me as if most people who became Star Wars fans with the original trilogy really, really dislike the prequel trilogy. Which is kind of what happened to me now with episodes 7 and 8, both of which I really, really dislike myself. So I count myself as very lucky that at least there are 6 awesome Star Wars films that I can always return to, each of which I enjoy pretty much equally.

The horse did NOT ACTUALLY DIE in The Neverending Story. That is an urban legend. :D

Ditto.

I do tolerate Star Wars though, mainly because I don't want to upset my wife.

Anything creature related like Alien and The Fly is more fascinating than scary to me. John Carpenter and David Cronenberg have nasty monsters that look very cool and Alien also looks very sleek and predatory, if that word can be used that way.

Horror grounded in reality is scarier, to me at least.

The Thing is my favorite out of all creature horror. Too bad the pre-sequel opted for CGI halfway through production.

On topic though, I can't get myself to watch Forrest Gump. The more times people tell me I have to watch it, the less I want to.

I wish I was able to erase my memory of a movie and watch it for the first time again, preferably in theaters.

I'm opposite to you, when I was under 10 sometimes I would see clips of A New Hope on tv thinking it would be the most awesomest movie ever.
Later I got to watch the whole thing and it was the most awesomest movie ever, that there were excellent computergames like X-Wing and Dark Forces also helped a lot to really make me like those movies.
Then the prequels came out, oh boy, I remember walking out of the theatre after watching Attack Of The Clones completely silent with my mouth hanging open and an endless stare.
But when I thought they couldn't sink any lower than the prequels I saw The Force Awakens and Rogue One and then I realized acting and storytelling are a lost art.
But apparently the powers that be think we need more teenage tantrum drama.

I know the scene, you're referring to, but in all honesty - I've never seen "The Neverending Story".
I just remember, having a little crush on Tami Stronach (aka: the childlike Empress)

https://www.tamistronach.com/
(still looking good, after all these years!)

But: I once flew on Fuchur (aka: Falkor), when I visited the Bavaria Film-Studios in Munich with my school.
The very same day, I run through "Das Boot" (of course doing the "underhand swing" through the bulkhead) :)
and walked through the spaceship from "Enemy Mine" (spoiler: it was all done with mirrors).

Ah, memories.

Her eyes! Yikes!

Can't think of any movies I'm afraid to watch. Mostly it's just movies I would prefer to avoid for whatever reason, such as dour or "topical" Oscar-baiting dramas, movies by idiotic directors (e.g., Brett Ratner), poorly conceived sequels or prequels (prequels are almost always a bad idea), or movies in which animals die or are injured (either the character or the actual animal "actor").