Films that terrified you when you were a child...
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Iron_Chef
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barsoomcore said:Your dad took you to see Alien when you were SEVEN YEARS OLD? WITH YOUR YOUNGER SISTER???!!!!
I mean, we were all reading the Alan Dean Foster novelization, and I was in, like, sixth grade. Your dad took you to see it? How did he get you in? Wasn't he arrested or something? Why haven't you sued him?
Holy crap.
Okay, so I'm totally jealous.
We thought ALIEN was gonna be like STAR WARS... Oops!
Iron_Chef
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JAWS, JAWS 2 and PIRANHA scared me, too. Wouldn't go near the water for years.
The TV commercials for THE LEGACY scared me soooo bad as a kid I ran out of the house screaming in broad daylight like my pants were on fire. The part that freaked me out was when the lead actress goes to see her creepy old dying uncle who is all behind plastic sheets in an oxygen tent and when the curtain pulls back, this gnarled old scary hand jumps out and grabs her wrist!
Come to think of it, the hand coming up out of the grave at the end of CARRIE scared the poop outta me, too. What is it with evil hands jumping out that scares us so bad?
The TV commercials for THE LEGACY scared me soooo bad as a kid I ran out of the house screaming in broad daylight like my pants were on fire. The part that freaked me out was when the lead actress goes to see her creepy old dying uncle who is all behind plastic sheets in an oxygen tent and when the curtain pulls back, this gnarled old scary hand jumps out and grabs her wrist!
Come to think of it, the hand coming up out of the grave at the end of CARRIE scared the poop outta me, too. What is it with evil hands jumping out that scares us so bad?
Krieg
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Jaws, Polstergeist & Alien - For the reasons already mentioned.
The Exorcist & The Omen - They're REALLY scary when you go to Catholic School.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon - watched it on a home film projector at 5 or 6. Had nightmares for weeks.
The Swarm - Awful sensationalist film about the future (it was made in the late 70's) african killer bee "menace".
The Fog, It's Alive & Amityville Horror - Just because they were freakin' creepy.
There was a movie made in the 60's about Gargoyles threatening a modern day small town out west. It always gave me the willies (I didn't really care for the Sleestaks much either)!
When I was a bit older The Day After terrified me in ways that no horror film ever could (which was the whole point I suppose).
It sounds like we watched a lot of the same things as a kid.
There was a movie in the 70's called "Sasquatch" about a group of scientists searching for the film's namesake, the only thing I can remember is a scene of the campsite at night when a horrible howl splits the air. One guy was answering the call of nature & comes running with toilet-paper flying everywhere. The sound of the howl made my blood turn cold...combine that with the song "The Legend of Wooley Swamp" by the Charlie Daniels Band & you have a kid who was terrified of swamps/bogs/marshes etc....
The Exorcist & The Omen - They're REALLY scary when you go to Catholic School.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon - watched it on a home film projector at 5 or 6. Had nightmares for weeks.
The Swarm - Awful sensationalist film about the future (it was made in the late 70's) african killer bee "menace".
The Fog, It's Alive & Amityville Horror - Just because they were freakin' creepy.
There was a movie made in the 60's about Gargoyles threatening a modern day small town out west. It always gave me the willies (I didn't really care for the Sleestaks much either)!
When I was a bit older The Day After terrified me in ways that no horror film ever could (which was the whole point I suppose).
Iron_Chef said:The Patterson "Bigfoot" footage really freaked me out! I saw a Aliens/Loch Ness/Bigfoot/Abominable Snowman docu-movie (with recreations) when I was a kid... The Bigfoot recreation had a woman knitting in her living room while her husband was watching football. She heard strange noises and saw a giant shadow outside her window through the curtains, called her husband up to investigate, and when he opened the front door.... BAM! Bigfoot was standing there! I think it was implied he killed the entire family, but maybe that's my imagination. It really kept me up for nights, worried Bigfoot was gonna get me!
It sounds like we watched a lot of the same things as a kid.
There was a movie in the 70's called "Sasquatch" about a group of scientists searching for the film's namesake, the only thing I can remember is a scene of the campsite at night when a horrible howl splits the air. One guy was answering the call of nature & comes running with toilet-paper flying everywhere. The sound of the howl made my blood turn cold...combine that with the song "The Legend of Wooley Swamp" by the Charlie Daniels Band & you have a kid who was terrified of swamps/bogs/marshes etc....
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Dragonblade
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For some reason Time Bandits scared the heck out of me as a kid.
I'm not sure why. Watching the movie now, its just so campy and goofy. Its not even scary at all. But the first time I saw it, I was literally terrified. My parents had to turn it off because I wouldn't stop crying and shaking. I slept with them for like a week afterward.
And then when I was in second grade, my teacher showed The Watcher in the Woods! I was all of maybe 7 years old, and that movie scared the heck out of me too. Not to the degree Time Bandits did, but that movie is way to scary for little kids. I mean the whole class was petrified. In hindsight, I don't know what my teacher was smoking showing that to a class of 2nd graders.
And then more recently, when I was living in Japan 6 years ago, I was sitting at home by myself just watching Japanese TV. I had a host family but no one was home but my host mom and she was upstairs doing something. So I start watching this movie of the week, and I was totally absorbed into it before I realized it was a horror movie. And by then I was hooked and just had to find out what happens next. Suffice it to say, the end of the movie scared the hell out of me to a degree I hadn't felt since I was a little kid.
That movie was the original Japanese version of Ring.
I was a grown adult and I admit that I slept with my light on that night.
I'm not sure why. Watching the movie now, its just so campy and goofy. Its not even scary at all. But the first time I saw it, I was literally terrified. My parents had to turn it off because I wouldn't stop crying and shaking. I slept with them for like a week afterward.
And then when I was in second grade, my teacher showed The Watcher in the Woods! I was all of maybe 7 years old, and that movie scared the heck out of me too. Not to the degree Time Bandits did, but that movie is way to scary for little kids. I mean the whole class was petrified. In hindsight, I don't know what my teacher was smoking showing that to a class of 2nd graders.
And then more recently, when I was living in Japan 6 years ago, I was sitting at home by myself just watching Japanese TV. I had a host family but no one was home but my host mom and she was upstairs doing something. So I start watching this movie of the week, and I was totally absorbed into it before I realized it was a horror movie. And by then I was hooked and just had to find out what happens next. Suffice it to say, the end of the movie scared the hell out of me to a degree I hadn't felt since I was a little kid.
That movie was the original Japanese version of Ring.
I was a grown adult and I admit that I slept with my light on that night.
The_lurkeR
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John Carpenters "The Thing" really creeped me out as a kid. That movie made me start checking under my bed before sleeping. While no longer as scary, it's still a great paranoia movie to watch with a classic ending.
The other movie that was disturbing was Stephen Kings "Cat's Eye". The one chapter where the little monster is trying to steal the girls breath while she sleeping was disturbing. I was older then and knew better, but it still creeped me out. Anyone else remember that one?
The other movie that was disturbing was Stephen Kings "Cat's Eye". The one chapter where the little monster is trying to steal the girls breath while she sleeping was disturbing. I was older then and knew better, but it still creeped me out. Anyone else remember that one?
LightPhoenix
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The only one that really freaked me out as a kid was Arachnophobia. I could not stand spiders for a good long time after that.
Stone Angel
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Wizard of Oz.....The poppies.
Silver bullet. It still is a little intense for me, though not really much scares me anymore, but the scene on bridge with the firecrackers....eek
And this might be a little obscure but does anyone remember the Nightmare on Elm St. TV series. I hated watching them but couldn't stop sometimes.
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Silver bullet. It still is a little intense for me, though not really much scares me anymore, but the scene on bridge with the firecrackers....eek
And this might be a little obscure but does anyone remember the Nightmare on Elm St. TV series. I hated watching them but couldn't stop sometimes.
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