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WHO FREAKED YOU OUT?  Who was so twisted and scary that it disturbed you as a film viewer?  Here's a few that I found particularly upsetting:
Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface in TEXAX CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
David Hess in LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972)
Tony Perkins in PSYCHO (1960)   
Rutger Hauer in THE HITCHER (1986)
Raul Julia in THE MORNING AFTER (1986)
Robert Mitchum in NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) or CAPE FEAR (1962)

There was 2 things that ever scared me as a kid (that I remember I never got into real horror movies till Jr. High and was never freaked out by any of them by then)

1) Large Marge in Pee Wee's Big Adventure
2) Christopher Lloyd's Cartoon version of himself at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

However actually there was 1 thing that freaked me out... Freshmen year of college. My freind lent me the Sleepaway Camp trilogy...
Angela's face at the end of the movie freaked the hell out of me!

Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu (Modern Herzog version)
Robert Weine in Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Lon Chaney in Hunchback of Notre Dame
Yeah, I'll go with Mitchum in Night of the Hunter . . .
Klaus Kinski in all his Herzog collaborations & the My Best Friend film -- Genuine insanity caught on film . . .
David Soul in Brides of Dracula
Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula
peter johnson/denny crane

The final shot of Donald Sutherland from the 70's Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Not too much freaks me out now. As a kid, I got scared of images on TV sometimes...
Charles Manson on the news ,in particular when he would mug for the camera...I watched the news alot as a kid with my Dad,and he noticed that Charlie creeped me out,so he would use that against me,as a way to make me behave: "If your nnot good,I'll send you off to live with Charlie and his girlfreinds!" The bald head chicks on the sidewalk with the X's carved into they're heads scared me even more. I don't think Dad relized how bad that freaked me out.Drunken old basterd! :drink:
  Even younger...The image of Vampira,walking towards the camera,from PLAN 9,in the opening to some Horror movie program in upstate NY. And a shot of the Colassal Beast  picking up a truck scared the s**t out of me...(I was like-6 ? 7?).
 The pin head monster in the BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE...when it busted out of the closet and bite the doc scared the s**t outta me,too!
 When I saw the trailer for PLANET of the APES on TV...It was the scene when Charlton Heston is in his cage,getting hosed dowwn by the apes screaming "It's a madhouse! A madhouse!" My brother Mike used to run around screaming that in our room upstairs,when ever Dad beat the s**t outta my Ma when he was drunk. I would hide under the bed. Scared the s**t outta me!
   It's odd...all the things that scared me as a kid....now  I obsess over.

These are probably my top 3

Box from Logan's Run - A killer who responds to his murder with not only grandeur, but total ignorance of what he is doing. It was totally saddening for me to see the fate of so many successful runners, frozen by some food-obsessive pinhead.

Norman Bates in Psycho 2 - Unlike the Psycho 1 Bates, this Norman can still be saved. It's a constant battle throughout the film to keep his humanity and sanity often futilly trying to convince him that his mother is not alive despite phone calls in her voice. Another notable mention is b***h Lila Loomis who is responsible for resurrecting Norman's persona in this film in the first place.

Annie Wilkes out of Misery - Possessive hag that anything or anybody can set off, you never know what words exactly will thorw her into a blind fury of sadistic tendencies.

Several good selections cited here, but I really must agree with Shadowfyre regarding Sutherland's final moment in INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. 

You had plenty to be "freaked out" about in real life, I can relate in many ways, including a brother describing our homelife by quoting Charlton Heston in PLANET OF THE APES ("It's a madhouse! A madhouse!") 
You reminded me of an issue of Famous Monsters magazine that my other brother had more than 40 years ago and the endpage picture of a shot from FRANKENSTEIN with the monster standing on the wedding train of Mae Clark, glowering at her (now that freaked me out!) 
You also reminded me of the last time I was actually frightened by a character in a film, Pinhead in HELLRAISER did scare me and I was no baby . . .

I'm in the same boat.  Very traumatizing for a young kid.  I didn't get into horror films until I was 16 or 17 when I started listening to the Misfits.

I'd like to add Superman III with the lady turning into an android thing to the list.  It comes out of left field in a light-hearted movie.  The evil Superman was a shock as well.

Welcome aboard allhallowsday!  Cool to see you around these parts. With regards to your thread's question, well when I was young, the following had significant impact:

Predator
When the computer sucks the women in during SUPERMAN III  and then turns her into some freaky kind of cyborg.
Those flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.

As an adult I was deeply disturbed by the following powerful films:

STRAW DOGS
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
DEATH WISH
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (original)

Karen Black in the final scene from Burnt Offerings, I can still see the look on her face as she rises out of the chair.
Donald Pleasence in Halloween, his character just seems to be driven to the point of madness.
In Northwest Passage, the one ranger who is carrying a full haversack and won't share the food with the others because "you're not hungry enough yet", turns out he's slowly eating a human head, I'll never forget that guy's laugh.

I remeber Large Marge, that scary part kinda came out of nowhere too.

Pet Cemetary.  There were several scary moments in this film; like the little kid with the scapel, or that girl with spinal menegitis.  That girls still gives me shivers.

Yeah I forgot all about Pet Semetary.  The scream that that guy lets out just as his kid gets hit by the truck still gives me goosebumps...more so than the rest of the film.  Great editing in that scene as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk)

For me, nothing creeps me out like some of the scenes in early horror films.

A few that immediately come to mind:

FAUST - When the Devil (Emil Jannings) looms over the city.
THE GOLEM - The spirit conjured up by Rabbi Lowe.
FREAKS - The freaks, particularly Schlitze the Pinhead, crawling through the mud. Also Cleo as the chicken woman.
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS - The 'Manamals', particularly the squealing pig man and Bela's Sayer of the Law.
THE OLD DARK HOUSE - When Saul finally comes downstairs, particularly when his expression goes from sympathetic to completely unhinged in an extreme closeup. Also the scene in Rebecca Femm's bedroom. "That's fine stuff, but it'll rot..."
MANIAC - Yep this overall is one of the funniest bad movies ever made, but there's a brief sequence of Maxwell crawling through an air duct that's really unnerving!
SON OF FRANKENSTEIN - Bela's Ygor, when he demonstrates his broken neck is "all right!" by knocking on it.
CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE - Old Mrs. Farren telling Amy the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
BLACK SABBATH - The old lady in "The Drop of Water".

As a tiny tot I was terrified of that tree monster in FROM HELL IT CAME!

I hate to admit it, but about the only thing on TV that really scared me to tears as a kid was an Alabama politician named Charles Woods. Woods was a fighter pilot who unfortunately had been severely burned during WWII. He was bald, earless, and had one eye. He wore a huge black eye patch. He apparently was a great hero and a fine person but whenever he appeared on TV to give a speech I would start wailing and hide behind the sofa.  My mom would explain to me what a good person he was and what had happened, but the next time he'd come on I'd be right back behind the sofa, screaming like a banshee.

The St. Bernard in Cujo scared me silly, I still don't like big dogs.

In the remake of The Thing, when the infected guy's head stretches off his body, then sprouts spider legs and scuttles off, that messed with me very badly.  And Shelob in Return of the King, I just hate spiders.

COOL!  One of my favorite Tim Curry roles, not one of King's best books (it is so very overlong) but the first chapter that that clip is derived from, is one of King's best pieces of writing. 

yeah, that was scary.  I personally have never found clowns funny. 

has anyone seen Pan's Labyrinth?  There are several freaky moments in there.  Also The Shinning, the scene in Room 213 was scary.

Oh yes now i remember. Those twin girls in THE SHINING freaked me out, well...they still do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5X8xvL2_k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5X8xvL2_k)

Although i'm not sure what's creepier. The girls or the finger....

Dawn of the Dead the part at the beginning where the zombie bites a chuck out of some girl.  Also when the blond guy gets bit.

Not so much as a who...but a what...
The scene below scared the crap outta me when I was a kid.   :buggedout:
It's kind of funny how cheesy it looks now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF5gAwZHAfE

The effing Burger King guy freaked me out when he first started haunting my TV. The worst case was the BKJoe commercial where he's on the high rise construction site with the riveter guy, then he peaks around the corner with a freaked out look on his face. Coupled with the dawn lighting of the setting, my girlfriend and I just started screaming at each other in abject terror...

Movie-wise, when I was younger I'd get freaked out by the swamp hag in Legend, the puppets in the Puppet Master movies, and the bathing corpse witch in The Shining... and a zombie Jesus that haunted me in my dreams and blamed me for his crucifixion... :buggedout:

POLTERGEIST is a whole helluva lotta fun!

Totally agree!  There's that one ad where someone opens the blinds of their window one morning AND THE FREAKIN' FIBERGLASS BURGER KING IS STANDING THERE OFFERING BREAKFAST POISON!!!  That's just not right. 

I almost totally forgot about Freaks... any of them crawling in the mud was scary

MAD LOVE - Peter Lorre's unforgettably twisted Dr. Gogol

(http://www.toliveandshaveinla.com/lorre_madlove.jpg)
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if mascots are fair game what about the Colonel from KFC.  Something always put me off about him.  I think it may be that venomous grin on his face.
(http://www.bizbuysell.com/bbs/fd/food/kfc/logo_lg.gif)

this kid knows he's a snake.
(http://starkdavingmad.com/patreesha/img/sanderskiss.jpg)

i guess he likes more then chicken.
(http://lemonodor.com/images/colonel-sanders-with-cheerleaders-s.jpg)

You think it's just a coincidence that the man wore a white suit like that? He wasn't just a chicken frying plantation owner, the man was one of the first pimps to embrace the flashy dress code!

The grave scene in "Salem's Lot" where the youngster awakens truly freaked me out as a kid.  Had nightmares for days.

That's quite a shot of Lorre as Gogol,not one I've seen before....very cool!!! :thumbup:

I will believe anything negative about the damn colonel.

 :buggedout: I have a few here:

Angus Scrimm in the original Phantasm
The scary girl (I think her name was Jewel Blanch) in Baffled!
The burying of Hope Lange in Crowhaven Farm
Reggie Nalder as Barlow in Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot
The creatures in Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
The TV series The Omega Factor
The human ghosts in Sole Survivor
The TV series Hammer House of Horror
The TV series One Step Beyond
The TV series Armchair Thriller ~ in particular the mini-series Quiet As A Nun in which a Catholic school is haunted by the Black Nun.  :buggedout: Just to clarify this ~ the so-called Black Nun is only ever seen when someone is about to die and she / it has no face at all. :buggedout:

The biggest freak-out for me? An episode of McCloud called Someone's Out To Get Jenny ~ in which a millionaire apparently dies and people try to frighten his fiancee to death. This really scared me ~ there is a scene (I'm getting gooseflesh now) where she comes into her apartment and she hears "Jenny.........Jenny" over and over. On the wall, she has painted a life size portrait of her fiancee, without a face. While she's looking at it, it comes to life and she screams and runs away. I didn't sleep that night.  :buggedout:

Okay, here's a couple more that I'm remiss to recall, but I'll do 'em anyway...

The opening segment to Tales From the Darkside (the series, not the movie) always scared me sh!tless as a kid. It would come on after Saturday Night Live when I was, like, 9 or 10, so it was always 1am. Nobody would bother to stay up late to watch SNL with me, so I always sat through it alone and, for some unknown child self-torturing reason I would refuse to turn on any lights at this time. To be honest, most of the time I'd just fall asleep during SNL and happen to wake up just in time to relegate myself to an hour or so of cowering in my bed, waiting to either be greeted by sleep or the bony hand of Death. The episodes themselves never creeped me out, it was the music and the narrator's voice over the opening that always did it.

Also, despite the fact I was well into my teens by the time this happened, the X-Files episode of the Simpsons spooked me the first time I watched it. I remember it being pitch black outside, the room was lit solely by the glow of the TV, and I had a minor panic when Mr. Burns's alien-like form made it's first appearance, hovering out of the woods. I was never afraid of serial killers or alien monsters or vampires or anything like that, but a glowing humanoid with a dead look on it's face floating around in a Simpsons episode made the hairs on my arms stand up, go figure.

I seem to recall an episode of ONE STEP BEYOND that freaked me out: people on an archeological dig (or something) are attacked by an invisible giant and a face mask is made of one of the dead with an enormous handprint across his throat and face . . . purported to be based on a real event by the narrator as all the episodes were, though that memory would go back to the dim dark recesses of earliest childhood. 

My sister gave me a 12 DVD collection of this for Christmas.

I really need to sit down and watch these.

1 thing makes me feel like erhhhhhh even today ... Meg Mucklebones from Legend the swamp witch. I dont like her looks at all. ok Im gona remove this pic from my harddrive now it makes me sick lol.
(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5396/missmegut1.jpg)

I watched both versions of this with my daughter, she was about 10 or 11 years old, wasn't worried about the bad language in the John Carpenter version (we watched it first) as much as the special effects, pretty strong stuff, but at this scene she agreed with the character who finally sees the head/crab thing and says "you gotta be f*****g kidding me. She turned to me and said "that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in a movie". Big sigh of relief on my part, she wanted to see these two and I didn't want to scare her, she was OK with this one. The original gave her nightmares, she woke up yelling not about the monster but about the spacecraft's fin that was sticking out of the polar ice. I still tease her about this once in  while, look out it's THE FIN!

"What a nice, FAT, boy!
  I agree with your daughter, though I really like the grotesque remake of THE THING, the original is scarier to me, including the idea of the spaceship frozen in the Antarctic ice . . .

:::shudder::: DUDE! SERIOUSLY! DON'T FREAK ME OUT LIKE THAT! *BARF* Ms. Mucklebones gave me many terrifying nights as a lil' Anubis...

 :wink:

I see Im not the only person who hates Mucklebones  :buggedout: If I was in a dark old basement and she started running at me ... Id kill myself pretty fast ... shes ugly !

I saw Legend as a kid and the only thing I retained from the movie wasn't Tim Curry as Darkness, but Meg f*cking Mucklebones. I had this weird dream that involved two guys in a rowboat pointing to the window of the Bates house, seeing "mother"'s shadow, then screaming as Meg comes up from the water and drags them both screaming into the swamp... Second most disturbing nightmare of my life.

 :drink:

     Ol' Meg's a charmer for sure -- We watched just her scene from the Legends film here recently as part of our CheeseFest evening -- Not just her, but that swamp where she lives . . . I think Peter Jackson took a bit of that for the swamp of the dead in the Rings film --
     Reading back over this thread, I see I missed a remark from Dennis about Northwest Passage!  How well I recall the head-eating man -- This movie must've been in the Public Domain in the late '50's/early '60's, as every time I visited my Grandmother in Washington, D.C., Channel 5 Metromedia was ALWAYS playing it -- brrr . . .
That and the Astro-Boy cartoons . . .
peter johnson/denny crane

i remeber something else that was freaky.  In Excalibur there is a scence with several knights hanging from a tree, long since dead, with a vulture pecking on of their eyes out.  Speaking of which the Birds had some pretty freaky moments too.

This thread has evolved a long way from who freaked you out to what freaked you out, but I love every word of it.  The scene you describe from EXCALIBUR is deliciously gruesome; I realize now this is a strange secret favorite film of mine; I think it's Percival who witnesses that . . . no? 

John Boorman also directed HELL IN THE PACIFIC, DELIVERANCE, ZARDOZ, HOPE AND GLORY . . .  some real good stuff! 

Mr. Belvedere

yes, then he ends up on the tree.

lol, yeah its always the butler in murder mystery novels.

The character of Janos Skorzeny in THE NIGHT STALKER; forgot about him, but he freaked me out, especially with those eyes! 

Tim Curry . . . ? 
I kind of like your nightmare, tombofanubis.com , it's very nicely edited.  I'd be interested to hear your #1 most disturbing nightmare.  It'd be an interesting idea for a thread, too . . .

 Your most disturbing nightmare thread sounds cool anyone up for it? I got some real disturbing nightmares to tell too.
also the lady from Trilogy of Terror FREAKED me out but it looked so fake. 2nd oh yeah the girl or Anthony's sister in the bedroom from Twilite Zone the movie the one with no mouth that FREAKED me out too. 3rd well it didnt really freak me out but it looked freaky was the girl from Fright Night the movie with the real big mouth vamp Marcy Darcy lol ... wait ... Meg , lady from Trilogy of Terror , and vamp Marcy Darcy ... all women well lol scary women that is ... maybe because my mom is nuts ... Im joking :)

(http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/2425/trilogy15fy3.jpg)

I forgot about the twilight Zone Movie sister, that scaried me s**tless

  Start it and I'll be sure to share one or two of my own . . . tombofanubis's dream with the Bates house and Meg Mucklebones was very cool and movie related. 

Started the thread under "Off-Topic" threads. Look forward to hearing everybody's personal horrors!  :teddyr:

O crap I just did too ... sorry

i have remebered another freaky part of a movie.  Has anyone seen Candyman?  That part where she wakes up in a ghetto home full of blood with a woman screaming at her and dog skinned is extremely creepy.

Freddy Krueger in the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie, yeah Jason an Leatherface were kind of scary but you could get away from them, not Freddy...this cat can get you in your dreams,in your home, in your safe little bed and there is little you can do about it :buggedout:

And the other movie was Return of the Living Dead we went to see this in the theater when it was released and we went to the "Midnight Matinee" showing at the local theater well needless to say up till that point i was comfortable with the shambling Romero zombies...this movie blew that right outta the water these zombies were fast, strong, and wickedly intelligent, the whole scene with the half corpse on the exam table was very freaky.

I'm almost never freaked out by movies, but when I first saw RotLD I was probably 14, it was 1am on a Saturday night, and I had fallen asleep in a recliner earlier while watching Children of the Corn 3 when it was still light out. I woke up with no lights on right around the part when the tar zombie makes his first appearance. It freaked me right the f*ck out and I watched the rest of the movie with my heart in my throat. It's since become one of my favorite movies and, as Kroogur said, it turned the zombie concept on it's ear.

The boy/girl at the end of Sleepaway Camp scared me as a kid. Now that I think back on it, it probably just weirded me out.

Did a sympathetic or anti-hero character freak you out? 

John Hurt as THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980) freaked me out.  I sat thru one of the recent TCM showings and still find "John" Merrick's appearance upsetting (the real-life man was actually Joseph Merrick, an error in scholarship uncorrected at the time when David Lynch made this masterpiece).  The makeup is accurate check it out here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick

I have been pretty much immune to the gratuitousness of cinema my whole life because I became an avid John Waters fan after seeing Pink Flamingos when I was little.  Haha.  But there are two films that come to mind that actually disturbed me:

1985 - Guinea Pig - a very convincing imitation snuff film from Japan.  It feels as though it were shot with a personal camcorder.  It has no credits, etc.  Just 45 minutes of torture unleashed on one girl.  This makes Cannibal Holocaust look like a Disney film.  Haha.

1994 - Aftermath - a short film by Nacho Cerdà about a mortician who mutilates and has sex with the corpse of a prostitute.  It wasn't the necrophilia that I found disturbing as I've seen Nekromantik plenty of times (and even met Jörg Buttgereit at a midnite screening).  My discomfort came from the fact that the cinematography was positively gorgeous!  I was watching a man have sex through various incisions in a corpse and it was pretty.  Well, at least until I remembered what I was watching.  But that's the thing, the mise-en-scène was orchestrated in such a way as to skillfully trick me over and over again.

My own list is less gratuitous and more cinematic.  Waters did not wash away cinematic sore sights.  Cinema does not need to be gratuitous in order to be freaky. 

Ew-oo definitely sound freaky. 

Admittedly "gratuitous" was a poor choice of adjectives.  I read "freak out" two different ways:  1) As in something so utterly revolting as to cause one to take leave of his senses; 2) Something psychologically chilling that lingers long after viewing.  Since this was started in the bad movies section, I figured the intention was probably closer to the first interpretation.

But, two movies come to mind that fit the latter.  Both of which are cleverly devoid of any real sex or violence!  Who'd of thought!

1988 - Spoorloos (AKA The Vanishing)  A man's wife disappears from a large petrol station.  He bankrupts himself (both financially and emotionally) searching for her for three years.  He pleads on television to the nameless kidnapper (and/or killer) for information.  The culprit responds and promises to show him exactly what happened to her.  This was just a really, really spooky movie and the ending has stuck with me all these years.

1975 - Picnic At Hanging Rock  This film is based on a true story.  The girls of Appleyard College go on a school trip to Hanging Rock on Valentine's Day, 1900, and several of them disappear inexplicably while exploring.  I can't really delve into further details without betraying the film's mystery, but this is definitely an eerie tale.  For those of you who are fans of The Cars That Ate Paris, you might consider checking out a good Peter Weir film.  :tongueout:

 
"Who'd have thought?" typically verbally abbreviated to "Who'd've thought?"   :teddyr: 

I didn't intend to restrict contributors selections to be "BAD MOVIES" though that is considerate and I need to place threads more carefully. 

Two great films that certainly "freaked me out" (particularly SPOORLOOS)!  Thanks !!   :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIJtS4gbaY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIJtS4gbaY)

I can't tell you how funny it is to listen to Nina Simone singing "Pirate Jenny" and watch the clip of Jean Claude Van Damme dancin' you provided.

As you can probably tell, I'm a huge Godzilla fan, have been one since early childhood. There were some moments in G-movies that scared me big time as a kid (around 5-6 years old):

Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster: the scenes in which Hedorah would fly over people and reduce them to skeletons just traumatized my little mind for years. It would take about ten years before I would sum up the courage to watch this film again! Now, it's one of my absolute favorite G-movies.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974 version): I was scared of the aliens that would turn into apes when they got killed by the heroes. This didn't scare me quite as bad as the victims of Hedorah, however, but it was still unsettling.

Freaked out?  Another thread about THE INNOCENTS got me to thinking about my own favorite cinema ghost: Quint!!  
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/INNOCENTSQuint.jpg)

The ghastly girl crawling out of the TV at the end of THE RING.

The first time you see the CREEPER in JEEPERS CREEPERS.

Probably mentioned already but:

Max Schreck in NOSFERATU
Michael Rooker in HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

I'm a little ashamed to say it but the latex puppets from the old T.V show "Spitting Image" used to ruddy terrify me!  They were very grotesque caricatures of politicians, celebrities etc and their very appearance used to send me running for cover. The were featured in the video for the Genesis song "Land Of Confusion", a very good reason why I didn't watch "Top Of The Pops" for years.

Well, as a kid I never really saw anything that wasn't considered "appropriate" for my age (meaning I saw hardly any movies). Now, I'm desensitized to the point where movies and tv don't really scare me, but they can disturb me.

Some really random stuff here:

- "A Bug's Life," where the bird is trying to eat the bugs. :lookingup: I guess I found it bizaare and annoying that something so innocent (like the sparrow) would be portrayed as evil. And where that evil grasshopper is slowly being lowered into the babies' nest...but bah!

- A scene in the TV show "Arthur" where, in a fantasy sequence, a cat is being abused with a whip.  :buggedout: (I like cats.)

- I guess Toy Story, where the mutant dolls appear.

- In one of the movies about a cat and 2 dogs roaming around U.S. (?), there's a scene where a child is trapped in a burning building (if I remember correctly). Kinda scary.

- Laurel and Hardy  :bouncegiggle:

Oh, and besides being disturbed, there are times when I'm just really surprised, but I don't think it counts as being scared.  :bouncegiggle: (IDK)

- I particularly remember in "Dawn of the Dead" 2004, when the girl is driving through her suburb, and another lady suddenly appears at her door and asks for help. The sudden "bang" of music was really startling.   


So, hmmmm...

Very rarely does a film freak me out anymore. I wasn't even flustered by all the drama in The Dreamers; i thought it was pretty tame although several of my friends made a big deal out of it. You expect wierd things from the French anyways.

However, when I was a little kid and started sneaking into the Beta collection that my parents owned and then to VHS, two movies really freaked the crap out of me. One was The Deadly Spawn (1983) also know as Return of the Aliens and the other was Mother's Day (1980). The creepy brothers were the worst.

When I was but a wee lad, Large Marge gave me the heebie jeebies.

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 :bouncegiggle: "Jeepers Creepers, where'd you get those peepers?" (I was annoyed by the ending of that movie.)

What is she from? Is she a puppet from a children's program or something?

Sorta. Its from "Pee Wees Big Adventure" movie.

This handsome fellow (from the film FUNHOUSE) haunted my nightmares for years as a child:

http://www.latexmaskcentral.com/images/johncaplinfunhousemonster.jpg (http://www.latexmaskcentral.com/images/johncaplinfunhousemonster.jpg)

Funny thing is, I never even saw this movie until last year.  When I was a kid I borrowed every book my library had on movie monsters a million times.  Those books were my introduction to the Metaluna Mutant, The Martian from The War of the Worlds, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Mole Men, and dozens of others.  There was a STILL IMAGE of this monster in one book, and the sight of it terrified me. 

I saw that on pretty early cable television for my family about a year after it had been released (and tanked, if I'm right.)  Great little horrible movie, and I am a huge fan of TOBE HOOPER, the director who also gave us his masterpiece the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. 

The kid in The Shining freaked the hell out of me. To this day, it's the only horror movie I won't watch alone. Jack isn't scary because... well, he's Jack! But that rubbery-faced little kid is pure evil. For me, the scariest moment in the whole movie is where the kid's in bed listening to his parents argue and opens his mouth in that silent scream expression. *shudder*

Speaking of creepy facial expressions, Shelley Duvall's contorted face when she's leaning against the wall screaming while Jack's taking an axe to the door also creeped me out.

I'll get that contorted face for ya...!!
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The scene where Jack embraces the sexy spirit woman both fascinated and freaked me out as a teenager.  I found the twin girls pretty creepy at the time, too. 

And Willy Wonka with an axe freaks me out as a grown up.

Oh really...?
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I'll get that contorted face for ya...!!

Hehehe - thanks! Somehow Willy Wonka with an axe makes that scene less disturbing for me.
:teddyr:

 

That movie made me feel rather frightened.  It's an amazing and strange film.

When I was a wee one I was pretty much terrified of any depiction of aliens with the large black eyes.  They still weird me out a tiny bit, but don't fill me with terror like they used to.  Thank God I never saw Communion when I was a kid!

I was also scared of The Blob (I loved that movie but I always imagined the Blob creeping up the stairwell at night) the John Carpenter version of The Thing, many parts of Creepshow, the scene where Mr. Dark is aging rapidly on the carousel in Something Wicked This Way Comes (which I thought was generally quite scary and it remains a favorite film of mine), and plenty of other monster-oriented flicks.  Oh, and I think I was kind of traumatized by a transformation scene from The Beast Within when I caught part of it late at night.

More recently I thought In the Mouth of Madness had some freaky stuff, and Carnival of Souls was pretty spooky.  The Ring freaked me out, too, although it doesn't hold up quite as well on repeat viewings.

Looking back, I think there was only one thing that freaked me out when I was a kid. It was the monster in Watchers 3.

Now, all I did when I was little was watch horror movies so I have no idea why this one in particular freaked me out so much. Viewing the film now, I especially don't understand it because it's pretty tame compared to most of what I would watch. I mean, I thought Chucky was awesome at 9 so why did the short snippets of that dumb green monster make me hide? I have no idea. Once, I stayed the night at a friends house and I couldn't sleep because I was terrified of that monster. Everyone in the house went to sleep and I ran out into the street and ran home at 3 am because I was scared. Haha, what a pus I was.

That, and the introduction (scenes from the future-war) to Terminator 2 used to scare me as well. It was my favorite movie, and still is, but I would hide in the bathroom and listen through the walls until the intro was over every time I watched it. Then I would safely return to the couch to watch Arnold be a bad ass.

When I was a kid, most movie monsters did not affect me.  I wanted to study Godzilla and keep an alien as a pet.  Yet, the stop-motion fishfrog-monsterman is piranha gave me nightmares!  Apparently, I would actually wake up my parents screaming "Fishfrog-monsterman, no!" in the middle of the night.  They used to use it as a cover if they didn't want to go somewhere or give me stuff.  Here's an example:
Me: I want a Galvitron action figure, Dad!
Dad: I'd like to get that one you, but fishfrog monsterthing was just touching them all.
Me: Ahhhhh!  Is he gone yet?

After watching the movie again recently, I wonder why I was so freaked out by it?  It was really pretty funny looking!

Also, try walking in on Sleepaway Camp's ending when your 4 years old.  Now that's terror!

You said it brother... or should I say sister?   :lookingup:

The Vietnam vet serial killer in 'Don't Answer The Phone'.

You reminded me of the Vietnam vet "Andy" in DEATHDREAM (1974 aka DEAD OF NIGHT).  Andy was really creepy.   

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my favorite '70s Horror maybe...

Nope, you had it right the first time. 

This guy freaked me out as well...though not a movie....(YET...I believe it is to be one soon ...though I think Jim Van Beebber did a short film called SAY YOU LOVE SATAN)....Ricky Kasso-the LI Acid King....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=w2slnlc7Exs

At he time of the murder,I was staying with my Ma in Mastic Shirly and saw Ricky on the news....I was hanging around a lot of 'street' kids and people at the time as well...I was 22....and there was a weird vibe on Long Island at the time...a lot of drugs,metalheads and Satan s**t was going on. I even recall the rumors of some kid getting kiled. One of the factors that led me to get the hell outta Dodge and coming back to Michigan.

I forgot about the butcher from The Mad Butcher. Everyone thinks that movie is a joke, but that guy gave me nightmares.

That was nasty.  That freaked me out.  I've lived in NJ all my life... I remember a lot of that Long Island crap going on.  But, there's f'd up sh!t everywhere. 

AnOther thread made me think of PATTY McCORMACK in THE BAD SEED.  That kid... she freaked me out!!!   :buggedout:
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As a child, both The Gate and the Tales from the Crypt episode, The Ventriloquist's Dummy, starring Bob Goldthwait, gave me nightmares. My babysitter (god, was she horrific in her own right!) made us watch those. Now, I love The Gate.
Another one thing that usually finds it's way into creeping me out are the seemingly glowing eyes of Jesus in the closet in Carrie.

I haven't been freaked out by a film in a very long time. However, the Russian film PHILOSOPHY OF A KNIFE really did the trick this weekend.

im afraid of count orlok from nosferatu a symphony of horro :buggedout:

Fats gon' gitchoo...
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I really liked Magic, but it didn't really get to me. I was already desensitized by the time I saw it.

Understood, but I thought Fats was freakier than the dummy in the Tales From The Crypt episode with Bobcat Goldthwaite (which I just recently sat thru on Chiller.)  If I fail to make you laugh, then it is my goal to mess with yer head.   :teddyr:

Even now those 'Identikit' pictures of crime suspects that they show on the news and "Crimewatch"/America's Most Wanted" type shows are disturbing. I think it's the inherent dangerous malignity of their subjects coupled with the sinisterly one-dimensional way that they are drawn that has the effect on me. I remember one shot of a wanted murderer in London was shown with a eerie picture of a half-moon and night sky in the background giving it a Gothic horror movie like effect.

Amen to the animated Christopher Lloyd!  I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit in the movies in 1988, when I was six years old (I'm 25 now - 26 in October), and was TERRIFIED of Judge Doom when he got run over by the steamroller, especially when he chanted in the high pitch voice:

"When I killed your brother, I talked JUST LIKE THIS!"

Very scary when you're young, but I still get uneasy over it.

1.) The Glick boy that sits up in his coffin in Salem's Lot. 

2.) The diseased sister and Gage from Pet Sematary.

3.) As a little boy, I had a nightmare about this girl standing in a kitchen, just in front of a sliding glass door that looked out onto the back patio.

In this dream, she turned towards me and I could see that she didn't have eyes, only open sockets that provided a view into the backyard.

She looked like Blair from the Facts of Life.

I couldn't look at Lisa Welchel for years after that!   :buggedout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozW4mmKzcYQ

Here's how I've been feeling 'bout some postings on this forum...:   :bouncegiggle:  :lookingup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWv53OJ-ydI

Cute little Gage was not so cute when he was resurrected.  And the sister, Zelda?  Yikes!  She was played by a man, because the casting dept. couldn't find a female that was skinny enough to play her.

Andre Linoge from "Storm the Century" left me uneasy, especially how he offed his first victim.  And at the end of the movie, little Ralphie Anderson, age 14, when he bared his fangs at his father, Mike, whom he was taken from during that awful storm.

And, I'm sure most wouldn't agree with me - Sean Young in Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde - perhaps its the idea that I've been terrified of her since I was 11 (when I saw "Ace Ventura" in the movies and found out Lois Einhorn was Ray Finkel).  It's just that from the get-go, Helen Hyde was a psycho b***h - I took a hint when she slammed a cabinet drawer into Jeremy Piven's manhood in her very first Richard takeover.  So, how come she got first billing, when it took at least 15-20 minutes for her to show up?  We saw Tim Daly in the first scene!  And he's too lovely to be afraid of.

To this day, I have never watched The Exorcist, and never will. I've watched scenes etc., but that movie just gives me the creeps and I will never watch it.
 That's the only one.

It took me until I was almost 18 to watch The Exorcist...not sure if I could have handled it before that.  That was in 2001...and I haven't seen it since, though I really did enjoy it.

Another, more recent, movie that freaked me out was the American remake of The Grudge. I was mostly underwhelmed by it but most of Toshio's scenes disturbed the hell out of me. Every once in a while when getting up to pee at 2am I become horribly certain that the creepy little bastard is going to be standing in my bathroom. :buggedout:

I don't know if I was really"freaked out"but when I saw Boogeyman(the one from the early 80s)it scared me.
Remember the scene where the little boy has a knife and is walking towards the room where his moms boyfriend is?
I knew that something bad was going to happen,so instead of looking at the screen,I looked down at the floor.
I than realized,hey this is only a movie.I than looked up to see the man get stabbed repeatedly and was no longer afraid.

I did not see Carrie until several years after its release.My dad had the paperback book with the black and white photos in the middle.The one showing her covered in pig blood?Oh yeah,that definitely "freaked out"my little 6 year old mind.

The Boogeyman is one of things that scare me too. Like in the scene when he's in that mirror getting off the bed  to them and they keep showing that part :buggedout:

The first time I saw a victim in "The Ring" (American version) I was freaked out. Also the ghost. And the video itself was disturbingly creepy in a way I can't put my finger on.

This was a rare occasion where I liked the American remake better than the original.

Yeah, right on!
Or how about when possessed Gage slits the old mans achiles tendon, ugh, still makes mine sensitive.

Dr. Caligari is creepy, as is the original Night of the Living Dead-- just the way the movies move, and the music are perfect.

What was the episode on Afred Hitchcock Presents, where a graverobber is punished by bearing the expression of a rotting corpse, anyone? Whatever that episode, that was freaky!

Just last night,I watched EMBRYO.What freaked me out was seeing the baby in the aquarium and than it gets knocked over and the baby spills out on to the floor,and no one bothers to pick it up or even see if it is okay!WTF?!