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just wondering if there was ever a movie that just really creeped you out to the core

mine would probably be Stephen King's "IT"
i have to think about that movie everyday....
when i walk to work, i have to cross the street... well....there are these two HUGE gutter drain things under the sidewalk on both sides of the road where i cross it...
everyday i expect Pennywise to be there...
 waiting...

balloon in hand

"WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE!!!"

eeeeeeeekkkkkkkkk!!!

sometimes i even take a longer way to work just so i don't have to deal with those drains......

creepy......

(another clown related issue: the "new" Ronald McDonald FREAKS me out. He is really creepy looking, which is wierd.. i have never been freaked out by clowns in general... but Ronald and Pennywise just bother me...)

I watched "Mimic" on a local theatre to cure myselt of my cocroach-o-phobia. Bad idea. I leaved the theatre in a state of shock and I actually scanned every square inch of sidewalk on my way home. I like the movie and I have seen it again several times on TV. Much less thraumatic this way, but it still seems very scary to me, specially the first half.

I saw "Children of the Corn" when I was 8......I still have a rogh time with that one

The movies that always creep me out are the ones that feature somebody intentionally mutilating himself horribly, because of insanity or some evil influence. Event Horizon, Night Breed, Hannibal are examples. They're not particularly good or scary movies, but there's just something really unsettling about the self-mutilation scenes.

The best part about "Hannibal" is that after he gets done telling that hideous story about cutting his own face off, he says, "Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time."
hehehe

I saw "The Car" when I was young and it really creeped me out.

For years I had trouble walking in open spaces at night, fearing I would get run over.

Hammer's "Kiss of Evil", when the pretty girl you've just seen at the party turns out to be a vampire & practically chomps off Andrew Kier's hand.  The juxtaposition of the pretty girl who you're sort of thinking about in an *attracted* fashion, suddenly becoming this hissing snake-like thing.  I've seen the movie several times over the years, and always get a tightness in my chest when I see Kier about to pull her away from where she's digging in the cemetary . . .
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I must agree with It, it terrified me. I saw it when I was 8 and had my dad check the bathroom for months before I showered. Still have bad flashbacks.

Also, movies like Jaws, Lake Placid, and parts of Deep Blue Sea really freak me out. I hate that people are so helpless on the water, there is nowhere to go except in the sea, where the monster is! I also hate how you cant see into most water. Even now that I am 19, if I am the only one in the ocean, I get out and wait for other people to go in first.

Jaws.  Saw it in the theater when I was 6 or 7, and for the rest of my life, right down to this day, I cannot be in water without imagining rows of razor sharp teeth just inches from my legs.  Seriously, even in fresh-water chlorinated swimming pools the image comes into my head.  It doesn't scare me out of the water or anything and I enjoy swimming, but I cannot go into water without the thought passing through my head.

From what I've heard, lots of people who saw Jaws as kids feel this way.

Dano wrote:
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I was eight years old and I refuse to get in open water, no way.  I refuse to swim in water that I cannot clearly see the bottom of.

A recent movie that creeped me out, The Ring.  This one had me looking around for days afterward.

In terms of simply freaking out, let me share an embarrassing personal issue - I'm afraid of snails.  Yeah, silly phobia to have, but the idea of something slimey and crunchy slithering on me just gives me the willies.  That said, the smothering by snails scene in Fulci's Aengima just makes warp my arms around my head and scream...then run from the room.  Hands down that is the most traumatic scene I have ever had the displeasure of being subjected to.

I'm afraid of snails. Yeah, silly phobia to have, but the idea of something slimey and crunchy slithering on me just gives me the willies. That said, the smothering by snails scene in Fulci's Aengima just makes warp my arms around my head and scream...then run from the room. Hands down that is the most traumatic scene I have ever had the displeasure of being subjected to.
*****  Do NOT rent Dr. Doolittle!  It was not intended as a horror movie, but I believe you might have problems with it.
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>Do NOT rent Dr. Doolittle!  It was not intended as a
> horror movie, but I believe you might have problems with it.
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A giant s-s-s-s-SNAIL!!!!!!!!  Augh!

:-) heheh

Jaws again. Immediately after seeing it (I was maybe 8) I was afraid to use the toilet.

Also, I've said this before but I'm being totally serious, Patch Adams. It's the most sadistic and downright creepy movie ever.

Last year I was in a class where we had to study a controversial piece of art and give a presentation on it (I picked Tod Browning's Freaks). One kid showed clips from Titticut Follies, a grainy, uncut documentary on the inner workings of a mental hospital. I consider myself pretty strong-stomached, but some of the images (particularly a patient being force-fed through the nose, juxtaposed with that same patient's funeral preparations apparently soon afterwards) seriously shook me for the next couple of days. Profoundly disturbing stuff, especially since it's all real.

Fiend without a face! and from what Ive seen of fiend without a face comments page Im not the only one *phewww* I saw it when I was about 10ish and it still gives me the creeps!!!
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I saw it when I was twenty-five and, having smoked several exotic cigarettes not for sale at the shops, I nearly needed new underwear.  I still remember the partly-debrained man crashing into the meeting hall, braying insanely ...

But one that creeped me out was an old B & W one (can't remember the name), made in the US but pretending to be in Cornwall, where a girl returns to live in a haunted house.  No gore or violence, just lots of eerie atmosphere.  Another creepy one is the B & W "House on Haunted Hill" in the cellar scene, where the cellar lights fade out one by one, and the scene in the cellar closet, where the old woman SUDDENLY APPEARS and GLIDES AWAY!!!  Still gives me shivers.

John Carpenter's "The Thing" really sent me paranoid when I saw it at the pictures, looking at everyone passing by on the street afterwards *very intently* ...

Yep, "Jaws" again. I can be floating in a tube in a backyard pool and STILL imagine being struck in the back by a freight train with teeth...and then it's MY leg sinking to the bottom and MY head, missing an eye, spinning about in the murk...

And "Grizzly." F***ing movie. I LIVED IN THE WOODS. I had to get out of the car in the woods in the night and open a gate to get home, and I just knew Neal Adams' f***ing red-eyed monstrosity was suddenly going to come bounding out of the trees and THWACK!! Son-of-a-b**** Girdler. I miss you.

I can't stand movies with any sort of scenes dealing with injections. I have a deep fear of needles.

I also cannot watch films with realistic scenes of cannibalism. I still can't watch Alive. The thought of eating another person just makes my skin crawl.

i dont' know why i was sooo into stephen king when i was a kid
i am from a SMALL town
so the closest video store didn't have much of a selection on horror movies
they had all the stephen king movies though, so i watched them alot
(i was about 11 or so)
anyway!
i watched Pet Cemetary.... eeek!!
guess what the name of my road was? Stockton Cemetary Road
yes.. i had a graveyard about 150 feet from my house....
so Pet Cemetary started putting scary thoughts in my head
it was all over after i started renting zombie movies....

CREEPY!!
i was terrified everytime i walked to my gradma's house at night or back home....
i thought that i was for sure going to get eaten by SOMETHING......

oh yeah.. how could i forget Freddy Crugar??
my FIRST night at home by myself , i just turned 12 years old
i found Nightmare on Elm Street part 3
needless to say...
i scared the unholy s**t out of myself

my neighbor finally came over to check on me after i spent a good 15 mins out in the front yard screaming and crying for help!
(only had one neighbor on my whole road)
(small town...)

i feel sooo stupid for that now....
but it's funny...

those movies freak me out cause you HAVE TO sleep.....
ick!!!!

I will admit here that Prophecy scared the daylights outta me when I was a kid!

There is only one movie that has ever really creeped me out........Gremlins. i don't know why it bothered me but i saw it in the theatre when it came out and it scared the living sh*t out of me for the next few years.



Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart.

... Deliverance???

Creepiest most uncomfortable movie ever.

you got a purty mouth!  squeal like a pig!

Ooh, good call on Haunted Hill! No matter how many times I see the movie, I can never believe just how effective that little scare is. I think the lady's face has a lot to do with it.

Movies with gray aliens with the large black eyes. I live kind of in the woods, so similar to Squishy and i love turd, I get creeped out taking out the trash or something because it's always people who live in the woods that get kidnapped by aliens. Even cheesy movies with bad puppets like Fire In The Sky or Communion creep me out...not right away, later at home, late at night.

Scenes with people getting mushed...

Demon Seed, Maximum Overdrive, and even the absymal remake of 13 Ghosts all feature crushing scenes that give me the willies.  There's one in Krull as well.

Let's not forget the ending to Universal's The Raven either.

There's one in Krull as well.

*****  Yeah, but you could see that one coming...  Well, HE could at least.

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Somewhat related, I had a problem with the "sticky bomb" scene from SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.  The guy runs up to the tank with the lit bomb and fails to get away in time.  The resulting explosion just liquifies the guy.  That disturbed the hell out of me the first time I saw it.

I don't really get creeped out by much anymore.  Cockroaches movies can be bad.  Mostly because I had an German cockroach infestation a while back.  Those are the big ones, like two inches long.  Meeting those in the kitchen late at night is. . . unpleasant.  Watcing a movie just reminds me of that.

Also, movies with quick, brutal deaths that show the fragility of the human body.  Think of the "Piggy" scene from LORD OF THE FLIES.  I guess the RYAN example from above fits, too.

oh geesh... Deliverance.....
ahaha
i didn't see that movie til i was about 20 yrs old
ahahah
being a girl it didn't mess with me THAT bad...
but actually KNOWING people like the "bad guys" in that movie...
(well knowing people who might do stuff like that to "city folk")
that's what bothered me....

i know way way way too many people who play "dueling banjos"
ahahhahaha

that movie cracked me up more than anything
growing up in the "hills" in Tenn. will put a different perspective on things for ya

(i had shoes and electricity, so i was doing good)
aahahahahahahahahahahahah

okay i need food before my brain goes to mush any further....
eeep!

       I Don't know about you guys but Final Destination had two scenes that got to me.  The first one was where the one chick says "You can all drop dead and then a bus comes out of nowhere and hits her good.  Living here on campus where there are busses everywhere that don't stop and working at the arena doing traffic around busses causes me to think back to that, especially at night when it's raining and the buses are going full speed.

      The second scene was the part where the car stalls on the train track and they rush to get the one dude out.  Funny thing was that that didn't creep me out until after the movie was over.  We were driving home from the theatre and we got to this railroad crossing that we always cross.  We were joking around with each other saying "You're next." lauging.  Then it happened.  We started across the track and the car stalled.  So of course we were freaking out.  Then to make it worse we looked to the left as the driver tried to get the engine to turn over and we saw a light in the distance.  So now we're panicking and saying how sorry we were for making fun of the movie.  The light started to get closer and finally the car started.  we drove off the track.  When we looked back we noticed that the light we saw was just a kid on a bike riding on the road alongside the track.  That scared me and everytime i go to that crossing  i get a chill.

"Gremlins" terrified me as a child and, you know what?  It still gives me a chill to this day.  I never want to look when Stripe is about to burst out of the fountain at the end.

"The Thing" always makes it hard for me to sleep for a few nights after I see it.

And, I'll admit, the spider scene from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" scared me so bad I had to run (literally run) out of the theater.  I don't imagine subsequent viewings will make that any easier to sit through.

Have you seen the original Japanese "Ring" ("Ringu") ?  It's one of the scariest movies ever, I don't think the remake will scare me half as bad...

Yep It definitely wierded me out. Clowns are just plain scary! There is no other way around it. The last image of Blair Witch Project was another one that wierded me out for a while. Was he peeing or....