Well given I wanted a little time to play with the new board I thought i'd revisit a topic we had awhile back but add graphics...I never could figure out how to do that on the old board!
THINGS THAT SCARE ME
| (http://www.espiritoshp.hpg.ig.com.br/poltergeist.jpg) | THE OLD PREACHER MAN FROM POLTERGEIST 2
the man who single-handedly made children all across the nation afraid of senior citizens while singing "God is in his holy temple".
Now if this movie doesn't make you scared of going to church, i don't know what will. |
| (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dungeon/4078/malachai2.jpg) | MALACHI FROM "CHILDREN OF THE CORN"
What scares me more than "he who walks behind the rows"? What scares me more than the dark? What scares me more than being stuck in an abandoned town in the middle of nowhere?
Redheaded children from nebraska with sickles |
| (http://files.colonies.com/UserData/722559/BlogPhotos/candyman.jpg) | CANDYMAN
The mere idea of candyman scares me. My brother convinced me to say "bloody mary" in the bathroom mirror in the dark. I did it but not without him outside the doorway making noises and telling me I was going to die. So all those childhood traumas were resurfaced after I saw this movie, and basically had a hard time passing by a mirror without thinking that my face was going to get scraped off.
i don't even like the song "The candyman can" |
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...because he can. With a hook for a hand, oh yes....he can.
DIGGER THE DERMATOPHYTE (http://img.slate.com/media/45/Deutch_56k.asf)
The Toe fungus guy in the commercial ads who pries open your nail and leaps in to wreak all kinds of havok. If you haven't seen the commercial then click on the link above, you'll never EVER be the same.
Digger will haunt your dreams. |
When I was a very little kid the wicked witch of the East scared me. Use to hide beside the TV set when I would hear the witches music because I knew she was coming.
(http://thewizardofoz.warnerbros.com/movie/img/photos/photo5.jpg)
I NEVER THOUGHT THE WITCH WAS SCARY, WHAT FRIGHTENED ME WERE THOSE FLYING MONKIES, HAD NIGHTMARES FOR A COUPLE DAYS EVERY TIME I SAW THE MOVIE.
I agree with Dennis, those monkeys were some scary stuff to a six year old.
I never get how everyone thinks the monkeys were scary, I am, however, very scared by the Congo apes, Ella from Monkeyshines, and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, disturbing stuff nature gone bad is...
DIFFERENT THINGS SCARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE, FOR ME THINGS LIKE GODZILLA, RODAN ETC. WERE NOT SCARY BECAUSE THEY WERE SO BIG THAT YOU'D KNOW THEY WERE COMING LONG BEFORE THEY GOT NEAR YOU, BY THE SAME TOKEN THINGS LIKE THE MUMMY, FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER, THINGS THAT ARE SO SLOW THAT YOU COULD RUN CIRCLES AROUND THEM AND NOT GET CAUGHT (I KNOW THE LATEST VERSION OF THE MUMMY IS NOT SLOW, HE'S ALSO NOT WRAPPED UP IN A MILE OF ACE BANDAGE EITHER) BUT SOMETHING LIKE THE WEREWOLF OR THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON OR THESE FLYING MONKEYS, SOMETHING SMALL ENOUGH TO HIDE AND THAT WOULD CHASE AND CATCH YOU, THAT IS WHAT SCARES ME ABOUT SOME OF THESE THINGS.
Dennis, please do not use all caps in your posts. Online it is considered "yelling."
Welcome to the forum and good points, though Godzilla and other huge monsters would be scary to me. You cannot get out of their way, because they are on the same scale as a tornado or other natural disaster.
I wish to apologise to any and all who may have been offended by my use of capitols, I honestly was not aware it was rude. In my defense I must say that this is only the fifth or sixth posting I've done, and while I'm not a complete computer illitterate, I am perhaps an internet nit wit. I hope to improve in this area because I find that I really enjoy this site and the message board.
DENNIS, are you related to BENSON? Hope you get it...
Concerning that Digger the Dermatophyte character...
What scares me more would be having my toenail pried up like that.
OUCH!!!! :buggedout:
Imagine if that were the only way to take Lamisil...
You had to literally pry up your toenail and insert the pill there, then put the nail back down.
They even throw in a bit to bite down on when you pry up the nail.
Now that's scary. And painful!
Quote from: Mr. Briggs Inc. on November 18, 2006, 03:25:53 PM
DENNIS, are you related to BENSON? Hope you get it...
I was sitting at the computer considering my answer, I had decided that to say yes but my wife came by and told me I am most likely related to the German house keeper, I'm not sure what she means.
Back in Back in 1986,when I was 25,somebody at a bar gave me some blotter acid,and like the moron I am,I ate it.Just before hitching some 10 miles home. At about 1:00 am.In a blizzard. I lived waaaay out in the boonies on a dirt road. Igot lost.I was trudging down some backwoods road and I heard a buncha dogs barkin like crazy.I was truly freaking out.I just sat down and started to freeze-but God musta felt sorry for my miserable ,ignorant ass,because atruck pulled up,and it just happened to be a neighbor of mine. I was scared! Lesson learned: Never hitchhike in a blizzard late at nite in the sticks on acid.
Susan,
I agree wholeheartedly on the Preacher from Poltergeist. That was one creepy old man.
However, I actually find Digger the Dermatophyte kind of cute....and I like the way he talks. :teddyr:
Hmmm...what scares me? To this day, I am afraid of clowns. I know that's a wimpy fear, but I just cannot stand them! A recent episode of Supernatural let me rest my case to my husband. Sam is afraid of clowns, and his brother is ragging on him for it, so Sam replies - "well, you're afraid of flying!" and his brother states that "yeah, planes CRASH." So Sam says, "And apparently, CLOWNS KILL!" Amen Sam, amen.
Zombies. I love zombie movies, can't get enough of them, but they leave me sleepless for days.
Has anyone seen that damn skittles commerical with the freaky singing rabbit? THAT bothers me. Devil bunny.
The Skittles singing rabbit commercial is hilarious!
At first I didn't get it, but then I watched it again and it made more sense.
WATCH IT HERE ON YOUTUBE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HEF49nMsM8)
You really want scary?
Check out this video on Youtube of this cat named Burger.
I've seen a few p**sed off cats in my time but nothing like this.
That's one mean p***y!
WATCH THE VIDEO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKG_zcsEik8)
I wonder what it was thinking?
I love how Burger pauses to casually like his lips in between screams.
Quote from: Andrew on November 18, 2006, 10:49:39 AM
Welcome to the forum and good points, though Godzilla and other huge monsters would be scary to me. You cannot get out of their way, because they are on the same scale as a tornado or other natural disaster.
That's another reason they don't scare me, you can't do anything about or to them so why worry, having said that I also want to say that giant monster movies from Japan are a hoot to watch. I always wondered where the Japan Self Defense Force got all the flying tanks, death rays, super missiles etc. any way I have always enjoyed a Godzilla type movie, they are always fun.
Quote from: DENNIS on November 21, 2006, 08:41:35 PM
That's another reason they don't scare me, you can't do anything about or to them so why worry, having said that I also want to say that giant monster movies from Japan are a hoot to watch. I always wondered where the Japan Self Defense Force got all the flying tanks, death rays, super missiles etc. any way I have always enjoyed a Godzilla type movie, they are always fun.
The giant monster movies work best (for me) with a good dose of advanced weapons and craft. I love seeing phaser cannons and laser weapons, plus lots of futuristic aircraft or even spaceships. "Godzilla vs. Mothra" (1992) had some of this. The one scene with Godzilla wading through a torrent of fire was great.
When I was very little I use to have dreams Godzilla was coming down my street and I was trying to hide in my bedroom knowing it wasn't going to help as the earth shook.
(http://www.brian-oshaughnessy.com/Sci-fi/images/godzilla-1.jpg)
The fun for me in these movies is that while the Japanese military could apparently conquer the world their new weapons don't work on a big lizard or bug, or what ever but it is great to see them in action. Actually I think Godzilla type movies (Rodan, Gamera etc.) are in a class all by themselves. I watched Godzilla, the original American release with Raymond Burr six nights in a row on the Million Dollar Movie and woke up at every noise, wanted to run outside and see the big guy
Quote from: Ashthecat on November 21, 2006, 05:56:27 AM
You really want scary?
Check out this video on Youtube of this cat named Burger.
I've seen a few p**sed off cats in my time but nothing like this.
That's one mean p***y!
WATCH THE VIDEO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKG_zcsEik8)
I wonder what it was thinking?
In addition to two dogs we have four cats, so I think what Burger was saying was "FEED ME AND I'LL LET YOU KEEP YOU FACE"
I think Burger was thinking, "Get that f*ckin' camera out of my face!!!"
I'll bet anything that the camera scared the hell out of it.
I've have never in my life seen a cat that angry! :buggedout:
I have, at the vet's office, the cat (not a very big cat) was saying "Don't think you can give me a vacination dummy", took three people to give the little cat a shot and there was blood shed by two of us holding the cat. I should say that the cat belongs to us, her name is Doodle.
I went shopping today with my wife, while driving we came to a signal where we needed to turn right, the car in front of us did too but moved out very slowly when the light changed, like they were lost or something, the car ended up in the right hand lane and I changed to the left lane, having to turn left in a block or so. We're driving along side by side and my wife points out to me that the other driver is not only talking on cell phone she is also reading a store sale paper that's spread out on the steering wheel, sort of like one half of a collision looking for the other half. She was still doing this as we turned, hope she didn't find the other half
Okay, from all the way back in 2006, things from TV and movies we personally found scary. Good topic to zombiefy.
I always thought The Wizard of Oz was a horror movie falsely marketed as a musical. It disturbed me end to end, from the witch saying Dorothy would die when the hourglass went out, to those #$%* munchkins, who looked like they crawled out of the sewers of Hell.
Also Tigger was intimidating to me, always bouncing, relentlessly getting up in everybody's faces. (I did admire his egoism, though.)
The weird-eyed cloney, robotey chick at the very end of The Stepford Wives (I think she went on to be the mom on Family Ties too) was frightening, the way she emerged and walked forward, dead-eyed like that. That was bad. I've had dreams about her.
But the thing that put the cherry on the fear sundae when I was really small was when there was this show on TV called Tales of the Gold Monkey, and there was an episode where assassin dressed as Anubis came to murder an Egyptologist, and boy oh boy, did seeing someone walking around expressionless in an Anubis mask terrify me. For weeks all my dad had to do was creep up on me and say "Anubis" and I was done-in.
Oh, yeah, depictions of Mother Theresa scare me too because she looks like some sort of possessed Appalachian apple doll come to life.
I love Tales of the Golden Monkey had have every episode on DVD (although that wasn't hard to get since they only did one season).
Aw cool, you know the episode I'm taking about? I only saw it once sometime in the eighties and it's probably not as terror-inducing as I remember, huh?
Dang- the only people on that old thread that are still around are me and Ash (on occasion).
I remember I started in 2007 :thumbup:
back on the 'picture war posts' lol
btw...what ever happened to akiratubo and Dennis and Glouck?
Didn't we had this discussion in another thread, or I'm having some kind of deja vu? :bouncegiggle:
Nah, it's just you, Gabe. :wink:
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on August 20, 2020, 04:32:34 PM
Didn't we had this discussion in another thread, or I'm having some kind of deja vu? :bouncegiggle:
I'm fairly sure we've had this conversations a couple of times.
Oh well. It's a good conversation topic.
The very first movie I can ever remember scarring me was Beetlejuice. To be more specific, the part where he turns into the big snake.
2 things - the swamp witch from Legend
and of course... Jaws
recent movies that truly creeped me out:
THE RING
SINISTER
MIRRORS
HEREDITARY
One of the scares I remember more vividly from my childhood came from THE SHINING, particularly the old lady in the bathroom. I watched the movie recently and damn it's boring, if it wasn't for good ol' Jack it would be a disaster. The bathroom scene definitely lost its charm, but it's still quite effective.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 20, 2020, 09:33:23 AM
Dang- the only people on that old thread that are still around are me and Ash (on occasion).
Actually I'm still around, long story short, when I retired I continued working from home doing the same thing and I am now busier than I was when I was going to the shop in Los Angeles, I look in at odd moments when I have time but this is the first log in in quite awhile.
I recently watched "From Hell it Came" and although the "Tobanga" is laughable I remember that back about 1959 or so that thing appeared in pretty scary dream
^ DENNIS!!!! :thumbup:
The Poltergeist sequels I agree have some great scares especially number 2. Agree with the initial post here mentioning how certain characters truly scare you...
Quote from: Dennis on August 21, 2020, 02:52:05 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 20, 2020, 09:33:23 AM
Dang- the only people on that old thread that are still around are me and Ash (on occasion).
Actually I'm still around, long story short, when I retired I continued working from home doing the same thing and I am now busier than I was when I was going to the shop in Los Angeles, I look in at odd moments when I have time but this is the first log in in quite awhile.
I recently watched "From Hell it Came" and although the "Tobanga" is laughable I remember that back about 1959 or so that thing appeared in pretty scary dream
Welcome back :cheers:
Thank you Trevor
I just thought of a movie from the 70's, Burnt Offerings, at the end of the movie the expression on Karen Blacks face as she rises from the chair is one I have always found frightening.
Skip everything else- just go to 8:44! :buggedout:
http://youtu.be/th3V0R9vFGM (http://youtu.be/th3V0R9vFGM)
Okay, that's one scary lady! :buggedout:
^ Waitaminnite! You was Godzilla a few minutes ago, right? Or am I hallucinating? :question:
I was, now I'm trying to get him back
Go Go Godzilla! :thumbup:
I'm Back, well sort of