Now before I tell you this, remember I was a kid and my parents did not let me watch many horror movies. The movie that scared me the most, to the point of tears while I sat in the bed alone at night in the dark was.......none other than...... a old movie called Raw Headed Rex. I have seen it since then and was amazed at how stupid it was. Just wondering if any of you had a movie that scared the socks off of you.
Yes of course. IT freaked me to the point of tears and being scared for life. until the age of 10. I got over it. A steven king movie isn't worth being scared for the rest of your living life.
killer klowns form outr space .... fraked me out as a kid
childs play. definitely. i saw it when i was 12 and it still scares me.
For me it was "The Boogens".
Released in 1982, it's about these creatures that dwell in an underground mine which happens to connect to the cellar of a house where 2 promiscuous couples are staying.
It's one of those films that wisely does not show the monsters until the very end.
Scared the hell outta me!
Here's the IMDB listing for it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082094/
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I didn't scare easy, i was the 5 year old who would torment her friends into screams by turning out the lights - just for the ones who were afraid of the dark. However I do remember moments in films that creeped me out or scared me. Lord knows why. Some old black and white show with some giant spider in a room and a woman screaming. Something about the 78-79? version of king kong when he stepped on the petrol guy always creeped me out. maybe it was the glee in kongs eye as he did it. Zaat ,I think it was, i have memories of that creature and for some reason he scared me.
And the first time i saw the Shining i was royally freaked out by those twin girls, then flashes of their bodies as they said...
"Won't you come play with us Danny. Won't you come play with us...forever, and ever..and EVER"
shiver
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A lot of horror movies freaked me out as a kid.
Killer Klowns From Outerspace and the Carnosaur movies were on the top of the list. Friday the 13ths and A Nightmare on Elm Street were there too.
Funny how all these films are my favorite movies now.
I was subjected to horror films from the time I was about 5 but these were fairly tame by modern standards; things like Dracula and Wolfman. As I got a little older, we were one of the first on our block to get a VCR and my sister and I would go to the local video store and rent all kinds of horror movies. None of them really scared me but I did see Don't Be Afraid of the Dark on TV when I was a kid, that movie had a bad effect on me...caused much trauma.
Ghost Story (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082449/)
he Carnosaur movies were on the top of the list.
Betcha have a fear of chickens now ;)
I also remember that the original "House" movie scared the crap out of me.
When William Katt opens the attic door and that creature comes out, I nearly s**t myself when I was 9 or 10 years old!
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark:
I've been hearing so much about this movie and how creepy it is. I've never seen it but it seems to have traumatized every person that has (just look at IMDB reviews)
I can remember Children shouldn't play with dead things actually freaked me out when I was young, no idea now why it did. Hell practically anything would freak me out anyway but I just remember this one in particular being on televison and messing with me.
my grandmother had all the zombie horror movies and scif horrors. she used show them to me all the time when i was little. when she first showed me Alien that just scared the crap out of me. my mom had to give away her whole collection of movies just because i was so scared. but i have to thank my grandmother she also had a bunch of B horror movies that got me into it. if wasnt for her i wouldnt be here posting.
I know I know ive been exposed permeant psychoses..
at least the colors are nice"- Aeon Flux
>Just wondering if any of you had a movie that scared the socks off of you.
I always had a kind of phobia about dead things coming back to life. One that I recall was Curse of the Faceless Man, about a body that was turned to stone during the eruption of Pompei and which later came back to life. Also, there was a bigfoot movie where some college students find a mummy in a cave, bring it back with them and it turns out to be a clay-covered bigfoot that goes on a rampage. Horror Express also gave me nightmares, especially the part where the guy hears noises coming from inside the crate and he opens it to find the decayed corpse staring at him with red eyes.
>For me it was "The Boogens".
Rebecca Balding, the star's girlfriend now plays a recurring role on Charmed.
>Don't Be Afraid of the Dark:
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>I've been hearing so much about this movie and how creepy it is. I've never
>seen it but it seems to have traumatized every person that has (just look at IMDB
>reviews)
I've seen it and it is creepy. For some reason, a lot of the stuff made during the 70's, even though most of it is pretty cheesy by today's standards, still manages to be creepier than anything made today. Modern movies just don't have the same atmosphere.
Let's seee noowww. We got Xtro. The part where a grown man tears out of a woman traumatized me quite a bit. (I have yet to get my revenge! XTRO your days are numbered!) Alien scared me quite a bit also. I was terrified of going to sleep because I didn't want a face hugger to lay a egg in my stomach or chest. The Uninvited also scared me quite a while. Ha! I remember there was once a time where Friday the 13th would get me scared while I watched it but now I'm invincible to it's weak power! But I never had trouble getting to sleep after watching a Friday the 13 film. Grizzly scared me a lot and I had trouble sleeping for a few days. I never watched the full movie but I never got to see the costume and if I had I proabably wouldn't have been so scared afterwards (I still need to finish that movie)
Clips of the original "Nosferatu" used to scare me, it was those eyes. I can even remember getting off the bus from school and staying at my aunt's house where I would have to stay by myself until my aunt and cousins got home. I was so obsessed with the Max Schrek vampire that I used to get freaked out walking toward the house, imagining Count Orlock glaring through the windows at me waiting for me to enter.
I remember getting really worked up the first time I saw the Corman version of "The Pit and The Pendulum". Near the end as the blade is nearing the character strapped to the table and the blade begins to cut into his shirt the CBS affiliate cut away to show "The NFL Today". I was so tense asking my dad, "How does it end? Does the guy live?" He laughed and said, "I think so", kidding me since he had seen it many times before. I didn't see the film again, and find out the real ending for years.
I know I got scared once, about the time I was four or five, while watching just the intro to a syndicated horror show, "Chiller" maybe from what I was told later. The opening started with this cheap graphic of an old man slowly walking up a twisting path to a stereotypical spooky castle at the top of a hill. Then this small fluttering image, meant to look like a bat, menaces and attacks the man, who drops drops dead with a pathetic groan. The image/bat then flies nearly straight up at the screen (the "camera" was positioned high so that the viewer is looking down at the man climbing the path.). As it fills the screen we see that it is the logo/title for the show, but since I hadn't learned to read yet, I can't remember what the name was. If anyone knows or recognizes this, I'd greatly appreciate it.
"The Monster That Challenged the World"
Creeped me out bad when I was a kid. Now it's just another giant mutant creature flick, but when I was 10, AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
house
umm....friday the 13th part like...4 I think.
Night of the living dead
Aliens
Nightmare on elm street 3
hmm..thats all, could be worse. My uncle was scared to death of the killer shrews when he was a boy :P.
HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS. I went with my father on a Sunday afternoon after begging my parents for about a week. There is a scene where Barnabas Collins turns into an old man and they show a close-up of his face. I nearly jumped out of my seat. The rest of the movie didn't really scare me . . . just that one scene.
"The Fly." The original and not the remake, which shows you how old I am. When Patricia Owens pulled the sack off of Al "David" Hedison's head, I can tell you, I was cowering on the floor, down behind the seats in the theater, down among the spilled jujubes, in a shot.
I would always change the channel for the bad parts on all the Nightmare On Elm. st. movies Yikes!
These types of movies I did not like:
A Nightmare on Elm Street movies
Alien and Aliens
Jaws movies
Poltergeist
I enjoyed watching Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
"Fiend Without a Face." Saw it when I was 5, and it messed me up bad for about a week afterwards. Anytime something in the house fell over or seemed to move by itself, I fled the room, covering the back of my head to defend against invisible flying brain-things. Brrrrrrrrrrrr..................
And hey, John L, I think that Bigfoot movie you're refering to is "The Curse of Bigfoot," a 1972 low budgeter comprised mainly of footage from an unreleased early 60s flick.
"Not of this Earth" (1957)
Quatermass & the Pit a.k.a. Five Million Years to Earth
and
The Monster that Challenged the World
Both of those FREAKED me out.
Ok i may be laughed at for this one but i just remembered another film that while funny, something about it was always creepy in the back of my mind. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Okay, embarassment abounds - I was scared of Fright Night.
The kid getting killed with the stairway stake freaked me out.
>I know I got scared once, about the time I was four or five, while watching just the
>intro to a syndicated horror show, "Chiller" maybe from what I was told later.
That doesn't sound like the "Chiller" show I used to watch. That one used to start with a foggy scene of a tree and a pool of blood and the letters to spell out the word chiller made out fo clay. As weird music/sounds play, a six-fingered hand comes up out of the blood and picks up the letters, then sinks back into the blood as a voice says "CCChhhiiillllllleeerrrrr".
>And hey, John L, I think that Bigfoot movie you're refering to is "The Curse of
>Bigfoot," a 1972 low budgeter comprised mainly of footage from an unreleased
>early 60s flick.
Yes, that's the one.
That's easy. There are four movies that scared the crap out of me when I was young and have stuck with me all these years:
Night of the Living Dead
Island of Terror
It's Alive
The Omen
it did and still does, i would never watch home alone "the exorcist" im sure i might not sleep in the whole night long, Specially watching the director´s cut, i only would watch it if i would have made a big bet with lots of money to lose if i dont watch it, if not, noway.
I didn't see The Exorcist until a year ago (I'm 26) because my husband, my dad, and my brother were all freaked out about it. Well, I finally watched it and it didn't scare me at all. I think it's a totally different experience watching a movie like that as an adult than as a child... partly because of it being dated (we've all seen much worse since then). I must say, though, that those types of movies (Exorcist, The Omen, The Prophecy) are creepier than slasher movies.
The one that got me when I was little was Poltergeist. I saw it when I was about 5 years old and slept with the light on until I was 11. I saw it a few months ago and it made me laugh.
I remember the original Thirteen Ghosts scared the hell out of me when I saw it on Theatre Bizarre way back when Fox had just become Fox. Poltergeist also gave me the creeps, and it still amazes me that it's rated PG.
Pet Semetary. I saw it at a drive-in. The scenes with the little kid when he came back to life scared the s**t out of me.
I was freaked out by the box to Child's Play III for the longest time but I'd always wanted to see the movie. Little did I know . . .
Anything with little things running around, eg. Chucky movies and The Gate. I was terrorfied to get out of bed at night because I thought they would get my ankles.
Hehe, I was just thinking about movies that got me as a child and one thing came to mind.
Now do not laugh I know it is stupid but here goes..... The Robot in 'Robocop'
Ed209 ( I think was its name) really creeped me out. I think it was the evil sounding voice that got me. LOL!!!! I know I know
Iam yet one of the many kids of my generation who was almost permanently scarred by Stephen King's It. I have never been so scared of a bathroom since. I know that the Blob remake, only the commercials though freaked me out. The only other that did a real number on me was Natasha Henstridge's Species.
On a side note, my brother still has not seen the Exorcist, but I watched it when he was 13. He just heard the sounds and he was petrified, I walked into the bedroom and he was shiverring and vowed never to actually see the movie.
For some reason, it's harder to be scared of more popular monsters like Freddy, Jason, and Michael. I don't know why.
When I was little I was scared of:
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Any movie based on Clive Barker works (Hellraiser, Candyman, or Night Breed)
C.H.U.D. (I know it was a stupid B-Movie, but I was 7 at time. I remember seeing how big those monsters were and I would look under might bed or out in the hole everytime I heard any screeching noises, I would jump out of bed or something).
Beauty & the Beast (CBS tv show)
>The one that got me when I was little was Poltergeist. I saw it when I was about 5
>years old and slept with the light on until I was 11. I saw it a few months ago and it
>made me laugh.
Check out The Haunting of Hell House, or the original The Haunting.
OK, so I'm old(er)
The one that scared me the most at a tender age (5? not sure) was "THEM" - about the giant ants? Why the sitter let me watch it, I will never know.
The original Dracula had me sleeping with my covers held around my neck for more years than I should probably admit (actually, it was more likely reading the book at age 10 that did that - not recommended!)
Black and white is always scarier, to me.
The Boogens was pretty creepy, but I was older then. (Sigh!)
If we're including TV shows, I remember that "The Night Stalker" often scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I particularly remember a zombie episode and an episode with a sewer monster that really freaked me out. I was probably about 7 or 8 when those shows aired.
As far as TV shows go, I would have to say that Tales from the Crypt got me pretty good. The crypt keeper was pretty scarry to a small child.
I've seen "The Haunting" and I enjoyed it - I'll have to check out the Haunting of Hell House though! Movies don't really scare me anymore... the evening news and "America's Most Wanted" are what get me now.
When I was wee, Dreamscape seemed pretty scary to me. I might not have even been that wee, I was probably more like eleven or something.
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Sadly, I was scared of the "doll monsters†in Barbarella. Why Barbarella was being show on HBO at the time is an interesting question, though.
"Wizard of Oz" scared me a bit. The part where the wicked witch sets the scarecrow on fire, and the part where the lion jumps out the window (don't ask me why).
Th movie that scared me the most was Alien. I watched it when I was 10. I got so frightned that I had to sleep with the lights on and under the sheets, so that the alien wouldn't get me. The other movie was The Evil Dead. God that was scary! One day while I still was at school, me and some of my buddies went camping on the woods, one night one of my buddies came to my tent with this zombie mask and scared me s**tless! Thats one experience I will never forget!
Well, so long as we are dredging up the past, so to speak.
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte creeped me out as a kid.
For me it was Green Slime. I saw it twice as a child and both times couldn't get past the point just before the creature is revealed. I had to wait until I was in my early teens to be able to stick with it. When I finally did get past that point, I laughed at how silly the monster was.
Children of the Corn....I think I was about 5? Couldn't go near a cornfield for a decade. My Dad used to threaten me with that as a punishment on family trips to Iowa.
Move to Texas...father in law tells me he'd like to wish me to the cornfield. Recurring theme in my life, I suppose.
Evil Dead II...what's more, I didn't actually even get to SEE it! My parent's had rented it when it came out on VHS and decided I couldn't watch it with them. I listened to the movie from my room in the dark, and tried to picture what was going on...My mind was in overdrive let me tell you.
I was very easy to scare back then, and I remember only imagining how a movie (i.e. Alien) was turned me mad. I remember being scared by the original "Invaders from Mars", though. That sand whirlwind was very, very, scary, and so was the scene in a parking lot when we notice the character of the father has changed.
The original BLOB....now i sing along with the theme song...
OMG... Two things, The scene in Superman 3 where that women gets pulled into the supercomputer and becomes this... machine-thing. I had nightmares about it.
The other was Prophecy (yeah, the one on this website)... I kept having dreams about running through the woods, with that bear thing chasing me. Brrrrrrr!
Dreamscape.
The snakeman from that movie screwed me up somethin' fierce.
For some reason I was also terrified by the cyclops from Krull.