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Hat tip to Celtic Rose for the thread idea. :cheersmate:
What was the movie or movies that really freaked you out as a kid? Have you or would you watch them again and/or show them to your own kids?
I can think of a few that disturbed me like The Never Ending Story and Timebandits but the biggest, harshest freakout movie for me just had to be Jaws. Jaws scared the shite out of me for a whole summer and that's saying something considering I lived in Oklahoma at the time. :lmao:
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Hat tip to Celtic Rose for the thread idea. :cheersmate:
What was the movie or movies that really freaked you out as a kid? Have you or would you watch them again and/or show them to your own kids?
I can think of a few that disturbed me like The Never Ending Story and Timebandits but the biggest, harshest freakout movie for me just had to be Jaws. Jaws scared the shite out of me for a whole summer and that's saying something considering I lived in Oklahoma at the time. :lmao:
Yeah, well, those OKie sharks are the worst... :lmao:
I don't remember the name of the movie that scared me to death, but it had a T Rex or something running after a couple, trying to eat them. I had nightmares about dinosaurs chasing me for weeks. :-)
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Mario Bava's Black Sabbath, The Drop of Water segment, the rest wasn't that scary.
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Idiocracy hands down
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The Exorcist.
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The Exorcist.
That one and It's Alive scared the crap out of me without ever seeing them. Just the advertisements alone were enough. Alien too, come to think of it.
The 1970's had all kinds of scary movie ads although when I did see some of the movies years later they weren't very good, like The Town that Dreaded Sundown seemed not as good as the advertisement.
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Salem's Lot and The Exorcist. They still scare the crap out of me.
My daughter has been traumatized ever since she first laid eyes on E.T. She was 3 and now at almost 11 she is still terrified of that alien freak.
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My daughter has been traumatized ever since she first laid eyes on E.T. She was 3 and now at almost 11 she is still terrified of that alien freak.
I absolutely hated E.T., and your daughter is right... it was creepy as ****. And there were the other parts of the movie that disturbed me. Teenagers living at home that randomly ordered pizza that Mom automaticaly paid for? Was this part of the movie? It was incomprehensible to my 8-year-old mind. And that kid Elliot that left the house to wander around after dark? I would have been beaten within an inch of my life if I had left the house after dark when I was supposed to be in bed.
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"Black Sunday" (not the one about football)
"Strait-Jacket"
"Die, Die, My Darling"
"Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte"
"Jason And The Argonauts"
There are more, but I can't remember the titles from the silent era.
(I was a deep thinker as a child. These were psychological freak-outs)
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They are all pretty tame stuff when seen through adult eyes.
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I remember picture books used to be a big thing (about the same time I still had a ViewMaster)... I had a book for 'Jason and the Argonauts'. I had no idea what the story was, only that it was a bunch of creepy skeletons trying to take over a ship of whatever Argonauts were. I had one for 'Return of the Jedi' and another for 'Indiana Jones'.
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Salem's Lot and The Exorcist. They still scare the crap out of me.
My daughter has been traumatized ever since she first laid eyes on E.T. She was 3 and now at almost 11 she is still terrified of that alien freak.
HaHa! "Salem's Lot" was the one that did it for my oldest son. I'll never forget the night I kicked open his bedroom door and shoved a rolling trunk into his room.
Also, I had a cap that looked a lot like a chauffeur's cap. I'd put it on and flash him that creepy smile.
I was a wonderful dad. :-)
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I remember picture books used to be a big thing (about the same time I still had a ViewMaster)... I had a book for 'Jason and the Argonauts'. I had no idea what the story was, only that it was a bunch of creepy skeletons trying to take over a ship of whatever Argonauts were. I had one for 'Return of the Jedi' and another for 'Indiana Jones'.
It was the special effects in 'Jason' which rattled my little brain. The skeletons were the worst. It all looks so cheesy today.
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The movie that most scared me
Enemy of the state (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/)
A not inconceivable view of the capacities of the cursed revenuers government.
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Poltergeist still scares the crap out of me to this day, and not just because of the "curse".
Now imagine, if you will:
Sitting alone in a dark house on Halloween, watching The Shining, when for no apparent reason a picture falls off the wall behind me and drops to the floor. Never again. NEVER AGAIN.
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When I was real litlle, the flying monkeys in Wizard of OZ scared the crap outta me. When I got older, pretty much anything in the horror genre....still don't like them.
My daughter, wierdo...the singing alligator/croc in All Dogs Go to Heaven gave her nightmares for weeks. And when she was 3 ish, she had nightmare whenever we went to the zoo.
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Maybe I was an insensitive little prick as a kid, but hearing how my parents were freaked out watching Snow White and the witch...meh. Maybe back in the day I could see how they'd be freaked by it.
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The thing.. James Arness was a great monster...........
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What was the movie or movies that really freaked you out as a kid? Have you or would you watch them again and/or show them to your own kids?
"The Legend of Boggy Creek"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Boggy_Creek
(http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/boggycreek1_01.jpg)
Came out in late 1972 when I was 11. Thing freaked me out. Of course, this was around the same time the Big Foot stuff was in high gear.
I caught it on late night TV probably 25 years ago and watched it again. I ended up laughing more than anything else. Doubt kids would even want to watch it since its not Star Wars or Spiderman.
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This:
[youtube=425,350]S-Qeee8D2Ro[/youtube]
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I don't watch "horror" movies, like the Jason, Freddy or those type movies.
But I saw Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds" on tv, can't even remember how old I was, but I don't like birds and every time I see a flock of crows...it reminds me of that movie and creeps me out.
Saw Jaws the summer after my sophmore year of college on my way to spend the summer in Maine, where I taught swimming and lifeguarded. I have never liked swimming in the ocean since! :o
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Two films really bothered me. Ring of Bright Water made me cry for days, as did a PBS film, Tiger.
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Can't remember the name of it as I was quite young. My parents had to drag me along to the drive in to see a horror flick thinking I'd just fall asleep in the back seat. It was something to do with nuns in a boat and they all turned to bones! It was horrifying to a 5 yo. I dreamed about it for years afterwards.
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Can't remember the name of it as I was quite young. My parents had to drag me along to the drive in to see a horror flick thinking I'd just fall asleep in the back seat. It was something to do with nuns in a boat and they all turned to bones! It was horrifying to a 5 yo. I dreamed about it for years afterwards.
The Sound Of Music II?
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"Black Sunday" (not the one about football)
"Strait-Jacket"
"Die, Die, My Darling"
"Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte"
"Jason And The Argonauts"
There are more, but I can't remember the titles from the silent era.
(I was a deep thinker as a child. These were psychological freak-outs)
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They are all pretty tame stuff when seen through adult eyes.
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I remember picture books used to be a big thing (about the same time I still had a ViewMaster)... I had a book for 'Jason and the Argonauts'. I had no idea what the story was, only that it was a bunch of creepy skeletons trying to take over a ship of whatever Argonauts were. I had one for 'Return of the Jedi' and another for 'Indiana Jones'.
One of my favorite freak me out movies. What really freaked me out in the movie was Talos.
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/snapshot20080606163418.jpg)
I have the movie on DVD and I still get goosebumps when Talos turns his head and looks down
at Hercules and Hylas.
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Phantasm. I wouldn't go near a mirror at night for weeks.
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This:
[youtube=425,350]S-Qeee8D2Ro[/youtube]
Whoa. I saw that and was freaked out as a kid but had forgotten it entirely till watching it just now. Actually I didn't recognise it until the film started to unspool. WTH was that flick anyway, lol? That thing really needs some Crow and Tom Servo treatment.
:-)
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That was shown on HBO between movies back in the 70s and early 80s. There were several others, but this is the only one that I remember.
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That was shown on HBO between movies back in the 70s and early 80s. There were several others, but this is the only one that I remember.
Ahh, OK thanks. I remember HBO when it came in a box. :-) (and played the same 6 movies every day for a month lol)
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When I was real litlle, the flying monkeys in Wizard of OZ scared the crap outta me. When I got older, pretty much anything in the horror genre....still don't like them.
My daughter, wierdo...the singing alligator/croc in All Dogs Go to Heaven gave her nightmares for weeks. And when she was 3 ish, she had nightmare whenever we went to the zoo.
Oh, yeah! I'd forgotten...they scared me, too. Not as bad as dinosaurs, but I always had to leave the room when those flying monkeys came on. :-)
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Not really a movie but that little voodoo puppet in
Karen Black's "Trilogy of Terror" gave me nightmares
for a very long time.
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Idiocracy hands down
Almost where we are now, but the Dumb One got elected.
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Not really a movie but that little voodoo puppet in
Karen Black's "Trilogy of Terror" gave me nightmares
for a very long time.
Especially the way it ended with her sitting in front of the door stabbing the floor with the big knife.
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Amityville Horror! My aunt thought it wouldn't be a big deal to take me to see that instead of The Muppets. I'm still traumatized :-)
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the Exorcist and Jaws
I still torture kids with the Jaws music every chance I get. :-)
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That one and It's Alive scared the crap out of me without ever seeing them. Just the advertisements alone were enough. Alien too, come to think of it.
The 1970's had all kinds of scary movie ads although when I did see some of the movies years later they weren't very good, like The Town that Dreaded Sundown seemed not as good as the advertisement.
It's Alive scared the crap out of me too. I wasn't suppose to see it and I didn't tell my mom. The night I saw it I had a nightmare and woke up screaming. My mom ran into my room asking me what was wrong. I told her about seeing the movie and she told me I deserved to be scared and went back to bed. Then I kept yelling, "I'm thinking about it...I'm thinking about it" until she let me come sleep with her.
I saw it on cable a couple of years ago. It was so stupid.
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she told me I deserved to be scared and went back to bed.
Ah! Tough love. It builds character and puts hair on your chest. :-*
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Ah! Tough love. It builds character and puts hair on your chest. :-*
Apparently it didn't work, I have no hair on my chest. :p
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Apparently it didn't work, I have no hair on my chest. :p
It doesn't take effect until you hit 50. After then you'll be tweezing your brains out. Just ask Schade. :-)
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the Exorcist and Jaws
I still torture kids with the Jaws music every chance I get. :-)
The scariest movie music ever has to be the theme from Suspiria. I found a nice video but I fear it is too graphic to post.
Second I think might be The Exorcist because a lot stuff in that movie is subliminal. I saw it for the last time when they did The Version You've Never Seen around 2000 and I was impressed with how the images don't really make any sense except for the soundtrack. The first half of that movie isn't even a horror movie, it's like a very intense after school special.
Jaws, while a great movie, never really scared me. I lived near Lake Michigan and there aren't any sharks in there. But I do remember being scared that Humanoids from the Deep might have sneaked into our swimming pool during the night like the water bugs did waiting to eat us in the morning.
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Has any seen "Evil Dead", with the great legendary Bruce Campbell?
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It doesn't take effect until you hit 50. After then you'll be tweezing your brains out. Just ask Schade. :-)
Ummm...you just got youself into trouble.
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It doesn't take effect until you hit 50. After then you'll be tweezing your brains out. Just ask Schade. :-)
:lmao: :lmao:
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Apparently it didn't work, I have no hair on my chest. :p
Prove it.
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Has any seen "Evil Dead", with the great legendary Bruce Campbell?
While I remember when Evil Dead came out, I didn't see it until after Evil Dead 2. Evil Dead 2 really freaked me out and most of it was just the visual style, I had never seen anything like it before.
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From The Shining, the two ghost girls who confront little Danny in the hallway is super creepy. Having kids in horror movies always makes them extra horror-y. Maybe even too creepy for the lounge so I brought robot version instead, lol.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKKNUF-CE6g[/youtube]
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redrum! Yep The Shining was scary.
The first movie I saw that scared the crap out of me was In Cold Blood. I am sure I must have been 9 or 10 when I saw it. I don't get to creeped out by anything anymore, though I did think the last Batman movie was disturbing.
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redrum! Yep The Shining was scary.
The first movie I saw that scared the crap out of me was In Cold Blood. I am sure I must have been 9 or 10 when I saw it. I don't get to creeped out by anything anymore, though I did think the last Batman movie was disturbing.
In Cold Blood from when you were 10, umm, was that one even a "talkie"?? :uhsure: :p
Hey cool av btw. Are you rockin' Ubuntu?
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redrum! Yep The Shining was scary.
The first movie I saw that scared the crap out of me was In Cold Blood. I am sure I must have been 9 or 10 when I saw it. I don't get to creeped out by anything anymore, though I did think the last Batman movie was disturbing.
Queer how Robert Blake ended his career pretty much as he started it., well not really, I guess he started as one of the Little Rascals.
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In Cold Blood from when you were 10, umm, was that one even a "talkie"?? :uhsure: :p
Hey cool av btw. Are you rockin' Ubuntu?
I am pretty sure it was a talkie smart ass. :evillaugh: Tho, I recall watching it on a b&w tv.
lol..... :hammer: :-)