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What movies scared you the most as a kid?
Topic Started: Oct 29 2011, 04:37 PM (646 Views)
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When I was 5-6, I used to stay overnight at my cousin's on a lot of weekends. We would stay up late on Saturday night to watch "Chilly Billy" with my great-aunt (who was more like my grandmother). Usually, the first movie would be some old classic with Boris Karloff or Bela Lugosi. By the time it was over, my cousins would all be asleep, but I'd still be up, so the old broad would letme sit up with her and watch the second feature, which would always be a newer "grindhouse" flick. The Last House on the Left, Savage Seven, that kind of stuff.

Despite all of those horrible slasher flicks, the only movie to really bother was actually one of the older "milder" ones, The Island of Lost Souls (an adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau with Bela Lugosi). That freaked me out. Still does a little.

What movie scared you the most?
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I must've been about 9. I nagged my father to take me to see "House on Haunted Hill." It was a typical 50s "horror" flick - and not very good, iirc. However, there was one scene that freaked me out: a woman opened a suitcase, and in it was a human head. I had nightmares forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viskK3XvBLY

Edited by George K, Oct 29 2011, 04:52 PM.
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The Exorcist, The Omen, movies like that with a paranormal aspect. More realistic 'slasher' films not as much - sure I'd be scared when they were on, but I wouldn't carry away scary thoughts like I did with the others.
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Oct 29 2011, 04:51 PM
I must've been about 9. I nagged my father to take me to see "House on Haunted Hill." It was a typical 50s "horror" flick - and not very good, iirc. However, there was one scene that freaked me out: a woman opened a suitcase, and in it was a human head. I had nightmares forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viskK3XvBLY

+1.
More than any other, that film really got under my skin. :hair:

Thanks for the link.
I'm going to watch it soon ... for old time's sake. :leaving:
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I saw a movie once that had a Maine lawyer in it.

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I saw "The Exorcist" in the theater when it came out in, what, 1974? I was 24 at the time, and it didn't have the effect it would have had I been younger.

That scene in "House?" FF to 33:20.
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There's a ruined colorized version on YouTube as well.
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Poltergeist, hands down scariest for me as a kid.

LD, on Friday nights here on public access of all channels, they have a kind of Chilly Billy equivalent called the Schlocky Horror Picture Show.

Favorite show by far here. They'll play either a classic or an old stinker, and in the commercial breaks they have an extensive humor/trivia segment. Also reminds me of TNT's Monstervision with Billy-Bob, only this is better!
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The last movie I saw that scared me was a Sinbad movie I saw when I was about nine years old. I'm sure others here might recall the giant rotating fist and the whirlpool that some poor sucker went down. Okay, maybe not but I figured out after that that the only things that can frighten you are the things you cannot let yourself picture in your mind. After that it is all theater.
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I'll have to check out the house on the haunted hill. My scariest movie memory was of something I saw when 9 or 10, and the scene I recall was of a woman going into a closet and removing a hat box.....a hat box with a head (which was alive, of course). Scared the heck out of me; lots of nightmares. There was also a scene in a (foggy, naturally) grave yard where another head was dug up. I've never been able to find the movie with those few details, but it remains in my mind as the scariest film I've seen. Now I wonder if it was the film you mentioned. I'll have to check it out; be kind of good to finally put a name to it.
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Flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. Saw The Exorcist as a teen - not so scary then but nervous laughter with my friends. Poltergeist had me almost crawling out of my skin a couple of times.
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Anything supernatural or psychological would have scared me. Still love psychological thrillers.

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The Cat and the Canary, when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. What comedy there was from good old Bob Hope remained a mystery for a canny few years; don't laugh, I used to check how thick walls were

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An older cousin of mine let me see "The Evil Dead" when I was maybe 10. I was pretty scared indeed, and to this day I don't like horror movies.
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last scary movie i saw was Exorcist at 17 years. i won't watch them.. the wizard of Oz used to freak me out.. that green witch would stay in my dreams for months..
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So much of the scary factor depends on the environment in which you see a movie. Pet Sematary did it for me. This one I saw for the first time at a slumber party with a few friends, late at night, lying on the floor in the dark. There are some scenes with this woman Zelda that particularly freaked me out. For many, many, many years I used to imagine her being under my bed after turning off the lights, and if I let a limb go over the edge she would shoot a bony hand up to grab me.

To be honest, I still have that thought, of something supernatural becoming suddenly present when the lights go out. That if I keep thinking about it, and thinking about it, it is like daring the thing to make itself known to me -- kind of like a Bloody Mary scenario as I turn off the lights and must walk back to my bed in darkness.

Well, now I just feel silly. :silly:
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I'm with MS. I much prefer psychological thrillers to slasher or supernatural types of movie. Shutter Island anyone?

Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte scared the ever-lovin' tar out of me as a kid. The whole movie was creepy and kept me on the edge of my seat, but the scene with the head rolling down the stairs stayed with me for a long time. :hair:



My fav of all times is Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. So psycho but I loved it and still do. I recently stumbled across a "queen" version on Netflix. The guy who plays Bette Davis' role of Baby Jane nailed Davis to a T. So campy, but so funny. Loved it.



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I didn't watch many scary movies when I was little, but I think when I was around 9 or 10 I saw Poltergeist. That one scared me! Opti mentioned the Bloody Mary thing - I did that with a friend when I was around 8 and honestly it still gets me to this day. I will avoid looking at mirrors in the dark!
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I was home alone one Saturday night, 9 years old I think. Channel 2 Creature Feature out of Oakland was playing a double feature, the original black and white "Night of the Living Dead" followed by Vincent Price in "House of Wax". I wasn't half way through the first movie before I called the neighbors and then sent one of their teenage sons over to stay with me until my folks got home. Both films scared the bejesus outta me.

That night was the start of my journey into becoming a professional zombie killer.
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Jon:
Similar ones for me.
I saw Paranormal Activity a couple years ago, and it really creeped me out - even as an adult.

Anyone watching American Horror Story on FX?
It's seriously creeping me out, and quickly becoming my favorite guilty pleasure.
Some of the TV shows cable networks are producing are just dominating network TV.

It's The Shining meets Twin Peaks or American Gothic.
It's a weird Gothic Horror genre show, that is utterly insane and nearly un-followable, yet in the most captivating and entertaining way.

At least 20 times in the first episode I sat there going "WTF?! WTF!!!?"
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Paranormal Activity was a huge letdown! The second was a bit better, but not much. I'm going to see the 3rd one today I think, so hopefully that will be the best.
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Edit, was responding to KB.

I've been meaning to catch that. Are they showing on FX's OnDemand channel?

Have you been watching The Walking Dead?
Edited by Luke's Dad, Oct 30 2011, 10:25 AM.
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