What movies scared you (as a kid) ? [Archive]

spacecaps

Oct 19, '11, 6:32 PM

The 80's remakes of The Blob & The Fly. I used to run from the TV when The Fly II commercial came on. To this day I still haven't seen it. Not cause it scares me now but because I'm pretty sure it sucks. The other one that got me was Nightmare on Elm Street. I used to thank God that the street I lived on wasn't Elm! Today those movies are just silly.

kingdom warrior

Oct 19, '11, 6:40 PM

The Exorcist
Beyond the Door
Children shouldn't play with dead things
Dawn of the dead
Don't be afraid of the dark
Texas Chainsaw massacre
I know who you are, I saw what you did
Horror express
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

samurainoir

Oct 19, '11, 6:59 PM

Wizard of Oz
Trilogy of Terror

Brazoo

Oct 19, '11, 7:26 PM

Lots of movies scared me, but The Exorcist really haunted me afterward - even the Mad Magazine version freaked me out to the point that I couldn't read it all - for some reason.

rche

Oct 19, '11, 7:57 PM

the shining

hands down. I couldn't get through the whole movie until I was in college. Those little girls still scare the bejeezuz out of me.

Joe90

Oct 19, '11, 8:42 PM

Didn't we discuss this once before? Or am I having a Twilight Zone moment?

The Haunting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_(1963_film)).

Robot Monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Monster). I had nightmares from this one.

Of course the television shows Thriller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(U.S._TV_series)), The Outer Limits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1963_TV_series)), and One Step Beyond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Step_Beyond_(TV_series)) affected me greatly too.

Iron Mego

Oct 19, '11, 9:08 PM

The Exorcist for sure. It played nearly uncut on network TV in the early 80s and it scared the poopy out of me.

And before When A Stranger Calls became a movie that story was an urban legend. One of my older cousins told it to a bunch of us and I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep for a week. I wouldn't see the movie for a LONG time.

torgospizza

Oct 19, '11, 9:36 PM

I remember seeing Helter Skelter on TV as a kid, and it wigged me out pretty bad.

Werewolf

Oct 20, '11, 1:30 PM

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. An all around disturbing movie and those Oompa-Loompas are creepy as hell.

Brad

Oct 20, '11, 1:57 PM

I forgot to add Jaws! Scared the heck out of me and I had no desire to ever go swimming in the ocean after seeing it.
:yeah:

Random Axe

Oct 20, '11, 2:01 PM

Okay, I was seven years old. Not sure how I even was able to watch this, but Food of the Gods freaked me out. Well, the giant rats and wasps did, not really what's in this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5d1WIfDoBs&feature=related

Also, Kingdom of the Spiders. I'm not an arachnaphobe so to speak. Idividually, I think spiders are cool, independent creatures. Put ten thousand of them in a group and then I'm in full freak out mode. I still can't watch this film even for Shatner.

alex

Oct 20, '11, 2:04 PM

I was at boarding school at the age of 11, our house master used to show us all types of films that we shouldnt be watching at our age, but the one that got me was "salems lot" I remember I couldnt sleep for months, and I had my bed next to the window. LOL

clemso

Oct 20, '11, 2:36 PM

Without a doubt "Don't Look Now" and "The Birds"

almitysufx

Oct 20, '11, 3:46 PM

Gargoyles, 1972, haven't thought about that movie in a long time. I don't remember much about it at all, except checking under my bed for a while after.lol
That and Jaws.

wolfie

Oct 20, '11, 3:46 PM

The House by The Cemetary.

I should never have been watching this at the age i did.

ctc

Oct 20, '11, 4:44 PM

Hmmmm....

I was a weird kid; horror movies didn't scare me. (I used to root for the monsters. Make of that what you will....) But there was ONE that freaked me right out, and I don't know why. I THINK it was called "The Raven" and was about a dude who was a giant were-bird.

Don C.

thunderbolt

Oct 20, '11, 5:17 PM

Forgot the title, it involved creatures that sucked the bones out of people. When they were chopped open with an axe they were full of spaghetti.

The Toyroom

Oct 20, '11, 5:45 PM

The Omen....I still can't standing chanting and movies with creepy kids..."It's all for you Damien!"

Cmonster

Oct 20, '11, 6:19 PM

The Wizard of Oz scared the living daylights out me when I was really little. No lie.

SC

johnmiic

Oct 20, '11, 6:30 PM

Forgot the title, it involved creatures that sucked the bones out of people. When they were chopped open with an axe they were full of spaghetti.

I think that was: Island of Terror w/Peter Cushing.

Island of Terror (1966) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060548/)

Baron Blood. Attack of the Moonbeast, Terror Train, Gargoyles, 1972, The Crawling Eye, Dawn of the Dead, lots of Lost In Space episodes used to scare me.

There's one I can't remember the title of where the people on this island couldn't get on a raft and escape to sea because there were some tiny creatures that were in the water and they would get thru the wood and devour you. They were portrayed like radioactive glowing particles.

StrangeVisitor

Oct 20, '11, 6:50 PM

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-spirit-is-willing-movie-poster-1967-1020252531.jpg
I don't why but this William Castle/Sid Caesar comedy gave me nightmares.

And..

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WAf-9N1SfRw/ToLEEmfzr-I/AAAAAAAAAMY/e2I587hvL8c/s320/curseofthefly.jpg
I remember covering my eyes and going in the next room when they showed the subjects who'd been "mutated " by the teleporter. Now I can see it is a very mild scene.

Toy Talk

Oct 20, '11, 6:54 PM

Alien cost me at least one months worth of sleep.

Don't feel bad Sandy, Wizard of Oz gave me the weeby jeebies with those flying monkeys.

The House on Haunted Hill

david_b

Oct 20, '11, 6:57 PM

Wizard of Oz, and my older brother took me to see 'Tommy' when I was young.. The sight of all the abusive Uncles and Tina as the Acid Queen was a bit much at a young age.

Brad

Oct 20, '11, 7:49 PM

Maggy has never seen The Wizard of Oz! When she told me this I thought she was kidding with me since she is 40 years old. I told her I would make her watch it someday just because. I have a version on VHS that is synched up to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon so maybe I'll show her that one.
:smiley1:

megoapesnut

Oct 20, '11, 8:31 PM

A LOWWWW budget horror film titled Equinox. I was so scared I couldn't sleep for a few days. I would wake up in sweating terror. I tracked it down a few years ago and it is ABSURD! It was filmed by some college kids on a $200 budget and it shows.

Den82

Oct 20, '11, 9:10 PM

I saw movies as a child, no child should see.

The ones that screwed me up most

Hills Have Eyes

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

I slept with a light on for YEARS because of this 1 movie. Didn't see the first 1 until years later and I used to avoid just seeing the video box in the video store, because it just told me it was far worse than the second.

Saw bits and pieces of Evil Dead.

House on Haunted Hill and 13 Ghosts terrified me.

I didn't see the Exorcist, but I remember coming attractions for it on HBO and I wouldn't dare even think about tying to see it.

Ironically, most of these films went on to become my favorites.

Mikey

Oct 20, '11, 9:39 PM

I always thought Horror at 37,000 ft was creepy...

bleit1701

Oct 20, '11, 11:48 PM

The original Salems Lot just plain creeps me out. Even today.

Halloween too. Though more then than now. They are so quiet it's eerie.

People under the Stairs and House of 1000 corpses are both just not right. Which also makes them creep fests.

DocDrako

Oct 21, '11, 12:44 AM

The Exorcist
Tourist Trap (odd B-movie)
Poltergeist

:terror:

ctc

Oct 21, '11, 9:36 AM

>A LOWWWW budget horror film titled Equinox.

When I was a kid that one freaked out a lot of my friends.

Don C.

80stoyman

Oct 21, '11, 10:13 AM

Without any doubt, the original Halloween movie and an old 1978 movie called 'Summer of Fear' with Linda Blair. I actually bought it on DVD awhile back and still haven't watched it.

Hector

Oct 21, '11, 10:42 AM

TV:

Twilight Zone episodes like Please read Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, To Serve Man, and The Eye of the Beholder.

Triogly of Terror (part three)...Karen Black and wooden crazy little Indian doll.

Film:

Nosferatu 1922
Phantom of the Opera 1925
Wizard of Oz (good call, guys)
Creature From The Black Lagoon (the scariest Universal monster movie for me as a kid)
The Thing from Another World
Night of the Living Dead 1968 (I'm shocked no one has mentioned this one)
Planet of the Apes (I was six, and the dead female astronaut scared the crap outta me, so did the apes, lol)
Exorcist

starsky

Oct 21, '11, 10:52 AM

jaws!!

Goblin19

Oct 21, '11, 3:35 PM

Horror Hotel, Count Yorga, and Salem's Lot top my list.

Brazoo

Oct 21, '11, 4:30 PM

Did anyone mention the TV movie "The Day After" yet?

I just remembered that one actually kept me up some nights even years after I saw it:
The Day After (TV 1983) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/)

thunderbolt

Oct 21, '11, 4:47 PM

I think that was: Island of Terror w/Peter Cushing.

Island of Terror (1966) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060548/)

Baron Blood. Attack of the Moonbeast, Terror Train, Gargoyles, 1972, The Crawling Eye, Dawn of the Dead, lots of Lost In Space episodes used to scare me.

There's one I can't remember the title of where the people on this island couldn't get on a raft and escape to sea because there were some tiny creatures that were in the water and they would get thru the wood and devour you. They were portrayed like radioactive glowing particles.

Yeah, that's the one. Made the year I was born, too.

Figuremod73

Oct 21, '11, 5:06 PM

I remember being really scared watching the original tv broadcast of The Fog back in the eighties.

torgospizza

Oct 21, '11, 9:49 PM

Nosferatu 1922

Best vampire movie ever made, IMO.

Hector

Oct 22, '11, 2:40 AM

Hector

Oct 22, '11, 2:40 AM

Best vampire movie ever made, IMO.

Definitely the scariest for sure.

Earth 2 Chris

Oct 22, '11, 7:43 AM

Freaked out by Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein at age 3 or 4 and didn't watch horror movies at all for the next 5 or 6 years. Then a video store opened down town, and me and my friends would rent all sorts of inappropriate stuff. These movies stick out as having scared the beejeezus out of me:

The Thing

Nightmare on Elm Street (before Freddy became a scarred up Don Rickles)

The Shining -The twins and that dead chick in the bath tub are horrifying. Although the scariest thing in the movie is probably Shelly Duvall. I think if Jack had succeeded with her it may have been justifiable homicide.

Mausoleum - Low budget horror flick where a nice looking lady changes back and forth into a rotting corpse. Similar to the chick in the tub in The Shining. Had the curly-headed guy from the old Newhart show. Very gory and maudlin.

Prince of Darkness - Devil movies always creep me out. It didn't help that I watched this out my house alone while my family was at the hospital with my grandfather who had a stroke. Very unsettling!

Hellraiser - Pretty disturbing.

WOZ's witch and flying monkeys scared me somewhat, but I made it through them every year. I think because my family watched it together helped. My 3-year old daughter requested to watch it just the other night! Brave girl.

I have never sat through the Exorcist all the way. Don't plan to. Brrrr.

Chris

4NDR01D

Oct 22, '11, 5:43 PM

The Changling. Still scares me. George C Scott is always fantastic.

kennermike

Oct 22, '11, 7:14 PM

Mikey the Motion Picture in 3D scared the hell out me!

kingdom warrior

Oct 22, '11, 8:11 PM

Freaked out by Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein at age 3 or 4 and didn't watch horror movies at all for the next 5 or 6 years.

The scene when Talbot changes in the room scared me as a kid. when lou went into the room I went nuts.......:smiley1:

johnmiic

Oct 22, '11, 8:46 PM

There's a TV series called A Haunting which has re-enactments of alleged true ghost stories/possessions. Some of those episodes are damn scary. The show has been cancelled for a few years but is still hugely popular.

SoMuchFun!

Oct 23, '11, 7:53 AM

The House by The Cemetary.

I should never have been watching this at the age i did.

The Fulci film? The one with the Nazi zombie doctor and the eerie storefront mannequins? This one horrified me as a kid! I recently was able to find it on dvd double-billed with another Italian film about a crazy woman that keeps her lover's severed head in a closet in her bedroom!<?

These all terrified me back then, and many still do today:

Night of the Living Dead
The Shining
Island of Dr. Moreau
Tourist Trap
Amityville Horror
Zombie
Texas Chainsaw
Bigfoot movie that I just cant remember
Creepshow
Last Man on Earth
Something or other about the ghost of a scarecrow! Sooo creepy!
House of Wax
Too many Twilight Zones to mention!

Perfect time of year for these, for sure!

z3zep

Oct 23, '11, 5:21 PM

No particular order

The Omen
The Shinning
Friday the 13th (original)
Halloween
Jaws
Rosemary's Baby
Alien

The crawling eye (when I was really young)

HumanWolfman

Oct 23, '11, 6:37 PM

Dark Shadows TV show gave me nightmares when I 6-7 yrs old. I always came back for more too! I never was really bright.

enyawd72

Oct 23, '11, 10:34 PM

I only went to the movies a couple times as a kid, but I vividly remember some on TV that scared the crap outta me...Salem's Lot, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Mummy with Christopher Lee, and the Shining.

wolfie

Oct 24, '11, 5:24 AM

The Changling. Still scares me. George C Scott is always fantastic.

I agree with this one, it sends shudders through me at certain points, the ball bouncing down the stairs for example.:terror:

Mikey

Oct 24, '11, 9:20 AM

Back in the 70's (esecially in the early-mid 70's) it seems devil worship was really big in movies and TV shows.

I kind of forgot that until I recently watched an old episode of Starsky and Hutch.

For me, devil worship and devil worshippers are always kind of scary in the back of my mind because of growing up in this era.

Also, if you older guys will remember there was open devil worshippers in real life so that fact made movies even more scary becauce you couldn't say "oh that's not real"

The 70's were a freaky time and not always good-freaky

ctc

Oct 24, '11, 9:42 AM

>Back in the 70's (esecially in the early-mid 70's) it seems devil worship was really big in movies and TV shows.

Yup. "Theological horror" is one of them things that comes around every so often. It's not a coincidence that DC had so many horror comics then, and Marvel had their monster mags, and the Warren stuff, and even:

Stupid Comics (http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics283.html)

Weird.

Anyhoo; when you're surrounded by that sort of thing it has an effect on your perceptions, and tastes. That's one reason remakes seldom have anything near the impact of the original: the originals are products of a time that primed the audience for them, adding to them being a hit. Tying into another thread; one of the reasons "The Exorcist" isn't as scary to modern audiences as it was to the original audience is 'cos a modern one isn't "prepped" for it like folks were back in the day. Which isn't an assessment on the quality of movie, people, society, whatever.... (folks aren't any more jaded overall nowadays than ever) it's an observation of why things are different. (Even the effects not being up to the modern CGI/masktacular level of a modern film isn't the prime reason: think how many folks were scared by "The Blaie Witch;" a film with NO effects.)

Don C.

Goblin19

Oct 24, '11, 1:05 PM

Forgot about The Changeling. That one got me as a kid, too.

kennermike

Oct 24, '11, 3:35 PM

Poltergeist scared the hell outta me !

SoMuchFun!

Oct 24, '11, 5:56 PM

Poltergeist scared the hell outta me !

Me too!! Didnt help matters that I had a rubber faced clown doll at the time! :terror:

The recent movie Paranormal Activity 3 ripped off the creepy moving furniture scene from Poltergeist, dont wanna reveal anything more for those that havent seen it!

Dark Shadow

Oct 24, '11, 6:57 PM

I'm one of those (too) who doesn't really get scared by horror movies, not even way back. Helter Skelter was the only movie I saw in my youth that I can remember being disturbed by.

As for fictional movies, the scariest experience I can remember followed my 2nd or 3rd viewing of "It's Alive". It wasn't the movie itself, but what happened afterward. (I watched it on cable...The "Z" Channel). After it was over, my Mom asked me to carry something over to the lady across the street, it was about 7:30 at night and it was dark & cold. We had a 4 foot high hedge that bordered the length of our south property line.

While walking over to the other house I heard some rustling coming out from under the hedge, which wasn't that unusual, and I laughed to myself and thought, "Ooooo..."It's" going to get me". On my way back, when I was parallel again with our hedge, there was a sudden shrieking screech that sent chills running through me. Two cats were fighting it out under the bushes and one of them hit & sustained that god-awful ascending pitch that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck. I remember picking up my pace, laughing out loud, and thinking, "That's what I get for laughing at little devil babies!"

Earth 2 Chris

Oct 24, '11, 7:38 PM

^Cool story. I have a similar one, but it involves my mom.

It was around Halloween, and I was spending the night at my friends' house up the street. My sister and her boyfriend were watching the original "Halloween" and my dad was out of town. My mom went outside to feed our dog, and someone ran past her in our backyard and on past into the lot behind it. My mom figured it was my sister's boyfriend so after nearly jumping out of her skin, she cursed after him. She came inside and gave him hell for scaring her. He swore he didn't do it.

The next day when I got home, she blamed it on me and my friends. We also swore to our innocence. Later that day she heard that a man had robbed a gas station at knife-point a few blocks over, and had escaped by running across backyards for several miles!

I can't watch "Halloween" without thinking of that story!

Chris