Movies that freaked you out as a kid...

[Shanester]

Found the trailer for scanners. Still weirds me out.

YouTube - Scanners (1981) - trailer

Hey Mitch, according to Fangoria magazine, there is a Scanners remake in the works.

[Vortigern99]

Also, I remember being 10 and my friend had just gotten a VHS (this would have been 1981 or so) and his older brother had rented the movie The Sword and Sorceror. There's a scene at the beginning with a bunch of bloody/gory heads that creeped me out and then later there's a scene where some guys pulls the nails out after he's been essentially crucified. Both of those scense made me feel really nauseous.

Awesome. S & S is one of my favorite movies! In 1982 it had a profound effect on my 12-year-old mind. The other night I showed it on DVD to my friends and my wife, none of whom had seen it before. We laughed until we cried; this movie is a crowd-pleasing cheeseball masterpiece. But it is by far THE GORIEST and SCARIEST of all the 80s fantasy films, beating even CONAN the BARBARIAN in terms of blood and gruesomeness. Glad to know it creeped out other children back in the day!

[Vortigern99]

Phantasm!!!-The tall man scared the crap outta me.

Time for a shameless plug: I inked the first two issues of the PHANTASM comic book, which will soon be available online. Written by my good friend, horror screenwriter Stephen Romano in partnership with PHANTASM creator Don Coscarelli!!!!! Okay, back to your regularly-scheduled thread.

BTW, I've met and hung out with both Don and also The Tall Man, Angus Scrimm (real name Rory Calhoun), who is as fine an Old-World gentleman as you can imagine.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Time for a shameless plug: I inked the first two issues of the PHANTASM comic book, which will soon be available online. Written by my good friend, horror screenwriter Stephen Romano in partnership with PHANTASM creator Don Coscarelli!!!!! Okay, back to your regularly-scheduled thread.

Wow that's really cool! Congrats!

Now, a confession. I was a very sheltered child. I used to hide my face every time a horror movie commercial came on. So I have to admit the first movie that freaked me out was...Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Yep. That one. When Lon Chaney Jr changed into the Wolfman, I freaked. My grandfather was a HUGE A & C fan and was over to watch the movie (his TV was in the repair shop). His old school thinking couldn't understand why that scared me so bad, but it did. I had nightmares about werewolves for years.

Chris

[Vortigern99]

Zowie. By the time I saw the Abbot and Cosetello classics, when I was 10 or 11, I had already seen all the Lugosi and Karloff pictures, and I thought those old monsters were kinda silly by then.

But, yeah, werewolves in general scared me then, and still kinda creep me out if I let myself think about them too long. When I was 12-13, after seeing American Werewolf in the theater, I was afraid to take the trash out at night for irrational fear of being attacked by hairy, slavering creatures I knew didn't exist!