Movies that freaked you out as a kid...

[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!

[Earth 2 Chris]

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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]

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.

[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!

[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.

[Adam West]

At a really young age the Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang always scared me. I saw Jaws around age 11 and had nightmares for weeks. I still won't go swimming in the ocean. The very low budget "The Legend of Bogey Creek" also freaked me out. Anyone remember that one? It was one of the first movies about Bigfoot. I think there was even a sequel to it which starred Dawn Wells (Maryann of Gilligan's Island).

That childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang always scared me at a really young age as well. I can still remember that he always gave me the heebie geebies...he still looks kind of creepy.

When I was about 8 or so I watched Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and that blew me away because it was the first true horror film I ever watched if it is even classified as such.

But hands down, the winner is Carrie. I must have been 12 and my parents let me stay up late one weekend and watch it. The end of the movie, especially the hand coming out of the grave freaked me out so much that I did not sleep the entire night.

[Donkey Hoatie]

This will sound weird . . .

The first movie I ever remember really freaking me out was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when I was about 7 or so. I remember being really scared when the kids got sucked into those glass tube/elevator things. I still haven't seen the movie in its entirety to this day. Of course, that's mostly because I have no desire to see it, rather than the fear issue.

I also remember getting a little freaked out by the whole face-peeling scene in Poltergeist.

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.

[z3zep]

My brothers are 7 and 10 years older than me, but I used to watch scary movies with them all the time on TV..... Here are a few that I can remember

The Wizard of Oz -- the Wicked Witch and the Flying Monkeys
Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers) -- Silas Barnaby and the Bogeymen
The crawling eye -- decapitation
The birds

Later:
Jaws
The Omen -- I didn't see the Exorcist as a child
When a Stranger Calls
Friday the 13th -- first slasher movie that I saw

[mitchedwards]

Found the trailer for scanners. Still weirds me out.

YouTube - Scanners (1981) - trailer

[Shanester]

2 movies did me in and unfairly to boot. Why unfairly? Well, because I would sometimes just sit down and start watching a show, not really knowing what was on. If it caught my interest, I would keep watch. These two movies scare the heck outta me on Sunday mornings back in the late 70's, early 80's.

1. Gargoyles. Kinda silly by todays movie standards, but the part where gargoyles peer over a guys bed, still gives me chills.

2. Salems Lot. I started watching this movie with a cousin and had no idea what I was in for. Spooked the hell outta me.

[English Paul]

Salems lot - I was just too young to watch it really. I had videoed it and a few of my mates came around the following day to watch it. If I had been on my own I would have turned it off but peer pressure meant I had to sit through it. My bed faced the window in my bedroom so the kid at the window scared me silly.

I have tried to watch it since and last time got to where they were putting the crates in the cellar and had to turn it off, although just recently I got in from the pub and it was on and so watched the last 20 minutes or so but I still haven't seen the window scene since all those years ago.

The Exterminator was another, but that was more violence which at the time I didn't realy understand.

The only other that sticks out is a film called `The Burning`. It was about some school caretaker guy who was set alight in his shed by some pupils and took his revenge with his garden shears - they called him Cropsy. I actually made the excuse that my tea was ready and left as I didn't enjoy it at all.

[peter cloet]

When I was young I was scared and got a nightmare of the first James Bond Movie Dr. no. The scene that was so scary was the one with the spider crawling up under the bedsheet when Sean Connery was laying in his bed; That was so frightening.

PS. I was only 7-8 years old.

[Mikey]

Call me crazy, but I used to think this guy was really scary



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[thunderbolt]

I think it was called Isle of the Damned. Monsters that sucked the bones out of people.

[misterdroid]

The movies that freaked me out were several... My dad liked horror/ sci-fi and I have no idea why he thought it would be a good idea to drag me along (other than no baby sitter)
Alien- scared the crap out of me... however learned to embrace the horror when I saw the big Kenner Alien in toy stores...
Body Snatchers (remake)-that Donald Sutherland pointing and howling bit STILL sort of creeps me out.
Jaws- not for young children that enjoy swimming... that's all I'm saying
The Deep- diver eaten by eel... see above
Saturn 3-crazy biomech-robot stomps on tiny dog... nuff said

And two movies he had me watch on television and don't remember the titles of (nor does anyone I ask about them, if you know these films, PLEASE post!)

1) 70's era guy searching for missing daughter, climax, he thinks he finds her in the yellow rain slicker she went missing in inside a church. Guy approaches kid, kid turns and is a murderous dwarf with a meat cleaver.
2) 70's era guy builds computer, computer is crazy, takes over home and forces couple to build some sort of incubator. Produces creepy scaley child. Couple cleans off scales and washes kid to find a normal child. Climax, child speaks in creepy computer voice.

as an aside, judging by your name and location and pic are you IN the band November's Doom? If so, that just makes this thread funnier.