What movies scared you (as a kid) ?

[kennermike]

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

[4NDR01D]

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

[Earth 2 Chris]

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

[Hector]

Best vampire movie ever made, IMO.

Definitely the scariest for sure.

[Hector]

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

Nah...I was already 20 years old...

[torgospizza]

Nosferatu 1922

Best vampire movie ever made, IMO.

[Figuremod73]

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

[thunderbolt]

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

Island of Terror (1966) - IMDb

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.

[Brazoo]

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

[Goblin19]

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

[starsky]

jaws!!

[Hector]

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

[RickD]

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.

[ctc]

>A LOWWWW budget horror film titled Equinox.

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

Don C.

[DocDrako]

The Exorcist
Tourist Trap (odd B-movie)
Poltergeist