What movies scared you (as a kid) ?

[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

[4NDR01D]

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

[kennermike]

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

[kingdom warrior]

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.......

[johnmiic]

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!]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Mikey]

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]

>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

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]

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

[kennermike]

Poltergeist scared the hell outta me !

[SoMuchFun!]

Poltergeist scared the hell outta me !

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

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!