Your favorite/scariest horror movie moments growing up

[Mikey]

The other thread inspired this one .......

Growing up, what movies and particular scenes scared the p__ out of you ?

My top 5 (in no order)

1. War of the Gargantuas --- The Green one eating the girl

2. Little Shop of Horrors (original) --- scared the p__ out of me as a kid

3. Any Gamera movie --- have no idea why but Daiei monsters scared me

4. War of the Colossal Beast --- his scary skull face

5. From Hell it Came --- I have no idea why this B junker used to terrify me

[ShadowAvenger]

The ending of Race With The Devil really creeped me out.

[enyawd72]

1979 was the year for me...I remember seeing Dracula with Frank Langella...the scene where he climbs face down to Mina's window, and the scene in the mines where Mina attacks her "Papa..." *shudder*

The other one that year was Salem's Lot...I ran screaming out of the living room when Ralphie Glick came floating up to the window...and when they finally showed Barlowe...I'm pretty sure that caused a pee stain somewhere.

[drquest]

The other one that year was Salem's Lot...I ran screaming out of the living room when Ralphie Glick came floating up to the window...and when they finally showed Barlowe...I'm pretty sure that caused a pee stain somewhere.

+1 on Salem's Lot, that's the exact scene I was going to mention.

[jimsmegos]

+1 on Salem's Lot, that's the exact scene I was going to mention.

Make that +2... Even as an adult I shudder when I think of that one scene.

[Brazoo]

I was scared a lot as a kid, but these moments are pretty memorable to me:

Jaws - Dreyuss scuba diving under the boat and the dead body pops out, his eyeball falls out, I couldn't finish the movie after that.

The Island - with michael caine, I recall a part where a little kid is tied up and his eye lids are pinned open, that really got to me.

Cujo - the little dehydrated kid has a sezuire and his eyeballs roll back into his head - don't ask me why, but that really got to me. I guess I had a thing with eyeballs.

Poltergeist - the camera dude eats the maggot chicken and then tears his face off.

The Exorcist and The Day After probably tie for spot #1. Too many scenes in both of those were way too much for me. I couldn't even watch those movies through until years later. I had a Mad Magazine with a parody of The Exorcist and I used to keep it at the bottom of my magazine pile.

A year or two later I loved horror movies and read Fangoria - go figure.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I was a weinie, plain and simple, as evidenced by my first freak-out moment in a movie:

Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein: When Larry Talbot changes into the Wolfman in the first few minutes of the movie, I flipped out. I didn't watch another horror film until:

John Carpenter's The Thing: Yes, I went from A&C Meets Frank straight to THIS, thanks to my braver friends renting it and peer-pressuring me into watching it. The scene where the guys head sprouts spider legs is still etched in my brain. The scenes with the possessed dogs also disturbed me greatly.

Mausoleum: This was a low-budget renter, from the 70s I think. This attractive woman keeps changing back and forth into a decaying corpse. It was very unsettling to me for some reason. The curly-headed guy from Bob Newhart was in it.

The Shining: In a similar vein, the old nasty chick in the bathtub scared the beejeezus out of me.

Prince of Darkness: John Carpeneter strikes again. I didn't help that I watched this one at home by myself as a young teenager. The ending was VERY disturbing.

Chris

[madmarva]

Scariest as a kid
1. Exorcist - I didn't actually watch the film until I saw it on HBO in college, but I overheard (eavesdropped) my brother, who saw it in the theaters, describe it to my mom, which was probably worse than seeing it because my 5-year-old imagination took over. I also heard a sermon in church where the film was referenced and that made it even worse. If it was just make believe, why were people talking about it at church? I'd run out of the room when a TV commercial advertising it would play. And no, the movie wasn't as scary as my imagination had built it up to be, but I still don't like horror films themed around demon possession.

2. Jaws - I think the reactions of people in the theater scared me more than the film, lol. Remains one of my favorite movies. The scene where Quint describes the shark attack from WWII is one of the best ever committed to film, imo.

3. The Night Gallery movie with the little Tikkii or vodoo doll.

4. While I know it's totally not scary at all, the vampire episode/TV movie of Nightstalker shook me up as a kid.

5. Every Saturday Mr. Spock would freak me out with a new conspiracy theory on "In Search Of'" but I couldn't not watch it.

Favorite As a Kid
1. Wolfman
2. Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
3. Bride of Frankenstein
4. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
5. PBS version of Dracula

Favorites Now:
1. Jaws
2. Silence of the Lambs
3. Bride of Frankenstein
4. American Werewolf in London
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

[Hedji]

Plus one on Salem's Lot. That thing freaked me out for months, perhaps more. Because of those scenes of the Glick Boys coming to the window, I could not sleep facing my bedroom window. The black light glow Christopher Lee Dracula poster (from Dynamite Magazine) on my wall didn't help.

Salem's lot was just unbelievable that they showed it on television. To actually show boys my age being abducted, killed, and then turn into Vampires after their funerals... Man, they never show kids getting hurt in horror, but this one did. Also the guy in the rocking chair saying "Look at me!!!" My sister and I had our hands over our eyes. Last thing we wanted to do was "look at him"!

Also the "Papa" scene with Mina in Dracula (79) got me too.

Of course today, I love these films.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^I didn't see Langella's Dracula until the mid 80s, but yes, that scene is chilling. The most frightening scene in any Dracula film, I think.

Chris