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Post by shadymoon on Jun 13, 2012 12:45:41 GMT -5
For me it would have to be the first Critters movie.
I was five years old and I was left at home with a babysitter.
I wasn't being a good girl and to get me to shut up she turned it to that movie. I couldn't sleep for weeks after watching it.
It scared me so bad, and now that I look back on it and watch it I have to wonder to myself why? They aren't that scary now, they are very very amusing if you ask me.
Oh yeah and also from what my mother told me, the babysitter got into big trouble after I apparently told mom what she made me watch.
But what movies from your childhood really stick out?
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Post by Asmodeus on Jun 13, 2012 12:55:43 GMT -5
Evil Dead 2. I know it was suppose to be a comedy horror but it was the first horror movie I saw and it scared the living shit out of me. I didn't get any humor at all in it at the time.
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Post by bloodblack on Jun 13, 2012 15:15:06 GMT -5
Richard Helpmann <shudder> in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - "There are children here somewhere. I can smell them."
Oh, and more terrifying than the bear, more terrifying than the foot stamping dwarf was - that freaky FISH in The Singing Ringing Tree.
And I had a Maggie Simpson-like terror not of being rocked a la rock-a-bye-baby but of puddles a la Doctor Foster!
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Post by hammerhead on Jun 13, 2012 15:32:46 GMT -5
The two movies that scared me most as a child were The Dark Crystal and Time Bandits. People always look askance at me when I say that, but then I was way too young when I saw Time Bandits, and when you sleep facing your closet, imagining God's black, flame-ringed face emerging from it is pretty daunting.
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yddy
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Post by yddy on Jun 13, 2012 16:24:30 GMT -5
It's interesting that one of my all-time favorite horror movies was one that scared me so bad I couldn't watch it for years. But I found Nightmare on Elm Street that fricken scary.
But the movie that still gives me recurring nightmares to this day is the awful Maximum Overdrive. I am so freaked out by the thought of machines run amok. Worse, there is a semi that drives through the Midwestern US that has a face on the front of it. I've seen it in St. Louis, Kansas City and Austin, and every time I nearly wrecked my car. If I ever saw the Green Goblin truck, I'd probably die of fright.
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Post by maffy on Jun 13, 2012 17:55:39 GMT -5
Yeah, that childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was pure evil. I've been watching it a lot with my 3 year old daughter recently but I seem to be more scared of him than she is - times change I guess! The Singing Ringing Tree was really creepy - was that ever shown outside of Europe? There was so much creepy TV in Britain back then, we really were spoiled.
The movie which scared me was the 1979 Salem's Lot. That moment when Mr Barlow pops his head up in the jail cell nearly gave me a heart attack. I seem to remember not being able to sleep very well after seeing The Amityville Horror too.
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Post by junkyard on Jun 13, 2012 18:21:13 GMT -5
I ran out of the cinema during the wizard of oz because of the witch/woman in the black and white sequence. My gran had to come out and talk me into going back in. Lets scare Jessica to death really creeped me out as a child.
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Post by junkyard on Jun 13, 2012 18:23:01 GMT -5
"awful Maximum Overdrive" YDDY you spelt awesome wrong
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Post by junkyard on Jun 13, 2012 18:24:23 GMT -5
Maffy 79s salems lot also freaked me out but it was the brother at the window scene that did it for me
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Post by ilnino on Jun 13, 2012 19:33:52 GMT -5
I always remember late 80's getting my hands on evil dead and watching it, mid day on my own.. my mum was in the kitchen and I kept making excuses to go into kitchen (get a drink etc..) cause I was scared shitless. Though Ghostwatch on BBC whatever halloween night it was... fucking destroyed me. I went to bed and wouldnt even get up to go to the toilet after, I curled into the corner of my bed and didnt move all night and I was busting to go too
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Post by yddy on Jun 13, 2012 20:59:38 GMT -5
"awful Maximum Overdrive" YDDY you spelt awesome wrong My degree's in English. Pretty sure I got it right.
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Post by xtrialbyfirex on Jun 13, 2012 22:28:59 GMT -5
When I was a kid the 2-part Punky Brewster Halloween special absolutely terrified me. I've never been that scared of anything in my entire life. I was sweating bullets the whole time and thought I was going to die...I can't remember what happened in it but I think it involved over-sized fuzzy spiders and webs made of silly string.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory and Cat's Eye absolutely scared the shit out of me...
The only other movie I remember scaring me really bad was something where this girl had a monster or something living in her basement (or in another dimension or something, I can't remember). She had to keep running through a maze while the monster chased me and turn a key or something to lock the monster away. Does anyone know what I am talking about? It might have been a made-for-tv movie, but it scared me pretty bad.
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Post by junkyard on Jun 14, 2012 3:50:56 GMT -5
"My degree's in English" yddy you spelt spanglish incorrectly
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Post by yddy on Jun 14, 2012 9:57:29 GMT -5
I espelled it bueno.
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Post by Erutaron on Jun 14, 2012 9:58:03 GMT -5
"Watcher in the Woods"...yes, the cheesy Disney fright flick from 1980. I was 13, and it hit just the right nerve to scare the heck out of me at the time!
- Tim
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