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Post by llorona on Jun 14, 2012 12:57:27 GMT -5
I didn't sleep most of the night after watching the Gremlin portion of "Twilight Zone: The Movie". I just kept imagining that thing tapping on my window.
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maarow
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Post by maarow on Jun 14, 2012 15:53:27 GMT -5
There was a 5-second clip of The Wolfman shown on an episode of Full House that scared the hell out of me. And I think any kid growing up in the '90s was freaked out by Zeke the plumber on a Halloween episode of Salute Your Shorts.
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Post by davidgriffiths on Jul 9, 2012 11:35:35 GMT -5
There's a film called 'The Changeling' starring George C Scott which I thought was terrifying when I was 10! It still holds up today as an OK (if derivitive) film.
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Post by jamtomorrow on Jul 9, 2012 17:26:07 GMT -5
I'll have to give some thought to scary stuff on tv, but at the cinema it was the first movie that my friends and I successfully got in to see underage: Nightmare on Elm Street. We entered the theatre buoyed up on an intense feeling of triumph; we had beaten the system; we had accessed hidden knowledge; we were men. Then the film started, and it scared the shit out of me. I actually found myself wishing that I was at home. One of my friends spilled his coke, and he later told me that for some time he thought that he'd pissed himself. The next day we told our schoolmates that we had withstood the greatest psychological torment ever committed to celluloid, and we enjoyed the sincere respect of our peers. Years passed. A Nightmare on Elm Street was released on VHS. A portentous night-time gathering was arranged for a domestic viewing. Dozens were invited; alcohol was acquired. I steeled myself to confront again again horrors that had lurked in the darkest recesses of my consciousness. I had several serious conversations with people that I felt might lack the necessary moral fibre, urging them to reconsider their decision to submit themselves to this quintessence of terror. The night came, we gathered, the lights turned off, and a shaking hand slid in the tape. Ninety minutes later the lights came on, and the general opinion was that the movie had some cool moments, but as regards a genuinely terrifying experience, it was one of the lamest piles of crap that had ever dared attempt to step up to the mark. And the srange thing was, I felt so too. Some unkind folks suggested that we, the pioneers that had seen it at the cinema, were at best dissemblers, and at worst closet homosexuals. There's a moral in there somewhere, and possibly more than one.
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bigmac
Revolting Revenant
You mean the movie lied!?!?!?
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Post by bigmac on Jul 9, 2012 21:04:12 GMT -5
"awful Maximum Overdrive" YDDY you spelt awesome wrong My degree's in English. Pretty sure I got it right. Nope, you spelled awesome wrong... ;D For me, it was the original Invaders from Mars. I saw it when I was about three, in my Grandmother's basement, when I was three. And no, I'm not talking the Tobe Hooper abomination, but the original. In fact, as I mentioned in a much earlier feedback episode, I have yet to see the film again, for fear of ruining my childhood memories of swirling quicksand, mind controlling alien probes and a young boy who no one will believe. Oh, and thanks to this thread, I'm feeling SOOOOOO OLD. Most of the movies mentioned I saw, in the theaters, upon first release, in my mid to late 20s. That includes Evil Dead 2! Oh well. At least being old beats the alternative.... Yep, there are no horror movies in Heaven. And Hell won't let me watch anything other than the Twilight Saga.
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Post by bootdaripper on Jul 28, 2012 14:42:32 GMT -5
Back in the early sixties I used to scan the TV Guide and circle all the horror movies I wanted to make sure I watched. Back then they listed them as Melodramas. The first films that scared me bad had to be The Tingler- when the mute wife was being terrorized with the hand rising out of the bathtub filled with blood. I also remember the scenes in Hush-Hush Sweet Charlotte when her Beau was chopped with an axe, and when the head comes rolling down the stairs. Gave me nightmares for a long time I tell ya- Then of course The Brain-Eaters. Just the title gave me the creeps-
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OgreVI
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Post by OgreVI on Aug 1, 2012 0:42:37 GMT -5
It's Alive, definitely. It wasn't even the movie. It was a commercial for the movie. It was just a basinet in a dark room, with a voiceover talking about "the Davies' new baby" as the camera slowly circled around. At the end of the ad the voice said something ominous (I don't remember what) and suddenly the camera moved far enough to see a clawed hand hanging over the edge of the basinet and the monster let out this high scream. And then I started screaming and could not stop. Once Mama finally calmed me down she called the TV station and ripped them a new asshole. I just checked IMDb, and the movie came out in 1974, so I would have been three years old. But man, I still remember it. No actual movie has scared me so bad since, and I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch It's Alive.
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Post by rotteninbirth on Aug 1, 2012 1:09:40 GMT -5
inside aka la enteur
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Post by patientzero on Aug 9, 2012 18:17:35 GMT -5
Pet Semetary scared me as a child and an adult, but for different reasons. When I was a kid Zelda creeped me out and I wouldn't watch any scenes with her in it. As an adult I watched it on tv after spending an evening w/ friends whose young son was about the age of Gage in the movie (has blonde hair too). So I was on edge during the scene where Gage wanders in front of the truck.
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Post by yddy on Aug 9, 2012 20:09:49 GMT -5
The scene with Gage made me refuse to watch it all the way through until years after I read the book. I actually have only seen it all the way through once.
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Post by cdb on Aug 10, 2012 12:58:58 GMT -5
When I was a kid Zelda creeped me out and I wouldn't watch any scenes with her in it. Me too. If it was on, I'd leave when her parts came up. That voice of hers saying, "Rachel..." still creeps me out. She just looked evil. I read the book way after I saw the movie, and I think you can tell King was scaring himself in certain parts. Damn good book.
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Post by patientzero on Aug 10, 2012 18:36:19 GMT -5
I've had the book for years but have yet to read it. Been meaning to though. The actor who played Zelda (actually a man) was at a convention I attended a few years back. I wanted to go off on him for scaring me as a kid, but considering it was a scary movie I chalked it up to him just doing his job and let it go.
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Post by D34DT0Y on Sept 8, 2012 7:26:53 GMT -5
The opening sequence of Creature Feature (before the movie started). Once the movie started I was fine, but I remember closing my eyes and plugging my ears when that opening sequence started. Weird, I know.
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bigmac
Revolting Revenant
You mean the movie lied!?!?!?
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Post by bigmac on Sept 8, 2012 17:49:07 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? Shady, that's the reason I haven't watch my childhood scary movie, the original Invaders from Mars, since I was a three year old kid in my grandmother's basement. I was so freaked out by that film back then, and I'm afraid I won't have the same affection for it, as a memory, as I will if I ever saw it again. Someday, I'll have to buck up and watch it again. But for now, in my mind, it's the scariest movie EVER MADE! 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. For some reason, I started at the beginning of the thread and read this. Yddy, I would love a picture of that truck! And, truth be told, if I ever saw a Green Goblin truck, I don't think I'd die. But I would need to change my underwear. ;D
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ilnino
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Post by ilnino on Sept 9, 2012 5:12:46 GMT -5
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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