As A Child... This Movie Frightened The Bejeebus Out Of Me

[arwalden]

Especially the "great and powerful" green wizard head... and the flying monkeys. It also frightened me when Dorothy was looking in the crystal ball and calling out to Aunt Em, only to have the Wicked Witch appear instead.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. I think I was frightened the first time....

...but I lost all fear when I found out she could be taken out by a bucket of water.

(Which begs the question: Was she green because she never bathed?)

[CO Liberal]

2. Technically, The Witch Did Not Melt

Melting is cause by the application of heat.

She was dissolved...........

(Guess you can tell I'm a technical writer. :-) )

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. active voice!!!!

The water dissolved the witch.


Can you guess that I'm a technical editor?

[CO Liberal]

18. It Depends On Which is More Important

The doer or the receiver of the action. In this case, the witch (receiver of teh action) is more important than the water (doer) - that's why I used the passive tense.

:-)

[arwalden]

8. But The Witch Said "I'm Melting, I'm Melting"

I place the blame squarely on the Wicked Witch for misleading us like that!

-- Allen

[rock]

13. From dictionary.com

melt Audio pronunciation of melt ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mlt)
v. melt·ed, melt·ing, melts
v. intr.

1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
2. To dissolve: Sugar melts in water.
3. To disappear or vanish gradually as if by dissolving: The crowd melted away after the rally.
4. To pass or merge imperceptibly into something else: Sea melted into sky along the horizon.
5. To become softened in feeling: Our hearts melted at the child's tears.
6. Obsolete. To be overcome or crushed, as by grief, dismay, or fear.


Pay close attention to #2

On edit: so I can't type good

[Boudicea]

43. If you slo-mo through the first appearance of the wicked witch ...

you can totally see the trap door. (on VHS, not sure if it works on DVD)

[ant]

7. it was a skin condition

She suffered greatly for it.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060987103/002-0762614-7661627?v=glance&vi=reviews

[MuseRider]

4. Oh what

a world, what a world.

[chemenger]

5. That's Nuttin'!

The movie that scared the bejeebus out of me when I was a kid was "The Blob", starring a young Steve McQueen. Still won't watch it or the remake.

ON EDIT: I ran out of our neighborhood theatre Saturday afternoon during the sceen where they took the old man (whose arm was being eaten(?) by the blob) to the doctor and left him there. Then the doctor got sucked up (in?).

The movie that scared the bejeebus out of me as an adult was John Carpenter's "The Thing." Can only watch it in doses. IMHO, one of the most intensly scary movies ever!

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. The Pit and the Pendulum

The Masque of Red Death

Saw them both when I was but a wee 4 year old. My Mom loved (still loves) the Corman Poe Adaptations and they were scheduled into our childhood TV schedule whenever they showed up on UHF creature double feature.

on edit: removed a K

[5thGenDemocrat]

33. OMG -- The Pit and the Pendulum

When the big blade starts swinging over the guy's guts? Man, I think there's still a seat at the Court Theater too soiled to ever come clean. I thought I was the only one -- good to see I'm not. Nowadays, horror movies tend to be more bloody than actually scary. Vincent Price and Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were all masters of the genre. Couldn't beat them for scaring the hell out of eight year olds then, and I suspect they'd still scare your little tykes today.
John
Oh, the old Outer Limits TV show gave me the heebie-jeebies, too. But nothing like The Pit and the Pendulum.

[arwalden]

21. Yes! The BLOB Also Scared Me As A Child

... I was going to mention just now... but you beat me to it.

I think that one frightened me so much because I realized that I wasn't safe ANYWHERE AT ALL. Even in my own bedroom, with the door closed and locked... that BLOB could slip in UNDER the door.

The special effects in the BLOB look cheesy when I watch it now. The miniatures look like miniatures... but to a child's eye, it was REAL!

-- Allen

[Buck Turgidson]

34. Double Feature (1958): The Blob and The Fly

"Help, me. Help, meeeee!"

*shudder*

[cherryperry]

46. Oh, My Straight Stars, Allen:

You still ARE a child!!!

[markbark]

26. Dunno if 17 qualifies as a "kid"

...but the first "Alien" movie gave me the willies.

Space truckers dealing with the interstallar version of a parasitic wasp.
:scared:

If you REALLY wan sleepless nights, read the book by Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shuset.

The other movies in the tetrology defanged the creatures.
(It was intimated in the first movie that these things needed no queen)

In the second movie, the space marines said "Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure" whilst the space truckers had to make do with a cattle prod and a flame thrower.

I shan't mention the third and fourth movies on the grounds that they're too silly. :)


-MAB

[chemenger]

30. I remember skimming through the book.

Didn't they hint that the Aliens either had a civilization at some point in time or were worshipped by some past civilization?

[ronnykmarshall]

32. The love The Blob!

Scared the crap out of me, but I loved it.

[mac56]

6. The bit that always bothered me:

Dorothy is surprised that Glinda is a witch, because she thinks all witches are ugly. Glinda replies, "No, only bad witches are ugly."

But then she asks Dorothy: "Are you a good witch - or a bad witch?"

Seems to me she's telling Dorothy, "I can't decide whether you're ugly or not."

[arwalden]

10. And Then The Ditzy Glenda Asks "Did You Bring Your Broomstick"

... after we've ALREADY determined that Dorthy is not a witch.

-- Allen

[mac56]

12. LOL!

Glinda may have had ADD.

[Liberal Veteran]

14. And was Glinda hiding a broomstick somewhere?

Glinda flew around in a bubble, not a broom. So was she still trying to imply that Dorothy was evil?

[ronnykmarshall]

31. Another outlook

I think that Glinda responce represented her own caution at the appearence of Dorthy Gale. Ms Gale could have simply been staging a coup against the WWoE (Wicked Witch of the East) in order promote her OWN fasicist agenda. Glinda, being a protector the people of Muchkinland was wise in her judgement.

[arwalden]

55. You're Definitely One Of A Kind...

... and clearly you watch too much cable-news! LOL. :-)

[trof]

11. OK, did you ever do this when you were 5 or 6?

When the scarey part came, jump down out of your seat, turn around, kneel down, and bury your head in the seat?
I did.
"Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein"
Scared my tiny ass off.

[cherryperry]

47. OK, I tried that once, but

found my head buried in a 7-up, chocolate, Eskimo Pie sort of remains mixture and that traumatized me more than any of the damn movies!

[mrbill]

15. "the village of the damned"

those kids had spooky eyes. brickwall.

even liked the remake.

[mac56]

17. That creeped me out too.

And I only saw the posters for it.

[cherryperry]

20. oooooooh, yeah, I love that one!

How about 'The Tingler'?


:scared:

[ClintonTyree]

23. They..............

rigged some movie theaters in Hollywood to have vibrating chair backs which at a specific moment when the "tingler" was missing , to simulate the "tingler" attaching itself to your spine. It was too expensive to do it at theaters across the nation. What a hoot. Those WERE the golden years of cinema.

[cherryperry]

50. Yes, we had that @ The Grand Lakes Theater in Oakland, CA

eom

[qb]

16. I'm a horror movie fan, but those flying monkeys still freak me out!

[MissMillie]

19. My son

used to walk up to the TV and "hit" the witch. Isn't that a gas?

[ClintonTyree]

22. The wizard..............

never scared me that much, although it DID instill a fascination with tornados. I'm one of those nuts that goes strom chasing LOOKING for the damned things. As far as movies that scared me, "The Attack of the Killer Shrews", did that. It's quite comical now, they dressed wild pigs (I know, they look NOTHING like shrews) up and these supposed shrews were unstopable, conquerors of the world.

[Spirochete]

51. I heard someplace...

that they used collies for the killer shrews. That one scared me some, too.

[pansypoo53219]

24. 30 something

and i STILL have not watched the whole movie. only have seen clips from documentaries. not sure why, maybe it scared the bejeebies out of Mom.

[Aristus]

25. My fear of the WWotW turned to sympathy when I found out

Margaret Hamilton was a twenty-six year old kindergarten teacher at the time. It turned to heartache when I read the book "Wicked".

[qb]

28. I also felt bad for her - she was seriously burned

during one of her disappearing scenes. She was also that nice lady in the Maxwell House coffee commercials.

[qb]

27. Westworld gave me some serious Yul Brynner nightmares!

[Journeyman]

29. Saw "Psycho" when I was 5. . .

my Mom had no idea what she sent us to see, just wanted to get us out of the house for the afternoon. She probably figured: Saturday afternoon double-bill, it's gotta be a kids show. I saw it with Gypsy, a light-hearted musical about a family of vaudevillian strippers. Ah, the education a young man could get in the theater those years.

[qb]

35. I was "educated" at age 6 by "Night of the Living Dead"

I still have no idea what my dad was thinking!

[RetroLounge]

36. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Really...

as a little kid, it scared the crap out of me (the first time). I remember my brothers teasing me about it, the f*ckers...

Then in Grammar school, I remember we had an after-school double feature in the Gymnasium of The Pit and The Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher. Scared the living crap out of me. What in the hell were they thinking, showing those movies to 4th graders???

I spit on your grave scared me because I was dating a psycho woman and didn't want her to get any ideas. :)

[AnnabelLee]

37. I was very frightened by it as a child, too

The tornado, the witch's face replacing Auntie Em's, all of that. But the worst of it for me was when the neighbor took Toto away. I could never forgive Dorothy's aunt & uncle for letting her do that. The best was when Toto hopped out of the basket & came back.:-)

[arwalden]

39. I Can Hear The "Here Comes Miss Gulch" Tune

just thinking about that scene.

Can you?

-- Allen

[qb]

40. I hear it all the time (for real)

We got our kids a musical Wizard of Oz book. They insist so much on my singing along the songs (the ones with words, anyway) that I have most of them memorized. I just have to take care not to sing them too loudly at work!

Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow, Follow, Follow, Follow, Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

[annonymous]

38. The Wizard of Oz

Those flying monkeys are really creepy.

[blm]

41. It never frightened me....I loved all of it.

Curse of the Werewolf was the only movie to frighten me as a youngun.

[Cadfael]

42. As a child I had an irrational fear of

the ruby slippers

[arwalden]

52. Funny! (nt)

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. This movie came out when my father was a boy and they were rolling

in the aisles when they saw it. Why? Because the code word for going to the bathroom in his family was toto.:)

[scarletlib]

45. The original "Body Snatchers"

Scared me to death. For weeks I would wake up at night and look under the bed to make sure no pods were there. Also "Invaders from Mars". Kid wakes up and finds earth invaded by Martians--they put something in the back of your brain to make you obey them. Then he wakes up and it's only a dream and then!!!!everything starts to happen just like the dream. YIKES!!!More sleepless nights lying on my back so no Martian could put something in the back of my brain..

Finally, being a wise child I realized these shows were just too realistic for my imagination so I gave them up for a long time.

[devilgrrl]

48. Man with the X-Ray Eyes with Ray Milland

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057693/

Back in 1972, I was home recovering from having my tonsils taken out and saw this movie. At the time, I was 9 and it scared the living shit out of me!!!
:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

[RushIsRot]

49. The original "The Thing" had me scared under my movie seat!

James Arness was convincing as well as the other effects. I saw very little of the movie. I was hiding my head. Guess I was too young for that stuff.

[Booberdawg]

53. This movie didn't scare me

Nor did it my son. He laughed through this movie!!

But what surprised me - I rented ET for him. Cute movie, right?? When ET jumped made his first appearance and jumped outta that closet, my son was horrified!! OMFG He was scared half to death and cried!!

The one movie that scared the bejeezus outta me for years was "When a Stranger Calls" YIKES!! Have you checked the children??

[arwalden]

54. "The calls are coming from inside the house...."

give me chills just thinking about it.

[ikojo]

56. The Exorcist scared me to no end

The bed jumping up and down not to mention Linda Blair's head spinning around followed by spewing green pea soup.