What was the first movie you saw that scared the hell out of you?

[Kraklen]

And did you poop your pants?

Me: Time Bandits- the giant floating head chasing the heroes down the corridor.

No, I didn't poop my pants. Although my dad tells me that Bambi scared to poop out of my older brother.

[Divameow77]

1. Carrie

I was probably 9 or 10. No I peed my pants.

Even though my mom claims I was scared to death of the Flying Monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and they made me cry.

[Radio_Lady]

53. "Bambi" was the first for me, also. My mother had to carry me out

of the theater screaming and crying when Bambi's mother was killed by the hunter. I still hate even the concept of hunting animals.

I must have been three or four years old, since the movie was released in 1942. My memory of this event is pretty hazy. I've never watched that movie again since that time, but have seen excerpts of it periodically.

"Wizard of Oz" was released the year I was born, in 1939. I remember the face of the Wicked Witch and the flying monkeys -- recently, my granddaughter was terrified of the same scenes. Then my husband bought the L. Frank Baum book with illustrations (not as scary)and he read to her. After that, she was able to watch the movie more comfortably.

[bearfan454]

64. Exorcist n/t

[terrya]

2. "The Exorcist" was the first film that genuinely scared the hell out of me

[khashka]

21. Me too

But it wasn't the scary parts at the end, it was when cute little Linda Blair made friends with the devil in the beginning and no one knew.....

Khash. (shudder! it was so damn innocent!)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

30. Same here

That movie caused me to have nightmares. It was the first and only time a movie ever did that to me.

[LaurenG]

48. Oh yeah it still scares me, even though

there are much scarier ones now.

[bertha katzenengel]

57. I have a friend who saw that on his Confirmation Day.

:rofl:

:hi: Terry! :loveya:

[deadparrot]

74. Same here. nt

[skygazer]

3. Sleeping Beauty

Which was also the very first movie I ever saw. I was about 5 or 6. When the evil queen turned into a fire-breathing dragon and gave that line about "all the demons of HELL!", that was quite enough for me. I don't think I pooped my pants but I was petrified right out of my little wits.

[Coventina]

10. Haha! Same with my little brother!

When that scene started (we were in the theatre) he started crying to my dad, "Turn it off Daddy! Turn it off!"

We all had a good chuckle.

My poor little bro.

On edit: Today is his b-day! He turns 29 today!
And I should also add, he was 3 years old when he saw the movie, this wasn't a recent happening! :-)

[the_spectator]

13. Me too!

And I was 8, not 5 or 6! (Post #11)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. YES ME TOO!!!! Also the whole thing of people being put under the spells

was scary to me, but I remember the whole dragon thing as being particularly traumatic. Saw this in the theater, must've been five or 6 as we were still in NYC at the time.

[kedrys]

4. The original War of the Worlds

(yes, I'm old)

My grandpa had a great big color TV (they were a novelty at the time), and the movie scared the beejeebus out of me. I had Martians under my bed for months afterwards.

No pooping though. :D

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Black Sunday (No, not that Black Sunday)

This Black Sunday (the Mario Bava one): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054067/
Saw it on TV on a sleepover when I was very small. We had to hide under the covers. My brother teased me about it for years.

[MN ChimpH8R]

6. The original "Night of the Living Dead"

Saw it stoned at 17 and it thoroughly freaked me out.

[China_cat]

24. My grandparents are buried in that cemetery that opens

NOTLD. I really don't like going there to visit.

[ghostsofgiants]

42. Me too

But I was like 5 when I saw it on tv. Scary as hell.

[youspeakmylanguage]

7. Your brother is going to kick your ass...

You don't tell people that an older brother crapped his pants watching Bambi...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Invaders From Mars

I was about three years old when I saw it with my mom and the film seriously warped my mind and turned me into a lifelong science fiction and horror movie addict.

[youthere]

9. Wizard of Oz...

Flying Monkeys...:scared:

[AlabamaYankee]

61. Same here

It was a theater showing and I couldn't have been more than five years old (we're talking mid 1950's here). I was upset by the spooky Yellow Brick Road, but when the wicked witch started throwing fireballs at the scarecrow I completely lost it. I ran out of the theater and sat in the car until the end of the show.

[crimson333]

jaws

I had nightmares Of sliding down the boat as the shark ate my legs

[jobycom]

26. Jaws gets it for me, too, though the previews of the Excorcist

terrified me. I was too young to see the film.

[alphafemale]

32. Another vote for Jaws.

And my Mom took me in late.

Don't think I could have handled that girl screaming "OH GAWD IT HURTS!"

And getting shaken back and forth.

I can barely watch that to this day.

If I'd of seen that at 11 I would have freaked.

[the_spectator]

11. Disney's Sleeping Beauty actually -

I was just about 8 years old. A friend had a sleepover for his birthday party. His father had a projector, and showed the film Snow White soon before we all had to go sleep in the dark - in the basement. That wicked witch, "Maleficent" really freaked me out! I maintained though, didn't let it show.

You know, I had a good childhood, no real Issues. But kids really are easily scared - for one thing, kids' nightmares are a lot more real-seeming and terrifying than dreams we have as adults. I feel so sorry for the 8-year old kids - and much younger - that end up in movie theatres watching movies a lot scarier than Sleeping Beauty!

(Oh, and no pantal poopage here either)

[stopbush]

12. Psycho

[JVS]

14. Fantasia.

I was two years old and it scared the hell out of me within 20 minutes.

I asked mom if I could leave. In the lobby another mother was with her scared 2 year old. No poop.

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Wizard of Oz

Waht could possibly be more frightening than Flying Monkeys? Even the alien from "Alien" would be scared of them!

[Liberalynn]

35. They terrified

me. Especially what they did to the poor scare crow.

[stlsaxman]

59. Yeah- when that scene w/ the owls looking around came on...

i would leave the room 'cause the flying monkees were coming!

[Blue_Tires]

16. "Creepshow"

i was 8 years old, and a friend rented it for his birthday sleepover and no, i didn't crap my pants...

but that story about the roaches screwed with my head for a long time---to this day, i have a unhealthy fear of any/all insects, and i'm pretty sure it started with that incident

[XemaSab]

17. the shinning

SOOOOO scary

[WCGreen]

18. The Lord of the Flies.......

[NaturalHigh]

19. Frankenstein vs. the Wolfman

Of course, I was five years old at the time.

[Iris]

20. The Shining

omg, whent that priest got impaled by a pole? Yikes!

I should rent that and see if it's still scarey.

One of my best friends wigged out on me when we watched The Shining one summer - we were 14 and 15!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. I think you're talking about "The Omen" which is also quite scary...

[Iris]

38. Oh, yeah! The Omen.

The Shining is the one that scared my best friend!

[stanwyck]

60. I didn't think I'd

make it through The Shining....such a disturbing movie. The whole setup of that huge hotel and the isolation during the winter. All the unsettling images of the previous guests, that maze, the long hallways with all the closed doors. I got totally unnerved by that movie.

[Iris]

73. Yeah. My sister lives in an apartment builidng with halls that are very

much like the scenes in the movie (minus he dead people and blood!)

[WildClarySage]

23. When I was in fourth grade, they had this contest

where the kids who sold the most plastic thingamabobs for the PTA could get out of class for a special assembly where they were showing a movie, called "Lets Scare Jessica to Death"... and they nearly scared 10 yr old WildClarySage to death.

My son's first forray into cinema terror was Hercules. Yeah, Disney. The Hydra scared him shitless. He was four and loved the movie, but got terrified and ran and hid whenever that scene came on.

[China_cat]

25. The Birds

I was about 5 months pregnant at the time.

[Ladyhawk]

66. I'm guessing you don't have pet birds. :D n/t

[evlbstrd]

76. Same here.

It's still frightening.

[trof]

27. Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein.

It had the Big Three, Franky, the Wolfman, and Count Dracula.
I was about 6?
Spent most of the movie on my knees with my head buried in the theater seat.
I saw it the other day and it's a hoot.

[ailsagirl]

77. PSYCHO

[redqueen]

29. The Exorcist.

:scared:

[flamingyouth]

71. Oh god - me too

:scared:

[usedtobesick]

31. The Blob

and no...
oops my spelling scares me...

[Liberalynn]

33. TV Movie called

if I remember it right Seven Desperate Women or something like that. Stephanie Powers played one of the women.

It involved seven lady college friends who rent a huge cottage out on a lonely lake somewhere.They are then tormented by an escaped convict.

My Mom told me I couldn't watch it, because I was only a little kid at that point, but I kept sneaking downstairs to watch it any way.

The convict beat one of the character's little dog to death with a rock. That horrified me and I kept getting up to check on my own dog all night to make sure no one had hurt him, even though he was a huge German Shepard who would have bit the crap out of any one who tried to smack him with a rock.

The weird thing is I think the dog getting killed bothered me more than what the guy did to the people. ROTFLO.

That taught me that when my Mom said I shouldn't watch, I shouldn't. LOL.

Also the Wizard of Oz scared the crap out of me too. I hated those flying monkeys.

[Glorfindel]

70. The original "Titanic" with Clifton Webb & Barbara Stanwyck

It terrified me! I worried about it for weeks...all those poor people dying and nothing to be done about it. I was four, I think.

:cry:

[seemunkee]

34. Wizard of Oz

I would hide behind a chair when the wicked witch came on.

[Eugene]

36. The Poseidon Adventure

The fire scene had me sleeping with the light on.

[Susang]

62. Wow, me too

First PG movie my parents took me to see. When the boat flips over and that guy goes through the stained glass skylight, I was freaked out! :scared:

[AwakeAtLast]

83. That's exactly what I was going to post!

I can still see it! :scared: :scared:

[I Know How To Do it]

37. The original, "Invaders from Mars"

I spent a few weeks refusing to walk on anything but a floor or the sidewalk.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

40. Me too

I kept looking at the back of my dad's neck at the breakfast table.

[I Know How To Do it]

43. YAY! yeah I was really freaked out.

[nuxvomica]

49. Same here

I kept checking my folks for neck scars afterward.

[El Fuego]

39. "Phantasm"

I was only a kid and it was the first cheap horror flick I ever saw.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

41. I am told that at age three, I was terrified of

the witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, but I don't remember.

[AuntieM1957]

44. The Haunting

the original one with Julie Harris.

very, very scary black and white movie my family watched together when I was very young.

Still scares me - probably the best haunted house film I've ever seen.

And, excellent bowel and bladder control allowed me to watch it without foul incident.

[ailsagirl]

78. Remember when the door was buckling???

And they were all huddled in the room, staring at it in
mute terror?

"The Haunting" was masterful and subtle... and infinitely
scarier than all the modern movies (which tend to consist
of monsters, gore, and upchucking). Being grossed-out is
not the same as being scared!!

Polanski's Repulsion was pretty scary too

I miss the classic films!!

[Skittles]

79. OOH - ditto here

it creeps me out every time I watch it

hey, that house a four star hotel now, outside of Stratford on Avon.....google Ettington Park, I think that's what it is called.....yes, it was filmed in England

That movie - no real special effects or gore, just sheer creepiness. MAN was I disappointed with the remake - it sucked SO badly

[Ariana Celeste]

45. Chucky. I was a few yrs old, my older bro was watching it

downstairs at my gramma's. Gramma told me not to go downstairs and watch it with him because it would give me nightmares, but I wanted to hang out with my big brother because I didn't get to see him often, so pranced down to the basement anyways. My big brother did his best to cover my eyes whenever there was gore or anything freaky, but once he started getting really into it, he forgot, and there I went- running upstairs crying and screaming. I don't remember if I had nightmares, but I did get some ice cream to calm me down. :)

[Allenberg]

69. Same here

I think I was about 8. :scared:

[Cocoa]

46. "Shock Waves"

aquatic Nazi zombies wearing goggles. :scared:

[Zorro]

47. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Tobe Hooper original will make you cringe. It's very disturbing.

[I Have A Dream]

50. Phantom of the Opera.

Don't know exactly why, but I was spooked for days.

[livetohike]

51. The House on Haunted Hill - 1959 version

with Vincent Price. I was 7 years old and watched it at a Saturday matinee, then was crying as I ran all the way home :scared: :cry:.

[EstimatedProphet]

52. Five Million Years to Earth

One of the Quartermass series, from Britain

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168/

And I was 8, so I got scared easily.

[LeftyMom]

54. ET

Those guys in the biohazard suits scared me! No poopage that I know of, though.

[Darth_Kitten]

55. Some movie where cats ending up eating people.

My mom let me stay up and watch it when I was around 5. :)

[bertha katzenengel]

56. The Silence of the Lambs

Even though I was 28 at the time. (Holy shit -- I'm 42!!) Because I detest horror movies, but this one was different.

[Catchawave]

58. The original "Night of the Living Dead"

:scared:

[liss681]

63. I have never been that scared of any movie....

but I think that Silence of the Lambs is pretty creepy

[Ladyhawk]

65. "A Distant Thunder" - a campy fundy movie.

It scared me because I was little and the movie was portrayed as being real. It was really going to happen. I spent years being terrified of being left behind to face the tribulation. I really thought I might have to get my head chopped off for Jesus.

What a sick thing to do to a little kid. Damn those fundies, anyway. They should be ashamed.

[maveric]

67. "Wolfman" with Lon Chaney Jr.

It still scares me.

[Dastard Stepchild]

68. Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back

I was so terrified of Yoda that I turned around and faced the back of the theater and plugged my ears with my fingers. My mother had to tap me on the shoulder when he was off the screen.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

72. "Zontar the Thing from Venus"..................

Saw it when I was about 5, on one of those old sci-fi theater shows the local networks used to do on Saturdays. Scared the shit out of me.

[Mutley]

75. I saw "American Werewolf in London" when I was five-ish

And had nightmares about werewolves for YEARS afterwords. The last one was only about 4 or 5 years ago.

edit: no I did not poop myself

[RetroLounge]

80. This one

Attaboy Luther!



RL

[Blue_In_AK]

81. Psycho...

Didn't poop my pants, but did duck under the dashboard so I wouldn't have to look. (Drive-in movie, for you youngsters. We used to be able to watch movies from our cars.)

[hallo]

82. Children of the Corn

I didn't poop my pants but I did have nightmares for months about weird kids in cornfields.