What's the first movie to ever have scared the hell out of you?

[Sugar Smack]

Mine was The Exorcist. My friend Laura & I were about 11 years old. Her mother forbade us to watch it, so what could we do? We loaded up on sugar (Baby Ruths from the laundromat candy machine). We had the sofa bed pulled out. The TV was playing the "subdued" version. What we did from that moment on was hold each other & whimper.

Her mom came in and yelled at us, doing a good impression of Regan.

We snapped the TV back on and made sure our terror was quieter.

The next one was the movie Poltergeist. My lil bro & I went to see that one in the theater. Eric & I were 12 and 10. Ages where you simply don't look to your sibling for comfort. We were in the first row, crying and not even ONCE thinking of leaving.

So, what was yours? Very curious.:D

[Release The Hounds]

1. Salem's Lot

[Sugar Smack]

7. OH, I have that on tape.

When you get right down to it, that shit was scary. How old were you when you saw it?:scared: Also, have you become a horror movie addict?

[TCJ70]

133. Just reading the book of that movie gave me chills at one part...

...it's an excellent book.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The Night of the Hunter.

An old movie with Robert Mitchum; I saw it on teevee when I was about 12, scared the bejeebers out of me.

Later there was The Exorcist, Prince of Darkness, and Eraserhead (which didn't exactly scare me so much as totally creep me out). The Ring kind of gave me the willies, too.

[Sugar Smack]

14. Can I make a confession?

I wouldn't watch The Ring for the longest time because I'd heard it was about people who died after watching a videotape.:blush:

So The Exorcist did it for you too, eh? Welcome to the club.:hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. I watched it on DVD. I figured I was safe that way.

[Sugar Smack]

23. YOU. Owe me a new keyboard.

:spray:

[Sequoia]

331. That's a great movie. Robert Mitchum was a fab actor!

There was a remake with Richard Chamberlin with was a total flop because he just wasn't very scary.

[flvegan]

3. Halloween.

The whole hiding in the closet while Myers lurks outside...

However, that doesn't match to what The Amityville Horror did to me in book form.

[Sugar Smack]

22. AAAAUGH! *cue up Charlie Brown*

That whole hiding-in-a-closet-shit-while-some-killer-stalks-you gets on my last freaking NERVE!

:hug: Stealing a hug.

[Deja Q]

4. Can't say Xanadu...

So I'll say Rosemary's Baby...

[Sugar Smack]

8. Brat.

:rofl: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[Deja Q]

253. Well, I would say Xanadu for you if you really wanted me to...

:rofl: :rofl:

:yourock:

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

290. *LOLOLOLOL*

Ya gave me an earworm, too, but somehow I still loves ya.:D :rofl: :loveya:

[texas1928]

244. Fuck

wrong place.

[Deja Q]

251. Sure, when?

Mind you, the soundtrack for Xanadu, ELO aside, is rather fantastic... "Magic" indeed...

[quiet.american]

5. Les Diaboliques -- took me a whole week to sit all the way through the ending!

(And yeah, I'll admit it -- I was in my twenties -- and in "the business" -- so I definitely should have met it with a yawn -- but it was so CREEPY.... ) :)

[Sugar Smack]

24. Oooooooooh!

I should SEE that.

[allalone]

54. I'm still scared to look in the rear view mirror

while driving a dark road at night. waaa

[kwassa]

6. original version of War of the Worlds

[Sugar Smack]

27. No wah!

That's another one I missed. How old were you, darlin?:-)

[kwassa]

31. It was the early '60s

I had to be 9 or younger.

I was able to go the theater by myself to the matinee on a Saturday.

I left! Had nightmares for a long time.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

61. Want to see something funny?

This is the light I use on my music stand. Doesn't it look like the alien ships?

[Sugar Smack]

67. BWAH! YOU just cut it out, kitten.

:rofl: :loveya: OMG. OK, yes, it DOEZ!:rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

80. ...

:D

[kwassa]

76. so ... you are one of THEM!

Aliens are among us!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

79. Yeah...But we still have to figure out how to...deal............with

..........your...........................................................air............wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

[kwassa]

82. Well, you had no pollution controls on your flying meteors .....

what did you expect? Where is your civic responsibility?

and what is your carbon footprint, anyways?

[Canuckistanian]

9. "The Hand"

I remember having to leave the room while pretending NOT to being terrified by it.

[Sugar Smack]

32. What did you do to recover your dignity?

In terms of pretending I'm not frightened, I always left for the bathroom. Cowered in there. Blew my nose on TP and wiped my eyes. Made sure the sounds coming from the outside were harmless enough, then emerged with a lil modicum of "triumph". Hah.:P

[Canuckistanian]

41. Pretended it was boring

I fooled no one.

[Sugar Smack]

47. Heh!!!!!!!!!

I never had any self-control in those matters. I went ahead and cried & nearly pissed my pants.

[qnr]

70. self-delete - replied to wrong post. n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Can't remember which I saw first

"It Came From Outer Space" or "X — The Man with the X-Ray Eyes."



But it was one o' those. :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

33. How old were ya, babe?

Also, did you flinch from horror movies or become addicted to them after that?:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. 8 or 9

Depends on the kinda horror. The only thing in "The Exorcist" that really scared me was when Regan's mom was walkin' up the stairs when she heard a noise. :shrug:

But, no — I've never made an effort to get scared; I avoid movies like "Scanners." Then again, bits of "Silence of the Lambs" scare the fuck outa me because the film is so well-done they seem real, yet I watch because it's such a good film.

[PassingFair]

11. Night of the Living Dead.

Saw it at my Grannie's house.

My parents never let me watch anything scary.

OR stay up late watching TV.

That movie scared the CRAP out of me.

Many years later, I saw it at a "late show" when I was in my
early twenties and laughed my ass off.

[Sugar Smack]

36. *snort*

That's exactly how *I* got started on this stuff. Maybe if we hadn't been forbidden to do things we might have just left well enough alone.:P

[mzteris]

12. I don't remember the name of it.

I was about 4 - or maybe 5. The ABC MOVIE of the week or something like that.

There was a painting that was being completed (no, this was waaaaaaaay before Nightgallery and Twilight Zone.) and there was a crossbow.....

I was scared of crossbows for YEARS!!!!

[Sugar Smack]

38. LAWD. You know what?

I think my first "scary movie experience" was somewhere around that time, too. Really, I remember a tiny bit of it but have had some really bad dreams about it since. I don't think it started with The Exorcist, when you get right down to it.

[MadMaddie]

13. Seven - that one weirded me out

The Others - Pretty cool scary

The Sixth sense - since we didn't know the ending..

[Sugar Smack]

44. That's the first movie I ever saw Kevin Spacey in.

He actually ANNOYED me there. I was like, "Oh, leave the JR high drama back where it belongs". Well, the more I saw that movie, and the more I saw him in other movies, I became a sort of rabid Kevin Spacey fan.

The last scene of Seven, especially, was REALLY crazy. :toast:

[MadMaddie]

284. I agree with you that's when I became a big fan of Spacey....

Did you ever see "The Usual Suspects" oooohh...it's not a scary movie but one of my all time suspense, who dunnit movies.....I should just buy this movie


:toast:

[Sugar Smack]

291. THAT'S what DID IT.

Sorry I'm so into using the caps right now, but that movie, The Usual Suspects, brought my interest in anything Kevin spacey-related to a boil!

[texanwitch]

15. I think it was called The Haunting of Hill House.

It was in black and white.

Watched it at a friends house on a very dark, stormy night.

[Sugar Smack]

45. Ooooh, lovely!

Did you AT LEAST have popcorn? A parent who'd wake up and comfort y'all?:pals:

[texanwitch]

59. No just two little girs watching a very scary movie on a late Friday night.

My friends mother scared us when she walked into the dark room, it was thundering and lighting outside.

I must of jumped 12 feet off the bed.

[Sugar Smack]

69. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA---->

I would have had my claws in the ceiling like a scared cat!:yourock: You have a stomach of steel, my dear.

[texanwitch]

77. It is funny now but damn she scared us.

She came in when the ghosts were banging on the doors, if you have seen the movie you know what I am talking about.

The ghosts are banging on the doors all along the hallway, really loud.

Then the ghosts turn the door knob, that is when my friend's mother scared us.


We watched the rest of the movie but with the lights on.

[Iggo]

147. My dad took me to see that when I was little.

He kept asking me if I wanted to leave. Finally, halfway through the movie, I'd had enough and said okay let's leave. I've never finished watching that movie.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. The Birds

Especially when the kids are attacked in the schoolyard. :scared:

[kwassa]

39. My former manager was one of the little girls attacked by The Birds

She was a child actress who was picked for her resemblance to the child version of Elizabeth Taylor, and had to compete for many roles against Morgan Brittany.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. Wow!

The kids did a fantastic job in that movie...I was convinced that they were truly terrified.

[Sugar Smack]

51. I HAVE TO SEE THAT AGAIN.

I saw it when I was about 12. Thing is, it didn't have the special effects Poltergeist had, so I wasn't frightened.:D

Right now, though, hon, I'll believe anything. I know it was one of the best-made films in its time. Going to get my hands on a copy. And thanks for the suggestion.

[Connonym]

17. Any one of the disaster movies that were so popular in the 70s

My mom LOVES that shit. We saw them all, Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Jaws, etc. All fine and good until you take a kid on a vacation and expect her to go into the Hoover Dam (but, I saw what happens if there's an earthquake no effin' way!) or stay in a high-rise hotel or god forbid swim in the ocean for the first time.

[Sugar Smack]

55. Earthquake. Jaws!

You had me at "Earthquake".:loveya:

[The Animator]

324. Ahhh Earthquake... I worked at that ride.

It was always a source of endless amusement to me how many people were genuinely surprised to learn that Charlton Heston was in fact, still alive.

[Skittles]

19. The Haunting (1963)

no blood and gore, just terrifically spooky

[Sugar Smack]

57. *eeee* another one for The List!

I love ya, Skittles. Thanks for that. I don't think I need to add that I am a horror movie addict after this post, eh?:D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

108. Yes, that was the first movie that scared me that I remember

It was shown on TV when I was in high school. I was sick with the flu, so my parents put the portable TV in my room. I thought I'd be cool and watch it in the dark. :scared:

My parents didn't let us go to horror movies, so I guess that was the first one I saw. Nothing like starting with the best, huh?

I'm told that I freaked out when the witch appeared when my parents took me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when I was three years old. However, I have blocked out that traumatic experience. :-)

[Dr. Strange]

I don't think I was ever scared by a movie.

The show Lidsville scared me when I was a kid. And there's that one ghost video on youtube. But that's about it.

[Sugar Smack]

75. Are you too young to have seen Krofft?

Someone who designed that lil flake of history should be punished, but good. I had quite a few nightmares after seeing that stuff.

[Dr. Strange]

131. Some of their work was okay.

I liked Far Out Space Nuts. But the Lidsville stuff--holy crap. Why not just call it "Hey Kids, Here's What Happens When You Do Crack."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. The Blob.

With Steve McQueen.

And The Incredible Shrinking Man--even though it was in black and white. And Mothra.

My big sister and I used to go to the 25c Saturday Double Feature.

I was two or three. Way too young to see anything scary.

[Sugar Smack]

73. When you were two or three, did anything make an impression?

I think there were some things I saw on the TeeVee that I'd just as soon forget. Wow. In fact, I know this. I can't even describe it, it was so weird.:scared: :hi:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

115. Yes, i remember them distinctly. I was way too young to see them.

I have another distinct memory from when I was two, not movie related.

[Whisp]

164. theBlob!

that was my first scarey as well.
way back, one of the first movies I saw in a theatre. Scared the crap out of me.

others that have left an impression of fear and dread are:

The Exorcist (saw it in my early 20s and couldn't go to the bathroom at night alone for a couple weeks)
Jacobs Ladder - whoa. creeped me out good.
Mr. Frost with Jeff Goldblum - ugh. really disturbing
the first Saw movie: I just hate that kind of torture flick

[Ahpook]

21. Yeah...

The Exorcist:)

I was the youngest of five brothers, and they loved to torment me.

The Exorcist came on the tube one night and it looks like those assholes had a plan to scare their little brother:)

They somehow hooked up a CB (80's :)) to the TV and could speak through it's speaker.

You know the rest:) Fuckers

[stuntcat]

30. ooo Exorcist

oh yeah that got to me when I was Regan's age :headbang: now I rewatch it every couple years for fun, it doesn't freak me out anymore.

[Sugar Smack]

84. AW! *like Sam Kinison* AAAWWWW!

How'd you ever get them back for that? Please, make something up if you didn't do right by your frightened little kid self! AWW! If my brother'd done that to me I'd still be farming out new techniques of stranglehood, and don't you know it. :hug:

[zingaro]

136. This one for me too. For years

I had possession nightmares.

Years. :rofl:

[johnnie]

25. Helter Skelter

It was a true story and I was around 12.

[Sugar Smack]

29. O.M.G.

I have that on DVD, and even though I've seen enough to wipe away my eyes, there's something, especially about Sadie Mae, that freaks me out more than anything. That movie was almost TOO well done.

[Skittles]

111. I was 12 when it happened

I remember how they insinuated there was a pool party and they were all naked and doing drugs and the young boy shot in the car had been a peeper - it was all a bunch of hideous lies - tabloid journalism has been around for some time

[Kutjara]

26. The original "Frankenstein."

I was about five and all alone (don't ask) in my Grandparents' drafty ancient cottage in Ireland. It was about 11pm, the wind was howling outside and the rain was lashing the windows. I watched the whole movie from behind the sofa, from between my fingers. I've never been so scared in my life.

The next time I saw the movie, I was about 25 and was amazed at how unscary, and really quite touchingly sad, it was.

[Sugar Smack]

81. Rain lashing at windows never lends itself to a

quiet evening of horror-movie watching. This I will admit. Here: :hug: For your bad five year-old self.

[Kutjara]

113. Thanks SS.

I was beginning to scare myself just thinking about it again. The hug helped.

:hug:

[Polly Hennessey]

166. Scary Movie

Kutjara,

Me too on Frankenstein (the original). I saw it in a movie theater and remember running into the lobby and then peeking through my fingers into the theatre to see what was happening. When I saw it again as an adult, I was mystified as to why it scared me so much. I agree it now seems like a sad tale of how difficult it must be to be ugly and different.

[Kutjara]

274. I guess, as we age, we come to understand...

...that the really scary people aren't ugly or deformed. Indeed, the ones we need to be most frightened of are the smooth, the plausible, the attractive. They're the ones who can do the most damage, because they easily sail past our defenses. The physically unappealing are harmless because they are powerless.

Real monsters wear nice suits.

[stuntcat]

28. Blair Witch

I've always watched tons of horror movies so it's hard to say what really got to me but I remember being really REALLY scared watching Blair Witch. I have the dvd but I've never played it, I don't know if it would be the same watching it now, I'm actually scared to play it hehe

[Sugar Smack]

86. You know, that scared me because

I was in something of a similar situation with cabin fever eight or ten years ago.

We reacted sort of like the kids in Blair Witch reacted. It really, really wasn't funny. There were ten of us, and we were pretty much stuck together for three months in AK. God, that sucked.

We blamed each other, after a time, on everything. It was horrible at the time but it makes a pretty good story now.:-)

[RadiationTherapy]

93. I was living in the back of my car

in the Nat'l Forest around Flagstaff when I saw this movie in the theater. I was camping with a woman and her 3 kids and the mom and I went together. It was scary as hell when we let the fire burn down and made for our tents.

[fizzgig]

96. that movie scared me a bit in the theater

but it really hit me when i got home

i was alone for the weekend...i made my boyfriend stay with me until i fell asleep the first night

[ChoralScholar]

34. Probably Poltergeist.

But I was scared by test patterns, static, station sign-offs, etc...

[Sugar Smack]

62. I was watching that tonight

and thinking back to when my bro and I were practically crying in the theater. We were of an age that spelled, publicly, "Don't look to your siblings for comfort". That clown. That damned clown.

[EstimatedProphet]

35. Five Million Years to Earth

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

It wouldn't be remotely scary now, but I was 7.

[Sugar Smack]

78. AW! *throws self on pillow*

Betwixt our experiences seeing the scary movies, let's go halvsies on meds. Fine by you? :P

[EstimatedProphet]

152. I'm always up for meds...

[hisownpetard]

37. Bambi.

Really!

[Sugar Smack]

63. Walt Disney made you cry?

Let me AT him!

[hisownpetard]

225. Gee, t'anks!! (Yeah, when the mother deer got killed, I started crying and haven't stopped since...

:pals:

[Sequoia]

332. That was rated by Hollywood as a scary movie.

I was the list (posted on DU I think) and Bambi was on it because of the mother deer getting killed.

[QMPMom]

125. Bambi. I cried for hours and thought *my* parents were going to

die! I have noticed that most all Disney movies have a period of where they put in something totally scary and tear-producing. Why do they have to do that?

[SPKrazy]

40. Exorcist too

friend and I went to see it, told his mom we were going somewhere else, saw the Exorcist

Scared the bejeebus out of us

we couldn't tell anyone we were about 14 maybe 13

:scared:

still creeps me out to this day, I'll watch it and hear sounds in the attic :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

65. *LOL* Did you sneak in?

:D Was it the censored or uncensored version? I remember asking Dad how a twelve year-old could get a spot in an R-rated movie, way back then, and that's the first time I ever heard him utter the words "I don't know".

[SPKrazy]

74. i know we talked about it...

but i think they just sold us the tickets :shrug:

my memory is a little blank, there might have been some beers involved too:P

it was the uncensored version i think

[Sugar Smack]

91. See, I could see that kind of thing, ESPECIALLY The Exorcist

throwing a heavy curtain over every kid's view of what's natural and "juice for discovery". We're so busy learning math & English and social protocol for later times that something like, oh, I don't know, "being possessed by the devil" never enters our frame of reference.

:o

[ghostsofgiants]

42. Night of the Living Dead.

I forget exactly how old I was, probably around 8 or 9. My cousin lived next door to us, and he was much older than I was, but I always went to his house to play video games. Then Night of the Living Dead came on TV one night and we watched that. It was maybe a 30 second walk between our houses, but I ran like a motherfucker when I left that night.

Good times.

[Sugar Smack]

88. I'm sorry if I laughed, but

"ran like a motherfucker" resonates with me in a way no one'll ever understand.

[ghostsofgiants]

90. Haha, it's all good.

:)

That was actually the first horror movie I ever saw, too.

[ThoughtCriminal]

46. On the Beach

Somehow, monster movies did not affect me much. But when I was older, that one still gives me nightmares.

[Sugar Smack]

89. I read the book a month ago.

GOD KNOWS, I never saw the movie but I was completely taken aback by that damned book!! Aw, geeze.:scared: I think you just hit the nail on the head, and I think it's going to take a lot for me to get the traction to see that movie.

[Darth_Kitten]

49. something about cats eating people.......I was 5........

Mom let us stay up late to watch it.........at the end I saw this image of this lady's hair but no lady. Guess the cats got her.

:)

[Sugar Smack]

92. OMG---> I freaking LOVE you.

:loveya: Really. You were a tough kid, weren't you?:rofl: OMG.

[Darth_Kitten]

286. Cats must have eaten the carcass.

:D

It was the early 70's what can I say? :)

I have, well, some weird memories. :D

[Sugar Smack]

293. Those seventies movie-makers showed no mercy, *I* say!

What if we made them watch not only their own, but everything put out in that time period? Heh. That'd fix their little red wagons.

[Fox Mulder]

50. Friday the 13th Part 2

I saw it on video when I was six and it scared the hell out of me.

[Sugar Smack]

95. You were SIX?!?

Honey.

My GAWD. I must say I ran up against some strange things in my youth, but nothing quite like that.

Honey.:hug: OF COURSE it scared the hell out of you.

[Savannah_H]

52. 3D movie

House of Wax...........
Vincent Price..............

[Sugar Smack]

97. Welcome to DU!!!

:toast: I LOVE seeing new posters. Also, thanks for the suggestion, because my artillery of distractions needs a little investment.;-) I'm going to look into it.

[allalone]

53. psycho

[Ewellian]

85. Psycho

I was around 12 years old and up late watching it alone. To this day, I've never seen the end of that movie.

[FloridaJudy]

116. Definitely Psycho

I couldn't take a shower for years, if I was alone in the house (did take baths though, so I wasn't as stinky as you'd imagine). And as for checking out the cellar...well let's just say it wasn't going to happen on my watch.

[Phillycat]

145. Psycho for me too.

[yellowcanine]

279. Me too, I nearly soiled my pants during the shower scene.

[Jamastiene]

56. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

*cringe*

[Sugar Smack]

98. OHHH, that *fambly*

got in my head & gave me NIGHTMARES, baby! YUK!

I love you. Hold me, then, eh? :loveya: :hug: :D Save us from those nastawwwwwww critters who chase off every teenaged traveller from here to whence?:D

[Jamastiene]

322. Awwwwwwww.

I am so humbled by your grace and your kindness to me. You are such a sweetheart. :hug: :loveya: :)

[crim son]

58. "The Birds." I came into the room where my parents were watching

it - I had to be somewhere between nine and eleven years old - and I watched it from behind the couch. The next movie to horrify me that much was "Jaws," which I saw when I was fourteen. I nearly puked during the first shark scene, it affected me so badly.

[Sugar Smack]

99. OH, was that the "We're going to need a bigger boat" scene?

I'll never forget that. Also the scene where the shark gets the boy and the mother of the kid slaps the policeman. That, for some reason, just KILLED me. The thing is, the movie was SO damned well made! I've never seen anything like it! That's a recent review. If I'd done this twenty years ago I'd have cringed into my drink.:-)

[crim son]

105. No, it was the skinny-dipping beauty being chewed from

below. At first she didn't realize what was happening, and neither did I. It was a great movie and suddenly I want to see it again!

[Sugar Smack]

112. That scene, right beforehand, when they're singing

and showing each other their scars and banging on the table!:loveya: Who knew? Who had any idea that that pretty stuff would lead to nightmares? I didn't. I love, love Steven Speilberg. Can't help it, right?:D

[1gobluedem]

140. The Birds for me too

I saw it when I was nine and was staying at my grandparents' house New Years' night. That night a bird got in our bedroom; both my sister and I are petrified of birds to this day because of that.

[Rabrrrrrr]

60. The Exorcist was the only one for me.

Other horror movies kind of scared me as a child, though I still loved watching them.

But the Exorcist - I saw it on TV when I was in high school - was the first, and still the only, movie that one could say terrified me. I was petrified going to bed that night.

Part of what made it so scary was that I thought, at the time, because the fundy nutcase jackasses even back then had the media's attention, and so the version of Christianity I knew was their fictional, bizarre, fucked up version - and thus, demon and devil possession was a real possibility in my mind.

Thankfully, I was part of an intelligent church (the UCC), and so I soon learned the truth.

Of course, I realize that demon and esp. devil possession are all fucking nonsense now, that there is no Devil, and that "exorcism" is just superstitious bullshit.

[Sugar Smack]

101. That bed-shaking shit kind of got to my pal & me.

We trusted each other, but I'll tell you Rabrrrrrr, between the sugar, the laundromat smells (wonderful) from below, her mom, and that pull-out bed, even though we were scared TO DEATH, we managed to explain it to ourselves & don't ask me how.:D

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

64. Chamber Of Horrors

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060228/

It was probably the first movie I saw in a theater- since it came out in '66 that would have made me 11 years old. Today it's simply a silly old horror flick but back then it literally gave me nightmares.

I was a sensitive child... :rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

169. Oooh, never saw that one, even on late-night tube!

There's something about the age group between nine and twelve that makes kids want to go take a peek at the Dark Side.:rofl: Just a peek!

[Mind_your_head]

66. The Exorcist n/t

[Sugar Smack]

170. Y'know, a lot of people seem to have seen that one at a formative age

and freaked out.

[cmf]

68. It's on right now!

The Day After

:nuke: :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

122. We saw that when I was in eighth grade.

What was kind of touching was that all the teachers warned us to see it with our families. They also had question and answer sheets for us so that we could discuss the whole thing. I never saw all of it then, but I saw it recently. I don't care if this stuff was made in the eighties, it TERRIFIED me.

[qnr]

71. I don't think I've ever been scared by a movie (as opposed to isolated scenes in one) - I

think the first isolated scene to really scare me was Sissy's hand coming up and grabbing Amy at the end of Carrie. The dental scene in Marathon Man got me too.

[Sugar Smack]

171. Oh, CARRIE!

I adored that movie! I haven't seen Marathon Man, but that sounds truly horrifying.

[Maccagirl]

72. The Wizard of Oz

Damn those flying monkeys!

[ncrainbowgrrl]

151. Same. And not because of the witch, but the tornado.

To this day, I'm scared to death when I hear a tornado watch for my county.

[youthere]

155. Yep..that was mine..

Those monkeys scared the hell out of me. I had nightmares for two weeks.

[trackfan]

158. Me too.

There were many scary and confusing scenes for a child. I always was afraid of hourglasses because I thought that was the poison.

[begin_within]

83. When I was 5, I ran out of the room whenever the Wicked Witch of the West came on the screen

But the rest of The Wizard of Oz I enjoyed. A made-for-TV movie called "How Awful About Alan" scared me a lot. I must have been 8 or 9 when it came out.

[Sugar Smack]

173. Oh, but we all knew Glenda was going to save the day!

:D I think my faith in "everything turning out okay" was when she giggled coyly and told that bad ol ugly witch, "You have no power here".

[begin_within]

228. The visceral power of that green face and wicked laugh and the sudden appearances and reactions

It's all too much for a 5-year-old. Saving the day and everything turning out OK is too advanced a concept for a 5-year old when pure terror and evil is right in front of your face.

[Radical Activist]

87. A Christmas Story

I saw it as a child. To this day I keep a very safe distance from frozen metal poles in winter time.

[racaulk]

103. Yes, but how do you feel about pink bunnies and leg lamps?

I *love* that movie! That's one of the few things I enjoy about Christmas. I can't believe that movie scared you!

:hi:

[Radical Activist]

114. Leg lamps make me uncomfortable.

I'm always a little wary in flea markets or hip retro stores. You never know when one might be around the corner :)

Its a funny movie now but if you're that age its more like a horror story.

[opiate69]

94. Jaws..

I was 6 when we saw it in the theater.. I didn't want anything to do with standing water for a looong time after that

[stuntcat]

139. Jaws

it's a fantastic movie, one of my favorites EVER! I watch it once in a while and I LOVE it every time.

[BlueIris]

100. "Darby O'Gill and the Little People." (A Disney flick, no less.)

Yes I'm a child of the '80s, so what?

Surprisingly creepy little movie the scared the ever living whatever out of me when I was six. To this day, Celtic beasties and monsters really freak me out.

[Sugar Smack]

176. You know, Disney has been known to come up with some REALLY

freaky stuff! I remember seeing Escape To Witch Mountain, and then having to see it again years later to covince myself that the little kids in the movie were truly ok!

[racaulk]

102. Creepshow 2

Looking back now it was rather a cheesy film, but as a kid, that movie scared the living hell out of me! To this day, I can still hear in my mind that decaying corpse saying "Thanks for the ride, lady."

:scared:

Of the three stories told in this movie, "The Raft" was by far my favorite. I loved the surprise twist ending. "I beat you!" LOL...think again!

[Sugar Smack]

177. Hey, was that the movie Blondie was in?

:D Also, was "The Raft" the adaptation of the Stephen King story?

[racaulk]

193. No, Debbie Harry was in the another similar movie.

You mean the one where she was a cannibal and she had a kid captured and was preparing to cook him to eat. And he tried to buy time by telling her three stories. That movie, right? That was "Tales from the Darkside: The Movie." Very similar format, but not as scary, IMHO.

And yeah, Stephen King was the man behind the Creepshow movies, and the tales were based on his short stores, "The Raft" included. I have never read that story (and I'm a big Stephen King fan), so I need to see if I can find it.

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

203. w00t!!!1!!

THANKS! That's the one I was trying to remember. Debbie Harry was somehow...cute...in that one. Oooh, listen, I've read 20 Stephen King books, and The Raft is in Night Shift. In fact, I think MOST of his Very best short stories are in that book. I think from what I've read, Skeleton Key is his next best for short stories, then Different Seasons, then Four Past Midnight!

:bounce: :hug: :yourock: fellow Stephen King fan!!!!

[racaulk]

215. Ha!

You're right, only Debbie Harry can make a cannibal look wholesome! :rofl:

I haven't read nearly as much as you have, but I love King's stuff! You know, I much prefer his short stories to his novels. Maybe it's just me, but it takes a while for me to get really "into" a new novel when I'm reading it...I guess I just don't have the attention span for those as much. A prime example of which is "The Tommyknockers"--I only made it about 150 pages or so into that one, and I was still bored! But his short stories are pure genius, and just the right size for me to truly enjoy them.

If you like his short stories too, then you should also check out "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" and "Everything's Eventual" (where '1408' came from). Those are two of my favorite books of his. And thanks for the recommendations, I will definitely make sure to check out "Night Shift" soon!

And :yourock: back atcha! I'm always glad to find a fellow Stephen King fan! :pals:

[Dangerously Amused]

104. None. The Hell is still in me.

:7


HI SUGIE!!!


:loveya:


:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

110. Aww, damn, darlin.

I'm going to go to bed, but I wish you the SWEEEEEEETEST of dreams. The SWEETEST.

Or none at all. :loveya: I've missed you so much, my girl. You're seriously just one of the best people on here. I wonder where bridgit went. I just miss you, honaaaaaaay.

:hug: :hug: :hug: See? Time for me to hit the sack. Love you so much.

[enigmatic]

106. Rosemary's Baby

I was 9 or 10, and it was on TV; to this day I can't listen to the Theme w/o getting incredibly creeped out. The cast was brilliant, and the last scene still gives me chills...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_%28film%29

[Sugar Smack]

123. The cast of that WAS brilliant.

For the longest time, I was like, "Oh, mia Farrow, feh." But I must say I LOVED her in Rosemary's Baby. That was written by Ira Levin, incidentally. He also wrote The Stepford Wives. Guy was a die-hard feminist writer.:-)

[montanto]

174. I'm gonna second Rosemary's Baby as

the creepiest movie that a ten year old could watch at the time.

[Inchworm]

107. The Omen

Exorcist ties though. "fuck me ..." haunted me

I think what the Omen lacked on fear they made up with cool music.

Yes, my parents are Catholic.

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

178. AGREED on BOTH counts, baybee.

:hi: I don't scare easily, and you brought that movie back to my attention. I was all grown up and professional-like when I first saw The Omen. Old move, OLD, not many special effects. Grainy. Scared the DAYLIGHTS out of me!!!

[NNadir]

109. Invaders from Mars. The Martians drilled these little things in the necks of Dads to control

them and make them bad buys.

I am not referring to the remake with Karen Black, but the 1950's original.

I didn't sleep for about a month.

[Sugar Smack]

180. AAAACK!

My stomach never had any truck with drills in conjunction with body parts! You were right to freak out.

[ronnykmarshall]

117. I'd have to say Alien.

Went to see it at the THEE-ater. Scared the crap out me.

[Sugar Smack]

124. You know, that visual of the alien baby

busting thru Sigourney Weaver's tummy? I'll bet that would be a good visual for GDP. I may have to use it.:P

[ronnykmarshall]

149. That's about sums it up.

With Edwards dropping out today it's going get even scarier!

[Sugar Smack]

182. OK, see, the thing is, I think,

no, I THINK I'm done throwing myself around my apt & crying & tearing at my hair & breaking glass for today, re: that, but I'm not sure.

[ronnykmarshall]

150. That's about sums it up.

With Edwards dropping out today it's going get even scarier!

[MotorCityMan]

213. Another vote for "Alien"

My family went to the theater to see it the first day it was released. I hadn't read anything about it, and there were no reviews yet, so had no idea what to expect.

It scared the shit out of me. It is an unbelievably tense movie, more horror movie than science fiction.

[Rob H.]

327. That was my first thought, too

It wasn't even the gore as much as it was the sense of claustrophobia and knowing that it could be hiding almost anywhere. :scared:

[Flatline]

118. Rosemary's baby and The Shining... n/t

The commercials on TV at the time had an eerie song playing with a bassinet turning around slowly then you saw a clawed hand draping out of it AAAAAAAAAAAGgggg.

[Mad_Dem_X]

130. The ad for The Shining scared the hell out of me

I can't remember how old I was, but I was in the movie theater, and a preview for The Shining came on. It was just a shot of the hallway of the hotel, with the elevator doors at the end - and all this blood starts pouring out of the elevator doors and down the hall toward the camera. Absolutely TERRIFIED me.

[unsavedtrash]

297. My mom took me to see Rosemary's Baby when I was very young.

Scared the crap out of me.
The Shining freaked me out too.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

119. Poltergeist

I will never buy a clown doll that size... ugh...

[Sugar Smack]

183. Well, that makes you a stronger person than me.

I will never buy a clown doll of any size.:D

[Catsbrains]

120. Amityville Horror when I was 8.....had scary nightmares for months.

[Sugar Smack]

184. I'd completely forgotten about that one.

You and me both!:scared:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

121. Creature from the Black Lagoon

Scary stuff
:scared:

[Sugar Smack]

185. What would you think if you saw it now?

Seeing Poltergeist again in my jaded age lets me feel it was somewhat tamer than what I experienced as a child, but seeing The Exorcist ALWAYS gets me!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

233. I saw it recently

or saw as much as I could stand. Bad acting, bad idea, bad effects. But way back then it was scary.


Anyway, the OP asked about the first, not the best or scariest. Exorcist would be up there. The Tenant would be too.

:hi:

[PVnRT]

126. Life Force

When i was 10, the space vampire sucking the skin off someone scared the shit out of me. Never saw any more than the first thrity minutes or so of it.

[Sugar Smack]

186. You know what's interesting is that you're the second person

to mention a vampire or vampire-like movie on this thread. People really are fascinated by vampires, but I know what you're talking about. I saw the movie too. Isn't it where the creatures suck at a person until they crumble to dust? OYYY!

[terrya]

127. Same here for "The Exorcist"

[Sugar Smack]

187. Started off so sweet, yes? "Mom, could I please have a horse?"

And then cut to the wheezing, growling, projectile-vomiting, mother-throwing THING in the room.:scared: We went to try to find those steps last time my family was in Georgetown.

[raccoon]

128. House on Haunted Hill--the one with Vincent Price.

I saw it on shock theater one Saturday afternoon.

Scared the p*** out of me.

[Sugar Smack]

188. Oh, I never saw that, and I saw someone posted that upthread too.

I'll consider this a recommendation!:D

[Mad_Dem_X]

129. Probably "Jaws"

The scene with the first victim, the woman swimming at night and we don't see what's attacking her, still gives me goosebumps!

[Sugar Smack]

190. Oh GOD, I know, I hate seeing people dragged around

by underwater bloodthirsty creatures. It gives me the creeps, too!:scared:

[Mad_Dem_X]

192. They did an excellent job filming that scene.

[AngryAmish]

132. Disorderlies

[Sugar Smack]

196. Aha! Another one I haven't seen.

I have heard about it, but it was a while back.:hi:

[Highway61]

134. The Last House on the Left

Wes Craven...Thiry six years ago...and if I had a chance to see it again? .....Negative! :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

197. You know, that sounds vaguely familiar,

as though it may have been a story I'd read a long time ago.

[Highway61]

287. Here ya go....

However....I wouldn't suggest watching it...too violent

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068833/

[bigwillq]

135. The Amityville Horror

The original.

Was over at my buddy's house. I think I was in 5th grade. And his sister and her friends scared the shit out of us. It was summertime and there happened to be flies all over one of the windows in the house and the sister said we were going to die. :sacred:

[Sugar Smack]

198. It's always the siblings.

I was with my bro when we saw Poltergeist in the theater, though, and I think we were both the exact same amount of TERRIFIED.

I think I may have been right about the whole age group thing. ;-)

[Deep13]

137. 1979 Dracula.

[Sugar Smack]

200. Hey! A third vampire movie!

:bounce:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

138. I don't even remember the name....

But I do remember one of my babysitters watching this movie about an Army base being attacked by the tenacle octopus type monsters which just scared me witless and gave me multiple nightmares.

Anyone have any idea what it might be? I'd love to know.

[Sugar Smack]

201. I can't for the life of me figure out what that one is.

And I thought, I really thought I'd seen ALL of them!

[Aristus]

141. My parents took me to see "Psycho" at a local revival house when I was about 11.

Sugar Smack, you wouldn't believe the nightmares I had! Over "Psycho" for Pete's sake. I mean to say, the 1960 version, of course. I've never seen the remake. And "Poltergeist" scared the crap outta me, too.

So, evidently, horror movies that begin with "P" scare me the most... B-)

[Sugar Smack]

204. Sweetie, what wuz y'all doing watching Psycho at a local revival house?

:* And you were eleven!!!! Psycho, both versions, tore me out of the frame.

I think the thing in Poltergeist that got my brother & me curled up in fetal positions was when hapless hungry guy sees the maggots on the chicken and then, logically, goes into the bathroom and tears his face off.

:rofl: Easy to laugh now, right? Heehee.

[Aristus]

238. Well, my parents were fans of old movies. There was a theater around here that

ran old movies, complete with old preview trailers, cartoons and cliffhanger serials. Plus, real butter on the popcorn (!)

We went to see "Psycho" there, and it just scared the pee-waddley out of me. I agree with Stephen King's assessment that if the two scenes of murder were taken out, "Psycho" would be a pretty tame TV-style movie. Very restrained. It's the suspense leading up to those scenes that are the real, pardon the expression, killer.

BTW, the theater still exists, but shows first-run films now. Revival houses are just too expensive to run; or maybe it was the real butter on the popcorn...

[SacredCow]

142. Definitely Psycho...

I was VERY young, and Dad was watching it after I was supposed to be in bed. I snuck into the den, and hid behind the sofa just in time for the shower scene... :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

205. Oooh, I hope your timing's been better ever since!

:hug:

[Iggo]

143. "I Drink Your Blood."

Rampaging hippie zombies take over a small town! Scared the bejeezus outa me.

On edit: Actually, they had rabies. I misremembered it for years, but my sister just set me straight.

[ChickMagic]

160. I saw that at a double feature

with "I Eat Your Skin". No kidding. We called it the Catholic Two-some.

[Sugar Smack]

208. AAAAAAAAAAAAA!

What a frickin name!!!OMG!:scared:

[Kashka-Kat]

144. Another vote for Night of the Living Dead

Saw it way back when - years ago - everyone in the theater was literally screaming & not the fake goofing around kind of screaming either - it was for real! The fright was contagious & I think we weren't so desensitized as we are now to those kinds of images.

[Sugar Smack]

209. You're on to something with that "contagious fright".

Sometimes, my girlfriends & I would get together at night and REALLY start freaking each other and ourselves out! We did this with Ouija Boards (I, uh, don't really fool around with that stuff any more), we did it with flashlights with dying batteries, stories, open windows at night.

Sometimes, when people get together and start in on stuff like that, the fear becomes expansive and actually TAKES OVER.

[Phoonzang]

146. Poltergeist!

It still scares me a little, especially that skull...dog...thing in the hallway. I didn't see the Exorcist until I was older, but I really found it laughable. Maybe that's because I was going to Catholic school at the time and was completely jaded RE: the devil thing.

[Sugar Smack]

210. *eeeee* Good perspective!

:D Poltergeist, though, knocked me and my poor little brother for a loop.

[Shell Beau]

148. The Shining! I was way too young to be watching it and I am sure

I didn't even understand it, but those two little twin girls and the boy saying "red rum" still freaks me out! Plus Shelley Duvall was kinda freaky looking! And of course Jack Nicholson plays such a great lunatic!

[Sugar Smack]

211. THE SHINING.

Freaked me out as an adult! Everything: and my best friend's name is Dani, so I like to say, "Do you want to play, Dani?" in the accents of the girls. Hey, you know what? I am totally watching that tonight!:D

[Shell Beau]

216. Make sure you leave the night light on when you go to bed!!

:P

[Sugar Smack]

220. Just the night light? Huh-UH!

I have 2 fake trees full of white Xmas lights, the bathroom light, the kitchen light, 2 bedroom lamps, another lamp in the living room, and the light on outside.

See there? I'm armed!:P

[GCP]

153. The Devil Rides Out

Satanism and The Angel of Death thundering around a pentacle. Good stuff.

[Sugar Smack]

212. Ah, yes, RELIABLE horror.

You've got to love it, even at age eleven!B-)

[edbermac]

154. Some 1950's sci-fi films I saw on TV.

Like Earth Vs The Flying Saucers or Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. Now I just laugh at them.

[Sugar Smack]

214. That stuff makes me really miss my cable. I am a fan of MST

3000, and I really, REALLY miss the running commentaries!

[SallyMander]

156. I'm too much of a weenie for scary movies

However i still remember screaming with a gaggle of girlfriends over an x-files episode... in junior high. See, told ya i was a weenie. ;)


:hi:

:loveya:



Edit for smilie disfunction...

[Sugar Smack]

217. SAAAALLLLLEEEEEE!

:loveya: :hug: :pals: :yourock: How much FUN would it be to watch an even slightly scary movie with you? OMG. It's like, you have to start small. Hold on, I'm going to check my shelves out of curiosity. OK, I'm back. Witches of Eastwick. The Craft. Then stuff like The Lost Boys. The WAAAY other end of the spectrum is stuff like Jacob's Ladder and, of course, The Exorcist.

The latter is when you think you've seen everything. Hey, I do that thing where I have to cover my face with my hands BUT peer through my fingers.

:pals:

[SallyMander]

307. OK... *deep breath*

For YOU, i will do it! :hug: :loveya:

But we need popcorn! and pillows and blankets for me to hide my face in :7

[ailsagirl]

157. PSYCHO... hands down

[Sugar Smack]

218. I really must see that again.

The sub-plot is also fantastic. I think that movie may have set the standard for the way some guys I've met, regrettably, feel about their mothers.

[MrCoffee]

159. Nosferatu...it was on TV when I was 4 or 5...still vividly remember being scared out of my mind

[Sugar Smack]

219. Hey, you found your dark side early!

Most of us waited til we were in the 9 through 12 year-old range. That's a movie I've never seen. When I was 4 and 5 (confession) my mother had custody every other weekend and the thing we were exposed to was "Hee-Haw". Which may have been just as bad. Don't tell anyone. :scared:

[bikebloke]

161. The Exorcist

As I was watching, I thought this isn't scary. Then I was scared. Or maybe not so much scared, as grossed out. When her throat expanded like a bullfrog, something inside me freaked for some reason.

[Sugar Smack]

221. That, and

that sort of crawly-vomity thing that was happening. I actually DID scream when there was that silhouette of her having broken out of the restraints and standing in front of the window.

The first night my buddy & I saw that, the TV must have been snapped off and on a dozen times.

[MGKrebs]

162. Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.

I was 7 or 8, and I'm pretty sure we saw that at a drive-in.
Creepy, scary, tense.

[Sugar Smack]

222. Hey! I never saw that one either!

A name like that makes it sound really creepy. Like I saw "For the love of Audrey Rose" which sounds sweet & tidy. NOOOO. It was kind of horrifying. I forgot to add that one in. Dang.

[gbate]

163. The original Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney.

[Sugar Smack]

223. A classic, too.

You must have been quite young, eh? It seems that most of us on this thread had our start at the whole horror film thing at around 10 or 11 years of age. However, there are some "early bloomers".:D

[LynzM]

165. Same here....

Back when I still believed in "the Devil" and the concept of possession, that movie scared the ever-living daylights out of me.

[Sugar Smack]

224. Oooh, oooh, and the scene where Regan

well, Regan's demon starts wheedling, "Dimi, Dimi..." Ther was this other movie about possession that I can't for the life of me figure out the name. It starred Denzel Washington. That one was freaky, but not really scary to me.

[some guy]

320. Fallen

(Denzel Washington.) I liked that one a lot. :)

[LeftyMom]

167. ET. I was really scared of the guys in the hazmat suits. Then again, I was one year old.

I have no idea what my parents were thinking taking a baby to the movies. :eyes:

[Sugar Smack]

226. *EEEE!*

:rofl: I remember things that happened when I was three, but that must have REALLY jarred your baby's brain back then. I was about 12 when that came out, so I'd already seen The Exorcist & Poltergeist. I figured nothing, but nothing, would ever scare me again.

Well, "hah" on MY head. :P

Come to think of it, though, Steven Spielberg really has a way of getting to people.

[Muttocracy]

318. ET - me too - those scenes too - I was a little kid then n/t

[qb]

168. Night of the Living Dead

My dad took the whole family to see it at a film festival when I was 6 (I have no idea what he was thinking). After that I couldn't visit my granny's outhouse at night without seeing zombies in the woods!

[Sugar Smack]

227. AW, GEEZE.

Having to go into an outhouse in the dead of night UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE is scary. Aww, Boo. I have to say I'm sorry ya had to deal with that, and after a perfectly horrifying zombie flick. Oh, at the tender age of six. :hug:

[qb]

329. That which does not kill me makes me stronger...

I had to conquer my fear and brave the woods when nature called. I've been a fan of horror movies ever since. Thanks for the :hug:

[Cabcere]

172. The first movie I ever saw in a theater

was The Little Mermaid (shut up, I was, like, three years old maybe), and Ursula scared the crap out of me. I started crying and had to leave the theater and be taken home (I had come with a friend's family). :blush:


Other than that, though, probably The Exorcist at a slumber party when I was 12. :shrug: :hi:

[Sugar Smack]

229. I'm NOT LAUGHING!

:rofl: :loveya: Really!!!!!@ No, you were like three, right? I'm sorry, I can't help but think of that as the cutest thing & it's awful of me, right? You were traumatized.

What's also kind of cute (memories) is any of any gaggle (what DO you call a group of 12 year-old girls?) jumping around in their nighties, screaming and diving under pillows. :hi:

[Cabcere]

269. Nah, it's cool.

:hug: Although I'm sure my parents and my friend's parents didn't think so at the time... :rofl:

My memories of The Exorcist actually mostly involve staring at my friend's poster of Chris what's-his-name from N*SYNC during the puking scenes, lol. :rofl: Possession by the devil, spinning heads, all that good stuff, I could handle OK. But puking...eh, not so much. :scared: (Before I saw that movie, split pea soup was one of my favorite foods. I'm pretty sure I haven't eaten it since.) :puke:

[Sugar Smack]

295. Oh, BLEAH! I don't blame you!

I mean about the split-pea soup. Or any of the rest of your post, for that matter! Hey, let's visit each other in the funhouse, OK? When he or she or they finally decide it's time for the traumatized-at-young to go live in comfy padded cells. Agreed?:D

[Cabcere]

316. Sounds good to me!

:toast: :D

[krispos42]

175. ET

I think I was 6 when my parents took me to see that. I hit the theater floor when ET was running through the gate in the backyard and I think I stayed there.

[Sugar Smack]

231. That DID kind of startle me.

And I'm not really good, never have been, with loud, sudden noises or quick, sudden movements.

Incidentally, the ONLY time I ever punched anyone was when I had this boyfriend back in college. He enjoyed leaping out from behind doors & startling me. I punched him as a reaction in self-defense. Geeze, but that never happened again.

[robertpaulsen]

179. Wait Until Dark

I believe I was 8 or 9 at the time. I was on edge most of the movie, but that moment when Alan Arkin leaps in the dark at Audrey Hepburn made me scream out loud!

[Sugar Smack]

232. Another classic!

:loveya: I LOVE the classics! Especially the psychological thrillers, like "Gas Light" and "Double Indemnity". I'm going to keep an eye out for that one!

[ReformedChris]

181. Halloween: Truly Terrifying

The original Halloween was absolutely terrifying and gave me nightmares for years. I love watching it now, even though the remake didn't hold up.

[Sugar Smack]

234. HEY! Welcome to DU!

:hi: Jamie Lee Curtis REALLY grew on me after that, and I don't mind saying so! I saw her in Prom Night, which was one of the freakier movies out there. And she was GREAT in True Lies.

[norwespatriot]

189. That would have to be...

"The Day After".

I was in the military when it came out, stationed in Germany. A roomate brought over a VHS tape of it from when he visited home on leave. I borrowed it to watch on Charge of Quarters duty overnight. Understand...NO movie before then had EVER creeped me out. Right about the point in the movie when the Air Force began to scramble the bombers because the attack was happening, I suddenly realized I was close to hyperventilating and my heart rate was probably in the high 140's. I had to stop the tape and tell myself "It's only a movie...It's only a movie" several times until I calmed down.

I've never been that scared by a movie since then. Forget vampires, werevolves or extra-terrestrials...nothing is as scary (for me, at least) as nuclear warfare.

[Sugar Smack]

236. Damn.

Hey, HUGE welcome to DU. I can't even comprehend what it would be like to be on a military base and see that one. I've seen it from the comfort of my couch, and that's it. What can critics even say about it? It was "heavy handed" with Americana at the beginning? I've never been to rural Kansas, but maybe in the hushed hours of the morning that's what it's like.

The Day After is really unforgettable. We are ALL right to be terrified of that one. The scene at the end with the hordes of people, each participating in their own slow, lonely demise, is enough to give one serious pause.

I could just go on about this. Thank you so much for your post.

[mtnester]

191. American Werewolf in London

I to this DAY cannot get past one of the first dream scenes.

[Sugar Smack]

237. I have HEARD about that one

and I feel I need to see it!:bounce:

[haf216]

194. The Hills have Eyes ( the first one)

I must have been about 9 when when I saw it and there are a few scenes that really stuck with me.

[Sugar Smack]

239. Formative baby-eyes, like most of us here!

Now, I never got to see that, but I'm guessing you were dragged some place where you'd see it? Maybe you snuck a peek like I did when I was 11.:D

[haf216]

283. When I was young my parents would

take us to the double shows at the drive in. They thought if they told us how the shot the movies that we would not be scared. It worked for the most part, there was just a few things that stayed with me.

[haf216]

195. The Hills have Eyes ( the first one)

I must have been about 9 when when I saw it and there are a few scenes that really stuck with me.

[geardaddy]

199. Psycho

I couldn't close my eyes in the shower for a week.

[Sugar Smack]

240. Confession:

I leave my shower curtain open "just in case". :blush: Being that a broken back due to slipping on floor puddles is preferable to being stabbed by a little dangerous man obssessed with his mum.

[IndianaJones]

202. same as you. still the scariest movie I have ever seen. Not even close. nt.

[Sugar Smack]

241. The Exorcist. Frightening shit. nt.

[RoadRage]

206. The Wizard of Oz... no i'm not kidding. Stupid Witch & Flying Monkeys!!

[Sugar Smack]

242. Y'all really did get your heads kicked by those damned flying monkeys, didn't you?

:hug:

[BrotherBuzz]

207. Wizard of Oz

[Sugar Smack]

243. Flying monkeys. Right?

Come get your hug.:hug:

[BrotherBuzz]

288. Yep, it was those flying monkeys

I really could have used that hug fifty-two years ago. I'd just plain like one today, but back then I really, really needed one. Thanks. :hug:

[Sugar Smack]

294. DANG. Where was I? No more than

an itch between my momma's legs. Sorry I couldn't have given you comfort sooner.:hug: Screw those flying freaking monkeys, and I mean do. Dang.

[sakabatou]

230. Running Man

I was little.

[Sugar Smack]

245. HIYA, cutie!

:loveya: Was that one based on the Stephen King novella? I never saw the movie, but I must have read the story 20 times!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

235. Children of the Corn

And I loved it! I swear my family thought I was nuts because I wore out our VHS copy of this movie. I think my mother and father were scared I was going to kill them in their sleep.
Duckie

[Sugar Smack]

249. OH, you do that too?

I mean, WEAR out your copies of movies? I have several I had to get duplicates of because I really went over the line playing them. GOOD movie too! Stephen King is brilliant!:D Scary stuff, then and now.

[texas1928]

246. Probably... House.

but after the first time, it is just hilarious. But the first time the lady bends down to pick up the shotgun shell, and stands up and it that hideous monster. I jumped and hollered.

[Sugar Smack]

250. I saw a bit of that. As I recall, it reminded me a bit of

Krofft. Am I completely re-remembering, if that's a word? I remember someone falling through black air. I was pretty young. Maybe I'm mistaken.

[texas1928]

255. It might be, been a while since I saw it.

Has William Katz in it.

He tries to save his son, who disappearred into the house. But it is hilarious.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

247. JAWS

I lived in Tampa at the time, in Hyde Park near Bayshore. An old BF and I would sit by Hillsborough Bay and talk. Not after seeing JAWS.
Remember SNL's Land Shark? I could almost imagine it coming to knock on my door.

[Sugar Smack]

252. AW, LAWD! I never saw that at an early age, but later on

it would make me just a LITTLE skeezy about going out neck deep in the water. Oh, the SNL candygram!

[YankeyMCC]

It was a Godzill movie

I don't recall which one, I think he was fighting two or three other monsters - one had multiple heads.

I was maybe 8 years old and my parents brought us to a Drive In to see a comedy but I watched the monster movie playing on the screen behind us and had nightmares for the next few nights. :)

[Sugar Smack]

258. Well, see, gawd, 8 year-olds and multiple monster heads DO NOT MIX.

There's a lesson in all that. I have nightmares quite a bit, too, and they have nothing, but nothing to do with horror movies! Maybe I ought to just stop reading GD & LBN.

[bridgit]

248. Alien...

:scared:

[Sugar Smack]

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[bridgit]

260. Ya'know something, now that I think about it; that Alien shit-head with the gooey fangs & acid blood

mostly remids me of my X that fucker x( but here's the real deal...*I* wub ooou :hi: :hi: :hi: :hug: :hug: :hug: :spank: O8) :loveya: :hippie: :yourock:

[Sugar Smack]

264. Oooh, how about The Fly, but

I FREAKING WUB YOU TOOO!:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

Geeze Louise, so I don't see ya for like a week and I'm all MUSHIFIED!!!!:7 :toast: :bounce: :hi: :thumbsup: :loveya: :yourock: :applause: :woohoo: :rofl: :patriot: :hug: :loveya:

[bridgit]

267. The new one with Goldblum was uber-creepy indeed...

:scared: :scared: we just got back from some events all up through NorCal, and part of Oregon for about that timeframe; but all through some very desolate range land with falling down old miner's, and rancher's shacks some from the turn of the century by the looks of them...it was *crazy* storming (you may have seen some of it on the news) and I'm just glad to be home with friends, drinking at our own little watering hole here in town, and seeing the names and places I care for so...

:pals:

[Sugar Smack]

270. Ah, NICE!!!

I am so happy for you. I'm especially glad you're OK. Have some fun in the safety of your nest, doll.:pals: :pals: :pals:

[bridgit]

259. dang it!! wrong place

:blush:

[cordelia]

256. The Exorcist. Until . . .

Years later I was watching Poltergeist on TV at home alone.

During one tense moment in the film, the smoke detector in my apartment fell off the wall, and went off.

Until that moment, I did not know how loudly I could scream.

Never figured out what made the damn thing fall off the wall.

[Sugar Smack]

261. OH!!!!!

Oh my GOD! You know, it's seriously possible to have formative experiences in your twenties! Finding out how loudly you can scream? That's definitely one of them. WOW!!:wow:

[Cannikin]

257. Showgirls.

:scared:

[Sugar Smack]

265. OHHH, you DIDN'T. But you DID!

:rofl: :loveya:

[Tindalos]

262. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

or one of those old movies with the stop-motion monsters. I was about 4 or 5, and I'm pretty sure I screamed and had to be removed from the room.

Years later, my family started watching Alien, not realizing what it was. My Dad turned it off just as the alien latches onto the guy's face. I was terrified, but totally hooked. I went out and rented it as soon as I was old enough.

[Sugar Smack]

268. WELCOME TO DU!!!!

:party: :bounce: You never, ever forget your first tangle with a horror movie, do you? And when you're 4 or 5, the images pretty much STAY PUT!

[Tindalos]

314. Hi

:hi:

Yeah, I still get a creepy feeling up my spine thinking about it. Even though the movie itself if pretty lame now.

[Flaxbee]

263. Manatou, I think it was. The Swamp Thing

and the Exorcist, all when I was really little --- I have two sisters who are significantly older than I am; I'd sneak out of bed and hide so I could watch what they were watching and saw some really scary stuff too young, probably.

Once I could choose to see a scary movie, I'd have to say Salem's Lot. Though I think the book was more terrifying. Actually, Stephen King's short story "The Boogeyman" scared me senseless. Again, I grabbed my older sisters' books and probably read waaayyyy too much for my age.

[Sugar Smack]

271. AW!! But I guess wanting to know stuff, we as children ALWAYS did the sneaky stuff.

Even if it gave us nightmares. I've been reading Stephen King since I was a wee bairn, myself. ;-)

[Adsos Letter]

266. "Darby O'Gill and the Little People..."

...don't ask... :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

276. Heh, heh!

Sounds a little lilliputiny!

[Deja Q]

272. Would you believe, "Kingdom of the Spiders"?

OMG, it's "Khaaaaaaaaaaann!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" with a big torch!!

[Sugar Smack]

277. Would I believe it?

You know I'd believe it, kitten!:D :pals:

[Sanctified]

273. I love horror movies but the first one to really scare me was 28 days later.

Most horror movies don't really scare me because I know they are so fictional but for some reason 28 days later seemed so plausible to me that it's something that scared me.

[Sugar Smack]

278. Hey, THANKS for the heads-up!!!

:D I have it but I only watched like a fourth of it! It was SO late & I had to go to sleep.

[KatyaR]

275. It was 'Psycho.'

I was 12 and spending some time in town with my cousin and her family while my mom was in the hospital recovering from surgery. My cousin was several years younger than me, and, for some stupid reason, her mom decided to let us watch 'Psycho' late one night. Now, granted, we didn't have a shower at home (we were lucky to have an indoor bathroom with a tub at that point), but I can still remember sitting in a chair at the back of the room, as far away from the TV as I could get and still be in the room, trying to play it cool while this movie was on. OMG, it was terrifying.

Afterwards there was another movie on, Bob Hope and Jane Rusell in 'The Paleface.' I remember how happy I was to have something to laugh about.

'Psycho' still creeps me out to this day. I can't remember that last time I saw it.
A close second was probably 'True Grit," for the scene where Kim Darby falls into a pit of rattlesnakes. I HATE snakes!! :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

281. 12 years old, my dear!

That's pretty rough, watching a movie like Psycho at that age! And I'll bet the people around you were all like, "Ah, I'll bet it's just a psychological thriller, nobody'll get stabbed in the freaking shower. What could possibly go wrong?":hug:

[KatyaR]

296. I actually think my older cousin (the adult) was scared, too--

I don't remember much conversation while we were watching it. It was just my two cousins and me--I'm not sure where the man of the house was that night. However, I can still remember how strongly relieved I felt when it was over with. I'm thinking my cousin had no idea just how bad it was.

Believe me, I would NEVER let a 12 year old see that movie--talk about nightmares.

[triguy46]

280. The Shaggy Dog. I was 6. For weeks I was afraid to look in the mirror...

because I thought I would be growing hair.

[Sugar Smack]

282. Was that Disney again?

OMG-Freaky Friday did that to me! Y'know, sometimes I wonder if old "Steamboat Willie" didn't get a lil too big for his britches.:P

[GigiMommy]

285. Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte

on TV. I thought they were going to show bloody severed body parts. I couldn't watch it. I kept hiding my eyes.

[Sugar Smack]

289. HEY! Someone else upthread said the same thing!

It had such a tidy name, no one'd ever think it was about body parts & the like. Damn. If I'd been thinking quicker myself, I would have said "Audrey Rose", too. Those two I mentioned were the first to pop into my head.

[some guy]

292. since you're still replying to this thread...

:hi: :hug:

first movie that scared the hell out of me - The Omen.
It wasn't the movie itself so much. I went with several friends. There was a scene involving a truck and plate glass and a photographer... the girl sitting next to me screamed, grabbed my arm and buried her face in my chest. That! :scared: me, because it was totally unexpected. I think I was 17.

I don't know if it scared the hell out of me, but when I was about 5 I saw Strait-Jacket. Images from that film stuck with me for years and years.

[Sugar Smack]

300. Someone should have told you about that scene.

You should have been prepared for it.
She should have been a tad gentler on your arm.
You should have gone and had a little cognac afterward.
Y'all should have talked late into the evening.
Gone out for breakfast the next day-you know, eggs, hash browns, the whole bit.
Then, you should have brought her white flowers.
Then, y'all could go out on more dates.
Then, you could have proposed at some scenic waterfront location.
She could have said "Yes"

Oh, please, please don't mind me. Once a month, I get like this. My intentions were great, though. How do you feel bout horror turning into sweetness? I kind of like it, as you may well have noticed.;)

[some guy]

301. dang...where were you when I needed you?

:D

That's great advice. Unfortunately, several decades too late. :rofl:

I'll try to keep the white flowers and cognac in mind though, in case I ever get the opportunity to see a horror film with you. :wink:



edit: moved a comma...

[Sugar Smack]

302. WOW, I LIKE you!

:D You're fun. Let me know if you need any scurvy-scallowaggy advice & I'll be glad to pop it to ya. :D *eeeeeeeeeee*

[some guy]

306. thanks

:blush:

scurvy-scallawaggy is too out of character for me, though.

I can only do sweet, decent and earnest.

(not ernest)


sweet, decent and earnest doesn't score as well as it ought, though. :shrug:

[mwdem]

298. "Them"

Those atomic giant ants scared me to death when I was small. I love the '50s sci fi movies, and I loved "Teenagers from Outer Space" whelm I was younger. I sympathized with all the teen angst, even though I was only about 10 when I saw it on tv.

[Sugar Smack]

303. When I was ten, and I know this is beside the point,

I CRAVED angst. I had no idea when I'd finally be "stricken down" by angst. I wanted angst so badly. Look at the kids! I figured it validated them somehow, and I wanted validation in the worst way.

I collected some black clothes. Don't tell anyone, and I assembled me a good standup wardrobe that every Smith and every Cure member would be proud of, but I had 3 years to go.

[mwdem]

304. Maybe it's a N.C. thing...

I grew up in Greensboro, which can certainly cause teenage angst!

[u4ic]

299. The Ghost and Mr Chicken

I was only 4 at the time...:P

[Sugar Smack]

305. I haven't seen that, but

WHERE the sweet everloving hell have you been?!? Or where have I been? Have we been sailing past each other? Did I just get depressed & log off for a time (which I did) or did you do same? Anyway, suffice it to say I've missed ya.:hug: So, hi, there.

[u4ic]

313. Hello, sweet pea!

Sometimes one just needs to get away from here for awhile, y'know? It was another d word, disgust, that got me.

I hope you're feeling better, hon. :hug:


Here's the DVD for the movie:




Yep, a Don Knotts movie. :rofl: But it had a ghost!!!

[Stuart G]

308. House of Wax...3D...l952 or 3

I walked out of it in after 15 minutes.. It is quite a few years later, but remember walking out. I walked out of Psycho..many years later. Also in the theaters.. By the time I was over 30, I did not walk out of Alien ...but it did scare the crap out of me..

[Sugar Smack]

310. Honestly, you're more man than I am in that case.

Honestly, if I get really scared, I go ahead & RUN.:D

[otherlander]

309. Sixth Sense.

:D

[Sugar Smack]

312. I LOVED that. You know why?

It was ALWAYS the supporting roles! It's what kept the thing bouyant. And I can see what effect it may have on a kid, too.:D

[Hardrada]

311. Them

It's about giant ants but is scary and suspenseful. I was worried about them for awhile.

[Sugar Smack]

315. Whoa. I'd welcome a movie about giant ants

right about now.:D

[Akoto]

317. Fire in the Sky.

I saw it when I was young, and I remember having a great fear of UFOs for a while thereafter. :P

[astonamous]

319. Count Yorga...

Saw it at the movie theater and then had to walk home (small town) in the dark. Didn't sleep with the lights off for many weeks to follow. I was 9.

Many years later, I saw "The Shining" at the drive-in. Yes, they still have them where I am from. Couldn't even relax enough to make out.

Funny, I read Jaws and saw the movie...no problem. I read The Exorcist and saw the movie...no problem. I read The Omen and saw the movie(s)...no problem.

[RushIsRot]

321. The original version of The Thing. There are STILL parts of that

movie I have not seen. I do not intend to. I learned early on that I did not like scary movies.

[WilliamPitt]

323. Gallipoli

Followed by Poltergeist.

[The Animator]

325. I have a very over active imagination... always have.

So I didn't watch a whole lot of scary movies when I was a kid, I still don't. I visualize way too easily, and way to realistically. After watching Jaws, I couldn't be alone swimming in my pool, I could see the shark turning sideways under the water, mouth wide, ready to bite me in two.

If I'm up late, and I've got the sci-fi channel on and some classic horror movie is on... I might watch it out of curiosity now, or I might wet myself and not sleep for a week. I a lot of M. Night Shamalan's movies.. but I still cannot watch Sixth Sense. I've seen bits of it, and just the memory of the visuals are enough to keep me awake in the dark.

"Come here, I know where my dad keeps his gun..." *shudders*

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken... it was way before my time, but so were a lot of things that played on my parents TV... That damned piano gave me chills.

There was an episode of Gilligan's Island with a giant spider.

and Disney's Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

[kedrys]

326. The original War of the Worlds

I was knee-high to a cricket, and I saw it on my grandpa's brand-new large color TV, one of the first such devices anyone in my family owned. There were Martians under my bed for about 3 months after that one. :scared:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

328. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland version)

[datasuspect]

330. "Anal Instinct"