Scariest move you saw when you were a child

[tblue]

For me it was Straight Jacket with Joan Crawford, about an axe murderess. I had no business seeing it when I was 8 yrs old, but it was on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScDimXj5WBE&feature=fvsr




Also, The Bad Seed, original version. About a murderess little blonde girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxisjomvvSY

[Ikonoklast]

1. "The Blob", the original one with Steve McQueen.

Scared the poop out of me.

[eyepaddle]

69. That movie scarred (and scared) me for years.

I still don't think I'd want to watch it.

[TuxedoKat]

73. OMG! Me too! (nt)

[ceile]

2. The Changeling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_%28film%29

I've haven't seen it since I was kid.

[Frank Cannon]

62. YES! The Changeling!

I saw it just a couple of years ago at Halloween. I'm pleased to report that it still holds up.

[kayakjohnny]

3. This one gave me nightmares for years and years...

[Liberal_in_LA]

102. I think I watched the version a few years ago.

[OriginalGeek]

4. My mom and dad went to a drive in

before I had any brothers so I couldn't have been more than 4. They went to see Willard and I was supposed to be lying down in the back seat going to sleep but of curse I wanted to see too so I snuck up and watched a while.

Wish I hadn't. Man eating rats in my dreams for quite a while after that.

Then maybe 3 or 4 years after that, they went out again only left me with a babysitter (I had brothers by then but don;t remember where they were) and he turned on the TV and I watched The Omega Man.

Wish I hadn't. Man eating zombie-like things in my dreams for quite a while after that.


but the REAL problems is now I WANT to see a truly scary movie and nothing scares me. I watch nearly every creepy, scary, disgusting horror flick out there and mostly I either laugh or I just think it's stupid. I think it's because nothing affects me now like those 2 movies did when I was a kid.

[murielm99]

58. My parents took me to the drive-in, too.

I had no business being there with them.

I remember seeing "Rear Window" when I was really small. It scared me quite badly.

We did not have TV for a couple more years after "Rear Window." But my parents were often quite lax about what I saw on TV, too. I can remember having nightmares over some TV shows.

I was more careful with my kids, even though they resented me for censoring their TV viewing.

[OriginalGeek]

83. lol! My youngest got the benefit

of her mother and I being worn out from trying to stop the 2 older ones from seeing anything scary or traumatic or inappropriate. She has had a TV in her room since she was about 9 and we just kinda gave up.

The weird part about that is she watches Animal Planet and FoodTV and those hi def science channels almost exclusively now. She likes some sitcoms and Supernatural and a few things on the SyFy network but overall, even though she's known she could watch just about anything, she chooses to not watch anything ridiculous. Heck I can't even get her to watch South Park with me.

She'd rather watch Pirates of the Caribbean for the 700th time than any of my stupid cartoons. lol.

Oh and she pointed out to me just yesterday that all 3 Jurassic Park movies are soon to be released on BluRay and that I better expect to be getting them for her.

[tblue]

90. Willard. Yeah, that was freaky.

Have you seen The Ring? That scared me, and the was just a few years ago. Scariest scene ever!

[OriginalGeek]

104. Maybe

was that one where the stop motion kid came out of the well or something? Or am I confusing that with the Grudge? Well either way, I saw both of them and wasn't scared but if the Ring is what I think it was it was a little creepy lol...

[rug]

5. The Tingler

[nuxvomica]

66. +1

Saw it during a sleepover at my cousins' creaky old house. I did not get much sleep that night. :scared:

[Bertha Venation]

6. the asshole in whose care my mother left us when she died

took me to see "Marathon Man." I was 12.

[tblue]

35. Oh, the dentist! Yow!

Horrible stuff for anyone, let alone a little kid.

[GoCubsGo]

39. That's the reason I'll never watch that one.

I heard about that dentist scene. No thank you.

[LynneSin]

7. I don't remember the movie but I remember the mad scientist had living heads in jars

and that creeped me out for ages.

Because of that my mother forbade me from seeing anything that she perceived was 'scary'. She argued with my dad I would have nightmares for ages if I saw 'Star Wars'. Thankfully my dad won that fight.

[UTUSN]

8. "Them" - the giant ants because of atomic radiation

I pushed chairs next to my parents' bed and slept there.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. It would have to be a tie between

"The Night of the Hunter" and "The Innocents."

Yeah, I'm old...

[tblue]

36. Robert Mitchum was creepy in that.

I don't know the other one. What's it about?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

43. "The Innocents" is a ghost story

based on Henry James' novel "The Turn of the Screw." Deborah Kerr starred. It was very spooky. Scared the bejeebers out of me when I was bout 12.

[Ikonoklast]

"The Night of the Hunter"...oh, my. Another movie that made my hair stand straight up.

I think 'terrified' is the correct word.

[Ikonoklast]

103. Dupe/delete

[RedCloud]

10. The Monster that Challenged the World. (with its clinkergoos!)

My sister and I grabbed those hot potato holders and started saying clinkergoo deep into the night for extra frightening delight!

[FloridaJudy]

11. Invaders from Mars - the 1953 version

Where the Martians start turning everybody in that town - including the kid's parents - into their puppet-zombies. I checked the backs of people's necks for years after that. And I still avoid sandpits.

[Scurrilous]

13. LOL

That scared the @#$% out of me too when I was a kid.

Whenever I came upon a stretch of white sand I would run like heck to the other side for fear I would be sucked down. Not easy in a neighborhood dotted with slash pines and sand.

[Frank Cannon]

63. Says the DUer with the creepiest/scariest avatar on this forum.

Seriously, I jump in my seat whenever I scroll that thing up. WTF is that?

[IcyPeas]

28. Invaders from Mars scared me to death....

my sister and I used to share a bedroom. I leaped onto her bed from my bed one night because I didn't want to touch the floor. :scared:

[ohiosmith]

12. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

I still check under my bed.

[Systematic Chaos]

14. Scariest movie I ever slept through as a child: JAWS.

And my mother was apparently very relieved that I was too tired to stay up through it. I would have been 5 years old. :rofl:

[Amaril]

15. Snow White

I was 5, it was being re-run in theaters, and my parents took me to see it.

I remember hiding my face behind a huge (or at least I remember it as huge - I was 5) bag of potato chips during the scenes with the evil queen. She terrified me.

[Blue_Tires]

16. Creepshow (the scene with the bugs)

I have an insect phobia lasting to the present day because of that fateful night...

[dawg]

17. For some reason, this scared me ...

And it was one of those made for televison movies - a mini-series, I think.

I feel kind of ashamed now.

[Ahpook]

23. Why? :)

There are some scenes in this movie that are terrifying.


Good choice :)

[bif]

18. "The Creature from the Black Lagoon".

And "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

[Old Troop]

19. "Invaders From Mars"

People would be swallowed up by the earth then have a device planted in their brain to control them. I was about 8 when I saw it and slept on my back for weeks to avoid the implant machine!

[TBA]

20. The Wizard of Oz - nightmares about tornadoes after that - nt

[OllieLotte]

25. Wicked witch of the west terrified me....our set was B&W too.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

31. Aghhh!!! The talking trees! Flying Monkeys!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

32. dupe

[tblue]

37. Yeah, the trees with their gnarly hands!

Scared me too.

[GusBob]

107. me too until this day eom

[hunter]

21. Lord of the Flies, 1963 version.

I don't remember how I came to see it, maybe I was 8 or 9 years old. I'm pretty sure my parents wouldn't have inflicted it upon me, but some of the other adults in my life were pretty strange and we had cable, which was a new and novel thing.

wikipedia

Turned out my junior and senior high school experience was a lot like that movie. Fortunately I quit school and escaped with my life. Some kids weren't so lucky.

[Lars39]

22. Toss up between House of Wax(1953 version) or The Pit and the Pendulum.

:scared: Also saw Psycho and The Birds waaaay too young.

[mtnester]

24. When A Stranger Calls , My Bloody Valentine, Rosemary's Baby, The Thing, Halloween, Wait Until Dark

the original version on everything except The Thing (Kurt Russell version)

I loved the Blob

On Edit - as far as suspense goes, Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark was amazing.

[City of Mills]

26. The Thing

I also saw Phantasm at a drive-in when I was very young, but I still have a hard time watching The Thing, even today.

[EOTE]

75. +1.

I assume you're talking about the 1982 version. I saw it when I was probably 6 or 7, it scared the crap out of me, but I loved it. It's still one of my favorite movies. Unbelievable special effects. Not for the time, just unbelievable period.

[ElboRuum]

27. Alien

For those into sci-fi/horror film math, the conversion factor is...

1 chestburster at age 9 = 2 weeks of nightmares.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

80. Mine's Alien too

I saw "Aliens" first, which was basically an action movie, and I thought, "That wasn't so bad, so "Alien"'s probably not that scary either."

Boy, was I wrong...

[Mike 03]

29. Brian DePalma's THE FURY

This movie starred Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving, and it included characters that made me care, and some of the bloodiest deaths I had ever seen, including a man with telekinesis elevating a woman and "spinning" her to death as she hemorrhaged. It was incredible and it has stood the test of time. Classy, almost symphonic horror, and even Pauling Kael rated it as one of the best films of the year.

[CBGLuthier]

65. An outstanding film. Saw it without any knowledge

when it was brand new. I own the soundtrack and watch the movie every few years.

Did you know Bernard Hermann was supposed to do the score but he died the day after finishing Taxi Driver. So DePalma asked that John William attempt Hermann's style. I think the result was very damned good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SEFRWjATqM

[femmocrat]

30. "Pinocchio"

I was hiding behind the seat with my hands over my eyes when the whale went on a rampage.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

33. I thought Arsenic and Old Lace was scary when I was a kid.

The humor was lost on me. I just thought there was some bad guy in the house trying to hurt Cary Grant and his aunts.

[mucifer]

34. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Scared the living crap out of me . Nightmares for weeks. I was 4 years old. My mom sent a nasty letter to Roger Ebert :) (such a Jewish mother).

[GoCubsGo]

38. The Wizard of Oz

I had a big tornado phobia when I was a kid, and the tornado scene scared the crap out of me. It wasn't until I was in my teens that I could actually sit and watch it. Amazing, considering the "tornado" was nothing but some twisted nylon stockings. LOL! The flying monkeys used to scare me, too.

[scorpiogirl]

40. It's a toss-up

Both Exorcist and Amityville Horror scared the shit out of me. Incidentally, I saw Linda Blair years later at a dry cleaners. Probably around '90.

[Skittles]

41. The Haunting, 1963

yes INDEED

[texanwitch]

42. Yes, hands down.

The sounds of the knocking on the doors.

I wouldn't walk down a dark hallway after that.

The movie is still scary.

It is best to watch it with the lights out, alone.

Bring a flashlight.

[Skittles]

44. no blood, no real special effects

just good old-fashioned spookiness :thumbsup:
and that MUSIC :scared:



I swear that movie will always stand the test of time

[texanwitch]

46. The movie is so scary because it is b/w.

Simply little special effects is all you need.

I scared some teenagers with that movie, still works.

Dark and stormy makes it better.

[Skittles]

47. yesssss

with howling wind - OMG :D

[texanwitch]

48. I had fun with the kids.

Before the movie was over everyone was sitting together.

No one wanted to sleep with the lights out.

One poor girl had a cat crawl on her and she screamed.

You have set the mood.

[Skittles]

52. YEE HAW!

:rofl:

[texanwitch]

54. The kids were 15 and 16 years old, thought they were tough.

They didn't want to watch a old b/w movie.

Nothing scared them.

They wouldn't walk to the bathroom by themselves after this movie.

It was a dark and stormy night, with lighting and thunder.

Perfect.

[Skittles]

57. No one will come any further than that

In the dark, in the night

[texanwitch]

78. She was scary.

I bet the ghosts were afraid of her.

[Skittles]

86. remember her husband?

I had a feeling he ALWAYS hung out by the gate, miles from the house :o

[texanwitch]

91. I don't blame him.

His wife was scary.

I bet they got paid alot.

Who else would do that job.

[Skittles]

92. think anyone else would do this job?

.......all you CITYFOLK, think you know EVRUHTHING :D

[texanwitch]

93. Lines like that made the movie scary.

You are getting set up.

I need to see the movie again, with a fresh victim.

We used watch it in our haunted house in Austin.

That was fun.

Then we would send the victims upstairs to the haunted bathroom.

Good days.

We were just kids.

[Grantuspeace]

49. agree n/t

:)

[Skittles]

53. YOU KNOW IT Grantuspeace

:hi:

[texanwitch]

94. Score, it is on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAo6WwpV3jk

[Silver Swan]

45. I never saw a scary movie as a child

But I did see the preview (as it was called back then) to "The Man Who Turned to Stone." It seemed super creepy and scary to me, so much so when I finally watched it on the late night movie on television as a young adult, it still seemed creepy and scary.

Without that early preview, I probably would have laughed at it.

[Grantuspeace]

50. Agetha Christie's Ten Little Indians #2 n/t

:S

[Richardo]

51. A television movie from 1970 called 'Crowhaven Farm'

It had to do with witches. I can't remember anything in particular about it, except that it scared the hell out of me.

[Frank Cannon]

64. Ah, yes. One of those ABC Movies of the Week.

They had some other crazy scary ones, like Duel, Trilogy of Terror, Bad Ronald, and my personal favorite, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.



Those were good times.

[sakabatou]

55. Running Man

[Flaxbee]

56. Salem's Lot and The Exorcist. Horrible horrible horrible

One of my sisters is 10 years older than I am; she was 16 when all of these movies were coming out and I'd sneak down the stairs to watch them when she did...

Really wish I hadn't.

Oh, and The Shining.

[Iggo]

59. I Drink Your Blood messed me up for a little while.

The Legend Of Hell House, too.

[Rhiannon12866]

60. Vertigo

I saw this Hitchcock movie when I was nine or 10 and I wasn't the same for days, still gives me the creeps today, remembering how scared I was back then. And I'm still afraid of heights... :scared:

[CBGLuthier]

61. Homicidal, William Castle's knockoff of Psycho

The, you may kiss the bride scene and the mute lady in the wheelchair's head rolling off made for quite frightening viewing.

I have seen it since. Not as scary and the twist is obvious but still reasonably well made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfB3zazCKvc

[PassingFair]

67. Night of the Living Dead. I stayed up late and watched it after my Grannie went to sleep.

WHAT WAS SHE THINKING!!!!????

YEARS later, I went to a midnight showing with
some friends, and was SHOCKED to discover that
it was a COMEDY!?!

NOT so funny for a 10-year old.....

[raccoon]

68. "House on Haunted Hill," with Vincent Price. Scared the dickens out of me.

I saw it on Shock Theater on a Saturday afternoon.

[Bake]

70. Freakin' "Psycho." The original, of course.

I still can't take a shower in the house alone without looking outside the shower curtain every couple of minutes.

:hi:

Bake

[givemebackmycountry]

95. Bingo!

When Arbergast got stabbed at the top of the staircase, and Norman Bates (dressed as Mommy) flew down the stairs as Arbergast fell, only to continue to stab him at the very bottom?
That about did it for me.

My Mom went to see it in the theater when it first opened.
She said people went running out of the theater when that scene happened.

[Bake]

99. Somebody used to sell a "Psycho Shower Curtain!"

Has a silhouette of a man with a raised knife ...

I wouldn't buy that in a brazillion years!!!!

YIKES!

Bake

[HopeHoops]

71. Bambi

[charlie and algernon]

72. Puppet Master 3

there's a scene where two puppets hide under the bed and kill two people having sex. I was afraid to let my feet get anywhere near the space under the bed for weeks. :scared: :rofl:

[Deep13]

74. 1979 Dracula.

Saw it on TV when I was 12.

[livetohike]

76. The House on Haunted Hill - saw it at age 7 in 1959

at a matinee.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI2NTAyNzk1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjQwODEzMQ@@._V1._SY317_CR4,0,214,317_.jpg

Second place honors go to Village of the Damned

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU5NzY5NzM5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjMwMDczMQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg

[tblue]

88. Was that Vincent Price & the skeleton dropping the woman into the vat of acid?

[livetohike]

97. Yes and blood dripping from ceilings

:scared:

[kaiden]

77. Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Still skeered of that Banshee to this day.

[Inspired]

79. 13 Ghosts

[texanwitch]

81. I remember the cover over the bed coming down so slowly on the little boy.

I would never sleep on a bed like that.

[Rambis]

82. The Legend of Boggy Creek 1972

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068837/

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

84. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 version

Watching on the late show and was afraid to go to sleep.

[Stuart G]

85. Pinocchio ...yes, Disney's

The scene in which the boys are changed into donkey's scared me.

[tblue]

89. ME, TOO!

Still kinda freaks me out.

[WilliamPitt]

87. A tie between Jaws and Poltergeist

Both of which I saw in the theater at entirely too early an age.

[Tom_Foolery]

96. The Exorcist. n/t

[a kennedy]

98. Darby O'Gill and the little people......

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052722/ that banshee was the scariest thing I ever saw as a kid..... :scared: :scared: :scared:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

100. The Blob and The Incredible Shrinking Man and Mothra.

I was two, at a Saturday matinee with my big sister.

Wayyy too young. I still refuse to see horror movies.

[Liberal_in_LA]

101. watching twilight zone late at night when I shouldn't have been - one episode scared me for life

The old black and white twilight zone

[geardaddy]

105. Psycho

Saw it when I was in 7th grade. Could close my eyes in the shower for a month.

[my2sense]

106. Halloween n/t