#34056 - Tue Jan 29 2002 09:13 AM
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The first movie that really scared me was King's "IT". I think I was 10 then. But since then I found this adrenaline overdose rather pleasing and I became fond of horror movies.
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#34057 - Tue Jan 29 2002 09:41 AM
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i'll have to agree on "IT". It confirmed all of my fears regarding clowns. 
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#34058 - Fri Feb 01 2002 11:37 AM
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Poltergeist and Jaws. Both I watched w/out my parents' permission, and every night when I would wake up in the middle of the night I thought my bed was floating in the ocean, and that the big shark was circling it. Then after Poltergeist ( I was like 9 when it came out) i was CONVINCED that that damn CLOWN was under my bed!! Now they are both filed under a "must watch" whenever they are on TNT or something.
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#34059 - Fri Feb 01 2002 03:19 PM
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I'm with Ally, even though I wasn't really a child (15.) I saw The Exorcist unintentionally as well. I thought I was going to see Jesus Christ Superstar. Talk about your different ends of the spectrum! That movie still gives me the willies today. When it was re-released last year I think, I couldn't even watch the scenes on TV. As a matter of fact, it's creeping me out just writing about it!  I must move on to a different topic!!!!!!!!!
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#34060 - Fri Feb 08 2002 12:44 AM
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I just could not sit through The Exorcist--it creeped me totally out. "It" spooked me, too. And I had never really thought about Who or What was under a clown's face paint and wig before! Frankly, you do not have to be a child to be spooked by a movie. Boy, did I have nightmares after watching Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. It sure wasn't the Disney movie, was it?
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#34061 - Sat Feb 09 2002 07:54 PM
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Ailens- definetly Aliens. When I was about 7 I got out of bed and went downstairs for a drink of water. I passed by the den where my parents were watching Aliens and I came in and just then one of those aliens did that thing where they burst out of somebody or something like that, ever since then I have gone up to my room and stayed there with the door closed whenever my parents rent any Aliens movie.
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#34062 - Sat Feb 09 2002 09:59 PM
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ALL RIGHT, everybody out of the pool! The Disney Sleepy HOllow the poem or anything referring to the headless horseman scared the living daylights out of me! Also "Escape to Witch Mountain" with those Dobies chasing the kids!
Oh I know I know! Anyone see this horrid horror movie called Grizzly? A stupid campers get eaten up by a massive Grizzly movie? the female roles must have had to audition by screaming really well!
The worst part was the outhouse and this massive grizzly bear paw just ripping her off the seat!
You see I was an outdoors person but face it, we actually had real live bears visiting out campsite, so I avoided the "facilities" at night in the bushes for a few years!
Those glowing eyes!
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#34063 - Sun Feb 10 2002 01:26 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by stewpot:
This might seem weird but it was a comedy that really scared me when I was small it was "A Stitch in Time" starring Norman Wisdom and the part that scared me was when he was all dressed up in bandages like a mummy.(bet no one remembers that film).
I remember all the Norman Wisdom films.....he was great.
The mummy sequence was after Norman and Mr Grimsdale were training to be members of the St.John's Ambulance Brigade so that Norman could get into Hospital to see Mindy(I think). As for scariest movie...don't really have one, but do have what one could call an unlucky movie. Hitchcock's "The Birds". First time I watched it I sneezed, which started a massive nose-bleed and eventually led to me passing out from loss of blood. Second time I got up during a commercial break to go to the loo and passed out for some reason and my face smashed into some glass occasional tables. Suffice to say I have not watched it a third time 
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#34064 - Sun Feb 10 2002 01:54 PM
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Poor Sparky! I've never seen the Birds and now I'm not going to watch it anyway!
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#34065 - Wed Feb 13 2002 06:02 PM
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ALWAYS LOVED SCARY MOVIES... But the ones that interest me here are the folks who were scared by something not intrinsically SCARY! For me, it was a biblical epic when I was maybe 7 or 8. Don't even know which one it was....maybe Barabas or something....and there was a woman (mother), and her maybe 12-year-old child....and they had to wear bells, or ring bells, and walk around in the dark and rain....chanting "unclean, unclean"...for they had leprosy. I'm sure Jesus healed them or something in the end...BUT...that terrified me! I am a very empathetic person, but leprosy is still a topic which I can't bear to really hear about. It physically makes me upset! Also...Darby O'Gill...the banshee...........geez! Something a bit different, though. The Hawaiians(?). Missionary folk bringing the "message" to the islands. In one part, the ship is about to disembark the "afflicted" (with leprosy!) onto, perhaps, Molocai(sp), and instead of landing, they throw them all into the water something like a mile offshore and make them swim for it! They arrive, those who do, on the beach, exhausted and half-drowned, and met by a welcoming party of physically challenged, but able, disfigured people...who rob, strip and rape them as they lie there! GEEZ! Yikes! It was truly awful....scary! I DO remember that one...
Stop me now....
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#34067 - Fri Feb 15 2002 12:38 AM
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Nightmare on Elm Street, I was in fifth grade and that stupid freddy scared me senseless.Years later, I fell asleep during a nightmare on elm street , so see u can overcome ur fears.
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#34069 - Wed Mar 06 2002 06:08 PM
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A movie that I just not been able to watch, I think I got into about 15 minutes, was "What Lies Beneath" with Harrison Ford. Not that I was a kid when I watched it but there was something in there that gave me the creeps.. MJ
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#34070 - Wed Mar 06 2002 08:29 PM
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I would have to say the movie that scared me the most was one of the Freddie Kruger movies. I was about four and lying on my mom's lap.Whenever a scary scene would come up(like when Freddie came out of the waterbed) I would grab HER hand and put it over my eyes! *Sheesh* But I love horror movies now.
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#34071 - Wed Mar 06 2002 09:19 PM
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The two movies that scared me as a child was JAWS and The Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black. I had a nightmare about our blue rugs being an ocean and JAWS coming after me. With the Trilogy of Terror, I had nightmares about that little Indian doll. Cujo also scared me, that is until I read the book, then I felt sorry for the dog. When I was about 19, I saw the movie Dolls that movie was so scary that I had to put all of my stuffed animals away. Even though I saw the Excorcist when I was like 6, I wasn't afraid.
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#34073 - Wed Mar 06 2002 11:02 PM
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We're talking at least 35 years ago so my memory is a little faded but I distinctly remember one movie that I don't remember the name but the premise was this band of knights going on a quest of killing a dragon but there were traps along the way and one by one the knights were all getting killed with each trap. I think I remember one sequence involving Ray Harryhausen-like skeletons attacking and killing one knightand quicksand killing another. Can anyone help me out here?
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#34074 - Thu Mar 07 2002 01:28 AM
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Terry just brought back the tornado scene for me and I was thinking winged monkeys flying away with the scarecrow and Dorothy's cries. Or the witch showing her Auntie Em. I thought those were scary. We were once crossing the states to go to a conference in St Joseph Missouri, and a tornado hit as we were driving along. The radio announced it then went dead. So my husband said, "what the hell do we do now?" I said, "well, the only thing I can remember is the Wizard of Oz and her house going up in a spiral, so we need to get into a ditch or something if it hits."
Consoled by that, we continued and found a motel, naturally all the lower rooms were taken, so we kind of waited it out in the café, with the lights going off quite often. I suppose they'd all seen the same film.
In Memphis we had a couple of really close calls, the light goes yellow ochre and the temperature drops about 10 degrees farenheit in an hour. And the neighbor called me up and screamed, "what do I do, don't want my house to end up like Dorothy's!" "go into the bathroom, it's the safest place especially if you need to wet your pants!" We holed up under a desk in a center room in our house, with the baby's bed under there with me.
West Memphis, Arkansas got it, a supermarket was hit and there were a few deaths even.
I guess that movie affected more people than you can imagine.
I find the power of nature truly awesome.
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#34076 - Thu Mar 07 2002 08:29 AM
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You suppose it was the furniture moving around? You never know what will scare a kid though! I personally find dolls kind of creepy so that one show on Night Gallery with the Indian guy who sent a doll to the niece of the guy who'd worked there in India and it insinuated itself into her life and caused mayhem...I find that creepy! Fantasia could be scary. Disney can be scary for kids sometimes.
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#34077 - Thu Mar 07 2002 09:41 AM
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#34078 - Thu Mar 07 2002 10:11 AM
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"The Jazz Singer"...man, the way they got the voice to play at the same time as the picture!!!! Very unnerving!
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#34079 - Fri Mar 08 2002 06:08 AM
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When I was about 5 or 6 I went to a New Year's Eve party with my parents and it was the first year that I was allowed to stay up til midnight. All of the older kids started watching this film and I have no idea what it was called but all I can remember is piranas and lots of people being eaten by them probably somewhere in South America. I was terrified and had nightmares for weeks. I went to Guyana a couple of years ago and the others were all swimming in the river and I was just about to get in when I was told that there were piranas in there. There was just no way .... I can swim with caymen and anacondas and giant otters but there is just no way .... See, scarred for life! [ 03-08-2002: Message edited by: slingback ]
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Re: What movie scared you most as a child?
My scariest movie of all time is "Three Men and a Baby" I know that sounds funny but there is a dead boy ghost in that movie...super scary. 
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