Ever see a modern day tract-house Frankenstein movie when you were little which forced you to sit in the corner of your living room for DAYS so you could see every window and every door just to make sure HE wasn't coming in? Oh, ya...that happened to me! I loved the old Transylvania castle type Frankenstein movies, but Frankenstein with sliding glass windows and a picket fence sent me into a PANIC! "Wait! He could be at OUR HOUSE!"Edge had a post on THE BIRDS and it got me thinking about how scared we got as kids....and can STILL get! There's a billboard nearby which has a bunch of 3-dimensional birds standing across the top of it...Every time I drive by I want to tell Tippi Hedrin to "RUN, as FAST as you can!! They're plotting!"
You got a scary movie story?
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The Exorcist.
I couldn't finish it. I still haven't seen it all, and I don't want to. It doesn't help that my mom told me she was nine months preggo with me when she saw it.
thanks, Mom!!!
The Great Gadsbama. It's the story about a po' kid who is mentored by communists, anarchists, corrupt politicians, and terrorist sympathizers all his life. Through perseverance and deceit, he rises to become the savior of all mankind.
It was scary stuff; it made me pee my pants more than once. I could only watch it once, though.
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" I still flashback to the scene with the dead bird on the serving platter.
Return of the Living Dead..
the tarman freaked me out, I was sleeping at a friends house and was 10 years old, I wore a football helmet to bed..
I think I'd have to say Psycho.
After seeing that movie I think it was baths for me for about a month.
I don't like shower curtains you can't see through to this day.
Thank goodness for glass doors.
Blessings.
Wow. The Birds... I haven't thought of that one for a while.
As for creepy movies, the creepiest was The Ring. Now, don't watch this.
Me too I.H.S.,
Psycho.
I wouldn't take my shower until my husband was home.
The Exorcist was scary, but I had read it and that bothered me more. I finished the book at about 2AM, and when I checked the children before I went to bed, I could have sworn my son's room was colder than the rest. Of course then I coudn't get to sleep.
I do like scary movies, suspense thrillers, not gory.
The scariest are stories that could really happen or have happened.
Pris
The original Blob.
When I was a kid we only had air conditioning in the living room, so the windows in the bedrooms upstairs were open. I had this image in my head of the Blob coming slowly through the window screen...
Original Night of the Living Dead STILL creeps me out, too.
Silence of the Lambs.
What made this movie so scary for me was the fact that there was nothing fantastical in it at all. Everything in the movie could be going on in your own neighborhood right now. SCARY!!!
I love scary movies, but not gore .
My favorite from childhood was the original: The Haunting.
( Based on Shirley Jackson's story).
Begged to be allowed to stay up and watch it, and also Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
Movies, that really build the suspense, give a good atmosphere, are things I look for.
ALthough, the original movie version of The Time Machine, from the 1960's scared me. When the people would deal with those awful Morlocks, oooooh.
I saw it at age 8 and realized they were eating the people and that just got me.
WVDOTTR
When I was a kid my brothers and I would watch the Wizard of Oz on TV with our parents. Those winged monkeys scared us to death. I wasn't able to sleep without nightmares for days. Winged monkeys, diabolical.
Mustang, please ! PLEASE!
there's a LIMIT to the terror we can describe here...PLEASE, STOP!!!
I should have mentioned 'KEEP THIS A HORROR FILM, DON'T SAY ANYTHING THAT'S VERY HORRIBLE AND IS TRUE, TOO...THIS IS JUST TOO, TOO MUCH! you should have KNOWN better....How can I ever trust you to comment here again!? DO YOU BLAME ME?
heh heh (good one, Mustang..!!)
Pinky, I've never seen Exorcist, either.
Karen....WHAT a creepy film that was.......the PURE EVIL in Bette Davis..you're right! And so realistic. I live literally 10 miles from that HOUSE!
Misfit...SHIVER!!
IHS..Pris..PSYCHO is probably responsible for more people taking baths than anything in the WORLD, right? eeeoooouu!! That old house burned in the last Universal City Fire...it was SO creepy to see it when I was a child on the bus tours with relatives from the East Coast, you know?
But, then I got to see LEAVE IT TO BEAVER's house, too..and that was reassuring.
Anybody see Beaver on TV anymore? I NEED A BREAK, I need goodness and simplicity!
Brooke..never saw Blob..FJ..I am NOT going to click on that link with that warning! NEver saw THE RING
Never saw Silence either, Pops! Man, I'm such a wuss!! This is fun..I hope we get more!
WV...I know you like horror! Sweet Charlotte is very good..
L&O...Our next door neighbors were the first color TV on the block and had all us kids over for WIZARD.....a family joke is how one of my sisters went SCREECHING back to our house..to the nice, black and white world she was used to! She was HORRIFIED by the Wizard of Oz, but I'm not sure...I think the monkeys or the trees throwing apples!! To this day, we tease her when something scary happens "So, you running home now?!" Actually, Julie Brown was the family daughter/ I think she's an actress/comedian now? There's an adorable Black Julie Brown on TV from England but the neighbor was White......anybody know of her work? She never made it big, as far as I know.. but was fairly well known from what my sisters tell me..
The scariest movie I ever saw was Arachnophobia which I watched on a battery powered 9 inch TV in the jungle of Venezuela!!!! Too realistic.
Then I did the same stupid thing years later by watching Anaconda in the jungle.
Darn you, FJ......
Exorcist. Hands down....
Another one that freaked me out is not a movie but a Twilight Zone episode, the one with the talking doll: "I'm Talky Tina, and I don't like you..." Shiver!
The Incredible Shrinking man. I wish I hadn't even typed that out. I have an irrational fear of spiders, & of course there was a BIG one in this movie! It's an oldie & a baddie.
Pinky,
Now to save yourself, just make 10 copies and pass them along...
For a little older movie how about "The Dark Night of the Scarecrow"
...and now a commercial interruption brought to you by the California Beach Tourism Commission...
LOL!
Double darn you, FJ!
You are eeeeevil.
I watched the Birds when I was fairly young, I always thought it was scary.
Modern movies, I think The Ring is pretty scary.
Yes Z, I've heard of Julie Brown. She has red hair, or used to. I think she had her own show at one time, and she was pretty funny!
Z, Silence of the Lambs was a good movie, and Anthony Hopkins was outstanding. The book was very good too, and the movie was true to the story.
Yes Pops, I agree.
But Brooke, Steve McQueen was in the Blob. His debut I think. Who could be afraid when she could watch Steve McQueen? Oh, I guess you were too young to appreciate that.
Pris
How about this...
Or this...
Or this? ;)
Pris: Yeah, I think I was about four or five or so...
Great...
Now I've got to go to bed. Thanks y'all.
The Ring. I knew it was bad, but I wasn't happy until I rented it.
Then I saw the little girl's face when she came charging through the tv screen. That is the scariest thing I've ever seen. I can't forget it.
Brooke, Oh you were little. No wonder you were so scared.
Please excuse me, sometimes I forget how old I really am, it's so much easier that way. Ha, Ha.
Pris
Those winged monkeys in The Wizard of Oz were bad..oh yes.
But I also enjoyed the B movies of the movies, with the orginal ,Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Saw that when a child, and used to watch truckloads of watermelons, very closely.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow has good atmosphere.
The old , Spiral Staircase had it, and really , the Uninvited , with Ray Milland, was spooky, with out being gross or gorey.
WVDOTTR
What the HECK is THE RING and will someone tell me what FJ's link is so I don't have to be scared out of my wits!! I actually haven't opened it..!!!
What the HECK is THE RING
Isn't it a remake of a Japanese version? Which is scarier? the Remake or the original?
I'd say the scariest was the Exorcist; I don't remember all of it, and refuse to see it as an adult.
Salem's Lot scared me as a child, too. I also recall a commercial from the early 70's advertising a movie that I think was called "It's Alive". I never saw the movie, but I remember the commercial: A baby carriage was slowly rotated and then you see a claw-like limb hanging out of it. As a little child who wasn't expecting it the first time, it freaked me out. Every time that commercial came on, I'd hide or look away from the tv.
Dangit, Brooke.
You had me skeered pretty good, but you redeemed yourself with the Scary Mary bit.
Z, DON"T WATCH FJ's link. Trust me.
It's creepy.
z - In the Ring there is a video and if you watch it you will die.
There is a little girl, and her face is so scary, and she comes out of the video and through the tv.
I've never seen anything like it. That was Naomi Watts' big breakthough in acting. It creeps me out just talking about it.
I'm in the middle of watching the one Mustang wrote about. Scary shit all right!
The second scariest was Hitchcocks "The Birds" seen in 3D with wrap-a-round sound at, if I remember correctly, Universal Studios. Friggin birds flew RIGHT at your head! Really amazing stuff!
Sue...You just took care of any possibility I'd see that! Thanks. NO WAY >>>ZOWEEEE!!!
Average...VERY scary, huh?
That BIRDS thing is SO bizarre, isn't it....? very weird ...EVERYONE hates THE BIRDS!!
I hate Mustang's film the most! And we're LIVING it.
Actually the most frightening movie I ever saw had no supernatural element at all but kept me biting my nails until it ended was Deliverance. Four friends lives were seriously threatened by an enemy they couldn't see.
I didn't see The Exorcist until a few years after it came out, but I was reading the book on our school bus, and just as I was getting to the part where the girls bed was shaking, while we were parked in the elementary school bus lot waiting for the little kids - HS boarded first - another bus slammed into ours and I jumped a mile.
Tough to frighten me but The Exorcist was a severely nasty film. Got the fright level going.
Only film I can think of that's close is Psycho.
Of course, watching anything by Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Harmony Korrine, Stephen Smith, George Lucas or Stephen Spielberg is frightening in an entirely different sense.
Brooke..never saw Blob
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If you have a Netflix account, by all means, give it a look.
Criterion picked up the rights and the print is very good, really vivid colors and there is an excellent commentary track by a "B" movie expert.
Of course now it's more comic than scary but it was an example of many instances where the "B"s had very good production values.
Plus you get Steve McQueen in his first role.
Shorpat, GREAT story! Laughing just thinking about that!
Ducky....I don't quite get your George Lucas reference. The rest, I'm not half interested because I think I get your drift, but fire away if you want to.
z, Lucas is a useless hack.
Jaws (the original of course). Hands down. Lots of great competition though.
DUCKY, I'm impressed! You think all those guys are the same? I know Spielberg is, but.... Tarantino, too? Well, good on YOU!
I had a writing group for years and one of its members was a comedienne and pretty good writer. She comes in years ago announcing her son is making a movie.... A year or so later, she says the son's film is nominated for an Oscar. I never put her last name, Anderson, with Paul Thomas Anderson.
I think Boogie Nights was better than I'd thought I would...did you like it?
Nashville?
Boyz in the Hood? (I think this should be required watching for EVERY hood)
oh, DA BLADE! HOw did we all miss JAWS? I still get creeped when I see it on TV! Great pick.
Alien got to me. The sequels fell way off in terms of scare factor.
Same with the first Halloween movie. I shamelessly squealed like a school girl when dude sits up behind the couch!
Reruns of Reba are pretty scary too.
Nashville?
I think Altman caught a time when the country was loosing its way brilliantly. All values were breaking down.
Boyz in the Hood? (I think this should be required watching for EVERY hood)
Extremely under rated film.
Boyz in the Hood is an amazing work with an amazing message, but our left's kind of squelched it.
Good choices aren't necessary, just live for yourself....Sad.
mr. ducky hates any film or its' director that strays from social/ socialist realism themes.
FJ..and SOCIALISM is his ONLY "realism'...all the rest is what he thinks is RIGHTWING ...something.
Can't be REALISM if it's not leftist...
The scariest movie I ever saw is FITNA
Google it.
Lost in aztlan
GOOD POINT, ...is that you, M!?
EXCELLENT point...scariest yet..you're right.
Pet Sematary
THEM
CHUCKY
THE HAUNTING (disturbing, depressing, unnerving)
Only time ever REALLY upset me was a very old RADIO adaptation of THE LOTTERY (the short story that made Shirley Jackson famous)
And I cannot watch monster movies of ANY kind. And when children are made to act as agents of evil I walk away.
The scariest film of all is, of course, The Ten Commandments.
~ FT aka "Blind Pete" these days.
omg the scariest movie I saw was Friday the 13th ever since I saw it I keep throwing up once I see the death parts. It's about a young boy named Jason Voohees he drowned while the counclers were drinking,fooling around (if u no wat i mean),and not paying attention as he was drowning the 2cd scariest movie I saw was Drive Thru about a dressed up clown that was really a 18 year old boy that was burned for a "birthday surprise" he was knocked out and burned but some teens (moms and dads in the movie) played pranks on the clown his real name is Archie he is found killing the teens of the mom and dad a young girl at her 18th b-day he wants her to die I can't forget that Archie was obbesed with the young girl's mom its just wierd if you have on demand go to channel 1001 go 2 fearnet look 4 Drive Thru
friday the 13th i wached it when i was 10 and wouldn't go back to summer camp until i was 15
Pinky - that story about checking your sons room and it seeming colder has just scared the hell out of me!
I hate the Exorcist, I am still terrified of it. The first time I watched it I convinced my gran to rent it for me when I was thirteen, and then watched it in a pitch black caravan - nightmares for months. It's the demon's face, her pupil-less eyes, her tongue, the voice, the moaning, the laughing - I HATE it!
Even if I see a picture of her demonic face on the internet or wherever I start to shake!
THE WHITE BUFFALO
The scariest movie i ever seen was THE EXORCIST.
Its like after you watch the movie you can't get her out of your mind. I was like oh SHIT!!
WATCHING THE EXORCIST SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME.DAMN!!!!!
nothing is as scary as paranormal activity. if you think any of those movies are scary go see this one it will make you cry in the theater and then when you get home.you will not be able to sleep for days maybe even week depends on how you handle movies like that.
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