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What movie scared you the most as a kid?

post #1 of 118
6/8/04 at 8:46pm
Thread Starter 
I saw A Clockwork Orange on t.v when I was about ten or eleven.

I haven't watched it since for whatever reason. So, its still that one movie that really scared me.
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post #2 of 118
6/8/04 at 8:51pm
John Carpenter's The Fog.
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post #3 of 118
6/8/04 at 8:53pm
'Magic'

Freaky, damn little dummy...
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post #4 of 118
6/8/04 at 8:58pm
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'Magic'

Freaky, damn little dummy...
No, it was the fucking commercials for that film that were scary. The movie itself isn't at all scary and is actually pretty sappy and tedious. But those T.V. ads are legendary in the annals of my nightmares.
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post #5 of 118
6/8/04 at 8:58pm
Pet Cemetary....
damn little kid, I dreamt he was on the foot of my bed that night.
ANd the AUnt, screaming and shit and running towards the camera.. I went myself
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post #6 of 118
6/8/04 at 8:59pm
'Quatermass and the Pit"... when the guy is trying to rock the crane arm into 'shorting out the monster', and it starts moving closer and closer and closer...the sound effects increasing, the alien becoming more distinct...great thread idea, by the way!

Can we also include TV that freaked us out?
Can I nominate Star Trek (OS), first broadcast, of 'The Doomsday Machine'...The final act totally got to me, at whatever age I was at the time

Yet viewing what I first posted and now posted you can see some sort of connection...

Don't start me on 'Night Gallery'...
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post #7 of 118
6/8/04 at 8:59pm
I meant to say "wet" myself
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post #8 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:01pm
My mother took my sisters and I to Amityville Horror when it first came out and that shook me to the my core. That one's tied with Salem's Lot and Burnt Offerings. Seeing those flicks at a tender age was extreme for me.
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post #9 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:02pm
The commercial for "Beyond the door" used to scare the crap out of me. The Night Gallery" episode about the china doll creeped me out big time.
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post #10 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:11pm
I TOLD YOU NOT TO MENTION 'NIGHT GALLERY'!!
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post #11 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:14pm
I watched The Exorcist on TV when I was about seven or eight. That had me cowering under the sheets for a couple of days. The scariest thing I had seen before that were the Sleestak on Land of the Lost.
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post #12 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:36pm
'Trip through The Robot'
Lost in Space, 1967

Christ, I was 3-4 at the time, yet this still gets my lizard brain jangling...I originally thought the 'Robinson family' had been reduced in size, yet it seems the robot was enlarged...and (as a fan website says:- "Losing power and unable to be recharged, the dying Robot wanders into a gaseous area, where the vapors turn him into a giant. Smith and Will crawl inside him to reverse his ionic process, shrink him back to size, and possibly save him."

But neglecting to talk about the Robotic version of white blood-cells.... as far as I know, I've only seen this once, ...SO HOW CAN I KNOW WHAT ROBOTIC BLOOD-CELLS ARE WHEN I WAS 3???

DID I JUST TYPE THAT?


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post #13 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:43pm
Fulci's "Seven Gates" or something like that.... SCARY AS HELL.


Also:

The Pit. That movie was scary. Had a demonic teddy bear, killer troll creatures, and an evil autistic child. (I wonder if it's available online??)

Amityville Horror was memorable as well. Fave scene:
When the mother is in the daughter's room, and they both see 2 glowing eyes looking inside the room from the darkness!
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post #14 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:44pm
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Originally posted by Tindalos
'Magic'

Freaky, damn little dummy...
I saw the trailer for that when I was a kid, I believe in front of Smokey & The Bandit 2. My mom had to drag me out of the theater because I was screaming at the moving eyes...those eyes...

I also had a tough time with Carpender's "The Thing," but I grew to love that movie.

Probably the only movie I cannot absolutely revisit is "Pet Semetary" for obvious reasons.
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post #15 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:44pm
Twillight Zone the movie. When John Lithgow opens the window shade on the airplane and sees the monster pressed up against the window looking at him.

I was seven when I saw it with my parents at the theatre. At the end when the police were taking him away, I was convinced it was real for the longest time....
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post #16 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:57pm
Is Anthony's 'Magic' on DVD yet?

I actually love this film more than 'Silence of the Lambs' as far as Hopkin's talents go.

Superb film!
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post #17 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:57pm
The Dark Crystal.
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post #18 of 118
6/8/04 at 9:59pm
The boat tunnel part from Willy Wonka.
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post #19 of 118
6/8/04 at 10:29pm
Good movies that should have freaked me out didn't scare me as a child. Stuff like the Night of the Living Dead, Exorcist, Alien, The Shining, Halloween, The Thing didn't get to me at all. Let me see something stupid like Maximun Overdrive and I'd get freaked out. I had a phobia of trucks for years after seeing that. There was some horrible Candian movie about oversized killer rats that fucked me up too. I can't remember the name of it, but there's a scene where the rats get into a movie theater and start pulling people under the seat and biting off legs and crap like that. I was ruined. I sat in the middle of my bed with a baseball bat, afraid to fall asleep and have my legs dangle over the side of the bed.
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post #20 of 118
6/8/04 at 11:07pm
The Creeping Flesh! I caught this movie on TV when I was around 8 or 9, and it scared the heck out of me. I don't evev know what it was that upset me so much because similar movies didn't bother me at all, but it haunted me for years.
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post #21 of 118
6/8/04 at 11:23pm
Candyman scared the fuck out of me at a young age and the head-peeling scene from Nightbreed kept me awake many nights. Mind you, both are personal favorites now... funny how that can happen.

Damn Clive Barker and his childhood robbing imagination!
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post #22 of 118
6/9/04 at 12:00am
The Thing...I couldn't even watch it, but always would.

Agreed on Poltergeist.

And the only other one I remember is "The Gate." I still love that movie and it still kind of gets to me.
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post #23 of 118
6/9/04 at 12:01am
I never got the chance to see real horror movies (tight parent control), but I was PETRIFIED of the Terror Dogs in Ghostbusters.

AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO!!
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post #24 of 118
6/9/04 at 12:08am
The Last Unicorn is a truly disturbing childrens movie. Especially when you are stoned.
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post #25 of 118
6/9/04 at 12:17am
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There was some horrible Candian movie about oversized killer rats that fucked me up too. I can't remember the name of it, but there's a scene where the rats get into a movie theater and start pulling people under the seat and biting off legs and crap like that. I was ruined. I sat in the middle of my bed with a baseball bat, afraid to fall asleep and have my legs dangle over the side of the bed.
I think that's called "Deadly Eyes", a very loose adaptation of James Herbert's excellent novel The Rats.
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post #26 of 118
6/9/04 at 12:19am
This is a true story....
I was about nine and my father used to rent movies for us on Friday nights. Me and my younger brother would go to the wrestling tape section and my father would go off by himself. We rented a wrestling tape and he picked out what he said was a fung-fu movie. Back then I was big on those karate movies so I was excited to see his choice. We get home and he puts his movie in. This was no kung-fu movie, what he had said was called "How-Ling" was actually "The Howling". I shit you not. That movie fucked up my sleep for several months...that is until he rented "Funhouse" and I had a whole issue with sleep.
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post #27 of 118
6/9/04 at 1:51am
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Originally posted by Werewolf Girl is the Universe
The Last Unicorn is a truly disturbing childrens movie. Especially when you are stoned.
Wait a minute....are you my wife posting on this board and not telling me? That could be a direct quote from her!
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post #28 of 118
6/9/04 at 2:04am
Horror Express.... those zombie eyes got me. also the television show V, that scared me more than anything for the longest time. those damn lizards!!! The Reanimator i saw when i was in 4th grade also deeply disturbed me.
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post #29 of 118
6/9/04 at 2:47am
Alien, the Dallas/Air Duct sequence especially. Still think seeing that as a kid is to blame for my claustrophobia.
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post #30 of 118
6/9/04 at 3:18am
So many to mention, how should I begin...

Child's Play, sweet jesus,Child's play scared the crap out of me. The trailers, the posters, the big carboard cut-out of Chucky at the video store, I would cry with terror. My grandma got me a My buddy doll, it looked just like him. I would even close my eyes when I passed by the horror section. When Bride of Chucky came out, the tv spots brought back bad memories. I can't wait for Seed...

Seeing the T.V. movie "IT" as a child scared me as well, and all I saw was the opening sequence. I think it was on after America's funniest Videos, it came on. Those teeth, my god.

The first time I saw A Nightmare on Elm Street was on a halloween, and I didn't get any sleep, at all. I remember picking up my dog and holding her close.

Magic also gets credit, even though I have only seen the trailer.

The most resent chill I got was from the RE2 trailer, it was very well done. More trailers should be done like that. Could you picture a "Chucky" trailer that was like a Good Guy commerical? It would be brillant.
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post #31 of 118
6/9/04 at 3:39am
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Originally posted by Ratty
No, it was the fucking commercials for that film that were scary. The movie itself isn't at all scary and is actually pretty sappy and tedious. But those T.V. ads are legendary in the annals of my nightmares.
I agree. there was a similar converstion about a year ago and quite a few people mentioned that the commercial for Magic rocked their world. It gave me nightmares.
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post #32 of 118
6/9/04 at 3:45am
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Originally posted by Myer's Son
Pet Cemetary....
damn little kid, I dreamt he was on the foot of my bed that night.
ANd the AUnt, screaming and shit and running towards the camera.. I went myself

thank god im not the only one... the only thing on earth that haunts me to this very day.... is goddamn ZELDA and her freakish reappearance near the end of the movie.. darting toward the screen like the feaken definition of hideous

i pride myself on being a horror buff and not getting scared by all these 'super scary movies' out... but god damn.. i cannot watch Pet Cemetary without covering my eyes and ears during all the Zelda scenes... i get freaked out just thinking about "it".. *shudder*

oh.. and the mother ghost in Ju-On The Grudge 2... almost for the same reasons... this bloody.. oddly crippled freakly looking woman slowly lurching and twitching and jerking.. making bizarre gutteral noises whilst approaching her victim... ugh.. i cant take it..

give me freaky dolls, demonic-possesed children.. glowing eyes in a dark room... anything but those 2 goddamn women
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post #33 of 118
6/9/04 at 5:53am
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Originally posted by BillJohnson
The commercial for "Beyond the door" used to scare the crap out of me.
Bill, to this day, Juliette Mills "Whoooo are you" line is the single scariest thing I can think of .... My dad would always watch channel 5's 10 o'clock news, and that commerical would be on every night ..... Scarred me for life
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post #34 of 118
6/9/04 at 7:35am
Just remembered, the trailer for Monkey Shines got me shaking like a leaf when I was eight or so.
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post #35 of 118
6/9/04 at 7:38am
The Blob

...to this day, I can not watch it, the sequel or the remake...

It was actually "Beware! The Blob" that did me in, but now the whole Blob genre is forbidden to me...I just can't handle that, even to this day.

Ironic really, since Steve McQueen, my favorite actor is in it and I can't even handle watching it.




Honorable mentions:
Tourist Trap - all those moaning mannequins bugged me out as a tot. But I love the movie now.
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post #36 of 118
6/9/04 at 7:45am
OK, time to confess something to you all:

When I was a child I was piss your pants terrified of Mummenschanz .
That freaky mime group.

If there was a commercial on (if I remember correctly, their act was coming around the area), I would stop what i was doing and freak out and run from the TV.

When I saw a commercial, I once ran away from the TV and into the kitchen table and busted the corner of my eye open and needed a stitch.

Then in the TV Guide there was an ad for them, and I made my sister rip out the page and throw it out...

Of course she held onto the page and would trot it out and show it to me at wonderful times like dinner or once, at Church, and watch me freak out.

They really freaked me out.

I didn't know what they were called back then, so I called them "The White Lady" for some reason.


I mean, look at these fuckers!

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post #37 of 118
6/9/04 at 8:45am
Poltergiest for me, too. I'm positive my phobia of clowns come from seeing that movie.
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post #38 of 118
6/9/04 at 9:15am
Don't laugh - but "Watership Down".

There was some seriously fucked up shit going on in that movie. Especially when the warren gets gassed. General Woundwort also scared the crap out of me, and what with Fiver's psychadelic visions... I doubt they'd even have the balls to make kid's films like that anymore.

Also, the "Magic" commercials were scary as all hell. The movie, however, as observed, does not live up to them.
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post #39 of 118
6/9/04 at 10:57am
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Originally posted by hoggle5000
Twillight Zone the movie. When John Lithgow opens the window shade on the airplane and sees the monster pressed up against the window looking at him.

I was seven when I saw it with my parents at the theatre. At the end when the police were taking him away, I was convinced it was real for the longest time....

It was Will Shatner, and yes, it was fucking scary.
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post #40 of 118
6/9/04 at 11:33am
No, it was John Lithgow.

Twilight Zone the Movie
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post #41 of 118
6/9/04 at 11:38am
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Originally posted by kittyinjammies
No, it was John Lithgow.

Twilight Zone the Movie

Shit. Sorry. I'm going mad.
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post #42 of 118
6/9/04 at 11:40am
No problem. I looked because I wasn't sure either.
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post #43 of 118
6/9/04 at 12:39pm
american werewolf in london fucked me the fuck up.

i was only 9 years old when it hit drive ins and my parents took us to see it.

the "jolly roger" drive in double feature:
american werewolf in london
the blues brothers.

american werewolf fucking petrified me. i was literally shaking from seeing it.

damn i got jammed on that deal.
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post #44 of 118
6/9/04 at 12:50pm
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Originally posted by Tindalos
'Magic'

Freaky, damn little dummy...
This movie was so freaky to me, I became petrified of all ventriloquist dummies. I called all of them "The Boss" (Yes, I know that Hopkins was 'boss' in the movie, but I was a kid - give me a break). My dad being the great soul he is, would point them out every single time he saw one. We'd be in a toy store & he'd call me over "Hey, Doug, what's that on the top shelf over there?", at which point I'd scream "The Boss!" and run out of the store crying. Apparently it was hilarious.
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post #45 of 118
6/9/04 at 1:27pm
Hold on . . .is The Last Unicorn the anime movie? I think the unicorn's name was Unico and he was running around with a demon named Beezle.

There was this witch turning people into Lego-like blocks to add on to her evil "Lego castle" as I like to call it.

That is a trippy movie. Haven't seen it since I was a kid. Would love to see it again . . .possibly stoned - just kidding.

Edited to say the name of the movie I'm talking about is Unico in the Island of Magic . Watch if you dare . . .
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post #46 of 118
6/9/04 at 2:48pm
Killer Klowns from Outer Space fucking scarred me for life....I still can't watch it...
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post #47 of 118
6/9/04 at 2:52pm
The first movie to scare the shit outta me wasn't a theatrical release, it was when In Cold Blood was first shown on TV. And it wasn't necessarily the movie itself, as much as it was the fathom-deep voice of the announcer after commercial breaks saying 'DUE TO SOME VIOLENT CONTENT, PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.' Hehe, that stuff still sends chills up my spine on occasion...
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post #48 of 118
6/9/04 at 4:39pm
Way back in '74 my best friend and I went to the drive-in to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it was part of a double feature and I don't remember the first movie. We had a cooler full of beer and some weed, durning the first movie we just partied. We had never heard of TCM so it didn't seem like a bad idea when my friend suggested the we drop some acid. An hour of so latter when TCM started we were getting off on the acid very hard.

Latter when the beer and nature called we were tripping so bad and with the movie and all we decided to pee in the beer cans and pour them out the windows. We were just to scaried to leave the car.

It's now one of my favorite movies.
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post #49 of 118
6/9/04 at 5:13pm
Salem's lot & Jaws
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post #50 of 118
6/9/04 at 5:16pm
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I watched it for the first time when I was 10 years old. It was the most terrifying thing that I had ever seen. I was so scared, that I slept under the dinner table with all the chairs pulled in for three days before my mom caught me and made me return to my room....I'm still amazed that Leatherface never got me.
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