What's your Phobia, and Which Movie Exploited it the Best? - Page 2

Did any of you child fearers see Who Can Kill a Child? It's a little dated, but it's mostly fantastic.

I think that got debunked (size wise) in that article from one of the responses. It's a Tadpole Shrimp (Notostraca AKA Triops AKA Dinosaur Shrimp).

You can raise them like sea monkeys or hermit crabs.

Pretty ugly though, all the same.

There's help for you yet.

What is Pedophobia?

Defined as "a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of children", each year this surprisingly common phobia causes countless people needless distress.

To add insult to an already distressing condition, most pedophobia therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear. We believe that not only is this totally unnecessary, it will often make the condition worse. And it is particularly cruel as pedophobia can be eliminated with the right methods and just 24 hours of commitment by the phobic individual.

Known by a number of names - Pedophobia and Fear of Children being the most common - the problem often significantly impacts the quality of life. It can cause panic attacks and keep people apart from loved ones and business associates. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread, although everyone experiences pedophobia in their own way and may have different symptoms. .

Though a variety of potent drugs are often prescribed for pedophobia, side effects and/or withdrawal symptoms can be severe. Moreover, drugs do not "cure" pedophobia or any other phobia. At best they temporarily suppress the symptoms through chemical interaction.

The good news is that the modern, fast, drug-free processes of The CTRN Phobia Clinic will train your mind to feel completely different about children, eliminating the fear so it never haunts you again.




EDIT: Shit, I just realized what I've done in my past 2 posts. I should charge a per-post rate for my brilliant therapy advice.

Is there a condition for the unnatural dislike of whining kids on airplanes and other enclosed places?

By the by (in regards to the GRUDGE remake), I worked as a stage consultant/designer for an off-Broadway play in NYC. One of the 3 main actresses was KaDee Strickland. She's the girl who gets terrorized from the under-the-covers boogedy in the GRUDGE. She survived and is still alive and well (and on Private Practice), if it makes you feel any better.

I believe that's called "Jeffery Syndrome".

Yes, that's called "sanity".


I have the needle phobia as well. The entire subplot about Jared Leto's arm at the end of Requiem for a Dream was the one time I've ever felt physically ill in a movie theater. I had to look away for fear of hurling right in my lap.

I also have this nasty fear of being adrift at sea, so both Dead Calm and Open Water really fucked with me.

I remember watching Cocoon on HBO as a little kid and nearly puking up my Frosted Flakes. I now fear all things old and wrinkly. (insert old-man cock joke here)

Being eaten alive. Strangely, I can take it when it's zombies or cannibals (the inbred variety) doing the eating; but anything else, and I squirm. Case-in-point: I was channel surfing one day and came upon the remake of The Blob. I've never seen the entire movie. It was the scene where Shawnee Smith and two boys were in the sewer, and one of the boys happens to get grabbed by the blob.

Followed by skeleton of said boy.

I still haven't seen the entire movie. Oddly enough, though, I enjoyed Feast -- and that features [spoiler]a young boy[/end spoiler] being devoured.

You would hate this movie then.

You would hate this thread then.

Werewolf Girl loved that movie.

It's awesome if true, but the pics don't look quite right.

1) The first picture looks like a shot taken from the exact point above the creature. If it's five feet long, that means that the shot was taken from at least nine or ten feet off the ground. I suppose they could have positioned the creature below a balcony or something, but I don't think that's very likely.

2) The water around the thing's tail in the second picture has way too much surface tension to be a large puddle. It's bulging like gel does. So, unless that's gel (which, I suppose, is a possibility), it's very small puddle of water, which means that this creature isn't very large.

That's all good and fine, but nothing changes the fact that it is both gross and scary, and I would piss myself if it swam up to me in the middle of the sea and tried to get it's bite on, be it 5 inches or 5 feet.

This...



And this...



...go on, guess my phobia. Go on, guess!

Also, while it's not a very good movie, the recent Poseidon remake freaked me out due to my fear of drowning.

I'm not the biggest fan of heights, although for the most part I can deal with high places, as long as it's not too precarious.

Snakes, on the other hand, get me like nothing else. That scene in Last Crusade where River Phoenix basically takes a bath in garter snakes... worst nightmare, right there.

Beep beep, Iggy.

Real-life (or, at least, realistic) people indulging horrible traits and impulses do it for me. Horror-stricken and panicked crowds (the recent War of the Worlds comes to mind), angry, irrational mobs (The Mist), etc.

Scenes with human stampedes where you are caught in the middle of the terror really set me on edge.

Not sure if it's a fear of deep water or what but I hate fish of any size or shape *shivers* so I guess any movie with fish in it.

Zombie Holocaust/Dr. Butcher, M.D.. "Patient's screams disturbing me. Performed removal of vocal chords."

Same here. Especially horrible for this: that film (I don't know its origin) of a fox decomposing in time-lapse. It appeared in a Nine Inch Nails video and an episode of Wonder Showzen, and it fills me with dread. Also, and this ties into my second phobia (rats), that dead rat flung into the bathtub, then batted away and fucking stepped on barefoot in Pet Sematary. Sweet Jesus Christ, that was bad.

Also, the rats crawling over Winston's dead mother in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Fuck.

I have a huge fear of the Dark and dark water. Every time i can't see where i am or what's around me it creeps me the fuck out.

The Descent, I am Legend, and every water monster movie played well into those.

I'll go one better - I had a film cause a phobia. I saw Jaws way too young for a kid with my sort of over-active imagination and since then have trouble being out in open sea here in Australia above my waist - and certainly not where I can't touch the bottom.

Of course, here in Oz we actually do get real shark attacks so its not completely baseless - just a total over-reaction on my behalf.

It's a fortunate coincidence I found this thread again because a few days back I read something that really creeped me out.

It was in the prologue of a short story collection I read. Basically you're supposed to go somewhere quiet and close your eyes. You then have to concentrate really hard and try to imagine the inside of your home. It's night, completely quiet and there are absolutely no lights on inside, the only illumination coming from the light of the moon. I kept concentrating on this image for a little while and it started really freaking me out. I know it's not really a phobia and it doesn't have the same effect on everyone but it sure did a number on me.

Arachnophobia, definitely. I had my knees up to my chest and actually screamed when that fucking megamotherspider jumped at Jeff Daniels screeching. Eight Legged Freaks, not so much. I think it has to do with Arachnophobia actually having real spiders. I still remember that shot of the older dead couple sitting with their bowl of popcorn, little fuckers crawling in and out of their mouths and noses. Ever since then, I always check my popcorn for spiders.

Jaws gave me two things: a great respect for sharks (the great white is my favorite animal), and a fear of deep open water.

Seconding the needles penetrating skin thing. In the director's cut of the Excorcist, there's a montage of Regan at the hospital getting a bunch of shit done to her that was almost unbearably uncomfortable for me. Oh yeah, and she was screaming the whole time, too.

Yeah, that spinal tap scene does something to me even though I love the Zombi eye-pierce. It has to have something to do with the convincing portrayal of pain on a child actor's face. It looks like she's actually holding back tears of suffering.

There are two things in this world that scare me beyond anything and those two things are the ocean (more precisely: swimming in it) and being confined in a tight space. Both things have been mentioned already, but I am truly, utterly terrified of both things. Back in July I went to Cape Cod with my family and I wouldn't step out more than waist high in water. I just couldn't do it. I started physically shaking and hyperventilating. Two years ago I was in Florida with a few friends and I videotaped this huge, black shape circling beneath a couple of surfers about 20 feet out in the ocean. I can't watch the video without sweating.

When it comes to the claustrophobia, The Descent had me putting my hands over my eyes. I love the flick, but it gives me the willies every time. Also, I almost had to walk out of the theater during Kill Bill Vol. 2 during the "buried alive" scene.

I'm on the Arachnaphobia train, as well. The theater in which I saw it had the staff rig little plastic spiders to strings. As we filed out after the showing, they dropped those little spiders on us and I about jumped out of my shoes. It was phenomenal!

What a great thread! Living in Florida, snakes have always kinda freaked me out, just because they're all over the goddamn place. Here's one that we had to deal with last year - I found it on my friend's driveway when I was going out to my car in front of his house. We got it wrapped around a stick, and chucked it into the woods. Out of sight, out of mind!

Gators always got under my skin too, but more because of the way that they kill you. It isn't by eating you, they just grab hold of you, drag you underwater and wait for you to drown. Drowning is bad enough, but the thought that something's going to eat you afterwards is pretty freaky. And like snakes, the gators are everywhere - pretty much every single fresh water lake is guaranteed to have gators in it, which is a fun thought when you crash wakeboarding and you're right in the middle of the lake waiting for the boat to come back...

Did you make it through Kill Bill 2? That didn't bother me all that much, but when I saw The Vanishing it really freaked me out when when Kiefer wakes up inside of the coffin. Yikes.

Sounds crazy, but one of my favorite things to do when I go to the beach here is to see a big (3-4ft) dark blur go through a wave right before it crests and/or breaks before me. You can witness that in waist high water, but it's really a rush when you're a good five minute swim away from shore where you can't even touch the bottom - you're just floating in their neighborhood.

Strangely enough, it's only caves that have this effect on me. I'm sure there's something deeply Freudian behind it.