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Post by Blacksunshine on Jun 26, 2020 11:05:35 GMT -5
Inspired by LeftyMeister's "The Blob" reference in another thread, I figured this would be fun to find out what movies scared you?
For me, the aforementioned "The Blob."
The scenes in "Moonraker" when Jaws is on screen scared me too.
And a cheesy 80s horror movie called "The Boogens" about monsters that live inside your walls.
Ugh
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Jun 26, 2020 11:11:54 GMT -5
Old enough for black and white. As a kid, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte with the body parts, on TV, scared me to death, as did the silly Teenagers from Outer Space where people were blasted into skeletons. And of course Psycho. First real adult scare was the original Halloween.
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Post by hilltop87 on Jun 26, 2020 11:12:43 GMT -5
The Exorcist.
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Post by Taildragger on Jun 26, 2020 11:21:12 GMT -5
•"The Blob" (Steve McQueen version)
•"Psycho"
•"Wizard of Oz" (when I was very young) for most people, it was the flying monkeys. For me, it was the Wicked Witch's "soldiers".
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Post by bassngtr on Jun 26, 2020 11:22:37 GMT -5
I never saw the movie but I used to stay up very late as a teen watching TV. The trailer ad for 'Beyond The Door' (an Exorcist knock-off) absolutely scared the stuffing out of me.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jun 26, 2020 11:27:07 GMT -5
Children of the Corn.
It pretty much still does, actually, and I haven’t seen it in possibly 30 years.
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Post by revtones on Jun 26, 2020 11:39:16 GMT -5
The flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz and the original War of the Worlds gave me a thrill.
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Post by stratcowboy on Jun 26, 2020 11:47:19 GMT -5
"The Crawling Eye." And the original (1951) of "The Thing from Another World," which featured James Arness as the Thing--needless to say he wasn't particularly recognizable.
In a different sort of way, "A Night to Remember," the black and white original movie about the Titanic going down, was really, really upsetting for me as a young kid.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2020 11:51:23 GMT -5
Poltergeist, at least up until the "medium" shows up.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 26, 2020 12:06:58 GMT -5
When 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in theaters, the parents of the wee Peegoo took him and his older sister to the Cinerama Theater in downtown Honolulu to see the film. I was in the 2nd grade, and it scared the bejeebuz of me. It also was intensely compelling (the film imagery as well as the concept of the unknowable), and that is what really got me interested to learn more about science and the natural world. Yeah, I had nightmares, but looking back and seeing where this quest for knowledge took me in life, it was waaaay worth it. It was so impactful that I remember it as if it all happened yesterday. If you remember Cinerama--it was a theater presentation scheme that used three projectors in a criss-cross manner on a very wide curved screen that partially wrapped around the audience, along with six-channel audio that moved the sounds within and across the scenes. It was a much better concept than Imax, because it wasn't simply a film on a huge screen, it actually immersed the audience in the film. I gotta say, it sure added to the scariness.
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Post by stratcowboy on Jun 26, 2020 12:20:23 GMT -5
I was already 19 when 2001 came out. Didn't scare me, but it did blow me away. It still does. It has held up really well, and in my opinion, has pretty well predicted what's become of the human race and its tangled relationship with technology. Amazing film. For me Kubrick is the all-time greatest filmmaker. He worked in so many genres and in each one produced a legendary film. He's amazing.
I still have a 2001 DVD. And I also have the behind the scenes making of the movie, where it shows how Kubrick actually had built a full-size revolving space station to allow the actors to move on the curved surface, etc., of the interior. It was a pisser!
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Post by HenryJ on Jun 26, 2020 12:23:39 GMT -5
I never saw the movie but I used to stay up very late as a teen watching TV. The trailer ad for 'Beyond The Door' (an Exorcist knock-off) absolutely scared the stuffing out of me. Oh, I was an adult when Beyond the Door came out. The trailer ad freaked me out too. I never knew Hayley Mills's sister Juliet could be so scary.
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Post by gato on Jun 26, 2020 12:53:41 GMT -5
"Young" being a subjective term, I was about 28 when "Jaws" came out. That opening scene with "Chrissie" being eaten alive from beneath the water, has stuck with me to this day I had seen "Exorcist" a couple of years earlier, and found it compelling. But since there's no such thing as demons and possession, the fear factor departed in the theater parking lot.
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Post by BillytheKidder on Jun 26, 2020 12:59:45 GMT -5
Alien.
I seem to remember being at home, by myself, watching when it first came to Showtime or HBO.
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Post by jazzguy on Jun 26, 2020 13:06:11 GMT -5
"Willard" is the first one I can remember......seeing Ernest Borgnine covered in rats was pretty scary
"Susperia" maybe second, in a surround sound theater, the soundtrack was almost as scary as the movie
and who in the theater didn't gasp when Ben Gardner popped out of the hole in the hull of the boat in Jaws w/his eye hangin out?
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Post by Ragtop on Jun 26, 2020 13:08:25 GMT -5
I wish I knew the name of it, maybe you guys can help me out.
It was at a drive-in theater, I was in the back seat with my pajamas on. I was 4 or 5, so call it 1959-60.
There was a casket, and the casket was opened by someone. The corpse inside was green, and his eyes popped open and I think he reached up and grabbed the casket-opening person by the throat.
And I think the not-so-dead green guy was Boris Karloff.
Whatever movie it was, it scared the crap outta me. Haven't seen it since, although I would like to.
That and the first 5 minutes of "Jaws." I love the movie, but that scene is disturbing.
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Post by Taildragger on Jun 26, 2020 13:48:27 GMT -5
Alien. I seem to remember being at home, by myself, watching when it first came to Showtime or HBO. Yeah, that's one that creeped me out on first viewing even as an adult.
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Post by Sharkie on Jun 26, 2020 15:00:13 GMT -5
Yep. Without a doubt, the scariest movie I had ever watched as a teenager. I believe at that time the movie came with a lot of hype i.e. ...people leaving the theatres sick etc.
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Post by Tequila Rob on Jun 26, 2020 15:10:20 GMT -5
when I was a young, my brothers and my sister used to crawl into bed with mom and watch Chiller (?)..on Friday nights... it came on at 11 oclock or so.
The House on Haunted Hill was on one night and I flipped out during a scene where I think someone went into a closet to hide and backed into a ghoul!..
it took me weeks to sleep right after that!
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Post by Rick Knight on Jun 26, 2020 15:21:16 GMT -5
The flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz Me too. It seems silly now, but in my preschool days, they scared the crap out of me.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jun 26, 2020 15:24:59 GMT -5
The flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz Me too. It seems silly now, but in my preschool days, they scared the crap out of me. In fairness, if real monkeys flew, they would be absolutely terrifying.
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Post by insanecooker on Jun 26, 2020 15:34:11 GMT -5
The Ring (the 2002 remake). That was the one that I most remember the audience reacting nervously to in the cinema.
Another good one from the same time is Shutter (the Thai original, from 2004).
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Post by Taildragger on Jun 26, 2020 15:43:05 GMT -5
I saw this when I was about 11 years old. It creeped the heck outta me. I'll have to watch it again and see how I react, because I haven't seen it again since the first time (only just dug up the title on Google just now). Story was supposedly inspired by the real life grave robbers, Burke and Hare. They must've changed the title when the exported it to the USA:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2020 15:50:33 GMT -5
The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and those damn Oz monkeys, scarred me for life.
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Post by BigBadJohn on Jun 26, 2020 16:04:04 GMT -5
Wizard of OZ - the part where they walk in to see the wizard and you see his image with all the flames and stuff.
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Post by Ayns on Jun 26, 2020 16:06:10 GMT -5
I remember seeing Quatermass and the Pit on TV when I was *really* young and not being able to sleep that night.
I've never seen The Exorcist although it's BBC film critic Mark Kermode's all time favourite movie. I think it's only been shown on UK TV once, and I "taped" it but I never got around to watching it.
I saw 2001 a Space Odyssey when it was released. I was 8 years old and I didn't understand it, but it was, and remains, one of my favourite films.
I'm not really one for scary / horror movies, but I'll let you know if I can think of one.
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Post by modbus on Jun 26, 2020 16:15:52 GMT -5
The face melting scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark scared me as a kid, when watching it in the theater.
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Post by Ayns on Jun 26, 2020 16:28:19 GMT -5
Ive just remembered I used to hide behind the sofa when the Daleks were on Doctor Who, and the Cybermen were even scarier.
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Post by Taildragger on Jun 26, 2020 16:32:23 GMT -5
Man, I feel old: I was already in my 20s or 30s when some of the scary "when I was a little kid" movies you guys mention came out. Oh well...at least I'm not bringing up silent films...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2020 17:02:32 GMT -5
Ive just remembered I used to hide behind the sofa when the Daleks were on Doctor Who, and the Cybermen were even scarier. Now that you mention it, yeah. I remember that too. With my uncle chuckling over the "EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE" from the b&w telly at my granny's.
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