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Post by mikedetorrice on Jun 26, 2020 17:57:41 GMT -5
Well, although it wasn't a movie, the TV show episodes from "One Step Beyond" are among the all-time scary presentations for me. They were docudramas generally based on reported events and John Newland's direction and on-screen hosting of the series was superb, both memorable and appropriately frightening. And, perhaps above all, the intro/exit theme music to me remains to this day, utterly eerie and terrifying and a brilliant example of music's ability to frame or set a mood.
Mike
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Post by Highstrung56 on Jun 26, 2020 18:34:51 GMT -5
For Movies, this one.
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Post by Highstrung56 on Jun 26, 2020 18:36:27 GMT -5
For TV shows, this.
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Post by LadyJazzer on Jun 26, 2020 18:36:36 GMT -5
I was about 5-6 when I first saw Wizard of OZ on the screen. The Wicked Witch in the crystal ball, replacing the picture of Auntie Em, and cackling at Dorothy had me on the floor hiding under the seats.
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Post by stratcowboy on Jun 26, 2020 20:13:58 GMT -5
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. Yeah...I'm thinking the same thing as you. As a result, I didn't see many or most of the movies you guys are talking about 'cause I stopped going to movies when I was an adult. So as previously mentioned, the ones that got me going were the black and white deals from the early to mid 1950s.
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Post by windmill on Jun 26, 2020 23:52:47 GMT -5
HitchChicken's film "The Birds"
Think of it eveyrtime I see a large flock of any type of birds.
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Post by rickyguitar on Jun 27, 2020 0:41:04 GMT -5
I think it was Twilight Zone episode. Alien came to earth, somebody killed him for his force field, cut the controller off his hand. Then the bad person, maybe a woman (?) Could not turn it off and was trapped. But hey, alien is not quite dead and cuts through the force file eith his green blood oozing from vein were controlled was cut off. He hooks it back up, turns it off and dies BUT she still can't get out, she has his green blood on her hand and is trapped forever!!! Sat up with my mom for awhile after that one. Thanks mom.
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Post by oldnjplayer on Jun 27, 2020 6:02:25 GMT -5
"The Uninvited" with Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey. One of the scariest Ghost stories ever.... I also remember seeing "How the West Was Won" in Cinerama. Great experience. Also this was shown when Movie Screens were huge, and going to a Movie was a special experience.
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Post by TBird on Jun 27, 2020 6:41:04 GMT -5
When I was 5 parents took me to see The Shark Hunters. It was about the Navy experiments in shark repellents after the Indianapolis sinking. A little boy, my age, fell overboard and was immediately killed by sharks. Dreamed about that for a long time. Wouldn't see Jaws until it came on tv. Even now, I don't like swimming in the ocean.
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Post by HenryJ on Jun 27, 2020 7:18:07 GMT -5
We got our first TV set when I was 6. That year, I saw on TV a film of a windstorm twisting a bridge over the Columbia River, up in the Pacific Northwest, and hurling a car into the water.
We lived near Columbia, Louisiana, which has a bridge over the Ouachita River. After seeing that film, I would get nervous whenever we drove over the Ouachita River bridge at Columbia, Louisiana. Since that was Columbia, and that was a bridge over a river, I was afraid our car would be thrown into the river with us in it.
I was a neurotic kid.
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Post by stratcowboy on Jun 27, 2020 8:29:25 GMT -5
Here's your bridge...
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Post by HenryJ on Jun 27, 2020 8:37:50 GMT -5
I'm telling myself nobody was in those cars, stratcowboy! Bad stuff happens at about 1:18 in your video.
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Post by RedStrat05 on Jun 27, 2020 9:03:01 GMT -5
Bride of Frankenstein - The Mrs. obviously Agree, Flying Monkeys in Wizard of Oz Night of the Living Dead Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte freaked me out.
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Post by orrk01 on Jun 27, 2020 9:16:06 GMT -5
Highstrung56 nailed it for me. "Invaders from Mars" kept me awake for quite a few nights when I was a boy. I have seen it recently and, even though some of it is hokey, it still gave me the chills.
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Post by Bopper on Jun 27, 2020 11:35:44 GMT -5
I remember scenes from a couple Disney(!) movies doing it to me.
- The "A Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from Fantasia - the mountain turns into the Devil, all the ghosties flying around. (No, I didn't see it when it came out (1940)).
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People - The guy (not Sean Connery) opens the door to have the Banshee wailing away right in his face. Yeesh. The later scene with the headless coachman ("Darby O'Gill - Get in!") didn't help much. Came out when I was 8 (1959).
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Post by bassngtr on Jun 27, 2020 12:02:59 GMT -5
There's a little-discussed Twilight Zone episode 'Twenty-Two' that I saw staying up late with my Mom when she was so sick and well on her way to dying. I was 9 or 10. It's about a woman in a hospital for exhaustion who keeps having a dream about being in the hospital basement by the Morgue, and a creepy lady greets her at the door and tells her "Room for one more honey..." . My Mom loved that kind of scary stuff and I do too.
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Post by RonC Picker on Jun 27, 2020 12:22:32 GMT -5
I don’t recall being scared by movies/tv as a kid. I was an adult when I saw The Exorcist movie and immediately read the book. Scared me enough that I slept with the lights on for 3 nights, LOL. Being raised as catholic, and having been an altar boy, I believed in God and the devil.
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Post by langford on Jun 27, 2020 19:28:39 GMT -5
Another vote for the flying monkeys here. And the Wicked Witch of the West.
My other pick would be "The Omen." I saw it when I was about 13. It happened to be the late show on the first night my parents ever let me stay home by myself overnight. I totally lost it when the story started linking end-of-the-world prophecies to modern political events. I spent the whole night in front of the television set listening to the overnight snow to keep my mind off what I had just seen.
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Post by jonnyblooz on Jun 27, 2020 21:34:34 GMT -5
Jaws, then Halloween. I was 9 & 12 when they came out. The thing that makes them so scary are both basic concepts exist in n the real world.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jun 27, 2020 22:16:28 GMT -5
I think the first freak out I recall was an episode of the Outer Limits, The Masks.
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Post by Bronx on Jun 28, 2020 21:22:18 GMT -5
I don’t remember specific movies but I used to get freaked out whenever someone would get stuck in quicksand, mostly by the panic in their faces as they struggled to try to get out.
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Post by jdawg on Jun 28, 2020 21:57:45 GMT -5
My older brother and I used to stay up most of the night and watch scary movies on weekends when I was about 9 or 10 years old. It was usually a Frankenstein or Wolfman or similar movie. But one night the old black and white "13 Ghosts" was on and it scared me so bad I hid behind the couch and I don't think I slept well for a couple weeks after that. In the Dayton area it was hosted by Dr Creep and we loved to watch these movies and eat popcorn. They would show 2 or 3 movies back to back. I hadn't thought about that for a long time. I have a lot of good memories from those times.
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Post by budg on Jun 29, 2020 7:10:17 GMT -5
The Hearse with Trish VanDevere later in life, But I remember a movie called Black Sunday about a witch that came back to life after being burnt at the stake. It was black and white . Scared the bejesus out of me as a kid.
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Post by mcrofutt on Jun 29, 2020 10:11:18 GMT -5
"The Attack of the Killer Shrews" messed me up for years
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Post by Stratluvr on Jun 29, 2020 11:14:56 GMT -5
My father took me to see Jaws when I was around 8. That movie scared the bejesus out of me.
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Post by Riff Twang on Jun 30, 2020 6:09:19 GMT -5
Les Diaboliques, a french black and white suspense thriller from 1955 was the first film to ever seriously unnerve me as a kid. A wonderfully made film that has stuck with me. It was remade as Diabolique in 1996.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Jun 30, 2020 7:45:42 GMT -5
The earliest I can remember was some vincent price movie. There was a guy murdering people using a method related to their vice. Fat guy gets his dog ground up and forced down his throat, etc.
The most impact was Jaws. I grew up spending every weekend on the Mississippi. I wouldn't ski or tube the rest of the summer after I saw Jaws. I was 11 years old at the time.
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Post by Duke on Jun 30, 2020 8:45:26 GMT -5
Psycho and Rosemary's Baby.
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Post by Blacksunshine on Jun 30, 2020 9:23:54 GMT -5
Does anybody remember the movie "The Black Hole"?
There was a murderous robot named Maximilian, he scared me. I hated robots for years because of him!
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Post by jhawkr on Jun 30, 2020 9:31:23 GMT -5
I was a teen but Salem’s Lot was the scariest movie up until that time and still ranks in my top 5!
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