Are you afraid?
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Weinergirl
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OK so I probably deserved the scare-I sneaked into the living room well after bedtime to watch TV and it was on.
The Island of Dr. Moreau-the original not that Val kilmer thing with Brando. Speaking of the more recent version-what was that little side kick/servant guy anyway?
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The Island of Dr. Moreau-the original not that Val kilmer thing with Brando. Speaking of the more recent version-what was that little side kick/servant guy anyway?
Wg
Has no one watched the remake of The House on Haunted Hill? As far as movies go, it was pretty freaky. The ending was hokey but it was one of the few scary films where they actually used the right amount of gore instead of desensitizing the whole audience right from the start.
Final Destination was kind of chilling in it's own way if you ever managed to stop laughing about the bus scene. (My friend didn't) It was particularly unique in that there wasn't really a frightening antagonist.
All the Stephen King movies that I've watched used the cheapest scare tactics like loading a scene with gore or having the badguy pop up from behind with a really loud noise once in a while.
Final Destination was kind of chilling in it's own way if you ever managed to stop laughing about the bus scene. (My friend didn't) It was particularly unique in that there wasn't really a frightening antagonist.
All the Stephen King movies that I've watched used the cheapest scare tactics like loading a scene with gore or having the badguy pop up from behind with a really loud noise once in a while.
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Its a tie between....
The Day The Earth Stood Still (I think I was 8) and The House of Wax (I think I was 9 and it was in 3D). Both movies scared the daylights out of me.
The robot in The Day etc. killed soldiers with a death beam. This was in 1952 when we had air raid drills and were hearing about men from Mars. There was no Nintendo, No R rated violent movies and no violence on TV. I couldn't sleep for weeks.
The following year, I think,was Vincent Price as the evil villian in the House of Wax. This was in 3D. Whenthe fire melted the wax off of his face revealing a hideous monster underneath, I remember hiding under the seat in fear for my life. I think that was another month of sleepless nights.
Today a 4 year old would likely take these movies in stride. Can't say that I have seen a movie since I was a kid that has scared me, though. They just don't make kids the way they used to!!
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The Day The Earth Stood Still (I think I was 8) and The House of Wax (I think I was 9 and it was in 3D). Both movies scared the daylights out of me.
The robot in The Day etc. killed soldiers with a death beam. This was in 1952 when we had air raid drills and were hearing about men from Mars. There was no Nintendo, No R rated violent movies and no violence on TV. I couldn't sleep for weeks.
The following year, I think,was Vincent Price as the evil villian in the House of Wax. This was in 3D. Whenthe fire melted the wax off of his face revealing a hideous monster underneath, I remember hiding under the seat in fear for my life. I think that was another month of sleepless nights.
Today a 4 year old would likely take these movies in stride. Can't say that I have seen a movie since I was a kid that has scared me, though. They just don't make kids the way they used to!!
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Watch out for those somnambulists!
Most of the flicks that scared me as a kid, I now just watch and appreciate as good flicks. "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" with Vincent Price scared me as a kid, as did "Terror of the Wax Museum" with Lionel Atwill.
The biggest nightmare flick though is now one of my favorite movies: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", the silent German movie with the avant garde set designs. Something about the terror of suspended life/zombiedom always bothered me. "White Zombie" and "The Serpent and The Rainbow" were good, but Caligari is special.
If only Joe Flaherty would host a showing of this . . .
Most of the flicks that scared me as a kid, I now just watch and appreciate as good flicks. "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" with Vincent Price scared me as a kid, as did "Terror of the Wax Museum" with Lionel Atwill.
The biggest nightmare flick though is now one of my favorite movies: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", the silent German movie with the avant garde set designs. Something about the terror of suspended life/zombiedom always bothered me. "White Zombie" and "The Serpent and The Rainbow" were good, but Caligari is special.
If only Joe Flaherty would host a showing of this . . .
One night, many years ago, I stayed late a friends house watching a horrible B-movie on TV. It was called "Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell". It was about a German shepard posessed by the Devil. On the way home, around 2:00 AM, I was driving down US 31W when a big German Shepard came over a Jersey barricade right in front of me. The impact threw the dog back over the barricade. There was NO WAY I was going to get out of my car to check on that dog at that time!
Eve_of_destruction
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Ah, there are so many, where to begin?
Watched some movie one night as a teenager when my parents were gone about a teenaged babysitter being terrorized (maybe titled "Are You Alone In The House?" or something) when, at a crucial moment in the film where the villain breaks in through a sliding glass door, a friend of my mom's began knocking on OUR sliding glass door... I don't think my heart ever pounded so hard before.
In my entire life, I've only had one nightmare. I was about 5 years old, and I woke my parents up in the middle of the night screaming, kneeling in front of a snowy television screen. So the first time I saw "Poltergeist" I was really freaked out!
But the scariest movie of all time has to be "The Exorcist", because, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the time, it was based on a true story. The actual event took place in St. Louis in the late 60's, and involved a 14-year old boy. Growing up near St. Louis, man, that movie scared the bejesus out of me!
Watched some movie one night as a teenager when my parents were gone about a teenaged babysitter being terrorized (maybe titled "Are You Alone In The House?" or something) when, at a crucial moment in the film where the villain breaks in through a sliding glass door, a friend of my mom's began knocking on OUR sliding glass door... I don't think my heart ever pounded so hard before.
In my entire life, I've only had one nightmare. I was about 5 years old, and I woke my parents up in the middle of the night screaming, kneeling in front of a snowy television screen. So the first time I saw "Poltergeist" I was really freaked out!
But the scariest movie of all time has to be "The Exorcist", because, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the time, it was based on a true story. The actual event took place in St. Louis in the late 60's, and involved a 14-year old boy. Growing up near St. Louis, man, that movie scared the bejesus out of me!
Age two: "The Grinch Who Stole Chirstmas"
(I was two okay?)
I woke up screaming in the middle of the night b/c I thought the Grinch was coming to get me... why ask why?
Childhood:
RoboCop
Yea yea laugh all you want but that is my answer. My parents didn't mean to let me watch it... they didn't realize the group of people we were with had picked it, OR that it would be so violent.
Adulthood:
Let me think on it.....
(I was two okay?)
I woke up screaming in the middle of the night b/c I thought the Grinch was coming to get me... why ask why?
Childhood:
RoboCop
Yea yea laugh all you want but that is my answer. My parents didn't mean to let me watch it... they didn't realize the group of people we were with had picked it, OR that it would be so violent.
Adulthood:
Let me think on it.....
