What movie scared the crap out of you as a kid?

[Laffy Kat]

It's trending on FB right now. I think it's an interesting question.

[lisa58]

1. House on Haunted Hill

[Laffy Kat]

3. That's mine, too.

And "The Screaming Skull". Had nightmares for years.

[lisa58]

18. I've never heard of that one

[raccoon]

121. That would be mine, too. With Vincent Price.

"The Screaming Skull" scared the dickens out of me a few years later.

[CanonRay]

25. That was a scary one

[orwell]

39. That movie was brutal.

I still can't watch horror films because of that movie.

[lisa58]

41. I believe it

[livetohike]

73. That's mine too. I saw it a few years ago and was still scared.

[samnsara]

175. the Crawling Eye...

...hubby and I both refer to foggy days as Crawling Eye Days.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

278. Yup... The guy walking out the door unaware it was on the roof, those tentacles...

[ploppy]

185. Me, too!

I was afraid of the dark for years after that movie. Still gives me the creepies.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

223. 101 Dalmations

Cruella wanted to make coats out of puppies!

[bagelsforbreakfast]

245. didn't see this before - but absolutely (the skeleton in the acid)

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. The Omen

And battle for the planet of the apes.

[putitinD]

4. Night of the living dead (1968 black and white). Seems lame by todays standards, but truly

did scare the crap out of in 1968.

[Laffy Kat]

7. For some reason I didn't see that one until the 70s.

By then it wasn't that scary, at least not in the same way.

[exboyfil]

80. Here is a short reenactment of the famous scene

That was the one that got to me as well. I saw it at home by myself. I was creeped until my dad got home from work. That never happens.

Saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the theater with my dad as well when I was eleven.

Carrie when I was thirteen with both my parents.

[putitinD]

104. too funny! I don't know why that movie seemed so scary then. I guess it was just a more

innocent time, when nobody locked their doors, left the keys in the ignition in the car and never thought anything of it. I remember we saw it at a local drive-in theater. and when it was over, driving home, there were no other cars on the road, it must have been about 1 o'clock in the morning. It felt like some kind of Apocalypse had happened!

[Laffy Kat]

160. ....

Coming to lick you to death.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

290. Awwww!!! Bad bad naughty puppies!!!

And I thought Mr peepeepuddles here was diving me nuts!

[samnsara]

178. that was one scary movie...

..when I worked as a High School counselor I actually got it added as an ASB film! The kids LOVED it!

[samnsara]

179. thats a classic!!!

[lark]

270. OMG yes!

I had nightmares afterwards.

[putitinD]

272. Brains! I want Brains!

[Phoenix61]

5. The Birds

I was about 7 or 8. My brother, who is 7 years older, was babysitting me while my parents went out for the evening. They told him not to let me watch the movie but he did. After the movie was over and I was in bed he went outside and started cawing and pecking on my bedroom window. Why do older brothers think it's funny to torture little sisters?

[Laffy Kat]

6. OMG. That is so funny. nt

[Skittles]

28. sorry Phoenix, that made me LOL

so do tell us.....how did your brother turn out?

[Phoenix61]

52. Sadly, pretty much a jerk

Born-again, right-wing, Trumpster. We weren't close before the election and haven't spoken in over a year.

[Skittles]

55. oh dear

very sad indeed

[Freddie]

124. Yes!

I was 9 or 10 when it was first shown on TV. I had a parakeet I was very fond of and was worried the whole movie about what would happen to the lovebirds. Really superb movie!

[Aimee in OKC]

126. "The Birds", as a kid. Probably because I'd read the story that inspired it, by

Daphne du Maurier, which had a bit more horror in that it didn't end like the movie. Ergh.

As an adult ... "The Day After" due to its realism portraying some of the aftermath of a nuclear attack.

[procon]

8. I was a big scaredy cat as a kid, and still am as an adult, so there are lots.

Bates Motel
The Birds
The Exorcist
Alien
Silence of the Lambs
Carrie

[Laffy Kat]

13. "Alien", yes and "Aliens."

Kids should NOT see either of those.

[lisa58]

26. I stopped watching scary movies after seeing

The first one...

[ailsagirl]

145. what, no "Psycho?"

[Nitram]

296. I didn't see 'Psycho' until a movie marathon in college.

Scared the bejeezus out of me. As did the Exorcist.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

9. The Innocents and it still creeps me out

[whathehell]

95. Wow...I just listed 'The Innocents' too!

No blood, gore, or special effects. -- virtually all suggestion and, scary as all hell!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

120. And incredible acting - kid who played Miles was great!

[pkdu]

152. and was in "The valley of the damned" too! nt

[whathehell]

155. Yes...I just googled him and he's

still.around, born the same year as me.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

162. And my husband. :)

[whathehell]

216. Surely

you jest..but do tell me if you're not.

[ailsagirl]

144. That's a creepy/eerie one alright

[Nitram]

295. Great movie. I recently bought a copy and watched it again. Brilliant!

While I didn't see it as a a kid, I recommend "The Changeling" as a great ghost story with Micael C. Scott in the lead role.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Fucking flying monkeys

[Laffy Kat]

16. How'd they do that? They looked so real. nt

[Brother Buzz]

24. They looked so real?

When I was a kid, they were fucking real!!!!!

[Boomerproud]

76. Psycho and Bride of Frankenstein.

Stayed up on Friday nights to watch Chiller Theater...bad idea.

[Thor_MN]

281. They dressed little people as monkeys and flew them on cable systems

So many of the Munchkins were also Flying Monkeys.

What scared me was the tornado. Growing up next to Lake Superior, I've never seen a tornado. As an adult, Ive lost two huge trees to separate storms, but both were considered straight line. One of those was a tornado about 3 miles from my house.

[yardwork]

163. I thought the Witch was terrifying.

I never minded the monkeys.

[Brother Buzz]

165. Witches were passe to me...

From my grammar school principal with the stinky perfume, to the old bitty up the street, they were everywhere, but I could cope with them. Fucking flying monkeys? No way!

[TexasBushwhacker]

254. My grandmother had to drag my mother out of the theater

My mother was born in 1934, so she was 5 when WOO came out. When one of the flying monkeys grabbed Toto and flew off, my mother just lost it. There's really a lot of scary stuff in that movie, including the scarecrow being torn apart.

[Betty88]

313. Right there with you bro

could never finish watching that movie, also Jaws we had a beach house...

[bluedigger]

320. I'd hide under the couch cushions when they came on.

[safeinOhio]

11. In 1955 mom took me to

the Werwolf movie one afternoon. Slept with the blanket over my head for a year after that.

[Laffy Kat]

21. I still love that one. nt

[woodsprite]

12. Poltergeist and The Poseidon Adventure

Wouldn't go to sleep in my own room alone for weeks after watching Poltergeist. I made my brother set all my dolls out in the hallway and close/lock my closet door.

As for The Poseidon Adventure -- I'm 53 and had the opportunity to go on a Disney cruise last year at Christmas/New Years for our 30th Anniversary. Nope! Not celebrating New Years on a ship in the middle of the ocean. We did Disney World instead Dry land, fake snow, wonderful time.

[Laffy Kat]

14. I was an adult when I saw "Poltergeist."

But I remember thinking that the movie exploits every single fear of children: closets, thunderstorms, clowns, things under the bed, etc.

[cemaphonic]

298. And that mirror scene, ugh!

Part of my childhood too.

[Laffy Kat]

19. LOL.

[Eugene]

57. The Poseidon Adventure

had me sleeping with the light on.
The fire scene was a vision of Hell.

[DeadLetterOffice]

139. That damn clown. Nightmares for a week... n/t

[CincyDem]

15. Wait Until Dark.

Audrey Hepburn, Richard Crenna, Alan Arkin.

Still afraid of stuffed bears after that one.

[PearliePoo2]

38. Oh yeah! My heart still pounds thinking about the light inside the refrigerator!

That is some fine acting!

[whathehell]

98. Yes, very scary!

Good pick.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. the Birds - nightmares for weeks!

[Skittles]

20. The Haunting (1963)

no blood, no gore, no real special effects, just spooky as hell

[longship]

62. You beat me to it!

I was in Jr. High School. A friend and I drove our bikes to the local theater, about two miles away from home. The ride home after dark was really, really scary. I don't think I slept that night.

It is still one of my favorite flicks. The book is awesome as well.

Here is something to remind you:

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

(The beginning of Shirley Jackson's novel.)



BTW, your pic is of Lois Maxwell, 007's original Miss Moneypenny!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

67. YES! Julie Harris, Claire Bloom.

Great movie!

[ailsagirl]

146. It was very creepy

Esp. when that thing was outside their door and tried opening the doorknob...

[Skittles]

219. the way that spiral staircase was filmed

[TexasBushwhacker]

256. And when it pushes against the door! N/t

[Little_Wing]

156. "Whose hand was I holding?" Aaaarrrrgh!

[ailsagirl]

227. I know, right????????

[amerikat]

181. The only movie that really scared me as a kid.

Warned me about stuff I would experience later. Didn't know it at the time.

[ailsagirl]

266. You experienced things like that yourself?

[uppityperson]

22. Them. It was the long scary lead up.

[Laffy Kat]

27. About ants? nt

[uppityperson]

32. Once we got to see it was giant ants it became less scary. But not knowing anything beyond

"THEM!!!" and clicking noises, that was scary.

[UTUSN]

289. Yes, "Them"!1 - and it didn't get any less scary for me knowing about the ants!1

That night I put chairs next to my parents' bed and slept right there!1

[happy feet]

23. Top 3

Night of the Living Dead (b&w)
The Excorcist
"Flying Monkeys"

[CanonRay]

29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[redstateblues]

204. The original scared the crap out of me when I was 12

[LakeArenal]

310. Yes! Original Invasion of the Body Snatchers...

To this day I do not put my feet on the floor when I watch movies.. There might be a pod under the couch...

[COLGATE4]

30. The Prince of Foxes

Evil nobleman grabs enemy, proceeds to gouge out his eyeballs: "Out comes the jelly". Scared the shit out of me for days.

[Dave Starsky]

31. Phantasm

A friend of mine talked an older friend of his to take us to see it with him. We wanted to be "cool" with all our friends. I quickly regretted it.

[Laffy Kat]

35. OMG, I totally forgot about that one.

I remember falling asleep once with the TV on and that movie woke me up, but I was too afraid to get up and turn the channel (before I had a remote TV). It. Was. Terrifying.

[Dave Starsky]

47. I got to meet Angus Scrimm (The Tall Man) at a convention once.

He was one of the kindest, most jovial celebs I ever met at one those. If he were just that "nice old guy" who lived next door to you, you never would have recognized him. The only trait he physically shared with that character is that he WAS pretty tall.

[MuseRider]

54. We saw that on TV at home as adults

and my husband would wake up screaming about those little buzzy flying things? LOL, I told him about the new man made drone bees and he started to freak a little when I showed him the picture and mentioned Phantasm. A good scare can last forever.

[Dave Starsky]

56. That's pretty funny.

It was a loooooooong time before I could watch that movie again, and though I chuckled at the terrible acting and less-than-spectacular production values (though not bad, for the time), it still gave me the creeps.

[MuseRider]

59. It is pretty damned creepy

and yes it is very funny. I bought the VHS tape of it long long ago and it is still sitting in a pile of old VHS tapes unopened. Hee Hee. It was on TV not too long ago and I turned it on. After a while he looked up and saw the tall man (I cannot remember much about it, it had no real impact on me, just it's overall creepiness) and got up and left the room. He came back hours later and never said a word.

[Iggo]

196. "BOY!!!"

[unc70]

33. On the Beach

Still haunted by "Waltzing Matilda".

[Laffy Kat]

37. I'm gonna Google that one. nt

[longship]

68. What a great cast!

Gregory Peck, always great. Ava Gardner, likewise! Fred Astaire's first dramatic role. Plus, the supporting cast! Admiral Bridee and Lt. Hosgood in their farewell scene!

And yes, Waltzing Matilda!

Love that flick. The remake for TV was not good.

[irisblue]

174. saddest song ever

[blue cat]

34. Jaws n/t

[underpants]

36. Jaws - still scared

[MuseRider]

89. LOVE Jaws

I think it is one of my most favorite movies. I do confess that, as a scuba diver, I always worry what I will see after jumping in. When the bubbles clear from around the mask I always take a good look around. All because of that movie but I love it dearly. Such a great cast.

[underpants]

112. I love the movie

I just never feel completely safe.

If you haven't check out the documentary on the making. Spielberg had a completely different (cheap gimmicky) movie in mind until all of the sharks stopped working in the salt water.

[MuseRider]

118. I have seen that!

Forkboy, remember him? He also loved the movie and he told me about the documentary. It was very insightful wasn't it? It was amazing how the actors did not get a long, Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw. The movie turned out so much better than what he wanted. I did not hate Jaws 2 but after that, blech! Jaws the original has it all doesn't it? I watch it every time I have the time and see that it is on. It just works so well and Roy Scheider, well he was just nothing but great. He was the one that actually made it scary to me. Love it!

[underpants]

142. Bruce

The sharks were named after Spielberg's lawyer. Too funny. I wonder if the shark named Bruce in "Finding Nemo" was a reference to that.

[MuseRider]

143. OMG I had forgotten about that little tidbit! LOL! n/t

[MrPurple]

203. First adult book I read when I was 11

because the movie had been filmed in Mass. and my friends and I knew the movie was coming out soon. Has never fully been out of my head when I go to the beach.

[Maru Kitteh]

283. I remember going to a sandpit by a tiny town in NEBRASKA

And there were people there on the "beach" of this little pond, so small more that 2 or three rubber rafts would be kind of a crowd - that were afraid to go in the water.

I was still pretty much a kid, but I thought it was a riot.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

292. Oh I loved Jaws too. Still love it. The music and the ocean.

I think I was around 10? We went to cape cod for a week or so every summer.

Love Cape Cod too. ❤


Speaking of scary (and heartbreaking) shark/ocean movies, Deep Water is a must!

[JDC]

40. Halloween

[madamesilverspurs]

42. Ten Commandments

The one with Heston as Moses. I was seven, and that green fog gave me nightmares for months. Years later it gave me nightmares when it became obvious that Heston viewed the role as having conferred moral authority on him...


.

[Laffy Kat]

44. Scary in a different way... lol. nt

[RKP5637]

43. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy! I was a very tiny kid. n/t

[Laffy Kat]

45. A & C were great. nt

[oldcynic]

318. You too?

I remember being terrified by an Abbot & Costello movie, the name of which I can't remember. Did "Mummy" have a scene with Costello and a werewolf(?) trapped on a revolving stone platform. I was so afraid Lou would get eaten, I've never forgotten in a long, long time.

[RKP5637]

321. I can't recall it all now, but the scene that sticks in my mind was a small chamber, like a tomb,

and the whole scene had a very very very eerie green cast to it. They were in front of a platform with a stone like cover talking/scared, lit by a candle lantern and when they turned away the stone cover moved and something was coming out, but when they turned back the cover had slid back ... something like that.

It was a horribly scary scene to a tiny kid in a dark movie house. My parents were with me and comforted me and it was fun, I did enjoy the movie. I did not scream out or anything remotely like that, but I've always remembered that scene, and I think it was the mummy coming out of the mummy's crypt.

[oldcynic]

324. wow

Overlapping memories! This is an unbelievable site.

[RKP5637]

329. Yep, it is an amazing site in so many ways. n/t

[Jane Austin]

46. Wizard of Oz when I was little, later it was

Tarantula.

:shudder:

[Laffy Kat]

48. I remember reading that Margaret Hamilton would not let her own children watch WoO.

Due to her character being so horrifying. It is a movie not for the little ones.

[Frogg]

49. The Exorcist

I was very young and it scared the crap out of me. I couldn't sleep without a light for over 25 yrs!

[Laffy Kat]

50. Don't feel bad.

I STILL don't sleep in the dark. I have to have a TV on.

[JCanete]

170. weird...wrong place.

[Lochloosa]

87. I was looking for this one. Was sure someone would post it.

[brewens]

182. Got me too. I think I was 15 when a buddy and I paid to get into a PG film and slipped

into the Exorcist. I didn't think this one through. We walked there. I was two miles away, his house was right by the theater. Plus my mom was out for the night! I remember using the Tonight Show as a comedy antidote but it wasn't very effective. I'm not sure how I got to sleep that night. I felt kind of creepy for days.

I finally watched it again a couple years ago after all those years. Not much ill effect at all but it still holds up as really hard core to me.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

247. How did I forget the "voice"...

When it gets u even when you know it's coming - that's good!!!

[LiberalLovinLug]

264. The Exorcist yes

It didn't help that I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household. Nor that we had missionaries speaking once in awhile with horror stories and fear-mongering guest preachers that told tales of demonic possession for years before that movie came out.

[red dog 1]

336. I couldn't sleep without a light after seeing The Exorcist either,

and I was in my '20s when I saw it.

I'd read the novel a couple of years earlier, and literally "could not put it down."

("The Exorcist" topped the New York Times bestseller list for 17 weeks & remained on the list for 57 consecutive weeks)

Interesting side note.
Growing up in the 1950s, I loved to watch the TV show "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx.
Somewhere around 1960 or 1961, William Peter Blatty appeared on the show as a contestant.
He called himself "Bill Blatty" & his occupation was "a writer."
He decided to go for the grand prize, while his partner decided not to.
Blatty won $5,000, and after being asked by Groucho what he intended to do with the money, Blatty said he was going to use it to write a novel, something he'd not done before, (although he had written screenplays).
The novel he wrote turned out to be "The Exorcist"

[StubbornThings]

51. Willy Wonky. I didn't like the Oompa Loompa's...at all. nt

[Laffy Kat]

61. Yes, they WERE creepy as hell. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

53. ET

I didn't think he was 'cute' - my mom had to sit with me in the lobby while my dad and brother stayed in the theater. He was creepy to me - not cute.

[dewsgirl]

58. The Earthling

[tonyt53]

60. The original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". I was afraid to go to sleep.

[Laffy Kat]

64. They did a remake which is now on Netflix, with..what's her name.

It's not nearly as good as the original.

[TexasBushwhacker]

259. Are you talking about the one with Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams?

I actually liked that one a lot.

There was a remake in 1993 just called "Body Snatchers". It had Gabrielle Anwar.

[redstateblues]

206. At 12 I had to sleep with my mom I was so scared

[Pachamama]

63. Alien

Seeing the alien explode out of the stomach and attach itself to people's faces freaked me out. Would still scare the shit out of me.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

65. The Night of the Hunter and The Innocents.

[MuseRider]

66. The original Invaders From Mars in black and white.

My dad used to like to watch scary or old space movies or Tarzan on Saturdays with me. I was just little, the movie was made the year I was born so I am guessing this would have been around 1960 or earlier and it scared the ever loving crap out of me. That and an old Tarzan movie, again black and white, where a certain tribe hung people upside down on long, flexible trees that they bent until they crossed and then they cut the ties and the people were torn apart. Good dad, really what I needed.

[MFM008]

70. There was a scary old space movie

in the 60s that scared me so bad i checked under my bed and closet for years.
About a lady space vampire that glittered and bit you in the wrist lol.
Probably on MST 3000 now.

[MuseRider]

86. They all look so hokey now

but back then they could be terrifying.

[MFM008]

258. I know

but when your 6 or 7!

[longship]

75. Invaders from Mars was a color film.

You must have seen it on television.

Trailer:

[MuseRider]

85. Oh yes it was on TV.

All these years and I never looked back to see it in color!

[longship]

93. There ya go!

The Haunting (1963) still scares me. It is genuinely spooky, although no ghosts are ever seen in it. Nevertheless, Robert Wise was a master in his direction. He honored Shirley Jackson's novel well.

The remake of the late 90's was absolutely horrible!

[MuseRider]

96. I find many of the remakes

lately leave out too much story and just go for the noise and the gore. Nothing wrong with that I suppose but for me it does not work.

I would agree with you on that. The original is really spooky.

[jpak]

111. The Killer Shrews

[ChazInAz]

314. Don't forget....

that great Arizona epic; "Night of the Lepus".
Nothing like killer bunnies destroying a Tucson trailer park!

[pressbox69]

221. The original

Invaders From Mars was in color. 1953

[Doreen]

69. The first remake of "Invasion of the body snatchers" back in the early 80's

and "The Omen." I was afraid to sleep for three days after "Invasion of the body snatchers" and I was afraid of crows for a week after "The Omen." I was a kid and had no clue that Ravens are not crows. I will say that I saw "Lord of the Flies" as an adult and it scared me but that is because it makes you realize that humans are really just that close to being like that if in the right situation.

[revmclaren]

71. Mr. Sardonicus

Saw it when I was about 8. Had nightmares for weeks.

Still avoid it.

[Laffy Kat]

72. Going to look that one up, too. nt

[Laffy Kat]

79. Looked it up. Horrifying.

Plus, there really is a medical symptom called a "Sardonicus grin" ricsus sardonicus.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

74. The Exorcist

[Siwsan]

77. The Mummy - Boris Karloff version

The first time I saw it, I was very young. Every creak in the floor boards made me jump. Then we went to The Field Museum and after spending time in the Egyptian section and seeing all of the mummies, I was convinced I had come under the curse.

[Chemisse]

78. The Blob (the original).

Afterward, I was afraid to sit on the toilet until I had checked to be sure there was no 'blob' in there.

[Laffy Kat]

83. Hope you don't live with sons.

Because there is often an unflushed "blob" waiting for you in the toilet.

[Chemisse]

84. Hahaha!!

Fortunately I got over it, because I have faced many a toileted blob over the years.

[meadowlark5]

81. The Exorcist - because I was the same age as Reagan was in the movie

Scared the crap out of me - and all I saw were the previews and trailers.

[get the red out]

82. Jaws

Couldn't let my feet drift off the bed for quite some time after that.

[Me.]

88. The Night Of The Hunter

[whathehell]

100. Oh, yes!

Classic!...Evil bastard stalking 2 little kids!

[subterranean]

90. Psycho...

not the famous shower scene, but the scene where Lila Crane approaches Mrs. Bates from behind, and she (Mrs. Bates) turns out to be a corpse. I watched the movie alone at night, and had to close my eyes for that part.

[Stuart G]

127. Two of them ......one has not been mentioned, the other..well??????

I walked out of both of them.....

House of Wax, (1953)..in 3D
Psycho....1960..

and I never got to the real scary part of Psycho, till I watched the end sometime in the 80s..then I saw what how it ended..

[whathehell]

91. The Innocents..

A 1961 film based on Henry James "The Turn of the Screw"...No blood, no gore, and scary as hell.

[ailsagirl]

147. Those types are the most frightening ones of all

[whathehell]

154. Absolutely.

and they require real skill to create.

[ailsagirl]

183. Yes-- they're the most difficult to create

Did you ever see Polanski's "Repulsion?"

That was pretty creepy (and well-done, of course)

[whathehell]

215. Yes, it takes actual talent

Heard of Repulsion, but never saw it.

[ailsagirl]

229. Worth it

[whathehell]

288. Definitely!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

92. The H-Man (circa 1957)

Like many Japanese films at the time, its premise was the effects of a nuclear explosion on something, in this case the crew of fishermen. Basically, they all turn into gooey man-shaped creatures that glowed green. What was scary was that they could spread their bodies out and oozed from place to place like a shiny glob of Prell shampoo. When they found a person they'd cover him and absorb him. Ycch! (I was about 8 at the time.)

The thing was, my mother bought Prell for the family to use as shampoo.

[pressbox69]

222. The sexy dancer getting Prelled.

Was there any limit to the amount of voices Paul Frees could do in these movies?

[MuseRider]

94. YIKES I just remembered

The Thing, the remake in 1982 with Kurt Russell. Those creepy crawly monster things scared the holy crap out of me. It took me 4 tries to get through it and I was at least 30 years old when I saw it on cable.

[CountAllVotes]

97. The Exorcist

That one done it for me!

[asiliveandbreathe]

99. Original 1955 "Tarantula" - when I saw on TV - never look at a spider the same...

I'm horrified by spiders to this day...and they say a spider is within 6ft. of you at all times....this is not good!

[LonePirate]

101. Requiem for a Dream

Absolutely horrifying and I saw it in my 20s. I still refuse to watch that film ever again.

[Laffy Kat]

102. Looking it up..... nt

[LonePirate]

110. It's not a traditional horror movie. It offers a frightening glimpse of the human condition.

[MrPurple]

205. Great movie, though

Darren Aronovsky is a genius (the Wrestler, Black Swan)

[BeyondGeography]

103. To Kill a Mockingbird

First movie I ever watched and it was late on a Saturday night. Just me and my dear old granny. Bob Ewell was a beast, Mayella was haunted, the South struck me as deeply creepy in ways that we just don't experience in the NYC area and that walk home from the pageant just about finished me off. Elmer Bernstein's masterful soundtrack was a big part of it, too. The social justice themes of the film are what I primarily focused on as a teen or adult. As a kid of 10 or so in an era when children were pretty sheltered from violent imagery, it scared the crap out of me.

[Break time]

105. The Thing From Another world

The original was out in 1951 .. scared the crap out of me for quite a while after that..

[wishstar]

106. The Tingler (with Vincent Price)

I am still not happy that my parents thought it was appropriate for a little kid- especially since plot involved The Tingler infesting a movie theater , first being in projection room and then in seats of audience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tingler

[LiberalArkie]

108. I have agree with you. I started having to have the bedroom lights on. My parents

did not have to call me in at night, I was inside at the hint of dusk. To this day, I can not think of the show without a funny feeling in my spine.

[Laffy Kat]

113. It's true, as per your citation.

The film's producer/director Wm. Castle had some theaters equipped with "Percepto" devices in some of the seats that would vibrate during the movie. The gimmick added $250K to the movie's budget. He also directed "House on Haunted Hill" and did the same thing, except with a wire-strung skeleton that would swing from the theaters' ceilings. Glad I didn't attend one of those.

[subterranean]

107. There were some good scary movies made for TV in the '70s.

Who can forget the one with the Zuni doll? Although laughable now, it gave a lot of kids nightmares back then.

[Laffy Kat]

114. Yes! Karen Black.

I still think about that one from time to time.

[Laffy Kat]

119. That reminds me of another movie with Karen Black.

I can't remember the name of it, but it was about a family that movies into a house that has a life all its own and it drives the husband insane. There was a hearse and creepy driver that eventually scare him to death. Does anyone remember?

[Still Blue in PDX]

122. I get creeped out just thinking about Karen Black.

I have to find this movie.

[Laffy Kat]

137. It is, indeed, "Burnt Offerings".

What is it about Karen Black? My sister always said it is because her eyes are too close together (Black's, not my sister's).

[Still Blue in PDX]

140. LOL! Funneee! I do remember that movie, and it scared the crap out of me.

My daughter was a biter when she was about 2-1/2. She didn't bite anyone but me, and I used to think of that little zuni doll in Trilogy of Terror whenever the darling daughter came up behind me.

[subterranean]

129. Sounds like "Burnt Offerings."

That chauffeur was creepy!

[Laffy Kat]

132. That's it! Thanks. nt

[lunasun]

151. Ooh I loved T of T . I was not scared but it was so good - creepy

Not a general audience film in 70s - but anyone ever seen the black devil doll from hell? Same sort of thing but even weirder

[chowder66]

250. That freaked me out as a kid.

I also got super creeped out by the Omega Man, Soylent Green and The original Amityville Horror which I saw at the drive-in.

[yallerdawg]

109. One afternoon I was watching a film called "Black Sunday."

About twenty minutes in I had to turn it off, and just recently - probably 45-50 years later - saw it on TCM.

Still scared the shit out of me!

[Zambero]

115. Old Yeller

When he got rabies toward the end. I had nightmares of being chased around with Old Yeller baring his fangs while frothing at the mouth.
Honorable mentions: Godzilla & The Sorcerer's Apprentice

[Laffy Kat]

117. Don't watch "Cujo".

The book disturbed me so much I'd never watch the movie.

[Mike Nelson]

116. Scariest to me was...

...Night of the Living Dead, which I did not see until the 1980s. I thought, because it was older and in B&W, it would be tame. The scene that almost put me in the asylum was when the dead little girl in the basement gets up and looks hungry. Yikes!

[Docreed2003]

131. The chocolate sauce and ham makes for a very realistic zombie feast!!

That flick is still scary!!

[Laffy Kat]

138. "Mad Movies" has a great parody.

[C_U_L8R]

123. The Orange Blob

oh wait, no, that's Trump. Sorry.

[no_hypocrisy]

125. Dementia 13 (first film by Francis Ford Coppola)

Watch the trailer especially "The Warning" at the beginning.

Here's my story: Dementia 13 was the Halloween matinee in 1963. Kennedy had not yet been assassinated, but that was three weeks away. I was 6-1/2 years old.

My mother thought it would be a good idea to drop me off alone without her, a babysitter, anybody (it WAS 1963 after all) at the movie theater for a good afternoon of Halloween "fun". She didn't think the movie would be anymore scary than monsters, but then again, she didn't check. I certainly didn't get the memo.

So there I was in the dark, eating popcorn, watching one axe murder after another, dead bodies being dragged over grass. And then at the very last scene, a doll's head split apart with an axe and you couldn't be sure if it was a doll's head or a little girl's. Shit! Did I just see what I thought I just saw? I'm alone in a theater with hardly anyone there and I'm watching mass murder at age 6+.

I wouldn't say the movie traumatized me, but I always wondered about it until the 1990's when PBS was showing a retrospective of Coppola movies and THERE it was! I knew it immediately.

[Laffy Kat]

130. Oh no. Just watching the trailer, I can't imagine.

Did you tell your mother?

[no_hypocrisy]

133. I was shocked out of my mind.

No, never told Mom or anyone else.

Frankenstein was a kindergarten birthday party by comparison.

[dhol82]

128. The Mummy

Boris Karloff and those fricking tanna leaves.



I still have to lock the door to the cellar before I go to bed.

[Docreed2003]

134. Nightmare on Elm Street...

The original scared the crap out of me. My parents loved to watch scary movies after I "went to bed", but I've always been a night owl and I could always hear the movies from my room. The music and sound effects alone were terrifying from most early 80's horror flicks!

[rogerashton]

135. Housse of Wax

the 1953 3D version. It was the 3D that did it.

[BigBearJohn]

136. "13 Ghosts" & "The H-Man"

[Turn CO Blue]

141. Obscure movie called The Crawling Hand.

My dad was watching the late movie, and I must have been around 4 or 5 years old. The plot was so stupid a returning astronaut's hand falls to earth after some explosion, and after being infected by something or irradiated or something, and the EVIL hand crawls around killing people.

For a couple of years after that, I had to have some one check under the bed, etc.

[Laffy Kat]

148. Yes! There was another Hand movie.

It was about a pianist who lost his hands in an auto accident. Needless to say, they came back.

On edit: The Five-Fingered Monster? Something like that.

[jberryhill]

251. I LOVE that flick

[ThoughtCriminal]

149. On the Beach

No scary monsters, just doom.

[Laffy Kat]

150. What about the 1930's "Dracula"?

Terrifying. The Renfeld character still scares me. I love it.

[demosincebirth]

153. The Beast with five fingers. (1946)

[IcyPeas]

157. I second "Invaders from Mars" because the ground opened up and sucked you under

scared the crap out of me that I didn't want to walk on the floor in my bedroom and would jump from my bed to my sister's bed. I've never forgotten this movie and I think of it every time a sinkhole is in the news.

?t=1m23s

[Laffy Kat]

158. Yikes! Never saw that one.

Loved the trailer though. Might have to watch the whole thing.

[n2doc]

159. Sorcerer

The scene with the truck going over that bridge always has given me nightmares.

The first Friday the 13th. Carrie.

Also not a movie but The Trilogy of Terror, the part with the Zuni Doll that comes to life, has always stuck with me.

[Laffy Kat]

161. See response #107

You're not the only one.

[TexasBushwhacker]

261. Sorcerer was a great film. The Tangerine Dream soundtrack was great too n/t

[mevoici]

164. Scary movie

The birds from Hitchcock

[Danascot]

166. Wait, wait

how can there be 161 replies to this thread so far without any mention of The Shining?

[Laffy Kat]

172. Was wondering that myself.

The part with the twin girls...

[d_r]

167. Child of Glass; Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

[d_r]

169. The Other

[First Speaker]

168. The Sound of Music...

...I had a phobia about choral groups for years and years. Especially children's ones. And I still have nightmares about waking up to find myself turned into Ray, a Drop of Golden Sun...

[rzemanfl]

171. "Invaders from Mars" (1953). n/t

[JCanete]

173. The Exorcist and The Shining.

[bathroommonkey76]

176. Blue Velvet. nt

[JenniferJuniper]

177. "Thunderbirds Are Go". Puppets still scare me.

[elleng]

180. Psycho.

I was in high school, so maybe not a 'kid.'

[Rhiannon12866]

198. I was in college, the film society showed it and I was scared witless.

I was reluctant to take a shower for years! LOL. And it didn't help that one girl there decided to scream bloody murder during the shower scene. That one stuck with me for years...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

273. Just for you

When I'm in the shower
I'm afraid to wash my hair
'Cause I might open my eyes
And find someone standing there
People say I'm crazy
Just a little touched
But maybe showers remind me of
"Psycho" too much

[Rhiannon12866]

276. LOL! That was me!

And not just for a semester or a few months, but for years!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

277. Being able to laugh at a fear is to conquer it

I'm trying to learn how to laugh at the great orange plague.

[Rhiannon12866]

280. If he joined a circus, maybe I'd be able to laugh at him

Though I do think we do a pretty good job on DU!

[Doreen]

308. Oh my, I have not seen that like for flippin ever.

Good one.

[Alpeduez21]

184. Gone With the Wind

I was eight. Saw it on a big screen. The father walking around talking to 'ghosts', Scarlet and Rhett whip the horse to death, and that man gets his leg cut off.

Honorable mentions: When a Stranger Calls and The Ring.

[Mr. Ected]

186. The Birds, The Fly

[rurallib]

187. Creature from the Black Lagoon

[Laffy Kat]

191. I've been to the location where CFBL was filmed!

Wakulla Springs in Florida. It's still there and is a park and sanctuary. If you ever get a chance to visit don't miss it. There are guided boat rides and all kinds of wildlife. I go every time I visit Tallahassee which is every other year or so.

[rurallib]

192. No kidding? I will probably never get down there

but that is quite interesting to know.

[mia]

188. Edward G. Robinson in "The Red House".

I saw it on television as a kid.

I don't remember the plot, but only his face and expressions.

[FrankfurtCat]

189. "Suspiria" - 1977

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Easiest question ever😶

Also a great question!

[Laffy Kat]

194. Gonna look it up. Thanks. nt

[FrankfurtCat]

220. My Dad took me to see it when I was 13. He loved/loves Horror movie while my Mom detests them.

It freaked me out a little. Many people actually walked out after the first scary/gorey scene!
https://www.google.com/search?q=suspiria&oq=suspiria&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j5j69i61l3.8741j0j4&client=ms-android-att-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

A remake was recently made starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton for 2017 release.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

246. Cat o' Nine Tails by the same director/writer....

had a great ending.

[TexasBushwhacker]

260. Dario Argento's movies all have a similar twist

They always have something near the beginning that you see but don't really think about. The first of his films that I saw was Deep Red. It's still my favorite.

[FrankfurtCat]

316. I''m going to look that one up also...

...as well as the two later installments of the "The Three Mothers" series that began with 1977's "Suspiria": "Inferno"-1980 and
"The Mother of Tears"-2007.

[TexasBushwhacker]

327. There are a lot of DVDs on Ebay

Be sure and specify widescreen, because some editions are the dreaded pan and scan.

[FrankfurtCat]

332. Thank you!

[FrankfurtCat]

315. I haven't seen that-

-thanks for the referral. I'm going to watch it now. I haven't seen any other of Dario Argento's movies. I rented "Suspiria" a few years ago, because I wanted to see if it was as eerie as I remembered. I couldn't finish it that time. I seem to be more squeamish now than I was at 13.

[oxymoron]

190. The Haunting

With Julie Harris. Kept me up for weeks.

[blue neen]

193. The Bad Seed

That girl was crazy!

[gordianot]

325. The screams in the cellar very effective.

Learned this can happen in real life.

[Tikki]

195. The original " The Invisible Man" (1933)...

I must have first seen this movie when I was around 6 years old...saw it on television..
scared me, but the whole concept also intrigued me.

Hence, my mad, mad devotion for Science Fiction since.

Tikki

[Iggo]

197. I Drink Your Blood.

Dirty hippies with rabies. Saw that one with a bunch of older kids and "the cool parents" at the drive-in. Scared the living bejeezus outa me.

And oh yeah, The Legend Of Hell House. Didn't even make it to the end of that one.

[Laffy Kat]

199. I get "The Legend of Hell House" confused with "The Haunting".

Need to look it up.

[eppur_se_muova]

200. Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Very dark and moody, very suspenseful. Must have been only about 5 or 6 when my family watched it. I didn't understand any details of the plot, but it left me scared to go to sleep.

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, so it must have been pretty good. :/

[TexasBushwhacker]

262. What about What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

There's a miniseries coming up in March on FX calleD Feud. Susan Sarandon plays Bette and Jessica Lange plays Joan Crawford.

[zentrum]

201. House of Wax

Vincent Price.

[catbyte]

202. My mom & dad never let me watch scary movies when I was a kid, lol. "The Exorcist" seriously

creeped me out when I was a teenager--and I didn't even believe in demons & all that shit. I think it was Linda Blair's make-up.

[Guilded Lilly]

207. Definitely Psycho. Scarred me for life. On about 10 levels!!

[MrPurple]

208. Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer

I was an adult, but that is the only movie I've found so troubling that I wouldn't rewatch. It's not a slasher film, it's just disturbingly realistic with mundane details.

[Lotusflower70]

209. The Shining

That movie was incredibly scary and creepy. Such a total mindfuck and messed with me for a long time. Jack Nicholson was absolutely amazing in it. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was another one that really scared me. I wasn't supposed to be watching it but I did and it took my forever to fall asleep afterwards. It was late at night with my older brothers and we were watching it in the dark and everyone was trying to scare everyone else. It felt like an initiation or something.

[applegrove]

210. I remember crying at Dumbo when mama was put in elephant prison

and could only hold her truck outside the bars and rock Dumbo. Don't remember any scary movies. We weren't such a movie family. And we were not allowed much in the way of TV.

[Binders Keepers]

211. "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken."

I was seven.

[Laffy Kat]

213. Someone on Face Book mentioned that one, too.

I remember seeing it in a theater and was probably around the same age as you were. The organ music with the keys covered in blood was pretty scary if you were seven.

[hurple]

212. Jaws

I was 9. We lived near a lake and went swimming almost every day during the summer...

[3catwoman3]

214. One more mention for...

...The House of Wax. I was about 11.

When the wig was pulled of the one figure and the young woman realizes it is her friend, I about jumped thru the ceiling.

[murielm99]

217. Rear Window

My parents were too cheap to get a babysitter, so they put me in the backseat of the car and we all went to the drive-in. I was about five.

I had nightmares for weeks.

[mithnanthy]

218. Yes..Rear Window!

I had nearly the same experience as you. I was about 6 and my babysitter drove me to a Drive in. Still have nightmares!

[Doreen]

306. Did they opt for a babysitter after having to deal with your nightmares for weeks?

[murielm99]

312. Nah.

I kept my terror to myself.

They were not the most sensitive of parents.

[MosheFeingold]

224. Nosfuratu, the sound version

It floated around Germany, Poland, and Austria in the 1930s. It was shown in a tent in a traveling fair, as it was considered unsuitable for polite company. I remember distinctly the creepy gypsy guy who would put on the records to play with the sound track.

This was made worse by being taken by my grandmother (a legit peasant woman) who was convinced that golems were real (and had occasionally run amuck) and dybbuks (kind of a Jewish zombie) were quite real and a legit problem.

All this going on with the post-WWI malaise and the feel from the soon-to-be-news rise of Hitler made for a serious scarring of my psyche.

[pressbox69]

225. I had no problem with

Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man on Shock Theater but for some reason the less famous The Mad Ghoul gave me nightmares.

A couple of years later on Chiller Theater, this one creeped me out:

[Chipper Chat]

226. The Wizard of Oz.

Mom took me to see it about 1944. I started bawling at one of the Wicked Witches - she scared the hell out of me.

[Tanuki]

232. The harpy monkeys were scary, too! eom

[bagelsforbreakfast]

228. Frankenstein (1931); Werewolf of London 1935

In both - when you first saw the monster... Also stunned by INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1950s version) - all three on TV can came out of nowhere for me as a kid... As for the ending - easily INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS - could not believe a film would end like that!

[bagelsforbreakfast]

231. Forgot FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

Another that was unlike any other film I'd ever seen at the time!

[Chipper Chat]

234. Oh, big time.

I took my little brother (he was 5) to see it in 1956. He didn't cry during the movie but started screaming in the middle of the night. He kept saying "big red dog." That puzzled me until I remembered the big red monster that roared when Morbius instructed the electronic fence to erupt.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

233. And THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (Vincent Price)

[neeksgeek]

230. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Specifically the scene where Khan introduced Chekhov and Captain Terrell to "Ceti Alpha Five's only remaining indigenous life form."

[yesphan]

235. Jack the Giant Killer (1962)

Jason and the argonauts (1963)
The Blob(1958)

As a 4 and five year old, those movies were very frightening.

[TlalocW]

236. Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain

I have no idea why - I just remember one scene in an old house with a lot of suspense. I've had other adults agree with me.

TlalocW

[FSogol]

237. In my defense, I was only 3 or 4, but I was scared to death of the show: The Banana Splits

[Bayard]

238. The original War of the Worlds

I used to have nightmares about that shooting green light from the big eyeball thingers.

And The Birds. Yikes!

[Laffy Kat]

239. Yes! I'm surprised WotW hasn't been mentioned yet.

The spaceships were terrifying.

[lunatica]

268. War of the Worlds!

Scared the snot out of me. I got under the blankets and kept very still hoping the aliens coming into my bedroom wouldn't notice anything was in the bed!

[Denverchick]

240. Salem's Lot. I was stuck in the basement for hours, afraid I would die if I moved. nt

[bagelsforbreakfast]

244. One of the few genuinely scaring books I've read...

Even when you knew the Vampires were coming...still hit home. Also S. King's moving garden topiary animals in THE SHINING (book).

[OxQQme]

241. Pathe News

[OxQQme]

242. This one was pretty scary

[Laffy Kat]

275. OMG. That was one of the most sexist things I've ever seen.

[JunkYardDogg]

243. "Naked Jungle" & Pulanski's "Repulsion"

As a kid, it was " Naked Jungle" which was about African killer ants
and as a young adult, it was Pulanski's "Repulsion" an incredible study into a deteriorating mind

[Doitnow]

248. I don't remember the title of the film, but there was a scene with

huge eyes on a large waving curtain. Had nightmares after that of those eyes.

[LudwigPastorius]

249. I remember two made-for-TV movies in particular.

...and one theatrical release that was on TV in the 70s.

[woodchuck mom]

257. the other & legend of boggy creek

I slept with the light s on forever

[LudwigPastorius]

265. Yep.

Did Not Like the boggy creek monster!

[benld74]

252. 6th Grade - The Vulture

Another movie was on the shows advertisment

I showed up to see it

And this was on

[The Polack MSgt]

253. I can't believe these two haven't been mentioned yet...

The Hills Have Eyes - Classic creepy ass movie

And last but not least the scariest thing a 9 year old ever saw - Last house on the left

[TalenaGor]

255. "Happy Birthday To Me" and "Trilogy Of Terror" OO

[Tiggeroshii]

263. It

My cousin telling me about the movie when I was a kid, while not actually seeing the movie. Somehow it was far more scary than when I eventually did watch It.

[lunatica]

267. Invasion from space movies

I had a real love/terror thing for SciFi.

[lark]

269. Night of the Living Dead

[a la izquierda]

271. War of the Worlds (original)...

And the Blob. Terrified me. My dad told me most horror movies were real.
My favorite horror now is Nosferatu and anything by Hitchcock.

[BHDem53]

274. Wizard of Oz

[world wide wally]

279. The Amityville Horror ( original with James Brolin)

I didn't watch another horror movie for 10 years after that!

[turner52]

284. The original Day the Earth Stood Still

Besides green witches and flying monkeys in the WOO...Gort scared me terribly. Klatu Borrada Nickto

[tclambert]

317. My older brother set up some folding chairs and made me re-enact that scene.

He was Gort, walking implacably toward me. I was cowering like Patricia Neal, trying to remember the magic words. My brother got mean about pronunciation--"You pronounced it wrong! The visor's going up. You get disintegrated!" (Apparently, Gort didn't have spellcheck.)

[Squinch]

282. I think it was a TV movie, but it was called "Something Evil" and starred Sandy Dennis and

Johnny Whittaker, the red headed kid from A Family Affair.

Scared the crap out of me!

[LeftInTX]

285. The fire prevention and sex ed movies that we saw in school

The true story of a father whose cigarette butt got lost under the sofa, the entire family died, including the dog. This movie showed the graphic agony of the family trying to escape their inferno. The kids tried to escape by opening their bedroom doors and you can imagine what happens next.

Syphilis....my gosh, it was enough to make me scared to have sex with anyone.

[TexasBushwhacker]

286. The was a TV movie called Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

It starred Kim Darby, of True Grit fame. It had these demonic little people.

Also, there was an Alfred Hitchcock presents called "An Unlocked Window" that scared the bejeesus out of me and my cousin.

[StevieM]

287. Jaws. I saw enough of it to know that I never wanted to see the whole movie. (eom)

[mnhtnbb]

291. The Pit and The Pendulum (Vincent Price)

Saw it with my brother when I was about 10--we were visiting an aunt and uncle in California--and
there was a scene at the end with the eyes of someone being tortured looking out of the torture device.

That night I was sleeping in a bed under the window of my aunt's sewing room. I woke up in the night and there
were eyes staring at me from the window! Scared the CRAP out of me!!! Turned out to be the kitty--outside--
who routinely would jump on that windowsill asking to come in.

I have never wanted to see another horror movie the rest of my life (and I'm now in my 60's).

[BlancheSplanchnik]

293. The Night of the Hunter.

I probably saw it when I was around 7? I was born '57. Movie came out '55.

The atmosphere, the music, the evil priest, chasing the kids....brrrrr.

That lonely, night feeling...floating helpless in a boat hiding from a murderer on your trail. Brrrrrr!

I gotta watch again. It's on YouTube! In full!

[Laffy Kat]

297. Several Du-ers have mentioned that one.

I want to see it now, too.

We were born the same year.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

300. Hi!

Let me know how you like it!

[Nitram]

294. Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Haunting of Hill House.

[the_sly_pig]

299. Killdozer. I was 9.

It was about a bulldozer that was struck by lightning on an island and came to life killing construction workers.

[hrmjustin]

301. The Exorcist.

[Still In Wisconsin]

302. Dr. Strangelove

[peequod]

303. Burnt Offerings, 1976

Starring Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, and Bette Davis among others. A well-acted horror movie, and that chauffer's smile...

[Lunabell]

304. Black Sunday

Not the one about the blimp. This is a 1960 film with Barbara Steele. She played a vampire witch who was killed in the 1600's. She is brought back to life by a drop of blood. Scared the bejesus out of me.

[mrs_p]

305. Amytiville Horror

Nightmares for years.

[Mr.Bill]

307. Fantasia

Scared the shit out of me as a very young child. Way too much weird shit going on in that movie for a five year old to process.

A lot of Twilight Zone episodes scared me, too. The one with William Shatner on the airplane especially. My dad worked for the airlines and we flew a lot. I wouldn't sit next to a window on a night flight for years. I'm 63 now and it still gives me the creeps.

[Blue_Tires]

309. Creepshow

I still have a crippling insect phobia to this very day

[Tommy_Carcetti]

311. There was this one movie a babysitter was watching that I ended up watching.

For years I had no idea what it was called. I just remembered it felt sort of like a Star Trek episode, and these people on this spaceship were being attacked by this one eyed black octopus looking creatures with tentacles who made these terrible shrieking sounds. They'd come from out behind the walls and chase the people around.

At the time I saw it, it absolutely terrified me. It caused several nightmares.

But I never bothered to get its name, and I thought it was lost on me forever.

A few years ago I posted the question to DU and asked if anyone could identify it. I tried to describe it as best as I could.

Lo and behold, someone seemed to have nailed it. I'm 99% sure this was it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064393/?ref_=login

The Green Slime. At the time, Youtube had the full movie posted, so I checked it out and it matched up pretty well what I remembered.

In retrospect it was laughably bad and campy. But back when I was 6 years old or so, it scared me nearly shitless.

[CCExile]

319. The one in the 1960's

with the monster living in the rocks under the lighthouse and ripping people's heads off! What was that movie? And the one where the aliens shoot people with a ray gun and they end up as a smoking outline on the ground! Which one was that?

[Iggo]

343. The second one sounds like War Of The Worlds.

Not sure of the first one.

[JudyM]

322. Earliest one I remember was DR. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde.

Terror as a little kid. Dark brooding malevolent men. Haven't liked em much since, either!

[FailureToCommunicate]

323. The Birds, Body Snatchers, The Time Machine, and On the Beach! Oh, and "Them!"

(about giant atomic ants run amok).


But none scared me more than Trump's Inauguration coverage.

[Coventina]

330. As a kid in the 70's I saw a preview of the "Body Snatchers" remake. I couldn't sleep for days.

on edit: typo

[milestogo]

326. The Wizard of Oz

Flying Monkeys and a Wicked Witch

[NNadir]

328. Invaders from Mars. They put electrodes in the brain of a boy's dad to control him.

I was about the kid's age when I first saw it.

I didn't get a decent night's sleep for weeks. (I saw it on TV long after it first appeared in theaters.)

Invaders from Mars (1953 film)

The remake was nowhere near as frightening, but then again, I was a man when it came out.

[Fla Dem]

331. Double Header; Curse of Frankenstein and X the unknown.

I don't know whatever possessed my mother, but she had my Dad drop my brother and me off at the local movie theater for a double header. I was petrified throughout the 2 movies. I do not watch horror movies to this day.

[lastlib]

333. The Hazing - abt. 1977 or 78......

the kid sitting up in the coffin to say "Welcome to the Delts!" just wiped me out for a week!

Also "Them!" and "The Indestrucible Man" (Lon Chaney, Jr.) gave me a few nightmares.

[OldEurope]

334. Nightmare on Elmstreet.

I was alone at home at about 5 when The Birds hit me.
But I was not really afraid of birds. It made sort of proud that I did not get scared.
The first movie that really scared me was many years later: Nightmare on Elmstreet. I was 29 years old when I saw it first, and I could not sleep for two complete days. Silly, I know. But I hate that movie.

[red dog 1]

335. "Them"

a thriller about giant ants living inside the LA sewer system.

It was in the '50s, and I went to see it with a couple of friends at a Saturday matinée when I was about 10.
When it was over, my friends went home, but I wanted to see it again, so I stayed & had to sit through another movie before I got to see "Them" again....alone.

I began to have nightmares for the first time in my life after seeing that darn movie.

[Laffy Kat]

340. Ants, HUGE ants!

That WAS scary back then; you are not the only one to mention that movie in this thread. You are older than I am, although I'm sure the special effects for that movie were really something back then. When my two sons saw it on TV they thought it was hysterical. I kept telling them, "It was SCARY when it was released, so shut up".

[trueblue2007]

337. i was scared BAD at 12 by tv show THE TWIIGHT ZONE

This one with the PIG faces. i still can't stand it 50 years later

Twilight Zone Episode "Eye Of The Beholder" Clip - YouTube

[Simon_Moon]

338. Scrooged

My aunt took me and my cousin to see this flick. She was recently divorced and recently with the guy that would become her second husband, so I suppose it may have been his choice. For all I know they didn't have a clue. We also ran over a bunny on the way home. This is the only Bill Murray movie I've never seen at least twice.

[LibinMo]

339. Cat People (1942)

The original, not the 1980 remake. I saw it in a theater. The scene with the girl in the dark basement swimming pool being stalked by a panther scared me to death. All you see is the big cat's shadow but it's more than enough.
My Dad took me to see The Thing From Another World when I was 10. It was the second scariest movie I saw as a child.

[yuiyoshida]

341. RODAN...

[Laffy Kat]

342. Love, love, love these movies!!

[yuiyoshida]

344. And I was happy when this happened..