Films that scared the sh*te out of you.

Archeron

Now that we're desensitzed, it takes a lot to faze us, and we can watch the most violent horror without batting an earlobe, but when you were young, what films do you remember scaring the living daylights out of you?

For me, I remember Jaws, the original. I went to bed after watching it, and the scene with the little kid on the inflatable bed kept playing over and over in mind my mind, til eventually culminating in a rather loud "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDD", whereby he would come running upstairs and I would explain to him that Jaws was in fact under my bed. The whole aquatic aspect didnt matter a jot, Jaws was under my bed and that was it. If the light went out, I'd be eaten.

Another one was some dragon film from years ago, cant remember the name. My eldest brother brought me to see it in the cinema and during the scary bits pretended to fall asleep. At one point, he waited until I was doing the pre-cry snuffles before opening his eyes and laughing at me. (I was about 4 I think, I'm much braver now).

What movies of yore kept your little kiddie mind active with nightmares late at night?

Dudess

Oh yeah, the impact of Jaws was phenomenal. I remember when I was small in the mid eighties - eight or nine years after Jaws was out - being at the beach and afraid to go into the water in case a shark would attack me. Jaws was out before I was born but it was kind of a part of our culture for around ten years after. My brother had a toy Jaws - it had a bunch of items in its stomach that you'd have to fish out (e.g. a boot, an anchor etc). There was a hooked yoke that you'd use to take the stuff out, but you had to be so careful because if you tipped the shark at all, it would snap its teeth around your hand. And bloody sore it was too. It kind of worked on the same principle as Buckaroo or Operation, but far more painful!

Ginger

When i went to see the 25year anniversary of the exorcist, it scared the crap outta me.. when the phone rings and it just pops out of the side, it had me jumping... that was when i was 19

Before that, aliens when i was 13 i watched it in the dark, someone opened the door and i was nearly hanging on the lights

deman

The Fog (again, the original). I remember it being on one night and there was a terrible fog outside. After it was over, my dad asked me to check that the dog's door was shut outside. DAMN IT WAS THE LONGEST WALK ACROSS THE YARD EVER!!!!:eek::eek::eek:

Another scary film that had me scared of crows for years later was Damien:Omen 2. I cycled a lot in those days and any crow perched on an overhead line was always watching me, waiting for me to turn my back and then come after me and poke my eyes out and then a lorry would run me over. :D

KdjaCL

Salems lot when i was a nipper scared the bejebus out of me


kdjac

Archeron

Dudess wrote: »

My brother had a toy Jaws - it had a bunch of items in its stomach that you'd have to fish out (e.g. a boot, an anchor etc). There was a hooked yoke that you'd use to take the stuff out, but you had to be so careful because if you tipped the shark at all, it would snap its teeth around your hand. And bloody sore it was too. It kind of worked on the same principle as Buckaroo or Operation, but far more painful!

Whoa! I never encountered that, but it sounds like a genuinely blood and bone chilling toy. I'd probably still be nervous around something like that.

Ginger

I remember that game.. trying to find it online

DaBreno

KdjaCL wrote: »

Salems lot when i was a nipper scared the bejebus out of me

Always deserves a mention. The bit where the young vampire emerges from the mist and begins scratching on his brothers glass door.....brrrrrrrr!

Ginger

Was this the game

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/7563

Ruu_Old

Hocus Pocus.

Dudess

Ginger wrote: »

Was this the game

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/7563

The very one! Wow, great find!

stovelid

KdjaCL wrote: »

Salems lot when i was a nipper scared the bejebus out of me


kdjac

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Also Nightmare on Elm Street.

NoQuarter

IT!!! that fcukin clown scared the bejesus outta me! still does and im 22!!!!

longshanks

KdjaCL wrote: »

Salems lot when i was a nipper scared the bejebus out of me


kdjac

i didnt sleep for about a week after that. the scratchin the glass bit. jesus

Lirange

deman wrote: »

Another scary film that had me scared of crows for years later was Damien:Omen 2. I cycled a lot in those days and any crow perched on an overhead line was always watching me, waiting for me to turn my back and then come after me and poke my eyes out and then a lorry would run me over. :D

The part that got to me was the scene where the guy was trapped under the ice when they were playing hockey on a frozen pond. The ice was thin and lucent enough to make out his panicked face as he slid along the ice and they all followed him as he struggled underneath. Yeeps!

DarkJager

Yep Nightmare on Elm Street ruined my sleep for the rest of my childhood. Talk about being obscenely scary to watch as a young child!!

The Bollox

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. damn you, Leatherface, damn you to hell.

because the scare was so intense as a child the film still scares the bejasus out of me in some parts i.e. when Leatherface makes his first appearance *shiver*

dazberry

Event Horizon.

I don't know what it was the first time I saw it but it frightened the carp out of me. I've seen it since and its like blah - not scared at all. But it was on TV and was over late (~2am) and it took me another hour to go to bed - I was too scared.

D.

Lands Leaving

I had exactly the same experience with event horizon. there's something incredibly unsettling about that film.

Also pet semetary, that had me in bits, damn my sister being allowed babysit me. ALways a horror film. always.

Archeron

dazberry wrote: »

Event Horizon.

I don't know what it was the first time I saw it but it frightened the carp out of me. I've seen it since and its like blah - not scared at all. But it was on TV and was over late (~2am) and it took me another hour to go to bed - I was too scared.

D.

I forgot about that. Brilliant film, but even now there is something very creepy about it. It sounds like they did actually go to hell to make the recording they listen to.

endplate

The amityville horrors they gave me the creeps. There was another one I can't remember the name where a girl died in a car fire and her sister meets the dead sister again under her bed and then a killing spree ensues of the family members.

kelle

I must have had a very sheltered childhood filmwise, because the first movie that scared the living daylights out of me was "Misery", when I was 19. I couldn't sleep for nights afterwards, and I didn't speak to my friend for a week because she encouraged me to go see this film saying "You'll enjoy it"!

monkeyfudge

The Shining is one that I alway found very scary... and still find it unsettling to this day.

Watership Down used to also freak me out as a child. The scene where all the rabbits get burried alive in particular. I had to be taken out of the cinema as child during that film... Although the cinema was also the Stardust, which burned down that very evening.

The Brood was another very creepy one. If you think little people are scary... then just wait until you see that film.

tj-music.com

Back in 1985, when I was 18 years old, I went to see A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and although that wasn't my first horror movie experience, for whatever reason I couldnt sleep for days and was really,really scared for a while.

And people with green/red striped sweaters were looked at as being suspicious

Mrs. MacGyver

Labyrinth - for some reason really frightened me as a 5 year old in the 80's!
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)

tj-music.com

Mrs. MacGyver wrote: »

Labyrinth - for some reason really frightened me as a 5 year old in the 80's!
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)

LOBO ... FRIEND ... - great movie tho

monkeyfudge

Well the image of David Bowie playing with his balls certainly was terrifying, yes.

Goat Mouth

Labyrinth nowadays scares me for the following reason

... nuff said!

As a nipper though the only films that had an impact were Halloween and Poltergeist
more so because they were set in suburbia (as oppose to a house in the middle of nowhere) and the victims in the films were youngsters
so it was easier to relate to.
Granted I've watched all these movies since, and now they just make me laugh!

Dudess

Don't think I got to see any horror when I was really little. The earliest film I remember scaring me was The Company of Wolves when I was 12.
But the only film I remember really scaring the sh*it out of me, giving me nightmares and staying in my head for weeks afterwards was Nineteen Eighty-Four. I was 14. It TERRIFIED me. I was too scared to read the book but I did a few years later. Now, it wouldn't scare me so much as depress me.
I'm glad I didn't see Threads http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/ when it was on TV (1984 or thereabouts). I saw it recently at the age of 27 and it had me bloody PETRIFIED!
Edit - trailer for Nineteen Eighty Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MgOQznfFOY
The U.S. version features that bloody awful Eurythmics track "Sexcrime". One of the most upbeat songs I've ever heard. Why it was chosen as the movie's theme song is beyond me - although it's not even used in the movie.

mickrourke

Mrs. MacGyver wrote: »

Labyrinth - for some reason really frightened me as a 5 year old in the 80's!
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)

Probably cause this goblin looks like Eamonn Dunphy!



(and David Bowies family jewels of course)

Aisling(",)

Oh "Psycho" freaked me out!!
for ages afterwards i wouldnt have a shower without someone waiting outside!!!

Irish Wolf

Threads.



Often thought about buying the DVD and watching it again - but really don't think I could sit through it after seeing it when it first aired during the middle of the whole cold war shenanigans.. scary stuff..

Off to see if there's anything on youtube..

Lirange

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Well the image of David Bowie playing with his balls certainly was terrifying, yes.

It was the Caterpillar with the cockney accent that did it for me. *shudder*

Irish Wolf

Irish Wolf wrote: »

Threads.



Off to see if there's anything on youtube..

It's all there in 16 clips..

Still as horrid as I remember..

Goat Mouth

Irish Wolf wrote: »

It's all there in 16 clips..

Still as horrid as I remember..

im gonna give that one a look, really should be studying for an exam on Wed but movies come first for me... :rolleyes:

zod

this one might! http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/

Dudess

Irish Wolf wrote: »

It's all there in 16 clips..

Still as horrid as I remember..

I saw Threads for the first time in 2005 - it is undoubtedly the most terrifying movie I've ever, ever seen in my life, with Nineteen Eighty Four a very close second.

keefg

Like a lot of people (of a certain age) Salem's Lot (the old TV one with David Soul) is the main one for me. I saw it on a black & white telly at my nan's when I was about 10 - I thought I would never sleep again :eek: to make it worse I had to go upto bed on my own and there was no bulb in the landing at the top of the stairs :eek::eek::eek: I was absolutely positive there were vampires waiting for me at the top of the stairs.

I have seen it since I became a growed up person and it is terrible - dunno what I was afraid of.

The most recent on for me is The Grudge - I wouldn't go up into my loft for ages

Dudess

Yeah, certain films still have the power to frighten adults into a similar state to when they were children. As I said, Threads had an evacuating effect on my colon when I was 27. The Ring petrified the ****e out of me a few years ago (I was 25 or 26).
Oh I forgot about 'It' - I was about 13 when I saw that. Dreadfully frightening.

jb91

Not really movies but just about every Goosebumps episode.

I used to be terrified at Tales of the Unexpected.

Jaws scared me when I was a nipper, threw an almighty fit getting into the bath.

Salem's Lot also terrified me, I think I was around 10 when I saw it.

When I was 12 I went to a slumber party and the birthday girl had rented Nightmare on Elm Street 3. I didn't sleep for a week after watching it.

Suffice to say I don't like horror films now and I won't watch them!

Big Tone

Nosferatu The Vampire (1922) to this day one of the creepiest films of all time IMO. It'll chill you to your grave!

the vampire in Salem's Lot was based on Nosferatu.

ella minnow pea

Darby O' Gill and the Little People.

Jaysus, the banshee, frightened the snot out of me it did.

johnny_ultimate

That crazy fortune telling machine in Big used to terrify me - so much so that I couldn't watch the whole thing for years, or at very least had to hide during the carnival scenes.

Must watch this Threads business. Lecturer was talking about it one day but I decided against watching it at the time.

cazzy

Does tv series count ?

V scared the bejasus out of me one night when I was a kid.

Dont think I was allowed watch it nomally but my cousin came to visit and my aunt was minding us so off we went to the play room and watched V on TV and both of us couldnt sleep that night thinking bout it.

robo

Years ago the Gremlins...when they were in the mocrowave. I was 8 or 9 and we had to turn off the video machine...scared the bejaysus out of us both!

robo

cazzy wrote: »

Does tv series count ?
.

Em it does say film!!!
Why don't you start a new thread about tv programmes that scare you...like Live at 3!

Gillie

Darby O'Gill
The bits with the Banshee

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monkeyfudge wrote: »

The Shining is one that I alway found very scary... and still find it unsettling to this day.

Could have typed this sentence myself.

I hate that film.

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Watership Down used to also freak me out as a child. The scene where all the rabbits get burried alive in particular.

It's not that scene in Watership Down that freaks me out, it's the final scene,

when the black rabbit takes the leader

Anyone ever read this book? I just finished it recently, great book.

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Although the cinema was also the Stardust, which burned down that very evening.

Jesus. That's horrible.

Dudess

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Must watch this Threads business. Lecturer was talking about it one day but I decided against watching it at the time.

It's on YouTube. Brilliant, but you'll probably need a drink after. I can't fathom how terrifying it must have been for people back when it was shown - when Reagan and the Soviets were at each other's throats.

stovelid

American Werewolf in London.

When I watched it more recently, I could see that it was meant to be a comic satire, but some of the scenes were very scary for kids. In particular, I remember the attack on the moor or the famous scene where the wolf stalks the guy in the corridors of the Tube station.