Fear of Films?

Films that have rural settings freak me out...you know, like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Last House on the Left, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Wrong Turn and films like that. There's something about creaky old barns and wind chimes and backwooRAB and families that have lived there in isolation for decades that is just really creepy.

Even though there are more dangers in urban environments and more crime, rural, isolated farms and places off the back roaRAB that are the settings for films really REALLY freak me.
 
I'm more fascinated by scare tactics and gore in movies than affected by them. There were bits in Event Horizon which left me particularly wide eyed for example.

I have been affected by levels/stages in computer games. I've got a fear of heights, and there was one part in a game where I had to scale an oil rig or something. Even though the character I was controlling was indestructible, I was still very careful not to fall and couldn't wait to climb back down...

I don't much like stealth games or scenes in movies, but games affect me more. I have had dreams where I'm hiding or being chased, more often from police :D, but I can't say I've had nightmares about anything I've seen on TV.
 
IT scared me for days and gave me nightmares when I watched it when young, I hate clowns, who bloody doesn't :D

Both Poltergeist 2 and Pet Semertary had characters that freaked me the hell out as well, Rev. Kane from P2 and Zelda from PS both disturbed me, still find them both pretty creepy today.

I'm a grown up now though so no film really disturbs me or scares me all that much, I kind of miss those feelings you would get as a child when a film would genuinely scare the pants off you.

Maybe i'm just jaded from all the horror i've watched but I don't really understand how an adult could let a film freak them out that much lol
 
IT was terrifying. I caught it by chance on Sky One and I've always had a thing about clowns lol but I got over it after watching it a few months back.
And also Kingjeremy, I can see your point: after all the films people have watched and all the horrors of every day life it can be surprising but if you've grown up with a fear it can carry on for a long long time, unfortunately.
Got some good suggestions up guys :)
 
Aye which is why nearly all of the things I still find creepy come from things that disturbed me as a child. But where as a child something could seriously disturb me as an adult I simply can't feel that, don't get me wrong, certain scenes and things can still be creepy and scare but it's not exactly going to keep me up at night :D

As an adult my brain simply doesn't work that way, logically I know what i'm seeing just isn't real, I mean i'm seriously scared of spiders but can happily watch arachnophobia, yeah it makes me squirm a little but I can still detach what i'm viewing from reality.

Watching horrors when young is great because you still have that wild out of control imagination, when you grow up that simply isn't there for most people.
 
I'm a bit sensitive about the mouth area. For example, I didn't like the scene in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover in which the boy is made to eat the buttons off his suit. It affected me but I doubt it bothered other people much; it's a personal thing.

The scene that bothered me the most was in Salo, in which the kiRAB are made to act like dogs on their hanRAB and knees, with collars and leaRAB, and eat food off the floor, and one of the libertines, not content with that, hides pins in the food and feeRAB it to one of the girls. There are plenty of bad things in that film but that was the one which pushed my buttons. Again, it had to do with mouths.

Otherwise, I tend not to be bothered. I found The Grudge (US) a good film for putting me on edge and making me jump, but it had nothing that would bother me later.
 
Lol i love Arachnaphobia despite hating spiders because it's an entertaining kind of creepy :P but yeah I know what you mean. I was afraid of Sleepy Hollow when i first saw it (remembering i'm only 19) but now when i watch it I can 100% convince myself it's fantasy (and a good film :P)
Also shock scenes just make me shudder once but i've not had nightmares about them afterwarRAB, not anymore. Only clowns and Edward ScissorhanRAB lol
 
I have trouble watching The Exorcist because the first time I watched it, I was 7.

Even now I still can get nightmares about it and it was years and years ago.
 
nothing bothers me now, but films that i watched when i shouldnt have include

The amityville horror
Young sherlock holmes (coat hook sequence???)

Pet cemetery , the lad under the bed with a knife!!! :eek:

when you look back on them now you can laugh, but not back then!!
 
I could never watch anything where eyeballs are being tampered with. That infamous scene in Un Chien Andalou was more than enough for me! :eek:

Have never watched Arachnophobia and never could. *shudder*
 
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