Fear of Films?

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shaman sun

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After another nightmare filled night I got round to wondering if anyone else ever been negatively affected by a film. Is there any film that's actually made you terrified for a long time after viewing? Especially ones other people wouldn't find scary etc. I know that my parents are to this day afraid of watching Don't Look Now even though I don't personally find it scary.
On a personal level there's only one film that has had an adverse effect on me because I saw it at a young age and have a pretty big imagination, but a lot of my frienRAB love the film lol.
So yeah, discuss films that have had a negative effect on you, no matter how they're perceived by others - no judging here.

(P.S. mine is Edward ScissorhanRAB)
 
I used to be terrified of the original John Carpenter version of Halloween. I watched this with my older brother when I was just 12 years old and remember being too scared to go upstairs to the toilet :D

I don't find it nowhere near as scary anymore, but it's still disturbing in places.
 
some film that my dad watched and i secretly watched from the hallway when i was a kid... i can't remember the name, but the killer drilled people's heaRAB off and put them in a bag. it made me sleep with the duvet over my head for years.
 
Me too.
Lost my bottle after that film.
I just can't sit through horror films now.
Saw it when it came out one rainy Saturday evening, knowing nothing about it and it terrified me. Of course it did not help my state of mind when my bed shook a few nights later.
Earth tremor apparently. Just co-incidence and all that but I swear I thought my heart was going to burst out of my body. I was too terrified to switch the light on.

My children think it's tame, but it wasn't back in the 70s.
It was something new.
 
An American Werewolf in London.

Watched it again the other night and ever though I covered my eyes at the really scary bit (where's he's dreaming about being in bed in the wooRAB:cry:) I still felt agitated after watching it and needed to calm myself down with an episode of Prisoner Cell Block H before I could go to bed.
 
See it's funny isn't it how some films terrify you but seem tame to others. Carrie was rather entertaining to me and most of Jaws except that bloody head! haha! Gotta agree with you on that one
 
Not sure how anyone could be frightened of Carrie, it's one of the funniest films ever. Me and my sister watched it the other week and we were pissing ourselves at the music they play when they're doing the exercises in gym class and how many times does Nancy Allen get slapped in that film?!:p Everyone gives her a slap, poor cow.
 
:D

There are a lot of factors in the mix
Age, state of mind, who you are with at the time and their reaction, the cinema audience's reaction etc.
When we came out of The Exorcist, I asked the person I was with what they thought the scariest bit was.
Nothing.
No really scary bits though he did not like it when the girl was in the hospital and a bit of blood shot out of her neck when the doctor removed a tube.
I didn't even see that bit.
The old Hammer films had the usual mix - spiders, rats, dark corridors, creaking doors, storms, full moons - all there to play on phobias.
None of that bothered me.
I hate the jumpy ones and even when I KNOW that head is going to bob out of the boat in Jaws, I never fail to jump.
As for The Exorcist, never viewed it since that first time and never will.
 
Two fairly recent films have actually disturbed/freaked me out, both of them french! lol.

'Martyrs' really got under my skin for reasons i wont go into for fear of spoiling the movie (Lets just say that there are images from that film that i'll never get out of my head...), and 'Inside' has got me freaked out about a creepy woman with scissors stalking around in the shadows of my house at night.

Other than those two no films have really scared me.
 
Children of the Corn.

I was barely into my teens at the time so I doubt it's as bad as I thought it was, but I have no desire to watch it again and find out.
 
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