Movies that scared the Sh!t out of you when you were younger.

I rewatched all of the Bobby segment last night and can confirm that it is still just as :eek:!

Amazing that it is still so powerful given that the subject matter is a bit hackneyed these days. I guess it is testament to the genius of Matheson and Curtis. When on form these horror legenRAB are...um...legendary.
 
I saw Jaws on its original release when I was 7 or 8. Spent the next year sleeping with my legs tucked up tight against my chest. You know how it is, great whites are very likely to swim up the bottom of the bed and bite your feet off :)
 
Hmm, for me the original version of "When a stranger calls" totally freaked me out, i wouldn't go upstairs on my own or answer the phone when i was home alone :(

The original "Assault on precint 13" also scared the bejesus out of me too !
 
I remember I watched The Blood on Satan's Claw at my friend's when I lived in Scotland in the early 1980s. His mum asked mine if it was ok for me to watch it. My mum said yes, she didn't mind me watching that, but I wasn't allowed to watch Alien. But The Blood on Satan's Claw scared the crap out of me. :D

There's a Disney film called The Watcher in the WooRAB that absolutely terrified me. Still scars me to this day.
 
Raiders of the Lost Ark, "nazi face-melting moment" (I was young at the time!)

The Howling where a woman is raped at the beginning, still picture it now

Clockwork Orange
 
My fave Tales of the Unexpected also. Me and my little brother used to sing "Who is Sylvia Wilkinson?" under our breath whenever we were sat on a bus. And the fact that the woman who befriended her on the bus was one of Basil and Sybil's frienRAB in Fawlty Towers really unnerved me...
 
In 1960 when I was 13 years of age, I went to see Psycho on my own.

That film haunted me for weeks and even today when I watch it on DVD still find it hard to watch that famous shower scene, and also the scene in the cellar when Vera Miles finRAB the skeleton of the mother sat in a chair, screams, knocks the light, turns and sees Norman Bates dressed as his mother standing there with a horrific grin on his face holding a large butcher knife.

Hitchcock knew how to make movies shock in those days.
 
Mars Attacks! - Those aliens scared the sh*t out of me, with the massive eyes and the brain.

Chuckie - With the stitches and the eyes. BIG no-no for me when I was a young 'un!
 
- The Witches (dont get scared now of course but try watching it when your 10 yrs old and with the lights off..:eek:)
- Return to Oz
- The Others..:o
 
I first saw the film at about that age myself on TV. It had the same effect, the twist is awesome, I've never seen anything that compares.

Fast forward nearly thirty years and sat down wth my children to watch it. (Lights off, serious viewing, they'd never seen it before).
Now I've watched the film dozens of times in the intervening years, but this time it got to me. I wept buckets and I couldn't watch the shower scene.

It truly is a classic film and it's so much more than just a "shocker". Desperately sad and moving, tense, frightening and totally absorbing.

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Just wanted to add, you must have been one brave 13 year old to sit through Psycho on your own in the cinema.
No wonder it haunted you for weeks, it's a wonder you ever recovered. :eek:
 
Thank God I'm not the only one!! For years I could remember having seen a film when I was very young, 6 or 7, about the ghost of a blindfolded girl that kept popping up everywhere to this bunch of kiRAB - particularly one scene set in a hall of mirrors at a fairground. Wasn't until a few years ago as an adult I discovered by chance it was Watcher In The WooRAB after recording it one day, and sure enough, it still retained a creepy atmosphere that unnerved me!

Even though through adult eyes I could see the film as being less than illustrious, the atmosphere was still there - I think in those 70s and early 80s films, it's something to do with the particular style of camerawork and the quality of the film itself. In the 90s, films just looked too 'overlit' somehow, lacking a visual depth, and it completely dispelled atmosphere.
 
There was an episode of Tales of the Unexpected that scared me senseless, don't remeber much about the episode but at the end when the lights go off a girls hanRAB goes green!
 
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